#rosie’s vocals can save the worst of songs

[maknaesdancersrappers]

Attempt #7: Write them a love letter

<< the sixth attempt

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Jaehyun is annoyed with you; you just know it. He’s a lot more curt with his responses; he’s always lost in thought or uninterested. He’s probably taken the hint that you don’t want to him to tell you about him and Jangmi. It hurt that you two were drifting apart, but he would understand if you could be selfish just this once because you cared more about your own feelings than his.

He’d been trying so hard, though, you have to give him props. The flower — the gardenia — he gave you symbolized secret love; he and Jangmi were dating in secret. The love songs on the playlist he said he made for you sounded more like something for her because why else would he pester you about checking the songs out. You’d never thought you’d see the day that Jaehyun would be in love, but you didn’t think it would cause you pain because it wasn’t you he was in love with.

“Taeyong, you’re friends with Jangmi, right?” You spent the rest of your lunch period with the aloof boy, sitting outside on a school bench while he crammed his math homework.

He stops writing to peer up at you through his lashes, “We’re neighbors.”

“That’s not my question.” You whined, “I’m asking if you two are friends; meaning you guys hang out and all that.”

“Not really… not anymore, at least.” He shrugs, continuing to answer the problem he’d been trying to figure out.

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

Taeyong doesn’t respond immediately, “I guess you can say we sort of had a past?”

“You guys dated?”

He shakes his head, “No.” He pauses, “Back in middle school, there was a guy who liked Jangmi and he was very vocal about it. I don’t know if they ever dated, but he hated me.”

“Why?”

“Because Jangmi liked me.” He shrugs, “Allegedly.”

You coo at him, “Oooooh, and?”

Taeyong puts his pencil down and frowns at the unanswered equation in front of him, “I rejected her.”

This makes you gasp a little too loudly, making it sound like you were scandalized by the information. “Taeyong!”

“I got threatened and bullied every day because of it. When she confessed to me one day, I thought she was lying. Why would she like the loner otaku kid and not the aspiring pro basketball player? I thought it was a scam; that she was playing me. We’ll go on a date and then she’ll dump me in front of everyone.”

You chew on your bottom lip, “T-that doesn’t sound like Jangmi at all.”

Taeyong sighs, bringing his hands to his face and hiding in them. “I know. She’s a fucking angel. She’s friends with everyone, she’s funny and smart, she’s beautiful—”

“It sounds like you liked her, too.”

He makes an indignant noise, looking away from you to hide the blush on his cheeks, “Well, it doesn’t matter because I hurt her and now every time I look into her eyes, all I see is sadness because I assumed the worst from her. Don’t you ever notice how she just stops smiling or laughing when I’m around? She won’t even look me in the eyes if we ever talked.”

You cross your arms over the table and rest your head down, “Have you tried apologizing to her?”

“I’m too ashamed to even be in the same room as her.”

“But you still like her?”

Taeyong snaps his head back towards you, “I don’t want to. I don’t deserve a second chance from her.”

“What if she still likes you?”

“And what if I want to like you instead?”

You sit up straight and stare at him, “What?”

He groans, “I don’t want to like her anymore, but then I’d feel bad for using you as a rebound…”

You don’t know what to say to him. He seemed like he was pretty much in the same position as you. In love with someone you don’t deserve. “I guess, but… she’s with Jaehyun.”

“You think they’re together? Has he told you?” Taeyong looked unimpressed when you shake your head, “You can’t assume things like that — you’ll end up like me; regretful of not doing things because I jumped to conclusions.”

“But it’s obvious!” You defended yourself, “They’ve been hanging out more and talking a lot.”

“I just told you that Jangmi is friends with everyone. Listen, until they confirm it themselves, you can’t beat yourself up and say Jaehyun’s in love with her or that they’re dating — although I don’t blame him.” You pout at his last words and he laughs, “I’m sorry. But okay, how about this… they’re not dating, I’ll apologize to Jangmi and tell her how I really feel about her. Deal?”

“I really regret telling you about Jaehyun, you know.” You glare at him. When you started hanging out with him and he asked the reason behind it, you just word vomited all over him like what you do with you journals. Nonetheless, you’re grateful that he was patient with you, listening to you rant nonstop. Sighing in defeat, you shrug your shoulders. “Deal.”

You had class with Jaehyun after lunch. He already saved you a seat at the back, waving at you and removing his bag from the table. You still sat beside him and as you fixed your things for that class, you see him lean over in your peripheral vision.

“Where were you?”

You glance at him, “Uhm, Taeyong. Why?”

He blinks at you for a few seconds, “I, uh, wanted to see your notes. I think I missed some last time. Can I copy yours?”

You take the composition notebook that matched his own and handed it to him, “How could you miss taking notes? You’re always focused in class.”

“Uh— daydreaming…?”

“About what?”

Jaehyun’s eyes widened ever so slightly and there was the unmistakable rosy hue blossoming on both his cheeks and ears, “N-nothing.”

You were ready to call out his bluff, but then the teacher comes in and asks for help to bring today’s learning materials into the room.

“[Y/N] would love to help you.” Jaehyun announces and you gawk at him in disbelief for volunteering you.

“Thank you, [Y/N]. Come on now.” Your teacher beckons to you with a small gesture with her hand and you had no choice but to stand and follow her out of the room, but not before scowling at Jaehyun, who cheekily smiles at you.

Once you were gone, he opens up your notebook and starts writing out his confession on the first blank page he could find.

“[Y/N]. Before you get mad at me for writing on your notes, I want to tell you that there is someone I like. It’s you. - J”

He had written the last few words in a hurry because suddenly you were back, setting the stack of reading materials on the teacher’s desk. His penmanship looked like chicken scratch; he hopes you could still decipher it, but if you can’t, then he’ll just have to read it out to you.

He closes the notebook and hands it back to you before you sat down, “Thanks.”

“No prob.” You were about to open your notebook and Jaehyun held his breath, until the girl that sat beside you asked to see your notes, too. You don’t even open the notebook and handed it to her, sitting down and grabbing your tumbler to drink out of it.

Jaehyun watches in horror as your classmate, Yoojung, opens the notebook up exactly where he wrote his confession and starts blushing when she lets out an exaggerated gasp.

“Wa! [Y/N]-ah!! There’s a confession in here!”

Of course, everyone hears this and starts teasing you.

You were confused, trying to get your notebook back to see.

“Who’s T, huh, [Y/N]?” Yoojung asks in a singsong voice.

“T?!” You look back at Jaehyun after he exclaims alongside you. He looks just as perplexed as you.

“[Y/N]. Before you get mad at me for writing on your notes,” Yoojung stands up and everyone is turned to her, listening intently, “I want to tell you that there is someone I like. It’s you.”

The entire class playfully goads you, laughing at how red you were.

“It’s signed ‘T’! Who is it?” Yoojung nudges your shoulder, before letting another gasp, “Is it Taeyong?!”

“We’re just friends!”

“Everyone starts out as friends!” A guy from the back shouts and everyone chimes in with their agreement.

The teacher returns, settling the class down. You snatch your notebook back from Yoojung and read the little note left on the page and you frown, it must be a joke. He just told you he liked Jangmi and even if he did start liking you, he said he would feel bad about it for using you as a rebound.

You tear the page out and fold it a couple of times before sliding it into your pocket. You’ll have to ask him later about it.

Before you tore the page out, Jaehyun sees that he did, in fact, sign it as ‘T’ instead of ‘J’ — the bent tail of his initial was barely there. As their teacher starts off the class, he couldn’t help but lightly smack his forehead with a closed fist at his blunder.

What’s even worse, he inadvertently started a rumor that would spread like wildfire once class is done and probably heightened Taeyong’s chances with you.

the eighth attempt >>

#nct scenarios #jaehyun scenarios #14ways2

[jinactually]

The Stuff I Love #1

The first thing I will be talking about is Loona!

If you don’t know what (or who) Loona is, Loona is a South Korean girl group managed by BlockBerry Creative. Loona has 12 members and were introduced to the public in this order: Heejin, Hyunjin, Haseul, Yeojin, Vivi, Kim Lip, Jinsoul, Choerry, Yves, Chuu, Gowon, and Olivia Hye. All of these members have released a solo album each month, with Heejin releasing "Vivid" in October 2016 and Olivia Hye ending the members’ solo albums with “Egoist” in March 2018. Loona also consists of sub-units that have also released mini albums during their predebut. The first sub-unit, Loona ⅓, has Heejin, Hyunjin, Haseul, and Vivi. Loona Odd Eye Circle consists of members Kim Lip, Jinsoul, and Choerry; and Yves, Chuu, Gowon, and Olivia Hye are in Loona YYXY. All the members made their official debut on August 20, 2018 with their song “Hi High” and a mini album titled “++”.

I originally found Loona in 2016 because Yeojin’s solo song, “Kiss Later” , was in my list of recommended Youtube videos. I got curious about this, so I watched the music video and got obsessed over the song. I listened to the song a lot for a while, but then I forgot about the song. Then in 2017, I saw an Instagram post about Kim Lip’s “Eclipse” and I, once again, was interested in the song. I watched the music video and then realized, “Hey, this is the group that had the music video with a frog I watched a year ago!” Soon enough, I forgot about Loona again. But THIS year, I stumbled across some people on social media talking about how Chuu’s “Heart Attack” was an amazing song. Certain comments wrote about how cute and talented Chuu is, and others said stuff about Chuu “saving the lesbians” and that Loona are the “lesbian queens”. I got curious about why Chuu is a lesbian queen, so I watched the music video. After getting hooked to her song, I decided to delve into the world of Loona.

As I found out more about the group, I started to see how talented these girls are. Haseul singing “ViVid” brought so much happiness to my ears, and her vocals in her song “Let Me In” are AMAZING. Also, Yves’s dancing in her choreography video for “New” is super graceful; if I tried to dance to that song, I’d die at the 10th second of dancing. And have you seen their music video for “favOriTe” ?! Their facial expressions and dance moves are so cool! When I was watching that video, I mentally asked Kim Lip and Olivia Hye to be my girlfriends way too many times. But I can’t help it; all of them are beautiful and talented.

I also saw that their songs are also really diverse and so pleasing to listen to! Even though it’s summer right now, sometimes I still catch myself listening to “The Carol” by Haseul, Heejin, and Hyunjin. “Love Letter” by Kim Lip and Jinsoul is also a whole bop. I don’t know about anyone else, but I get a little bit sad listening to that song. But it’s really nice!!! “Love Cherry Motion” by Choerry made me really confused at first, but as I listened to it more and more, I didn’t stop listening to the song for a pretty long time. The beat drops during the dance breaks shocked me a lot, especially the second one. However, you should seriously experience this for yourself and listen to it. Gowon, Heejin, and Olivia Hye’s “Rosy” makes me want to get up in the middle of my classes and start dancing crazily. It’s not too hype-ish like “Singing in the Rain” by Jinsoul, but it’s still very dancy. Heejin’s rap in that song saved my life. I could say a little bit about almost every song in Loona’s discography, but I came here to say something about Loona in general, not their songs.

Besides their stunning songs and their plethora of talented girls, everyone in Loona also has a very cute, but unique personality! Yeojin’s weirdness and adorableness during some of the Loona TV episodes makes me smile and laugh so much. Vivi’s cute personality makes my heart flutter SO MUCH!! I love her. She also makes me feel calm, which is really cool. Also, Jinsoul thinking that her charm is her dumbness (cough cough Jinsoul slamming her head against a table during that one V live ) astounds me, but also makes me giggle a little bit. Chuu’s childlike persona makes me want to hug her until the end of time! She’s adorable, and I REALLY want to hold hands with her. I really wish I could be friends with them. They seem like really fun people to hang out with during school.

Even though I’ve only started being an avid fan of this group for two months, I feel like I’ve seen them grow so much. When Heejin was first introduced, her album was announced to be the worst selling female solo album of 2016 . Look at them now! “Hi High” is now the group’s most viewed music video at 13 million views (their other music videos only have 1 million-4 million views right now). “++” peaked on iTunes’s worldwide category at #2 and also made it to the #4 spot on Billboard worldwide albums (the source I got this from has many other achievements that they accomplished). Olivia Hye’s “Egoist” (feat. Jinsoul) is Loona’s fastest solo music video to reach 1 million views, which was achieved in 8 days. Not to mention, this is only at the start of their debut. I’m sure if people start to notice this group more, they can become even more popular than the girls anticipated.

I sincerely hope that if you read this, this post makes you more intrigued by Loona and encourages you to start becoming a fan of them. I definitely don’t regret finding out about these girls; they’re amazing! All of the members, their songs, and their music videos just make me fall for them; when they start to release more content, I’ll probably keep tripping because Loona is just THAT great (haha). Anyways, these 12 girls have shown for a long while that they are worth supporting. Their talents are extremely noticeable, and they love all their fans with their whole hearts. Even if you just listen to one song, they’ll appreciate the effort dearly.

And you know what Orbits (aka fans of Loona) say: “stan talent, stan Loona!”

#I FEEL LIKE I WROTE TOO MUCH EVEN THOUGH IM WITHIN THE WORD LIMIT #I HOPE PEOPLE DONT GET TOO MAD OVER HOW MANY LINKS I PUT IN HERE #MY GOODNESS THIS TOOK UP 4 PAGES ON GOOGLE DOCS IM NEVER TYPING AGAIN #anyways stan loona #blog