Pirouettes&Flips

>>thirteen<<

Renjun eyed the big building of the convention center, the place that regionals competition was being held in, through the window of the bus. It was definitely bigger than the one they had in his old city. The lobby of the building was visible from the windows of the entrance, he could see other studios' dancers who were probably waiting for the registration.

Renjun's eyes left the building as he heard Mr. Ten screaming from the outside of the bus. He got up from his seat next to Haechan as the dancers who were sitting in front of the vehicle started emptying it, helping each other with their bags and costumes. They only had their first routine costumes for the day, they were going to perform the second routine tomorrow. That was of course if they passed the first half of the competition but Renjun didn't let that thought to occupy his brain. They have worked really hard in the past months as a team and they were good, there was no reason to get busy with the negative thoughts.

It didn't took long for all fourteen dancers(12 main dancers and 2 alternates) to join the other dancers in the lobby. Everyone was conversing in between each other as they waited for their studio head to come back with Mr.Ten from the registration table.

"Is it just me or is it more crowded in here than last year?" Haechan was looking around the lobby that was too crowded that Renjun was pretty positive that someone claustrophobic would have struggled. Renjun's old city was clearly smaller than this one but he hasn't exactly expected this much of crowd in the competition. He wasn't even sure if the nationals was this crowded.

"I think there are some studios that weren't here last season. I knew that our studio getting to final round of the nationals has affected other studios around the region but I wasn't expecting this much of it" As the dance captain Jeno counter the dancers making sure everyone was here until Mr.Ten and Taeyong came.

After a few more minutes red hair o the studio head was being seen in between the others. He gathered the dancers around himself and their hiphop teacher.

"We are in the fourth group of afternoon session which means we have a little over four hours until our turn. There are respected places for every studio at the -2 floor so you can go and leave your costumes and bags there. I want all of you to be here an hour earlier which leaves you with 3 hours of free time. Don't get lost, don't get in trouble and if you're late just by a minute I wouldn't hesitate to replace you in that moment. If you're going to be having such or don't eat something too heavy and don't eat in in the last half an hour. Jeno, as the dance captain I trust you to make sure everyone comes here at the right time. Make sure you leave your costumes in the right place in a proper way after that you're free"

As Mr.Taeyong finished his words dancers of the Sm Dance Studio headed towards the elevators and stairs. Renjun followed the others through the stairs as he has never been in the building before. He examined the art pieces that filled the walls as they walked past them. They were all very different from each other but still there was something that somehow connected them to each other. Just like our team he thought, they all had their own small traits that were completely different from each other but somehow they managed to come together as a whole for the routines.

The -2 floor of the building, even with the crowd that was currently occupying it, was so big and wide. There was a constant buzzing sound from all over the place. Portable stools were placed around the walls to separate the areas almost making them seem almost as actual rooms. All the stools had different studio names attached to their sides.

With Jeno in the front, Renjun and the other dancers quickly found the stool that had their studio name and started hanging their costumes to the hangers that were placed in the area. Just in a couple of minutes the floor of the empty area were filled with different bags, some of them were even on the couple of chairs that were put there. Before anyone had the chance to leave the area Jeno reminded them the things Mr.Taeyong has listed and told everyone to contact him if there were any sort of problems.