Pirouettes&Flips

>>fourteen<<

"I don't think I'll ever get used to the feeling of liquid paint on my face" Jeno said lifting his hand to scratch above his eyebrow, being careful to not ruin the paint on face.

"Jeno, if you keep playing with your eye and mess up that paint I'm not doing it again and you'll have to deal with it on your own" Jeno quickly took his hand away from his face when he heard Haechan, he would definitely end up blind if he tried to do this on his own.

Renjun took the paper that has been cut by Mr. Ten and Taeyong and put it around his eye to see how it looked. The paper's shape was starting from right below his eyebrow and covering his whole eye. He wasn't sure if the shapes that were going from his eye towards his ear was suppose to be wings or fire but either way it was adding a great spice to their costumes. Their area was filled with dancers who were helping each other with filling in the shapes and a few directly leaning into the mirror doing their own.

"Need help?" Renjun turned his head towards Jeno who was holding a small paint container filled with red paint and a small brush "If you will not mess up"

Renjun held the paper firmly around his left eye as Jeno dipped the brush in red paint. He started painting from the corners and did a thick outline of the shape. Renjun slightly flinched when the cold paint made contact with his skin, causing Jeno to smile lightly "You can take off the paper now, there is just filling left" Renjun closed his eyes after taking off the paper, letting Jeno paint his eyelid too. When he heard Jeno telling him it was done, he checked it from the mirror and felt satisfied that it was identical with other dancers of their studio. 

His eyes met with Jeno's through the mirror and it reminded him of the first day he came to the studio for auditions. He smiled at the black haired boy in the mirror and turned his attention to Haechan in the background hitting Jaemin's head to keep him in place while he painted his face.

"You're stabbing me in the eye with that brush!"

"There will not be any problem if you just keep still and stop moving around!" Renjun and Jeno made their way towards their friends before one of them decided to put actual blood stains on their costumes other than the design. Once Haechan was done with Jaemin's face he turned to Jeno "You think Mark found his way to the audience?"

"He would have called if he couldn't" Jeno answered, shrugging his shoulders. After they met with Mark at the mall they got carried away with time so they had to race their way to the convention center and the four dancers had to get ready so Mark went alone to find the room with the stage and the audience.

"Are you all ready? We are heading to the wings in five minutes" All the dancers' attention was drawn to Mr. Ten whose eyes were traveling through the crowd of the dancers in the small space making sure everything was alright. Confirmative words buzzed in the small area and the team started to empty the stools.

Renjun felt the excitement going through his body as he took his steps. This was the first time he was going to be dancing with another team in his whole dancing career and he could feel that slight nervousness along the excitement. He was still getting used to this city, to this studio and to his new teammates. As they filled the right wing of the stage he made sure to not let the crumbs of doubt take over his mind.

Their rival team took their place on the stage as Mr. Ten checked the dancers costumes and faces making sure everything was okay. He fixed the front of Jaemin's hair that apparently didn't have enough hair spray on it "I'll see if there is hair spray anywhere close" 

The rival team has just started their routine when Mr. Ten came back with a bottle of hair spray in his hands, spraying much more than necessary on Jaemin's pink locks. He made small touches to Haechan's hair as well and moved onto the next innocent soul to cover their hair with more of the sticky substance.