Everything was fine as INFINITE was supposed to debut as 7 boys. Yet, 2 months before their debut, a 8th member is added: a female member. Shin Ri A. She becomes the new maknae, INFINITE becomes a co-ed group, and RiA isn't used to 7 VERY cute boys...
It was in the middle of December. Our comeback for BTD was coming closer. Constantly, all 8 of us were going to the practice room, and we barely got any rest. Since I'm the maknae, my members thought I would be the most stressed out. But, that award went to Sung Jong. He had a teddy bear that he would smack if one of the members (most likely the older ones) stressed him out. Poor teddy bear...
Anyway, I was sleeping peacefully in my room when suddenly, my room door opened. I heard light footsteps, and then a tap on my shoulder. Just WHO could it be now...? It turns out, as the door opened, I saw our manager.
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"RiA? RiA? Wake up. We have at least 3 more practices before the comeback stage." He said. Really? At 3 am? Ugh....hopefully this won't be longer than last week's practice. We stayed there until 11pm. I almost fainted from being there WAY too long.
I groaned and slowly got up. I soon asked the manager again, "Are the others awake?"
"No, I woke you up first because you're usually the hardest to wake up..." He said. "Anyway, you get ready, I'll wake the rest of them up." I nodded and went into the bathroom to shower. As soon as I got out of the bathroom, I ran straight to my room before anybody could see me.
After about 5 minutes, I came out of my room. I saw the rest of them still here. The only ones that were dressed (including myself) were Woo Hyun and Hoya. The rest of them were still in the shower or getting dressed.
-20 minutes later-
When all of us were ready, we got in the van and rode all the way to the company building, since it was very far from our dorm. As soon as I got in the practice room, I stretched on the floor.
"RiA, since when are you THAT flexible?" Sung Yeol asked. He seemed to be shocked that I was doing a full split on the floor.
"I've been doing splits most of my life. I did gymnastics when I lived in America." Okay, now you're wondering about me living in America. Long story short: I was born here in Seoul, I moved to LA when I was 5, and I moved back to Seoul when I was 15. So, I'm pretty fluent in English.
"Oh..I get it. Well, you might want to stretch a little more. We're about to start." I got up after that sentence. I moved to my position in the beginning of the song. Even though there was an even number of us, and the formation might be uneven, we still made it work out.
The music played, and we began practicing. At least 2 weeks ago, when we were still in the midst of recording the last few songs in the EP, Hoya made up a dance that could probably go with the original choreography. He called it the scorpion dance. When I tried to do it the first time, I ended up falling on my face. This wasn't easy. I was a lead dancer, but come on. That is VERY hard.
We had to do the whole choreography until we'd get tired. So, basically, we did this 5 times. Luckily, we had an hour of rest in between after each time. On the 5th try, I didn't feel tired, but when I tried to dance again, I sat back down, because I had lost most of my energy.
"What time...is it?" Dong Woo asked. We were completely unaware of the time, but all I remembered was that we started at 5:15 am. I went to my bag and checked my handphone. It was 9:45. No wonder I started to see the sun.
"It's 9:45. We've been here for almost 5 hours." I said. Our manager said we were done for the day, but we had to come back tomorrow for our last practice before the comeback stage.
