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-Sunday, February 24, 2019~3:16PM-
~A.D's POV~
I was on my phone when somebody plopped onto the couch beside me. I looked over to see Pop.
"Hey Sorinitadri." I said, using her real name. She looked at me funny. "What? Did I pronounce it wrong?"
"No." She said. "Very accurate actually."
"Then why the face?" I asked.
"It was just weird, I guess." She shrugged. "Hearing my full first name. I don't get called it often."
"Oh, sorry."
"No, it's okay. It's nice to hear it once in a while."
I smiled at her and that's when JC walked over, causing us both to look at her.
"Hiya Chungie." Pop greeted her.
"Hi." JC said, deep in thought.
"What's up?" I asked her. "Why the long face?"
"Well...so...we perform separately?" She asked.
"Correct." Pop nodded.
"Hmm." She said then started to wander away.
Pop and I looked at each other and snickered.
"She's a cutie, isn't she?" Pop asked.
"Sure is." I nodded. "But, I don't know, you are too."
Pop looked at me and smiled. "Thanks, you're kinda cute yourself."
I smiled. "I'm just glad we got to sing a song together."
"Me too." Pop replied. "I couldn't ask for anyone else."
I smiled again, causing her to smile back. I got called by the staff to get my hair and makeup done so I did. Once it was time for us to get ready to perform, James said some encouraging words, wishing us all luck as well.
*****
-Thursday, March 14, 2019~4:30PM-
~Kaoru's POV~
We were all gathered in the practice room, all twenty-one of us. We knew exactly why, it wasn't shocking anymore, yet we were still all excited.
4:30 came around and our manager walked in with three new people, two boys and a girl, a really cute girl. She had really pretty fare skin and short dark-brown hair, and her eyes were big. I couldn't take my eyes off her.
We all sat in a circle like usual, saving room for the newbies. Manager Woohyun brought the three over and they sat down.
"Introduce yourselves." Woohyun told them. "Say your name and/or stage name, age, positions, and anything else you want us to know."
The three all shared looks. You could tell they all were the shy types.
"Okay, I guess I'll go first?" The girl spoke, causing me to sit up straight with a smile. "Hello, I am Christine from Barcelona. I am 25 this year and I am a dancer who specializes in vocals. I am also the cousin of Kris Wu!"
"Former EXO member, Kris Wu?" Ricky asked.
"Yes." Christine nodded. "That Kris Wu."
I smiled while watching the girl. Her eyes glanced around the room at everyone, until they came to a stop on me. Before anything could happen, I looked down. I knew I was looking at her in a way that would make her uncomfortable, and I didn't know if she was even into girls, so I knew I needed to not make things obvious or else it would cause too many problems if she wasn't gay.
"Alright." Woohyun spoke. "Which one of you boys want to go first?"
I looked at the other boys, really for the first time, and noticed somebody. It was a real friend of mine that my brother and I trained with. I smiled brightly before calling his name.
"Takashi!" I exclaimed.
"Me?!" He looked at me.
"Yeah, you!"
He sighed. "Okay, I'll go. My name's Takashi as Kaoru noona already said. I was born in '97, I rap and dance, and I am Japanese if you couldn't tell."
"Nice to have you in the group, Takashi." Hikaru said with a smile.
"Thanks hyung." Takashi said. "Its nice to have a group."
We all chuckled a little before moving onto the last trainee.
"My turn." He spoke softly. Everyone was memorized by his beautiful and unique honey-like voice. "My name is Alex. I am also a 97-liner and I am a vocalist. As for my fact, I am the little brother of Joshua from Seventeen."
"No wonder why you're voice is so pretty~" JC said in awe.
The boy snickered. "I get that a lot."
"Is your singing voice just as honey-like as your talking?" Blue asked.
"Y-Yes, I think so." Alex nodded.
"We got ourselves some honey vocals." Changwoo said.
"Its about time we got another male vocalist." Gyutae said. "We have a ton of male rappers."
Alex smiled, knowing he would be happy with his distribution with lines considering he's one of our very few male vocalists.
"Alright!" James caught everyone's attention. "Let's introduce ourselves to them, yeah? Just our names. I'll start."
And with that, we went around the circle, each stating our names for the new members. Afterwards, we took some time to all get to know them and they get to know us like usual. But I made sure to keep my limits with Christine. We ended up finishing at 5:30 and all went home.
*****
-Monday, March 18, 2019~6:53AM-
~Blue's POV~
I was shaken awake by my unnie of only 15 days, Soeun.
"Dude." She spoke. "Its almost 7 and we haven't dropped off the cake yet."
"Oh, is that today?" I asked, blinking to wake up.
"Yes, now hurry and get dressed." She demanded.
"Calm down, unnie." I said sitting up. "Its Hongbin oppa. He's always late."
"Still." She said. "Come on."
I quickly changed into some sweats as Soeun took out the small cake from our fridge that we had bought the day before. Once I was ready, we made our way to the lobby. I looked around, only to see Jiyoung.
"We're clear." I said to Soeun.
We both made our way to the receptionist desk where Jiyoung seemed shocked to see us.
"OMO!" She exclaimed. "Are you guys...?"
"Giving this to Hongbin oppa for his birthday?" I asked. "Yes."
"Awe~" She coo'ed. "That's sweet."
"Don't tell him it was from us." Soeun said, getting ready to light the candle.
"Oh, I wouldn't light it." Jiyoung stopped her. "It may still be a while until he arrives."
"Will you light it for us then?" Soeun asked. "When you see his car pull up?"
"Sure." Jiyoung nodded, taking the matches from Soeun. "Now go get ready for school."
"Thank you unnie." I said to Jiyoung. "And remember, you don't know who it was from."
"Not a clue." She played along.
We both snickered and ran back to our room, getting ready for school.
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-7:35AM-
We made our way to the lobby, Soeun and I. Daehyun was also with us since we were all going to school. We arrived at the lobby and I looked over at the receptionists desk to see Hongbin had arrived. He had his cake still sitting on the desk.
"Oppa." I said while walking over, pretending like I didn't know anything. "What's that?"
Daehyun and Soeun followed behind me.
"A cake!" Daehyun exclaimed. "Who's it from?!"
"I don't know." Hongbin shrugged. "It was just here. I think it was from Jiyoung but she keeps denying it."
"It wasn't from me, I swear it." Jiyoung said.
"Is it your birthday, hyung?" Daehyun asked.
"Yes, it is." Hongbin smiled.
"Happy Birthday." Soeun said.
"Yeah!" Daehyun exclaimed. "Happy birthday!"
"Thank you." Hongbin snickered.
"Don't inflate his ego too much kids." Jiyoung said. "You need to get to school anyway."
Hongbin glared at Jiyoung who smirked.
"Okay, we will get going then." I said. "Goodbye."
"Bye kids." Jiyoung said.
We waved goodbye and made our way out of the lobby. We started walking to school, all chatting along the way.
"I wonder who got it for him." Daehyun wondered.
"Me too." I said, looking at Soeun. We both grinned widely before changing the subject.
*****
-Sunday, March 24, 2019~4:41PM-
~Christine's POV~
I arrived at the building from running some errands and walked to the elevator to go up to my room. It opened to reveal Kaoru walking out. She saw me and paused.
"Oh, Ch-Christine unnie." She said.
"Hi Kaoru." I smiled. "What are you doing here?"
"Grabbing stuff for the dorm that we forgot." She replied. "How about you?"
She suddenly thought.
"Wait." She looked embarrassed. "That was a dumb question. You live here."
I snickered. "That was cute."
She looked up at me, who was smiling at her softly.
"I-I should go." She said, then speeded past.
I watched her with a smile. I snickered before getting in the elevator and taking it up to my room, relaxing for the rest of the day.
~Authors Note~
Hey guys! New characters are introduced I'm happy! I'm really excited and I can't wait to keep things going. I added the last part, Christine's POV, just so I would be caught up to real time. I don't really have anything to say other than I hope you enjoyed. I'll see you guys in the next chapter. Biez!