Pandora looked at the members that were sleeping soundly in a crowded room and couldn’t help but smile at the scene. It was so rare for the kids to be sleeping with smiles on their faces with what they have been through in the past 4 months or probably more.

Preparing for their debut was probably the hardest thing that they have ever had to endure but their sunbae, K.Will told them that after the first debut, comebacks will be easier as you get used to it. Pandora doubted that but she decided to it up and put up a good front in front of her dongsaengs.

Jennifer began to stir.

“Yah! Girls! It’s time to get up! Today is our big day remember?!” No one answers. Pandora shook her head and decided to wake up Jennifer first since she was probably awake but just wanted to sleep in.

“Jennifer~” Pandora cooed. Jennifer rolled to the other side while trying to pull her blankets up. But Pandora already knew she was going to do that so she took the liberty to pull it away from her so she couldn’t take it.

“Eonni…5 more minutes~ please….” She muttered and Pandora shook her head. She could only do one thing now to wake the girls.

She walked into the kitchen with her hair up in a ponytail, took a pan and a large metal cooking spoon and walked back into the bedroom. She put her ear plugs into her ears and began to bang.

Her members groaned in agony and pleaded Pandora to stop but she just replied,

“Until you 6 get your butts out of bed, I’m not going to stop!” Skye was the first to get up. Her death glare on Pandora in less than a second. But Pandora knew better than to be afraid. Skye had a completely different personality to her looks after all.

Skye got off her bed and ambled her way sleepily to the bathroom and banged the door to make a point. Pandora shrugged and only thought of Skye’s door banging as one less person to annoy. Hannah got up next. She yawned and just looked over at Pandora wearily.

“Are you going to wake us up like that all the time?” Pandora rolled her eyes and ignored the question as her members started to get up one by one. Mirage was the last. Pandora finally stopped banging and just walked over to her bed and whispered to her ear,

“Hyunseung’s here~” She bolted upright and began to rearrange her hair while looking around.

“Where?! Where?!” Pandora stood back proudly and said to HEA7EN.

“Come on girls! We need to be at the hair and make up salon in less than an hour to get ready for our debut stage!”

The girls all froze (except for Pandora) as they finally remembered that they were debuting as idols today.

As if on cue, the 5 girls that weren’t in the bathroom started going,

“Eonni! Eottoke!” Pandora rolled her eyes and just said,

“Just do your best! Remember what Boyfriend sunbaes told us?!”

-

“Your debut stage is always going to make you nervous.” Youngmin began only with his twin, Kwangmin cut him off.

“But when you really stand on stage, all your worries will disappear and you just have to enjoy to stage and perform your best!” Donghyun smiled and nodded at what the Jo Twins said. Minwoo decided to add something of his own while Hyunseong just leaned against the wall while looking on silently.

“Just try not to be too nervous and you’ll be fine!”

-

“How can we not be nervous?!” Hannah said with her hands covering her face.

“I’m so nervous right now!” Pandora just rolled her eyes and was about to say something when Skye walked out of the bathroom after a 4 minute shower and her hair dripping wet.

“Who’s next?”

*

Iris looked around her and saw her eonni’s and dongsaeng’s trying their hardest to not doze off. It was 5.30 in the morning but they had been up fixing their wardrobe and hair and makeup since 6.30 and it was 9am right now.

Iris found Mirage listening to music while having her eyes closed and mumbling the lyrics. Sully was browsing through her iPod with heavy eyelids that would drop down every 5 seconds only to be opened again in another 5. Hannah, HEA7EN’s maknae and snoring lightly while her make-up artist tried to get her face at the right angle so her make-up could be done. Pandora, HEA7EN’s leader, was reading. Jennifer, second oldest, was talking happily with her hair stylist (that happened to be a really cute guy!). Skye had her hands over her chest and her eyes staring straight at the full lengthened mirror in front of her.

Iris finally stopped looking at her members and finally concentrated on her reflection. Her hair that she had once dyed brown was now a blonde. Her bangs had been swept up to looking a bit like f(x) Amber during her promotions of Pinocchio and Hot Summer. Her eye make-up was very vague with hardly any eye liner or mascara seen.

The concept of HEA7EN’s first mini album was purity and simplicity. Everyone’s make-up and hair was hardly done at all with only foundation, blush and powder that was the most heavy.

Even their outfits were simple. They all wore matching skinny jeans in just different shades of blue with matching off shoulder tops that were bagging and in different shades of white plus stilettos. Their jewellery was slightly different also but pretty much similar.

As the girls all stepped out of the changing room with their debut stage nearing in less than an hour and a half, they all looked at each other, trying to calm each others nerves.

“Eonni, what am I going to do?! What if I mess up a dance move?!” Sully asked Jennifer while Jennifer just smiled sympathetically and gave her a hug, doing her best to calm Sully.

HEA7EN’s maknae Hannah was the most nervous. Aside from having to debut, she also had her finals for school the very next day and she hadn’t been given a lot of time to prepare for the tests.

Iris saw Pandora walked over to Hannah and talking to her while holding onto her hand. Iris couldn’t help but smile at that while she went to sit beside Mirage and Skye.

“Nervous you guys?” Iris said as she sat down. For the first time in a long time, Skye was nervous.

“You have no idea.”  Iris almost laughed but didn’t. Truthfully, she was just as nervous as everyone else in her group. At that time, Boyfriend walked into the salon holding flowers for the girls. Donghyun, their leader, had 2 bouquets.

As the Boyfriend members gave the bouquets to the girls, they each gave the girls a small don’t-be-nervous message and a small congratulatory message.

Before anyone could reply to their message though, their manager walked in with a smile on his face; a smile that was tight. Iris darted her eyes around and saw their eonni and leader significantly stiffen at the sight of their manager.

Iris felt her protectiveness grow around her and made a move towards Pandora to protect her. Their manager, Shin Jaeseung walked over to Pandora before Iris reached her though and pulled her away.

Iris knew that she wasn’t the only one watching what had just happened as the other 6 HEA7EN members including Iris herself moved into a straight line. When Pandora finally walked away from their manager, Boyfriend had realised that something was wrong.

Out of the blue, Hyunseong, the silent one finally nudged Mirage and whispered into her ear,

“Why are you guys looking like that?” Mirage stiffened even more knowing that an outsider can even feel the tension between HEA7EN and their manager. But she just gave her sunbae and small smile and replied,

“We’re just nervous about our debut stage, that’s all.” Mirage turned back to her leader and noticed that her face was a complete mask and couldn’t help but recall all the times that Pandora had been physically abused, usually on her body but more recently, on her face.

The image of her red face crossed Mirage’s eyes and she felt herself choke up as she remembered all the other hardships that not only Pandora had gotten herself into.

The members of HEA7EN had been through a lot. They had been through so much that there was more than one time when they just wanted to quit or jump off a building. But they knew that if they did, there wouldn’t be someone else for the other girls. They had been friends for as long as Mirage could remember. They had been trained together under Starship for over 5 years and had developed and very strong bond that no one could break.

Now, as Pandora walked over to her team with a face mask, everyone could sense that there was something wrong.

Jennifer was the first one to step up and ask Pandora in a soft and lullaby-ish voice.

“Pandora…is everything okay?” Pandora looked up at Jennifer and nodded without saying anything. But everyone in HEA7EN knew that something was wrong without even thinking.

Just as they were about to voice out their concerns to Pandora though, they all heard voices drift into the lobby of the salon and in walked a few Beast and MBLAQ members. When the male groups saw the girls, they instantly smiled and congratulated them.

Just as the boys were about to say more however, HEA7EN’s manager walked out of the office where he was talking to Pandora in and the MBLAQ members significantly stiffened up also as they all recalled their first encounter with HEA7EN and Shin Jaeseung. Especially Seungho.

“Girls, it’s time to leave for your debut stage!” Jaeseung replied with a bright smile on his face. HEA7EN just nodded and walked out of the salon without forgetting to give a 90 degree bow to their 3 sunbae groups formally.

-

“Girls, you need to act like you know me more arasso? You can’t have other people realise that we don’t have a good relationship arassoyo?”

“Ne.” HEA7EN replied as they all looked out a window. They all wished that they weren’t stuck with a manager like Shin Jaeseung that would abuse them when he was in bad mood but there wasn’t anything that they could do about it since he was one of Starship’s best managers that would land them almost every kind of job to get them famous.

Finally, they arrived at MTV’s Music Bank and they all filed out of their van. As they walked in however, the fans didn’t recognize them. Hannah told herself that soon, very soon, they were going to be recognized by only a few people and then more and more people would recognize them.

Hannah couldn’t wait for her debut stage despite being worried about her dance moves. She may be the main dancer but she was the youngest and that made her even more worried. To say the least that she had exams coming up the next day that she cannot fail in otherwise her parents would made her leave the industry. It was the most stressful time for Hannah and she had to do well.

As the HEA7EN members waited in a waiting room while their manager went to get their mikes, they all fretted around while trying to calm each others nerves again but this time, they used their made up method only a few days earlier.

The girls all sat in a circle and began to voice out their dreams from oldest to youngest.

Pandora: “I want to be able to be an all rounded idol that can act, dance, sing and mc.”

Jennifer: “I want to be able to stand in front of my parents and tell them that this is the path that I chose and this is the path I will go down in.”

Skye: “I want to show other people my voice skill and to change the way others look at me. I can be a girl too sometimes!” (“Yeah right! You like being a guy!”- Pandora)

Sully: “I don’t want to be compared to f(x)’s Sulli just because we have the same name. And I don’t want to be called Sully! My name is pronounced as Su-Li!”

Iris: “I want to show others that love isn’t blind and that it can come true!” (“How are you supposed to show that?!” -Skye)

Mirage: “I want to prove to others that no matter you’re age, you can do anything as long as you put hard work into it!”

Hannah: “I want to prove to my parents. And myself, that I can do anything and everything!”

That was the girls official way to calm their nerves. To voice out their dreams to each other so they know that they are coming closer to their own dreams.

(While they were voicing out their dreams, they had already put their mikes on and was just waiting for the performance time.)

“HEA7EN! You’re up! Please go backstage to get ready!” The cameraman’s assistant came in to say quickly before leaving hurriedly to tell other idols that they are up soon also.

Pandora looked at the girls and with a bright smile she said,

“Well, this is it! Come on girls! Time to show the world what we’ve got!”

-

Their new song, their debut song was a hit. They didn’t miss one step in their choreography and they sang their lines with the perfect tone and voice. When they walked off stage, HEA7EN finally came to realise why the idols in the industry wasn’t tired no matter how much they performed; it was because they would always have fans supporting them.

“That was so awesome!” Skye said with a bright smile on her face!

“I want to do that again!” Sully said and everyone nodded to that.

“But don’t worry, we’re doing it for a few weeks remember?” Iris said and everyone just laughed. While they were walking back to their waiting room, they saw K.Will there outside their waiting room with a congratulatory bouquet in his hands.

He gave the flowers to Pandora, their leader and said,

“There’s going to be a party held for you girls tonight to celebrate your debut. You girls had better dress pretty tonight!” The girls all knew about the party of course.

“Of course!” Mirage said with an excited voice. She was really excited! She was finally an idol!

“Well, I’ll be seeing you girls tonight where you can tell me all about you’re first debut stage! I have another schedule that I need to get to! See you girls later!” And K.Will walked off.

“Today, was an awesome day.” Jennifer said as they all watched K.Will sunbae walk off hurriedly. And like that, their official debut stage ended with a perfect performance.

***

This is the first official chapter for the story! And it's finally up! So sorry for the long wait! Cheonmal Mianhae~!!! Anyways, I wasn't going to update today. I wrote about a page an a half before I lost all my inspiration == (i know...i !) but then I started to listening to MBLAQ's Mona Lisa on replay and suddenly, just like that, I got my inspiration back on <3 so glad about that~ I have to thank them xDDD

One last thing before I let u guys go (xD) I have to give a special thanks to twinklingconfusion eonni for making me all these posters ^^

if any of the applicants want their posters, this is the link: http://s1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff363/tinhan5693/Posters/HEA7EN/ 

love you all and hopefully, the first chapter was appropriate ^^ =)

xxx

SDA