“And five, and six, seven, eight.”

Im In Ah also known by the trainees as Nia (or so she prefers to be called), finishes teaching a younger trainee the dance moves to their monthly evaluation routine.

This wasn’t new of her to do this. She would always help the girls out anytime she could, being that she was always dubbed as the best dancer among the total of 12 female trainees. And being how laidback and confident she is, she was so easy to approach.

Creeeek.

Nia, along with every other girl in there, turned their heads at the same time, wondering who was interrupting their break from finishing their routine.

Nia immediately recognized it was the infamous and intimidating Jung Bohyung. This immediately made every one stand up, forming a perfect straight line. Nia rarely gets scared, like ever. Except in this case. Well, rather than being scared, Nia was more nervous about what was to come than of Director Jung.

“Step forward when I call your names please.” Jung barely even made eye contact with them, but still managed to keep them in line.

What is happening. She thought with a small smirk, trying to figure this out. She was having her suspensions.

“Ahn Sojin.”

Oh! Unnie.

“Bang Minhee.”

Nia gave a little snort that made Minhee slide glance at her real quick.

“Lee Hyunyoung.”

Aww! My little one might be debuting.

“Im In Ah., “ Bohyung spoke with ease.

Nia finally snapped out of her thoughts as she heard her full name called. Her heart dropped, not of nervousness anymore. It was more like of excitement.

“Im Seoyeon.”

The little one. Hmm. Okay.

“And…. Hong Yookyung.”

Nia’s best friend in the trainee system slowly took her time standing next to her. Both of them looked at each other with smirks, knowing what was to come.

“I need you six to grab your things quickly and come with me. We don’t have a lot of time.”

All the girls did exactly what they were told, except Yookyung who decided to take her sweet time, being the last one out the door, taking Nia’s hand that was patiently waiting for.

They all stuffed their way into the hall only to be a bit more crowded with three huge cameras and cameramen right in front of their faces.

“Uh… Wha—“ Nia heard in the front of the line.

“I’ll explain later in the car.” Bohyung said straight to the point, cutting everybody’s questions off.

When the girls were finally situated into their plump seats in the small board room, they still felt tense. Nobody dared to speak.

Oh, we are definitely debuting. What other reason would the six of us be broad to the headquarters, the CEO’s office? Nia was sure.

When the very familiar CEO walked through the door, which rose everybody else up, Nia couldn’t help but smile widely. She was so confident, so ready.

I am so ready for this. This is what I’ve been working for.

And when he dropped the bomb, everybody tensed up even more, except for Nia. Nia just felt like taking a big sigh.

After the girls made it to the car, Nia noticed everybody’s true feelings coming out.

“Whaa!!!”One of the younger girls, Hyunyoung (who told everybody her stage name would be Yeoreum when she debuted) started jumping up in down grabbing Nia’s hands. She went along with it as well as she was keeping all that excitement in her since they left the training center.

No doubt the other girls were just as excited, but Nia could tell by the looks of their faces that is was all too sudden.

“Oh my gosh, I wasn’t expecting this so soon.” Minhee finally said.

Nia, who was originally at the front of the group, slowed down to catch up to Yoonkyung.

“This is crazy.” Yoonkyung said with a stressed laugh. I’ve never seen her like this before, Nia noted. She took her friend’s hand and squeezed it with a bright smile, while Yoonkyung just smirked.

The girls finally got back to their origin of hard work and most of them decided to take an early day off. Yoonkyung offered to walk Nia home, but Nia surprisingly refused and started walking the opposite way.

Where the hell am I going. Nia dropped that happy act she was sporting. Sure, she was extremely happy, but she knew exactly where she was going.

Nia carefully stepped onto the nicely manicured grass trying to respect other people’s legacy right at her feet.

She finally stopped walking, dragging her feet to her specific destination and dropped down to her knees.

“Mommy? Daddy? I made it.” She said as she caressed the hard stone tomb in front of her, now sporting the weakest smile.