1. Top 9

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It was the finale. The time that all of us competing trainees had been waiting for. Let me catch you up to speed, I'm Aella Cheung. Ae for short. I'm a Hong Konger who then moved to LA with her parents. One of the only times they were happy. Before the divorce that is. Now I'm here in Seoul as a JYP trainee in the finale of a survival show. It was nerve wracking. Especially knowing that this would be the last of everything. The last of us would have our final performances before being told who made the lineup. We were getting ready to go on stage. "Hey Aella, we got this. Fighting." My closest friend, Nemy, told me and I hugged her side. The two of us had been dubbed as soulmates by the fans at home. Maybe it was true.

The two of us had meet when I first arrived at JYP. She was Taiwanese-Australian and the two of us clicked straight away. If she'd left the show at any point I would have been lost. "Fighting, Nemy. We can do it." I said to her and she smiled at me before we took our position on stage for our group song. Everyone was back here that had been voted out. The song was called Our Time and it was something I'd miss performing. After all of that the audience was shown clips of the practices for our last group stages. We'd gone through a lot together and we'd made friendships and some of them we'd lost. My groups song was filled with heavy choreography.

"Girls, we got this. Don't let anything effect us. We can do this." The leader of our unit, Dalrae, said to us as we all put our hands in the middle.

"Good luck guys." Geuroo said to us, she was in another unit but always wanted the best for people. I'd cried to her a few times. Especially when times had gotten hard. One time being when I'd messed up a move in a dance break during practice and I thought I'd ruined the whole performance.

"Thank you, Geuroo." I said to her with a hug and a smile. She was the sweetest. I was glad that I was here. When our unit took to the stage we started performing our song Full Throttle. One thing that shocked the Koreans fans when they watched this was my rapping ability although my singing is one of the things that got me this far but this was the song that I got to show my capabilities in rapping. I was classified as one of the fastest rappers on the show.

"Now for the final time, please welcome the Full Throttle team." The announcer said and we took to the stage. For the finale performance I made sure to give it my all. I had to make sure that this would be the performance everyone would remember.

"We did it. Nemy, we did it." I said to her after the stage was over I ran over and hugged her. We then walked out arm in arm. We watched the rest of the performances before we all gathered around. I saw my Mom and grandparents on her side there. My dad wouldn't be around. They don't get on, it was hard doing this with no contact with him. I hadn't seen him since I was 13 either which made it harder. I waved to my family and smiled. They were all cheering me on.

"It's time to reveal the group you've been voting for. Before I reveal the group members the fan chosen name is Startrix. Over 1 million of you voted for it and we're glad it's the chosen name. Now for the members. In rank 9 is." The announcer said and Nemy and I held hands. The two of us had to make it. "And your voted member is Azumi." He said and I saw her in shock that she was there. She then went up to take her spot she was then passed a microphone.

"Oh wow, I didn't even think that I would be on this stage. I promise that I will show everyone that I will work harder to show you that I am worthy of being here. Thank you to everyone that voted for me and I hope that I can be an inspiration to to all of you. To my family look I did it." She said to everyone and she passed the mic back.

"Now who will be joining Azumi up there in rank 8. Let's see shall we, this person we've loved all season round we've loved seeing her grow and joining Azumi is...Hyunjoo." He said and I looked at her smile. There was only a few spots left and I was getting nervous. Everyone had worked hard but we knew that not all of us would debut. It was time for Hyunjoo's speech.

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