Since they were the losers, Jennie, Suga, Jungkook and V were on laundry duty as they make their way to the laundry mat. With the LA weather not letting up on the heat, Jennie decided to wear denim shorts and a white cold shoulder top.

“It’s hot as heck...” She grumbles, putting her hair up in a ponytail.

Jennie grabs a bag as the four of them go inside, headed over to the vending machine with laundry detergent. Jennie thought it was cute that the three boys were ‘oohing’ and ‘Ahing’ at the machine after they brought their laundry detergent.

While V and Suga get to work on their laundry, Jennie does her laundry next to Jungkook.

Opening her washer, she digs into the brown bag. “Whoa!” She says in a surprised tone, dropping a few balls of underwear, that clearly was not hers.

Turning to see his balls of underwear on the ground, Jungkook widens his eyes and shouts,
“Ah! I’m sorry! Th-that’s my bag. Th-this is yours.” He quickly gives Jen her bag and while hastily picking up his underwear.

“Jungkook, it’s fine. Relax.” She lets out a giggle. “It’s no big deal.”

Jungkook (Aish...I cannot believe we accidentally swapped bags and she saw my underwear. I’m so embarrassed.)

Jennie (Sigh…I can’t believe I accidentally touched his drawers. Hahaha. We’re all a mess, today, haha.)

‘Finally got their right clothes, the two teens wash their personal belongings’

Turning to see Jungkook pour in a lot of laundry soap, she grabs the box. “U-um don’t you think that’s too much!? A little goes a long way, Kookie!”

“You sure? I feel like it should be more.”

“No, it’s way more than enough! All them bubbles!” She points at his laundry after he turned it in, putting in the coins.

“Wait I forgot to unball my underwear! Ah…I messed up my laundry.” He groans, looking at his laundry with disappointment.”

“Kookie, you’re good, they’ll unroll.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes. You’re fine.”

---

After putting in their laundry, Suga and Jungkook are outside. Suga had a handful of quarters in his hands, showing it off for Jungkook to film with his camera.

“Let’s grab some dolls. I want to catch a doll for Jennie.” He suggests while Jungkook films him.

“Wonder if Suga hyung will be able to catch any dolls.” Jungkook questions as he puts the coins into the machine.

“I’ll try to catch a lion.”

Suga dances to the cute tune of the game and ends up grabbing a tiger on the first try. “Suga hyung caught a doll! He caught a doll!” Jungkook exclaims. “One shot, one kill!”

“Shall I catch another?” He suggests and goes for another, grabbing it successfully.

“It can’t be! He caught another!”

‘Discovery of Suga’s new talent.’

Grabbing one of the lions, Suga walks over to Jennie who was watching the TV. “Jennie, I got you something.” He presents her the doll with a smile.

Gasping in surprise, she happily accepts it. “Wow! For me? Aw! Thank you! This is cute.”

“Thanks for helping me with my dancing.”

“Aw, you’re welcome. Thanks, Suga. I love it.” She stands up gives him a kiss on the cheek.

While Jungkook and V play around with a ball that Jungkook won from one of the games, Jennie and Suga head over to the ice cream shop.

“I’ll let you try to order this time.” Jennie tells him as he manages to order three separate ice creams and a blueberry water ice for her. “Good job!”

“Though I can’t speak English, I still think I can survive in America.” He declares.

“I agree, you’re doing well.”

Grabbing her cherry water ice, her and Suga head back to meet up with V and Jungkook who were still playing games, inside. “Kids, hyung brought ice cream for you guys!” Suga announces.

“Wah, daebak.” Jungkook turns around. While the three guys eat their ice cream cones, Jennie happily eats spoonfuls of her water ice. “Jennie, can I try some of that?”

“Mm hm. Go ahead.” She scoops up a spoonful and feeds it to him. “Do you like it?”

Smiling, he nods. “It’s really good!”

“I want some!” V shouts, bumping Jungkook out the way.

“Hyung!” He shouts.

“I want to taste it, too.” Suga walks up to her.

“One at a time! Jeesh.” She laughs and feeds the both of them a spoonful. Agreeing with Jungkook, the cherry water ice was really tasty,

---

After the laundry was done, Jungkook realized that his balls of underwear did unroll. “Wow, you were right?”

“Told ya! Jennie knows best.” She pats him on the back and puts her clothes in the dryer.

Hearing laughter, she turns her head to V and Suga. “Hahah! Jennie! Suga put the coins in the wrong dryer.” V laughs.

“Suga you had one job.” She chuckles softly and walks over to them with Jungkook.

“Don’t you think Jungkook has changed a little?” V points out.

“He got a tan.” Suga observes.

“I’ve put on weight! I’ve been eating a lot since we reached here so I got fat.” Jungkook says on his camera. “I’ll lose it later.”

“Boy, where? Where’s the fat?” Jennie looks around, trying to find what he was talking about, making him laugh.

After their laundry was dry, the four of them cheer. Carrying her bag of laundry, Jungkook approaches her as he carries his own. “Jennie, I can carry that for you, if you want.”

“You’re such a gentleman, today. Thank you.” She says with appreciation, handing him the bag.“Y’know, I feel like you want something. You’re so nice, today.”

Looking down, he stutters, “N-no reason.”

“Ha, I’m just teasing. I appreciate you carrying my bag for me. Your good deeds have not gone unnoticed.”

Looking up at her, he smiles cockily. “Well of course, as expected by your awesome best friend.”

“Yeah...don’t push it.” She deadpans. Almost instantly, they both end up laughing.

---

Back at the dorm, Jennie watches Jin and J-Hope cook and hears Jin complain that his eyes are burning while cooking the onions. “Are the onions from overseas originally this strong?” He asks, trying to adjust his burning eyes.

“Yep, the onions over here will do that.” Jennie replies. J-Hope calls her and Rap Monster over to try out his cheese sticks that he made.

“Try it out!” He hands her a cheese stick. She takes a big bite and so does Rap Monster. “It’s not too bad, right?”

“Um…it’s ight.” She shrugs.

“It’s nothing special.” Rapmon bluntly replies and walks away, making J-Hope laugh out of embarrassment.

After Jin finishes his cooking, he feeds it to all the members. Grabbing another forkful, he blows on it and feeds it to Jennie.

Rap Monster cringes. “What did you put in it?”

“Ham!” Jin replies, while Jimin and Jungkook eat the meal deliciously. Jin’s statement makes Rap Monster and Suga walk away.

“Eh...it’s okay. It’s an interesting taste.” She mentions.

“You DARE insult my cooking!?” Jin playfully yells at her.

“I’m sorry!”

“I was going to bake you cookies, but no more cookies for you.”

“What the-JIN! Wow! I’ll remember that when you want me to make my cupcakes!” She walks away to meet up with Suga and Rap Monster. “Hey, do you two want cupcakes?”

Jin widens his eyes. “C-cupcakes!? Your Valentine’s Day cupcakes? Jennie! I’m sorry! Come back!”

The guys just laugh at his freak out. “Looks like more cupcakes for me~” Jimin grins.

“NO. I’m getting my own batch!” Jungkook brags.

“No, you’re not! I am!”

---

Later on, that day, the eight of them were walking around Long Island Beach, when a limo shows up to reveal Warren G.

“Hey! What’s up, man?” He greets.

“Holy…” Jennie murmurs, feeling her stomach drop.

“Oh, my God!” J-Hope looks on.

“It’s Warren G.” Suga exclaims.

‘The starters of G-funk and hip hop legend, Warren G’
‘Dr Dre’s younger brother’

Jennie (THIS IS FRIGGIN AWESOME!)

Jin (I thought it was someone rich that was passing by and just greeting us.)

Suga (Someone that I’ve seen on the internet and getting to see him before my eyes.)

V (I was drooling)

Jimin (Was he really Warren G? A foreigner comes up to as and claims that he’s Warren G, of course I’d be a little suspicious.)

After getting into the limo, and greeting Warren G, they ride around LA.

“Hey, check this out. We’re getting ready to go on a mission, we’re gonna go around my neighborhood. Imma show y’all where I grew up at, where I came from. This is where a lot of it all started. Where, I’m gonna take you. Where the roots started. Me, Snoop, Nate Dogg.” Warren G explains.

“I’ve known him as a legendary personality.” Jimin adds

“He is a legend.” Rap Monster praises.

“A lot of people call me a legend. But I’m still a little bit young, maybe at 50, 60 years old, then I could say I’m a legend. But right now, I’m just doing what I do.” Warren G mentions.

“This is our first time meeting you so we’d like to greet you the Korean way.” Rapmon says in English.

“Imma get my phone so that I can get this.” Warren G takes out his phone to record as they do their greeting. Once they arrive at VIP, he mentions, “This it VIP. This is where a lot of things started, right here. A lot of good music, a lot of good people.”

“Welcome to Long Beach.” The cashier greets as soon as they walk inside.
Jennie looks around, in awe. “All these records…amazing.”

Jennie (Man, my dad would love this.)

“You guys want a long beach hat?” Warren G asks

“Of course!” Jennie and Rap Monster happily accept his offer.

“Imma buy them a Long Beach hat. Y’all each get a Long Beach hat.”

“Wow, he’s buying us the hats.” Rap Monster translates as the guys whoa and freak out.

Back in the limo, they continue to ride around as Rap Monster asks him some questions. “What songs did you record there?”

“We did a couple of demo songs. Before we were known. When I actually played it for Dr.Dre, which is my brother, he liked it so he invited us to the studio.” Warren G answers.

“How did you, Snoop and Nate get together when you were young?”

“We went to elementary school together.”

“They were friends in elementary school and they ended up becoming such legends?” Jimin exclaims.

Warren G takes them to 21st Lewis where they shot their album cover. “Yo….that’s insane…” Jennie shakes her head in disbelief.

Jennie (I still can’t really speak because I’m so overwhelmed with amazement.)

“I used to stay down here, so I’ll take y’all this way.” Warren G walks around with them.

Pointing to the house, he says, “This is where I lived at. See that house, right there? Right there, that’s where I grew up. This is where we started. Right here, we used to get picked up and take us to all the rich areas and we’d sell candy, candy out the grocery store and stuff like that.”

‘Giving details about his past and growing up, right where it happened.’
‘It’s not easy to talk about one’s life through music! It’s a real experience! BTS, I’mjealous!’

Walking to another area, Warren G points out that this was where they filmed Who Am I. “We shot that right in here. They put the wall up here, now. So, they blocked it off, all this used to be open. It was railroad tracks. We shot the video, right here. There was, one, two, three of us just standing here.”

After their tour, they’re dropped off. “We had a good time, today. You know, we had a lot of good fun. Check this out guys, I got a mission for you, guys.”

“Please let it be easy.” Suga murmurs.

“I want you guys to write the lyrics to regulate. I want each one of you guys to tell your own life story. So, you do your own version to regulate. Good luck. Much love, baby!” He leaves.

Jennie (I can’t wait to tell my dad that I met Warren G and got to get something from VIP.)

“He wants us to write our own lyrics to regulate.” Rap Monster says

Jennie (I’m extremely nervous. I don’t want to let Suga down. I feel bad, I’m nowhere near the rap line’s level. What am I going to do?)

‘In separate unit groups, challenge of writing regulate’s lyrics’

---

Jennie and Suga walk around and decide to go to a local park. Luckily there were a lot of trees and they sit on the grass, under the shade.

“All right, let’s get started.” Suga takes out his notebook. Jennie takes out her phone and starts listening to Warren G’s Regulate, feeling more nervous about the beat of the song. “You all right? You look nervous.”

“Sorry, I just don’t want to let you down.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well because of my lack of rapping skills.”

Suga lets out a chuckle. “I felt the same when we were dancing together, but look at how we soared. We’ll be fine. What did you do in your old group in America?”

“Singing. I never rapped. My old friend, Angelina, she did that. Not me.”

“Well now, we’ll change that since you’re in BTS.”

“Easier said than done.”

“Smartie, cut it out.” He sighs as he grabs onto her hand to give it a squeeze. “You’re important to me. You’re important to us all. Stop beating yourself up. You’re going to be fine, so stop worrying. You’re going to give me a headache.” He ruffles her hair before taking out his headphones, pulling up the song on his phone.

Running a hand through her hair to adjust it, she speaks up. “Yoongi?”

“What?”

“Thank you.” She nods as a small smirk comes across his lips.

“Let’s get started.”

They both begin to write down some lyrics. “How am I going to convert this into lyrics?” She turns her head to him.

“Continue writing it as an explanation about your life that you personally think of. I’ll fix it around for you later.”

“Okay, I’ll do that.”

After writing, Suga turns his attention to her and asks what she has come up with. Once she hands her the work, he nods and works his magic to put it into lyrics. Afterwards, he puts up the instrumental of Regulate and gives Jennie her lyrics back.

“Let me see how you rap.” He gestures as she nods and looks at her written lyrics.

15, scared and at the Big Hit audition
Just a little girl with a big ambition

“Make sure you increase your punctuation.” He reminds her. She takes his advice and tries again, and he nods in approval. After rapping her verse five times, he gives her pointers every time and she keeps his words of wisdom in mind as she tries again.

Suga (She learns quick. She’s determined. Still have a long way to go, but she’s getting the hang of it.)

“I was also going to research and listen to the female rappers I would listen to when I was younger. That should also help me.” She tells him.

Suga (Jennie doesn’t give herself the credit she deserves. I’m confident that we’ll win the challenge.)

After the practice, they decide to walk back to the dorm. “Great job, today. You’re learning fast. You’ll be fine for the challenge. Don’t worry.”

“Thanks. Um, I actually wanted to tell you something.”

“Shoot.”

“I just wanted to say that I really admire you. Your rapping is just friggin awesome. I would love to be on your level one day.”

Letting out a chuckle, he stops and turns her around to face him. “Jennie, if you’re serious about rapping, I’ll give you lessons.”

Taken aback by his sudden offer, she widens her eyes, stuttering, “H-how’d you know!?”

“I overheard you saying it a bunch of times. I was just waiting for you to ask me. So, ask me, properly.” He grins.

“I know but we’re busy making songs and we’re going to be promoting again, soon.”

“I’ll make time for you. We’ll make it work.” He reassures her.

“Seriously?”

“Yeah. We can start once we go back to Korea. Just prepare that we’re going at a slow pace.You won’t rap like Lil Kim or any of the other female rappers you like, overnight.”

“Thank you!” She wraps her arms around him and hugging him, tightly. He sighs and wraps his arms around her waist.

“I would like to not get suffocated.” He chuckles. “But before I teach you, I want you to ask me properly.”

Releasing him, she beams, “Suga, will you please give me rapping lessons, so that one day, maybe in a few years or so, I could rap with you and the rap line?”

Smiling, he nods. “Yes. I’ll teach you. Just know that I’m going to be blunt with you. I’m not going to go easy on you. And it’s going to take a lot of time and dedication. I take this seriously. You know that.”

“Understood.”

Jennie (Woo hoo!)

Later, that day, back in the dorm, Jennie walks in, trying to find Suga. “Suga, I was thinking we could-“ She stops once she sees him asleep on the bed, that she sleeps in. “Ah, he’s on my bed. I guess I’ll just chill on the couch.”

“…You talk too much. Get up here. I don’t feel like moving. Let’s take a nap, rejuvenate ourselves and we’ll get back to work.” He murmurs.

“Oh, okay.” She climbs up on her bed and gets under the covers with him.

“Don’t move so much...hurry up and get comfortable.”

“Listen you, you are the one that’s on MY bed. I can move if I want to.”

“I won’t hesitate to push you off.”

“Rude, I swear...” she lets out a laugh. Comfortable, she ends up falling asleep against his chest.

“Your hair smells, good.” She could feel the vibration of his chest, making her snort.

“Wow, is that the best pick up line, you can think of? I just moisturized my hair.”

“Yeah, yeah, yeah...it smells nice.”

“Take a nap, Suga.”

“You’re one to talk.”

---

The next day, the eight members head into Warren G’s recording studio and greet him. “What’s poppin?” Jimin greets in English.

“What’s poppin? So how are you guys feeling today?”

“I’m nervous.”

“It’s all good. I gave you guys a challenge the other day to write your lyrics to regulate. I want to know what some of the challenges you guys face were in doing so.”

“That we had no time?” Suga adds

“I can understand that.”

“My challenge is that it’s regulate.” Rap Monster mentions. “It’s like Warren G’s life song, so there was some burden to us. Like this is regulate, it’s like this song.”

“Yeah, but once you tell your story over, it becomes you. That’s real cool, man. Time for the good stuff. It’s time to see what you guys came up with. And the first group that we’re going to roll with is Jungkook and V.”

Jennie nods once she hears V rap.

“Living each and every day tiresomely, we’re Peter Pans who grew. Even if time passes by like this, we won’t become adults.”

Jennie (Okay V…I see you…)

“All right, Suga and miss Jennifer. Y’all ready?” Warren G asks as they head into the studio. Jennie takes out her phone to look at her lyrics.

Jennie (I’m freaking out…I hope I successfully rap my verse and things go smoothly. It’s all or nothing. Let’s do this thing.)

Putting the headphones on, she exhales and starts to listen to the beat. Suga squeezes her hand. “You got this.” He murmurs as she nods.

All nervousness aside, she gets serious and begins to rap in a strong voice, just like Suga advised her.

15, scared and at the Big Hit audition
Just a little girl with a big ambition
Flew to Seoul
And met my goal
I was a trainee for the shortest amount of time
Critics thought I wasn’t ready and wasn’t at my prime
I took a lot of Ls lemme adds some wins
Day and night, 24 hours, every day
Our work is never done, this ain’t child’s play
Sleep deprived, but the future is always on my mind
No matter what they say, I’ll always be on my grind
My curly hair is a mess,
But I’m never stressed
And let me just address that I’m here to stay
You want me on my way
But not today!
I’m still the Bangtan Girl
So I’m sorry bae!

Suga smiles to himself as he listened to her. She did well, as he started his rap.

Meanwhile with the guys, watching in surprise, Rap Monster widens his eyes at her roughness in her voice and the attitude she had at the end of her verse. What happened? She looked so serious.

Rap Monster (I..I’m astonished at how Suga turned her into a different person in just a day. ONE day. Wow. If she wants to learn how to rap and maybe be a part of the rap line, let her go for it. I’m looking forward to seeing how she does in a year.)

“The dream I had during my 10s that was definite at a young age. Because I fell for that, the door of my future was unclear.” He continues to rap his verse.

“That’s a wrap!” Warren G says as they walk out.

Jennie (Huge weight lifted off my shoulders. I feel good.)

“Uh, Rap Monster, you okay?” Jennie nervously chuckles because he kept staring at her.

“Suga, what did you do to her?” He exclaims while Suga laughs.

“I did what I had to do so we can try to win this. Haha.” Suga explains. “Because I really had no time, I was in the bathroom this morning.” He tells a bit too much information about how he was writing his lyrics in the bathroom.

“You didn’t need to tell everyone that.” She laughs

“Yeah you don’t need to be so descriptive.” Rap Monster sighs

“I was really quite tight on time.”

‘Suga who is explaining his restless situation due to worrying’

“It sounds like you guys are nailing it. It sounds good to me. I’m looking at the lyrics and seeing how you two delivered. For such a short time, that was nice.”

“Thank you so much.” Jennie grins and high fives Suga.

“I told you that you could do it.” He reveals his gummy smile.

After the rest of them went and were praised by Warren G, he finally makes his decision on who won the challenge. “It’s time for me to pick the winner. Like I said, it’s so hard because I like all of you, guys. Very talented. This is going to be my gift for all of you guys. But what I want to do is do a beat for you guys to do a song to. Whatever album y’all doing or whatever you guys are doing, I wanna do some music for you guys.”

Jennie (NO WAY! Honored!)

“Oh, my god, thank you!” J-Hope says and claps with everyone.

“But as far as this picking goes, I like all of y’all man. So, it’s really hard for me to pick. But once again, I gotta go with Suga and Jennie.”

“YAY!” Suga starts jumping up and down, dancing around while Jennie fist pumps the air.

“WOO!”

‘Team Fierce wins’

“I couldn’t have done it without you, Suga. Thank you.” She hugs him.

“Congratulations. And you know, like I said, it was good working with all of you guys.” Warren G says and signs two of his regulate albums for them.

Jennie (I didn’t know we were going to get signed albums! I wanted to keep it for myself, but then I was thinking about my dad and I know how much he loves hip hop, way more to me, that’s for sure. He loves everyone, Warren G, Snoop Dogg, all the rappers. And I know it’ll make his day if I give this to him. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. I can’t to see his face when I give him this.)

“Thank you, I’m giving it to my dad. He loves his hip hop, he’s so passionate about it. And when I give him this, he’s going to flip out. Thank you so much, Warren G. Can we take a picture together and send a video to my dad?”

“Yeah, of course.”

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