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It's almost midnight.
It's such a tiring day, meeting after meeting. I look to my left just to see Jeong Seongbin's head wobbles up and down, trying to fight the drowsiness.
I look to the front and could see the road to the dorm are getting closer.
The meeting was about a new job for Choi Jeho to appear in a reality show for Celebrity Cooking. This time the theme is 'Bake'. I tried hard to make them change the members to either me, Jeong Seongbin or Park Joowoo.
But the production wants Choi Jeho as his popularity during the survival show has make him the most sought after.
I sigh. I tried to calm myself by thinking about my other members.
The kids at the dorm must have been sleeping. The only members going to the meeting were me and Jeong Seongbin. I could imagine them sleeping peacefully, with a dark room only with a small lamp light open on the living room.
Yes peacefully.
Until I hear a siren passed through our van.
And a smoke coming from the dorm building.
"Iwol! Iwol! Isn't that.."
Jeong Seongbin shakes my shoulder hard. It can't be. My eyes turns wide.
The van stops right away in front of the building. The firefighters are trying to stop the fire coming from the middle level of the building.
It came from our dorm.
I run closer but a police officers block my way by saying that it was dangerous and so. I kept saying that my members are in there but they kept on blocking me.
Jeong Seongbin and Manager Chanyoung try to hold me from going through the officer. I scream out loud for them to let me go until I hear a familiar voices calling for me.
"Iwol hyung!"
"Kim Iwol!"
I look to the side and could see my four members that are supposed to be inside the dorm running towards me. The hands holding me loosen as I run towards them.
But then I stop midway.
Choi Jeho is wearing an apron while carrying Lee Cheongyeon's midi keyboard.
Lee Cheongyeon is carrying a laptop bag and his producing accessories.
Kang Kiyeon is carrying his limited edition comic book and spArk's medicine box.
While Park Joowoo is carrying a whole tray of small plants that I knew from the balcony.
They all have a black sooth on their face and body. Jeong Seongbin quickly assess the situation and their body, asking so many questions.
"Are you okay? What happened? Anyone hurts? Why are you carrying all this?"
"Hyung, we are okay. Nobody's hurt, really."
My heart calms down right away. I hold on Lee Cheongyeon's face and rubs the sooth away.
"What happened?"
"Umm.."
They looks down, and then to each other, before they look towards Choi Jeho. The expression looks guilty from whatever they are doing.
My head starts to hurt.
"Choi Jeho?"
"I was baking."
"..."
"..."
"And?"
"The oven exploded."
"Electrical faulty?"
"..."
"Please tell me it's the electrical faulty."
"Umm.. hyung, I can explain."
Yes please explain to me before I faint from this. I can feels my blood rushes into my head. Park Joowoo steps ahead to me fiddling his fingers on the corner of the tray plants.
"Jeho hyung was practicing to bake a hot lava cake for the reality show."
"..."
"We don't know why but the oven exploded and there's a small fire on it and smokes.."
"...And?"
Park Joowoo's eyes kept on looking towards Choi Jeho and me, back and forth. Contemplating whether he should let me know about it. I can feels my vision darken.
"...Jeho hyung pour water on it."
My sights turns black right away and I can feel my body fallen to the back. I could hear a beeping sound and the saxophone getting louder.
I can hear them calling for my name before everything shuts down.
I think I can see my sister from my past on the other side of the bridge.
Noona, I'm coming.
But my noona just scold me and tells me to go back to my living world.
ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅇㅡㅡㅡㅡ
Choi Jeho is wearing an apron, looks down on a recipe book, reading it diligently a few times. His younger members are getting the ingredients from the kitchen cabinets and refrigerator.
"Jeho hyung, is the multipurpose flour and the self raising flour the same thing?"
Choi Jeho looks to a flour packet from Kang Kiyeon's hands and looks back to the recipe book.
"You know how to cook right, Park Joowoo? Is this the same thing?"
"I never bake before, hyung. It's from the same grain. So, maybe?"
Park Joowoo takes the flour and check on the ingredients from the back of the packet. He asked if there are any other flour in the cabinets but the other members said they can only find that.
Choi Jeho said it's okay and decide to continue with the self raising flour. It is too late for them to go out to the convenience store anyway. Kim Iwol and Jeong Seongbin would scold them for going out late.
"Hyung, I found the baking powder. But it said 1 teaspoon. Is this correct?"
Choi Jeho rethinks back if it's logical for a flour-like-powder to be only 1 teaspoon. He said it might be a misprint, and tells Lee Cheongyeon to put 1 tablespoon instead.
Chocolate powder, eggs, sugar and butter were added next. It's one of the simplest recipe out there. Their eldest mix all of it and pour the mixture into a big cake mould.
He then put it inside a preheated oven that has been set to the correct temperature. They clean up the kitchen and goes back to their own activities.
They are watching the rerun drama Kim Iwol was in when Park Joowoo sniffing the air.
"Isn't something smells burning?"
They starts sniffing the air before an explosion happens at the kitchen. Lee Cheongyeon screams for Choi Jeho.
"Hyung, the oven! There's fire."
All of them running to the kitchen. Kang Kiyeon fans the oven with a tea towel while Lee Cheongyeon and Park Joowoo are looking for anything in the cabinets that can help with the fire.
Choi Jeho, think of nothing but panic in his mind throw a bowl of water from the sink to the burning oven.
They freeze on the spot and look over at the oven that has it's flame down.
Sizzle
Sizzle
An electric sizzles can be seen from the outisde of the wet oven. Smokes starts to build up. A new explosion occurs on the plug the oven is in.
A new fire and sparks flows from the socket.
Choi Jeho yells at them to grab their important things and go out from there. They quickly get whatever they think their important things are.
Choi Jeho open the entrance door and ask them to quickly go out when Lee Cheongyeon yells inside the thin smoke.
"Hyung, my hands are full! My keyboard!"
"Give it to me."
They quickly turn on the fire emergency alarm on the wall and runs down using the emergency exit.
They look up to the building they were in, the black smokes kept on coming out from the level. The firefighters are doing their best to control the fire. They were lucky, there are not much of residents in the building since the UtopiA rented most of the units for their staffs and securities.
Their panicked face turns darken when they could hear the eldest's voice screaming out with their leader's voice trying to calm him down.
"My kids in there! Let me go!"
"Iwol hyung, please calm down."
They need to let him know right away before Kim Iwol having another heart attack. Them calling for him, makes him running for them but he stops right away while looking up and down.
The members almost forgot, Choi Jeho is still wearing the bright orange apron.
Not knowing the eldest was judging them whole, carrying items they shouldn't.
They are trying to explain how the fire happened, and when they reach the moment Choi Jeho put water on the burning oven , Kim Iwol's eyes moves up and collapse on the spot. Jeong Seongbin's phone beeping from the ECG reading app notification.
ECG Reading User : Kim Iwol - 162bpm
"Hyung!"
"Iwol hyung!"
Kim Iwol has been hospitalised from high blood pressure. The doctor advised him to not participate in a high anxious activities and to not overwork himself.
And now the four members that were in the incident lines up on the hospital bedside with their hands on the back. Jeong Seongbin on the other side of the bed just nods at whatever Kim Iwol has to say.
They had to listen to Kim Iwol's nagging while he is on bed regarding to fire safety. He also mentioned the fire extinguisher was right at the entrance door and they weren't even using it.
He forced all of them to join the talk for fire safety and precautions by the firefighter. Choi Jeho especially being forced to be a national ambassador for the fire prevention and advertising the importance of fire safety.
In their newly renovated dorm, there's a big poster on the entrance door.
Choi Jeho in firefighter uniform, holding a fire extinguisher and a thumbs up, with a text on the top.
Fire Safety Ambassador. spArk Choi Jeho.