As a trainee for Pledis, Seolhyun has always had it hard. She's been there from the very beginning, training the longest of all of them. Finally their debut is coming up and she wants nothing more than to make it together with her teammates. First s...
We get off stage in the end. It's all crazy, people keep on congratulating us for the amazing performance and the early win. Even the boys from EXO don't seem to bitter about losing to us. They all come and shake hands with us and flash us their famous smiles before disappearing in their dressing room. I wonder if theirs is that much bigger than ours. Of course it is. I try to find Wonho in all of the commotion but he seems to have disappeared and so have the rest of Monsta X. He seemed genuinely happy for us though. I want to talk to him more than ever. Why is he not here? I look like a lost little kid.
Our manager tells us the president wants to see us at the company, tonight. I'm so nervous, but I know it's because he's happy for us. He just wants to tell us he is. Still, it's weird to go to his office this late at night. I take out my cellphone and try calling Wonho, he doesn't pick up, which is very weird for him. Whenever I'm involved he always picks up these days. A familiar fear strikes me. What if he's really mad at me for winning or something? Gosh. I need to stop being so insecure whenever it comes to him. It's not healthy anymore. I decide to text him.
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He says he promises but I'm still kind of anxious about it all. It's weird that he had to leave just like that. Did something happen? Snap out of it. I keep on telling myself it's okay, everything is alright.
The ride towards the building is so long. Longer than usual, it feels. I know it's still the same distance as before, but it feels like forever in the car. The girls are holding the trophy in turns and they're gushing about how good we were to our driver. He seems to believe them, to some degree. But we did win a trophy, so he kind of has to. That and our boss pays him to do so. I'm not naive anymore like I used to be. Everyone is paid to do something in this world. Nothing is for free.
"We're here!" EunHa calls out and I snap out of it for their sakes. We jump out of the car and run inside. It's kind of cold out tonight. The security guy sees and smiles to congratulate us on the win. Everyone must've heard by now. Knowing the president he probably announced it to the world through his speakers. He's weird like that.
"I'm nervous for some reason!" JiHee voices what I'm feeling. She's not alone, we are all nervous. But a good kind of nervous when it comes to this. The last time I was this nervous was a couple of weeks ago when they told us we'd be a group. The waiting back then made me so nervous. This is just like that.
We wait outside of his office for a good amount of time. Apparently he still had a meeting going on, this late at night. It's almost midnight by now. His job never stops, apparently. I'm kind of honored that he's making time for us. Some strange guy leaves his office and we're up next. We're called inside of the big wooden doors and some servant girl motions for us to sit down on the white leather couches. We're very diligent and do as we're told. A few minutes later the president joins us with a bright smile.
"You've done really amazing girls!" he exclaims while sitting down in front of us. "I'm proud of you."
We're all blushing as he says this. I didn't expect any of it to be honest.
