Waking up in the morning I head to the kitchen in the wakes of dawn and eat a light breakfast being sure not to wake Hawon and Seungwon. I go to my room and get ready for the dance practice. We decided to meet early in the morning so we had the whole day to practice.
After an hour I exit my room and find Hawon and Seungwon on the couch playing video games. I wave goodbye to Hawon and Seungwon and walk to the van with my Manager waiting inside. We begin driving right away and this time strangely he doesn't nag me much about being scared to dance at all. Instead after just asking if I'm okay once he plays calming music the whole time and once we reach the practice room he just smiles and hands me my bag and beanie.
I exit the van and enter the large building. Hawon and Seungwon had a different schedule today so I told our Manager to go to them instead and that I could fend for myself.
I find myself standing in the doorway of a giant building and before I know it a woman in a suit comes up to me and tells me she will take me to the Dance Practice Room. I decide to follow her and thankfully she leads me right where I need to be.
I stand outside the door for a moment and then turn the knob and enter. A few of the Stray Kids members are lounging around on the sofas in their very large dance studio. As soon as I enter they disappear in a flash. Minho laughs as Jisung trips over the wire of the speakers as he leaves and the music begins blasting. He runs back to turn off the music, tripping again, and then just leaves. Minho turn the volume down and and then turn around to look me in the eye. I use some courage and ask "shall we start?" wanting to get this over with as soon as possible and be nods. I didn't expect him to say yes this quickly and try my best to cover my startled expression. He must have noticed as he tells me that we should stretch first.
I put my stuff down on the sofa and begin to stretch. Minho does the same a few meters away from me. Once we've stretched he goes to the speaker and turns the music on. I hesitantly walk up to him and shyly stand right in front of him skillfully avoiding his eyes. He just smiles as he starts the song over and we begin. He comes closer to me bringing his neck once again around me and then pushes me back. I then, reminding myself not to fall on top of him, carefully bring myself closer into his arms. I sense his smirking probably remembering me falling on him.
I continue to manage my facial expressions knowing that he is paying attention to me. I don't want him to know that I'm in pain and make him feel unnecessarily burdened so instead I hold it all in ignoring the aching in my foot and my heartbeat getting faster.
We continue to dance as he lets go of me and we stand side by side our eyes accidentally meeting each other's through the mirror. We swing our arms in patterns as the song begins to come to an end. For the finale he grabs my hand and we spin, his hand slides up my bare arm leaving goosebumps. I see him swallowing as he's nervous and I move closer to grab his arm as well. He looks deeply into my eyes and the song slows down and we begin to move away from each other when the end of the song approaches. It ends with us both running to each other and stopping a few inches away. The music stops and I move back a bit but Minho grabs my arms gently. I turn my head slightly to the right looking away confused, and I feel his stare on the left side of my face as he begins coming in closer. I can't move as my body is out of my control from dancing for so long.
I leave it up to fate as I stand there frozen my heart almost stopping from beating to fast. Momentarily forgetting all the pain I was just feeling moments ago.