ANOTHER LONG CHAPTERRR!!!!!!
AAAAHHHHH ITS PRODUCE 10 TIMEEEE!!
PLUS THIS CHAPTER IS PROBABLY THE LONGEST ONE YETTT!!!!
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--- I would like to suggest watching Produce 101's seasons. Also the Japan and Chinese ones to get a feel on how this Produce 10 in here would be like. They're good to watch too!!---
Febuary 1, 2017... A Wednesday.....
Haneul wakes up from her alarm and quickly turns it off to refrain the others from waking up because of it. Haneul slowly sits up for her blood to circulate well and then, stands up once she felt okay.
She goes to the bathroom, doing her business and after that, walks towards the kitchen to cook the last breakfast for the sevens. Haneul looks at the clock and sees it was 4:39am. She needs to leave by 6am as the filming of the tv show will start at 9am.
It will take an hour to get to the destination where they'll be performing and graded for their talents and abilities. The remaining time would be for getting ready for the show. As Haneul was cooking, she was thinking about the outfit she'll be wearing and if she should wear makeup for a change.
Just thinking about such things makes her chuckle to herself as she needs to get used to it as she'll be doing it more by the time she debuts. As Haneul was thinking to herself, she didn't notice someone walking towards her and wraps their arms around her waist with their head resting on her right shoulder.
"You're awake?" Haneul asks as she continues to cook. "Mhm." A hum broke out from his lips as his eyes were closed as he hugs her. "You should wake the others up. You guys have a schedule at 6am, too." Haneul says and Mark nods his head, slowly letting go of Haneul, walking towards his members.
By the time Haneul was done cooking, the members were now up and surrounded the living room table as Haneul puts the dishes there for the sleepy heads. She gets them their bowls of rice and utensils to use.
They begin to eat breakfast and they talked slowly, the sleepy heads becoming more awake. "I'll give you the keys to the van before we leave so you guys can drive yourselves and make use of the van cause I'll be taking a taxi. You guys should eat well and at the right meal times. Don't skip meals, okay? Don't stress yourselves out and don't think that you didn't do enough. Always remember that you gave your best and that's all that matters, okay? While I'm gone, you guys still have each other."
Haneul says before taking a spoonful of food into her mouth. "I-We'll miss you, Haneul-ah. Even though it's just for 2 months, it'll get lonely without you." Mark says with a hint of sadness in his voice. "Don't worry, before you guys know it, I'll be jumping in all of your arms in no time." Haneul reassures them with a smile, finishing her food.
The sevens felt happy with how she said it and continue eating. After a while, they finished eating, cleaned the place and got ready for the day. The sevens wearing their usual clothes with BamBam looking flashy again.
Haneul wearing a white oversized shirt with printed words 'Believe in Miracles' tucked in her stretchy denim pants, white socks, white high cut Converse shoes, denim jacket, black coat, and her cross-bag. Her duffle bags hanging on her shoulders and the keys in her other hand.
Haneul and the sevens were standing outside the entrance of the building where Haneul and the sevens wait for Haneul's taxi to come. "Here's the keys to the van. You guys be safe." Haneul says giving the keys to Mark as he has a license(lets say he has his Korean driver's license or does he have it already by the year 2017? Hehe).
"You be safe, too. Good luck." Mark says, receiving the keys with a sad smile. "Awe, we'll see each other after 2 months." Haneul says with a smile as she hugs each of the sevens and kissing their foreheads. The usual warmth spreading from their foreheads to their bodies.
By the time Haneul was backing away from them after the hug, the taxi came and stopped in front of Haneul and the sevens. Haneul waved goodbye to the sevens as did the sevens waved back to her. Haneul gets in the taxi and puts the duffle bags on her lap and looks at the sevens once more with a sad smile.
Haneul gives the driver the location and off they go. Haneul looks through the window as the taxi drove off and the sevens watch till the taxi disappears. "Two months is not that long. Lets just make sure we'll make Haneul proud after those 2 months." Jaebeom says and his members nod their heads, determined. "Lets go, guys."
During the ride towards the destination, Haneul texts her parents, Hwan and his grandma. Then, texts Rey and the others at SM Ent. Then, the BigBang members. As they all should still be sleeping at 6am.
After sending the texts, she wears her mask and strokes her hair back with her fingers. The rest of the ride became a blur as the taxi finally arrived at the destination. Haneul paid the taxi plus a tip and got out. She looks at the building and sees not much of people.
"Must be because it's 7:08am." Haneul tells herself after checking her phone. She walks inside the building and immediately sees the host, Lee Dong Wook standing at the center with the mentors beside him. Haneul didn't know what to do nor where to go as there the staff were running around, getting everything ready for the show.
Lee Dong Wook sees the familiar looking girl when he turns to look to the entrance, his lips turns into a smile and he walks towards her. The mentors stopped in their tracks as Dong Wook suddenly walks away.
The mentor sees to where Dong Wook was walking to and sees Haneul as well. The mentors followed suit behind Dong Wook. Haneul's eyes went wide as she sees Dong Wook and the mentors walking towards her.
Haneul quickly bows, then stands up and greets them with her eye smiles and a "Good morning, Mr. Lee.... Mr. Lee... Mr. Lee.... Ms. Bae, Mr. Kwon, Ms. Cheetah and Mr. Hwang.". As Haneul greets them, she had trouble with the three Lee as their surnames were the same. Due to this the three Lee's laugh at how cute Haneul was.
"Call me, oppa." Dong Wook says and Haneul was too shy and shakes her head. "Its fine." Dong Wook reassures her and Haneul slowly nods her head, avoiding his gaze as looking at him makes her blush a little.
"What do you mean by oppa, Dong Wook-shi? You're old enough to be her father." Seokhoon jokes as he placed a hand on Dong Wook's shoulder, Dong Wook having a frown at what Seokhoon says.
"Call me oppa, too." Seokhoon says with a smile and Dong Wook scoffs. "Look who's talking." Dong Wook and Seokhoon bickers back and forth which Cheetah quickly takes Haneul away from the two childlike men.
"Sorry about that, they're a bit childlike. By the way, you can call me eonnie when we're alone or with the other mentors and host." Cheetah tells Haneul with a smile as she leads Haneul to the other mentors. "Since you're the first one who arrived early, you might not see a lot of the contestants but us and the staff."
Bae Yoon Jeong says with a stern tone but had gentle eyes. "We would love it if you go with us to our dressing room." Lee Hongki says with a smile, a hand out for Haneul to take. Haneul could only nod as she didn't know what to say because of her excitement.
The two Lee's stopped bickering when they see the other mentors and Haneul walk away and ran to catch up with them. They arrived at their dressing room with Haneul with them. "Do you want me to ask my stylist if she can help you with anything?"
Cheetah asks Haneul gently even when her looks look intimidating and rough but she was really gentle on the inside. "It's okay, Cheetah eonnie. Though, can I borrow a flat iron, eonnie?" Haneul asks politely with her eye smiles which Cheetah was caught off guard by her cuteness which the cuteness reached the other mentors as they held their chest where their heart is at.
"Eonnie! Can Haneul-" Cheetah was about to ask Bae Yoon Jeong if she can let Haneul borrow a flat iron for her hair but Yoon Jeong was already holding a flat iron in her hand, holding it out for Cheetah to grab.
This freaked Cheetah as Yoon Jeong already got it before Cheetah could say anything and grabs the flat iron from Yoon Jyeong's hand, giving it to Haneul. Haneul bows her head and gives a cute "Thank you, eonnies!". The mentors held their chest again while the host, Dong Wook was smiling at her cuteness.
Haneul walks over to a table with a mirror and seat set and sits on the seat with her duffle bags on her lap, putting the flat iron on the table. The mentors watch Haneul's movements as Haneul grabs a little bag from one of her duffle bags. Haneul gets her makeup bag out and puts it on the table before removing her mask.
She puts the duffle bag down and opens her makeup bag, getting the things she'll use ready. Haneul used primer, then little bit of foundation, then did her eyebrows, eyeliner, blush and her lips with lip-tint. After Haneul was done with her look, she starts to plug the flat iron to warm it up.
Haneul cleans the table and puts the makeup back at its bag, putting the bag back in her duffle bag. Once Haneul felt like the flat iron was hot enough, she irons her hair to straighten the waves a little bit. Haneul was struggling a little bit with her hair as she couldn't reach to some parts.
The mentors sees her struggling and were about to help her out when they see a tall figure moving passed them, stopping them in their tracks. The mentors' jaw dropped when they see the host, Lee Dong Wook, grabbing the flat iron from Haneul's hand and helped her with her hair.
"Mr. Lee..." Haneul was also shocked with Dong Wook suddenly grabbing the flat iron from her hands and helped her with her hair. "That's oppa to you." Dong Wook says with a smile. Haneul looks at Dong Wook through the mirror and caught him looking at her too for a little bit before doing her hair again, this made Haneul blush even harder.
"There, all done. I must say I'm proud with my work." Dong Wook says, blowing the flat iron as if it was a gun. "You just helped a little! Don't say its your work!" The mentors point at him as they jokingly yell at him. "You're all just grumpy cause I got to her first. Bleh." Dong Wook turns away as he says this, teasing the mentors who looked grumpy.
"Okay, I'm done!" Haneul says with a smile, looking at herself in the mirror. Simple but looks good to look at. She, then, stood up and faces the mentors with her smile. "You look this beautiful without makeup and without much makeup on. How much more if you wear full faced makeup?" Yoonn Jeong says, praising Haneul's innocent and mature beauty.
"Hehe." Haneul giggles as she rubs her neck shyly. "Come on. There's still time before the show begins and the contestants to start coming inside the studio. You should get your music ready by the tech person."
Dong Wook says with a smile, putting his hand on Haneul's back and gently pushing her, leading her towards the staff who'll be in charge for the tech. The mentors stayed back at the dressing room, waiting for Dong Wook and Haneul to come back.
The little time spent just by two, Dong Wook and Haneul, of them was filled with smiles and laughter. Dong Wook then suddenly feels his chest throbbing and he didn't know why. He held his chest, his face scrunched up in pain and he almost tripped.
Haneul sees him almost tripping so she caught him before he could fall. Haneul placed her hand on Dong Wook's chest and the other arm around his waist to balance him. She unknowingly let out her healing onto Dong Wook's chest which the throbbing on Dong Wook's chest eased up, feeling warmth seeping through his chest under Haneul's hand.
Dong Wook looks at Haneul, confused and putting his hand over Haneul's hand as Haneul helps him stand straight. Haneul leads Dong Wook back to the dressing room because they were done giving Haneul's song to the staff. As they arrived at the dressing room, Haneul opens the door and helps Dong Wook to a chair to sit on.
"What happened?" The mentors panic as they saw Dong Wook being helped by Haneul. "I don't know. I just felt some kind of throbbing in my chest on the way back with Haneul. But its gone, now. Thank you for helping me, Haneul-ah." Dong Wook explains then thanks Haneul.
Seokhoon gives Dong Wook a bottled water to drink and Dong Wook drinks from it. "Can you go on?" Kwon Jae Seung asks, worried about Dong Wook. "Yes, I'm fine, now." Dong Wook says with a smile, reassuring everyone in the dressing room.
"Everyone, get ready. The show will start in 5 minutes. Ms. Seon, we'll call you when its time for you to enter." A staff knocks and enters the room, saying this. The mentors, host and Haneul nods their head.
"Remember, no one but us, the producers and the staff know about the mission.... Now, its show time..." Dong Wook says with a smile to the mentors and to Haneul as they all get ready.
Produce 10's first part goes by the trainees entering and picking out a letter to what they think are their grades. Basically, grading themselves and entered the huge room next door with 101 seats to which these trainees who are done grading themselves need to choose from and where they think they are worthy to sit on.
Once, everyone has chosen their grades; A being the highest, B, C, D and F being the lowest and have chosen their seats, the host will enter and the mentors will also enter once they've been introduced by the host. After this, the mentors will be grading the trainees based on their performances and will be put according to the grade they've been given by the mentors.
Let the show begin...
The show starts by filming the various trainees, male and female, under YG Ent., BigHit Ent., Pledis Ent., Starship Ent., FNC Ent., Cube Ent., RBW Ent., Woollim Ent., Stone Music Ent., Fantagio Ent., Play M Ent., Jellyfish Ent., DSP Ent., TOP Media Ent., LEON Ent., TS Ent. and the rest being individual trainees.
These trainees joining the show with the intention to make the Ent. they're under proud of them. The trainees feeling the pressure on their shoulders as each trainee and trainees in solos, duos, trios and groups enters, grabbing their name tags, choosing what their grade is and enters the next room where they pick their seats.
Almost all of the trainees took their name tags, have chosen their grades on their name tags and have chosen their seats. The trainees complimenting each other as each of them entered at the huge room one by one, group by group, duo by duo and trio by trio.
There were still more empty seats but are on the lower 40-101 ones. The top 10 chairs were taken by the trainees under big companies. The first place, a male trainee, being under Pledis Ent.
The trainees do not know who the trainees will come next nor do they know Haneul was joining the show. Most of the trainees knew Haneul and are fans of her due to her videos and reveal stage in ICSYV.
The trainees were chatting with each other while feeling the tension in the air as they need to do their best.
Meanwhile...
A staff knocks and enters the dressing room calling Haneul that its her time to enter. The mentors and host cheered for Haneul, wishing her luck as the staff leads Haneul the way. Haneul was lead to a double set of doors and was told to enter and pick a grade. Haneul nods her head and enters the double doors.
She looks at the surrounding, looking futuristic with the black background and light blue lines, looking like a rubrics cube. Haneul then sees a table with her name tag and the letters A, B, C, D and F. Haneul grabs her name tag and pastes it on her shirt while thinking to herself, thinking of what she thinks her grade should be.
But knowing Haneul, she humbled herself knowing that she still lacks some skills and is excited about learning more things while she's here doing her mission. Her hand reaches for the letter _ grade.
After Haneul shows the grade she chose to the camera like the previous trainees did and pastes the grade on the side of her name tag that has space for the grade to be pasted on. Haneul smiles and felt contented at the grade she chose.
The double doors leading to the huge room opens up and Haneul breathed in and out, walking towards the door. She walks towards the huge room, the lights shining down on the runway, leading to a stage, and almost blinding Haneul as she covers her eyes from the lights' rays.
Haneul adjusted her eyes and walks forward, putting her hand down and looks in front of her. A moment before Haneul walks to the huge room, is when the monitor above the runway showed the entertainment the trainee/s is under just like it did to the previous trainees.
The trainees eyes went wide because it was a shock to them to see that for the first time, the monitor showed the words 'SM x JYP Entertainment'. This made the trainees who were seated, stood up for the upcoming trainee not knowing who's coming.
Once the trainees sees the person walking towards the stage, they all gasp in shock as they see who it is. "Its Seon Haneul!" "Its Miracle7!" "She's so pretty!" "She looks so cute!" Whispers and compliments were being thrown around as Haneul walks up to the stage.
The trainees were shocked to see Haneul but was more shocked seeing what she chose as her grade. "F?! Then what am I?" Trainees sees the grade on Haneul's shirt and looks at their own, feeling a bit uncomfortable for being too confident about their own grade.
--- Never and I mean never say nor think that you're wrong for being confident about yourself. If you feel like you are this or that then go ahead and be confident with it. As long as you aren't being mean, looking down on and hurting others because of it. So, be that confident ass mofo that you are and strut that shi off!! ---
Haneul didn't know what the trainees were saying nor what they're thinking as she looks at them with a smile and bowing her head. "Hello! I am Seon Haneul! Nice to meet you all!"
Haneul introduces herself in Korean, Japanese, Chinese and in English, seeing some trainees with different nationalities, with a smile including her eye smiles and the trainees, both female and male, swoon for her.
The trainees bow to Haneul and yells their words to her. Haneul laughs at how the trainees were being. Haneul then sees the 101 seat empty, she walks to the seat and with content, she sits on it happily. The trainees were baffled at how she graded herself with an F and even sat on the 101 seat.
The trainees feel down as they sat down on their own seats. The top 10 seaters were fidgeting in their seats knowing Haneul is there in front of them sitting at the lowest seat possible. The trainees were curious to know why she chose what she chose as they continue to look at her.
The top 1 thought that Haneul would fight for his seat but he was shocked that she didn't bat even an eye on the top 10 seats. Haneul could feel stares on her, turning around and seeing the trainees looking at her.
Haneul gave out a smile and a wave to them despite being nervous and a bit scared cause they were all staring at her. The trainees stopped staring, swooning that Haneul smiled and waved at them like a cutie.
The rest of the trainees came after grading themselves and choosing the seats that were left. The trainees who came after Haneul sees her and they panicked at what she chose, thinking about their own.
There were some trainees fighting over the top 1 and the trainee under Pledis kept his place after fights with other trainees. Haneul was just humming her song, practicing by herself as the trainee beside her was stiff and sat like a stone, knowing she's next to the Haneul herself and because she was really nervous if she can perform well.
Haneul looks to her right and sees the trainee beside her, looking dull and pale. "You should relax. I'm sure everyone will do well and give their all so I know you'll do your best. Don't worry and enjoy yourself while giving it your all." Haneul says, encouraging the trainee beside her with a smile.
The trainee slowly eased up after Haneul's encouragement. "Thank you." The trainee thanks Haneul with kind eyes, grateful to Haneul. "No worries. What's your name by the way?" Haneul says and asked for her name.
"M-my name?! Uhm..." The trainee was panicking as the Haneul was asking her name and she could feel the stares of the other trainees who were watching the scene in front of them, wishing they were beside Haneul.
"I-I'm Hu-Hung Youngmi." Youngmi stutters her name out and Haneul chuckles at her cuteness. "Nice to meet you, I'm Seon Haneul. Don't be tense around me. I won't bite." Haneul says putting her hand out for them to shake hands.
Youngmi was looking at her hand like its gold as the trainees were watching this, wishing it was them shaking hands and exchanging words with Haneul. Youngmi shakes her hand in the end and Haneul smiles at her. Youngmi lets go as she fell back to her seat, her head hung up like her soul just left her body.
The monitor then catches everyone's attention with a sound, a name showing on the monitor which the trainees and Haneul were shouting for. They stood up as they see the host, Lee Dong Wook walking towards the stage looking handsome as ever.
"Welcome my dear trainees..." Lee Dong Wook starts to say and continues by giving his speech, how the first part will go, his encouragement to the trainees to give it their all and finally, introducing the mentors.
"Here are the mentors!" Lee Dong Wook yells out and the mentors walk out from the double doors and walk towards the stage standing next to Dong Wook. "We would like to wish you all good luck and perform by giving it your all." The mentors give each of their encouragement words and the mentors and host walk towards their table for grading and assessing the trainees.
One by one, duo by duo, trio by trio and group by group performed and were graded objectively and properly. Haneul, too, was assessing the trainees who performed before her as it was her mission and also her conscious to help them. Even without the mission, Haneul already decided to help them the moment she was told she'll join the show.
Trainee after trainee was placed in the grade given to them by the mentors and the host. Some didn't get to show their individual talents and skills when they were asked to do because they were too nervous and lost the chance to get more points form the mentors and host. While some did get to show their charms and skills when asked which helped them get their grade up.
Only about 5 grade A's, 18 grade B's, 22 grade C's, 15 grade D's and 19 grade F's. A total of 79 trainees have been graded which left 22 more trainees including Haneul who are left to be graded.
A staff starts to call out for Haneul as she was next after the trainee on stage. Haneul was now at the backstage getting ready, a mic being attached to her since she'll be dancing cause she doesn't want their hand-on-mics be damaged if she suddenly lets go of it.
Haneul recaps her dance and song as she waits at the backstage. The staff calls her to go up after a little while as the trainee on stage was done.
Haneul walks up the stairs to the stage, her shoulders back and she gave her one of a kind smile to everyone as she walks on the stage to the center. "Annyeonghaseyo, Seon Haneul-imnida, a trainee under both SM and JYP Entertainments and I'm 18 years old." Haneul introduces herself and bows her head politely.
The cameras caught the mentors and host trying to contain their smiles for Haneul as the cameras caught the the trainees behind them not even trying to hold back their wishes of encouragement. Haneul bows her head, showing her smiles and eye smiles to the trainees as a thank you which made the trainees swoon again.
"Can you tell us about your song? It says its an original song." Dong Wook says, reading from the documents on his table then looks at Haneul, trying to keep a straight face.
"My song is something I made long ago and with a few adjustments, I'm performing it here for the first time. I'll just be performing the intro till the chorus so you guys will be curious for the rest of the song." Haneul teases them and they chuckle at Haneul's usual behavior being mysterious. "
"It's called Miracle. It has upbeat beats, instruments playing in the background, and has a catchy melody. It talks about how miracles happen although rarely but they do. Miracles are something to be believed in because the miracle I have now is being in front of everyone, about to perform and to give it my all. I believe in Miracles, do you?"
Haneul ends her explanation with smile as she points her finger at them along with the last question. This made the trainees, the mentors, the host and even the producers and staff hold back their amusement after she was done.
Everyone was silently elated inside as they hold it back. "Ahem..... Can you tell us why you also graded yourself an F and even seated at the very last seat, 101?" Dong Wook asks as he composed himself from almost trying to stop his smile again because of Haneul. This question was what everyone was thinking of the whole time.
"Oh, that's because I know I'm lacking in some skills and I know I have room for improvement that's why I chose the F grade and the 101 seat. Everyone starts from the bottom and work their way up. In this show, I want to start from the bottom and work my way up with my hard work and not because I have my talents and skills to rely on but because I want to improve them and become better than I am now."
Haneul says her answer truthfully looking serious and determined. Her words enlightened the trainees and the trainees begin to humble themselves as they think about it. The host and the mentors were also stunned by her answers as an 18 year old girl and talking very maturely.
"Thank you for your answer. I'm sure everyone is encouraged because of your words..." Dong Wook says, trailing off as he turns to look around and sees the trainees and the mentors thinking deeply. "If you're ready, you can start." Dong Wook says, lowering his mic and puts it on the table.
With that everyone starts to look at Haneul's stage after thinking deeply and thoroughly. Haneul walks to her spot and waits for her song to start, her back facing towards them. Her song starts and Haneul begins to dance her choreography to her song.
As she sang, rapped and danced, she did multiple flips during the song as it was her choreography and did a triple flip at the end, landing on her two feet. Her back facing them and she took a step back right as she turns to face everyone and gave her ending.
"You, do you believe in Miracles?" Haneul asks with a smile as the ending, looking at everyone. The trainees couldn't hold it as they were being too serious as they watched her perform, they broke from their seriousness, clapped and cheered for Haneul.
Haneul smiles at the trainees and gave everyone her bow, thanking them for watching her perform. The mentors and the host looks at Haneul after assessing her performance with seriousness. Haneul smiled at them as they did what she requested them to do.
The trainees were whispering to each other, telling each other that she'll definitely get an A and felt proud of her even though they don't know her personally. "Can you show us a freestyle dance?" Kwon Jae Seung asks and Haneul nods her head. "What genre should I show?"
Haneul asks with an innocent face, looking at Jae seung. "A-Any genre of your choice. Do what's comfortable with you." Jae Seung stuttered at first from her question but composed himself. "Cue music 7." Yoon Jyeong says as she sees Haneul is ready.
The song, Caroline by Amine, played and Haneul immediately felt the song as it was one of the songs she danced before. "To be honest with you, man.... She's a bad thang shi..." Haneul said the words till there and did a freestyle of Hip-hop mixed with footwork, flips, flooring and popping, feeling herself with the music.
Everyone was amazed by her freestyle and how she lets go of herself with the music. They begin to vibe with her as she freestyled and ended with a flip and a wink in the end, ending her performance.
The trainees claps for Haneul as the mentors and the host could not hold back their smiles anymore, satisfied with her freestyle. "Was that satisfying enough for you, Ms. Bae and Mr. Kwon?" Dong Wook asks with a smile as Ms. Bae gave out a smile and a nod while Mr. Kwon was laughing, happily nodding.
"The two Mr. Lee's, have anything to say or ask? How about Ms. Cheetah and Mr. Dong Hyun?" Dong Wook asks the other mentors who shook their heads with a smile, satisfied. "We'll begin to assess your performance so wait for a bit, Ms. Seon." Dong Wook says through the mic with a serious face as the mentors and the host begin to discuss amongst themselves.
Haneul stood on the stage as she and the trainees felt the tension in the air. I only want the grade that they think I really deserve. I'm not asking for anything big. Haneul thinks to herself, closing her eyes and when she opens her eyes, the mentors were looking at her with a gentle look, just done assessing.
"After discussing with the mentors, we all agreed to the same thing and said the same thing. We assessed your performance and we decided to give you an A." Dong Wook says through the mic and the trainees were clapping as the mentors clapped with them.
Haneul bows her head and stood straight, giving everyone a smile before leaving the stage. She walks back to the backstage where a table was placed there with the grades. She walks to the table and slowly grabs the A grade, removing the F grade from her name tag and pastes the A grade on its place.
Haneul wishes good luck to the next trainees who were in the backstage, getting ready. She then walks back to her seat and sees Youngmi with a D grade on. Youngmi was satisfied with her grade because of what Haneul said, starting from the bottom and working the way up.
Haneul could see the determined look in Youngmi's face as she took her seat. Haneul decides to help Youngmi if it comes to the second part of this show.
After the rest of the trainees perform their piece, they got their grades and went back to their seats. Dong Wook walks up to the stage as the mentors walk behind him following him to the stage.
Dong Wook stood at the stage with the mentors and said some words of congratulations to the trainees and gave encouraging words. "As Trainee Ju Sang Min, under Pledis Entertainment, who is currently and has gained the first place will be given a benefit and that is a 1 minute PR(I don't really know what this means but lets think of it as PRomotion) chance on the first episode."
With this, trainees gasped and had their eyes wide at the benefit that the first placer got. To be able to promote himself would be a good advantage for him.
So now, there's about 13 grade A's, 20 grade B's, 24 grade C's, 20 grade D's and 24 grade F's now that every trainee had been graded.
Dong Wook and the mentors look at everyone in their seats. The trainees standing up for the finale of the first shoot. "We have finished the grade evaluation." Dong Wook says and the trainees clap for themselves and each other for their hard work.
"Let's check out the current grade." Dong Wook says as the monitor above shows everyone how many trainees there are in each grade. "So now, there's about 13 in grade A, 20 in grade B, 24 in grade C, 20 in grade D and 24 in grade F. Those in A, B, C, D and F will receive actual training tomorrow."
Dong Wook announces as every trainee was on edge and felt the pressure of their grades. "The title song...." Dong Wook trails off, leading on the trainees as they were expecting to know. "...Will be revealed tomorrow." Dong Wook continues and the trainees let out a disappointed yet nervous hum.
"I hope you'll give it your all without giving up until the day you make your debut. Fighting!" Dong Wook says as the trainees yell "Fighting!" as well. The shoot ended there and everyone dispersed.
The mentors and the host leaving, the trainees being lead to a room with their bags of personal stuff, the trainees getting their bags and to Haneul's surprise their bags aren't suitcases or duffle bags but cross-bags. We're not going to leave to the training camp, yet? Haneul was looking for her duffle bags, thinking the staff put her bags there after she left the dressing room.
As Haneul was looking for her bags, a tap on her shoulder made her turn around to face the person. "This must be yours." Haneul sees a guy holding two duffle bags in his hand, holding them out to her as he says this.
Haneul looks at the duffle bags and it was indeed hers. "Thank you... Uhm, what's your name?" Haneul thanks the guy and asked for his name while grabbing her two duffle bags but she could only grab one as the guy wanted to carry the other one. The guy blushed and grips his and Haneul's duffle bag tighter, feeling shy as he was facing his idol.
"My name's-" "Il Sung-ah, there you are!" The same looking guy came into view, wrapping his arm around the shoulders of the same looking guy Haneul was talking to. "Twins!" Haneul says, excited from seeing twins in front of her.
"Oh my, it's Seon Haneul aka Miracle7. It's very nice to meet you! I'm Kang Yong Sook the older twin and this is Kang Il Sung, the younger twin. We're both 19 years old so you can either call us oppa or by our names. We don't mind."
Yong Sook says with a smile towards Haneul and Haneul could feel that Yong Sook is a carefree and fun guy while the one Haneul was talking to earlier was shy and kind.
"It's nice to meet you both." Haneul says and bows at the twins as a polite gesture since they're older than her. "No need for that. Let's be friends starting now." Yong Sook says with a smile and Haneul couldn't help but smile back.
Seeing herself within Yong Sook, she couldn't say no. Besides it would be fun to have more friends here. Haneul thinks to herself looking at the twins and then looks at her surroundings, seeing that most of the trainees left already to go outside.
Haneul and the twins were ready to walk out from the room they were in when she sees Youngmi also walking towards the exit of the room. "Youngmi eonnie!" Haneul calls out and runs to Youngmi, founding out that she was older than her like the twins. Youngmi stops walking and turns to look who was calling her.
Seeing that it was Haneul, a blush crept to her cheeks as she waits for Haneul to arrive in front of her. Youngmi could see the twins following behind Haneul. "Haneul-ah." Youngmi says softly to Haneul and Haneul smiles at her shyness.
"Let's go out together. I would like to introduce to you the twins while we're at it." Haneul says with a cheeky smile as Youngmi continues to blush, avoiding the twins' gaze. The whole time they were walking out of the building, they were talking amongst themselves, learning and getting to know each other.
Youngmi's in grade D, being more on the vocals and can dance. Yong Sook's in the grade B, can be both on vocals and dance. Il Sung in the grade C, being more in the rap and can dance. Youngmi under LOEN Ent. and the twins under Fantagio Ent..
Once they reached the crowd of trainees at the parking lot, a producer walks and stands in front of them. "There will be 2 busses that will drive you to the training camp tomorrow at 5am which will take an hour and a half as it is a bit on the outskirts of the city. We will have to meet here again before 5am."
The producer says and readies to say more. "Once you arrive at the training camp, please do check in with the staff first and after that you can go to your rooms to unpack. Please make sure to check in with the staff once you arrive before anything else." The producer says and the trainees in front of him nod their heads, understanding.
"You may all disperse and go home. We'll see each other here again before 5am." The producer says and the trainees yell out "Thank you for the opportunity!" as they bow. The trainees then begin to disperse, going home or to celebrate.
Damn, the shoot took a whole day and now its almost night. I mean at least we got to eat lunch a bit and took little breaks in between shoots. Haneul thinks to herself as she looks at the people beside her.
"So, what will you guys do?" Haneul asks as the twins and Youngmi were beside her. "I guess we'll have to go home and pack our stuff and tell our parents about what happened." Yong Sook says with a shrug. "I-I'll go home, too. How about you, Haneul-ah?" Youngmi says and asks Haneul.
"I guess I'll have to go home, too." Haneul says, lying and deciding to just stay in a nearby hotel as she doesn't want them to worry about her. She didn't know that they'll leave tomorrow and not now.
"Oh, okay. I guess we'll see you tomorrow!" Yong Sook says as he wraps his arm around Il Sung as Il Sung stays quiet. "My parents are here to get me. See you guys tomorrow!" Youngmi says waving goodbye to Haneul and the twins, running towards the car coming up in front of them.
The twins and Haneul waved back as Youngmi leaves in the car. "Our taxi is here as well. You want to ride with us?" The twins says and Haneul shakes her head, Il Sung giving Haneul her other duffle bag. "My taxi is coming up, too. I'll just wait for it." Haneul lies again just so the twins won't be worried.
"Okay, see you tomorrow!" The twins says as they wave goodbye to Haneul, jogging to their taxi that just came into view and leaves in the taxi. Haneul starts walking away from the building, just walking forward until she sees a hotel or something.
I should've ride with the twins and be dropped of on a nearby hotel. Haneul thinks to herself as she walks for 5 minutes, realizing that this place is far. Hanuel continues to walk head on until a van slows down and follows the pace of Haneul.
Haneul ignores the van until the door of the van opens and someone pops out of the door. "Haneul-ah! Want a ride?" Haneul turns to look at who called her and sees that it was Dong Wook. "Oppa, I thought you were going to kidnap me because of the van suddenly stopped beside me!" Haneul holds her chest due to fright and relaxed as she sees who it was.
"Sorry. Are you going home?" Dong Wook says as Haneul is still walking and the van is keeping up her pace. "Nope, I'm walking towards a nearby hotel if there is one." Haneul says truthfully since the twins and Youngmi weren't with her anymore.
"Oh, I'm heading to a hotel that I rented a room in. Want a ride there? You can rent a room there for the night." Dong Wook says truthfully and worried about Haneul walking on the streets alone and it was night. "Okay, thank you, Dong Wook oppa." Haneul says and thanks Dong Wook.
Dong Wook held out a hand for Haneul to take and Haneul takes it, being helped inside the van. Dong Wook moves over so Haneul can sit in his place. "Lets go." Dong Wook says to his driver and the van took off towards the hotel.
The ride going to the hotel was filled with talks, smiles and laughter with the three people in the van. Haneul, Dong Wook and the driver. The driver being with Dong Wook for almost all his career kept telling Haneul his embarrassing and funny moments which Dong Wook was cowering in embarrassment and Haneul was laughing.
They arrived in front of the hotel which Dong Wook and Haneul get off of the van while the van drives off to be parked. "Lets head inside, the others are waiting inside." Dong Wook says which baffled Haneul on who the others were. As they entered there, Haneul sees the mentors at the lobby and were sitting together.
Haneul lets out a smile as the mentors sees her and Dong Wook, waving at them. Haneul and Dong Wook walks towards them as Haneul looks at the interior of the hotel. The lobby was pretty and looking modern mixed with traditional ones. As the two arrived in front of the mentors, they sat on the extra seats.
"What brings you here, Haneul-ah?" Lee Hongki asks with curiosity as she came with Dong Wook. "I didn't know that we'll leave tomorrow. I thought it would be after the shoot that's why I brought my duffle bags. I decided I should stay in a hotel for the night and was walking until I would see one until Dong Wook oppa called out to me in his van and here I am."
Haneul explains and the mentors nod their heads then gave a knowing look at Dong Wook. Dong Wook looks away, trying to hide the little blush on his cheeks. "You should check in, Haneul-ah. We'll wait for you so we can have dinner together." Cheetah says with a smile towards Haneul.
Haneul nods her head and begins to stand up, when Dong Wook also stood up. "I'll go with her in case she needs help." Dong Wook says, avoiding there gazes and ends with a cough. Dong Wook turns to walk to the reception and Haneul follows behind him, chuckling at his actions.
Dong Wook and Haneul arrives at the reception and asked if there were any rooms available next to their rooms. "I'm sorry, Mr. Lee. All the rooms here have already been booked. We don't have any more rooms available." The receptionist says after checking all the rooms.
"Oh no." Haneul says sadly with a shrug. Dong Wook thanks the receptionist and the two of them went back to the lobby where the mentors were at. "Did you get a room?" Seokhoon asks and Haneul shakes her head. "The hotel is fully booked." Haneul says sadly.
"You can stay with me in my-" Cheetah was about to offer when Dong Wook interrupts her. "She can stay in mine." Dong Wook says blushing a bit, avoiding their gazes again as they look at him with a knowing look. "I can stay with Cheetah eon-"
"No, no, no. Dong Wook already offered his room so you can stay with him." Cheetah says with a smile and gave Dong Wook another look saying 'If you do something to her, I'll kill you.'.
Haneul nods her head and the mentors all stood up while Haneul grabs her duffle bag. "We'll be in the dining area and we'll wait for you till you guys come so hurry." Yoon Jyeong says and gives Dong Wook a stern look to take care of Haneul. Dong Wook takes Haneul's duffle bags from her and wears the strap around his shoulders, being a gentleman.
Haneul was baffled when he did that but she couldn't take one back cause Dong Wook would avoid her hands. Haneul gives up as the two of them leave to Dong Wook's room, waving goodbye to the mentors. The mentors going to the dining area to wait. Dong Wook and Haneul got in the elevator and arrived at the floor where the room is at.
"Don't we have to be careful when showing our faces since people can see us and might make an issue with this?" Haneul asks with curiosity as she doesn't want to ruin Dong Wook's reputation because they were together and people might think bad things about it.
"Nope, this hotel keeps information a secret no matter what. So we're good. Plus this hotel is pretty secure and only has three floors with more or less 7 rooms in each floor. So, there's not much people here." Dong Wook says as they arrive in front of his room, opening it and letting Haneul go inside first before him.
Haneul walks inside the room and it was kind of big with a bathroom, a big screen tv, a big bed, a fluffy couch big enough to be slept on and a little table with a lamp on it. Haneul stops in her tracks as she stood in front of the couch. Haneul turns around and looks at Dong Wook, holding out her hand motioning for Dong Wook to give her duffle bag with a pout.
Dong Wook chuckles at Haneul's actions and gives her the duffle bags. Haneul grabs her duffle bags and puts them on top of the couch, claiming it. "I'll sleep on the couch. Also, thank you for letting me crash in your room, oppa." Haneul says as she looks back at Dong Wook with a smile.
Dong Wook nods his head without saying a word as he just stared at Haenul with a gentle gaze. Haneul didn't notices it and walks passed him to the door to leave. "Come on, oppa! I'm starving!" Haneul says and ran out of the room, towards the elevator.
Dong Wook follows right after, closing the door behind him as Haneul waits for him in the elevator. They arrive at the ground floor and got out, walking towards the dining area where the mentors were waiting. The mentors see Haneul and Dong Wook entering the dining area, waving at them.
Haneul and Dong Wook sees them and walk towards them. "What would you like, Haneul-ah?" Lee Hongki says as he gives Haneul a menu after the two sat down. "Uhm, Bulgogi, Yukgaejang, a bowl of rice and.... iced tea." Haneul says closing the menu and looks at Hongki with a cheeky smile, looking like a kid.
"Okay, how about you guys?" Hongki asks the rest of the mentors and the host after calling the waiter and told the waiter Haneul's orders. After everyone ordered their food, they waited as they talked most especially about Haneul.
As they talked, their orders arrived and they ate dinner together, enjoying their time. After they ate, they head to the elevator after paying. They went up to their floor and got out of the elevator. Everyone parted ways as they head to their own rooms as Dong Wook and Haneul walk to theirs.
Dong Wook unlocks the room and they enter inside, locking the door behind them. "I'll wash up first." Haneul says grabbing a towel and a set of clothes from one of her duffle bags and then looks at Dong Wook, who was laying on the big bed, nodding his head.
Haneul proceeds to the bathroom and did her business, getting out wearing her set of clothes, drying her hair with one hand and the other holding her folded used clothes. Dong Wook was sitting on the bed, waiting for Haneul to finish so he can wash up next.
Haneul makes way for Dong Wook as she walks to the couch, sitting on it and puts her used clothes inside one of the duffle bags. Haneul finished drying her hair and hangs the towel on a coat hanger.
Haneul puts the duffle bags down next to the couch and searches the cabinets for extra cushions and a duvet or a blanket. Seeing there were none, she shrugs and went back to the couch and lays on it.
After a little while, Haneul hears the bathroom door opening and Haneul sits up excitingly as she wanted to ask Dong Wook if she can borrow a pillow and the extra blanket under another blanket from the bed.
Haneul sees Dong Wook in his boxers and a towel draped around his neck, droplets of water falling down Dong Wook's hair. Haneul shrieked the moment she saw this and covers her eyes. Dong Wook cursed under his breath, forgetting Haneul was in the room.
Dong Wook runs back to the bathroom, closes the door and leans on the door, face palming himself. Haneul hears shuffling and a door closing so she uncovers her eyes and does not see Dong Wook in front of her.
Haneul hears the bathroom door opening a little bit and hears Dong Wook's voice. "Can you hand me my bag, please?" Dong Wook asks in embarrassment after opening the bathroom door. Haneul quickly moves to get the bag and gives it to his outstretched hand.
Once Dong Wook got his bag, he closes the door immediately and fished for a set of clothes, wearing them. He gets out with his bag and walks to the bed, avoiding Haneul's gaze. "I'm sorry about that. I kinda forgot you were here."
Dong Wook says as he sat on the bed and rubs his neck out of embarrassment. "It's fine. I see a lot of that often so its not surprising anymore though I was shocked earlier." Haneul says and touches her blushing cheeks.
Dong Wook looks at Haneul as he heard what she said. "You saw a lot of it?" Dong Wook asks in shock but more on the sad side. "Yeah, I live around guys so its not uncommon for me to see them shirtless but earlier you were just in your..."
Haneul trails off, covering face as she blushes, didn't say the word boxers as she remembers the scene earlier. Him looking sexy with his toned body in front of her was on Haneul's mind and she slaps her cheeks to get herself together, the image fading away.
"We should get some sleep. We'll be leaving early tomorrow." Dong Wook says and Haneul nods her head. "Can I borrow a pillow and a blanket from you?" Haneul asks with her hands together with her puppy eyes shining towards Dong Wook who was looking at her do it.
"Why not just... sleep on the bed with me?" Dong Wook asks after thinking about the question twice and sees Haneul looking stunned. Dong Wook thought Haneul would think of him as a creep as he was in his late 30s and she's 18 but he didn't expect what she says next.
"Is it okay with you, oppa? I mean I'm fine with that but you're Lee Dong Wook. The Grim Reaper of Goblin. Do I have to die first before I can sleep on the bed next to you?" Haneul jokes with a smile and this made Dong Wook laugh at her words.
"No, you don't. So, feel free to sleep on the bed." Dong Wook says and with that, Haneul wasted no time to jump on the bed, face first. Haneul felt the softness of the bed's pillows and blankets as her body came in contact with it.
Haneul wriggling on the bed and rolled about, bumping into Dong Wook who was watching and smiling at her as she does this. Haneul looks at what she bumped and sees it was Dong Wook. "Oh, no. I bumped into the Grim Reaper. Better roll away."
Haneul jokes again and was about to roll away when Dong Wook grabs her waist to stop her, bending a little bit getting closer to her. Haneul sees him getting closer after he bent to stop her form rolling away. Haneul coughs and this brought Dong Wook back from the trance he was in as he looks at Haneul.
"Let's get ready to sleep." Dong Wook lets go of Haneul's waist and moved away for her to go to her preferred spot on the bed to sleep on. Haneul took the right side and Dong Wook took the left side. Haneul goes under the covers and rested her head on the pillow as Dong Wook did the same.
It was kind of awkward at first but it slowly went away. Haneul then realized that the light was still on so she stood up and jogs her way to off the lights then jogs her way back to her spot. Now, that the lamp's light was the only thing on, Haneul starts to close her eyes.
"You can hug me like a pillow if you like. I'm used to being hugged while I sleep so you can do so if you want. I give you permission." Haneul says before pretending to sleep. Dong Wook was wide awake as he heard her say this not knowing that she was pretending to sleep.
This made Dong Wook contemplate whether to hug her or not. After thinking about it for 15 minutes, he decides to hug her. Dong Wook turns to face Haneul who also turns to face Dong Wook acting like she just turned in her sleep at the same moment.
Dong Wook moves closer and outstretched his left hand over Haneul's waist. As Dong Wook's hand touched Haneul's waist, just like she was used to being hugged while sleeping, she snuggles into Dong Wook's chest, fitting perfectly.
Dong Wook was shocked and held her tighter in his arms. Dong Wook starts to drift to sleep as his breathing became calmer. Haneul took this chance to move, push herself to reach Dong Wook's forehead and kisses it.
After Haneul kissed his forehead, she moves away a little and was shocked. Seeing Dong Wook looking at her instead of sleeping. Dong Wook looks at her because he woke up from the sudden warmth from something soft touching his forehead, opening his eyes seeing it was Haneul's lips.
"I- Good night, oppa." Haneul didn't know what to say and just big good night and went back to snuggling into his chest to ignore Dong Wook's questions. Dong Wook laughs at Haneul as his chest rumbled due to him laughing.
"Good night, Haneul-ah." Dong Wook says and kisses her head in return, the two of them drifting to sleep.
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Hey guyss!! This was one long ass chapter over all of the long chapters in this book like damn! I didn't expect it would be this long for a part 1. Gotta wait for the part 2 then maybe it'll be longer or shorter hehe. We'll see.
By the way, how are you guys? How's life? How's the chapter? Did anything exciting or sad happen to you recently?
How about reading my 2nd book, The Rising of Akalea, which is a fantasy type book where its a female lead as well. It's connected to this book and will be seen soon which will take a while. Hehe.
Comment down your replies as I would love to read them! See you in the next chapter!
-Aki