TWENTY [ SEVENTEEN ]

FIVE

Eun Byul 's POV

Hansol and I have been hanging out ever since the scene at Han river happened. We always had something to talk about, except for about why I cried. He didn't force me to tell him which is kind of nice, other than Jihoon he was the closest to me among the Seventeen members.

Seventeen? I have no idea how they come up with the group name. It turns out that they created a group that specializes in dancing, rapping and singing. they were a 13-member group that is actually divided into 3 sub-units, the vocals, the performance and the Hip-Hop team. Their stage names were crazy. Don't let me get started on it. But I tell you it is crazy.

Jihoon was a part of it too, it didn't bother me because ever since we were 11, he started to show interest in performing, well, singing. I always would cheer him on whenever he shows a performance to me, I would always tell him that he should perform, but he insisted that if he did pursue it, he wouldn't have time for me.

Deep inside, I wanted him not to, I knew it was selfish, but he was the only person who understood and knew me among everybody else.

Here I am now with Hansol for their first ever performance as a group. They were performing in a guerrilla concert together with other groups who had they same dream as them. I didn't want to come at first but appa made me do it. It was either this or me bonding with him. So, here I am inside a room with blasting speakers and loud fan girls.

"and now, Seventeen!" the MC spoke as they came out, making the fans cheer. I was clapping lightly and hoping that they would do well. Well, they better be performing well, they've been in our house for quite some time now, practicing til' midnight. It was exhausting.

The music played, it was 'Shining Diamond' the song that they had been practicing for a few months now. Everyone was jamming to their song when someone approached me.

"Eun Byul-ssi! Did they already start? What did I miss?"

I turned around to see a beautiful woman whose around the same height as me. The only difference is, She was pretty in so many aspects. she was the person who always made me feel bad about myself, Lee Suhyun, Jihoon's girlfriend.

" a-aniyo, they just started." I said quietly as I continued watching them.

"Jihoon oppa is so handsome today don't you think?"

'of course, he was handsome all the time.'

" Jihoon? pfft, sure I guess." I shrugged.

I just continued watching their performance up to the very end, I have to give them credit for this because there is no doubt that they performed quite well. They were the last performers of the night so the MC together with the other groups went to the stage and waited for today's results.

" and the winner for today's match is, eXclusive!" the MC cheered as the winning group went to the center clearly knocking Seungcheol and Junhwi off the stage. The others also went down from the stage with disappointed faces.

" you did well, oppas!' Suhyun said in her cheery voice.

"but we lost." Jeonghan shrugged as he wiped his sweat using a towel.

the atmosphere was quiet for a while until Suhyun broke the ice.

she kissed Jihoon's cheek which made me look away. I looked at the person behind me and it was one of the members of eXclusive, the one who knocked off Seungcheol off the stage.

I heard him snickering against my brother and they started making comments about him. I was sure the guys and Suhyun heard it because they stopped and looked at them.