forecast | oc bg

trainee fair (taeyang + kaito)

Immediately after he finished the excerpt of the song, Kaito bowed his head and rambled quickly, "Thank you, hope you enjoyed."

Woojin couldn't help but laugh a bit, watching the boy keep his head down as the audience clapped - even a few grumpy reporters who were only awaiting their question's answers. The sound manager stood at his station, quickly explaining something to Kaito through the microphone. Taeyang had already backed away from his own microphone in the corner and was still standing about a foot away from it with his eyes closed. Perhaps he was trying to calm down or prevent a breakdown, but Woojin called for him.

"Taeyang," he said carefully, causing the blonde boy to open his eyes and look over.

Almost like a child, the blonde boy wined, his voice croaking a bit. "Hyung..." he groaned, letting himself gravitate towards the older's pitying smile and open arms.

"Hey, it's fine. You did great!" Woojin said, chirping happily with his words as he nearly held up the younger who was going through some sort of mental crisis. His whimper-groans suddenly attracted attention from the people around them, including Kaito, who was making his way down the stairs to get off stage.

"Taeyang, why are you crying? I'm the one who was in front of everyone!" he asked, seeming upset about his performance but his raised eyebrows and smile conflicted with his choice of words.

"I'm not crying." the blonde muttered, still hiding his face in Woojin's chest. Woojin glanced down and saw Taeyang's eyes looking up at him, but they immediately looked away once they made eye contact. Taeyang lightly pushed himself off of the older, patting himself down. 

"You two did great, don't worry. Remember my second debut performance?" Woojin mentioned, making Taeyang laugh a bit. Kaito, however, was suddenly not laughing for once.

"You recovered from that mistake though." Kaito commented.

"Of course! And it's not like you can't recover from this 'mistake', if you call it that. I think it was pretty good. This isn't a huge event either." Woojin explained.

"Not a huge event?" a voice asked from behind him, it deep and seeming exaggeratedly concerned. "This is a pretty important event for the publicity and reputation of this new group."

"CEO-nim-" Woojin began suddenly, turning around but being cut off. The senior idol rarely ever was confronted by a disagreement with the CEO, and now a sudden dagger of fear froze him up.

"We'll need to work on your stage skills - otherwise you won't be ready to debut." He summarized quickly, stating the sentence as the end of the conversation, for no one dared to reply.

Kaito bowed his head down in understanding, Taeyang doing similarly as he looked at the ground. The CEO made a little nod, returning to a smile suddenly.

"We've definitely got some news coverage tomorrow. We'll debrief you on what to say to reporters after the performance." He said, looking around as voices grew louder from the nearby hallway.

"I'm here, I'm here!" a girl's voice called somewhat frantically, quickly jogging over towards the three singers and unusually bipolar CEO. "Sorry I'm late, I'm going up." she said, pointing at the stairs that lead to the stage. The CEO nodded, the girl putting on a smile and looking towards the three others. She took a few steps, stopping herself before she reached the stairs.

She turned around, raising her eyebrows at them. As if woken up from his tense state, Woojin suddenly took in a breath, nodding as he began, "Good luck, you'll do great!"

She flashed back a grin, still looking at the other two boys. Woojin bit his lip, making almost an apologetic smile. The girl pushed back a strand of hair behind her ear, making the same pitying expression before jumping up the steps.