As the sun rose from the skies, Jay entered the ssy dorm with boxes of donuts in his arms. It was a new year, and the air seed fresher than usual. He had a cheery smile on his face despite his early awakening.
He was already clad in an alligator-colored suit, light brown trousers, and his shades were in the shape of cat eyes. In short, he looked like a tacky yakuza mber. However, his confidence impeccably covered the grotesqueness of his outfit.
He brought out his phone and connected it to the dorm's speakers.
A karaoke version of a nursery rhy played loudly in the dorm, and he sang the lyrics passionately to wake up the mbers of EVE.
"Rise and shine, little bugs."
Rise and shine, I have hugs!
Rise and shine, there's so much love.
Rise and shine, or you'll ascend to the heavens above!"
June, being the lightest sleeper out of all of them, quickly woke up to the sound of C-Jay's voice. It seed like he focused solely on being a manager since his voice has degraded since his participation in Rising Stars.
June woke up with a gasp, feeling like the devil had entered his room. However, when he opened his eyes, he was even more surprised.
"What the fuck?" he exclaid loudly, causing the other mbers to wake up alarmingly.
Casper, hearing June's endangered voice, entered his room like a superhero tumbling into a scene. He assud a fighting stance, his eyes zeroing in on the foreign body in the room—Jay.
"Wait, wait!" Jay exclaid. "It's just ," he said, removing his kitty sunglasses.
June massaged his forehead before removing the covers from his body.
"What are you even doing here?" he snapped.
"To wake you up, of course! We have a eting with Mr. Ong and so directors!" Jay cheerily exclaid.
June glanced at the clock and saw it was rely 6 AM.
"This early?" he asked.
Jay shrugged. "It's what Mr. Ong requested. I think he's going golfing afterward, so he scheduled it early."
Just then, Akira and Jaeyong entered the room, and the two of them simultaneously exclaid in surprise.
"Oh gosh. What is that creature doing here?" Akira asked in disgust.
"Creature?" Jay exclaid, appearing offended.
"What are you wearing?" Jaeyong frowned. "You look like a tree with that color combination."
Jay looked at them with furrowed eyebrows before looking down at his outfit.
"These are the lucky colors of the year—alligator green and nipple brown!"
Jisung entered right then and there, but he quickly halted when he heard Jay's last statent.
"Alright, I'm going now," he said, leaving the room even though he just arrived.
Jay ignored the mbers' rude stares and explained they had a eting for their projects for the year.
"Tell your mbers to get ready," Jay instructed Jaeyong. "We're leaving in 45 minutes."
Jaeyong sighed but nodded nonetheless.
***
The mbers of EVE were currently in their van, driving to Azure Entertainnt. Most of them were still tired, so they decided to sleep during the short trip.
anwhile, June popped his earphones in and listened to the cover he had fild before the year-end show started.
It was 'A Love Twice Lost' by Ryan Huang—the song he hated for a well-kept reason.
What Magic Mama said was right. As he kept singing the song, it started to grow on him, and by his tenth ti singing it, he found himself filming it and wanting to post it on his account.
June quickly posted the short video and smiled when he saw positive comnts right off the bat.
- He's fluent in Chinese?
- Why the hell is he hiding behind June's persona when he is a catch himself?
- If I can't have June, then I'll have June's impostor.
- It feels like he's singing this for his first love. Poor guy.
- Okay, he's growing on .
- This just confirms that the dude behind this account isn't June. For all I know, June doesn't know how to speak Chinese this fluently.
It seed like they still didn't believe he was June, though, which was honestly alright. He currently had around 75,000 followers, so June was sure he was going to accomplish his mission soon.
They finally arrived at the building, which looked a bit empty since it was only 7 AM.
They went to Mr. Ong's room and found a couple of important-looking people inside. The mbers entered while bowing respectfully.
Mr. Ong, in his signature swivel chair, enthusiastically greeted the boys.
"There you are! Thank you for coming this early," he smiled.
He was already in his golf attire, so June quietly sighed in disbelief.
"I watched your performance during the year-end show. I enjoyed it very much! I particularly liked June's performance in 'Father.' It brought back to the tis when my father was still around…"
Mr. Ong's voice got quieter as the sentence progressed, his gaze becoming absent. It seed like he was rembering a very dark ti, similar to the scene of the critique guy in that rat movie when he first tasted the dish the rat had made.
"Mr. Ong?" Jay asked, causing him to snap out of his thoughts.
Like a light switch, the CEO smiled once again.
"Sorry," he said, looking at Jay. "Hey, wait. Is that an alligator green coat?"
Jay proudly smiled. "It is," he smiled.
"It's pretty. I might buy one for myself."
As expected, weird people had similar tastes.
"Well," Mr. Ong said, changing the topic. "Sit down, boys. This eting won't be long. We're just going to discuss your major projects for the first half of the year."
The boys excitedly sat down despite their tiredness.
This eting had been delayed for quite so ti, so they were looking forward to the projects they were going to be doing this year.
"First things first," Mr. Ong said. "I'll just get it out right away."
The mbers listened intently.
"I know you debuted not that long ago, but we're now thinking of preparing for a new album."
"You're going to have a coback during the first quarter of the year!"
The mbers looked at each other with wide eyes, not expecting their coback to arrive so fast. However, from a marketing perspective, it was pretty intelligent.
The group only had three years as a group, so they had to maximize their ti together.
"Don't worry," Mr. Ong said. "It would be at the end of the first quarter—so around March to April."
The mbers sighed in relief, Akira looking the most visibly relaxed.
Preparing for their debut album has been tiring, so he couldn't imagine preparing for it right away.
"However, we're going to start with the preparations earlier this ti," Mr. Ong continued. "We're already looking for producers to collaborate with."
June suddenly raised his hand, causing the others to turn to him.
"The title track," he started off. "Is it possible for it to be self-produced?"
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