#why do mvs insist of doing this thing where they do a cool shot

[candescentkpop]

Now I'm the most wanted

Monsta X: Wanted

Monsta X Part 36 / ∞

[btschooseafic]

Hey you, what’s your dream?

Pairing: platonic!oc x ot7

Details: manager!oc, predebut/idolverse, partial BTS World!verse

Summary: There’s no shortage of hard work as they get closer to their debut, with a album photo jacket shoot and a music video shoot.

Warnings: This is a fictional story based on real events. The characters presented here are not the same as their real life counterparts. (tw: small diet mention) [masterlist]

Track 21: Hard work / Part 1 / Part 2

After the Storm-Kali Uchis ft. Tyler The Creator & Bootsy Collins

“The sun’ll come out, nothing good ever comes easy

I know times are rough, but winners don’t quit”

April 26th 2013

There was a knock on her office door. Aviva squinted at it. Usually the boys and Soonyoung just rushed in like the owned the place. The only people who tended to knock were her sunbaenims, none of whom she wanted to deal with at the moment. Maybe if she didn’t answer they would go away? The knocking grew more persistent.

She sighed and got up to answer the door.

She and Jin stared at each other for a moment.

“I’ve come for a meeting of the moms,” he said.

“…What?”

“A meeting of the moms,” he repeated. “Also, I brought lunch.” He held up a heavy looking plastic bag.

“…I’m interested.” She motioned him inside.

They sat down on her couch, slurping up soup.

“So,” Jin said, finishing his soup and putting the empty container down on the floor. “I’m worried about our children. Jungkookie has caught another cold. He’s been struggling with his vocals. And he was already worried about being behind in dance because of that knee injury last month.”

Her brow furrowed. “He didn’t mention any of that me.”

“He didn’t want to worry you, since you’ve been so busy recently.”

“I’m never too busy to help you guys,” she said.

He smiled sadly.

“You should be, sometimes,” he said. “Sometimes you have to take care of yourself before you take care of others, you know. Have you been sleeping at all? You’ve been drinking nearly as much coffee as Yoongi-yah, and that scares me.”

“He hasn’t been sleeping,” Aviva thought. “I mean, even more than usual.”

Jin grimaced. “Most of us haven’t been. He and Namjoon-ah are producing every hour of the day. Hoseok-ah spends his time split between helping them and dancing. I know you’ve been bringing him and Jiminie healthy snacks. Do you really have time for that with all the meetings you’ve been having lately?”

“Tae said they haven’t really been eating because they’re worried about looking good for the photoshoot tomorrow,” she said quietly. “I don’t want to push them, but if there’s anything I can do to help…”

“You can lean on me a little,” he told her. “Let’s switch off. I can make snacks on some days, you can make snacks on the other days.” He tapped his chin. “Ah, and Jiminie is worried he’s breaking out again, so I asked my dermatologist and she said leafy greens, berries, and sweet potato are good foods to incorporate into a clear skin promoting diet.” Aviva reached over and squeezed his hand.

“Let’s cook together.”

He blinked at her. “Sweet potatoes?”

She laughed. “If you want to, but I meant dinner. We’re free tomorrow night. It could be a bit of a celebration for all your hard work, and a break from all the craziness.”

“Our hard work,” he corrected her. “But, yeah, that sounds nice. You—“ He tapped her on the nose, laughing as it crinkled. “—In particular, could use a break—you didn’t even come to Lotte World with us last month!”

She shrugged. “I’m glad you guys had a day off, but I don’t like rollercoasters.”

“Neither does Jiminie, but he still came with us,” Jin pointed out.

“And he was horrified, by the sounds of it,” Aviva countered.

Jin nodded. “And it was hilarious.”

She whacked him on the arm. He laughed.

Album Photo Jacket Shoot, 2 Cool 4 Skool-April 27th 2013

Aviva didn’t envy the boys, waking up early to get dressed multiple times to hold poses under bright flashing lights.

She did her best to work hard too, walking around with her camera, hoping to get some fun clips for a behind the scenes video. She held back a laugh as she filmed Yoongi, Jungkook, and Jimin all pronounce their image in the group shot the best.

“Suga-ssi is the most handsome,” Yoongi insisted. Aviva couldn’t hold back her laughter anymore. Yoongi grinned at her.

“Well, who do you think looks the best, manager-noona?” Jimin wondered, pouting at her.

“You all look good,” she said. They gave her disbelievingly looks.

“Don’t be diplomatic, tell us the truth!” Jimin said.

“No, really,” she said. “You all have something good about you. Jungkookie does this cool thing with his eyes when he gets serious…” Jungkook blushed slightly, smiling. “Jiminie, you somehow manage to perfectly blend ‘cute’ and ‘sexy’.” Jimin held his hands over his face, squeaking. “And Yoongi-yah… when you smile, I can’t help but smile too.”

“…You’re too fucking cheesy,” Yoongi muttered, also blushing.

“So I’ve been told…” She sighed, glancing at her camera. “I’m definitely going to have to cut that last thirty seconds out.”

“What? Why?” Jimin uncovered his face. “I want all of our fans to hear you call me ‘cute’ and ‘sexy.’”

“Not going to happen,” she told him. “Where’s Tae? I haven’t got a shot of him yet.”

“I think he was getting his hair done,” Jimin told her.

Aviva got a shot of Hoseok laughing at Tae, who had somehow fallen asleep while he was getting his hair done. Hoseok then tried on his spiky mask for her, forcing her to hold back her laughter again.

Later, she asked Jin and Taehyung who they thought looked the best in the group shot, thinking it’d make a good follow up to the earlier clip she had filmed.

“Hmm. Either Jiminie or Suga,” Jin said thoughtfully.

“I thought Hoseok-hyung was the coolest,” Tae said, smiling.

That night, Aviva and Jin cooked up a storm.

It took some convincing, but between the smell of the food, and Aviva reluctantly agreeing to watch Taehyung’s favorite horror flick, they all ended up on the couch, eating and watching.

Jimin and Hoseok were latched onto each other, jumping and screeching at every little thing. Taehyung and Jungkook teased them relentlessly. Namjoon and Yoongi snickered.

“It’s not just us!” Jimin huffed, crossing his arms. “Jin-hyung and Avi-noona are jumpy too!”

“Avi-yah is worse!” Jin said. “She’s shaking!”

“It is scary,” she admitted. “But also, I’m cold…”

“Here.” Yoongi wrapped his arm around her shoulders, pulling her against his side. “I’ll keep you warm.”

Jimin snickered. “So cool and sexy.” He wrapped his arm around Hoseok’s shoulders, wiggling his eyebrows. “I’ll keep you warm~”

Everyone laughed except for Jin.

“Somebody get her a blanket or something,” he said.

“Um…” Namjoon glanced around and then pulled up a black Obey hoodie from the back of the couch. Taehyung leaned over and sniffed it. Namjoon shot him an odd look.

“It’s clean,” Taehyung announced, giving him a thumb’s up. Namjoon shook his head, smiling as he tossed the hoodie at Aviva, hitting her in the face. He winced.

“Sorry, Viva.”

“It’s okay.” She pulled it over her head.

“Hmm, you always look cute in my clothes,” Hoseok said appreciatively. Yoongi frowned.

“But that’s my hoodie.”

“Isn’t it mine?” Jungkook thought. The three of them looked at each other in confusion.

May 16th 2013

Aviva was working on editing promotional material in her office when Jimin suddenly came bursting in, dragging Hoseok with him.

“Hobi-hyung hurt his knee!” Jimin said, plopping Hoseok down on her couch.

“Again?” Aviva said, her brow furrowing.

“It’s the other knee,” Jimin told her. “Last week it was the left, this week it’s the right.”

“I’m fine,” Hoseok said, smiling easily at them.

“Let me see.” She came over and kneeled down in front of him, studying his bloodied knee. “Hmmm. Doesn’t seem too bad… let me just disinfect it and get you a Band-Aid. You want a Pokemon one?”

“Yes!”

After she cleaned up his wound and applied the bandage, she noticed him looking expectantly at her. “What?”

“Aren’t you going to kiss it better?” He blinked innocently at her. She rolled her eyes.

“That’s not very sanitary, Hobi.” Nevertheless, she pecked him on the forehead as she stood up. Jimin pouted.

“What about me?” He asked.

“Are you hurt too?” Aviva wondered. “I hope not.”

“I’m not…” Jimin sighed.

“Well, we’d better get back to practice,” Hoseok thought, standing up, and squeezing Aviva’s shoulder before heading for the door. He glanced back at Jimin. “Are you coming?”

“Ah… go on without me, I just want to talk to manager-noona for a minute.”

“…Okay,” Hoseok said, shooting Jimin a suspicious look as he left.

“What’s up, Jiminie?” Aviva said, sitting down on the couch and patting the spot next to her.

He chewed at his lip. “It’s Tae. Are we gonna announce him soon? You should’ve seen how sad he was earlier when we filmed the group vlog without him… He was just standing in the corner, just out of the shot…” He sighed.

“I think they’ll let us announce him by June at the earliest,” Aviva told him apologetically.

“Okay.” Jimin grimaced and stood up. “Oh! There was one other thing.”

“Yeah?”

“When we were reading the posts about our MV shoot coming up, one fan said she would make us lunchboxes.”

“I saw that in your vlog. It’s sweet… but also kind of a security risk,” Aviva thought.

Jimin nodded.

“I thought you’d say that. So… you think you could make lunchboxes for us instead?”

Aviva smiled. “I’ll see what I can do.”