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"thank you team moonlight for your performance," the emcee says after interviewing the team. "now, online voting will—"
you write some notes on your papers and look over at your fellow judges. some of them start discussing the trainees and the performances that just happened.
"these three were good performances. this one was the best in my opinion," you state your opinion.
"all of this team improved a lot. i didn't expect them to change their ambiance like that," one of the other judges says, holding up a paper with the profiles of one of the groups.
"all of them did a good job, but the second performance is still my number one for the night," yunho mentions.
all of the judges continue discussing the different contestants. after some discussion, the judges's choices are finalized and online voting have settled.
everyone waits for the rankings to be posted, but it's time for a break within the filming. some of the judges get up to stretch their legs.
you sigh and continue sitting. you look over your notes about the various trainees that stood out from the performances.
"you okay?"
you look up and see yunho standing next to you. he crouches down and looks at the papers in your lap.
"sorry about your trainee," he says.
there are a couple of trainees from your company, who are participating in the show. unfortunately, one of them was eliminated last episode and another one is low on the ranking.
"they're hard workers. they'll get back in the game soon," you reply. "the performances were really good today," you comment.
yunho nods, "yea, i really liked team two's performance. they covered the song really well." he holds his hand out, indicating he wants your papers. you hand them to him, and he flips to a couple of pages. "this kid, they practice day and night. i helped them out a couple of times with their choreography," he mentions, pointing to someone's photo.
"think they're gonna get a higher ranking?" you ask him.
"they better. the kid deserves it," he says before leaning in, "but the editing in the first episode was definitely against them," he adds with a whisper.
"i noticed that too with some of them. they really want drama broadcasted, huh?" you reply.
"y/n, can we do some touch ups?" a makeup artist asks, walking up to you and yunho.
"oh, sure," you reply and sit up.
"i'll come back," yunho says to you before standing up and walking back to his seat.
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after the recording ends for the night, you sigh while getting into the van with yunho's manager waiting in the driver's seat.
"everything go okay today?" the manager asks.
"could be better," you reply.
after a few minutes, yunho gets into the van. "sorry, some of the trainees wanted to talk," he says.
"it's all good. let's get you two home," his manager says to both of you and starts driving once yunho is buckled up.
"you okay?" yunho asks, reaching over to hold your hand.
you shrug, "i guess. i feel sad every time trainees are eliminated."
"i know. it is sad," yunho replies, "but we'll probably see most of them at music shows one day anyways."
"i sure hope so," you reply, "i'll be their number one supporters when they debut."
"hey," he starts, "i thought you were my number one supporter?"
"you're slacking. the trainees are doing better than you," you say and stick your tongue out at him for a second.
he rolls his eyes but smiles afterwards, "i'll listen to your critiques, judge."
