The Basement
Interacting with Hee Bear and KyuKyu
JaeSun turned and nudged his sister when Kim Hanuel started his performance.
"wait? are we going to have do evals even though we weren't here this month?" He whispered to her.
"Probably..." she whispered back to him as she shrugged, Turning quickly to Kyumin who was paying attention to Kim Hanuel's performance. He tugged on Kyumin's sleeve to get his attention,
"Kyu Hyung? Do we have to do evals too?" Kyumin tilted his head as he thought about his answer,
"Yeah, Sorry even though you guys were gone. you are still going to have to do evals.." He replied sheepishly,
"You should probably talk with one of the stage techs or Siai to give them your music choices or have them prep something for you when you go on." Kyumin said seriously to the Twins,
"Well I'll be back in abit..." HeeYoung whispered as she got up from her seat and walked off.
JaeSun sighed as he plugged his earphones into his phone and started to flick through his music to search for a song he would be comfortable performing. Finally, finding one that he thought was good he took off his earphones. Only to look up and see Yuzuru finishing up his performance looking a little sad. Trying to look over at what Kyumin is writing in his notebook, to see his notes. He flinches and rubs his forehead when Kyumin flicks him to keep him from taking a peek.
"𝒟𝑜𝓃'𝓉 𝒷𝑒 𝓃𝑜𝓈𝓎 𝒥𝒶𝑒!" He grins at Kyumin,
"𝒮𝑜𝓇𝓇𝓎 𝒦𝓎𝓊" He said cheerfully, as turned to watch Mo Chou's performance. He took note it seemed lightly off, but he could have been wrong... maybe her steps were suppose to be off beat. Soon her performance was over, and Her brother was called up next up after her.
While Cheng Lei performed his song, JaeSun face scrunched up in confusion as he listened to the song. It was less memorable than the orginal, He was slightly disappointed to hear it being sung the way Cheng Lei was singing it, It really could have been better. He still applauded his performance at least he went up there and gave it his best. When Bliss's turn came up next he wasn't he was both impressed and slightly intimated by her performance, The way she performed was strong and confident. When her performance ended, he wasn't really surprised to hear some groans and mumbles of disappoint from some of the other trainees behind him. To him it was really funny how a lot people found her attractive, but wouldn't dare to approach her.
His attention got pulled back to Evals when Hyunjin got called up to perform his piece, He swore he heard some of the girls behind swooning as he got on to the stage. His mouth dropped open as he admired Hyunjin's guitar, He had heard that he knew how to play. but he never actually seen him in act. He briefly glanced around the basement to search for his sister, If she was here and seen it.. He'd bet everything that she would go up and ask if she could try out his guitar. Not being able to find her, he shrugged and turned his attention back to Hyunjin's performance. As he listened to his performance, he found it interesting and could understand why he already had a large following of fangirls even though he hasn't debuted yet.
JaeSun looked around curiously as he tried to remember which one is Dae-Hyun, When he finally spotted one of the new trainee's nervously make their way to the stage. He was slightly worried that instead of performing he might...vomit. He was pleasantly surprised, that He seemed to put his all into the performance. He was definetly doing a job performing his song choice, went better than how he thought it would go. As soon as Dae-Hyun's performance ended He heard his name being called, He fist bumped Kyumin and made his way over to the sound techs.
Handing his phone over to one of the sound techs, he directed them to which track they should play, When He made his way up the stairs to the stage he noticed Dae-Hyun quickly cleaning a mess that he caused on accident. He couldn't help the grin that broke out to his face, When Dae-Hyun looked around nervously to make sure no one had seen him. When he reached the mic looked out at the crowd, He smirked as He introduced himself.
"The song I prepared today is a mash-up, Hopefully you guys enjoy it" He said as he winked at a random face in the crowd. He started to sway with the beat of the music, spotting his sister and Siai in the back of the basement giving him thumbs up. He threw up a shaka sign in appreciation, Getting to the part where he should sing. He sung the lyrics confidently, smoothly weaving the lyrics of the three differents into one flawlessly. He danced with the mic without missing a beat, He finished up his performance with a bow of thanks. He made his way off stage, and waited by the stairs to get his phone back from the sound techs.
"Kang HeeYoung! Your Next!"
Looking around to find his sister,he frowned in confusion when he was able to find her. when the sound tech comes up to him and hands him his phone. JaeSun makes his way back to his seat by Kyumin, plopping down into his seat. He relaxed knowing that his performance was done. He was just a little worried about his sister's performance. Hearing light beeping, he watched in confusion as a large projection screen came down from the ceiling.
The Basement, and The Roof
Interacting with JaeSun, Kyumin, and Siai
"Korean"
"𝐸𝓃𝑔𝓁𝒾𝓈𝒽"
HeeYoung half listened to JaeSun and Kyumin's discussion, while she tried form some sort of plan for her performance,suddenly getting hit with a idea.
"Well I'll be back in abit..." HeeYoung whispered as she got up from her seat as she grabbed her ukulele and walked off. Walking to the back of the room, She spots Siai in the back with a couple of computer screens and a laptop setup in front of her. Smiling she rubs her hands together, Siai is the perfect person to help her with her plan.
Settling into a free chair next to the older woman, she leaned forward and watch as viewer comments covered one monitor, while the other the other 2 monitors had different camera angles of the stage. HeeYoung lightly tapped Siai’s shoulder to get her attention. When Siai finically turns to her and takes off her headset. HeeYoung smiles brightly,
“Hey, How are the viewer’s enjoying the evals? Siai finished typing on her laptop before answering HeeYoung’s question,
“so far we have a lot of girls viewing and posting comments, I’m positive that we will have more guys posting comments when more girls go up for evaluations.” Siai looked at HeeYoung curiously,
“There is no way you came back here just to see how everything is going...what’s up?”"I can kind of want to do my performance on the roof, instead of here... Is there a way we can do that?" She asked curiously, making random imaginary doodles on the table. Siai chewed on the inside of her cheek as she thought about it carefully,
"Sure... But if Taeyung asks, You take the blame.. got it. Don't include me at all." HeeYoung sits up excitedly in her seat, nodding her head.
"Sure.. You got it Si!" glancing at the stage,
"but how are we gonna do this do this?" She asked curiously, biting her lip nervously.
"Well... We can take one of the live cameras and set it up on the roof for your performance. I can connect the live stream to the projector and project it onto the screen."“That sounds awesome, let’s do it” HeeYoung said excitedly, she got up and followed after Siai. When she started walking to the stage, when they finally get backstage. Siai calls out to one of the company VJs to help her look for some items that Siai needed to make her performance go smoothly. Within a few minutes they had found a wireless microphone and battery pack, a small amp that she could hook up her Ukulele to, and a Video camera for the VJ to record her performance.
HeeYoung stood still while Siai helped her attach the battery pack to the wireless mic and putting it on her ear, giggled softly when the mic piece brushed against her cheek while Siai was trying to make sure it didn’t tangle in her hair.
“Thanks for helping me Si.” Siai smiles down at HeeYoung as she continued to smooth out her tangled hair,
“No problem kiddo! You got this. The VJ Kyo, He went up already to set up everything...So when he signals you to go, You just start playing your piece. I’ll make sure everyone down here gets to see it”“I should probably head up there than..” she said nervously, she slowly followed after Siai back to her desk of computer at the back of basement. Both her and Siai smiled when her brother got called up on to stage, she gave him a thumbs up in encouragement before hugging Siai and making her way up to the roof. She took a breath before quietly existing the basement and running up to the elevators, hitting the top floor button. She tapped her foot nervously, humming the song she was planning to perform as she waited. When the elevator finally reached the last floor she ran the rest of the way to to the roof access. When she pushes the door open she kneels down slightly tired from all the running.
“Did I make it Kyo?” She asked him curiously as she tried to catch her breath. Kyo nodded his head,
“yeah, you made it kid. But you should probably get ready sounds like your brother’s performance should be ending any minute now.” He told her, helping her to feet. He readjust her mic that came off and was hanging from her ear.
“Got you all set up over here kid.” He said gesturing over to the roof ledge where her ukulele sat in front of a camera.
“Nice spot” she mumbled as she looked out at the city view.
She moved to ledge taking a seat next to her ukulele, picking it up and strumming a few chords. Kyo moved to stand behind the camera, pressing his hand to his headset. He suddenly said
“alright, I’ll let her know.” He looked at her seriously,
“Alright kid it looks like it’s your turn, I’m going to count you down to one. When I point to you start whatever your gonna do.” HeeYoung nodded her head in understanding.
HeeYoung took a deep breath as she calmed her nervous, listening to the sounds of the city around her relaxed her nervous as she heard the VJ assisting her countdown to one. Noticing him flick his finger at her signaling her to go, She started to play the chords to the song she had chosen. It was song she grew up listening to and sing with her mom. It was old song, not many people knew it unless they grew up in Hawaii or actually liked IZ. She got lost in the memories that she had associated with this song, Before she knew it she was already finished singing and strumming the last chord. Holding her ukulele, she turned slightly to the city view blocking the camera view of her face. She slowly wiped the tears that had formed away from her eyes. She waited to hear that it was all clear from Kyo before hopping off the ledge and taking off the mic and handing it over to him.
“Thank you, Do you need my help taking everything back?” She asked curiously,
“Nah Kid your good, go on and head back”HeeYoung smiles sadly giving a quick bow, before grabbing her ukulele and heading back downstairs. Instead of going straight to the basement, She made her way to the practice rooms. Peeking in till she found a empty practice room, she slipped into the empty room turning off the light. She laid down on the couch in the corner, strumming her ukulele while she got lost in her thoughts.