This is pretty much a random filler chapter (hence it's rather short) - that provides you all with something to read and buys me time to make my decision on what characters I'm gonna take - the decision is a hard one since I've grown attached to most of the characters - if not all of them.

As stated in the previous chapter, you all can give me suggestions on things you think should happend during the show case - both on stage and off stage, if you have any ideas. Also, you can also message (as in a private message) me the name of the four members you like most (other than your character and Jhun). You can put one or two names if you'd want - again this is optional. 

The practice room fell into silence as the break was called, the only sound coming from the ten males in the room were pants. The males had been practicing for a good four hours already and they all felt as if they were getting nowhere with their showcase being in just a week, sure the day of helped give them release, but as soon as they had returned to the dorms, the tension returned faster than before since it finally dawned on the boys that in just two weeks, there would be six working towards their debut in Spectrum – not ten – while the other four return to training with other trainees and working towards the next audition.

The managers of the trainee group could tell that the tension was really high because they could feel it, seeing as how both Minseok and Sora had become rather quiet in recent days, they still talked but they were abnormally quiet – extremely quiet.

“I’m giving you all a ten minute break,” stated the choreographer, “I have to run to the president’s office and will be back here in a little bit. Be ready to resume practice as soon as I return.”

The boys hummed in exhaustion – the practice room felt like a sauna as they all sat on the sweat covered hard wood floors, not minding too much since they were already covered in sweat – it was obvious through how their clothing kept sticking to them like a second skin. 

Younghun sat in a corner of the room, sipping on a bottle of water since the heat was finally getting to him – making him feel a little sick at his stomach. Shin, seeing as how the older male wasn’t feeling at his best and looked rather pale recently, took it into his hands to check on the other members – giving them all new, cooler water bottles that he had gotten from a cooler near the door of the practice room, despite his tired muscles trying to convince him to not move. Minhyun was sitting near WooJung, the duo talking quietly amongst themselves, Minseok and Sora were sitting near each other talking louder than Minhyun and Woo Jung, every once in a while trying to get Minki, Jay, and Chris into the conversation – only to gain silence from the trio. As for Xue, he was laying on the floor in an emptier corner of the room, his eyes closed and his chest raising and falling rather rapidly – along with the others.

“Hyung, are you alright?” questioned Minseok, looking towards his roommate, knowing that the older male had returned rather late the previous night after an audition for some new drama that he was asked to audition for, plus the male had obviously not been well the past couple of days.

Younghun nodded towards the younger, closing his eyes and resting his head against the wall as sweat formed rivulets from his temples down to his chin, “I’ll be alright.”

“You’re rather pale,” stated Sora, looking towards his hyung.

“I know that I am,” stated Younghun, “I’m fine though.”

“Guys, leave him alone,” stated Shin towards the others, seeing as how Younghun looked like he just wanted to sleep.

“How much longer do they expect us to practice?” questioned Minseok, looking towards the other members, “We’ve practically been living in this room for the past week, they can’t expect us to be able to live here much longer.”

“I want to sleep,” whined Jay slightly.

“I want to eat more than we’ve been allowed to this past week,” stated Sora, rubbing his grumbling stomach that was asking for food.

“I want you all to shut up,” snapped a sleepy Minhyun towards the trio.

“You guys need to calm down,” stated Shin, trying to ease the tension, knowing that the stress, exhaustion, and heat were once again getting to all the members who were becoming more and more worried about making it into the group. The members were all under the same stress and it was getting to be too much since the more stressed the members seemed to become the more fights seemed to break out in the relatively calm group. Then again the group was relatively calm because both Younghun and Shin took it into their hands to see to it that their dongseangs don’t fight amongst each other.  

“You should stay out of it,” stated one of the members, under their breath – making it rather difficult for Shin to tell which member it was.

The words finally made the oldest member speak up calmly, “I know we all are exhausted and stressed out, but this is not the time to start fighting like this. Our showcase is in a week, yes, it’s our final audition but it is also us representing our company and the possible group than any one of us could be in.” The male paused for a second to look at the nine others in the room that were looking straight at him, “We should be trying our hardest to get along with each other at times like these, plus we should be keeping ourselves from having petty little fights constantly like we have been doing here recently. We should be joining together to attract people to the company, not give them a reason to get away from it. We’ve had to stop practice countless times in this past week due to fights over petty little things and that is in turn why we’ve been staying later – if you want sleep, food, silence, ext. you need to be quiet and keep yourselves from fighting. Am I understood?”

There was silence greeting the oldest male.

“Am I understood?” growled out the male again, finally getting responses from s who all hummed in understanding – some responding verbally.

Silence then fell back over the practice room; the leader closed his eyes again, resting his head against the wall as he did so. Minhyun muttered something under his breath as he closed his eyes, lying down on the floor – his head resting on his arms. Woo Jung was on his phone messaging his younger sister who he hadn’t been able to call recently due to their extended practices. Minseok and Sora were back to talking to each other.  Xue was asleep, both Chris and Minki were lying on the ground as well – both trying to catch some shut eye. As for Shin, he was getting some water for the clearly exhausted magnae, who was lying on the ground – not moving due to protests from his legs that were cramping up due to lack of water.

 Hours later, the boys all shuffled into the dorm, moving towards their rooms without much protest – they took taking really quick showers. Within a matter of about forty-five minutes, the ten were all showered and in bed – all out cold due to how exhausted they all had been.

The following morning, the boys were awoken earlier than the previous day, meaning that they only had about two hours of sleep – as they all moved out of their rooms, Shin looked around, shocked to see that the oldest member wasn’t in the room.

“Where’s Younghun-hyung?” questioned Minki, curiously, beating the older male to it.

“Younghun was called to the office early,” stated the managers, who were just as exhausted as the members – sure they weren’t dancing or singing the whole day, but they were in charge of getting them to the company building daily.

“Why?” questioned the other members.

“Some sort of interview,” stated Hyun Soo, “It’s for his drama that he’s finishing up I think, quite honestly, I don’t know.” The manager looked guilty, “I was half asleep when Andy called.” The other members laughed, moving to sit at the table that was filled with food as their manager spoke up again, “As much as we’d like to give you a break and allow you to get more rest, the showcase is just six days away and we can’t really risk giving you anytime off, seeing as how only some of the performances are ready, but not all of them.”

The boys nodded in understanding, looking at the manager.

“However, make it until the day before the showcase,” stated Hyun Soo, “because all you have is a rehearsal and then you have the rest of the day off.  I was told not to tell you all this, but I am anyway, since you all look like you need this.”

The boys nodded, smiling happily, really needing that news to make it through the rest of the day and week – however, as time drew on, their nerves and excitement grew greater and made it harder for them to sleep despite the company giving them more time to sleep. 

Hope you enjoyed the chapter. ^^

Ah, I almost forgot - what do you think about the new poster for the story?