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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 9:06:41 GMT -8
Elena let Seojin go and quirked her head, then realized that she should be bowing, so she hurriedly mimicked her leader. The bowing was going to be hard for her to get used to, hopefully Seojin would be willing to keep reminding her.
Elena grasped Seojin's hand in return with both of hers, squeezing it. She was so nervous about what the CEO would think. A big grin broke out on her face and he approved of his choice, "thank you! I'll work harder!"
She watched the CEO leave and tried to hide her smile as Seojin tried to convince herself about skinship, but she'd never been great at containing her joy. She laughed a little and reached out with her free hand, tucking some hair behind Seojin's ear, "you don't have to worry," she held up their clasped hands, "I think he thinks you were trying to save him and he's probably very grateful to you."
She laced their fingers together, "if you want to think of something funny, imagine the CEO with a look of abject terror as I hugged and gave him dos besos in his office. I think I scandalized the poor man." She giggled. "So, yeah. I'm pretty sure he just thinks that this," she waved their clasped hands, "was your version of a leash."
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Post by Woo Seojin on Jul 25, 2020 9:31:52 GMT -8
Seojin relaxed fractionally, giving Elena a small smile. She asked, "Did you really? Oh dear, we're going to have to work on who is a safe hug target. Not the CEO, in the future. From the considered socially acceptable standpoint, other members of the group are probably the safest. Greetings wise though, verbal greetings, bowing, and maybe hand shakes are kind of what's going to be expected."
It was a relief to know though that the CEO probably did just think that she was humoring the overly touchy foreigner, even though that wasn't what this was, at all. Seojin didn't know what it was, but while her rational brain was saying it was dangerous, she liked it too much to justify trying to distance herself from Elena when the other girl clung to her.
She glanced at the clock on the wall and said, "What do you want to do for the next few hours? We could go hang out back at the dorm and give you the chance to unpack and start settling in, and then we'd be there when the other girls got back, or we could go back to the dance studio or something?"
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 9:50:04 GMT -8
Elena nodded at Seojin's explanation of how she should behave, "can I stand next to you... like always?" She was being serious. "I might need an actual leash," she waved their hands again, "and some reminders to bow and be less.... Spanish."
She mulled it over a little, "did my brother have these issues?" Elena had already adopted Felix as part of her family even though she'd never met him. She also kept calling him brother because she really was bad with names, nicknames worked better for her.
"Hugging and dos besos to me is the same as a bow or handshake to you, which is why I keep forgetting." she knocked on her head.
She thought about what they should do, "what would you be doing if I wasn't here, unnie? Let's do that."
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Post by Woo Seojin on Jul 25, 2020 11:56:45 GMT -8
Seojin gulped and nodded. She said, "You can stand next to me."
She wasn't sure why that simple statement made her quite so nervous. She tried to focus on the professional side of it and added, "Probably the place that makes the most sense for you to stand is between me and Anya."
That would make the line up that they'd been practicing at least sort of symmetrical with tall people, and Anya's Korean had gotten so much better since she started. It was also relatively close to how the six person dance positions would start out, which would make getting into position from entrance to dance to exit would be easier. Also, Anya wasn't likely to be too bothered by how touchy Elena was.
Seojin thought about how Felix had adapted for a bit. She said, "I think that Felix maybe had an easier time. He and Tai and Seoji were the original set of the boys, and he and Tai were close from training camp, and Seoji likes skinship from what I've seen. Maybe having the training camp, where there were a lot of other trainees as when he started out made things easier. It sounds like he sticks pretty close to Seoji at school for the most part too, though they're not in the same majors in high school, since Felix is in dance and Seoji's in vocal."
Seojin smiled and said, "I'd probably be in the dance studio, maybe working on a cover or keeping up with current popular dances. Since I'm main dancer, there's a good chance that variety shows will want me to do random play dances, or at least try. If you want to join me to work on learning some new dances to be able to do random play covers, that would be good, since the rest of dance line hasn't had as much time because of school."
She realized that she didn't know what Elena's school schedule was going to look like, so she asked, "Have they figured out a school situation for you yet? It's early in the school year here because the school year starts in March, and I just graduated back in February."
She was pretty sure that Elena would still be in school, unless she was the kind of person who had graduated ridiculously early the way that Tai was going to, because she'd called Seojin and Hayun "unnie," and Seojin was at the very young end of having been old enough to have graduated, and there were people her age who were still in the final year of high school.
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 14:04:09 GMT -8
Elena looped her arm with Seojin's again, sticking to her side, "great! This'll be my spot." She placed her hand on the top of Seojin's head and ran it down the length of her side, following the curve of her neck, then down her shoulder and arm, to her thigh and down her leg until she reached the ground. "I claim this for Elena!" she said, standing back up and putting an arm up in the air triumphantly.
"Wait.... what side is Anya on? Did I claim the wrong side?" she shook her head at herself, fretting if she'd need to unclaim and reclaim her spot.
"Nombre del hermano es Felix..." she muttered to herself, trying to get that into her head. Who was she not supposed to be clingy with in J.B.N. again? Tai? No, Tai was the one who danced with brother. Anya? No, Anya was best friends with Seoji, or was it Tai. What was she supposed to remember about Jane again? She shook her head, tossing away her confusion.
"Yes, let's go dance again. I like watching you dance, unnie." Elena said, pulling on Seojin's arm and heading towards the door.
"I finished school a little early, but I'm doing my bachillerato from home. In Spain, school is only mandatory until you're 16, and I jumped ahead a grade early on. If you want to go to university though, you need to take bachillerato, so I'm doing that. It's different, right?" she tried to explain. She was willing to go into more detail if Seojin had questions.
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Post by Woo Seojin on Jul 25, 2020 14:38:35 GMT -8
Seojin shivered a little bit as Elena ran her hands down her side, closing her eyes against the overwhelming nature of how Elena was touchy, not quite sure how to deal with the sensation, knowing that she was blushing again. She managed to squeak out, "You, uh, got the correct side."
She was a little bit dazed as they started heading to the dance studio, but she figured that dance would help. She could mostly dance on auto-pilot, or just let herself sink into dancing and ignore just about everything else.
She tried her best to focus on the discussion of school. She said, "That means you'll probably be here mostly with me and Shieon then. It's probably lucky that you're doing your last bit of school online. It's going to be easier than coordinating schedules with school. Especially since the three members that are still in school are all at different schools, though maybe the last year Jane's in high school and the first year Anya's in high school, they'll end up at the same place."
She thought about it a bit more and asked, "Bachillerato is that like Baccalaureate? Like what a lot of international schools do as their programs? I'm used to the idea of school systems being different. Going back and forth between Korea when I was little, to the US for middle school, and back to Korea, because I got really good grades all through ended up with me sort of a year ahead. Because the school years don't line up, but I went into the next grade one of the times because I'd completed enough and did well on placement tests and stuff. And Felix is a year older than Seoji and Hayun, but because of how transferring worked out for him, he's in the same grade with them now. Jane came in from the UK school system, and at first she went to a British international school for her last year of middle school here, and Anya and Tai came in from the US system, but Anya went in to an American international school, and Tai went into a local middle school, and Tai ended up the year ahead of her."
She was babbling again. That wasn't normally a problem that she encountered. She was kind of relieved when they made it back to the dance studio, and she asked, "Are there any senior groups that you really like or know dances from already? Or anything new that you want to learn? Or just groups that you like in general? I'm happy to just pull up new and popular things and we can pick something, but if there's something that you want to do, we can go with that."
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 15:02:49 GMT -8
Elena poked Seojin in the side, "good, I picked the right side," she grinned.
She thought Seojin was so cute when she started babbling but she found herself blanking on every name she said. "Jane! She's British! Oh, that helps. Jane is the one I don't touch, right?" She looked at her unnie apologetically, "sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt."
She tried to answer the school question, "Yes, like a.... whatever that word was that was similar but not quite the same," Elena said, wriggling her fingers to try and help her point. "It's online but still in Spain, so I think it'll be really odd for me for a while. Luckily, most of it is..." she paused and switched to English, "asynchronous," then back to Korean, "so it shouldn't bother me too much. But there are some tests that I have to take with teacher present, so don't be surprised if I keep weird hours sometimes. Korea is seven hours ahead of Spain, so I might be up until midnight or one in the morning to take a five or six pm test."
"I'll learn whatever you want to learn. I want to get a better at your type of dancing, unnie, so pick something like that." Elena said, walking into the dance studio. She took off the mini jacket she'd been wearing, revealing a spaghetti strap tank top, and folded it, placing it next to the water bottle Seojin drank out of before. She took a hair tie off her wrist and put her hair up into a high ponytail. "I'm all yours," she said, walking towards Seojin with her arms open.
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Post by Woo Seojin on Jul 25, 2020 16:19:10 GMT -8
Seojin had nodded at Elena's interruption, to indicate that Elena had the right person.
She laughed at Elena's comment about midnight or one am as staying up late and said, "Don't worry, you won't be bothering anyone with times like that for a test, most of us will still be at practice. You'll find yourself staying up late for practice a lot anyhow. Practice usually ends around midnight, but sometimes it goes later. At least you'll be able to do a lot of work while the other girls are at school probably."
Seojin blinked, but accepted the hug, blushing again and turning a little bit to one side so that she could wrap one arm around Elena and use the other to pull up the tablet in the dance studio that was used for watching dance practices and choreo videos. She said, "I have a huge list that I've been working my way through learning, but three of the things on there that come to mind are (G)I-dle's 'Oh My God' which seems like it might be a good meeting in the middle point for your comfort style and some of the stuff that we lean into more, and also has an incredible MV; ITZY's 'Wannabe' which is probably the closest to the sharp and bouncy stuff that I was commenting on earlier; or Gfriend's 'Crossroads' which I was going to maybe do with Anya at some point and if you joined in on that it would be a good way to incorporate you into something."
She started pulling up the different practices in tabs so that Elena could take a look at them if she didn't have an immediate preference or so that they'd be ready for the two of them to go over together.
[[OOC: "Oh My God" MV has some very not straight moments, Seojin has feelings about this.]]
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 16:35:27 GMT -8
Elena held onto Seojin and let herself be moved to the side, keeping her arm around the older girl's waist. "I love Wannabe!" she said excited. "It's such a catchy song and I think starting with a polar opposite for me would be a good rip the bandaid off sort of thing."
She took an extra few seconds to think about the other choices, "if you want to work on having a more - I'd say Spanish but I think others would say sensual - style I'd be happy to help." She crinkled her nose mischievously, "that means I'd get to have my hands all over you. I more of a shower than a teller."
"As for the Gfriend song, if you were planning to do it with Anya, I'd want you to ask her first without me around so she felt comfortable saying no if she wanted to." Elena had been forced into too many situations with family members to ever want to do that to someone else.
"So now that you know your options, what song do you want to do?" she grinned, happy to have seemingly turned the tables.
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Post by Woo Seojin on Jul 25, 2020 16:45:19 GMT -8
Part of Seojin was tempted to say that they should do "Oh My God," just to see if Elena followed through on that, and what that would end up meaning, but it was Elena's first day there, and this was already very overwhelming. She said, swallowing a little first to clear her voice, but managing not to stumble over her words as much as she had earlier, "Let's save 'Oh My God' for sometime later in the week, but we could help each other some with it, I bet. There's several styles of dance in there."
She added, "I'll ask Anya about the Gfriend song. I don't think that she'd say no, since the company wants us doing various groupings, but that makes sense."
She continued, in responsible leader mode now, though still slightly distracted by Elena draped against her, "Let's start with 'Wannabe' though, since it will probably help the most with getting you into the right dance style for our debut comfortably."
She selected the tab with "Wannabe" and started playing it for both of them to watch, focusing carefully on the moves the first time. Once it was done, she said, "I've watched it before, so I'm about ready to try dancing it through, but we can watch it a few more times first if that will help you, or I can show you as we go through."
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 16:56:55 GMT -8
Elena was certain Seojin had been tempted but understood why she turned her down. She thought that maybe she should stop touching her so much, but didn't want to for multiple reasons, and not all of them cultural.
She watched the performance through, making sure to pay attention. She wanted to prove she could be serious and work hard. "Could I watch it a few more times?" she asked. "If you want to start dancing it, I'll stay here and out of the way. That way I can watch them and you," she said, pointing to the mirror.
She let go of Seojin and put her hands on her hips in the starting pose, practicing the shoulder move that started the song.
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Post by Woo Seojin on Jul 25, 2020 17:22:05 GMT -8
Seojin had a good memory for learning dances from watching the practices, and this was well within her comfort range stylistically. She did a few stretches just to reloosen her muscles from earlier. Carefully setting up the tablet to start playing the song and putting it where Elena would be able to see, she headed out to the center of the room where she could see herself in the mirrors to do a run through.
She liked this dance, she decided as she was doing it. She knew that she didn't have every little detail down just yet, but she'd gotten the choreo, and these were the kind of isolations that she was good at, so very different from the ones that she'd done with Elena earlier. Her moves were clear and crisp and consistently on the beat. She already had a few parts that she wanted to go back over the hand details on, especially the skipping rope type movement around the 2 minutes and 40 seconds mark of the dance.
As she hit the ending pose, she looked over at Elena curious to see what the other girl thought. She had, granted, been showing off a little bit. She knew that she learned dances quickly from video. It was something that she'd trained herself to do well over the years, but she wanted to look good at what she did in the other girl's eyes.
She asked, "Do you want to watch it again, or are you ready to try? I want to check the hand details on a few parts, but if you want, we can go through it phrase by phrase."
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 17:36:21 GMT -8
Elena clapped her hands excitedly, "Unnie was super cool! You're really good at moving like that!" She mimicked a few of the moves that were particularly crisp. "You're the best!"
She went to Seojin's side, "I think I'm ready. I'm not as fast at picking it up as you, but I'll work hard!"
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Post by Woo Seojin on Jul 25, 2020 17:46:10 GMT -8
Seojin grinned and said, "Now that there's two of us, if we're dancing it together, we should think about the formation part too. I was just dancing the center dancer throughout, so changing who I was following. Let's start with the first fifteen or so seconds that the video covers, where they're doing the clock sounding music, up through where the ringing starts."
She picked up the tablet again, showing Elena what she meant. She explained, "For this part at the beginning, with two people, it probably makes the most sense to follow Chaeryoung and Ryujin, the two framing in the front, uh, the one with the red tank top and the one with the shorter silvery hair. That way we're symmetrical and still doing something interesting, but from the 10 second point on, we probably want one person to do what the person in front is doing, and one person to do some of the hand work in the back."
She played just that part of the choreography, stopping it when the bell rang and it changed to the next part of the song. She glanced at Elena to see if the other girl was following what she was saying, and asked, "Do you prefer which of the two of them you do the part of? It probably makes more sense for you to stand in front for the bit from 10 seconds through the ringing because you're taller."
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 17:52:59 GMT -8
It was Elena's turn to be distracted. Seojin was so focused on teaching and she was skilled at explaining what was expected. Elena had to remind herself to look at the screen and listen rather than just stare at her.
"Thanks for describing them rather than using names," she said, appreciative that in such a short time Seojin was able to accommodate one of her biggest setbacks. "I'll be the one you said and stand in front first."
She rewound the video, hoping to watch it once more before they tried it. "I think I've got it," she said after rewatching, moving into the front position Seojin had indicated.
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