The practice room was bathed with a warm glow early in the morning. The weather was great today, so Jisung entered the practice room with a wide smile on his face. Zeth looked up from his phone and greeted him with a smile.
"Good morning, man."
"Good morning," Jisung chid.
Jisung wanted to wake June up, but he looked to be in such deep sleep that he didn't want to interrupt him.
So, he decided to let him sleep for a bit more since there were still five minutes until 7:00AM.
Their other teammates quickly followed, stretching their bodies and yawning due to their early rising.
As the clock hit 7, the door opened, and June ca in.
Jisung gasped in surprise as soon as he saw him. His other teammates also looked over his way and frowned.
June stopped for a mont to look at their ambiguous expressions.
"What?" he asked.
Did he look awful?
Well, he did only get about three hours of sleep, so it was understandable.
"You look good, brother," Jisung complinted, giving him two thumbs up.
He looked good? June looked to the side to stare at himself in the mirror.
Damn. He did look good.
That one upgrade on his visuals definitely did him a very good favor.
"Let's start," Zeth said, clapping his hands. He was the acting leader at this point, so the other mbers listened to his command well.
...Or so June thought.
"Let's dance first to warm up our bodies, then let's start with training our vocals," Zeth suggested.
However, Yuri stepped in. "We had already danced to the song multiple tis yesterday," he countered. "Don't you think we need to focus on the vocals now? We haven't even sung the song once."
Zeth sighed, raking his hands through his hair. "We need to warm up our bodies. We all just woke up. We can't start singing right away."
"That must be the case for you," Leo said. "But we're alright with singing first."
The mood felt better when June first ca in, but now it was back to where they all started.
The tension was suffocating.
Jisung clicked his tongue. "Let's dance first. We'll sing better if our bodies are ward up."
Leo was about to argue, but Yuri placed his hand on his shoulder. "Fine," Yuri said. "Just one round."
Zeth nodded and played the music.
They aid to get it right in one round, but it seed like things were not working out for them.
They didn't look unsynchronized, but their styles were a bit too different from each other—like they weren't on the sa team at all.
Lin Zhi, too, seed to be making too many mistakes.
Leo clicked his tongue and sat down on the floor. "What is wrong with you? This is our fourth round already," he scolded.
"The moves are confusing," Lin Zhi snapped. "They don't flow well with each other."
June couldn't argue with that. It was really the case with their choreography.
"Let's just do it one more ti," Zeth sighed. "We need to get it down today since the interim evaluation starts after lunch."
Yuri pursed his lips together. "Don't ss up," he said as a general warning to all his teammates.
It seed like Yuri's threat worked since they were finally able to finish the choreography without any problem.
"Take five," Zeth said, a bit out of breath.
June sighed in relief and plopped down at the corner.
Jisung soon joined him, taking a swig from his water bottle.
"I was watching you a while ago, brother," Jisung said. "How could you improve your dancing again? You weren't like this on the first mission."
June sighed.
Of course, he's already at a B-. He was rely a C during the first mission.
"I still need to practice more," June genuinely said.
"Okay, let's start with the vocal training," Zeth said, clapping his hands. "We have about two hours left until the evaluation, so let's make this fast."
Their team lined up while Zeth went to the music player to play the instruntal version of the song. The woeful piano intro set the tone of the song, helping the trainees get into character. However, it was ruined when Lin Zhi suddenly spoke.
"Wait!" Lin Zhi exclaid. "We're not going to do anything with the instruntation, right? We'll keep it as it is?"
"Yes," Leo said. "We're not going to make it into a pop song," he sarcastically added.
Lin Zhi frowned. "That's not what I was insinuating. I also don't want to change the arrangent. Hey, brother. Tell , do you have a problem with ?"
Jisung's eyes widened in surprise.
Leo and Lin Zhi looked at each other with subtle hatred, and June was reminded of the person Lin Zhi used to be. He had to comnd Leo, though. He's not backing down despite being in the presence of a killer.
"Let's start," June said, his voice cutting the tension like a knife.
Frankly, he was a bit annoyed by their constant 'passive' bickering. His sleep-deprived self wanted to get this over with.
His teammates lined up, and Zeth went back to the music player to restart the song.
The llow intro of the song sent June back into the past.
Shit.
This was what he wanted to avoid.
For so reason, this song always evoked intense feelings inside him.
It must be because of the aning it had in his life when he first sang it. The song talked about romantic love, sothing he was unfamiliar with, yet he could relate to the ssage so much.
It was when he was trying his best to send i Ling on a field trip, and he had to make extre ends et.
He would forgo his als, lying to his sister that he wasn't hungry just so he could save so money.
However, in the end, he still wasn't able to make enough money.
i Ling ca up to him with teary eyes, saying everything was okay and that she never really wanted to go on the field trip anyway.
However, June knew better.
His sister was holding back her sadness for his sake too.
In the end, the two of them were liars.
June was so caught up in his thoughts that he didn't even realize that his part already ca on.
He only snapped out of it when Jisung patted his back.
"Brother, are you okay?" Jisung asked, concerned.
June looked at the annoyed faces of his teammates and nodded.
"Pay attention, will you?" Leo asked.
Lin Zhi sighed impatiently. "We're already short of ti, so it'd be appreciated if we don't make any mistakes."
June pursed his lips. "Okay," he softly said.
These damn motherfuckers! They were acting like June had done a heinous cri.
This was the very first ti he had made a mistake. Lin Zhi was big to speak about June's mistakes when he had committed plenty during the dance practice earlier.
"Let's start again," Zeth said, replaying the song once more.
Yuri started the song, followed by Lin Zhi.
Then, it was ti for June to sing.
However, before June could even utter his first lines, Jangmoon suddenly burst through the room and shouted—
"The ntors got here early! It's ti for the interim evaluations!"
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