devotement combined with her history of hard work, it’s the recipe for success-- well, unless it breaks her first. she can already feel the fatigue creeping up on her from the brave attempt to juggle trainee schedules with a part-time job, and two youtube channels. if she had only been somewhat into dancing and working out from before, it might not have been so draining to her body, but it certainly is. at this point, the only thing that keeps her going is the sincere wish to prove herself, not only for lee hyori, all the coaches and the staff.

   for herself, for her family. 

her heart is racing when she enter the center of the small stage with hyejoo, even as she has faith that they are going to kill the performance, together. winter flower is a song that fits them both so perfectly, in her eyes, anyway. younha’s soft yet powerful tone is one that yoohyeon is easily able to mimic and even, add her own flavour to-- at least, she believe that she can sing this song quite well, that she compliment the instrumental quite alright. of course, she need a litlte more practice to actually nail the ending high notes, just a little.

as for hyejoo, her skills as a rapper makes the verses sound easy. perhaps yoohyeon is a little biased towards the younger female, although, she would argue against it-- (girl)friend or not, it doesn’t matter. she has always admired the other’s capability to deliver lyrics, as much as she can deliver herself in the way that she want to. while yoohyeon has always been confident, it’s something else when hyejoo stand on stage, when she is in her element and is performing. an ever so small smile is offered in the direction of her collaboration partner.

   then, the instrumental begin.

hyejoo open the song over the sound of piano, leading the way for yoohyeon’s vocal entrance. when it’s due time to show off, she begin softly, perfectly mimicing the original song. she is not comfortable experimenting with different vocal techniques yet, as she doesn’t know very many as prior to becoming a trainee, her only coach was through youtube. what she does know, she does use, though. seems like all of the vocal covers that she has previously posted has finally purpose, other than to simply showing off to internet viewers for fun.

their interaction during the stage is phenomenal, almost suspiciously good, in fact-- of course, being close as they are, it’s only natural that they work well together. part of her worry that the next month will be difficult, if she can’t pair up with hyejoo again. normally speaking, yoohyeon wouldn’t be so insecure, but normalcy has yet to make a presence again. as the ending come, she prepares herself for the high notes and the belting that she previously felt good about. it’s nerve-wracking to say the least, to perform in front of the ceo’s like this.

   i will be by your side~

it sounds a little strained as yoohyeon didn’t properly activate her core, despite knowing what great importance that has. she might be able to fool some of the other trainees to think that it sounds amazing-- the coaches, on the other hand? the ceo’s? they instantly know that she is definitely going to need more practice on her technique. not that it’s bad, but it can absolutely improve. all in all, yoohyeon is happy with her effort so far. part of the insecurity that followed her into the auditorium earlier has vanished, has made room for courage.