"My name is Jake, I don't think I ever told you my name", he said.
I already knew his name was Jake, I saw it on his name tag, but I decided not to tell him that. Jake had some mysterious type of aura around him, which makes him approachable at times.
If the readers don't know how Flo got Jake's number, there was a reference back in chapter 2. When Jake walked passed Flo(he was going to the bathroom) before Flo went to the meeting he wrote his phone number on a piece of paper. The reason Jake and his band members walked passed Flo again was because Jake recommended to go that way (on purpose). When he saw her, he smiled at her while putting his phone number in Flo's pocket. Which later in the night, Flo found the paper and decided to check out who it was. She decided to text the number in the morning.(This will be part of the beginning of chapter 3) (that was not shown)
{below will be the messages that was sent between Flo and Jake}
Flo; Hey, I found your number in my pocket and I was wondering who it was
Jake; Heyyy, Im the boy who walked passed you yesterday
Flo; was it after I left my meeting at the agency?
Jake; yes, the one that smiled
Flo; ohhhhh, and the one from the cafè, we talked briefly!
Jake; yea, you finally remembered!
Flo; yea, and my bad for texting a bit late, I was too tired last night
Jake; oh thats fine
Flo; Im surprised you still remember me
Jake; oh I usually don't have a great memory, but you were really chill to talk to and it would be great if we could become friends.
Flo; Sure that would be great!
Flo; well I have to go and leave to practice at the agency
Jake; bye
-later in the day, when Jake was spamming Flo
Jake; are you at school?
Jake; you weren't at school?
[This was the messages that Jake was talking about lol]
I blurted out "wow you act childish even though your older than me, lol". Jake just tilted his head and looked at me "I'm not childish", while containing a smirk on his face. "dude, you're 17", I said. "Im not childish all the time", he said, I replied with, "hmm sure".
Thats when one of Jake's member called him over to begin practice, so he had to leave and I had to hurry to practice. When I got to the practice room, I saw Rosèlyna waiting for me, when she saw me, she seemed excited. "Sooooo?" she said. "so what?" I said. "oh come on, I saw you and Jake talking near the entrance and not only that I got some news from school today". "We just friends", I laughed. "Well what is the news Rosèlyna?". "its about Jake, looking for you at our school", she said. "This crazy dude, did not just embarrassed himself but also me, TO A SCHOOL I DON'T EVEN GO TO"
"Well supposedly he doesn't really mention other people, especially girls, so this was a big deal around the school, some girls were jealous *cough* Naya *cough*, but that isn't all he keeps mostly to himself unless you're his close friend," "And that aint all, he is one of the most popular people from school, including the people he hangs out with, some of his friends like talking a lot or goofing around but he's known more like the quiet one out all of them, so to become his friend at all is kinda impossible".
hmmm no wonder , he told me he wasn't childish, but I wonder what made him exactly interested in me, that he wanted to become my friend first, I thought to myself. I replied with, "Oh how odd".
Thats when practice begin, 2 males and one female. One of the males introduced himself "Some of you already know who I am, while some of you don't so I'm the who helps you how to rap properly, while my friend Wonpil on the left, will help you how to dance with different types of techniques, and Neela will help you with your vocals. Later on, we will teach all of you how to talk in public with the press." "Any questions?"
Everyone said no, so after that, they started to put people in groups, I ended up with Naya, and four other girls. While Rosèlyna ended up with 5 other girls.
"As you can tell, we have devided you and ended up with 3 groups, before we came in, we have analyzed all of you, we saw how you worked this morning and your past actives that you did. You all will train for 3 days as a group, and we will observe you, incase we would need to make some changes."
Group one stayed in the practice room, while my group number 2 was being moved somewhere else, and Rosèlyna group was walking in a different room. I knew my grouped was going to practice rapping today, since some of the girls said how the person who was leading us, use to be an underground rapper until he was contacted by the agency his name was P.O. We were in a smaller room but big enough to fit us all.
"Today, your group will rap, while we analyze you each, and then tomorrow you will sing and on day 3 you will practice on your dancing, so just loosen up a little and we will commence shortly."
{below will be P.O, point of view}
I have a list of each girl, Naya age 16; was being transferred from a small company, she's been training since she was 12, she was an all rounder so we have to keep our eye on her.
Flo recently turned age 15; was just signed as a new trainee recently and passed by dancing, her type of dance is more to the street/b-boying and her vocals are average but good enough.
Alexa age 17; been training with us for three years, she has very impersive rapping skills.
Celena age 16; is better as a soft dancer, who shows many emotions to her dances, due to her dance she fits more as a singer with her soft voice.
Dayna age 15; is more of a dancer type
Sol age 17; has a strong vocal but an ok rapper
First up was Naya, when she finished rapping, I gave her feedback, "your rap is good but I would like to compare your voice to the rest first". Then it was Flo, she listened to the tempo and she rapped as if she was a pro of it, I was surprised. When Flo finished, I asked her if she ever rapped before and she said "no". She could become a well-known rapper if she practice more. Then it was Alexa, her rapping always catches me off-gaurd but I notice, Alexa and Flo rapping mixes really well together.
{back to Flo POV}
Phew, as we were wrapping up practice and getting ready to head to have dinner, one of the girls came up to me, I looked at her name-tag and saw that her name was Alexa. She rapped so well, like bro why hasn't she debuted yet. "hey!, Im Alexa and one of the oldest here", I replied with, "oh hey, I'm Flo and new here". "Wait what, you're so good, I thought you been training for awhile and I didn't see you", Alexa said. Then I said "thank you, I barely rap since I thought I wasn't really good at it". Alexa said "You're really good at it", I replied with "you're awesome aswell!".
We were walking towards the agency cafè, when I saw Rosèlyna waving her hands up at us. Thats when Alexa said, "oh she's sitting with Isabel!, lets go sit with them and I'll explain you everything". "That would be great my friend is also over there!".
As we were sitting down, I introduced Rosèlyna to Alexa. Alexa then asked how Rosèlyna met her idol; Isabel , thats when Rosèlyna said "oh we were in the same group and I heard her voice, and I knew I had to talk to her!!!!", she said it happily. Thats when Isabel talked, "hey Im Isabel, and Rosèlyna told me a lot about you", I replied with "for real?, nice meeting you". "likewise!", said Isabel. "How did you and Alexa meet?", and thats when Alexa and Isabel explained how they been training for awhile together, except Isabel been here the longest.
We started sharing how we got in the agency, Alexa went first and explained, "I like rapping a lot, and I did a lot of underground rapping, until one day P.O walked up to me and convinced me to audition for this agency, the thing is P.O rapped there also and was only supposed to rap that day, but then made a last minute decision to recruit me." "He has an eye for talent" I said, "so you and P.O been knowing each other for awhile?". Alexa said "yea, I looked up to him before he ever came to talk to me".
Then it was Isabel turn to talk about her experience, "I just got scouted buying clothes, thank goodness I knew how to dance, Celena and I are distant cousins so we grew up together dancing the same type of technique, so I audition 4 years ago when I was 14. After I got in, Celena waited till she turned 14 so she could audition as well. Both of us are from Australia, I was shopping to bring back gifts for my friends, so thats why Celena waited because she was too young back then." "Talking about Celena, was she in your group?".
Alexa replied with "yea, but I saw her go the bathroom", Celena said "oh, I will check on her in a bit, if she doesn't come back soon". Rosèlyna turn was next, "I was supposed to visit some of my relatives when my cousin told me to audition, so I just audition and now I'm here with Flo, I sang one of my favorite songs, thats how I passed", "where are you from?" asked Isabel. "Im from Canada!" said Rosèlyna, "woahh, thats cool" said Alexa. "Wait so is it only Flo and I, that doesn't know how to speak English?". I laughed and said "no, I travel a lot with my brother, so I had to learn incase I ever got loss". Alexa was like "danggg, now I really gotta learn it, the agency does help us learn it but I hate studying". Isabel then laughed, saying "See Alexa, now you have to pay attention, Understood?", Alexa replied with "yes mam".
Next thing I knew it was my turn to say how I got in.
"Well I always wanted to preform in front of people, I use to been really quiet but when I started dancing I felt so alive, thats when I started to audition for many companies, until my friends kept believing in me and I started to develop different techniques by street-dancers, thats when my dance went from eh to b-boying. I rarely audition by dancing, I usually sang until I thought, I should switch things up for a bit and audition by doing hip-hop." "That was actually a good idea since I got accepted here".
When we finished talking we saw the 9 group of boys, the last one to walk in was none other than Jake, thats when Rosèlyna elbowed me and smirked. Then Jake went from serious/ quiet to happy/talkative. He waved at my friends and I, and then sat with his band members. Damn, Jake acts like a puppy with their tail wagging, especially when he's with his friends, how funny. That's when we realized, we had our mouth opened. Isabel then said laughing, "watch out or you about to eat a fly with even realizing". "Really Isabel, you had your mouth open too", said Rosèlyna jokingly. Thats when Alexa said, "the real question is, why the heck is Jake acting so happy today", while turning to Flo.
They all turned around and stared at me, "well darn" I said out loud. I had no choice but to explain to them, I started from the beginning when we first met in the cafè to up till now. The girls were all like "ohh, now thats interesting". I then asked Isabel and Alexa if they knew any of the members. They both said "we know most of them since some trained as long as us or shorter."
"When they heard the news they were going to debut, they were all so excited and now they debuting less than a week", said Isabel. "wow, I really hope we can debut soon!" said Rosèlyna. "Isabel is closer with Eric, and I actually don't know who I'm close to", then Isabel said "Alexa you close with everyone, you're the chill one out all of us" she said it laughing.
"We should introduce you two, they really outgoing and like making friends", said Isabel. Rosèlyna and I both said "that would be great", since we were new here and wanted to start making more friends.
Isabel then got up and went to check on Celena. Alexa then said "Flo what do you think of going underground rapping with me, and Rosèlyna come too". I said "yea, that would be great but when?".
"Tonight, there is gonna be an event held, usually Celena and Isabel tags along, and sometimes the boys too, I tell you when we finish with everything today, I just have to arrange with whose going". Rosèlyna and I both agreed to go.
{Later in the day-after training at 11:25pm}
Alexa and Flo were sitting at the edge waiting for Isabel, Celena and Rosèlyna to walk out. Celena usually waits for Isabel inside the agency for her to walk out. They finally walked out and now they were waiting for the boys.
Isabel asked Alexa how many agreed and she said 4, since the rest are tired. Then they saw Eric, Kevin, U-kwon, and Tae-il walk out the building, and walking towards them.
"hold up, someone changed their mind and decided to come with us" said Tae-il laughing. "who is it" said Celena.
When she asked, they saw someone walking out of the building. They couldn't see who it was exactly since he was wearing a hoodie, but they all had a feeling who it was. It was none other but Jake, they turned to look at Flo and laughed.