Arim and Haejoon started of as friends. They entered YG entertainment at the same time. Despite the age gap of Haejoon being 5 years older than Arim, these two were inseperable. When Arim first entered the company, she was unable to speak Korean as she was just a foreigner who had never left her country or her home for that matter. So she was a very quiet girl, to the extent where no other trainee would dare to approach her. Some even made fun of her behind her back, calling her "mute" or "outcast" or "runt". The teasing came to a point where Arim had suffered mild depression and slight anxiety. She was homesick and she felt helpless and alone. That is... until she met her prince, her knight in shining armour, Haejoon, who was the only person that stood up for her.
Flashback
Arim had had another rough day at training. All she wanted was to debut and become a rapper. She didnt ask for all this "abuse". She and a few other trainees had just finished their evaluation test. Now everyone was off looking for cafes to settle down and have a nice dinner. Everyone was in pairs or groups. Everyone... except for Arim. She hadn't made any friends yet, plus she wanted to improve her rapping skills, so she decided to skip yet another meal and stay back at the practice room. She was practicing her rap when a girl and two boys came in.
"Hey you, how dare you show off infront of Mr Kim like that. Dont you know your an outsider, so act like one!" one of the boys said.
Oh no, not again! Arim thought to herself.
"Oh come on, Rowon dont be so rude to this mute!" the other boys mocked her.
"Yah Rowon, Youngbin, stop it, before you make the crybaby cry!" the girl, Chanmi, said while imitating a crying face in front of Arim. Arim didnt think they would go further than that until Chanmi "accidentally" spilled her coffe ALL OVER Arim.
Arim was on the verge of crying when she heard voices outside the door. Chanmi and her minions, heard the door trying to be unlocked, quickly escaped through the backdoor.
"Quickly, lets go before that loser tattles on us for bullying." Chanmi glared at Arim and whispered as she and her minions ran out the backdoor and locked it, hoping Arim wouldnt be able get out.
Loser? Arim thought to herself. At least this loser doesnt bully others for a living. I. AM. NOT. A. LOSER
She tried opening the backdoor but it didnt budge. She started panicking as she was all soaked from Chanmi's coffee and she didnt know how to get out.
"HELP! ANYONE OUT THERE?" she yelled.
Luckily, there were trainees who had just walked past and heard her yells.
"Hey, i think someone's in there." she heard a girl's voice.
"Can you open the door?" this time it was a boy's voice.
"Wait, i think its locked! Whoever is in there, are you alright? Open the door!" another boy's voice said.
Thank god. Arim thought.
"NO I CANT! IM LOCKED IN!" Arim yelled back.
"We'll go look for help." the boy said.
"Okay, no wait- Guanlin, Haejoon, come back! The door was locked from the outside. We can open it!" the girl said, just then, Arim heard the door open as 3 teenagers, around her age, except for one which looked older, barged in, looked around and ran towards her direction.
"Oh thank goodness, we got the door open." one of the boys said.
"Oh hi, are you okay? What happened? Was it Chanmi and her minions again?"
"Herin, calm down. Dont startle the poor girl. Oh and btw, I'm Guanlin. But you can call me Jarel if you find 'Guanlin' too hard to pronounce." Guanlin (Jarel) said.
"Oh thank you for helping me. Do guys perhaps know where to get some spare training clothes?" Arim asked.
"Erm... well, we dont really know actually. We're kinda new here." Herin said, as shr scratched the back of the neck.
"But haejoon hyung can take you. he has been here like for 2 years." Jarel (Guanlin) said.
Arim felt more than grateful to finally have people being nice to her. So she nodded and looked towards Haejoon. He smiled at her. There was something about that smile that caught her off guard. Haejoon agreed and signalled her to follow him. Little did she know, Haejoon blushed like crazy as she placed her hand into his, to allow him to take her to the gym room. I guess this is what love at first sight feels like, huh?
"Why is your face so red?" Arim asked.
"Oh em, maybe its beacause of the heat here." Haejoon lied as he thought to himself.
Who am I kidding? It's because of you.
End of Flashback
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hall of fame. // mix kpop trainees ff
FanfictionDo you have what it takes to succeed? Or are you just another nobody who wants to be a somebody? Follow Arim and her gang through a journey as they fight for their debut, hoping that one day they will all be able to stand in the Hall Of Fame. TOGETH...
