Chapter 15
☪ Enchanted | A 2010 Girl Group
JUNE 22nd, 2010
Chocolate, Champagne, Night Star, Star King, Star Golden Bell, Music Bank, Inkigayo, Music Core, Dream Concert, Kiss The Radio, Shim Shim Tapa, numerous performances, numerous training sessions, numerous auditions for anything entertainment related, strict diets and a handful of hours of sleep is what the girls schedules consisted of since their Madonna promotions began.
"Jesus, my head is pounding," Sara groaned, eyes tightly closed, her head fully leaned back in her seat.
"Is it allergies?" Sihyun questioned, eyes firmly on the road as he drove the members to their next schedule.
"I don't get allergies," she harshly rubbed her temples, wanting some sort of relief.
"Does anything else bother you?"
"No..."
"Drink water."
Sara made a face, Ellie grabbed a water bottle from her backpack and wordlessly handed it to the visual.
CAMERA ON
"Happy to be together tonight, on Happy Together," Jaesuk introduced the show, the MC's and guests cheering.
"Tonight we have special guests," Jaesuk smiled. "Please welcome Girls' Generation's Yuri and Hyoyeon!"
"Hello, we're Girls' Generation!"
"And the fresh Enchanted!"
"We will Enchant you we are Enchanted!"
"Isn't that a mouthful?" Bongsun questioned, chuckling.
Sara nasally, answered, "But don't you remember it?" She took a mental note not to in through her nose too hard, even though she's pretty sure something may drip down, out of fear of the noise getting caught by the mic.
"We do, we do."
"Then we did a good job." Everyone laughed.
"Yuri-ssi and Hyoyeon-ssi, are you close to Enchanted?" Jaesuk asked.
The two SNSD members nodded. Hyoyeon responded, "SNSD is very close to Enchanted, we've seen over them since they were trainees and we really wanted to be there for them on a show."
"You mean the label wanted someone skilled to be on the show?" Myeongsu joked, the guests laughing. "What kind of questions do they think we'll ask?!"
His words only made the girls laugh harder.
"It's not like that!" the SNSD members assured, but Myeongsu just shook his head in exasperation.
"So, everyone in Enchanted is foreign," Jaesuk stated.
The girls agreed, all a little irritated at the phrase they've been hearing on every single show they've been on.
"Why did you pick Korea?" Misun gently, asked. "Why didn't you try to debut in your home country?"
"Well," Ana calmly began, "we all wanted to return to our mother country, and it simply is harder for Asians to expand in a non-Asian market. We knew that coming to Korea was the best choice for us."
The MC's nodded in understanding.
"Was it difficult being a trainee, did you come to Korea knowing Korean?" Bongsun asked.
Ellie took the lead this time. "Only Sara-ah and I spoke some Korean at home, however Oksana-ah would take language classes when she was still in the Ukraine. Khione-ah came not speaking a of Korean."
"Are those your real eyes?" Myeongsu blurted out, staring at Ana. The other MC's questioned who he was talking to and after he elaborated Ana shyly responded, "Yes."
"They're so pretty!" Misun turned to Bongsun to say, "I wish I had eyes like that."
Ana awkwardly smiled at the compliment while the rest of the group laughed. In the past most Koreans would make fun of her for her lighter eye color, and she couldn't help but be worried this conversation would take a turn for the worse.
"It's funny you bring that up," Hyoyeon smiled. "Because when Oksana-ah first became a trainee there was a lot of rumors about a green eyed trainee floating around*."
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