Learn || Golden Child

40

The next day...

"Now that we're all here, let's start the audition."

Jaein, Arim, Chaejung, and Bomin entered the activity room, which was reserved for the idol club.

Inside the room, a few rows of chairs were placed, occupying around one-third of the room, while the remaining open space was large enough for people to freely dance despite a grand piano placed at the corner.

All of the members, around 13 to 14 of them, were scattered over the last few rows of chairs, while the ones with seemingly the more important roles in the idol club, sat at the very first now. The seat at the middle was empty, because it was reserved for their soon-to-be leader Bomin.

The 3 girls stood aside and placed down their bags while Bomin took a seat at where he was supposed to sit.

"Who would like to go first?" Bomin rested his chin on his palm while his elbow on the handle of the chair. He looked excited but at the same time he gave his friends a reassuring smile, letting them know that they could relax.

At this moment, the door opened once again, gaining everyone's attention.

"Sorry, hope I didn't interrupt anything."

A few girls gasped, looking surprised at the person's arrival. "Jibeom sunbaenim!"

Jibeom smiled to greet everyone. "May I watch as well?"

"Sure, hyung," Bomin answered, and Jibeom went to take a seat next to him after mouthing a "fighting" at the 3 girls.

They performed one by one. All the members of the idol club just watched, not too attentively, but also not distracted by anything else. Rather than an audition, it felt more like a short performance.

For the girls, it felt weird because this audition was way different from the auditions they participated in before.

After they all finished their auditions, Bomin stood up from his seat.

"Let's give a round of applause to welcome our new members of the idol club." His words made the 3 girls widen their eyes in disbelief, while the rest of the people in the room started clapping.

Arim covered her mouth in shock, in denial that she finally passed the audition after so many tries. "But... how?"

"This is just a ceremonial thing," Bomin smiled at her reaction. He walk to her and patted her head, "the moment you guys stepped in this room, you've already passed."

Chaejung blinked a few times, trying to process what actually happened, before she asked, "so we're passing no matter what?"

A few idol club members nodded in response.

"Then honestly, how did we do? Were we good?" She questioned, making some people have surprised looks on their faces. They probably didn't expect that they wanted actual feedback after passing the audition.

Some people started giggling, but not in a way that they were laughing at them, but instead they found Chaejung's honest question pretty cute.

"Yah," Hayoung sighed, "is getting approval from Bomin and I not enough? Isn't it obvious that you guys are here because you're good?"

Chaejung laughed a bit, and nodded as she understood what Hayoung meant.

Suddenly, someone opened the door and entered the activity room.