WALK THROUGH WALLS

SIXTY

Have you ever felt like your life is just passing you before your eyes with no control whatsoever? That is what I am feeling right now. The activities of today are already taking a toil in my already busy schedule. After little Cai dragged me from the company of Ten and the rest of the judges, we went to the cafeteria where Tem and the rest were already settled. They had even gone ahead to serve us lunch. Tem then reminded me that we were to go and choose the songs that this week's elimination candidates will be singing and it was a Thai affair so we had to go and listen to different musicians. Then the joint Boys' vs Girls' dance-off that was to happen tonight.

To say the truth, I don't have a problem with the choosing of the song part as it can always be postponed being that the said completion will happen on Wednesday, but the dance-off thing, damn... sometimes I wish that they could organize this competitions to be on Saturday instead especially with this COVID-19 pandemic that is becoming a huge deal all over the world. I predict a situation where we will be living as if we are in a jail or something.

"P', why don't we go and choose the song now as we wait for everyone to finish eating?" Tem told me when he noticed that I had already finished eating.
"True P'. We have to listen to different songs at that. "While looking at others, "we will meet later. We need to do our task as the winners..."
"You say it as if you are going to build a house or something..." Aggie said
"It is an important task. Maybe you will be among the ones who will be lucky to sing the songs that the two of us will chose for you" Tem was the one who answered her back
"You wish..." Miki said while going back to her eating.

We found the judges waiting for us with a list of songs from different Thai musicians. We had to choose only twelve so that the contestants will have a variety to choose from. The list of songs that we chose consisted of the following:
Rizky Ayuba - Kim No Toriko
Gun Achi - Jur Gaw Ruk
Mew Suppasit - Season of you
Kaownah - Be mine
Bright Vachirawit - Kan Goo
Gulf Kanawut - Beached Whale
Off Chainon - Hold me tight
Perth Tanapon - Microphone
Jay Phitiwat - En of love
Supanut - my oxygen
OMD ft Erwin - go slow
Dome Jaruwat - I found you

Then came the big news that we were to open the stage for them with a duet. We were given PRESS LOVE by Benzalert ft J. Tazzsper. I don't know who came up with the weird idea of being curtain raisers in an event that made me doubt my talented self but who am I to complain after that we were free to go back and prepare for the night event. We had like four hours to come up with the performance. I guess this is how Taeyang of Big Bang felt when shooting his song Linga Ringa.

The twist of all this is now I have to work with around forty plus girls with some with that attitude that I get from Rae all day long.. Damn! Am I also to learn their names or something? Can I just be a silent participant or ... To say that I was worried is an understatement. I am devastated really. I pray that Rae will be on her best ever behavior if she ever has any especially now we are with guest we don't need to air our dirty linen.

From the meeting that I was forced when they made me a leader by force, we agreed that the leaders from different groups will take charge of conducting the meeting. I remember that the Yellow team leader and I were in charge of translation. The Yellow team leader Moriguchi Kotaro was from Japan so she was to speak in English, she was kind of the main speaker while I became the translator... YES, THEY ACKNOWLEGED MY MULTILINGUALISM... AMEN. The pink monster roommate of mine who was the red team leader was in charge of coming up with a mixtape arrangement of the songs that we were to dance to together with the black team leader. The team leaders of the White and Green or grey were in charge of costumes and backdrops.

It was fun to work with all these people because they were really diligent in what they did. By the time we were finishing the meeting, we had come up with a dance routine that was so complicated yet easy for a person who understood what the story we wanted to convey to our audience. We retained most of the dancing styles. We also tried our level best to include all our members in all the scenes. We made sure to show case our diverse abilities from belly dancing to hip-hop, salsa, chakachaka etc.

We had like five rounds of practice before we had a break then came back for a final round of practice. It was easy to master the steps and all because when we were told about the dance off, our members went to research on the songs that were to be performed and now that it was a mix tape, it meant that we had to just master parts of the songs. The song BANG BANG BANG by Ariana Grande, Jessie J and Niki Minaj was the base so we decided to sing it ourselves. I was to sing the parts by Ariana so that meant that I was again supposed to hit high notes. We did a pre-recording so it meant that we were to lip- sing on stage that I was not comfortable with.
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TAE: Hey siz, how is everything out there?
KAI: Are the results out yet?
JACKSON: How was the performance? Why is it that we can't access today's performance?
TEN: The results are not out. They will know it at night after their dance-off. About you accessing the program ... the last one was licked by one of the staff who was fired because of that.
LENSAH: you know I was wondering how the family got to know my performance yet I knew this was not a live program.
JIMIN: I know you are happy now ha!
FELIX: Good evening mi familia... what are we talking about today?
V: PRESENT! In🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋👋👋🤝
KAI: V, can't you come silently, why should you shout your presence that loud?
JUNGKOOK: Kai, welcome to our life in the BTS house. He is the noise maker in the house.
V: Don't hate me because of my sexy voice dude...😈😈😈
TAE: HEY, FOCUS GUYS!
LENSAH: Ohoh, Tea is angry...
CAI: Should we be running or something?🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃
JIMIN: Little Cai, do you as always, run?
TEN: OK...... are we missing a link here?
JIMIN: I thought you are in the same group as him, SUPERM... You have never seen Taemin angry?
TEN: NO, never, he is always smiling...
KAI:😏 Count yourself lucky then. I guess that is why you get along with him well.
TAE: YOU REALISE THAT I AM IN THE SAME CHATROOM AS YOU GUYS!
LENSAH: We have nothing to hide bro!😛😝😜 that is your nature
JACKSON: FOCUS!! So what is happening there Lensah or Cai?
CAI: We have a dance-off between the girls and the boys with the title BANG BANG BANG as our base then afterwards is when we will know the results.
FELIX: It seems like it will be interesting 😎😎😎... can I come and watch?👁️👁️
LENSAH: NO...
CAI: NO...
JIMIN: Why are you both agreeing in the same thing for the first time?
JACKSON: 🤨🤨🤨🤨I thought I was the only one who noticed that?
TEN: Hi people!👋👋👋👋👋
KAI: 😱I thought we have been chatting for a while now, why are you greeting us again?
TEN: It was Saint who had my phone... sorry for that. Felix, you can't come here, the COVID-19 protocols or something like that.
FELIX: I knew that, I was just thinking out loud.
V: Hey Ten, greet the Saint guy... tell him that he has a fan over here..
JIMIN: and a LOVE RIVAL also...💞💪
JACKSON: hahahahahahahahahaha
KAI: Jimin, you just had to shout it out
TAE: if he didn't, you would have asked why?
KAI: MMMH, true.
JUNGKOOK: So what songs are you competing with against each other?
CAI: We will be dancing to Jason Derulo's Cono, Seventeen's LEFT AND RIGHT and Big Bang's BANG BANG BANG.
V: Seventeen, our juniors.
FELIX: Nice. And the girls' songs are?
LENSAH: BANG BANG BANG by Ariana Grande, Niki Minaj and Jessie J, SHUT UP AND DANCE by Jason Derulo, Lay and NCT 127 and CON CALMA by Daddy Yanke and Snow.
JIMIN: This will be an interesting dance-off for sure. I also want to witness it in person.
CAI: Please daddy, don't get ideas and don't come
KAI: Why are you against us coming to watch you?
LENSAH: It will be a lot of pressure.
V: But Ten is there...
TAE: It is different... they are going against each other for the first time in their lives
TEN: And the both of them are important figures in their teams so it is pressure already for them to outdo each other.
LENSAH: I have to go...
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Reality just hit me on the face, I am going against Little Cai... damn. This is harsh. What do I do.