On July 27th, on Show Champion backstage, BTS and Jen assemble for their dance diet method. The eight of them stand before the camera, already in their outfits for their upcoming performance. “Summer special episode Show Champion’s diet dance. First, basic moves for warm up.” Suga addresses to the camera. ‘Stretch your arms and shoulders’

All of them stretch obnoxiously while Jennie deadpans, watching them instead of stretching. Moments later, she attempts not to laugh at them.

“Second, learn choreography for dieting.” Suga continues.

“Who’s teaching?” Rap Monster asks.

“I’ll be teaching.” Jungkook demonstrates as he grabs on to his pants. “Grab your pants and ride the rhythm.”

“Five, six, seven, eight!” J-Hope announces as all of them but Jennie begin stomping around obnoxiously. “This will consume much calories.”

“Ah~ the diet’s working.” Jimin adds.

Jennie facepalms at the sight. “’I don’t know them!” She calls out, making everyone laugh.

“Come on Jennie, do it! It’s healthy!” J-Hope grabs onto her.

“Do it Jennie! It’s fun!” Jin encourages.

“Jennie! Jennie! Jennie!” The guys chant as she sighs, finally giving in.

“Okay! Okay!” She sighs in defeat, earning loud whoops and cheers.

They put some music on as they all begin stretching first. The Bangtan Girl starts to get into it, stretching goofily. Subsequently, she grabs onto her pants and starts stomping around.

“Look at her go!” Rapmon says with a laugh.

“Go Jennie! Go Jennie!” Jin cheers as she starts to laugh with them.

“Okay, this is pretty fun!” She beams.

“That’s the spirit!” Jimin cheers.

“Wait! I have another move! Do this! The Jennie Wop!” Jennie puts her elbows against her ribs before poking forward her left hand twice and then her right hand twice, going back and forth before adding more movement, with her mouth open with a smile.

A loud chorus of “Whoas, oohs and ahs” came from the Bangtan Boys as they begin to copy her movements in their own unique styles.

“We’re feeling it!” J-Hope says enthusiastically to the camera.

Afterwards, they all start rocking their elbows, while turning around in a circle. Jennie couldn’t help but feel free and in good spirits when she was around the guys. They were weird, and so was she.

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It was July 31st and Jin decided to be the VJ again for another quick Bangtan Bomb. He goes to Suga, V and then J-Hope, before approaching Jennie who was getting her make up done.

“Jen~” Jin happily greets, placing the camera in front of her.

She looks up while the makeup brush, goes over her cheeks for some blush. “Hey!” She greets in English with a bright smile, waving to the camera.

“How are you, Jennie?”

“I’m-“

“WELL we’re out of time!” He yells and moves the camera away.

“You know what-“ She stands up and tries to hit him but he jumps away with a giggle, escaping her wrath. “Jerk!”

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‘August 18th, Music Kan Star Date’

For the interview, Jennie sits in between Suga and Jungkook while Jimin also sits in a chair next to Jungkook. Meanwhile, Jin, V, Rap Monster and J-Hope stand behind them.

“To all the viewers of KNT TV, 2, 3.”

“Bang~tan! Hello we’re BTS!” The group greets and bows.

‘The hip hop idols who deliver a message to the youths who have no hope and are lost. Their protagonist is Bulletproof Girl and Boy Scouts, who on the stage show a very powerful and intense performance. A fun date with the energetic and dynamic Bulletproof Girl and Boy Scouts. Let’s watch it immediately!’

‘How did the group name come about?’

“Yes, ‘Bangtan’ has a definition of being bullet-proof.So discriminations and judgements being shot like bullets, we’re going to deflect them off like a bulletproof vest and stand up proudly for what we believe in.” J-Hope answers as Jennie smiles and nods at his answer. “Our team name upholds a meaning like that.”

‘Introduce your title track ‘No More Dream’’

“Our title track ‘No More Dream’ is a hip hop song that followed after a form of gangster hip hop bass genre that was famous in its existence in the 1990s. You might know it when you listen to the song. There’s a part where we question ‘Hey you what’s your dream’. Right now there are a lot of teens who just live their life each day, going to school and coming back, with little purpose and dreams.” Rap Monster mentions. “So this is where we ask these teens, ‘Hey what’s your dream?’ ‘Quickly find your dream’, it’s a song that speaks of such meaning.”

Suddenly Jimin stands up to demonstrate the dance.

“Five, six, seven, eight. La, La, La, La~ La~” Jennie and the rest of BTS sing while Jimin does his dance, lifting up his shirt.

“Oh my gosh…” She giggles at the sight.

‘Thoughts on debuting?’

“Well firstly we are definitely majorly happy. It has been half-anticipation and half-nerve wrecking. But with all of that aside, getting to release my dream in three years of preparation, really I’m so so glad.” Rap Monster grins.

“I second that!” Jennie raises her hand. “To be honest, I wasn’t expecting this at all, being here in this moment. All that hard work is paying off. Dreams can really come true when you set your mind to it and work for it. I believe we did really well on our debut. We’re doing well.”

‘Thoughts on your explosion of popularity?’

“Because there’s people who like us, and are our fans, I’m really happy. And also at broadcasting stations where they follow and sing our songs together with us, the energetic cheering and support. To receive all that, up till now it still is so weird and much fascinating.” J-Hope replies.

“Yeah I also think it’s really humbling. I’m still in shock with the support we’ve been receiving from our fans. It’s amazing.” Jennie beams.

“Also whenever we end a performance and as soon as we leave the stage, we check the real-time searches to release that BTS has gone up the search rankings. It was too fascinating to see that so I screen captured it right away.” Jimin grins. “To go back to seeing it again, it makes me really happy.”

‘How does it feel being the only girl in BTS?’

Jennie was pondering while the question was asked and then she sees all eyes on her. She turns and looks around. “What?” She stutters and feels her face heat up as everyone laughs. “Oh wait what was the question? I’m sorry!” She bows.

“Miss Bangtan~” J-Hope cheers with the rest of the boys as she laughs.

“Well it’s really interesting to be around these cool guys and working with them on dancing and music and living with them. They’re amazing to be around, I love them.”

“Aw~” BTS replies with big smiles on their faces. “We love you too.”

“I hope to improve while being a member of BTS and I also wanna show the female empowerment in youth as well. And I hope to show that in our music and future songs. I most definitely want to sing lyrics about female empowerment and just female confidence in general.”

‘Show us your charms!’

“Yes, I’ll have a go at it, please hold my mic.” Jimin gives the mic to Jungkook before gazing at the camera. “Please love BTS a lot!” He puts up two finger hearts and makes a quick heart with his hands before pointing at the camera.

Jennie looks a him like he’s crazy, widening her eyes. “Oh boy....” She murmurs, placing a hand on her forehead while the rest of BTS groan and look away.

“Ah, what do we do about this?” Jin asks.

“Thanks to Jimin I think I might freeze to death.” J-Hope says

“I’m sorry that was embarrassing.” Jimin grins sheepishly. “Ah not me but our V, his gaze is not to be reckoned with too. Let’s have you throw a gaze for once.”

V looks at the camera. “It’ll be cooler with a close up shot. I’ll go for it.” He gazes at the camera. “I love you~”

“Oh my God!” BTS exclaims and start freaking out while Jennie buries her face into her hands.

‘The members who got embarrassed because of V!?’

Rap Monster was the next charmer as J-Hope begins to beatbox. “Yo. What’s up? Kan TV, Yeah. Bangtan sonyeondan. Yo, yeah. Uh, Rap Monster together with my sexy voice. A single time of my rap has the girls talking. I’m a smart guy who knows how to study 1 percentile of the country, IQ 148, I’m a guy who does what needs to be done.” He raps as Jennie moves her head, rocking to the beat and his rap. “And right now where I’m at, it’s with Bangtan. Wherever we go we hear gratitude. People see us and go shit! What the~”

“Woo~” BTS claps and cheers for him.

“That was fire!” Jennie claps,

‘As expected from the main rapper Rap Monster’

‘What does hip hop mean to BTS?’

“It’s a genre of music we really like and can do really well in. And hip hop has become the best way for me and for us to express ourselves. In the future too we’ll express things in this manner.” Rap Monster answers

‘Your ultimate goal?’

“As musicians, inevitably our ultimate goal would be for us to make good music.” Suga answers. “And for the public to acknowledge and enjoy our good music, wouldn’t that be our ultimate goal? And to be honest, as singers to be able to make good music and sharing it with others. That would be the biggest form of happiness.” He reveals his gummy smile.

‘Future plan of activities?’

“Following our debut on the 10th of June, we have many promotional activities planned out. And we have a blog so we’ll be updating regularly on our blog with unreleased songs as well. With such a drive, we’ll be working hard.” Rapmon grins.

“To all the viewers of KNT TV, I don’t know if you had fun watching us. As much as BTS has come out as a hip hop team, we’ll become a team that loves hip hop and enjoys much through hip hop. Up till now it has been BTS! 2! 3!”

“Thank you!” BTS bows.

---

On August 31st, Jennie, BTS and the rest of the staff plan to surprise Jungkook for his upcoming birthday. Everyone but Jungkook, who was filming an individual lip sync, were in the Waiting Room to coordinate the surprise for his birthday party.

Jennie had to stop smiling so hard. She was so excited. It always brought joy to her heart to celebrate her friends birthdays. She couldn’t wait to see the look on his face when she and everyone else surprise him. Later on, everyone begins to film for the BTS concept trailer, the Director announces Jungkook to make sure he gets the center right as BTS go talk to the dance teacher and manager.

V and Jennie turn around as they grin big at each other. “I’m really trying to keep my emotions in check!” She whispers in excitement, earning a soft giggle from him.

After the filming, Jungkook gets lectured by Rap Monster and the manager about his dancing as he’s oblivious to their acting. It was hard to see Jungkook get lectured like that, especially for ten minutes while everyone was trying to prepare for his surprise.

“You just have to do it well.” Jin says as soon as the manager leaves the room. Jungkook was looking bummed after getting lectures. It made Jennie frown a bit.

“Jungkook, are you mad cause we didn’t celebrate your birthday?” Rap Mon asks

“No, no...” Jungkook answers in a soft tone.

“You were in the wrong. You kept joking around as well.” Suga lectures. “Since we were filming, you should’ve stopped. There must be a stop somewhere.”

“As a leader...have I done anything to you?” Rap Monster asks him.

“No.” The Golden Maknae answers

“You usually do well.”

Afterwards, one by one, the members leave the room, while Suga holds the cake, ready to enter the room again to meet Jungkook while the lights are turned off.

“Happy birthday to you~ happy birthday to you!” Everyone sings as they walk up to a dumbfounded Jungkook as he looks around.

Jennie and the rest of BTS clap and gather around him as Jungkook starts to cry.

“Our dearest Jeon Jungkook~ happy birthday to you~!” Everyone sings before Jungkook kneels down while everyone pats him on the back. “WOO~”

“Oh my God, he’s crying!” Jennie exclaims with a laugh with the rest of BTS.

“He’s crying!? Why are you crying!?” Jungkook was asked as he finally stands up.

Teary eyed, Jungkook finally blows out the candles as everyone cheers. The manager finally came in to apologize and wish him a happy birthday.

“Thank you for being born!” J-Hope says, earning a couple laughs

“Say some of your thoughts!” Rap Monster suggests to Jungkook as he adjusts his birthday hat

“Producer-nim you’re mean...” He replies, earning laughs from everyone.

BTS and Jennie take a group birthday photo before teasing Jungkook some more on his big day.

“Ah acting...I thought it was for real!” Jungkook mentions

“We fooled you good, didn’t we?” Jennie nudges him earning a laugh from him

---

After filming, BTS and Jennie head back into the dorm. Jennie rummaged through her closet to pick up a wrapped up gift for Jungkook. She enjoyed giving people presents, and tried to be observant when it comes to gift buying.

Leaving her room, she knocks on Jungkook’s door. She hears a ‘Come in!’ and opens up the door. “Hey Jennie!” He happily grins at her.

“Hey! Happy Birthday! Open up!” She sits on his bed and hands him the big rectangular gift. His eyes widen at the sight.

“This is for me?” He looks up to meet her eyes.

“Uh huh.” She replies softly.

“Wow...Jennie you’re awesome.”

“I hope you like it. Sorry I didn’t get a card.”

“Just a gift in general from you is more than enough.” He smiles softly before tearing the wrapping paper. “No way...”

She starts to feel her face heat up, hoping that he liked his gift. “I...remembered you telling me how much you like to draw...and I watched you draw backstage before a performance, so...I decided to buy you a nice, big sketch book.”

“Jennie...”

“I-is it too much? Is it too big? Too small?”

“No. It’s perfect.”

“Re-really?”

“Thank you so much.” He places the sketch book down before scooting over to hug her. He was often shy around girls, but she was one of his great friends and their friendship was only growing every day. He looked forward to buying her a gift as well for her upcoming birthday.

Wrapping her arms around him to return the warm hug, she was overjoyed. “Don’t mention it.”

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The next day, in the afternoon, Jennie had been craving her cute looking donuts that she purchased from a local Korean Dunkin’ Donuts after taking a walk around a local park for fun, in the nice summer breeze. “Jennie! You’re back! How was your walk?” Jungkook happily greets with Jimin who were playing video games in the living room.

“Hey guys. It’s so nice out there! The walk was great. Now on to the donuts!” She heads into the kitchen and goes into the fridge. Weirdly, she couldn’t find her Dunkin Donuts bag in the fridge.

Maybe she was overlooking.

She took her time, searching all over the fridge but failed to find her donuts. “Where are my donuts!?” She exclaims in English.

“What?” Jimin looks confused.

“Where are my donuts!? I want my donuts!” She starts to get annoyed. “I swear...if someone took my donuts...” She grumbles, ignoring the confused looks from Jimin and Jungkook who had no clue what she was saying in her native language. She lets out a breath before going back to Korean. “My donuts. Someone took them. I can’t find them in the fridge.”

Realization hit the two boys before they avert their eyes and go back to their game. “I saw that look! What do you two know?” She asks but gets annoyed.

Namjoon walks into the kitchen to grab a bottle of water. “Namjoon. Did you take my donuts?” Jennie questions him in English.

“They’re safe.” He replies to her in English.

“Oh? And where may they be? And why did you touch them?” She narrows her eyes dangerously at him, but he remains unfazed. A smirk came across his face as he lets out a chuckle. “Nam...Joon. Where-are-my-donuts?”

“Safe.”

“Bish where?”

“In my stomach-”

“YOU SON OF A BISCUIT!” She yells and starts to grab him into a headlock as he lets out a loud laugh. They stumble out of the kitchen and fall on the floor, wrestling each other as Jungkook and Jimin watch and cheer.

The loud noises cause Tae, Suga, J-Hope and Jin to come out of their rooms to see what was going.

“NO FIGHTING!” Jin yells as tries to break it up, while the rest laugh and cheer for either Jennie or Namjoon. “We are NOT doing this today!”

After three minutes of wrestling, they were finally broken up as Jennie explains the situation to Jin. Thankfully things went to her favor when Jin ordered Namjoon to go to the store with her to get some donuts.

A reluctant Namjoon went and paid for Jennie as she got all the Dunkin’ Donuts she wanted, which was much more than what he had eaten and then they went to the supermarket.

“Do you even know what you’re getting?” Namjoon asks as he pushes the cart behind her while they walk in different aisles before walking to where the drinks were.

“Nope!” She grins, earning groan from him.

Namjoon leaves the cart before grabbing two glass bottles. “Hey, wanna watch me juggle?”

“Have you juggled before?”

“Not really.” He shrugs.

“I don’t think that’s a good idea.” She warns.

“What’s the worst that can happen?”

Jennie lets out a sigh. She heard from J-Hope and Suga that he was destructive and breaks things easily.

“Don’t drop that.” She turns around and pushes the cart forward. Few seconds later she hears a sharp curse muttered behind her and glass breaking. She cringes at the sound and slowly turns around to see the mess and him grinning sheepishly.

“Uh…It broke...heh, heh.” He rubs the back of his neck, while getting flustered.

She face palms. “For crying out loud, Namjoon...”

No more shopping with Namjoon was the thought in her head. She only wondered what other stuff he plans to break while she continues to be a member of BTS.

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For the BTS NO music video filming, Jennie wore white skinny jeans, a while shirt that was shorter in the front and longer in the back that stopped just under her behind, and wore a couple of gold rings and chains on her neck.

“What does Jennie expect for today’s filming?” A camera man asks for a Bangtan Bomb.

“I’m not apart of the opening scene while they’re all sitting at the desks. I’m legit being taken away by the guards as I try to snap everyone out of it so we can fight together. Aye~ I’m going to be a pretty cool damsel. So right now I’m just waiting for them to finish the scene, and then I can get started.”

After waiting, Jennie goes to her filming position. It looked like a Hallway and she was informed that she would have to attempt to run away from the two guards before getting pulled back.

“And…ACTION!” The director yells.

Jennie hastily starts to run as fast as she can with the guards right on her tail. She feels two pairs of strong hands gripping her brown arms tightly as she lets out a loud grunt. She then gets roughly pulled back. Subsequently she tries to squirm away and break free as they start to pull her back.

“CUT!” The director says as she gets released.

She bows and smiles at the guards, shooting them a thumbs up. “We didn’t hurt you, did we?” One of the guys acting as a guard asked her.

“Nah, you’re fine. Don’t worry about it.” She reassures them before some of the staff pat her face and neck with a towel to dispose of any sweat and to fix her hair.

“Haha, this is weird.” She grins at the camera.

“Jennie is doing well.” The camera goes to Rap Monster who watches her filming closely. From her intense facial expressions, to swiftly evading the guards before roughly getting held back, he was impressed with her acting.

“Good!” The director announces as everyone claps at her efforts.

“Jennie did a great job, today. Good acting.” Jin happily says.

After a couple more takes of her evading the guards, she’s moved into the set where there’s a cell. “And…ACTION!” The director yells

She puts her hands behind her back as she gets escorted by the guards, meanwhile, she looks directly into the camera, waiting for her cue for her lyrics.

“They’re always so ruthless. What they want from me is viewless. They must think I’m a nuisance…I won’t let them control me…” She lip sings her lyrics.

“Cut!” The director says and she gets escorted into the cell. They shut her in, and she places her hands on the bars, while looking directly into the camera yet again. The butterflies that were in her stomach were long gone, as she started to really get into the acting.

“Hahaha, Jennie is in jail~” Jimin giggles at the sight.

“HA! HA! HA!” Jennie sarcastically laughs at him, earning a louder laugh from him.

“Action!”

“They held me down, tried to change my mind…You think I’m blind?” She lip sings as she slowly slides her hands down the bars. “Well it’s a little too late because I’m already on my grind…Why don’t they leave us alone? Stop controlling our lives! Let us be who we want to be…And stop stressing our lives!”

She tries to shake the bars while looking around, before running her hands through her curly hair. “Let it be known…We won’t be discouraged…You lost this battle, so continue to baffle.” She kicks the cell open, dropping the one of the guards in the process, before taking down the other guard.

“Cut! Let’s film the take down again!”

“This is really awesome.” She shoots the Bangtan Bomb video camera rock on hand signs before getting back into the cell.

“ACTION!”

She roughly kicks the cell open as one of the guards gets struck on his back by the cell door and falls down. The other guard swiftly turns around and tries to grab her but she knees him in the stomach before kicking him in the face, dropping him.

“CUT! Good!”

“Awesome!” She jumps up and down, clapping. Afterwards, she watches her performance on the camera. “I look pretty good.”

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The next day after the MV filming, BTS and Jennie are in the same venue to have their photoshoot. Rapmon was first, then Jin and Suga.

“It’s Jennie’s turn! I believe she’ll do really well.” Jungkook mentions with a grin on camera as Jen is called up for her shoot.

“I’m nervous~” She smiles nervously at the camera before getting adjusted. She decides to narrow her eyes into the camera for a more serious look as they begin to snap the pictures. “Oh my god, this is so weird to do. Do I look weird?”

“You look beautiful.” The camera man comments.

“Ah~ Thank you! Thank-you! I’m so flattered.” She giggles, feeling her face heat up.
After she pulls herself together, she continues the shooting. Some poses involved having her back to the camera and turning her head to the side, having her arms crosses in front of the camera, and then pulling her chain to the side of her neck.

‘Jennie successfully pulls through in her shooting’ The caption on the Bangtan Bomb said as she checks out her photos.

“Wow! That’s me?! I look badass! Now if only I can look badass everyday.” She laughs at the camera. “I’m glad my efforts paid off.” She shoots the camera a thumbs up.

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Next Chapters will be (Rookie King Episode 1, Rookie King Episode 2)

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