BTS Eighth Member | The Life: Year 2017

Chapter 70- Seokjin's Judgement

September 18th, 2017:

The music video had dropped in the early morning, and we were now doing an official live for the comeback a little later. We had gone through a fun ten-minute introduction and were nearly done going through each song of the album. We were sitting on the ground in a line. I was towards the end on the right in between Jungkook and J-Hope. We had talked about all the official songs and Namjoon and Yoongi had given me a shout-out on the songs I helped write and the outro on my production. I hadn't brought up the hidden tracks because, despite the positive response from the live, I didn't want to push it too much. The members had also already given me praise and going to look for it on my own seemed excessive.

"Can I recommend a song too?" Taehyung says before we could move on, "I hope you're looking forward to the hidden track as well. Please listen to it by buying our album".

"It's Y/N that made the hidden track right?" Seokjin says, nodding his head at me.

"Yeah, the hidden track is written and produced by the maknae," Namjoon nods, smiling proudly, "so please buy the album and give it lots of love. She worked really hard on it".

"It was written to help anyone struggling with general life, feeling a little lost, you know," I explain, blushing slightly, "so go listen to it if you ever need reassurance... I am really proud of it. It's the first song that is mine through and through, I really hope ARMY like it... The boys helped me bring it to life so ARMY, please give it love," I add.

"Go and get the album so the maknae doesn't get sad," Yoongi chuckles, ending our intros to the songs on the album.

We then went on to play a game where we had to think of songs with certain words in them that were picked from a bucket. Like, sing a song that had the word coffee in it for example. I was terrible at it because I had a very, very limited knowledge of Korean songs outside of K-pop and we tried to limit our mention of other K-pop groups out of fear of controversies. It was for this reason I led my team of Yoongi, Taehyung, and Seokjin to a loss. I also failed, not without trying to bribe my way to victory, at the red light, green light game. As a result of my two failures, I was the undeniable loser and had to drink a not-so-savory tea.

"Urgh, it's revolting," I cough after taking a sip.

"If you don't finish it, we'll make you drink another one," Jungkook eggs me on.

I take a breath, block my nose, and jug it down. I gag halfway through to the laughter of the boys. Finally, I finish it, a grimace on my face.

"How was it?" Jimin asks grinning.

"It was great, wanna try," I say, handing him the cup with a tiny bit of the drink left.

"No, I'm good," he chuckles, handing it back to me.

I stand up and go to the crew to give them the cup, and hopefully get some water. Thankfully, Yoona was ready. When I had drank enough water to get rid of the awful taste, I went back to the boys and we wrapped the show, each giving our ending thoughts.

"Well, thank you for watching and I really hope you love the new album," I say, repeating pretty much what everyone else had said so far, "I'm quite proud of the work I've been able to show on this album thanks to the boys and the producers and I hope you love it as much as we do. I look forward to your responses and showing a different side of us we haven't really shown yet. I love you ARMY!"