Lost Voices (2)

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Request from @purplecupcakes005  ! Hopefully you enjoyed this story :) I'm sorry if it wasn't what you expected (and abit lengthy)

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Story takes place during the recording of the Map of the Soul: Persona 

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pt 2.

thursday
*time skip to 4am*
 
"hyung... wake upp... its time to go to the studio to practice" I heard Jungkook whispered to me.
I awoke and looked at my phone and sprung into action to get ready.
Once we were both ready, we headed to the studio at 4.30 in the morning. Losing track of time, we practice nonstop till 7.30 (with toilet breaks and meal time breaks). It surely was tiring but I think both Jungkook and I can agree that this would be worth it. for ARMY.

We headed back to the dorm for dinner as Namjoon-ah requested. We shared many stories and laughter filled the dining room. As the night drew to a close, my throat started feeling rather scratchy and dry. I didn't think too much about it and grabbed a bottle of water. I assume it was because we barely had any water the entire day. Aish Jungkookie as well. I headed back to the fridge to grab a bottle for Jungkookie and delivered it to his room.

We exchanged our good night greetings and I soon fell asleep, with the thought of the recording going smoothly.

Jungkook's POV

After we wondered back to our rooms, I felt somewhat of a tension that was building up in my chest. I then released a few chesty coughs. But I wasn't too concerned about it because that ramen we had we pretty spicy. As I was about to go to the kitchen to grab some water, hyung came in with a bottle. Thank you hyungie~

We exchanged our good night greetings and I then slept excitedly for our re-recording to give ARMY the best version of our voices.

friday
*time skip to 6am*

Jin's POV
'BEEP BEEP' Aish stupid alarm. Aish stupid throat. Why is it so dry? And why did I only take one bottle for myself last night? I clearly need more than one. Haiz time to go to the kitchen to get some.

What I thought would quench my thirst, didn't actually help at all. It's ok. It's just dry nothing else.   

Ignoring the dryness of my throat,I got ready and waited for Jungkookie in the living room so that we can warm up together.

Jungkook's POV

I felt my phone vibrating, which meant that it was time to part from my bed :( After much effort of getting up, I proceeded to get ready to head to the studio.

During the process of getting ready, the urge to cough from last came back. I let out the urge and sadly, it didn't sound too good. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Not today. I can.. I can.. take a shower. It will clear my respiratory system. Nothings wrong with me. Right? Yes.

Having that shower was a nice idea, I the urge to cough wasn't as persistent. Now only to hope that my voice isn't affected and to hid this from hyung. I then left my room and met hyung in the living room. Soon we left for the studio and arrived at around 8.45 am.

We warmed up/ practiced till about 10am where we then ran through the song together. Luckily, I did not feel the urge to cough. Phew.

When we were rehearsing the backtrack (hidden vocals) to Jamais Vu and Dionysus , Hyung's voice cracked (once during each song). And it wasn't the normal sorta crack. It was more of the sore throat sorta crack :(
I looked at him with worry in my eyes and he looked back at me with the same look. Oh no :(

"Hyung, are you ok?" I asked

"Yes yes, don't worry. My throat's just a little dry. I'll be fine" He replied with a smile at the end. I smiled back and took his word for it. We then continued to practice for a while more till the urge from this morning came back.

"Hyung, I've got to use the bathroom. I'll be right back" I said. Without even waiting for a response, I rushed out afraid the urge will get the better of me. 

Upon reaching the bathroom, I let out a couple of harsh coughs. When I was done, it did a voice check to make sure it sounded ok. And thankfully it did and headed back to the practice room.

Jin's POV

"Ah I see youre back, Namjoonah texted saying that recording will start soon so we should start heading to the recording studio now." I told Jungkookie. As soon as I heard my voice, I mentally face palm-ed myself as I sounded pretty off. Shit. 

"Which studio are we going to? I left my phone in the bathroom. Ill meet you there." Jungkookie said but he too sounded slightly off. Hmmm maybe its because im nervous and my ears arent working well. I don't know. Nothing to worry about I guess. 

"Erm, he said recording studio 4. I'll see you there then" I replied.

I walked into recording studio 4 and was greeted by Namjoonah and SupremeBoi (i dont actually know if SupremeBoi was one of the producers for these songs but just go with it sorryy).

"Hyung, where's Jungkook,we got to start in 5 minutes to ensure we dont fall behind schedule. And BangPDnim doesn't know we squeezed in this so we got to make this quick." Namjoonah said to me.

Before I could replied, Jungkookie entered the door. We then started to begin recording.

Namjoon's POV

When we began recording, it noticed both their voices sounded slightly off. I didn't know whether it was my ears playing a trick on me or whether they were sick or something. I let it off because after all we had no time to record this again.

When it came to recording Hyung's high note in Dionysus, his voiced cracked. Hyung held his throat and winced in pain.

"Hyung! Are you Ok?" I immediately reacted.

"I'm..." Jin-hyung tried to speak but only his 'IM' was audible, the rest well was whispers that I barely heard.

"Did you- Did you loose your voice?" I asked full of concern.

Hyung wanted to respond but he didn't manage to speak. So he nodded in defeat. Poor lad.

As much as I wanted to help him out, we were running short on time. I passed him a bottle of water and wanted to call the rest of recording off. But he protested with a strained "NO" with the last of his voice (I presume)

Jungkook's POV

Watching Hyung lose his voice, was pretty funny. I'm sorry hyung but the way you tried to speak but couldnt when hyung asked you a question cracks me up. I laughed pretty hard till I felt the urge to cough come back. This resulted in me going from laughing my ass off to almost dying from a real bad coughing fit. I guess karams a bitch.

Despite the shocked expressions from my coughing fit, I cleared my throat and asked to continue.

It was at that moment where I wished I would have just let them question what was up with me.

During the middle of Jamais Vu, a coughing fit had gotten the better of me. Expecting to go back to recording when I was done, I couldn't. No matter how many times I cleared my throat. I just didn't sound the same. Oh no. After many failed attempts, I decided to give in and admit defeat.

"Er HyUnG, i DonT tHiNk-" I attempted to say but was filled with tons of miss pitches and voice cracks. Before I could finish my painful sentence, Hyung stopped me. Phew.

Namjoon's POV
I thought we raised Jungkookie better than to laugh at an elder loser his voice. But its ok, serves him right,because he laughed himself into a coughing fit. Wait what? A coughing fit? Huh? He's not sick? Wait? Why does his cough sound so bad? How did I not know?

Before I could continue my long strings of questions or even ask anything he acted like nothing happened. I shall leave the questions for the car journey back to the dorm.

I noticed some discomfort during the recording of Jamais Vu and before realising, he went into another coughing fit. That sounded alot worse than the last one and that was bad.

When he was done, he cleared his throat. But was struggling to find his voice. His voice seemed to be getting even more lost each time he cleared his voice. Until he finally spoke up saying "Er HyUnG, i DonT tHiNk"

He was in so much pain, I had to stop him before I finished. I know what he was going to say anyway.

"Take this and please drink up. Both of you. You know you could have told me that you were sick/not fit for recording. Now, you two are barely able to speak. Aish what am I saying. This is my fault. I should have said something. I'm sorry. Now you two have to suffer because I didn't speak up. I'm extremely sorry." I said as I passed them a bottle of water each.

"And Hyung (supremeboi) im sorry for wasting your time from your free day. Please don't tell BangPDnim what happened here. I'll do that myself. Please enjoy the rest of your free day." 
With that hyung said his wishes for a speedy recovery and exited the room.

As we have practice in an hour, I thought it would be better to see what BangPDnim would make us do instead of deciding on my own.

I left them to rest in the recording studio while I had a word with BangPDnim.

*time skip to after the conversation*

"Hi Hyung and Jungkookie, BangPDnim asked me to ask you if any of you are feeling unwell. If no, we shall continue with practicing choreography. However, if you are, please do tell me. You would be able to go back to the dorms to get some rest." I announced when I entered the room.

Jin's POV

After hearing what Namjoon said,I whipped out his phone and started typing on it.

"Jungkookie. I know youre not feeling that great right now and that your throat is probably on fire like mine. Maybe if we rest enough we will be able to return back to normal and hopefully be able to record these tracks again. So should we let Namjoon-ah know that we arent feeling well? We can always catch up on the dances and with us gone, they'll probably not do that much." I typed.

After Jungkookie approved of the plan, I typed out

"Joonie, thank you so much for settling our problem. We are sorry we didn't tell you earlier. I'm afraid that our throats are in a very bad condition and that practicing our dances would make it worse :( So we have have decided that it would be best if we head back to get some rest. I hope you understand."

Namjoon read the note, smiled and said  "Don't feel bad, I'll let the others know. We will see you back at the dorms with some medicine and soup. Get well soon."

With that, we parted ways and Jungkook and I headed back to the dorms.

*time skip to when the boys come back to the dorms*

I awoke with Jungkook's head lying on my chest. He seemed so cute. Just as the door opened, revealing loud laughter, Jungkook's faced creased in pain as he turned sides as he released several unhealthy coughs. Poor golden maknae.

The boys crowded around the couch when they heard the noise coming from the living room. They awwed in usion at the sight of jungkook. But that woke him up.

Eventually we had dinner and then a movie night. It was getting hard to not participate in the conversations,so I used google as my voice. So did Jungkookie.

Maybe losing our voices wasnt so bad after all. The pain from our throats may be temporary but our happy memories forged lasts forever.

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