chapter 10
10 – Sing a congratulatory song
Episode 10
“Teacher Taeyang, I think we should leave soon.”
“Yes, it’s safer to leave at least 30 minutes before your appointment time. “Let’s get ready to go.”
Finally, this day has arrived.
The anger of the past hour flowed like a panorama in my head.
Winter’s attitude was very exemplary.
Except that at some point he called me Teacher Taeyang instead of Uncle, I followed all the advice as much as I could and didn’t get lazy.
Winter’s talent wasn’t bad either.
Even if she had seen and learned something, considering that she made dramatic improvements just with the advice of someone who was not a professional dance trainer like me, her talent clearly proved the potential of the A class shown in the status window.
The problem was the dog habits that I had learned without any roots.
If you correct one habit, new dog habits keep popping up like peeling an onion.
Every time I asked where I learned this, the same answer came out: Yeji gave me advice.
It was truly heartbreaking.
Through this week-long corrections class, Yeji has acquired enough qualifications to become my enemy, even though we have never seen each other in person.
Thanks to that, my heart was filled with the venom of wanting to get Winter to pass even if it was just to feed Yeji taffy.
“okay? The moment she gets rejected, Yeji’s bullying starts again. All the gangsters hanging out in the neighborhood came and asked, ‘Did you try to pass the audition? “He’s going to trample on you and yell, ‘What about you?’”
“I… , I don’t think it will go that far… .”
I think Gyeoreum is still not burned by Yeji.
You’re defending Jeonnam’s devil, Yeji.
I was going to give a full speech about Yeji’s viciousness, but I decided to postpone it until later due to time constraints.
“It’s okay, just check again to see if you missed anything.”
“yes! Check your student ID for identification!”
“check.”
“Check cosmetics for correction!”
“check.”
“Check out the extra stockings!”
“check.”
“Check out the winged sanitary pads!”
“sudden… , no, don’t tell me that.”
I didn’t want to know too much personal information.
It seemed like I already knew too much.
“Anyway, it seems that the preparations are roughly finished. I’ll give you a ride, so let’s go.”
“and! It’s Matiz.”
Winter energetically carried a baggy backpack reminiscent of a hermit crab and ran out to the parking lot.
They gave me a ride to the practice room a few times, and they went there on their own.
I took the tofu sushi lunch box that my sister made for me to eat if I get hungry while watching the audition, and followed.
Arriving at the parking lot, I passed the waiting winter like a meerkat and started my sister’s favorite horse, Matiz.
“get on.”
Winter hurriedly jumped in, threw his bag on the back seat, and sat in the passenger seat.
“Check your seat belt!”
“check.”
After confirming that Winter had really put on the belt, and setting the navigation to the SS audition site, we set off paying attention to safe driving.
“Oh, I forgot to send it to the hair salon. I had to do one of the two, either bleaching my hair once more or dyeing it black again… .”
It was my mistake not to change that dull blonde hair that looked like I did it myself at home.
Because that head strengthened Iljin’s unique cheapness.
“Don’t dye your hair alone at home. “It’s difficult to get good results, and it can cause significant damage to your hair and scalp.”
“Oh, it’s because I’m mixed race, and my hair color isn’t bleached, it’s genetic.”
The current situation is that mixed-race parents and grandfather are the only guardians.
He must have had a very difficult life.
“Is that so… . sorry.”
“no. lol.”
“Okay, all I had to do was fix my clothes and makeup. It’s not like the police officer at that time heard my bullsh*t and just let it go. “You mean it was just Iljin itself?”
Even now, there are still some traces of it due to the sharp eyes and blonde-toned hair.
However, with the bright teen-style crop top and wide pants that I coordinated, this was accepted as individuality.
But the appearance of winter at that time was a real problem.
“If you’re so timid, why are you dressed like that?”
From the perspective of an agency that had to lock girls with extraordinary energy and pride in the practice room and watch them die, as people around them had praised them for being pretty their whole lives, there was no way they would have liked a one-liners vibe that was highly likely to cause discord.
It would be good if people didn’t look at it with suspicious eyes, wondering if there might be a hidden case of school violence.
Therefore, it was no exaggeration to say that the winter coordination I saw at Daegyo at that time was close to the worst for auditions.
As soon as I see your face, I’ll start off with 30 points.
“uh… Yeji helped me with clothes and makeup. “I heard it was a popular style among high school students in Seoul.”
“No, Yeji is really that psychopathic b*tch.”
Yeji, the devil of Jeonnam and a master of gaslighting, was not left out here either.
“When you go back, don’t have anything to do with her at all!”
I shouted with seething anger.
“Sing it again! “Yeji is my enemy!”
“I don’t think it’s to that extent… ”
“Sing it again!”
“yes… Yeji is my enemy!”
It was very satisfying.
I drove happily, imagining Yeji going crazy with jealousy and crawling on the ground after seeing Gyeoreum become a trainee at SS.
“But you know. “At that time, my grandfather said that my tastes were strange.”
“Oh, a naked cartoon female character? Well, maybe he likes women. “Don’t worry, I respect s*xual diversity.”
“no! “I like that guy!”
Winter desperately defended herself by saying that it was just a character from a famous cartoon she liked wearing a very revealing outfit, and that it was not a strange character or cartoon at all.
He had a universal and general view of reason, and among them, the useless information that he liked older people and that the age difference was okay until the age of 10 was a bonus.
It was the loudest voice since we met.
I guess I was quite embarrassed.
“Yes, it’s your taste, but who will say what? It’s much better looking than Yeji following gaslighting Hanil. But stop using that naked character as your profile picture, please.”
“… Aren’t they cute?”
“That character may be cute, but I don’t think the owner behind it is cute.”
To be honest, I looked cute, but I didn’t think Chun Jong-hoon, who was strict, wouldn’t like it.
Because of that, I spoke a little harshly.
“I think he’s someone who stays in the corner of his room, hugging a pillow with a character on it, watching animation, and never coming out. So change it a little bit.”
Winter excused herself with a shocked expression.
“… “I do come out sometimes.”
… The rest matches.
Winter quietly changed her profile picture and started talking excitedly about the spicy soup that her older sister had made for her inexpensively yesterday.
As if trying to relax, I tried to accommodate Winter’s particularly chattering words, and I arrived at the bridge where I discovered Winter a week ago.
At the time, I never imagined it would turn out like this.
How do you expect to become involved like this with a high school student who seemed to be attempting suicide?
As I passed by the bridge, a strange feeling came to me.
Winter must have felt the same emotion as she stopped chattering without stopping and stared blankly at the bridge reflected outside the window.
When we passed the bridge and almost arrived at the audition site, Winter spoke again.
“Hey, Teacher Taeyang.”
“why”
“What should I do to repay the kindness I received from Teacher Taeyang?”
“Like what?”
“Everything.” “I have received so much that I can’t think of a way to repay it.”
“Why don’t you give me the first payment?”
“Oh, it’s going to be difficult because I have to give it to my grandfather.”
My ambition to extract money from the private sector was suddenly stranded.
“Then, at least sing a congratulatory song at my wedding later.”
It would be the best situation if he became a popular idol and had people sing his congratulatory song, but it wouldn’t be bad if he fell out and remained an ordinary person.
Because a vocalist with A-rank potential isn’t going anywhere.
Even if you pay money to hire a part-time professional to sing, they will probably do better by the end of the winter.
“Are you happy?”
Winter muttered words like congratulatory song, marriage, bride, etc., thought for a while and then spoke.
“… “I think that might be a little difficult.”
“So, what happens?”
“sorry… . “Black.”
“Hey, don’t cry, your makeup will smudge! “How long is left until the audition? Cry now!”
When I made a fuss and tried to park the car on the shoulder of the road, Winter must have found it funny, wiping away her moist eyes and laughing.
I laughed because it was so absurd.
“After you become successful, pay back whatever you have spare time when you remember. “If I don’t remember it, I just forget about it and live my life.”
Even if Winter didn’t take care of it for me, I planned to take care of it for Cheon Jong-hun.
I won’t say it because I might feel betrayed, but it was actually a fair deal.
Well, since we haven’t seen each other for a long time, it would be better not to talk about this behind the scenes.
“I will never forget it. never.”
“You can forget that, so just don’t forget the lyrics.”
As I entered the parking lot of SS’s headquarters, the security guard asked me what I was here for.
When I told him that I had an appointment with Cheon Jong-hoon, the security guard immediately listened to the blocking bar as if he had heard the story in advance.
It was a bonus that they showed me where the C-3 practice room, which was the promised location, was located.
After touring the building and following the security guard’s instructions, I arrived at the C-3 practice room, and there were about 20 minutes left until the appointment time.
20 minutes passed quickly as we installed the music we brought into the well-worn computer and audio system and finished the rehearsal.
At exactly 5 o’clock, the door to the practice room opened and a total of three people came in, including Jong-Hoon Cheon and one man and one woman.
I was a little impressed because it came in at exactly 5 o’clock without a single second of error.
Cheon Jong-Hoon looked at his analog wristwatch and said.
“Without wasting time, let’s get started right away.”
There seemed to be no need for Cheon Jong-hun to make a full name or formal greeting.
He was truly a consistent person.
I nodded and played the song I had installed on my computer.
The song started and Winter began to dance.