Producing an album was hard, specially when eleven people had to agree and come to terms. For Wendy, choosing the grupal songs was the hardest part, since not everyone’s tastes were the same, but at the end it was possible to choose three songs that matched everyone’s tastes. One was a dance genre, the other one had an old but pop sound, and the other was hip-hop. The one they decided to make the MV about was the one with the old vive.

Recording started as soon as possible, only two weeks after the songs were chosen. Everyone was beyond excited, and couldn’t help but only talk about it for days. Joy was very happy with her song, and she said J-Hope was really friendly and funny, while Yeri was saying that her song was definitely a challenge and couldn’t help but being nervous, but Jin was really kind and patient. Seulgi was calm, she did not showed her excitement but she did say she was expecting great things. Irene did not talk too much about it, and Wendy was careful to not say anything to make her more uncomfortable than she already was.

Even if they avoided doing the duet, when Irene and Taehyung were in the same room, the atmosphere was still tense. Wendy noticed how Taehyung looked at her, and how she ignored him. It made her think about love. How much must Taehyung have loved Irene? It pained her, watching his expressions, how he tried to steal glances from her, and the lyrics of the song they were supposed to sing.

They were doing the recording in SM, so that day, they were supposed to start early. As usual, Wendy woke up first, made something light for breakfast and then she woke up the other members. It was a routine. They got ready, and went to their agency’s building in the time planned.

BTS arrived a few minutes after the girls, and because it was still kind of early, some of them were pretty sleepy. Taehyung was one of them. He was nervous for the song he was going to do with Wendy, since Irene was going to be there watching him while he sang his feelings out, he was nervous she would get angry, he was nervous he disappointed Wendy too. She had been too kind to let him share his feelings, she allowed him to be selfish and he was nervous he wouldn’t do well, so was unable to sleep for more than four hours. He was thankful s understood him and cheered for him.

“We’re going to record the grupal songs first…” the producer announced, looking at the artist. They were thankful that the recording studio was big enough for all of them, including their managers and CEOs. “So we already distributed the lines, so please take the lyrics and prepare” he said, as they grabbed the piece of paper and entered the room to record.

Since they were a lot, everyone had a few lines, without counting the chorus. Taehyung was carefully reading his, that only consisted in two parts. The first one, was in korean, so it was really no problem for him, but the second one… was in english. He was ready to complain, since his english was very far from being good, and he didn’t even understood what it said. Confused, he searched for Namjoon, but he spotted him talking to the CEO, and it was rude to interrupt. He was about to ask Jimin, when he saw Wendy standing in front of him.

She was singing her lines, and warming up her vocals, he assumed. He remembered Irene telling him she was from Canada, and that she usually helped her with the english pronunciation for her lyrics. Without thinking it twice, Taehyung walked towards her. When she saw him standing in front of her, she jumped back, startled.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you” he apologized quickly, but she laughed.

“It’s okay, I was just too distracted” she said, relaxing and then looked at him. “Are you okay?” she asked a second after.

“Ye..Yeah? Why?” he asked, confused.

“Oh, it’s just that you have bags under your eyes” she pointed. Taehyung put his hands on his face and smiled awkwardly, she was very observant.

“Really? That’s weird!” he simply said, not wanting to admit how nervous he was. Wendy did not pushed him either, so he decided to ask her for help. “I was wondering if you could… help me a little bit.” he said, and she nodded softly. “Can… you tell me how to say this?” he asked, leaning towards her. He had to bow a little, since she was considerably shorter than him.

Wendy looked at his paper, and the words he was pointing with his finger and smiled. “Sure” she said, enthusiastically. “Do you have a pen?”. Taehyung looked around, and spotted Suga, who always carried a pen somewhere. After getting the pen, he returned to where Wendy was and handle it to her. He watched as she started writing in his paper. She had beautiful calligraphy, he noticed. “There. I wrote the way you pronounce it” she said, handling him the piece of paper. “Now. I’m speechless. Over. The. Edge” she pronounce it clearly and slowly.

He nodded, looking at her notes, and repeating after her. She corrected him a few times, but after that, he felt like he was ready to go. “Thank you. This is really helpful” he smiled brightly and Wendy thought she was going to go blind.

“Alright, so, let’s start” the producer said, making everybody move to find their position. As he did so, he spotted Irene looking at him. He opened his mouth to say something, but as soon as the opened his mouth, Irene looked away.

Recording the grupal songs took around six hours, and Taehyung felt like he was going to faint, since he had skipped breakfast and they had to finish recording before going to eat something.

The first pair to record was Joy and Hoseok. The song they choose was a very vivid one, with a catchy rhythm. It really suited Joy’s sweet voice, and since Hoseok’s voice was also sweet, they made the perfect duet.

After Joy and Hoseok, it was Irene, Jimin and Suga’s turn. With Suga and Irene gone, Taehyung was sitting next to Wendy again. Looking at Irene behind the glass, with any other than him made him mad, so he tried to focus on anything else. He didn’t even wanted to listen to the song. So he tried to focus on what Jin was doing, but watching him play Plants vs Zombies was too boring, so he looked the other way, at Wendy’s.

She had headphones, and she was moving her head slightly to the beat of the song as she scrolled down on her phone. They were singers, music was their life, but there was something on the way she looked while listening to music that captivated him. It took him a while to know what it was, until he realized he was looking at her smile.

He knew almost nothing about her, but her smile was so small, so genuine, he couldn’t help but think it was beautiful, and it made him smile too.

Maybe he was staring too hard, because Wendy noticed and took one headphone out and looked at him curiously. “Is… Is something wrong?” she asked quietly.

“What?” Taehyung was surprised, and he felt sort of guilty for being caught staring at her. “Oh nothing, I was curious about what you were listening to. You seemed pretty focused” he admitted with a shy smile. “I’m really sorry if I made you uncomfortable” he apologized.

“It’s not problem, really” she said, smiling as she handled him the headphone she just took out. “I’m trying to get in the mood to sing the song, so... it’s mostly ballads” she explained. He hesitated for a second, feeling like he was about to step into her world. Her eyes were bright, and warm when he looked at her like he was asking for permission, and he couldn’t deny that he was curious, so he put the headphone on his ear.

He knew little to nothing about Wendy, but she made him feel warm and at ease, it really was a weird sensation. He was surprised at her taste in music, even though they were listening only to ballads and love songs, they were not the mainstream or the usual sad songs, he really liked them. He closed his eyes, focusing in the music.

Soon, it was their turn to record. Wendy put her phone and headphones back to her purse and they walked together into the recording room. They meet with Irene, Yoongi and Jimin as they arrived. Taehyung and Irene exchanged some uncomfortable looks, but Irene cut him off as she approached Wendy and hugged her, wishing her good luck before leaving the room.

The atmosphere was awkward after that. They stood beside each other, with their lyrics on their hands. Wendy took a deep breathe, before speaking to him.

“Are you okay?” she asked, concerned. He looked at her for a second.

“I’ll be” he assured her.

The producer started giving them instructions, which they listened very carefully to.

“Alright, so we will start in one, two…”

Taehyung took a deep breath, and closed his eyes for a second.

He remembered Irene, he remembered how they met, how it was love at first-sight for him, how much they smiled and how he felt like he was in the clouds. He also remembered the day she broke up with him, he remembered her words, her face… how he felt his world crumble. And he let it all go. He let her go as they began to sing.

Wendy’s voice was perfect, but it was not just her powerful voice that made the song a huge success, it was the emotion she put into it. She sang as if she was the one with a broken heart. Taehyung also gave the performance of his life, not even himself thought he could be able to sing that way until that day.

The whole studio went silent when they finished singing the song for the first time. The BigHit’s CEO was the first one in break the silence with a loud clap, and then everybody followed him, including the group’s members and the production team.

“That was perfect” the productor said to them. “We… we are not gonna do it again. Just… let’s just record some backups and… yeah” he sounded soft, and lost. It was the first time hearing such a powerful emotion on a song, and for it to come out that perfect in the first try was already amazing.

At the end, Wendy and Taehyung only spend thirty minutes recording their song. The minute they finished, the boy felt… lightweight, like if he could just fly away any minute.

“You were amazing, dude” Jimin was the first one to greet them. Wendy ran off with Joy and Seulgi that seemed very excited to talk to her. He smiled at s, feeling suddenly very happy to hear them praise him.

Everything was happy until Irene stood up from her seat and left the room as fast as lightning, capturing everyone’s attention. Wendy felt kind of guilty, as the silence reigned the room again. Minutes after that, Yeri and Jin started to record, it was a soft but pretty song, that really gave the vibes of a sunrise, and Jin and Yeri’s voices were pretty similar, soft and pretty.

“You did amazing” she heard Taehyung whisper next to her. She was too focused on Yeri and Jin that she didn’t notice when the boy sat down next to her. She blushed furiously.

“You were also amazing. I almost cried” and now it was his turn to blush. Shyly, he offered her his fist, and he heard her giggle before bumping her fist into his.



When they finished recording, the two groups separated after taking a grupal picture since the companies decided to reveal their collab. Everyone was beyond tired, and they had to make sure to rest since the next thing coming was learning the choreography and filming the MV, so they left as fast as they could.

When the day ended, and after they ate something with their CEO and manager, they arrived to their dorms. They had a small talk, about how they actually really liked their work and how good the girls did, but Taehyung’s head was elsewhere.

He felt different than he did when he left the same room that morning, it was something between relief and emptiness. Maybe some part of him expected Irene to come back to him, maybe he thought that his feelings would reach her, but they didn’t. And he wasn’t as devastated as he thought he would feel. He felt bitter when she left the room, but not angry or sad. He recalled everything that happened that day and realized that Irene had moved on and he was the only one left in a dark alley.

He recalled singing all his feelings, all the love and adoration he had and he remember having a node on his throat. He also remembered looking at Wendy’s face, hearing her angelical voice and immediately feeling better. Wendy was so warm, and it was so easy to get in touch with her, and it was also surprising how good her music taste was. He couldn’t help but smile to himself.

Taehyung smiling to himself like an idiot was a normal thing to see to the other BTS members, but it had been a while since he actually did it, so it came like a surprise. J-Hope was about to try to get im out of his dream when he looked up at them.

“Does anybody wants to help me to get someone’s number?”



One thing that never ceased to impress Wendy was how fast Seulgi felt asleep, but she didn’t complained at all. Since Wendy always was the one to sleep late, she was happy to know that her night activities didn’t bother her roommate.

She was trying to write something on a notebook. A while ago, she thought it would be nice to try to write songs, and since her inspiration was sometimes unpredictable, a notebook and pen was the best options. The problem was, that she didn’t really think her lyrics were a big deal. That night, specially, she caught herself writing tons of cheesy things, while she tried to put herself on Taehyung’s shoes. She was really impressed by how much that song meant to him, that it made her want to feel that way too.

Wendy was getting frustrated for not being able to write something decent, when she received a text. Surprised and confused, she looked at the text from an unknown number.

[Good night! Hope I’m not disturbing you. I was wondering if you could tell me the name of the songs we listened today too… I really liked them and it seems like I can’t sleep haha]

Wendy was about to reply that it was probably a wrong number when she got another message.

[This is Taehyung, from BTS by the way haha *smiling emoji*]

Her heart skipped a beat and she let her phone fall from her hands, she was really surprised since she never imagined he would ever text her. And that moment was when it hit her. She never gave him her number. After some seconds of being in deep thought she replied.

[Oh hello! Since there are a lot of songs, I’m gonna name just some of them. King of Gabrielle Alpin, Hate Me of Eurielle and Female Robbery by The Neighbourhood]

Taehyung was convinced she must be sleep by that time, but when he got a reply, he couldn’t help but to jump to his phone.

[You have a really good taste. Thank you!]

Wendy smiled at his reply, and doubted again before answering.

[It’s no problem. I listen to a lot of music, so if you ever want a recommendation, just ask me :) … Btw, how did you get my number? I’m just curious]

The boy nearly smacked himself when he realized she must have been confused when out of nowhere he texted her without her consent.

[Oh dear, I’m so sorry I never asked you… I asked Namjoon to ask Jackson from GOT7 to as Amber from F(X) for your number. I’m really sorry if I bothered you]

She smiled. She could almost hear his voice on the text, and his worried expression. And it also made her smile all the trouble he took to get her number.

[Not at all! I’m actually glad! That means we’re buddies now *smiling emoji* Anyways, the songs are really soft so I hope they help you to sleep, you need to rest. Fighting!]

Taehyung was relieved when he read her message and got a warm feeling when he felt her worry through the message. Even though he still felt empty after deciding to let Irene go, he was happy to have a new friend, someone he felt he could rely on.

[I’ll make sure to be fully rested for next time, thanks for worrying hahaha You should rest too, it was a very long day. Good night!]

Wendy was tempted to reply again, but Seulgi moving on her bed made her stop. She put her phone to charge and turn off her light, laying on her bed completely. She didn’t know how tired she was until she closed her eyes and fell asleep right on the spot.