❛the survivors and the newcomers❜

"NI-KI! NI-KI! NI-KI IS THE CENTER." ta-ki said, happily while you watched them on the tv, getting ready for their performance. "look it's ni-ki!"

ni-ki is a great dancer so you could understand why he's center.

your smile got wider when you saw belle standing on the fifth place in front.

"look, it's belle-unnie!" shion has her arms around your waist, giving it a squeeze.

everyone was so good, you could see some mistakes but all in all it was a decent performance. you could feel jake's nerves when he dropped his mic.

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all of your jaws dropped when the voice announced that 6 i-landers would get eliminated. you didn't know whether to be happy or sad about that.

"those who got eliminated will arrive soon."

"they must have mixed feelings." jimin pursed his lips.

"i don't know what to say to them." hanbin looked concerned.

"should we say it's okay?" shion asked, staring at the floor.

after she asked that, the door opened and in came ni-ki first followed by the rest.

"jay?!" both you and shion gasped.

shion went to him with open arms. you guess hugging was a natural thing here, everybody seems to be comfortable with being touchy.

"you shouldn't be here." you frowned, truthfully. "and ni-ki weren't you the center?" you asked the 16 year old boy who had his hood up.

he met your eyes with a sad smile and shrugged his shoulders. ta-ki gave him a bear hug so his smile became larger.

"even with 12 heeseungs there, five would still get voted off." jay said.

"it must've been hard huh?" you gave them a small smile.

you locked eyes with a teary daniel who nodded to your question.

"i realized that if you didn't have enough fighting spirit in you. you would never survive. so it got me all fired up." you determinedly stared at the camera.

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"and the last person who gets to enter i-land is..." you were praying. shion got in and you couldn't describe how happy you are for her, but now there was only one spot left.

"yanmin." you gasped, covering your mouth with your hand. everyone screamed and shion and sunoo hugged you at the same time.

hanbin was jumping up and down in front of you while you were still frozen from disbelief.

"y/n-ie, congrats!" jay told you with a proud expression, giving you a hug when sunoo and shion let you go.

jay patted your back and was whispering sweet words into your ear.

"y/n, we're going to the i-land together! hashtag bestie goals!" shion squealed, hugging the other boys.

"noona, congratulations! you deserve it." daniel suddenly gave you a side hug and because he was so much taller than you , your face was in his chest.

"eh? noona? how old are you?" you asked him, you're pretty sure he was older than you. just look at how tall he is.

"15, why?" he answered in confusion.

your eyes widened in shock, gawking at him. there's no way in hell.

"YOU'RE 15? ARE YOU SURE?" you were extremely shocked. he did not look his age.

jay and the others laughed at you while daniel scratched his nape in embarrassment.

"you guys should go now! hurry!" youngbin said, smiling.

"we'll see you up there!" daniel and jay exclaimed as the six of you gather in front of the door, ready to exit.

"hwaiting!"

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meanwhile, in i-land, the seven survivors were still downcast after sending off their six other companions.

"we should welcome them happily." heeseung told the others who nodded at him.

"i'm so curious." sunghoon comments, fixing his hair.

"do you think one of the girls got in?" geonu asked.

"i hope so. i'm sure belle wants them to get in." heeseung smiled , thinking about y/n getting in.

"ah yeah." belle forced a smile.

"i really wanted to befriend the one girl who rapped! yanmin was it?" k grinned, wiping the stray tears in his eyes.

"same." heeseung agreed.

belle was trying not to roll her eyes for some reason.

"i thought it would've been better if there weren't any girls in i-land. i'm afraid they won't match our energy." seon said to the camera.

"i think y/n was still a little rusty. but with a little more practice, she would deserve a place in the i-land." belle nodded her head towards the camera.

everyone went quiet when the gate started to rotate. inside the egg, y/n was trying to calm her beating heart.

sunoo had his arms locked with y/n's so she felt a bit more comfortable. her and sunoo got closer after spending time on the ground.

who were you kidding almost all of the grounders were close too each other. but sunoo, hanbin and jaebeom were definitely the closest to you.

"i didn't know this thing moved. it's giving me motion sickness." shion comments unnecessarily, but it diffused a bit of tension since it made the boys laugh.

the gate stopped moving and in front of you we're all the seven survivors. the first person you noticed was heeseung. he was grinning when he saw you.

"1, 2, 3, hi everyone!" they all bowed.

sunoo was holding your hand now, as you descended down the mini stairs into the lobby. 13 chairs were aligned in a semi-circle pattern in front of the gate.

you whispered to sunoo, "i can see why you said there was a drastic difference between the ground and i-land."

it looked so modern and expensive in i-land, and there were a lot of rooms and one big practice room that you could see from the lobby. the ground only had 1/4 of this.

"y/n!" heeseung runs up to you with his arms wide open. you hugged him for a few seconds, trying not to make it awkward since you weren't used to all this hugging with boys.

"i can see you guys have been living in luxury." you looked at their clothing and then at yours which was all black.

"it's amazing here. i'm glad you got in." he patted your head gently. sunoo let go of your hand to go greet the other boys.

shion came up to you, looking for belle, "where's belle?"

you looked around the room and saw the girl with sunghoon. she was sticking to sunghoon while sunghoon was greeting jaebeom and sunoo.

"belle!" shion yelled, but belle didn't even turn her head. she probably didn't hear. shion went to go to her, and you were about to follow when two other boys walked up to you.

"hi, you must be y/n?" a guy you recognized as k grinned, offering his hand.

"yeah, hello." you bowed your head a little and accepted his hand. you let out a surprised noise when he pulled you into a hug.

"oh um." you stuttered out.

"hyung you can't just pull girls like that." the other guy laughed as k lets you go.

"i'm yang jungwon, nice to finally talk to you." jungwon gives you a charming smile and you couldn't avoid your shyness. he had an extremely handsome face.

"nice to meet you." you bowed your head.

"you're very formal, aren't you? i hope you would be more comfortable around us soon." k clapped his hands.

"ah yeah.." you smiled nervously.

"your performance was really good by the way! you've got such a stage presence." you got surprised by jungwon's sudden compliment so you didn't know what to say but thank him.

"let's be friends?" jungwon slung his arms around your shoulder.

k interfered wrapping his arm around the other side of your shoulder, "me too! me too!"

"hey, it's hasn't even been an hour and you're already stealing y/n away from me." heeseung joked.

"hi y/n!" belle greets, pulling you into a hug, making both jungwon and k drop their arms.

"belle! i'm so happy we're here together." you told her.

"same, same." she said.

sunghoon walked up to you with geonu by his side. geonu introduced himself and complimented your performance.

"y/n just got here and she already has all the attention..." belle thought with an underlying sense of envy.

"park sunghoon. nice to meet you." sunghoon gives you a limited smile, offering his left hand while his right hand was in his pockets.

"i'm y/n. hello." you gave him a tiny smile, shaking his hand while bowing.

"i saw you in a figure skating competition once, by the way." you look into his eyes, letting go of his hand. you did see him at a competition once, he won that competition.

"oh really?" he raised his eyebrows in surprise. you nodded.

"sunghoon-ah let's go sit back down." belle interrupts, taking ahold of sunghoon's elbow and pulling him away.

"so, where should i sit?" you asked the remaining boys.

"y/n-ie over here! beside me! come, come." sunoo yelled, pointing at the chair to his left.

you bowed towards k, heeseung, geonu and jungwon before going to sit by sunoo's side.

"yah! i wanted to sit next to y/n!" shion argued with sunoo, attempting to get him out of his seat. "if you don't move in 10 seconds, i'll do..something. i don't know what it is yet but i'll do something!"

heeseung laughed before sitting on your other side, so now you were in between sunoo and heeseung. and across from you sat sunghoon and belle.

"if you're going to fight, go back to the ground." you scolded the both of them with a menacing blank expression.

"that's scary, y/n." shion said, cringing at your face.

sunoo lets out a laugh, "shion got scolded by y/n!" he said in a sing-song voice.

"you too, sunoo." you added. he cringed away.

"well, that was entertaining." heeseung was chuckling and you shrugged your shoulders.