#rkoct17eval

The confusion hasn’t settled in after a week and Rome still looks at Yixing like he needs him to explain what the fuck is going on. It’s a trip. He went from no longer being a trainee to trainee status and debut status to leader status. Isn’t this a dream? The biggest holdup in his mind is that Jihyun isn’t there beside him for it and he thinks his confusion has a lot to do with that, with missing her, with not being able to rely on her the same way he could a few months ago. They’re independent of each other but to say he doesn’t want her support is a full-out lie. Giving her the Hongdae Talent show trophy when he meant made that feel real but nothing that happened afterwards felt like that. Yixing knows how it feels, right? For things to not feel real when someone’s not around? Living in a haze, he calls it, in a state of flux. The cast is gone from Yixing’s arm and Rome complains about not being able to sign it in time because he signed later on, signed after Yixing got it taken off. “Did you keep it? How’s the hand feeling?” Isn’t it his dominant hand? They’re waiting to do the hand grip test and he worries that Yixing will feel weird about it. The injury to Rome’s shoulder was a while ago but it took him too long to let it heal properly. He hopes his friend and their group leader doesn’t do the same. Neither Yien or him could convince Yixing not to join in on some of the tests already but they’re near the end. Almost home-free. 

( a starter for @rkxminah )

suji feels like she’s barely become a trainee when she’s told that they’ll be undergoing the october evaluations. while she believes she’s fit, she’s not so sure anymore when she hears of some of the things that they have to do in the evaluation. it reminds her of the physical exams that they had to take in high school ( but somehow much worse since it had been so long since she had actually done some of these things ). 

@rkxiao

physical education has neither been his favorite nor his best subject back when he was still in school, sports has never been one of his strong suits. it doesn’t matter if it’s about playing basketball or scoring a goal at soccer, if it’s about sprinting across a field or doing tons of push ups -- baekhyun’s pretty much always sucked at all of it.

which is pretty much the reason why he’s been wishing for the dreaded dance routines to return, why he’s been praying for the evaluations about dance to just go on like they’ve been over these past months ever since exam began.

everything’s better than doing sports for almost three hours straight.

                       ` oct. eval `17

                               tread with caution ⇾ tw: depression, mental instability, insecurity

since he did sports on a daily level, he knew too well how important it was to stretch and warm up before starting the work out. one of his closest friends tend to hurt himself quite often during his work outs, and the results were pain, scars and a higher possibilty of more injuries. that was why Kang Joon was extra careful to these kind of things, he didn't needed a fractured bone breaking through the superficial layers of his skin after all. his group had gathered at the seocho complex, making it a bunch of visually strong people. but the upcoming fitnesstest would show who wasn't just looks but true strength and flexibility and agility.

the tall male looked around as they were told to warm up. who was roughly the same height or like he jokingly said length as him? spotting a head rising above everyone else, he shuffled over and placed his hand on the shoulder. felt pretty well built, broad and strong. "hey dude, could you lend me your length to warm up a little?" growing a feisty grin, he took away his hand in anticipation of an epic answer. of course he wanted to show his serious side once in a while, but he couldn't hold back the clearly ambiguous comment.

@seungcheolrk

the eval hasn’t started yet, and they’re all just standing around -- the trainers had only just finished talking, so everyone was trying to figure out what group they were in, where they needed to go, where their friends ended up. it’s times like these that make jinri thankful for having the last name that she does -- it makes things like this much easier. 

she finds herself moving out of the way as people exit the room, and she ends up next to seungcheol. “hey,” she says, but is interrupted when a trainer calls for group a to follow her to the yoga studio. she sticks close to seungcheol as they make their way after her, and once they leave the crowded gym behind, jinri turns back to him. she isn’t really sure how to start what she wants to say, so she just jumps right in. 

OCTOBER EVALUATIONS ; AREA 1 –––– PUSH UPS.

jaehyun isn’t unfit. if anything he’s actually quite far from that. back in highschool he’d been in the basketball team and while he wasn’t the captain by any means, he was a pretty good player ( one of the best, if he could say so himself ). now in college, despite having no time for sports activities or clubs he does his fair share of work outs by dancing and running a few miles at the gym.

so physical tests aren’t dreaded by him –– if anything he’s a little glad that this was the evaluation for the month and not something scary like having to dance again. 

It would’ve been easy for him to slack off once he left Nova. For a few weeks, he did.