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tachibana yumika. 16. trainee since: january 2020.

[lgcyumika]

**+ emotion

[lgcyumika]

yumika is absolutely and utterly adorable. this girl really got his elder brother senses tingling all over. a smile on his lips so wide and genuine like one rarely gets to see, he musters all of his core strength to not chuckle just so she wouldn’t feel like he made fun of her.

jongsuk himself wasn’t an experienced actor. all his acting was limited to photographers telling him to look a certain way or him telling models to do so. 

“unhappiness or sadness, depending what expression you want to express,” he explains before attempting to show her a demonstration of the difference. going from happy to unhappy and then to sad was perhaps not the easiest transition but he made sure to look a tad extra more defeated for the last one.

she watches what the other does and then nods to it. every day, it feels like she learns something new. if she’ll remember it later or not is a whole another deal. yumika puts a pout on like she had done before. “unhappiness.” then she does it again, but just a tad more dramatic. to anything watching, it’s probably really funny. “sad... neck.”

the girl mispronounces it and then smiles again. looking down at her notes—which are, mostly, drawings—she tries to find any other emotions. yumika gasps and looks at jongsuk beside her. “wow! surprise!” she adds in english.

she smiles again; nods again. her first couple of months in korea and she believes she’s doing good progress. even if you study every day, it’s still hard to make sense of everything. there are so many words and so many rules. it’s easy to get lost. “is... good? was?” the girl corrects her conjugation. “what now?”

[lgcjaehwa]

《 Singing Black Hole 》

[lgcyumika]

Is Yumika even aware she had made the same mistakes from rehearsals? If she did, the same mistake would not have happened nor will she be looking confused at this moment. Gosh, how much Jaehwa hates be in this position right now. She dislikes criticizing others because she didn’t like it when her coaches do that to her too. But in order for someone to learn, it is necessary.

“Yes, bad,” her tone was firm. If given a choice, she would not be having this conversation. Her eyes fixated at Yumika trying to figure things out. It took courage for this poor girl to audition for a foreign company and it must not be easy for her during daily practices either since comments are communicated in Korean. For a moment, guilt began pouring in. Perhaps she should try to lessen her use of words.

“Remember the mistakes you made during rehearsals? You made the same mistakes again and missed the tempo of the song,” she confessed, wondering if the other understands her. “Wrong tempo,” she translates again in case the sentence was too long for her. “This is not the first time, you should be careful.”

the more the other talks the more the words make sense, and the more it hurts. she had been doing the same mistakes this entire time? they had a long time to practice—all together and alone as well. of course that the coaches pointed out when she did something wrong but, by the time they were out performing, yumika really did think she had everything learned correctly.

“tempo?” her lines weren’t much. only a few, really. it’s easy for her to get carried away with dancing and having fun to maybe end up not delivering her lines at the correct time. how could she do that any better than how she has already been doing?

yumika looks back to jaehwa with a determined look on her face and puts a hand on her knee. “jaehwa!” she says. “will you show me?” the younger girl presses her lips together and gives her a nod. if she had been making so many mistakes like jaehwa just said, then she doesn’t want to keep doing it. if anyone could teach her what is right and what is wrong, she trusts that person to be the one beside her. “what do i do?”

[lgcyumika]

**+ to bring

[lgcyumika]

he watched yumika intently for her reaction, wanting to make sure she actually did like the song she said she did, and was not saying it because she didn’t want to impose. he felt relieved whens he seemed genuine, letting his lips curl up into a small smile, he shuffled closer to yumika and nudged their shoulders together lightly, gently, in a reassuring manner, he didn’t want to jostle her too much. 

he listened intently to what she said and tipped his head forward, nodding quickly. he did believe they could do it. the first choice, bonnie and clyde, was a good song, they just had to made it a reflection of both of them. he needed to figure out how to say that clearly. puffing out his cheeks, he leaned forward to press his palms down against the table in front of them, letting his palms meet the cool surface. 

it doesn’t take long for him to find the words he was searching for, his voice soft now as he tried his best to explain, “i think so. we just need to make it fit us.” sammy offered instead, the corner of his mouth quirking upward now, “i’m sure they’d enjoy out performance if we made it fit us. we’re both young. we can make it fun and youthful. it doesn’t need to be too sexy. we can make it sweet too. we have all the time in the world to make it the right cover for us, if you want to, of course. we just need to do our best. and help each other.”

he looks like he’s thinking a lot, so yumika waits for a bad reaction to come through. he presses her eyebrows together and watches him as he moves. she’s used to taking some time to find the right words but most other people already know them. when he gives her an affirmative, though, the girl returns to her smiley expression. of course, sammy was a foreigner too—and he wouldn’t have shown her those songs if he didn’t believe they could do them, either.

“nice,” she comments in slang english. she doesn’t actually speak that language properly either, but common words everybody knows she does too. sammy speaks a lot, and yumika tries to follow while nodding her head. the word ‘sexy’ is enough to bring a bit of color to her cheeks, and for her nodding to turn into her shaking her head. that’s something she doesn’t think she’d fit very well. “sweet... is good!”

yumika usually listens to brighter songs, and also prefers to perform them. it fits her personality well. “are you good with... changing songs?” remixing, composing. turning it not sexy. before she became a trainee, the girl hadn’t received any professional lessons at all. the few musical knowledge she stores in her head is what she managed to learn during her short time in legacy. “i can’t. i’m sorry.”

[lgcsao]

﹙♡﹚ MMMCFLURRY !

[lgcyumika]

         “no!”  he yelps, then in a softer voice because that was a little too loud:  “no, it’s okay.”  he says the latter part in japanese – a phrase he had picked up back when he used to pester her endlessly about how to say things.  

        “stay here and—”  grip tightening around the surviving mcflurry, he pushes himself up onto his feet and shoves the ice cream into her hands.  “—i’ll clean it up.  just stay here ‘til i come back, ‘kay?  and if anyone catches you … tell them sao did it, because he tripped over his shoelaces.”  his nose wrinkles at the lie, but it sounds better than tripped over air.  and with a pat to her shoulder, he ushers toward the restrooms to grab a few damp towels.

        it takes him five minutes to gather all the ice cream into a nasty little wet ball, and instead of immediately throwing it away and washing his hands as any normal person would, he turns to her.  “how do you like it?”  he asks, his eyes bright, as if he’s not holding regret in both of his hands.  “the mcflurry.”

the situation is all rushed, and she takes what he gives her. the original plan had been for them both to enjoy some type of ice cream together (she hadn't quite understood all the details), but now, one found it's way to stand upside down on the floor, and the other one she holds in her hands while sao runs off somewhere else. "shoebraces...?"

yumika understands enough and sits in place waiting for her friend to return. at some point, she tries to help the fallen ice cream, but trying to move the simple bowl it comes on proves to be an easy new tragedy to come. she stops before anything worse can happen, and rests her back against the wall. however, while the boy doesn't return, she doesn't dare touch the ice cream he's given her. it'd be impolite to do so. especially after everything sao went through to deliver it to her.

"it's good!" she smiles at him while he does his best to clean. if even the girl had offered to help more than once throughout this entire process, there's a strong resistance against that option. yumika had never tasted a flavor like this. she normally has the simplest—but fantastically tasty—cones they sell. "the chocolate and the ice cream!" in reality, she can't think of a day she had bad ice cream in her life, but there's just something about this brand that makes it extra delicious. "do you want it?" she smiles. "i want [you] to!"

[lgcyumika]

shanyuan raised a eyebrow as well, letting out a small huff at her interest in food. he couldn’t blame her, it felt like he hadn’t in almost all day. they always liked to eat together whenever they were supposed to study. most of the time their studying led to being distracted by food that they got either from the lunch room or from what they ordered out. he wondered what the lunch room served, most of the time he wasn’t interested in it. though edible, it wasn’t delicious, or anything.

he rested his cheek in the palm of his hand and looked up at the girl in front of him, letting his lips curl upward into a small smile, “maybe something we haven’t tried previously?” he asked softly, staring off quietly. he licked his lower lip and shrugged his shoulders, fishing for his phone and immediately looking through his saved numbers, tapping on his internet app to look up for restaurants near them. he had an idea of what they could have, he just wanted to make sure the shop was still open. he stopped on the side of a japanese restaurant and offered his phone to yumika so she could take a proper look at it. 

“want to get some japanese food? they make pretty good mochi and matcha here, apparently.” shanyuan offered instead, pointing at the name of the restaurant. “we could order, i’ll pay for it.” he tugged his legs to his chest and rested his chin on top of his knees, lips curled upwards lightly, and eyes shining. they didn’t get much work done sometimes, but at eat they ate well.

she watches his expressions attentively and, when he looks down at his phone, she already starts to set up on moving out. the pen she had been using finds a place between the pages of her book. it serves well as both something to use to write and also to denote where she had stopped. when shanyuan says he's looking for something they haven't tried before, the girl waits excitedly to what exactly he can come up with.

"japanese?" yumika smiles and drops her head slightly to one side. of all types of food she had already tried, japanese was probably on her top rankings. she takes his phone onto her hands and looks at what he has to show. she's unsure if she's the best person to tell if a restaurant is good or not, but, once they're there, she's your girl to say if it's actually good or not. "well, i like japanese!"

with a giggle, she hands the phone back to the boy. there's no more reason to wait. yumika hugs her book and gives shanyuan an assertive nod and presses her lips. "let's go! you pay!"

[lgcyumika]

﹥ ﹥ ﹥ ﹥ #TRAINEEMISSION — WEAKNESS “   ✩ ┊ feb-apr – expression

she's unsure why, out of all the options, this is what she chose. if she had actually put some thought into it, the girl would be able to say it's to practice her pronunciation, or just her overall korean. in reality, yumika had only thought that it'd be fun.

actors get to do all kinds of cool things like saving the princess, or winning the big challenge in the end. it's only when she gets there that yumika finds out that for you to do that, there are many boring for you to go through beforehand. at first, the coaches talk, and talk, and talk, about history and technicalities—maybe? she's not too sure. when the subject gets too deep it's hard for her to keep paying attention and understanding each word.

every weekend, she had to show what she had learned, but yumika is a bit unsure what much there is to show. she stutters, and remembering long texts is hard. it's only fun when they get to pair up or do activities in groups. it's especially fun when no talking is involved.

as it's probably obvious, yumika had never received any kind of particular training before becoming a trainee. her top skill currently is dance, and it comes more naturally to her than anything else. when the task is to just move along to a certain given direction or to express yourself only through movement, that's when she does her best.

while learning a language is easiest when you're thrown into it and it's the only thing you hear every day, it's still not an easy thing to do. just like a little kid, while typical classes and seminars are boring to her, turning lessons into something practical works the best for her.

on the last saturday of evaluations, she smiles brightly at the coaches who are ready to judge her every expression. while three months didn't turn her worthy of any type of role, she figures that, in the end, she did learn a lot.

[lgcyumika]

﹥ ﹥ ﹥ ﹥ #TRAINEEMISSION — FAN HOUR “   ✩ ┊ feb-apr – performing in front of fans

she doesn’t believe it’s true. there are fifty people in front of them, and they can all be considered her... ‘fans’? she’d get to do this three times. each new performance could mean fifty completely different people.

time ticks by so slowly and so fast at the same time. only a month after joining the ranks of legacy, yumika was doing her first live performance alongside the other female trainees. now, with only one partner by her side, she gets to do it again for the fans. it’s hard to believe it, but the girl can’t contain a smile. it’s kept on her face for most of the time, only really going away when she tried to speak properly.

what they had told her before keeps in her head, however. she hadn’t been the best vocalist for “rollin’ rollin’”. she had expected as much, but not to receive criticism from her own teammate. even with only the few lines under her name, she had managed to make mistakes. more than once, even. now with only her and someone else, it feels right to feel nervous. to think that all the reactions would be given live too...

no!

yumika shakes her head and takes a deep breath. if there's something she knows is that things will turn out alright. they have so far, after all, and there's no reason for them to turn sour so suddenly. the girl had always preferred sweets.

one bad performance simply means that the better ones are still to come. yumika waves at all the people that had come to see her and makes sure to mimic whatever her senior is doing. the last thing she'd like to do now is to make a fool out of herself again. without all the crowd-related excitement, she focuses on singing more softly and not trying to do too much all at the same time.

she's unsure to tell by herself if she did better or not. her ears usually get clogged with adrenaline to pay attention to anything else. she only wishes that little by little, she gets to improve.

[eternalssul]

𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘:

MV ❀ RUANN (루안) - Beep Beep

[lgcyumika]

**+ body talk

[lgcyumika]

Jane glances over at the coaches, lips pursed in thought. Did she know modeling? Jane had been in a number of small photoshoots for her dance team over the years, but never on her own. 108 had a number of flyers plastered around the K-Arts campus, but she still wasn’t sure if that could be considered modeling. She just knew she much rather model in a group than on her own (way too much pressure).  But even with her lack of real experience, she couldn’t imagine it being difficult. 

She half-listened to the coach’s spiel as they described angles and eye contact, eventually moving on to filming product commercials and other forms of advertising. She envisioned herself on billboards holding up a random soda with a fake smile. The whole thing just seemed so…trivial. But a necessary evil in the idol profession, she supposed. And if she got a handle on her boredom long enough she’d realize how important this information really was.  It wasn’t enough to just sell out concert tickets, albums, or brands. You had to become the brand. Jane finally gives a slight shrug, “Kind of? I’ve never done it like this before.”

She turns to Yumika, chin resting on her knuckles once again. “Did you ever model back in Japan?”

she keeps looking at jane while the other thought about her question, and then looks forward to where jane was staring. it’s the dilemma she’s always hit with. she probably should be paying attention to what the coaches have to say, but it’s too fast and hard to understand. so the girl just keeps staring and trying to understand through body language.

of course, when it comes to yumika, she had never done anything of the sorts before. she hadn’t even danced or sang before coming to legacy. every small piece of this is actually considered huge in her eyes. she likes to think it must mean she always had this secret talent inside of her, but she knows she’s still nowhere near the best. and modeling, now? only some superior force could help her.

“me? no!” she shakes her head quickly, a hand in front of her shaking right along. “this is... first time? i’m only student!” it’s probably weird that someone like her doesn’t consider that a terrible fact, but it’s just how yumika is: genuinely innocent. like this job had fallen from the heavens on her lap, and that paying attention to a lecture was just too hard to try. “this... is fun?” in some way, she wanted to say this looks fun. modeling outside of just sitting and watching someone else speak. her eyes fall back down at her drawing and she runs two fingers across it. the thought comes to her. how is ears, again?

[lgcsao]

﹙♡﹚ MMMCFLURRY !

[lgcyumika]

       𝐲𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫.  and for once, he doesn’t mean that in the we’re soulmates, let’s run away and get married! way.  no, no, no.  @lgcyumika is innocent, precious, and must be protected at all costs!!  

         seriously.  

        if, hypothetically, an intruder were to invade the company grounds, he would, again hypothetically, throw himself in front of her.  and save her life.  and then he’ll be crowned as that super cool older brother side character type.  wah, what a title!

        but unfortunately, he’s not in a k-drama, so none of that happens.

        what does happen is a lot worse.

        he’s strolling back with two ovalmatine mcflurries in hand, ready to show yumika what heaven tastes like.  everything is fine until he spots her down the hallway and gets a little too excited that he trips over air and lands with a loud oof!  the right mcflurry flies out of his hands and splatters against the floor, painting it with regret.  the left one is thankfully spared, but his heart is not.  “it’s dead,”  he wheezes, looking up at yumika with such pitiful eyes that it looks like he might actually cry.  “i’m so sorry.”

she’s unsure if this sits well within the rules or not, but when sao offers her something so willingly it makes her feel like everything will be already. after all, her senior should know what he’s doing, right?

on her side of the story, there isn’t much she can do. admittedly, she forgets about it sometime later and starts doing something else within her schedule. it’s only when she sees him again that the thought returns to her head, but sao ends up on the floor.

yumika stops on her tracks, covers her mouth with both hands, and only after the initial shock that she’s able to say anything. “it can’t be! are you okay?” the girl hurries on forward, put a hand on his back as a way to say she’s there for help if he needs it. “you’re dead? you’re not!” the ice cream doesn’t pass her mind as the subject of the situation. when she looks at it she can only frown. “i’ll... help you... clean!” the girl pronounces her words slowly and offers the boy a smile. “okay?”

[lgcyumika]

     ﹥﹥ VLIVE:  NEW YEAR, NEW EXPERIENCES ﹤﹤

﹥ ﹥ ﹥ ﹥ #LGC:SECONDVLIVE — SOMETHING NEW “   ♡ ┊ 2020 – everything, still awkward

to her, everything happening this year is considered a brand new experience.

of course, she’s eaten before, but now she gets to try so many different dishes. she’s spoken for most of her life, but now she gets to try a new language to communicate. when they tell her to try something new, it’s hard for her to choose what to show. most people watching are probably used to all the things she isn’t. to try one more thing over the things she needs sounds like a bit too much for her head, though.

she takes the camera outside and smiles. “hello!” yumika speaks slowly to make sure whatever she wants to say is pronounced properly. it doesn’t always necessarily works, but repeating helps on future tries. “my name is tachibana yumika. i am a 16-year-old trainee. i joined legacy in... january!” she smiles and raised her notebook beside her face. “this is what... i’m doing!”

yumika brings the notebook forward for people to see what’s written on it. “it’s a... diary!” the word ‘diary’ is written in both japanese and korean. “i... um...” she needs to stop and think about it for a moment. having predicted such situation, she opens the notebook on a marked page where she had written what to say beforehand.

“i started writing in japanese! since i became a trainee!” her eyes shift back and forth between the diary and the camera. she doesn’t want to read right off what she had written but needs to be reminded of how some words work. “now... i write in korean!” yumika pushes the notebook forward once again so people can see. “i... did not know korean before. now i’m learning every day. i write here what i did... on the day! for... practice!”

the young trainee smiles brightly. she could feel herself improving. most wouldn’t consider her anywhere near proficient, but being able to write about her day is always much better than what she used to do right when she joined. back then, she barely knew how to speak more than a simple introduction. “i will keep writing! until i’m... good! and then... no cheating!”

[lgcyumika]

**+ emotion

@lgcxjongsuk

she smiles and pouts; smiles and pouts. they said it’s good for the face muscles or something like that. “like this.” yumika taps the arm of her partner for the exercise and then points at her own face.

legacy offered many different things for their trainees to try when they were focused on singing and dancing. she loves trying new things which is probably the reason why she manages to survive in a new country, with new people, doing things she had never done before. she’s unsure why she’s trying acting specifically, but she’s unsure of how hard it can actually be.

actors laugh and smile. crying would be hard, but she can look sad if she wants to, right? thankfully, this is a workshop for beginners. yumika looks over to jongsuk and shows him an eye smile. “happiness!” she explains. after a frown, she speaks again. “mm... no happy?”

[lgcyumika]

﹥ ﹥ ﹥ ﹥ #GIVELOVE — THE FIRST “   ✩ ┊ feb. 14th – interacting and performing in front of a crowd

when you’re young, everything is a bit more exciting than it actually is. this should still rank among the things that even adults get excited over, though.

her last sixteen years alive didn’t have much to show, but the last month alone came like a wrecking ball—except it’s a good wrecking ball that, instead of destroying everything, gives you lots of opportunities and happiness! after signing with a popular entertainment company and moving to a different country, yumika practiced with a group of girls and released a song into the world with her voice and name signed below it.

if that isn’t enough, having to perform it in front of eight different crowds made it even more excited. they were dressed up in outfits chosen specifically for them, and it almost feels like her dream already came true. she doesn’t notice any mistake she’s made because most of her thoughts are about how she’s dancing and singing in front of people and not exactly what she’s dancing and singing.

once they’re done, the other members take the lead on speaking and explaining the situation. it’s hard to keep up with all of it, so yumika mostly just nods and smiles as if she understands. some of the other girls are certainly at least some degree of famous. no one knows who she is since this is her first time being shown as a legacy trainee in public, but the fact she was put in such a good group like this one gives her big hopes of the future.

even if they don’t know who she is, the students greet her with just as much excitement and take what she has to offer. “happy valentine’s day!” is what she repeats over and over again to each new face she meets. it goes until she runs out of candy to give, and then continues while she greets the ones she didn’t look eye to eye yet. 

“what’s your name?” one of them asks her, and she’s proud to say she’s “tachibana yumika!”

[lgcjaehwa]

《 Singing Black Hole 》

[lgcyumika]

In her eyes, Yumika is the black hole in the team. The girl has talent but not as good enough. As the saying goes, ‘patience is virtue.’ But there is not a single patient bone in her body, not at a time like this when all she can think of is to bring her team up to the top. She had been telling herself that it is fine, and that Yumika is still new so there are bound to be mistakes. However at the first two performances, she has made a decision. Yumika is the black hole of the team and needs to know where her mistake lies.

She knows that her harsh words can hurt, people told her that. Jaehwa has tried to soften her words a little but she firmly believes that beating around the bush wastes time. It can make people lift their expectations and then cause them to fall hard. Hence the blunt words, fast and straight forward. 

“I’m kind of disappointed, in the entire performance earlier.” The girl confessed, wondering if Yumika understands her. “The performance is bad, no good.” She tried again, this time in English, in case the other does not get her point. :”We should probably practice the part where most of your mistakes are.”

her expression turns into a frown. the conversation goes somewhere else from where it had started, and it takes some effort to understand exactly where it’s going. she usually tries to reconstruct the sentences people tell her in her head after they’re said. it goes slower and patiently as she translates each word by itself, then tries making sense of what they say. yumika doesn’t actually speak english, but it’s easier to understand than korean these days.

“bad?” she repeats. in her eyes, these had just been the most exciting performances of her short life. the next ones would probably be even more. but now jaehwa tells her it isn’t like that. yumika looks forward and stares at the back of the seat in front of them. her brows are still furrowed while she tries to make sense of things.

she had barely been there for a month, and jaehwa had been around for much longer. yumika is not afraid to say the older is much more talented, too, so that must mean she is right. “do i... make mistakes? ...did!” she fixes her conjugation and looks back at the girl beside her. “i was... happy! i don’t know. i did not... see?”

[lgcyumika]

› give love ; to yumika

junho walked around the company, aimlessly at first– he had given the one candy he wanted to give to allie already but he still had a bunch so now he was looking for another one to give one of his many candies too. then his eyes landed on a familiar face, they had both done the moeling workshop together, a rather new trainee.

“yumika chan,” he called out her name and waved his hand at her as he approached her, a whide smile on his face as he stuck his hand out at her, presenting her with a blue bag of chocolate, “this is for you, you worked hard in the workshop!”

( to be replied! )

[lgcyumika]

korean, the bane of his existence. the bane of his short life. if he were ever to die, it would be at the hands of these very confusing korean characters sitting on white pages in books that kept piling up. he was tired. he wanted to just spend the rest of his life speaking mandarin. that would be the best of options, really. the most convenient. but here he was, in south korea to become a soloist of some sort. it was a bit odd. music was its own language, it was easier to convey feelings when it came to singing or making a few new beats rather than actually speaking in a language he still struggled with most of the time. it was a bit discouraging at times.

even foreigners who came from the sates seemed to have the upper hand since they were all ingrained into the korean culture. shanyuan had a hard time adapting. he was doing his best, though. he was lucky enough to have met yumika, a young girl who was hoping to have a study buddy she could learn the language with. she was much younger than he was, and he couldn’t help but feel overwhelmingly protective and proud of how hard she worked to get better. it was kind of inspiring. he wouldn’t admit it out right though. 

peering up at his note book, he stole a glance at yumika to see that they both never had moved from the page they started studying from, letting out a small snort. he gently nudged at her feet, mumbling quietly, “break? let’s get food.”

the sole idea of learning a new language is quite exciting to her. it opens a world of possibilities—especially if that world is actually a country that you spontaneously moved to less than a month ago. as fun as it is, in theory, having to sit in front of a book and go through monotonous exercises that at some point you can’t tell if they’re all the same or not, gets tiring really fast.

at least time is practice in this world. she learns from living and listening while everybody else talks. and it’s good to know she’s not alone. there are many foreign trainees under legacy, although not too many from japan. it’s still the foreign-ness that brings them together, though, and not necessarily where they’re from. like shanyuan, for example. it’s not unusual to spot the two practicing together. he’s from china, and seems to struggle with the language as much as she does—but the time advantage is with him. he’s been here for longer.

her pen writes nonsense at the top of the current page she’s in (random words she’s learned in past lessons) when she looks up. “food?” it’s a prime word in their vocabulary. if they’re not studying together, then they’re most likely eating. some would argue it’s easier to spot them eating than the other option. yumika taps the end of her pen against her chin. “which food?” she arcs one brow, interested.

[lgcjaehwa]

《 Singing Black Hole 》

[lgcyumika]

One thing that Jaehwa cannot understand is why she is being placed in the same group as a new trainee with only a month of experience. Not that she looks down on newbies but she can get rather competitive whenever she gets placed in a group. This girl just wants to stand out. So when she realized that Yumika will be in her group, she could not help but worry about how the entire performance will be like.  

The day of the performance arrives and Jaehwa is not looking forward to it. So far, Yumika has been making mistakes in her lyrics. Naturally, nobody could blame her pronunciation since Korean is not her best language. But the rhythm and timing went off sometimes and Jaehwa had to patiently remind her of the tempo. 

As the team starts performing at the first location, she notices the same mistake Yumika made and it was from the same line too. She managed to hide her irritation throughout her presence there but when they are back in the vehicle to move on to their next location, she decided to raise her concern. She plopped down to the seat beside the girl. “Hey Yumika, how do you find your performance with us?”

this all feels too exciting for yumika. she had joined the ranks of legacy only a month ago, but they had already trusted her with an original song—which she gets to perform live! she’s glad it’s a group performance, or else she’d be way too nervous to function. it’s still just as exhilarating of an experience as it’d ever be. this is only the start of much more to come, she’s sure of it.

the time in between performances isn’t a time to relax, in her books. her legs bounce up and down and move all around in adrenaline leftovers. yumika can’t help but tap her fingers against her knees, too, trying to spend all of the energy that’s contained in her body. her attention shifts from the view of the outside and the other girls with her, but the gaze never stops on one thing for too long.

when jaehwa sits beside her, yumika gives her a smile. “it’s... very nice!” she nods along to her words, making sure she’s saying them right. “this is my... first performance! first song.” her index finger pops up, counting her first achievement, while her mind really couldn’t figure out what would come next. the options are unlimited. “how are you?”