Chapter 6
☪ Enchanted | A 2010 Girl GroupJANUARY 6th, 2010
"Alright girls, before we get to the filming location I just have to let you know some info that the label wanted me to tell you," Sihyun said as he drove Enchanted to the shooting location.
"What?" Ellie asked, all their interests piqued.
"It seems that administration wasn't too thrilled about your on-stage personas, they want you to change them."
The girls fell silent.
"Ellie-ah, I want you to just imagine as if it's just you and the girls. I know you can talk and a lot at that so pretend as if the cameras and staff isn't there. Sara-ah, you did fine and you're controlling yourself well so keep that up. Ana-ah, they like how you're acting just not how often. Speak up more. And Kyojin-ah you just need to speak more. Just follow your unnie's and give your input for things."
"Nothing we've been on has aired yet, how exactly do they know how we act?" Sara questioned.
"Many times some of the higher ups - the ones you usually don't see - will blend in with the television staff and watch your progress in person. They were at the recording the other day and said they weren't too thrilled."
"I mean.. we can't be mad about their thoughts I guess," Ellie shrugged. The others had to admit that they weren't too keen on jumping out of their comfort zone with speaking but, their jobs were on the line.
The girls remind silent for the rest of the car ride and makeup.
CAMERA ON
"Together with MBLAQ, Idol Army's She's Coming!"
"'Her'? Is it 'her'?" Mir asked, excitedly.
"It's them, them!" an MC corrected.
"There's few members, most of them are tall, and they're new to the idol scene!" Shin Bong Sun smiled, "Is everybody ready for the charm appeal?"
"YES!" the MBLAQ members and Jung Joori yelled.
"Please come out~" Bong Sun ended in a weird tone.
When the girls took their que to walk into the cameras line of sight the room erupted into cheers.
Except for Joon.
Who was laughing.
On the floor.
"Enchanted!" the MC continued on.
The girls proceeded to do a mock performance of their current song Alone; to the cheers of most of the MBLAQ members.
"Hello, we are Enchanted," the group greeted.
"Hello, we are MBLAQ," the boys greeted back.
"We look pitiful," Seungho joked.
"You should have warned us before," G.O. glowered towards Bong Sun, who just shook it off. Wasn't the first time the vocalist gave her that look and surely it wouldn't be the last.
"Joon-ah why are you laughing?" the short-haired woman questioned.
It took said man a few seconds to try and stifle his 'manly' giggles before answering, "Ah you see, I'm actually friends with one of the members and... it's just weird seeing her like this."
"Oh?" His words piqued everyone's interest immediately - including the girls own members.
"Miyoungie."
Enchanted meet him with questioning stares.
"Who's that?" Sara asked.
The rooms occupants bust out into laughter at the thought of someone not knowing the name of their own member.
"You don't know your own members names?" Mir asked, exasperated.
"Miyoung is my Korean name," Ana spoke up, her face tinged pink in embarrassment.
"We all call each other by our foreign names," Ellie explained.
"How do you two know each other?" Joori asked, giving Joon a certain look to everyone's amusement.
"We both have the same major, so we used to bump into each other often," Joon explained, barely stifling his mirth.
"I decided to start up a conversation with him and the rest is history," Ana added on.
"Are you two..?" Mir asked directly, shamelessly pointing between the two.
Joon and Ana immediately burst into laughter at the suggestion.
"Wait, you're old enough to be in College?" G.O questioned with an amused expression, the girl did look like she was still in high school.
"The grades are different overseas, so I'm ahead in Korea," Ana explained, poking at her lips fighting back the habit of picking at them.
Everyone 'ah'ed in understanding before Bongsun asked, "So it would be a bit weird if I asked MBLAQ your ideal type in Enchanted?"
Joon fixed her with a strong look, which made the MC laugh instead of afraid.
"Instead I will ask Enchanted," Bongsun smiled, "who in MBLAQ is their ideal type? From oldest to youngest!"
Ellie hesitated. "I don't really have an ideal type, I just like someone whose nice to me."
"Are you saying we're mean?!" Mir gaped. The girls laughed.
"I need to get to know someone before I can decide if I like them."
"You know, most idols just make something up," the main MC said in a whisper-tone, causing laughter.
"Someone manly looking, like Joon-ssi," Sara smiled.
Joon sent her an exaggerated wink, which the girl unexpectedly returned.
"Wow!" the MBLAQ boys jumped back in shock at her action. Enchanted simply chuckled at their reactions, used to Saras un-subtle personality by now.
"My ideal type is someone like," Ana's ears turned red before she even uttered a name, "Seungho-ssi."
Seungho smiled and thanked the dancer.
"Thunder-ssi," Kyojin simply said with a straight face, not wishing to say anymore.
"I like how simple her answer is," Joori laughed.
"To make things smoother, we'll go right into Dance Time!" Bongsun said in a typical MC voice.
Thunder was first and began his dance with a serious look, which caused everyone to expect something interesting from him. Well, he gave interesting just not what people wanted.
"Dum da dee dum da dee dum~" Thunder 'sang' with awkward movements, never looking at anyone not even the camera. As the song progressed his attempt at making eye contact also grew, but instead of the members swooning they all burst into laughter or awkwardly looked away feeling second-hand embarrassment. His stage even caused his own members to fall to the floor with laughter; although with MBLAQ that is to be expected.
Afterwards Mir moved to center stage, aggressively ripping off his black cloak at the beginning of the music. He ended up using moves that looked like they belonged in a bad 80's music video. G.O even joined him in the background with Thunder literally coming up next to him, repeating the same moves in almost perfect sync.
To everyone's surprise, at Seungho's turn he came out with a guitar. The vocalist sat on an uncomfortable plastic chair, guitar in his arms as he sung to the clapping of those on set.
Finally, G.O. took the main spot only to reveal a horrible Elvis Presley impersonation outfit. Everyone happily cheered and laughed at the main vocalists performance to Elvis Presley's Hou
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