Cheshire had never seen a more chaotic greenroom in her life. That was saying something considering that she was still wondering how all the members had managed to fit into the greenrooms in China. Stylists and Coordi's were running back and forth making sure that everything was in its place and that the girls were prepared for their stage. To Chess they sounded like a bunch of bugs flying close to their ear with how fast they were talking to each other and how many different conversations were happening. That didn't bother her though. This was what Cheshire lived for. She loved everything from being in the greenroom to the heart pounding feeling she got on stage to the adrenaline that would course through her after they were done and heading home. This was her favorite thing in the world.

"Hey will you look this over for me? I think I got everything but I'm not sure," Young Ji slid her crossword book into Chess's lap who rolled her eyes but looked down at it anyways. Young Ji had this pseudo ritual of doing brain games before she went on stage and she had currently been on a kick of doing english crosswords. Since Chess was the only other english speaker in the group she would have to ask her to make sure she was right before she could be considered 100% ready for the stage. Chess didn't really mind but was still wondering when she would decide to go back to korean brain games so that she would bug Bei Lee rather than her.

"You spelled Interchangable wrong. It's an I not an E," Chess finished correcting Young Ji's mistake as she heard the door open and looked up to see her members frozen and staring slightly wide eyed at the door. Before Chess turned around to look though Bei Lee accidentally dropped her tablet on the floor while trying to place it on the make up table that was a good two feet away from her. Cheshire started laughing so hard that she fell out of her chair to her knees. When she looked up at Bei Lee's wide eyed embarassed face she started laughing harder to the point that she couldn't even hold herself on her knees anymore and just laid on the ground turning her head to see all ten of the No.Mercy trainees standing in the door either chuckling themselves or staring at her with confused looks on their faces which wasn't surprising to her in the least since Jooheon was the only one of them that had ever seen her laugh like that.

"Unnie! Don't laugh at me that's mean! Why didn't you tell us they were coming?" Bei Lee had made her way over to the still laughing woman and nudged her shoulder with her foot. Chess calmed her laugh to giggles so that she could just lay on her back on the floor and looked up at the pouting second youngest.

"Aw don't pout Bei Lee! I didn't know they were coming! You know they never tell me anything!" Chess replied still giggling a bit before rolling onto her side and propping her head up with her hand, accidentally looking like an attempt to imitate a pinup girl. "So what brings you boys to the land of RI5E?"

"We came to wish you luck and see if you had any advice for us," Shownu said with a slight shrug while Chess moved so she was sitting crosslegged on the floor. She leaned back on her hands and dropped her head back so that she was looking at her members upside down. She could feel all ten pairs of eyes locked on her and almost wished she had been in her street clothes. After all her stage clothes were kind of provocative. She had a deep V neckline on her cropped tank that did nothing but make her already bigger than average bust look even bigger and her high waisted short shorts made her long legs look longer and slender waist look even smaller especially with her wide hips and round . Looking at her members it was easy enough to see that somewhat matching outfits just made her standout more as they were all the standard slim and delicate women that you see in idol groups and Chess was just too curvy to ever fit that description. Chess slightly shook her head to clear her thoughts as she watched Sumi step over to lean against the make up table.

"I guess I do... Work your asses off. If you want to be good enough just work hard. If you see the others goofing off go to the practice room. If the others go to sleep early go to the studio. Just practice," Ever the leader Sumi shrugged and turned to look at the other members sending them the mental message to say something. Chess stood up with a little help from Shownu who had offered his hand when he saw her move. Before she knew it the maknae had come up to wrap her arms around her waist and rest her head on her shoulder.

" You need to make sure you have fun too. The audience isn't going to appreciate watching you perform a stage like a robot," Young Ji was simple and to the point as always. Chess felt Alice's head move off her shoulder and she looked to the young girl.

"I know I'm younger than most of you but if you want it my advice is don't let the music down," Alice finished with a shy smile placing her head back on the eldests shoulder. Chess simply reached up and patted the top of her head and grinned sweetly at her.

"She's right. Music is a living and breathing entity. I know that sounds weird but I'm not the 4D member for nothing," Chess chuckled along with some of the boys before continuing. "Music is the one thing in this world that you don't have to completely know whats being said to understand what it means. That doesn't mean that I'm giving up on pronunciation but you should be able to make people feel things with your music. Don't regret your music and don't let the music regret you."

"Yah! Unnie that's weird even for you!" Bei Lee shoved Cheshire's shoulders making her trip over Alice falling back first into the trainees. Chess froze when she felt a pair of arms catch her and pull her to his back. She didn't have to look to know it was Jooheon. As soon as she realized that she was still in his arms she jumped away smiling awkwardly and offering a stiff incline of her head in thanks before turning to the younger member and smacking her shoulder. She didn't hit her very hard but she could see the faint pink bloom where the younger girl was rubbing her arm.

"Yah! How dare you push your elder you disrespectful brat!" Everyone in the room, including Sumi surprisingly enough, laughed at the outburst from the eldest who couldn't even hold back her own laughter. Soon after the boys all bowed and said good luck before leaving the girls alone again. Cheshire took note of how Bei Lee had a slight blush on her cheeks as she stared after Minhyuk's retreatin form, filing that away should she ever need any blackmail on the younger girl.

Chess couldn't stop thinking about how Jooheon had held her though. His embrace felt ridiculously similar to Giriboy's. She felt so secure and there wasn't a cure for the cold she felt on her skin when he had let go. It was so confusing to her. She couldn't have these feelings. There was too much going on and neither one of them could ever return her feeling. Not really. They didn't even really know anything about her since she wasn't allowed to tell them anything. She shook the thoughts out of her head and resumed her seat in front of the mirror.

The girls stayed silent for the rest of the time before the show, each one mentally preparing for the one song that they were to perform. There were too many acts tonight for the time allotted and unfortunately being the most recently debuted came with certain drawbacks but the girls were honestly just happy to be performing here. It was kind of like putting on a show for family as it was mostly Starship artists and workers in the audience but that was what was going to make it so much fun.

After a few short minutes Cheshire found herself walking across the dark stage to sit on her mark. The air smelled like electricity and it vibrated like it too.This was what Chess loved. All she needed was a stage and a crowd to watch her and she was happy. If she could do this every second of her life she would. A few seconds later a spotlight shone onto Young Ji who started singing the soft and light intro. As she sang she slowly walked towards her right to tap Sumi's hand illuminating her spotlight before walking to tap Bei Lee's shoulder and turning on her spot. Next she went and tapped Alice and all four gathered to do a small dance before they dropped their heads and their spots went out to be replaced with Cheshire's when the beat picked up. Chess rapped melodically while slowly standing and headed towards center stage. (A/N song is "Hate" by 4Minute) Bei Lee started singing in her beautiful midtone when the rap ended and the other girls spots came back on. The four other than Chess made their way to center stage keeping Chess in the center and stood still. Cheshire started rapping as the tempo started climbing dancing with as much passion as she could. All the girls started dancing together when they hit the titular line.

"I hate you! Hey! No! I don't need you!"

Cheshire's smirk turned smug as she danced hard watching the crowd start to dance along. Alice made her way to the front as she started rapping and Chess couldn't help but think how fierce she looked. Sumi soon replaced her moving fluidly and slow as the others moved to their separate sides of the stag. When Young Ji took over from the front right side of the stage it sounded like the crowd was going to lose their mind. Then they were all dancing the chorus together again. The lights went out and a spot came up on Bei Lee who did the last little bit of vocalizing from the front left of the stage. Cheshire came in one last time over the vocals rapping melodically again from center stage in yet another spotlight moving as gracefully and ily as she could which still honestly surprised her. When the lights came back up for the last chorus there were background dancers behind them and the girls were once again center stage dancing hard. When the music cut Cheshire was on one knee in the front of the stage smirk as smug as it could be breathing hard.

After a few seconds she stood with the other girls at the front of the stage and bowed waving and looking over the crowd. Chess unconciously searched the crowd for Jooheon who she found standing towards the back. He was jumping up and down and yelling like it was the best stage he had ever seen. She couldn't help the gummy smile that crossed her face as she saw him throw his hands up in a heart. She threw her hands up in her signature double heart sign and bowing one more time before running off the stage with the other girls.

The adrenaline was palpable in the greenroom as the girls got changed into their preapproved street clothes to go enjoy the rest of the show. Cheshire was excited to watch the rest of the show. Mad Clown would be performing soon and she was excited to watch him, he was one of her favorite stage shows after all. Unfortunately though after Mad Clown the concert seemed to fly by and all she wanted to do was watch more but oh well. There'd be plenty more chances for her to perform and watch the other artists. She just hoped that they would come sooner rather than later.

The ride back to the dorm was quiet as the adrenaline had finally wore off and the girls were exhausted from their long day. As soon as the girls finally made it to their dorm they all practically collapsed in the living room in a pseudo puppy pile. Chess had her head in Bei Lee's lap when Alice curled into her side with her legs across Sumi's lap.

"Can we sleep out here tonight? I miss our 'sleepovers' that we had on tour," Sumi slowly lifted her head from its spot on Young Ji's legs.

"Sure I'll go get the blankets," Sumi stood and made her way down the hall while Alice placed her legs over Young Ji's instead.

"We should go get changed before we lay down and Alice go help Sumi. You know she can't carry all those blanket," Chess stood as the younger members did as she said. Chess quickly walked to her room that was off of the living room and quickly changed into some comfy pjs.

Walking back into the living room she saw all the other girls already curled up on the thick blankets and each one covered with their own personal blankets. Chess laid down next to Alice who immediately cuddled into her side. Cheshire couldn't help but grin. If nothing else in this world ever worked out she was glad to know that she at least had these four.

"Good night guys. Saranghe."

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A/N So two things... 1) I realized not too long ago that Giriboy is actually not a part of Starship Entertainment... Yup, go me... So lets just pretend he is or at least that he has a studio in their building since he works with them so much. 2) I had this entire chapter written out once and then I pressed the wrong button and it completely erased it. I have had to write this twice now. So, sorry it took so long but I'm just not on top of my game today apparently... As always Thank You for Reading! Kamsamnida!