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For the next few days, we did not stop talking about the choreography and what to do for the final round of World Jam.

Throughout those times, I only had one thing in mind, and that was the fact that Jaehyun will not leave until we win.

We hardly had any ideas left because we had put everything we could think of into the old choreography.

Because of that, UKISS suggested that we should incorporate some of their special live performance choreography from their special mixes of some songs.

I thought it was a great idea, but it took some time for O₂ to decide about that, but nonetheless, they agreed to the idea.

We then realised that Daehyun worked with an electrical engineer, so we had the idea of, wait for it, installing LED lights onto our shoes and outfits as part of the choreography!

HyunRi agreed to design the outfits because she wanted to use her fashion design and textiles skills into practice.

And better yet, Daehyun said that one of his co-workers can help operate the lights and choreograph the light patterns, though they had to come over when we have a dress rehersal with HyunRi's outfits.

We have never worked harder in our lives.

In the next two weeks we were practicing non-stop, probably around 5 hours a day, and even more on the weekends.

I could only get an hour or less of homework done, and sometimes, I would skip a meal for practice.

Heck, I would practice until I was on the verge of fainting.

Sometimes, I would see Jaehyun appear and disappear whenever we practiced.

From the looks of it, it seems that I could only see him, though I convinced myself that I was NOT, in any way, crazy.

He probably wants to appear so that only I could see him, but that's not the point.

The point is, that seeing him motivates me to work harder on the dance.

Seeing him reminded me of what Vortex did to him and what I needed to do to avenge him and the rest of my group.

From time to time, EXO would text or call in to check up on me, or just wish me luck and give me some confidence for the upcoming round.

They knew that we were practicing our hearts out with the new choreography, but I didn't tell them about Jaehyun's death so they wouldn't annoy me with any more encouraging messages than they are right now...AND with the fact that I really didn't want to re-live the memory of his death every time they would text me...

Surprisingly, despite how annoying they were in the past, they actually did lift up my confidence...coming from idols that so many girls fawn over and that I never pay much attention to them.

The amount of dedication and effort that our group had put into was ridiculous, especially when we had 16 people to incorporate with in the choreography.

This time, I think we WILL beat Vortex for sure.

Using the LED lights was the best idea ANYONE could have, and I think that this is going to be a first in World Jam history. I have the strongest feeling that this will beat the hell out of Vortex.

Speaking of balancing things with school, Seungmin and Junghwa didn't annoy Chi Hoon, HyunRi, and I that much anymore.

I guess that they've given up on us ever since the whole school found out that Jaehyun died...

Sometimes, I actually wanted to get annoyed so that it could take my mind off things, but I knew that I wouldn't get any annoyance because people knew how violent I could get if people piss me off.

"Hey, __________, don't worry, you've still got us..." Kiseop would say at some times and try to hug me to comfort me, but I would just shrug it off and continue moping.

But I knew that we had to go on. I couldn't continue sobbing for the rest of my life.

Crying wouldn't bring Jaehyun back, but I had to deliver his final wish: till we finish, we can't stop.

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okay, i know that this is such a short chapter for such a long time not updating, but there are some things in here that will lead onto the next chapters.

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