Musi || 백현

+ seventeen

+ seventeen

Narda was convinced by Nari to go to the tryouts, which was a two day event and then at the end of the second day, five girls would be chosen to train with the team for a month. From there, only two would be offered contracts to become official members of the team. Narda showed up with Nari who was there to cheer her on, and also to work as her translator.

Nari had been given the day off by SM Entertainment, which was strange considering the boys were busy that day and would defiitely be needing their stylist. But neither of them thought too much of it. Nari was glad to have the day off because she was able to accompany Narda. Chanyeol wanted to accompany her, but EXO would be performing on M Countdown to perform Call Me Baby. The music video was yet to be released, and the managers at SM were planning a special showing of the video to the EXO girlfriends. Their reactions would be recorded and posted on their youtube page. But Narda wasn't invited, and neither was Nari. Only Mae, Sarang, Florencia, and Taeyeon had been asked to go.

When the two girls walked up to the table for sign ups, the person at the table completely ignored Narda and instead spoke to Nari in Korean. "Are you here for the tryouts?" The man dressed in sports attire asked her.

Nari quickly gave a shake of her head and then gestured to the girl standing beside her. Narda could only understand a percentage of what they were saying. "No. I'm just here to support my friend, and to translate for her. She understands Korean pretty well, but she doesn't really speak it." She grabbed Narda by the arm and introduced her to the man at the table. "Her name is Guti and she's the best football player I know. Plus, her brother is a professionall football player in Mexico."

That seemed to catch his attention. "Mexico?" He asked with curiosity.

Nari gave a nod of her head. The man seemed pleased by what he heard and grabbed a clipboard with an application on it. He had seen many games in which Korea faced up against Mexico, the most recent being when they had been defeated by them four goals to none. If she was good, then he definitely wanted her on the team. "Fill this out and then take it to that other table." He gestured to another table a few ways away. They were handing the girls jerseys there, after getting them ironed with their names and a designated number for the next two days.

The application was filled mostly by Nari and then they handed it off to the next person. There, Narda had been handed a jersey with the name Guti in Hangul characters and the number 61. Narda felt it had been a lucky coincidence when she got Chanyeol's number. She then went to join the other prospective athletes as they began with some stretches. Nari went to go sit on some bleachers nearby. Narda had been nervous at first when she saw everyone. She was the only non-Korean and even the only non-Asian at the tryouts. But she quickly adapted and made friends with some of the other girls, some of which were already on the team.

After stretches they did a few warm up exercises and then they had one football match. They were divided into teams of eleven and they were made to play against each other. Though Nari didn't understand the rules of the game, she cheered like crazy each time Narda had the ball. By the end of the ninety minutes, Narda's team and the team they played against were tied two goals to two and they sent them into penalties. 

Narda's coach for the match had been the man at the front desk, who was impressed with her because she was Mexican. He had chosen her to take the first penalty and Narda instantly grew nervous and hesitant. The players to take the first and last penalty kicks were usually the ones a coach thought were the best in the group--the cream of the crop. She stepped up to the penalty spot and her mind played tricks on her. She felt like the goal was growing smaller and her opponent to beat getting bigger. She shook her head to clear her thoughts and sucked in a deep breath.