Girl Group Audition (Pizza Girl Han Yeseul)
What do I do!!!
What do I dooooo!!!!
It's him.
He finally replied.
My hands are shaking.
My heart is pounding.
I finally feel alive again.
What should I say.
Right.
He looked so young yesterday.
There's no way he's younger than me, is there?
In this day and age, younger guys are kind of the trend.
Still, I'd rather my guy be older.
He replied right away.
Wait, seriously?
He looks so young I was sure we were the same age—or that he was younger.
He's a total baby face.
He's older than me—an oppa. We really must be meant for each other.
I want to call him Oppa so badly.
I'm so fluttery.
This is what it feels like to message someone you like.
Just texting him is enough to make me feel like I'm floating up into the sky.
Kyaaaa!
He said I can call him Oppa.
I want to run over right now and call him Oppa while acting all cute.
Would a girl get hit for being cutesy?
Who cares. If you like someone, you just do it.
But how did Oppa already know my name?
Ah—he must have seen it on my KakaoTalk profile.
Still, I want to keep the conversation going, so I'll send another message.
Hehe. Just like I thought—he saw it on my profile.
Oppa even knows my name.
I'm so happy.
Then my phone rang.
Riiing~ Riiing!
It's Z-Dragon Oppa.
Ugh, if it were anyone else I'd just ignore it.
I'll pick up fast and get back to messaging YSH1004 Oppa. Hehe……
"Hello?"
"Hey, Yeseul. Huh? Your voice sounds better?"
"Ah, Oppa. I told you I was fine all along."
"Oh? Okay. Alright, alright, I get it."
"So why are you calling? I know you're busy, so just get to the point—quick!"
"Hey! I'm the busy one here—why are you the one rushing to hang up? Honestly. Ice queen. Trying to kill my feelings or what."
"Is that what you called to say? The busiest man in the world? If that's all, I'm hanging up."
"Hey! Han Yeseul. Ah, seriously. I've got a show to get to, so I'll make this fast. Come to YJ right now. I specially set up an audition just for you first. Got it? Hanging up. Come right now! Right now."
Click!
Ugh, this oppa is always like this.
Says only what he wants and hangs up.
I should message my unnie.
Tell her I can't come into work today.
Ah~ Unnie's going to lose it.
And I can't exactly say I'm going to a YJ audition.
If I say I'm going to an audition, she'll demand photos, autographs—it'll be chaos.
Hic……
I opened KakaoTalk.
Huh?
In the meantime, a message had come in from YSH1004 Oppa.
Ah!
No, Oppa.
I'm so happy you know my name.
I sent a reply right away.
I couldn't exactly say I was late because I was on the phone with Z-Dragon Oppa.
I'll just make something up.
Oppa, please reply soon.
I want to message you all day long.
Ah!!!!!
Oppaaa!
No. Oppa.
I'm really not that busy.
All I have today is the YJ audition. Waaah…… T_T
I want to keep messaging Oppa.
Pleeease~!!!!
Hic…… sob
Oppa must not want to talk to me.
Sigh……
Still, at least he replied at all.
If I cling any more, I'll just look obsessed.
But I'm still hurt.
I want to keep messaging Oppa.
I had no choice but to send a message.
Loaded with every bit of my disappointment.
Three minutes…
Ten minutes……
Still no reply.
I was so hurt I deliberately sent "Okay" with seven dots.
Am I just too petty for a girl?
Mom always said a woman's heart should be as wide as the ocean.
Right.
Guys don't like girls with narrow hearts.
I'll understand even if my Oppa doesn't message me.
I can just message him after the audition later.
I want to trade photos and videos with Oppa too.
Show him the stuff I filmed for TickTickTok.
I may not look it, but I'm pretty well-known on TickTickTok for my goddess-level looks.
Oppaaa……
Ah, just thinking about Oppa makes me so happy my mouth keeps falling open.
Drool!
Ugh.
I'm drooling.
Get it together.
Ice queen Han Yeseul.
Heh……
I don't want to go to the audition.
I want to go see Oppa.
But I still have to do what I have to do.
Z-Dragon Oppa went through so much trouble to set this up for me.
Anyway, if I go to the audition I'll have to sing and dance.
I'll just dress comfortable.
Oppa! YSH1004 Oppa!
Cheer me on!
I'll definitely make it.
I'll make it and become a cool girlfriend worthy of Oppa's level!
Vroooom!
I rode my scooter over to YJ Entertainment.
The company I hadn't been to in so long.
It was morning, so there wasn't much traffic.
I arrived earlier than expected.
The moment I got off the scooter, Z-Dragon Oppa's manager unnie came out to greet me.
"Yeseul! Long time no see!"
"Hello, Unnie. Did Z-Dragon Oppa send you?"
"Yeah. Our Jiong asked me to look after you extra carefully."
"Ah, seriously, Oppa is so overbearing."
"Aigoo. Hey! Since we're being honest here—does it make any sense that a worldwide superstar like our Jiong would send his personal manager, who was finally getting a proper Sunday off, into the company just for one rookie trainee?"
Whoa. Manager Unnie seems mad.
Well, she barely gets a day off all month.
And on the one day she finally had free, she got called into the company to babysit a nobody trainee like me.
She has every right to be angry.
Better keep my eyes down.
"Unnie, I'm sorry. It's all because of me. I'm really sorry."
I folded at the waist into a full ninety-degree bow.
"Aigoo, enough already. If Jiong catches you looking this scared, he'll kill me. Hey, hurry up and get inside. The CEO and the investors are already all here. Jiong called them in. All for you."
Huk. Even the CEO?
Z-Dragon Oppa's pull in the company really is something else.
"Come on! Let's get inside quick, Unnie! You're going to get scolded by the CEO."
I grabbed Manager Unnie's hand and pulled her into YJ.
It had been a full two years since I'd last walked through the YJ entrance—ever since I'd been kicked out of the Pandora trainee lineup.
I never thought I'd pass through this door again.
It felt strangely moving.
I steeled myself inside.
Yeah. Today's going to go well.
For some reason, I had a feeling that whatever happened today, it would all work out.
Haa……
The second I got home, I collapsed onto my bed.
I was so exhausted I felt like my soul was leaving my body.
I had poured every last drop of passion I had into it.
Even if I don't make it this time, I have no regrets.
This Black Blue project was a girl group YJ had prepared with real ambition.
The company had thrown everything into it.
A four-member girl group.
The other three members were already locked in.
The audition was to pick the last one.
Thanks to Z-Dragon Oppa's help, I'd gotten a special one-on-one audition.
The rest of the Black Blue members had come to watch too.
The members of Black Blue were Liza, Jishu, and Rose.
Liza was half Thai, half Spanish—her smile was adorable, and she danced incredibly well.
Jishu was almost too pretty.
She looked like a doll.
Rose had looks, dance, and vocals.
Not a single weak point.
Even to my eyes, they were far better looking and far more skilled than the old Pandora members.
I really hope it works out.
I wanted it so badly.
But one thing kept nagging at me.
If I make this audition… would that mean drifting away from YSH1004 Oppa?
If I make it.
I'll get really busy.
Will I even be able to find time to see Oppa?
No.
I can do it.
Even if I practice all night and come straight from that, I'll go see Oppa.
Hang in there, Han Yeseul.
Thinking that, my heart settled.
Should I message YSH1004 Oppa?
Haa.
No.
He's probably busy too.
I'll send it tomorrow.
I'm scared of getting hurt again if he doesn't reply.
It's a rare free evening.
Between the pizza delivery shifts, my nights had always been a frantic blur.
Now that I'm not working, I have nothing to do.
YSH1004 Oppa keeps floating into my head, so I want something else to focus on.
I unlocked my phone with my fingerprint.
Opened it.
Maybe I should watch some Twinch streams for the first time in a while?
I just want to forget everything right now.
For zoning out completely, Twinch live streams were perfect.
The channel I usually watched was LoL content.
Hmm.
Should I watch Songhwa's channel today?
Songhwa was a cute red-haired boy.
Even as a guy, he was good at LoL.
Platinum, no less.
For a guy, that was basically top-tier.
I went into Songhwa's content.
"Aigoo! Lady Yeseul, welcome~ It's been so long since you dropped by."
Songhwa gave me a warm reaction.
Songhwa's Twinch stream averaged about 1,500 viewers right now.
But I'd been watching him since he averaged ten.
Back then I came in almost every day.
That was why Songhwa reacted so happily.
"Lady Yeseul. Have you been busy lately? Come by more often, Noona."
Seeing him after so long was fun.
I tapped at the keyboard.
Clack-clack-clack-clack!
"Aigoo, of course I remember. You're the noona who supported me since I had ten subscribers."
Ah, seriously.
I don't even care about Songhwa.
The Oppa I like is someone else entirely.
A hundred times—no, ten thousand times cooler than Songhwa.
"Aigoo, thank you for the 1,000-won donation, SonghwaPantsAreMine. I just said a few words because I was happy to see Noona Yeseul after so long. Alright, alright! Let's get into the actual LoL stream!"
"Aigoo, please don't fight, Noonas. Thank you for the 5,000-won donation, SonghwaPantsAreMine~"
Thanks to SonghwaPantsAreMine, the chat had exploded.
Honestly, even if you love an online streamer, calling him "babe" is way over the line.
Serves her right.
⚠ BesideRomaGarin has been banned! ⚠
"Ah, seriously—any chat that crosses the line gets banned on the spot!"