━ { tonight

Areum walked into the libary and looked for the pink hair Jihoon somehow worked, she spotted him sitting at a table with his headphones in. Taking a deep breath she walked over to him and sat infront of him, he looked up to heras she put her backpack on the table giving her a smile and removed his headphones.

"Hey. Didn't know if you would actually come or not." He said pulling out his notes from his back pack and handed her own labeled History.

"Almost didn't. Especially since we passed the first round." Aream said and gave him a the first geniune smile since they meet, he smiled in return and told her what she needed to know for the upcoming midterm.

"And if you pass the midterm they will basically let you continue at the school." Jihoon said, she opened the notebook and noticed he wrote little things to help her remember everything in the margins in a different color.

"Thank you, I really need this." She said and pulled out her own notebook and pens, he handed her a few more notebooks all labeled different subjects. The two sat the table for awhile with Areum asking him questions and him giving her little facts and tid bits.

Eunjeong was on break, sitting with Yumi sketching out a piece she was going to do with the help of Areum later that night.

"Maybe, putting the meaning of Meraki under it?" Eunjeong asked the leader showing her the sketch, she nodded and smiled when Eunjeong made adjustments to it.

"There we go." She said and showed the leaderwhom nodded.

"Lauren is making flyers, get this up when you can. I know you have a lot on your plate." Yumi said then left the girl to finish working, Eunjeong smiled at the sketch and went back behind the counter, just as a couple walked in, one going straight to a table.

"Hello, What can I get you?" She asked smiling like she always did, then she noticed it was Twice and kept a smile on her face acting like she didn't totally want to kill them. After they ordered they sat at a different table then the one that walked in with them. He was focused on his laptop headphones on, and head moving along to the beat flowing into his ears. Eunjeong gave the girls their drinks before walking to the guy, she waited for him to remove his headphones. When he did, he turned to her and her smile fell.

"Eunjeong?" He asked, quite surprised since the two hadn't seen each other since before he and Danbi broke up.

"I heard you were their producer, but, didn't think I would see you with them." She said to Kihyun whom nodded his head, and glanced at the group of nine girls as they laughed out loud at something Jeongyeon said.

"They are a handful. But, its my chance to be in the Showcase." He said to the waitress whom nodded.

"Want anything to drink or eat? While you work." Eunjeong asked he answered her and she went to get what he wanted.

She soon felt eyes on her as she cleaned up a table she noticed Nayeon watching her, chills went done the artist's spine as Lucifer herself was watching her. Eunjeong had to walk past the table to go back to the counter, with a sigh she turned and almost walked past them.

"Oops." Nayeon said dropped her fork right next to Eunjeong whom took a deep breath and picked it up. "Good girl." She said and laughed with the rest of Twice.

"At least I'm not a liar. Bad girl." Eunjeong said in a mocking tone and walked away, Kihyun whom heard the conversation held back a laugh.

"Alright. Nell unnie and I will take care of the social media." Yumi said as she sat at her neighborhood playground, she hung up with Lauren and pulled out her notebook writing a few lyrics down as the sun began to go down.

"You are definitely a busy body now." A voice, she recongised as Yoongi or Suga of BTS said as he sat next to on the playground. She shot him a smile and nodded.

"Yeah. This is a lot harder then I thought." She said, Yoongi nodded and pulled out a pair of headphones, connecting them to his phone. He handed one to Yumi whom gae him a look of really.

"You are going to be the first to hear this, give your honest opinion." He said then pressed play. The two sat there listening to the Yoongi rap a way, no one would ever see on stage. When it came to an end Yumi looked at him and nodded.

"Its really good. Preform it on Friday, if you want to." She suggested since they did like an open mic on Fridays in Advanced Rap. He shrugged and listened as she talked about how she had these lyrics stuck in her head all day but just couldn't put it on paper. The two continued talking rap until Yumi's phone went off, she reluctantly picked up seeing it was Jiho.

"So heard you need some help in the underground?" He said, she rolled her eyes knowing he saw her instagram post.

"Yeah. But, its not your vibe. If you want to help you can." She said, knowing he wasn't too into what they were preforming.

"Of course I will. Plus Hyung will kill me if I don't. He wont stop singing your song." He said, the background sound of her oldest brother singing could be heard. Yoongi tapped her shoulder and motioned that he was leaving.

Jinhee left the coffee shop and decided she needed knew notebooks, walking into her favorite store she smiled walking to the notebooks. She turned down the aisle and saw Hansol, or Vernon of Seventeen, in the aisle by himself. Taking a deep breath Jinhee began hoping he wouldn't notice her, conversations with strangers isn't her thing.

"Oh! From the garden?" He exclaimed catching her attention she looked at him and slowly nodded her head. He smiled at her, as she grabbed two notebooks and glanced at him quickly before turning to leave.

"Um, I never got your name." He called out before she left the aisle, she stopped and looked at him then at her feet.

"It's Jinhee." She said then raced out of the aisle, he smiled to himself.

It was the middle of the week and today was the day they would do a "mini" concert to gain more fans there were flyers, grafitti, sns posts and of course their online fans said they would come but, they weren't expecting that many people to actually come. It was a small stage in a large mall that Ms. Lee knew a guy about and got a deal for a time slot.

"Hey, They are visiting today." Jinyoung said as Jinhee was at her locker at lunch, she sighed at the mention of their parents.

"Just tell them I'm studying for a final." She said and closed her locker turning to walk away when Jinyoung called out.

"You have to tell them sometime!" Jinhee sighed and kept walking, going to her history class.

At the end of the day the girls changed their clothes and smiled, Yumi, Nell and Areum headed out with Ms.Lee to set up the stage while, Eunjeong, Lauren and Jinhee went with Jung PD to get the MR and the sound system working. After setting up the girls removed their winter coats and stretched a bit before walking onto the the stage in the shopping center.

"We are Meraki! Nice to meet you!" They said into their mics and bowed to the small amount of people that crowded at the stage some cheering loudly for them. 

"For those who don't know us. We areally students at Hallyu Arts academy and we are competing in the final showcase and have just made it to the second round. And we wanted to show off our skills to gain more attention. So, we will start with our first song, 'Glass Bead'." Nell said, the girls going to stand in their positions.

When they finished they went to their next positions.

As they moved to go sit at the edge of the small stage, more people had crowded at the stage. They all smiled as Nell put the mic back to .

"Our next one is a cover of a sunbae, TVXQ, Tonight.I hope you all enjoy it." Nell said and bowed her head as Jinhee was shaking most likely from the thought of not hitting the high notes. 

Areum(singing) +Lauren(English parts)-> Micky/Yoochun.    Nell ->Max/Chang min.   Yumi-> U-Know/Yunho     Eunjeong -> Xiah/ Junsu.     Jinhee-> Hero/ Jaejoong

Their mini show continued with several more covers before ending at 9 PM as they had to practice tomorrow. As they were packing up to leave, Yumi noticed some girls and guys taking pictures of them being the leadernim she was she gave them a slight wave and told them to be save going home. As the girls finished packing everything they headed out to go home. Still waiting on the notification on when their next battle would be.

Yumi sat on the bus next to Areum as they lived near each other taking the same bus, she phone sounded in the quiet bus scaring the two high schoolers. Pulling her phone out of her jacket pocket the Final Showcase logo flashing across the screen, the two looking at each other then back to the phone.

"Congrats on making it to your second round!" Jinyoung cheered with Youngjae as they held fake mics as Jackson and Bam Bam did in the first announcement.

"Your next battle is approaching, next Saturday. Our winter break might have started but real talent doesn'the rest." Youngjae said, Jinyoung looked at him in shock then gave him a high five.

"That was good." Jinyoung gave him a thumbs up."Also, this year's Showcase is being watched worldwide! So before your next battle make a little introduction video about your group. Well, see you next week."

"Practice hard and good luck." Youngjae winked, the screen going black. The two sat staring at the phone at little longer.

"Great. More work." Areum groaned pressing the button to stop the bus.  

(author's note) Sorly for the lacking chapter, thought I should at least post this until I can finish the next chapater. Sorry for the wait!!!