OPEN YOUR EYES (BLIND I) - MUSIQ SERIES PART 2

86. COMMUNICATION

The groups continued working on their songs during the afternoon, and Onyx were being extremely productive and managing the composing portion of the task rather smoothly, as they were not rushing yet they got things done rather quickly. It still was not perfect, but it was enough to start recording the vocals that would go on top of it and work on the dance, as they already had the base done and would just change or add things that would go on top of it but would not alter the song all that much.

At around ten they decided to stop for the day and actually stuck to it, which was surprising for them as they never actually stuck to their words when it came to those things. They did not go to sleep right away since they were not too tired, so they went to the greenhouse to rest for a while and chat.

"I just remembered that at the beginning of the show they said we would be getting private chat rooms and such to talk to the viewers, but it never happened," Heejin told them as she pondered about anything and everything. "I'm wondering if something went wrong."

"I believe they brought that to a halt after the «Lovesick Girls» incident. I heard the staff talking about something like that. They probably were worried about what would happen if they allowed it," Zia told her. "It would be fun to chat to them directly, but at the same time I agree that back then was definitely not the time."

"What would you even tell them? 'Thanks for watching the show, I appreciate it. Please, vote for me!' We aren't debuted artists yet," Juna said. "After all we are on a survival show, so no matter how much we appreciate everyone watching, we really want and need to gather votes."

"But I think it would be nice to actually interact with the viewers a bit. If it weren't for the live performances, I'd think we are still training like always. It's nice to actually get to talk to the people behind the screens," Juiyu admitted. "I get why they cancelled it, but I wish they started doing it again."

"Yeah, gathering strength from their live messages would be amazing, to be honest. Especially when gearing up for the final," Eunae agreed.

"If you want me to, I can ask Lin later about it," Heejin told the others and they just nodded.

As they fell back into complete silence, the door of the greenhouse burst open and they all turned to see what was wrong, but they just saw an angry Axel feeling embarrassed after seeing the girls there.

"Sorry, I thought no one was here," he said before closing the door again and leaving.

"I think I should check on him," Heejin told the girls as she stood up.

"Yeah, I think you should," Juiyu agreed.

"Was my brother actually angry?" Eunae added right before Heejin left.

Heejin didn't really know where he could have gone, especially since, unlike them, he was allowed to leave the premises, but she thought the wisest idea was to go to a place that resembled one of his favourite places but where he would not cross paths with others, and that was one of the practice rooms from the upper floors of the trainee's den, which the Breakthrough girls never used.

There were three on the second floor, but it was easy to find him since he had music blasting through the speakers, more specifically K-Tigers Zero's «Side Kick», meaning he was probably dancing his anger away.

Heejin was spot on, as Axel was doing the stunts at that moment. She knew he could do them, but it was not the same to do them in a controlled setting an putting his whole mind into it than to just do them using his anger, so she quickly rushed to him and stopped him.

"Calm down, please," Heejin told him. "I don't know what happened but try to calm down."

The music was not helping at all, so she quickly stopped it before going back to Axel, who was panting at that moment.