Day 9

Luckily, he was woken up early last night before he could actually spend the whole night in the studio. He had to rush to school in the morning, thank god for Ms Yume for driving him in the morning despite needing to take care of the others as well.

Parisu looks at him in worry," Are you alright?"

"Yes..." he mutters walking through the corridor with a face that didn't seem that fine.

The students around them smiles and waves at Parisu who returns the greetings. But then her greeting was cut off when suddenly someone enters and everyone swarms towards him.

"Hayato-senpai, are you doing anything today?"

"Hayato-san, have you watched this recent drama?"

"Hayato-senpai! Please look at this!"

Parisu looks at the crowd with a displeased expression," Jeez, how are we going to get to the classroom with this many people blocking the way?"

Kin didn't mind though, trying to get a peep at Hayato, he seems rather disinterested with the crowd around him. He is looking somewhere else. Kin sighs, there is no way he would look this way, he grabs Parisu's arm to lead her easily through the crowd. Hayato glances at the boy that just walks away... a little intrigued.

"You're definitely more reliable Kin~" Parisu praises as they walk into their classroom which is already filled with their classmates.

"Yo! Kin!" a rather long blonde hair guy with blue highlights and contacts greets him. He seems rather out of place among his classmates, yet he is surrounded by their classmates. His name is Eric," Did you hear? The next batch of seniors have gotten their first jobs," he replies.

"Guess what?" another classmate, a friend of Kin as well, Kenji is quite tall, with black rimmed glasses and a rather handsome stature as well," Hayato got a modelling job," he replies," last year's drama wasn't so bad but it didn't get any exposure, a lot of people are of course blaming the director, your boycrush is quite something," he grins teasingly. Kin's ears turns a little pink and pouts at him.

"He's not my boycrush!" he exclaims.

"Haha, though you've got good eye, I didn't see what so good about him to go to university for but now I know... I might need to flaunt my charms," Eric wiggles his eyebrows. Kin glares at him but doesn't give him to luxury of his protest and 'hmphs' turning away. Eric grins wider," you're so cute," he pinches his cheeks.

"Shtaaaaap," Kin whines, suddenly Eric spotted something behind him, or well someone and he stop in surprise. Kin frowns and turns to the outside of the classroom, half expecting Ms Aoki outside. But his eyes widen when he sees Hayato instead, looking into the classroom, he quickly turns away but his gaze doesn't change.

"Busted," Kenji nudges Eric teasingly. But he isn't looking at Eric, he walks ahead, on his phone, a profile of Kin appears, one similar to the one Kirima's company has.

During that time, Ms Aoki decided to enter the classroom they immediately went to their seats.

After class, Parisu and Kin stopped before they were going to the bus stop, a rather cool looking car is parked in front of them. The windows rolled down and Min-jun along with a few other trainees smile at him.

"Yo, Kin, wanna join us?" he asks. Kin feels rather reluctant, he looks at Parisu keeping his expression hidden is probably a bad idea because Parisu said:

"It's okay, you can go on without me," she replies cheerfully.

"Actually..." he tries to find an excuse to leave when he sees a familiar face among the crowd of students.

"I've got someone I need to meet up with," he replies, walking towards where he saw Sou. He didn't know where he studies seeing as he didn't take the car this morning. Though... it's quite a drive from Niigata to here.

"Sou!" he exclaims, easily catching up with him, he notice that he was writing something and didn't hear him until he was beside him. Sou looks up in surprise and so did Kin.

"Oh- it was you?" he asks, remembering the boy he saw at the bus stop. He was holding the same notebook... though... right now he seem rather different in a casual setting.

"Hm?" he tilt his head in confusion, he must have been too focused then too.

"Ah- nevermind, anyway, what are you doing here?" he asks.

"Our theme is school, so I'm visiting a few schools to gain inspiration," he replies." You study here?" he asks. Kin nods in confirmation.

"Theme?" he asks, he then remember that they make their own music." Oh... well, I can't wait to hear it!" he beams enthusiastically.

"It's not EDM however... " he mutters.

"Ah... I'm not really picky about music," Kin replies. Sou returns to walking and writing, Kin following him, worried that he'd bump into someone but he seems rather skilled in dodging people.

"It's mainly to make sure they can't choreograph this," Sou explains as he writes a few notes.

"I- see," Kin sweat drops and they silently made their way out of town in the opposite direction of his home. Well there is always the bus... he can pretty much memorise the route and busses that passes by here.

They stayed in companionable silence. Reaching the beach, Kin lays in the sand as Sou picks up quite a nice empty shell, it shines within the sunset. Kin looks at it in awe but- the sun is hurting his eyes.

"So, I didn't see you do anything other than practicing dancing... are you a lead vocalist or something?" Sou asks.

Kin laughs nervously at that," do I look like a lead vocalist? I feel like I'm just a mascot of the team."

Sou frowns at that," mascot?"

Kin's face fell, yeah like they needed one... did they need an actor? a model? when are they going to give him piano lessons or something?... Sou is even more confused with his silence. He sighs, picking up his note book and dusting sand off his pants.

"You know, you should clarify if you don't know, what if you were just a mere backup dancer? And Mr Kirima said that you were part of the main roster," he replies.

"Main roster?" Kin asks.

"Yeah, the one that will most likely debut, all these things are predetermined, not unlike what you see on TV," he snorts." There are selected people that can succeed just by seeing their audition," he adds.

And he is one of them?! On what basis?!