Bab 18: Training from hell
After the 10-second Q bout, boys just said their thanks and bowed to the staff with smiles. They were all very curious about each other's answers and the reactions of the viewers.
Manager jin was monitoring them from the sideline the whole time. They walked back from the route they took to come to this studio. There wasn't any conversation going on about the answers. No matter how curious they were they knew not to ask these things in front of people.
The staff that saw these boys talking leisurely and not even asking each other questions felt satisfied. These boys had so much trust in each other that they didn't even feel the need to question and compare their answers. This composed behavior of the members made the staff feel positive about them.
They made small talk walking in the corridor of the recording building. They came here with two cars, accompanied with another manager. His name was surprisingly in english. Roger. He was a laidback man with a lot of dad jokes. He was funny and easy to get along other than the times he was working.
Mi jung met him two weeks ago right after his photos went viral. Even though mi jung was improving dancing and singing, he had no inkling when it came to sense. Entertainment industry was different than hospital. There were no empathetic nurses for one. The laid back, funny guy roger taught him the first rule of it.
"There is no mercy. No one will take a second look at you or help you if you are in a scandal. Galaxy entertainment in a relatively good company but we not the best. Media has a crushing power on everything. Once a stone falls everything will fall like dominos. You have to know what to say and how to say it in any situation. Wit can save you, well that's if you are quick enough."
Mi jung would practice singing and dancing from 5 am to 11 pm. all day but she had never felt that exhausted. Roger would ask him different questions giving different situations and expect him to give a perfect answer or evade it somehow. He would call him in the middle of the night when he is sleeping and want him to speak like he is concious. He would try to anwer him as best as he can but he would always get very harsh criticism.
A training from hell for two weeks. It was like a nightmare. He never wanted to do it again.
Mi jung, haneul, jay and jae hwan sat in roger's car and the others went to manager jin's. Even though they were trying to look relaxed, they were all tensed. Once the door closed, roger gave a sigh.
" It was good enough. Not the best but it can work. Mi jung, you are a clever boy."
He gave a hearty laugh after that and talked about how good of a job he did instructing him. Talked about it and joked all the way untill they went back.
Boys talked about their answers and how they felt about it once they were back in the house.
" I really thought we were done on the last question! My heart was beating so fast, i thought i would die."
Joo hyuk sat down on the couch and opened the tv. Every one felt the same about the questions.
"It was a pretty dangerous question for a rookie group. R channel really lived up to its reputation."
jay spoke with a puff and everyone agreed on it. They all sat down on the couch or on the floor to watch the replay of the broadcast. When they saw how the pink chicken flew around mi jung throwing hearts right and left they couldn't help laughing out loud. Joongi commented on it without wasting any time.
"As expected of our mi jung hyung, even stealing the heart of an AI. I can't believe that chicken sent hearts throughout broadcast and the staff even put pink bubbles and hearts whenever you spoke! Ah..i'm dying of laughter someone call an ambulance."
"Kyung jae and yeong woo talked about each other even in a closed cabin. That is some telepathy you have there."
Haneul said giving a little laugh. These kids never chased to amaze him. They managed to bicker even in a blind broadcast and people in the bullet screen even pointed it out saying what kind of sorcery that was.
"I knew he would start whining about about me. Nothing unexpected, he is a simple minded blockhead anyway."
"Ya! Who are you calling a blockhead? You talked about me before i talked about you, okay?"
Joongi and jay were laughing at them. They were bickering like an old couple. Haneul was about to warn them about their tone of voices. He felt that if they continued with this argument, the small problem could bear a big fight between them. But before he could intervene, mi jung gave a troubled smile at him and spoke.
"You two handled it well in any case. There is no reason to argue. Now that i think of it, i think we have some ice cream in the fridge. Can you bring it, yeong woo? No need to put it in to cups, just bring it like that with spoons. We could all share. And i think there is the almond milk you like as well. "
Yeong woo made a perplexed face. His facial expressions always made the members smile. He got up from where he was sitting exitedly jumped onto him to give a hug to mi jung.
"Ah, hyung you bought almond milk for me? Thank you!"
Patting his back a little mi jung send him to the kitchen and whispered to haneul with a grin on his face.
"I also like almond milk though."
Status Power Mingguan
-- Peringkat
Power 
-- Power
stone