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heh. me and natasha are gonna delete like a really long part in ayise and i just thought of putting it here first cos just in case we may need it again o.O i realised i always have this habit haha.

Ji Eun and Hope were lagging behind the girls. 

"That's cool, your stage name is the name that you like to go by here," Ji Eun laughed. 

"Yeah, but it's good, at least I don't have to get used to a new name and others won't have to start calling me differently," Hope replied with a smile. They were not paying attention to where they were going, but they heard a faint 'this is your practice room from now on' ahead of them. 

"Hm, I guess this should be the one..." Ji Eun mumbled as she pushed open the door, thinking it was their practice room. "Strange... Wasn't Miss Song holding a set of keys just now? Why is this door unlocked?"

"Eh, they probably unlocked it long ago, since we're so far behind," Hope replied.

They entered the practice room, but it was empty.

"Where did everyone go?" Hope asked, looking around. 

"Meh, they're probably somewhere else... Should we start practising?" Jieun asked. 

"Haha, sure. There's this dance that I really want to learn!" Hope replied enthusiastically, taking out her tablet and looking for a dance cover of the song. 

"Eh? Be Mine? By Infinite?" Jieun asked, watching Hope observe the dance step. 

"Yup, it's cool, isn't it?" Hope replied, gesturing to the tablet. Jieun nodded. 

"Can I learn it with you?" Ji Eun asked. Hope nodded as she turned back to her tablet, replaying the dance once again. 

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"Do you hear Be Mine playing in our practice room?" Minho asked Onew as they stood outside. Onew nodded. 

"Who's inside?" Key pushed from the back. "Oh, are the Infinite members here? Woohyun?" He asked excitedly.

"Omo, did they come to give us a surprise?" Taemin asked. "Is it a hidden camera? Hyung, go check it out!" He pushed Onew towards the door. Onew looked at his members in confusion. Kids, he thought.

He carefully pushed the door open, and In the room were two girls, one wearing a golden yellow shirt with matching pants, the other wearing purple hoodie and matching pants. The one in purple was significantly taller than the one in yellow, and the latter possessed a baby face. Ah, the one in purple must be the older one. Onew thought.

"Omo! Onew!" Hope quietly whispered to Jieun. 

"Oh, annyeonghasaeyo!" They immediately greeted with a 90-degree bow. 

"Uhm.. Not to be rude, but what are you doing here? This is SHINee's practice room," Onew stated bluntly. 

Their eyes widened. "SH-SHINee's practice room? Omo! Joesonghamnida!" They bowed. 

"Ah, it's fine. But really, what are you doing here?" Onew signaled for them to stop bowing. 

"We... We thought it was ours..." Ji Eun muttered, her face red from embarassment. Onew laughed heartily. 

When he had calmed down, he replied, "Shouldn't the rest of your members be in the practice room with you? Or are just the two of you debuting?" 

"We're a new band... Ayise.." Hope replied quitely, looking at her shoes. 

"Oh, congratulations of being able to debut," Onew smiled, "but I think you should head back to your practice room before your managers start to worry about you." 

"Kamsahamnida," they bothed bowed. "Annyeonghikasaeyo!"

"Unnie, let's go~!" Hope said, grabbing Jieun's wrist and pulling her out the door. The taller one is younger?! Onew thought. What's up with people today. The younger ones are always taller.

"Annyeonghasaeyo!" Hope and Jieun bowed as they saw the rest of SHINee. 

"Annyeonghasaeyo," they greeted back, before Jonghyun spoke up. "Wow! How tall are you?" He asked, looking at Hope.

"Um... 173 cm," she mumbled. Jonghyun's jaw dropped. Hope could hear the rest of the SHINee members snickering. 

"You're the same height as me! This is unfair!" Jonghyun whined. Chuckling, Hope and Ji Eun bowed slightly as they decided to look for their practice room. 

"Yah! Where did the two of you go? We were worried for you!" Aimi exclaimed the moment the two found the correct practice room and entered it.

"Mianhaeyo Unnie, we went to the wrong one..." Hope said, taking a seat in the team circle the group has formed on the floor.

"See? This is what you get for not paying attention to where you were going!" Aimi scolded. "Whose practice room did you go to anyway? One of the seniors?" 

"SHINee's," Ji Eun replied sheepishly.

"Oh! Was Minho Oppa there?" Angelle piped up. 

"Yes, why?" Hope replied. 

"He owes me some things..." Angelle grumbled. 

"You know Minho?" Hope asked, surprised. "You even sound like you're quite close to him."

"Duh, he's my cousin," Angelle laughed. "Everyone here knows that."

"Yes, everyone except us!" Ji Eun replied, eyes just as wide. "Why didn't you tell us?"

"I thought you knew!" Angelle exclaimed. "Rumours or gossip go around here very quickly..."

"If we did, we won't be so surprised now, would we, Unnie? Wah, I never knew that he had a cousin in Singapore...." Hope replied with a thoughtful look. "Oh, does that mean you know all the members of SHINee? Unnie, I'm totally their fan!"

Next to Angelle, Moon burst into laughter, and Hope saw the other members excluding Ji Eun starting to giggle as well.

"Why, what's wrong?" Hope asked curiously, worried that she had said something wrong.

"Gel doesn't bother about her cousin's group, AT ALL," Moon emphasized, still laughing. "She only knows their names, but not how they look like!"

Hope made a face. "That doesn't sound very possible," she asserted. "Don't you and Minho.... sunbae meet up?"

Angelle shrugged. "For one, the trainees and the idols who already debuted don't have much interaction. Second, Minho Oppa is way too busy. I only see him once or twice a year even if we're in the same company! Plus, the Hallyu wave didn't get to me much, so I didn't bother remembering his members' faces. If I did bump into them before, I certainly wouldn't have recognized them!"

"Are you sure he's busy, or does he just not want to see you?" Moon questioned. "With that stoned face of his all the time, I won't be surprised if he's a jerk. He NEVER says hi to the trainees! But anyway, you should show some care, since he's your cousin," she shrugged.

Moon always told her that, and although he was her cousin, Angelle was never affected much by it, because she knew that Minho wasn't a jerk. She narrowed her eyes at Moon for the sake of it, before covering her face with her hands in embarrassment. "Yeah, maybe I'll get Minho Oppa to introduce them to me when they're free."

xoxo

Hope™