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Post by Taijia Lin on Mar 22, 2019 23:56:54 GMT -8
[[This thread is backdated to 16 March 2019.]]
Tai woke up at 5 a.m. on the day of the audition. The audition started at 8 a.m., and he and Uncle Jin were picking up Anya and Elena at 7 a.m. so that they could get down to the hotel in SoDo where the auditions were being held. He had picked out clothes, showered, and packed all the things he would need the night before, but he needed to get a morning workout in so that he'd be limber and ready when it was time for him to audition.
His Uncle Jin had just made his way out into the kitchen as Tai walked quietly from his bedroom to the dance practice room, and Uncle Jin waved tiredly as he started tea and breakfast. Tai did a simple warm up and then ran his audition routine twice. He'd decided to pick one of the songs that he liked from Yuseong's discography that had a good dance beat but was a B-side track and didn't have choreography. From what Kangwan had said, it was a song that they'd never really performed live except a few times on radio programs. It had meant starting from scratch for choreography, but it was a fun song to sing that showed off that he was well trained without being too hard to sing while dancing.
He'd practiced guitar and keyboard the night before, and his guitar and easily portable keyboard were in their cases by the door, waiting to go out to the car. He made sure not too take too long on the work out, going and taking a quick shower to rinse off before getting dressed. He did light makeup, just what he'd do for a dance performance. He felt like it made him look more ready, and just a little bit less too young. It was one of the downsides for being short for his age, especially when he was already near the bottom of the age range even accepted to the audition.
Finally, after he'd eaten some rice and grilled fish and had some tea, it was time for them to go. Uncle Sheng came upstairs on his way to the ice rink and gave Tai a hug on the way out the door, helping to load the instruments into the back of the car. He told Tai softly, "Good luck, I know that you'll be great."
He tried not to be overly excited in the back seat of the car as they drove the blocks to Anya's house and the houses got bigger and fancier around them. It was finally nearly there, and Tai knew that they were both ready to make a good impression, and hopefully get invited to the training camp over the summer, where a final audition would select the best of the trainees who had auditioned during the global auditions.
Anya Young
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Post by Anya Young on Mar 23, 2019 8:15:32 GMT -8
Anya was excited and nervous for today. When they had first talked about it, it felt like the auditions were years away, but suddenly it was already March. She was happy to say she was ready, at least. She could do the choreography in her sleep, and her mom was surprisingly supportive of everything. She now had three months of music lessons behind her, and they would continue until she went to Korea, if that happened this year. She had also started learning other dances on her own, so even though she couldn't yet create her own choreography like Taijia could, she was becoming faster at learning new dances while still retaining the dance she needed to focus on.
She had asked Taijia far too many questions the night before, but at least felt like she was prepared. She chose black, sparkly leggings and a long light blue shirt intentionally faded. She had wanted to wear heels, if anything to help her look a little taller, but her mom refused to buy her any new shoes, so she went with her flats instead. At least they matched her outfit. Remi, half awake but wanting to be supportive, helped her braid her hair into pigtails, whilst grumbling about how early it was. Her mom helped her put on a little bit of makeup so it was natural-looking. Just as she had finished up, her phone rang. "So early?" Elena said at the same time as Anya pouted at her.
Anya listened to as much of the conversation as she could.
"Is she okay? ... yes, I understand... well, I..." She turned and looked at Anya, then glanced to Remi, who seemed to be trying to get in a nap on the couch. "I can, I think. Give me a moment." She brought the phone down and against her chest. "Remi," She waited for a response. "Can you go with Anya, there's been an emergency with one of my patients."
Remi opened his eyes, looking at his mom with what seemed like confusion at first. "Um... sure." He finally stated after a few moment. He grumbled something inaudibly, then, a bit louder, mentioning he was going to get dressed.
Elena gave a sigh of relief, returning to her phone call. "Yes. I'll be there as soon as I can." She hung up, frowning as she looked at her phone.
"What is it?" Anya asked her, quirking her head to one side.
"Yunjin should be here any minute." Elena explained. "I wish I could call and tell him the change of plans, but I really must be going, you and Remi can handle that, right?"
Anya smiled and nodded.
By the time Remi came back down, Elena had already left. Remi was in a simple jeans, t-shirt, jacket combo and almost seemed more comfy than when he was in pajamas. He looked around the empty house, then to his little sister. "Should we like... wait outside or something?"
Anya glanced at her phone and nodded. "They should be here any minute now so I think that's a good idea. Mom said we'll tell Yunjin the change of uh... chaperone. I guess."
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Post by Taijia Lin on Mar 25, 2019 21:09:29 GMT -8
When they got to Anya's house, Tai got out of the car to go ring the doorbell, and he was surprised to see Anya and Remi standing outside, but no sign of Mrs. Young. He waved to Anya, mostly ignoring Remi, and he walked over to where she was, asking, "Are you ready to head out? Uncle Jin says we should be in good time to get a decent parking spot as long as we head out soon."
He glanced up at Remi and asked, slightly puzzled, "Are you coming?"
He glanced back at Anya and asked, "Where's your mom?"
He added, remembering something that he was supposed to tell her, "Depending on how much you're bringing, there's room in the trunk, but my guitar, keyboard, dance bag, and backpack with homework and my laptop are already in there, so some stuff might have to go in the back seat with us."
He was bouncing up and down on his toes a little bit, clearly excited and wanting to get going.
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Post by Anya Young on Apr 16, 2019 23:10:32 GMT -8
Remi shrugged, "I guess." He said simply, hands in his pockets.
"She had an emergency with one of her clients, so Remi's going to be my adult instead." Anya explained more in-depth. She put a hand on her shoulder strap to her backpack, "This is all I'm bringing. Since I can't play any instruments yet..." She seemed nervous, but also like she was trying not to show it.
"Remi, are you ready?" Anya asked, looking back before realizing Remi was already heading to the car. She shrugged to Taijia, "I guess he is. Then let's get going!" She told Taijia, her nerves showing through a bit as she bounced around a bit.
"Hi Mr. Lin." Remi began after he opened the door. "My mom had an emergency with one of her clients so she told me to come as Anya's chaperone instead." He explained flatly.
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Post by Taijia Lin on Apr 17, 2019 0:46:41 GMT -8
Tai grabbed Anya's hand, giving it a comforting squeeze and said, "Come on, we don't want to be late," before starting to tow her towards the car and the open trunk where they could drop off her backpack. He got into the car just as his Uncle Jin and Remi were talking, and buckled himself in promptly, waiting for Anya to come settle at the other end of the back seat.
Yunjin told Remi, "I'm glad that you're able to be here for her then. I'll treat all three of you to Korean BBQ at the place near where the audition is being held after they're all done if that sounds good to everyone."
He looked over at Remi, knowing that bribing the young man with food was often an effective way to get him on his best behavior.
From the back, Tai replied in Korean, "That sounds good."
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Post by Anya Young on Apr 22, 2019 19:01:47 GMT -8
"Sweet!" Remi said excitedly as he climbed into the front seat. He seemed a bit more awake at the promise of food.
Anya put on her seatbelt, still nervous, but happy to be doing this with her best friend. "Sounds good!" She said enthusiastically, also in Korean. She had been up later than usual practicing her song, but her mom made her go to bed at 11:30. She knew she should have been tired, but her excitement and nerves wouldn't let her sleep on the way even if she wanted to. She looked at her brother and Yunjin before turning to Taijia, and in a low voice, asking, "have you talked to Thomas or Kangwan lately?"
Remi seemed to settle back into a drowsy existence as they headed to Seattle, playing a game on his phone. He had his headphones plugged into it, but didn't have them on, trying to silently let Yunjin know if he wanted to make any samall talk he'd accept it, but was also fine with a silent drive.
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Post by Taijia Lin on Apr 22, 2019 21:45:43 GMT -8
It was early enough that while Tai was awake, he wasn't exactly horribly talkative, even for him. He told Anya, "I called them last night. They said do well for both of us."
He drifted off into silence, mostly just watching as the trees and buildings went buy as the car headed south. They managed to get pretty good traffic, probably because it was so early in the day on a weekend, and they got down to the SoDo after passing through the underground part of I-5 in downtown earlier than they absolutely needed to. They still had about fifteen minutes until the check in line for the auditions started.
So that they didn't end up waiting outside in the chilly, slightly drippy weather, Yunjin steered them into a coffee shop and asked, "What do all of you want?"
Tai eyed the selection, knowing that most of it wasn't really stuff he wanted to eat right before dancing, and he'd eaten a good breakfast and had snacks in his bag that were good for in the middle of things. He noticed that there was loose leaf tea on their menu, and told Yunjin in Korean, since he figured it was polite to at least vaguely include Remi and Anya was getting better at Korean, "Can I just get a cup of tea, they've got an oolong."
Yunjin nodded and relayed his own order of a cup of oolong and a piece of banana bread along with another cup of oolong for Tai, then looked at Remi and Anya to see what they wanted. While he was waiting for everyone's orders, the barista brought over the teas, foldable tea bags still in the cups. Yunjin was relieved that they'd had a water heater with a reasonable temperature of water for steeping the tea that they'd poured from.
Tai turned to Anya and told her, "If you didn't have a good breakfast before you left, you should eat something with protein now. They've got some breakfast sandwich things."
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Post by Anya Young on May 13, 2019 20:11:45 GMT -8
Anya was a bit surprised as they pulled into a coffee shop, but she was happy to get some food in her system. She eyed the breakfast sandwiches as Taijia mentioned them, whispering to him, "I don't want to get anything too heavy... maybe I should go for that healthy looking one?" She asked him, pointing to one of the sandwiches.
"I want a caramel macchiato... please." Remi told Yunjin, just barely seeming to remember his manners, "And that bacon breakfast sandwich.
"Uh..." Anya began, looking at the food, "A peppermint tea and that sandwich?" She said hesitantly, pointing to the healthiest looking one.
Remi pulled out his wallet and looked to Yunjin, "Should I pay for me and Anya?" He asked in a low voice, somewhat hesitantly.
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Post by Taijia Lin on May 13, 2019 20:43:50 GMT -8
Yunjin smiled at Remi and said, "I'm not going to stop you from paying for the two of you, but I've certainly got it covered."
Once Anya had made some sort of decision, Tai wandered over to a table near the corner of the room and sat in one of the seats with its back to the wall, waiting for his tea to be sufficiently steeped. His eyes wandered back to the clock on the wall of the coffee shop every few minutes, clearly not wanting to be even a little bit late.
Yunjin came over to join him with his own food and drink, and Tai asked, "How early do you think it's OK to get there?"
Yunjin glanced at his cell phone and said, "It's about ten minutes until the check in for the audition even opens, and we're about a minute walk away. We probably shouldn't leave until there's only five minutes left at the earliest. Official check in lasts for an hour, and we've got all our paperwork already in, so we aren't going to have to wait in the paperwork line."
Tai asked Anya, "You got all your paperwork in too, right?"
It didn't take long for the five minutes to pass, and Tai had managed to drink about half of his tea. He was still carefully sipping it as they walked over to the hotel where the audition was being held. There was a bit of a line on the day of sign ups side, but the line for people to check in who had already done all their paperwork was pretty much empty.
He glanced over at Anya and asked, "Are you ready?"
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Post by Anya Young on May 29, 2019 19:23:55 GMT -8
Anya sat next to Taijia as she got her drink and food, swinging her legs as she stared at her drink, hands hovering over the sandwich as she waited for it to cool down.
Remi shrugged, "In that case, thanks." He said simply, though suddenly not struggling as much to remember his manners as he got his free coffee.
Anya nodded to Tai's question. "Yup! We won't have to wait for that at all." She ate about half the sandwich before pushing the rest to Remi, making a face, "It's too healthy..." She pouted.
Remi snorted and took the rest of her sandwich, finishing it off within about two bites.
Anya's face instantly changed into a smile as Taijia asked if she was ready, though she was obviously still nervous. "As ready as I can be." She said, taking her tea and following Taijia out. As she scanned the line for people who still had to sign up, her eyes widened. "So many people older... and taller... than us. I've never felt so short." She looked down at Taijia, giving him a teasingly pitiful look, "I can't imagine how you must feel." She said, punctuating her sentence by sticking out her tongue a little.
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Post by Taijia Lin on May 30, 2019 1:33:37 GMT -8
Taijia was relieved that he didn't have to deal with all that much hassle to get in. He had to show his ID, check his information on their list, which his Uncle also confirmed, and then he was given a name tag that he carefully attached to his shirt, and an audition group and number. He was pleased to see that he was in the first audition group, at number five. He didn't quite know how many people would be in an audition group, but he was glad that he wouldn't have to go first.
Once they were through the line, they were showed to one of the conference rooms at the hotel, where there were chairs that lined the walls, and there was some space that had clearly been set up for people to practice. There weren't many other people there yet, and Tai figured that most of the people who would be there were still in line outside, or if they'd set things up in advance had not aimed to get there quite so early.
Yunjin set himself up at one of the little tables in a corner where he could put up his laptop, since he would be having to wait for a while, and Tai carefully made sure that his instruments and dance bag were by his Uncle. Yunjin had helped him carry in some of it though.
While Yunjin got settled, Tai started warming himself up, checking with Anya to see what her audition group would be and making sure that she was able to get the chance to warm up as well. They had about forty-five minutes until the audition process was actually supposed to start, and Tai knew that that time would fly by, especially because he was finally starting to feel the nerves. He knew that he couldn't do anything too strenuous because he didn't want to make himself tired, but he was definitely sizing up the competition a little bit as more people began to filter into the room.
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Post by Anya Young on Jun 7, 2019 19:07:52 GMT -8
As Anya got through the check-in process, she was a bit disappointed to find she was 20th for the first group. She had set up her application almost at the same time as Taijia yet they were still so far apart in the lineup. She watch as Remi sat down on the other end of the table as Yunjin, looking at his phone and all together looking half asleep. She huffed at her brother and joined Taijia in warming up. "I was really hoping to get a low number like yours... I can't imagine there's many more than 20 people in a group." She whined to him.
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Post by Taijia Lin on Jun 18, 2019 0:26:53 GMT -8
Taijia said, "Well, if we're both in the first group, we'd better get warmed up. And at least we're both in the first group, so we should get to watch each other I bet."
He started doing his own warm up properly, half expecting Anya to just follow along, since they'd warmed up together like this plenty of times before. He knew that he had to hit the right balance of having his muscles warm enough but not making himself tired. Anya would have more time to wind down from warm up, so once he was fully warm, he was going to prod her to rehearse her actual dance.
There were other people around the room doing similar things to the two of them, and Tai realized that they were by far the two youngest in the room. Everyone he was seeing so far in the waiting room was in group one, so he figured that either this was the waiting room for the first audition group, or it was just the pre-registered people who were in so far. He heard bits of people singing, saw them dancing, heard bits of rap floating around the room.
He was pretty sure that he was near the top of the people in this room skill level wise, and he was going to keep telling himself that until he was done with the audition because he needed to be self assured and go out there and do his best.
He asked Anya as he finished his basic warm up, "Do you want to run your dance and song? I don't think that we should play music loud because it's a shared area, but I can let you use my headphones, or play it soft."
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Post by Anya Young on Jun 22, 2019 10:29:45 GMT -8
Anya copied Taijia's warm ups, as even though she knew how to warm up on her own at this point, it was just what she was used to doing. She kept her eye on the other people coming into the room, noting they were pretty young in comparison to the other people auditioning. She wondered if they'd end up being the youngest all together, though she was pretty sure she already knew that answer for Taijia.
Tai's voice brought her back to focus and she nodded before she had fully processed what Taijia had asked her. "Oh I knew I forgot something when leaving the house!" She said with a pout. "I'll just play it softly. Can you watch and let me know I'm perfect?" She said with a laugh, "I need the confidence boost. I'm so nervous now."
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Post by Taijia Lin on Jun 22, 2019 23:49:55 GMT -8
Tai watched Anya run through, making notes of things to remind her of and how to praise or encourage her. He wasn't going to make her feel more nervous considering it looked like she was really on edge. He wanted her to do well and get invited to the camp. He wasn't worried for himself, but he was for her.
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Right after Anya finished, a member of the Dreams Ent staff came in and called out, "Audition Group 1, participants one through twenty, follow me!"
Tai turned towards Anya before he went to go grab his instruments and said in a hurried whisper, "You're going to do great, I know it. Just do it like you practiced."
He felt very small as he went to line up, dragging the rolling bag for his keyboard behind him and with his guitar slung over the opposite shoulder. He was lined up at the fifth spot, and he looked back to catch a look at Anya, wishing that he'd had more time to check on how she was feeling before they were brought back for the audition. He noticed that the boys were the first ten in the group, and the girls were the second ten. He also noticed that he was very obviously the youngest in the line up. There were a few other girls around Anya's age, though he suspected that she was the second youngest.
He was going to show just how ready he was. It was strangely reassuring to him that he was the only one with instruments in this line up, and he'd checked and they said that if you wanted to do something with instruments, you should bring your own, though a keyboard could be provided with advance warning.
He managed to catch Anya's eye and mouth one more time, "You've got this."
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