Chapter 26

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"They practiced this with vocals so we're gonna hear them sing and dance. And this is an English song." Greg stated that made Taemin clap that is followed by the cheers of their co-trainees especially the boys and the Rookies.

She once again glanced at Ten who looks more excited than her. Rather, she's not excited at all and is just trembling in nervousness.

Star sighed when she heard the first beat of the music. They will be doing a modern dance with swift moves and some parts will show G-style. The five is doing good with their synchronized moves and facial expressions.

Seomin is the one to sing the first part, "I'm feeling sexy and free, like glitters raining on me. You're like a shot of pure gold. I think I'm 'bout to explode."

There are sexy parts as well that their male co-trainees cheered loudly. Star winked at one of them who is a good friend of him, and it was because of overwhelming emotions she's feeling; nervousness, a bit of embarassment for she doesn't like G-style and sexy steps that much, uneasiness because Ten is watching, and focusing that she needs right now before she forget the steps. She often do impulsive things because of nervousness. She shook off her thoughts and concentrated herself with her body and the steps.

"I can taste the tension like a cloud of smoke in the air..." Hime is the one to sing for this part. Star and Daejeon are posing in the side while Hime is having her part with Seomin and Soomin as her back up dancers. Then they joined them on the chorus part which is Star's part that fits her powerful voice.

"Rock my world into the sunlight. Make this dream the best I've ever known. Dirty dancing in the moonlight. Take me down like I'm a domino. Every second is a highlight. When we touch don't ever let me go. Dirty dancing in the moonlight. Take me down like I'm a domino."

And next was a dance break thay shows G-style and a bit of hiphop with a sexy feeling. Star lead them in the middle then they continued on the singing part.

After their performance, they ran out of breath and they all fell on the floor. The five of them laughed at each other while enduring their weak legs and group hugged while kneeling. The room is filled with cheers and loud claps.

"We're finally done." Star said while panting and smiling. Then they stood and bowed at their audience.

Star checked Ten's reaction and he's clapping swiftly and smiling brightly. He then showed finger hearts than made Star laugh inside. She winked at him and then walked back to their place together with her groupmates.

"So now, what can you say?" Greg pointed at Johnny, asking him to give his reaction.

"It's amazing!" He exclaimed then clapped again. "It's breath taking!" Then he clapped again, "It's full of energy! Their vocals are so good! I like it very much! Let's prepare for your debut tomorrow!" He said sounding like a pro judge that made the listeners laugh.

"So which one did better? Is it our SR16G?" Of course the Rookies cheered for them and the others just clapped, "Or our unintroduced trainees?" Their male co-trainees cheered for them for so loud that made the room look like an arena. They went wild, hitting the floor with bottles and even waving their towels. That made Star and her other girl friends laugh. Ten cheered for them with full of energy too and her groupmates just followed him because he is so contagious.

"So for this round, I guess the unintroduced trainees did better. You all did well, it's just that some of us here is just full of energy now," then he jokingly glared at the noisy male trainees from Star's team and they just laughed at it. Taemin enjoyed watching them and even joined them laugh. He's also amazed by their skills.

"Next, our Rookies." Then he pointed her hands to the Rookies. "What will we do?" Taeyong asked.

"You can choose from your performances."

"Twinkling of Paradise?" Ten suggested. Johnny hit him on the back of his head.

"I already forgot some steps of it." He said. Star just laughed at them.

"No, let's just do Bassbot." Yuta suggested.

"Yeah, I think we shall just sit." Doyoung said while pulling Taeil to sit with him and they laughed at them. Their suggestions are those they haven't performed with them.

"Bassbot then 0701!" Hansol said and they agreed.

The six of them positioned already. Star's eyes were fixed to Ten while Ten is second by second glancing at her and smirking. His grin looks so precious and at the same, sexy.

Star then noticed Chahyun from her left with a bright expression. She's also clasping her hands and looks like she's supporting the Rookies. She scratched her furrow brows in confusion and just averted her gaze to her boyfriend.

'Wah. He's the best dancer among them... for me.' Then he smiled sweetly, 'Is he really my boyfriend?'

Ten caught her smiling crazily that made him smile widely and he felt like his energy boosted up. He winked at her and the girls that saw it screamed with the thought that they winked at them. But Star believed it was exclusive for her.

She again noticed Chahyun who's now giggling. "Yah, you look fine now." She said while smiling.

Chahyun looked shocked while looking at her and covered her smiling lips with her mouth and just continued watching the Rookies.

"You're acting weird." Star whispered but because of the loud music and cheers, Chahyun probably didn't hear it.

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Greg looked at his wrist watch then clasped his hands, "It's already 9:12, we have to go and rest. And by the way, Our Rookies have less than a week before they leave for their show in Bangkok. Let's show them support, okay?"

"Ne!" The trainees answered excitedly. The Rookies just gratefully bowed at them.

"Good. We gotta go. See you tomorrow!"

The trainees bowed at them and the Rookies followed Greg. Ten slowly walked intentionally to have a hand gesture conversation with Star.

Ten pointed upwards and made an X sign, saying she's prohibited to go to the rooftop. Star frowned and just gestured to text her later. Then Ten left with a wide smile.

"I still have something to talk about with Gahyun-ssi. Wait for me, girls." Chahyun said bluntly then stormed out of the room. Star just watched her walk away and shrugged.

"She's acting really weird." Seomin said.

"I know right." Hime agreed. "Yesterday, she was pretty happy. I even saw him chatting with Ten." Hime looked at the girls and giggled, "They looked close. Haha. I ship them!" She said cheerfully with her gands on her cheeks.

If earlier, Star has no facial expression, now, she's frowning.

"What does that mean?" She whispered.

"Huh?" Seomin said, looking at Star while wiping her back.

Star looked at her and just shook her head, "I'll just... go somewhere." Then she stormed out of the room. She heard Seomin yell but she didn't hear it well.

She ran upstairs, she is going to the rooftop.

She thought that it could be a friendly conversation but a part of her is screaming that there might be something. She don't like the idea of thinking bad things against her friend and more especially against his boyfriend. She wants to go to the rooftop where she usually relaxes her messy mind. She wants to compose her mind and erase all her negative thoughts.

As soon as she opened the door of the rooftop, she saw a familiar back of a guy, but she knew it wasn't Ten. He's holding his phone and he puts it on his ears. He's pacing from side to side and he looks worried.

Star don't know what to do. She's attempting to approach him and comfort him if there's any problem. But she's shy because they aren't close.

He then kneeled and silently cried. It made Star's heart melt and she just found herself walking towards him.

As she reached him, she tapped his back continuously and kneeled beside him. Yuta looked at her with his cheeks full of tears. He saw Star who looks very concerned about him. He wiped his tears immediately and spoke when he finally calmed his self.

"I'm sorry. Why are you here?"

"You usually have the famous healing smile." She stated.

"Huh?" Yuta asked in confusion.

"But why are you crying? What made this joyful person in front of me cry?"

While digesting her questions, his tears slowly ran down on his cheeks then started crying again. Star was surprised when he hugged her while weeping silently and she just tapped his back while listening to his sobs.