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But, it's still an unfamiliar place. I turned myself away from him.

"I won't hurt you" he walked in front of me and squat down.

"It's late now, staying alone in the street at night is dangerous" he continued

"But-"

I can't tell him that I had no where to go.

"But?" He asked me back.

"Nothing- I'll- I'll go now"

I was getting up and I saw him looking at me with disappointment.

"Be careful"

"I will. Thank you"

I tried to not cry harder, I ran away fast. To a place where no one knows me. To a place where I can be myself.

All of a sudden the bus stopped and I almost hit the chair infront of me. I look around, I actually don't know where I was.

"I'll leave here" I said and went down the bus.

Despite not having any friends here, plus the fact that I'm not familiar with this place, I went to a hostel and stayed for a night or more. Hoping next day will be a good day.

—; ❀

After having a good sleep, I got myself ready and went back to the venue.

I stepped into the room to find a few other teens in there too. I bowed to show manners and walked in.

Her?

Of course, I was alone. I was shy since young, I don't actually dare to reach out to people.

The instructor came in and hinted me to go to him so I did.

"Alright fellow trainees. So we have a new member here with us from now on" he looked at me, hinting me to introduce myself.

"I'm jinhyun, sixteen years old. I hope we can get along well" I looked at the floor all the time and beamed as I bowed.

"Make yourself comfortable here we got a long way to go" the instructor patted my head.

Honestly I was slightly terrified because it's rare that instructors are that  kind to trainees.

I found myself a place, the most hidden corner as the instructor started the training.

Yes I auditioned for an entertainment, yuehua, and I got in. Here's where the journey started.

It was my first day, wait no- my first half of the day if that made sense. We had stretching, vocal classes, language classes, and had lunch at like two?

After the instructor dismissed us, I waited for everyone to leave so I could be the last to go for the line.

The worker gave me a tray of food that has quite an amount of rice, cucumber, sprouts and a little kimchi as side dishes. I turned around to find that the canteen was packed. Not exactly but- well I'm new so I don't have a particular group to be in.

"Hey"

I heard my life saver, I turned around and saw one of the girl waving at me.

"Come sit here with us" she smiled and I felt really happy that someone actually wants to adopt  me.

I sat down then beamed with manners and awkwardness. There were like six of them so it was slow for me to memorise their names as well as their faces.

But I could see that they're really close and all have different personalities.

The rest of the day I was alone too since I'm still not close with that 'gang'. We had dance classes, acting classes and self training period at last.

I was lead to the dorm, joomin, siyoung and siho were my roommates. The first few days of the training are the worst so I felt extremely tired.

Without interacting with them much, I dropped myself onto my bed and was thinking about my journey but apparently I shouldn't think too much.

—; ❀

I survived my first few trainings around a week or two, and I could obviously see that I'm closer to the trainees already.

Wait no, only the girls. But well why bother being too  close go male trainees anyways? I don't think we have any partner or group stuff here unlike schools.

Eventually everyone left the room and I went back last. I turned off the lights, grabbed my bag and bottle then walked out.

"Excuse me?"

I flinched as I thought everyone left.

"Who's it?" I asked as I didn't see anyone.

A guy walked out from the counter and I bowed. He's one of the trainees here too. He's so tall my neck was at the urge to break.

"Is there anything?" I brushed one of side of my hair behind my ear.

"Perhaps, do you remember me?"

"S- sorry?" Did he misunderstood something???

He took out a mask and wore it. My eyes were widened.

It's him. That night. Him.

He took off his mask and beamed.

"Don't cry" he said.

The one that wanted to help me when I cried at the street, alone.

"It's you" I smiled as I never knew we'd end up meeting again, furthermore in a company.

"Now you remember"

"Why didn't you tell me like the moment I came here?"

"I'm a boy and you're a girl"

"Oh" I understood what he meant.

"I'm Justin" he took his hand out and I shook his.

"Nice to meet you, again"

"Same here"

I looked at him and wondered something,

"How old are you?"

"I'm fifteen"

Oh shit it feels weird to be older. Somehow it doesn't feel good. It sucks. Maybe because of the fact that I'm the youngest in my family?

"I'm old but oh well" I joked.

"Don't let Hyungseob Seunghyuk and Zhengting hear this or else you'll be dead"

"Who's who? They're older?" I'm still new sigh

We sat down at the cafe and he showed me a few pictures of them,

"They're both 1999 liner and he's 1996 liner"

"Are there anymore people younger than me" I asked.

"No, oh and Euiwoong's the same age as you" he pointed at the picture.

"I see thanks for the intro though"

Before Justin could continue, we heard someone opened the door and both of us were worried. We weren't supposed to be here at this time.

My palms were sweating, shit I'm new this can't be the end of my journey.

I looked at him with anxiousness and desperation.

Help me