#limsejun

Chapter four

Character moodboard: Shin Jia

"Girls girls girls! Wake up! Today is the day! We have to get ready! We have to dress to impress girlies!¨ Sua busts out of her room, walking from room to room waking up in the girl's rooms. Oddly cheerful for a Monday at 6 am, from knocking on door frames to ripping covers off of their sleeping bodies. Sua did everything to wake her younger friends up.

¨Do we have to wake up this early?¨  Anna complains and gets out of bed to get the first dibs of the shower. She quickly walks into the bathroom with the clothes that she had picked out the night prior and closes the door to begin her. While Anna takes her shower, Sua begins to cook the breakfast so they don't faint during the audition. Azumi; having showered the night before, is doing vocal warm-ups before getting dressed and doing her hair and makeup. Haru panics to find an outfit because unlike the youngest, she did not plan ahead of time.

After the chaos of the early morning dyed down, they all took separate cars to the building. Completely ready for the audition with all of the songs and information that they needed for said audition. The second they arrived at the SM building they could see all of the people waiting to be signed in. After they all got out of their respective cars they walked to the end of the line to begin the wait.

Haru looked over the group of people and noticed how all of the girls there were indeed tiny. She was one of the tallest people in that line. Even coming in taller than some of the men there. She was never one to be insecure about her height, but at this second she was worried about all of the flaws that have been pointed out to her over the years. As if she blacked out, Haru and her friends were quickly next in line. Anna and Beom being signed in first and taken into the room. Haru saw how before they even began dancing the lady holding the audition was poking and prodding at their cheeks and stomachs and making comments as if they were cuts of meat at the grocery store. Jia was signed in next and was told to go in once one of the three girls in the room leaves. Haru's heart rate began to quicken, she was next in line. What if she messed up? What. Is she wasn't talented enough? Is she too tall, will they say that she's built like a guy just like Jaehyun would say to her?

The person at the sign-in desk called Haru up to get signed in. She gave him all of the information he needed and once the girls that were auditioning were out of the room, she walked in.

"Hello, please introduce yourself. We need your name, your age and your height and what you will be doing, whether that is singing, dancing, or rapping we will need to know." The older lady at the table in front of her deadpanned. Haru can only imagine all of the things she's heard today.

"Ah yes," she bows to them so as to not be rude. "I'm Kim Haru, I'm twenty years old, born in 1999. And I'm 5'9, today I will be singing Nostalgic Night by Victon," she quickly began her performance so as to not waste the poor ladies' time. She could see that once her singing began she wrote some notes down, the look on the lady's face wasn't dissatisfied but it also wasn't impressed. She was boosted with confidence however when she began rapping Hanse's raps and the lady looked at her in awe.

Haru left the audition satisfied but at the same time mildly offended. She was told by the women that she was indeed talented but 'too tall' and that she would 'stick out like a sore thumb if put into a group with normal-sized girls'. But Haru knew that she wasn't gonna leave the audition without being ridiculed. But away they went to a pub to eat something because they were all starving.

The drive was quiet and awkward for the girls, of course, all six of them couldn't fit into one cab so they split it up halfway. But they were clearly all too nervous to speak to each other. Too nervous or offended by whatever was said to them in the room.

"So how many of you were offended by that lady because of something stupid?" Anna breaks the silence and the other two girls in the car lighten up and nod.

"Oh my god yes, she told me that my skin had gold undertones and she thought it would look weird. Who cares about the undertones of someone's skin when put in a group with other people?" Jia blurts and massages her temples in frustration.

Anna scoffs and shifts in her chair, "she told me that my eyes are too light of a brown. They really weren't lying when they said SM was shitty."

"Hey hey hey, they might be shitty but they made some of Korea's best kpop groups." Haru defends, "but that lady said I was too tall, I was expecting that though."

The cab that the girls are in comes to a stop, they thank and pay the driver and wait for the other three at the door of the restaurant. Once the other three pull up they all walk into the pub and sit down.

"Don't talk about your auditions yet I have to go to the bathroom, ill be right back." Azumi rushes to the bathroom in the back of the store and the other five try to figure out what to order. They all order cola and some soup to start off. Making small talk about things other than the audition for when Azumi comes back.

"Excuse me, girls, this might be strange but would you be interested in auditioning for Fantagio? We can almost assure you that you five will debut in a group." A lady around their age walks up to the girls handing them each business card.

"Oh cool, yeah sure well check it out." Sua examines the card and the lady walks away.

Jia gasp and leans into the four other girls to whisper something to them, "Fantagio is the company Astro is under. If you guys won't audition, I literally will." Where eyes sparkle while talking about her favorite boy group.

"Sure we can audition, but don't get your hopes up, remember what the last lady said." Beom takes a sip of her drink.

Azumi rushes back to her seat at the table, face pale and eyes watery. She's breathing a bit faster than normal.

Two precious boys

🎉🎉🎉💖Congratulations on VICTON's 3 years of operation✨🎉🎉🎉

So it has been 3 years. I have a lot to say now, you've been through a lot of things, and so am I. I cried when I heard "Here I Am", its melody and lyrics made me think about many things that happened. Right now I am grateful, grateful that you are VICTON, because you did not give up, because you have been through the past time together and come back with everything better👏🏻

Things were definitely tough back then and I felt very sorry about it. I feel blessed to know you and being an Alice, to be happy to hear your voices and read news about you. I feel like I'm really in a unilateral relationship that I just need to see your smiles every day so I feel happy. Every piece of you, every song, every lyrics of all your expressions filled my boring days, healing all the fatigue around me. I am truly grateful for that.😇😇 How lucky that I am here right now and writing these words to you (even though you may not be able to read it), if I didn't know VICTON I wouldn't know how the days of my life go on..❤️💜💚🧡

I have been waiting for your return after finishing the European tour. It was not short or long time, and then the announcements flooded my social accounts, the activities of the members and the way people were crazy about the charm of Seungwoo oppa and Byungchan oppa,acting of Subinie . And after all, as a result of the effort, you are back with fan meeting, comeback schedule, and Asia tour, which makes me happier than ever. Those memories are still very well kept by me in my mind.💕💕

We have gone through days full of emotions of happiness, tiredness and hardship, those are the wonderful days when we are together. And now we have just turned into a new path where we will step on success and happiness, as long as we have each other.💗💗

A lot of things come to mind that I want to say but don't know where to begin... I really want to tell you that 💘I LOVE YOU💘 very much, your music is ✨THE BEST✨ melody in my life. I just want you to know that I'm here to cheer on your every day. All I want for you is to be healthy, happy, to pursue your passion till the end and shine by the way you want. Don’t ever feel pressured and lonely because I - Alice is always behind you watching your every step, I'll go with you wherever you go, just looking back I'll be always there. I promise!🤙🏻

The most important thing during this time is your busy schedule and what I hope that you can take more rest - DON'T BE SICK - DON'T GET HURT AND DON'T OVERWORK, my heart will break when you hurt ..🥺 All the love for the 7 pieces of VICTON. Happy 3rd year of debut - we will go together to the 30th anniversary. Promise me?