Chapter Six- The Little Things

~Erin POV~

I was taking a break from the photo shoot, I get exhausted faster lately. I sat in a chair and laid back, placing a hand over my stomach. Will I ever have a family with Namjoon? No one outside our groups and staff know about our relationship so we have to be careful with how we act when around people at jobs and things like that but luckily this is a Big Hit studio with staff who are all sworn to secrecy of our relationship. I heard a door open and looked over, immediately jumping up and jumping into Namjoon's arms. He laughed as he hugged me, I gave him a soft peck on the lips before pulling away to poke one of his dimples.

"I brought you a milkshake, chocolate your favorite." He said as he handed me the drink, earning a huge grin from my lips. "Thank you, I really needed this at the moment." His smile faltered slightly. "Are you feeling better today?" I had puked the other day and now he was worried every time I mentioned feeling tired. "Don't be such a worry wart, I'm fine really." He didn't look convinced and leaned in to whisper in my ear so nobody else could hear. "You been puking every morning, but then don't puke for the rest of the day. Do you know what that could mean?"

I frowned, I bet Alex told him I have been puking. "It's nothing Namjoon-" he cut me off sounding nervous. "You could be pregnant Erin, you are having morning sickness, loss of energy. It all points to pregnancy." I froze, oh no I'm not ready to be a mother! What could this mean for my career? Namjoon wrapped his arms around me and I buried my face in the crook of his neck, him resting his chin on top of my head. "It will all be okay, I promise." He whispered in my ear. And I believed him, he always calms me down.

My eyes fluttered opened, temporarily being blind from the light shining through the window in my face. I sat up rubbing the sleep away and stretching. Today is going to be packed for us, we are going to do a bunch of photo shoots and a lot of dance practices and vocal lessons. Everyone was exhausted from our overly packed schedule, but even so kept smiling happily excited for that all our training will pay off to. Honestly none of them were able to look or act exhausted thanks to our overly energetic maknae.

Mina made it her mission to make sure that not a member was without a smile. Sometimes she could be a little over the top, but we all loved her dearly. "Come on guys let's have a great day! LIT M FIGHTING!" She said proudly with a fist in the air as we all sat at the table for breakfast. We shook our heads and just went back to eating. Mina finished swiftly and pulled her hair back into a ponytail. Alex and I went to our room and got dressed. Alex yawned and stretched as she put on some black skinny jeans, a black t-shirt and a red and black flannel on top. She put on her signature beanie and began to braid her hair.

I put on a pair of black ripped skinny jeans with a dark blue tank top. I slipped on some all black Converse and left my hair down. I tied a blue and white flannel around my waist and took a glance in the mirror giving a nod of approval before exiting my room. We all met up at the door and made our way to the car to get to the Big Hit building. Aeri sat in the front seat next to the driver, the next row sat Alex and I and in the back sat Mina and Euna. Alex and I chatted about random topics mostly about my dream, to which Alex teased me endlessly.

When the car pulled up to the Big Hit building we all filed out and we walked in, heading to the first thing on our schedule, dance practice. Over the past two months the girls and I have gotten closer to Bangtan, now every time we see them they would stop and give us words of encouragement because they had heard about our debut getting closer, Namjoon and I had become pretty good friends and we even practice dancing together with J-Hope and Alex when we have spare time.

"Hey girls!" J-Hope waved along with the rest of his members, I guess they could tell we were exhausted because they gave us pitying looks, telling us they understand our pain. Taehyung came and pulled me into a hug, squeezing the air out of my lungs before pulling away and giving me a box smile. "You guys are doing great! Keep working hard it will all pay off soon!" He said and I smiled back, I didn't miss the small frown on Namjoon's full lips as he watched us. Jungkook walked over to Alex and ruffled her hair a little smiling. "Yeah hyung is right, I saw you guys practicing yesterday and you were doing amazing!"

I smirked watching the interaction between the BTS maknae and my best friend, making plans on teasing her later. I had also noticed how Jin and Euna had seemed close and the same goes for Mina and J-Hope, I guess their sunshine personalities just drew them together. Namjoon smiled a dimpled smile at me, causing my heart to bounce all over the place in my chest. "Good luck to all of you. Fighting!" He said and then at once everyone repeated, causing smiles all around.

We waved farewell to them and went to the dance practice room we have been using everyday. Our choreographer was already in there setting up the song he wanted to work on. We all put our bags down and got into our positions, today was going to be a long day.

-Time Skip, Third Person POV-

They all lay on the floor of the dance room, completely and utterly exhausted. Their schedule went like this:

1) Go first thing in the morning to the dance practice room and work on choreo for two and a half hours.

2) Then they get cleaned up and go to a photo shoot to do teaser photos for their debut for around two hours.

3) Go back to Big Hit and work on vocal strengthening for live performances for three hours.

4) Twenty minute lunch break before heading back to dance practice room for another two hours and a half to work on synchronization while dancing together.

So it is to be expected that the girls were tired beyond compare. Sure they had been working pretty hard before this, but today took the prize for hardest trainee day for the girls. Euna, being the motherly woman she is, forced herself to get up and smile encouragingly to the girls. "We all did very well today girls! How about as a treat for all our hard work, we go out to eat tonight!" All the girls sat up smiling, the exhaustion wearing on their faces slowly fading at the mention of food.

Aeri sat up stretching her tired limbs, she felt a swell of pride seeing the girls she saw as younger sisters and her closest friends, all working so hard and still being able to smile and be optimistic. Mina yawned a little before a huge smile filled her lips, she is definitely tired but she wants to keep a good face to help the rest of the group stay positive and happy, it was practically a job she gave to herself. She jumped to her feet cheering, even though her legs were so tired they felt like they would give out any minute, she held strong, for her group.

Erin got to her feet slowly and reached a hand to help Alex up as well. She smiled weakly and heaved a sigh before running her hands through her messy brown and blue hair. All the girls grabbed their things and chatted tiredly to one another as they moved at a snails pace to the elevator. As soon as it dinged and the doors slid open the girls practically crawled out, feeling to tired to walk anymore.

Bangtan were just getting back from eating out before coming back to work on some recording for their new songs when they saw the girls looking ready to collapse and cause a domino effect. Namjoon laughed a little remembering his trainee days before walking over to help the girls, the rest of the members following his example. Jungkook immediately went to Alex's side helping her stand up straight. The tips of his ears were red, telling his leader that his suspicion of the maknae having a crush on Alex was correct.

Namjoon wrapped an arm around Erin's waist, throwing one of her arms over his shoulders to help her stand. She raised an eyebrow at him as he smirked. "You're enjoying my pain aren't you?" Namjoon let a hearty laugh out of his mouth before shaking his head. "No, it just reminds me of the hell I went through as a trainee." Jin helped Euna, as Jimin and J-Hope went to help Mina and Aeri. Aeri was a little annoyed at herself for needing help, she hates asking for help and she especially didn't like looking weak.

But she also didn't want to deny help and have her legs collapse, making her look like an idiot in front of her dongsaengs. She looked over to make sure all of them were okay, and smiled a little when she saw who Bangtan's leader was holding up. Erin had been reluctant at first to tell the girls but eventually after lots of following her around begging she finally broke down and told the girls everything about her and Namjoon. The girls were all even more excited when Alex came back without Erin and informed them that Namjoon had asked to speak with Erin alone.

The whole night until Erin came back the girls all made up crazy scenarios for what Namjoon and Erin could have been doing. Of course her being the oldest in the group, Aeri felt like she needed to keep an eye on the boy. She would be punching someone if he hurt her dongsaeng, and she isn't one to forgive easy. Euna thanked Jin a few times and felt her cheeks heat up at the close proximity of the two. After a little bit, the girls were all able to stand on their own, and the boys let them go, Namjoon holding on a little longer than the others.

Taehyung was jealous, simple as that. He had a small crush on Erin and it made him a little jealous when Namjoon did things like that with her. He held no ill will towards Namjoon but he couldn't help but have the urge to pull Erin into his own arms. And that's just what he did as soon as Namjoon let go, he hugged her tight and told her to hang in there and they will debut before she knows it. She smiled and nodded at the boy who gave her his biggest smile in return, praying she couldn't hear his heart bouncing all around his chest like a wild bird trying to escape a cage.

Yoongi felt like everywhere he looked there was another couple who had secret feelings for each other. He was no idiot, he could see each of them grow close to another and knew there was going to be some romance between the two groups. He looked at Euna and Jin, chatting about different ways they cook things. Jimin talking excitedly to an uninterested Aeri. J-Hope and Mina making dumb jokes to each other. Jungkook shyly making conversation about music with Alex. And then his gaze landed on Namjoon, Erin, and Taehyung. He sighed feeling almost like an outcast in this situation.

He looked at each pair and picked the one with Namjoon. He felt like in that group he wouldn't be interrupting anything, or not knowing what they were even talking about (like Jin and Euna). Namjoon smiled at Erin, he felt so at ease around her and wished they could be more than friends right now, but he knew it would only cause problems. Erin checked her phone and frowned slightly, exhaustion starting to show through again.

​​​​​​ "Hey, we should get going if we want to eat out tonight!" Erin called, earning sighs and some weak cheers from her members. She gave Namjoon one last tired smile, also accepting another bone-crushing hug from Taehyung before they all headed out. None of them would admit it, but just being in the presence of an experienced group like Bangtan, and getting cheered up by Bangtan, it gave them all a renewed energy. They all made it to the restaurant and ate happily, making jokes and just enjoying each other's closeness. As soon as they walked into their small dorm, the girls all split off to their designated rooms, saying a drowsy "goodnight" to one another.

Erin laid in her bed, staring at the ceiling. Thinking over all the things they worked on and all the goals they achieved today made her eyelids slowly lower, before sleep took her completely into it's cozy clutches. The girls had two months before debut. Will everything really go well?