“This is lacking,”

Unsurprisingly so, she knew the vocal coach wanted to add – but after years of vocal coaching, she knew that it was a lot better for them to fill in the blanks. She kept silent, letting the words suspend slowly in the air. The trainees will form their own conclusions, like little kids watching the clouds above them. So she starts off curt, not even bothering to greet the girl with strawberry blond hair. The vocal coach gives her a side-way glance, as if scrutinizing her. Biting her lips a little, Hyojin is trying hard not to succumb to the feeling of being dropped from cloud nine.

She had liked the performance but apparently, she was the only one.

“This is disappointing,”

When the first vocal trainer looks down at her clip-board, he knew that it was his cue. He had liked Hyojin; her outlook on life was a breath of fresh air to the tense atmosphere that was simply a by-product of the cut-throat competition within the company. Still, that didn’t change the fact that she didn’t do well in this evaluation. Still, he tried to break his opinion to her as gently as he could – because even though he liked her, he had to be fair during evaluations. He knew that the other trainers tend on the harsher side – they had no personal connections with them. But the trainees weren’t just trainees for them – they were human beings, just like everyone else. He felt bad as he noticed her biting her lips, eyes welling up with tears. 

“There is nothing that I have not said to you that I did not say before,”

This time, it was the third vocal coach’s turn. Among the trainers, Jang Hyojin was known for having vocals that was astonishing. But instead of thinking that her falsettos were amazing, he had barely tolerated them. Th