"Thank you to..everyone, who supported us on this journey. Although it was hard and we spent most of our free time on this, it was so worth it. I hope all of you enjoyed our showing!" Leon spoke into the microphone that was held into his face on the big stage of the K-POP World Festival's Finale in Vienna.
They had just won first place in their first official competition as a group and the moment couldn't be sweeter. Some of the boys almost cried, some actually did and without naming any names, it was Leon and Raffy who did cry. Their first performance as a group went amazingly well and they spent their evening with a big celebration, partying into the night.
A few days later
TL;DR Group Chat
"Guys, meet up at Thai's place tonight, it's important." ~ L
"On a scale from 1-10 how important is it actually?" ~ R
"It's no joke an actual 10" ~ L
"When did I agree to this being at my place?" ~ T
*Dejan sent an audio of a new song he's been working on*
"I missed the messages about the important thing where are we meeting?" ~ D
And so the three boys went on their way to Thai's place and with Leon telling them they had some important matters to discuss, their excitement slowly built up.
On the same day
Thai's Place
Leon, Raffy and Dejan arrived in short intervals and slowly made their way down to the basement of Thai's house that they had now somehow made their base for anything and everything relating their group.
"Okay guys.." Leon said, taking a seat on the couch. "..check this out." He slyly expressed, clicking through a few web pages on his laptop while the other three were cautiously listening.
Leon cleared his throat and began reading what seemed like an email.
"Dear TL;DR K-POP World Festival finalists,
we over in Korea have carefully inspected multiple competitors from all across the world and came to the conclusion that you are one of the groups that we would like to feature on our international stage on SBS Television."
The other's eyes widened. 'What did he just say?' went through all of their heads as the words bounced around their minds. "Wait, are you actually serious? Stop playing.." Dejan uttered nervously.
Leon looked up to Dejan with a nod, indicating that he was indeed serious.
"It's not over yet. That was the good news." Leon dropped into the conversation, making the other three boys tense up.
"For this to happen, we only need one additional video of your group performing the song you won your respective Festival with, along with live singing." He finished up his speech and looked up with his lips buried in each other as to indicate that they're in a bit of a pickle.
The boys all took the mail a little differently.
Thai seemed unaffected and shrugged it off, not thinking it was too big of a task to pull off. But considering him and Leon used to upload auto-tuned singing covers to YouTube, he was a little more confident in his abilities.
Dejan buried his head in his hands. "WHILE we're singing..? Lord spare my soul.." He muttered under his breath.
Raffy had the exact polar opposite reaction to Dejan; instead of hanging his head low and doubting, he was more than up for the task. "When do we begin practicing our singing?" he asked fiercely.
