Chapter 2

I've always been a fan of Korean girl groups; Girls Generation and Wonder Girls, whenever I see them on the internet I feel in awe, I idolized Ruslana Korshunova before she died such a sad death, I'm also a fan of Alyona Subbotina with her pure white and fair blonde beauty, but honestly what I truly want to be is a star.

I want to model for famous brands and act in a few TV dramas, but truly what I want to do is sing. I'm the lead singer in my schools choir, I usually get the lead female role in my schools plays and musicals, and I love the spotlight.

I know that it will be difficult for me to become a famous singer here in Kazakhstan because music isn't taken very seriously here, but if I go to South Korea and become famous there; then people here will love me and it will help me become a famous idol.

I've never spoken to my parents about my dreams because I'm sure they'll tell me that I'm crazy and utterly absurd, my eldest brother is currently in a university in Germany on a full engineering scholarship while my second brother is in his final year of high school. I know I need to become a trainee for a good company soon or I won't be able to debut but I dont know how to go about it, but luckily for me my friend Anna sent me a message that she has an idea on Saturday so when we meet today (Monday) I'll know what I need to do.

School hours are 8am-4pm with lessons from 4pm-7pm, its already 7:30am and annoying ass Julia is still eating breakfast.

'Juliaaaaaaa! if you dont hurry your annoying ass up and come I'll leave you! I cant be late today!' I shout from the hallway, he responds lazily with 'you cant go anywhere without me' and continues eating slowly. I ran back to the kitchen and half dragged him from the dining table while shouting 'bye mom' and running out to catch the bus.

My school is located in the city centre so I have to take two buses to get there, luckily it has a primary school so I can go with my younger brother, my older brother goes to school by six so that he can study for his finals so I barely get to see him, it sucks but what can I do?

Eitherways, when on the bus I stay close to my brother and when I sit I make sure he's right next to me or he stands infront of me if there's no space, everyone needs to know that I have a guardian or I might be followed or worse.

Once we get to school I drop my brother off at his gate (he thinks he's too big for his elder sister to walk him to class), and then run off to meet Anna who's waiting for me.

Anna is legitimately the most beautiful person I've ever seen; she doesnt look Kazakh for one, she looks more Italian? she has Hazel colored eyes, waves of brown hair that just move effortlessly as she moves and the smallest face with high set cheekbones. She has an olive skin tone that's honestly to die for and her voice is so soft; it's like you're talking to a princess. All the boys like her and she's the most popular girl in our grade, and shes my best friend, we've been friends since pre school and I doubt that anything can get in between us after everything we've been through.

'hey Anna! how have you been? how was your weekend? how's your mom?' her mom had been feeling sick the past week so I was worried and couldnt visit her because Julius had soccer practice all weekend and I had noone to go with me. She replied 'Great!' in the cheeriest voice and 'my mom's much better, she was just having one of her off days' I nodded and we continued walking. As we entered the building I asked 'so what's your plan?' she responded 'easy, OP Entertainment is having a worldwide audition, so I'm going to record a video of you singing and we'll send it in, we're also going to send it to 3 small companies that I've researched about that seem good and hope for the best' she finished off with a cheery smile. I could've screamed and jumped up with with happiness but I was in school and had a reputation to maintain so all I said was 'thank you so much Anna! you're the best', she replied ' I know'.

Lessons were long and boring as usual, for literature we were reading Tolstoy and Lord help me that man is annoying, who writes a book that long? with so much plots to take in and characters to learn and understand? and are we still in the USSR that we have to read Russian literature? Urgh this is so annoying. Luckily the class was a blur so within 80 minutes it was over, despite my complaints though, I was one of the only students in a class of 30 who wasnt sleeping. After literature we had history and Lord if theres a hell on earth, it should be history class, because history is the most boring thing on the planet. I look to my left where Anna usually sits and shes barely keeping her eyes open, her eyelids are just dropping and she has no control over them, she then yawns and falls asleep.

The day goes back in a haze, we have our short break, math, and then our long break. We're preparing for the musical version of Cinderella, I'm playing the lead role of Cinderella so I spend 20 minutes eating and the remaining 30 practicing in the Theatre Room. I usually eat lunch there while going over my lines with the male lead Aizat. To be honest I cant really stand Aizat, he's pretty good looking, but has this weird slanted eye look when he's looking at me. He has pretty brown curls and a well chiseled face with the tan bronze look that's currently in fashion, but I just feel off about him so I always refuse his offers to go out or get lunch in weekends.

After practice, we have study hall until 4 and then a short 30 minute break before our study period begins; we generally do our assignments and go through our study class work book and answer the assigned number of pages and read the handouts before taking a 15 minute food break. After school I went home with my brother, we had dinner which was one of my mothers Continental Cuisine experiments: an Indian Butter Curry with White Rice, it tasted pretty good. I helped her load the dishwasher then ran upstairs to annoy Fyodor by singing at the top of my voice and messing up his hair. Fyodor looks alot like me and has a calm but easy going personality and is easy to talk to. After I was done bothering him he turned around and was like 'Sup little sis?' I responded with 'can I bother you with a small problem with mine?' he nodded and I started ' I really want to be a Kpop idol, I actually want to be a famous Kazakh singer but I feel like Kpop will be my take off point, Anna said I should send in a video of myself singing to some companies as they're having a global audition but I'm so scared I'll be rejected, what do you think I should do?' after a short but thoughtful pause he responded with 'well if you never try you'll never know right? I'd recommend you sing something by a famous korean singer with lots of range to promote yourself and make yourself stand out a bit, dont you think?' I nodded slowly and he continued with 'if you need any help being videod I'll love to help'. I jumped up and hugged him with happiness and replied with 'I'll practice for a few days then can we take the video on friday?' he nodded and said 'sure, whenever you're ready'.

I went off to my room, skipping happily, I checked my Lnstagram and then went on VouTube and typed famous Korean Kpop stars with wide vocal range despite knowing in my heart that I wanted to cover a Kim Taeyeon solo and once I saw her name I started debating whether I should choose between singing Fine or Spark, I drifted off with that in my head and heart