HELP

MEI'S POINT OF VIEW

TWO WEEKS LATER

I was next to Mr. Chen with a forced smile as the photographer took a picture of us to immortalise this moment. PHOENIX was just just from signing a contract with the XXX company, symbolising our merge. From now on the idols under both companies will be produced under the same label.

And guess who was an idol under XXX company, Kain. After all this time, I had never imagined to meet him again.

I sighed as I left the conference room, due to the mergence, all rookie units had to debute by next week to inaugurate the new label. The two last weeks had bern hectic, between the teasers, the new partnerships and the conferences, I had had no time to communicate in person with the boys so we had essentially communicated via the group chat. They had already chosen the name of the group and I had already sent their visuals. They were presently rehersing their debut song, the choreography was really hard but everybody was coping with the exception of Ethan. From what Lucas had told me, Ethan received much pressure from both the choreograph and Jackson. It was hard for him and I was afraid he will quit.

I entered in the practice room without their notice. They were practising and Ethan really wasn't good at it, Jackson stopped the music and scolded Ethan but I interrupted him.

"I think you should all take a break. You've worked enough for this morning."

They were all surprised by my presence, we haven't seen each other kn ovr a week but this didn't stop Jackson to be mad at me or just mad at everything in general.

"We are to debut in a week how can you ask us to take a break?!"

"You all look stuffed up, go breath some fresh air and come back."

My voice was soft but stern, none of them contested my order and they exited the room.

"Ethan, you stsy."

He was startled and fright could be read on his face.

"Y-yes noona?"

I sat on the floor and invited him tohm sit with me.

"How are you feeling?"

"I am fine, the schedule is hectic but I'm good."

I could see his smile was fake, his lower limb was trembling as he was speaking.

He was a bad liar.

"Ok, now tell me honestly, Ethan how are you feeling?"

He lowered his head and his eyes became glossy.

"Noona, I am tired. Everything is tired and I can't pour my problems to anyone because we are all in the same situation here, I want to continue but I feel like I am not good enough."

Tears escaped from his eyes as he spoke, I recognised in his distress a girl I once met. I wiped the tears from his eyes and cheered him up.

"You know in life, everyone has a breaking point. It's like a tall mountain which looks unclimbable. If you give up, all your efforts wiuld be worthless but if you have enough courage to go past the mountain then you'll see how bright your reward will be. And for your choreography how about I coached you?"

"You noona?"

He had stopoed crying and had regained his deaminor.

"Yes, I have watched the choreography enough times to know it by heart. Common let's go."

I took the bag I had and went to another room to change into leggings and a black top. Once I was back, I played the music and we danced to it. I made some funny at the beginning for him to feel at ease but once he started having more self-confidence I started pointingout his mistakes and corrected them together. After multiple trials he was able to dance flawlessly.

"Noona can we dance one more time together?"

"Don't you ever get tired? I am exhausted."

I positioned myself next to him and we played the song one more time. At the end of the song I heard a series of applause. The guys were back, but not only them, he was there too.

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