Jonghyun and I had returned from the lunch break about 10 minutes early for our next practice. When I walked into my designated practice room for the second vocal lesson of the day, the vocal teacher handed me a white piece of paper. "They have a new schedule for you," he said. I looked at it. There were two days' worth of practices on that sheet of paper, but I found that the practice times had almost doubled. Also, there was no indication of what I should be practicing and with whom; only where I should be was written there. I looked at the piece of paper in curiosity. I didn't know whether the increased practice time was a good or bad thing. "That means you don't have a lesson with me right now," said the vocal teacher.

"Um, okay," I said. I looked at the paper. 1:00pm. Rm. 403. I had 7 minutes to get there.

I hadn't been up to the 4th floor yet; it had usually been reserved for the artists that had debuted already. Nervertheless, this room had been reserved for me and I had rights to it for this practice, so I climbed the stairs up to the 4th floor. When I pushed open the door, I got a huge surprise. The entire Super Junior team was there, along with their choreographer, two of their managers, three company people, and Mr. Lee Sooman himself. I paled. They were clearly having an important practice. Instantly frozen and not knowing what to do, I checked the number on the door to make sure I wasn't in the wrong room, then checked the room number printed on my schedule before doing anything else, even bowing. I was in the right room. Everyone had stopped and were staring at me coldly.

I started to bow right away. How did I make this mistake again? Donghae and Eunhyuk wouldn't be pleased with me for making this mistake twice. "I'm sorry, I think they double-booked this room. Sorry for disturbing your practice," I said.

I backed out of the room and was about to close the door behind me when one of the managers yelled, "Wait!"

Ugh, I was so close! If I had closed the door a second earlier, I could have made it out without hearing this, or being in trouble. But since the door hadn't closed yet, I had no choice but to go back in the room. "I'm really sorry," I said, bowing again and going into the room so far as I was able to keep the door open with my body.

"Come in," said one of the managers. I suddenly felt a surge of frustration. This wouldn't have been a big deal if they had just let me leave the first time! And I'd already said sorry. However, I didn't dare express this sentiment outwardly; I simply bowed deeply again, went in a step, let the door close behind me, and hung my head. I stood there in shame as they were all watching, then Mr. Lee Sooman said something absolutely astonishing.

"Kyuhyun, you're part of this team from now on."

I was so surprised that I lifted my head to look at him faster than I ever had. My mind was blank and I didn't know how to react. Was he joking? I'm going to be on the same team as these seniors that I respected so much?

"Your vocals fit the title track of this album perfectly, so this is our decision," said Mr. Lee. I couldn't believe my ears. I'm fairly sure that I was standing there, perfectly still and silent for at least half a minute before I finally said anything.

"Does that mean... Does that mean I'm debuting?" I asked in a trembling voice.

"Yes," said Mr. Lee.

The disbelief had overwhelmed me more than anything, and I still didn't react. There were no thoughts in my head whatsoever and I continued to stand there.

"I'll call you into my office later to discuss the contract and work out the details. Until then, go ahead and practice with the rest of the team," said Mr. Lee.

He nodded to me, left the room with the other company people, leaving just the managers, the choreographer and the members in the room. I was so shocked that I hadn't even bowed him out.

"Okay, let's begin," said the choreographer. Still extremely shocked and confused, I turned to face him. He looked at me for a second, then began the lesson. "We're learning a new dance today, so let's be efficient."

He then started counting and going through the steps. I was so confused that I stood there for a long time. However, the 12 members were already giving it their all to learn this choreography. Feeling more awkward than I ever had, I started following the steps. In the aftermath of the shock, I was marking the steps and I was perpetually about half a beat behind everyone else. Looking at this, the choreographer said, "Let's focus. Put a bit more effort in."

Blushing, I bowed to indicate my understanding and really started to do my best. I didn't understand why this was happening, and whether I was actually supposed to be doing this with the rest of the team.

Amazingly, only after the second time the choreographer went through the 30-second segment, Eunhyuk, Shindong and Hankyung seemed to have mastered their moves. I, on the other hand, had barely memorized the first 5 seconds of it. The third time through, the three seniors were already putting in embellishments, while Leeteuk, Sungmin and Donghae seemed to have memorized everything. Feeling slightly put down, I focused on the choreography, and by the time we went through it 6 times, everyone except I had memorized the choreography fully. I had still only been able to get the first half of it. I knew I wasn't a good dancer, but I hadn't realized that everyone in Super Junior was so capable at dancing.

"Good," said the choreographer after the 8th time through slowly. I was still struggling, but almost everyone else had basically mastered the choreography. "Most of you have it. Let's try it at regular speed."

I was still immersed in remembering what was going on when I heard a stage-whispered, "He's slowing us down." I couldn't tell who it was since there were so many people in the room, but I felt a sudden rush of blood into my face, and I didn't dare look around. I looked instead at the floor.

When we went at regular speed, Eunhyuk was able to pick it up so quickly that he looked even better than the choreographer while dancing. Although I wanted to watch, I didn't even have time to eye him jealously; all of my brainpower was being spent into moving the right limbs the right way at the right time. Unfortunately, I was failing quite miserably. Something about me was that I seemed to need much more practice perfecting the dance moves than anyone else. However, once I perfected it, I rarely forgot any dances, no matter how long ago they were from. Although that was a good attribute, right now, what I needed was to learn this dance quickly. Since there was really no way of doing so, all I could do was go through the moves as much as possible right now. After we went through it to speed twice, we danced it to music. Again, Eunhyuk seemed to fly across the dance stage, and at this point, so did Donghae, Leeteuk, Shindong and Hankyung. I was still struggling to memorize the moves. By the time we had gone through it with music 3 more times, I had finally gotten down the basics steps. However, there was still a long way to go.

"It looks good," said the choreographer. "I think you all have it, so my work as a choreographer is done. I'll let you practice on your own."

Then suddenly, Leeteuk started counting under his breath. "One, two, three -"

"Thank you for your hard work," said everyone at the same time, also bowing. Flustered, I bowed too, although it was about a second late.

"Work hard," he said, leaving. At the same time, the Super Junior managers both left, talking about grabbing the lunch that they hadn't earlier. When the door had closed behind them, the only people in the room were the members. With the structure now gone, the members now all focused their attention on me. It was silent for a while, and thinking I should say something, I finally opened my mouth. "I'm such a fan," I said. This was when I realized how happy I was to be here, it had finally sunk in. I was going to be part of Super Junior. I looked up to look around at all 12 members, and most of them looked avoided eye contact and gave... a scoff?

"Try not to drag us down too much, eh?" said Kangin.

"Sorry," I whispered, and bowed a few times from my neck. I couldn't believe the situation I was in. As far as I knew, all of them were seniors to me, obviously, but I was also the youngest; I was the lowest there could possibly be in terms of pecking order. I looked up and around to find Ryeowook - I was seeing him for the first time in many weeks and I expected a smile from him, but he maintained a cold face and turned his head. Surprised, I lowered my head again.

"We'll deal with him later. We don't have much time together, so let's continue with the practice," said Leeteuk. I knew he was the leader of this massive group; he had such a difficult job, keeping so many members in line. Maybe the others realized this, and as soon as Leeteuk said this, all of them stopped looking at me and looked in the mirrors instead. We practiced for about an hour when one of the managers called me out of the practice room after his lunch break. "Mr. Lee would like to see you in his office," he said.

We were in the middle of the dance, and again, everyone stopped to stare at me. I bowed to the manager to let him know that I understood, then I bowed to the members as a collective. "Sorry," I said before I turned around to leave. No one acknowledged my apology, and I awkwardly left the room. After I closed the door, I heard someone yell in frustration, "he can't even dance!"

I stopped in my tracks for a second, then I moved on. What did it matter? I knew I could get the dance eventually. The important thing was that I was going to debut after only training for 3 months - I was achieving my dreams already. They were coming true. In the halls, I gave a skip and a yell of happiness. Although I had messed up dance practice today, that was okay. I was on my way to seeing Lee Sooman to make this happen. I was going to be a part of the group I loved so much - Super Junior. I thought tears of happiness might come, but they didn't; I guessed 3 months of training wasn't long enough to appreciate how big of a deal this was. Nevertheless, this was my dream, and couldn't have been happier.