99 + 1 | idol producer - HIATUS

second ranking task

after being forcefully dragged out of bed by linong, who had rushed into yuan's dorm room early that morning, the girl now stood amongst the loose throng of boys gathered in the hall where yet again, they were awaiting their instructions.

yuan covered her mouth as she yawned, and xukun walked over to her, and slung his arm over linings shoulders, who was watching said girl intently.

"you look awful", xukun observed, "did you get any sleep last night?"

yuyan gave him a blank look, and rubbed her eyes, hoping it would do something for her massive eye bags. "as a matter of fact, no, I didn't. after we got our phones back for the night, xinchun forced quanzhe to watch the minions movie with him, and the orange guy with the fanny pack scared the ever loving breadsticks out of him. i woke up to him crying at 12am scared that he was coming to get him, and so i had to stay up for 4 hours trying to calm him down. i swag that when i next see xinchun i'll strangle him, all i need is for somebody to distract zhengting."

xukun and lining exchanged a look, and then lining spoke up, "no offence, yuyan," he began, "we do love you and all, but i'd rather take on fanny pack man than an angry zehengting. he's scary."

while lining said this, xukun nodded furiously in agreement. they then welcomed yanjun and zhangjing to the conversation, as they had just entered the room. 

"yuyan," zhangjing muttered under his breath, "i need to talk to you". he motioned for her to follow him, and she did to a secluded corner of the room.

yuyan leaned against the wall, and regarded the older boy, with her eyes full of concern, "okay, i'm worried, is everything okay, jing?" 

zhangjing looked as if he were having an inner battle with himself, and then he finally opened his mouth.

"yanjun kissed me last night. and i kinda liked it."

"what?! jing i am going to kill you! can you hold off from telling anybody else until after the show or i'm gonna owe honglin money, and i'm gonna be real here, i'm broke." yuan all but screeched.

zhangjing shushed her furiously, and peered around to see if anybody was looking at them. nobody was, apart from yanjun, who was looking at them intently. yuyan shuddered.

"you betted on me? actually, whatever, i wasn't planning on telling anybody anyway. the problem is, i like yanjun, but i don't know if its as a brother or not? what if im not gay?" the boy sighed.

yuyan smiled coyly, "jing, there's only one way to find out~" yuyan sang, wriggling her eyebrows suggestively. 

"yan!" zhangjing yelled, hitting her on the forearm, "you're not helping! god, why did i even come to you of all people? i'll just go ask linong." he walked off quickly, and out of the corner of her eye, yuyan saw yuajun slowly approaching her.

not wanting to lie to one of her friends, or possibly break zhangjings trust, she hastily ran over to justin and chengcheng.

they nodded at her, and then sat, waiting for the chatter to die down, as zhang mixing had just entered.

he explained to them that their next task would be split into the categories of vocal, dance and rap. he announced the songs, which were in order of category. in vocal were what i miss, shape of you, loving you, always online and stomach. in dance were me too, nunchucks, sheep and flow, and finally in rap were very good, artist, turn down for what and papillon.

yuyan groaned. there were songs in vocal and dance that she wanted to do. nunchucks a song that she was familiar with, and she thought that a remix would sound great, but she also wanted to challenge herself with what i miss, and even more so as the artist who it was by was one of her mothers favourites.

chengcheng patted her on the back soothingly, "its okay. whatever you choose, you'll do great, don't worry, yan!"

she smiled at him gratefully.

then yixing explained that songs would be chosen in order of the rankings, and the top ranked trainees would get to pick first. yuyan silently rejoiced, as being rank 12, she would be able to join whichever song she decided that she wanted to pick the most.

the trainees before her were called up one by one, and as her friends went up, linong shot her a heart, xukun smiled at her, justin yelled all the way behind the screen where he would go to pick his song, and chengcheng winked at her.

finally, it was her turn to pick, and she walked behind the screen. infant of her all of the songs were laid out.

"oh my god, oh my god" yuyan repeated looking back and forth, then looking into the camera. she saw the cameraman laughing at her from behind the camera, and she whined loudly.

"mister! don't laugh at me! this isn't fair, i don't know what song to pick!" she heard laughs from her friends who had already picked, who could probably hear her loud exclamations. 

she could even hear quanzhe's small sniggers, and yelled loudly "li quanzhe, if you don't stop laughing, fanny pack man is coming for you! and i won't be there to help!"

the laughing instantly stopped, and then she heard zhu zhengting scream back, "hurry uo and pick a song so i can't fight you! quanzhe is terrified!"

yuyan stuck her tongue out in the direction of his voice, and then grabbed the board that she wanted, showing it to the camera.

"aah~" she sighed out, "i hope that i made the right choice"

walking behind the screen, the top 11 trainees all came into view, and lining yelled "ah, yuyan, are you over here?" she smiled at him, walking slowly to confuse the others as to where she was going, with her board hidden behind her back. 

"maybe~" she teased.

then she skipped over to the vocal song that she chose.

smiling at quanzhe, she said, "fanny pack man isn't come for you, so 爱你" she winked cheekily. 

directly after her, jeffery walked to the song, and they high-fived, and not long afterwards, dingo followed. she was glad that she was familiar with her teammates. they were actually quite close.

then, yuyan stifled a groan. xinchun and yanjun joined her team, which wasn't great as yanjun would probably try and find out what her and zhangjing had talked about, and xinchun had cost her about five hours of sleep.

not to mention jeffery would drive her crazy with his eggs.

well, at least yuyan got to pick the song that she wanted.