Episode 4

It was all silent in the room.I could hear my heart beat like crazy. After looking at myself in the mirror, my confidence just dropped. I stopped dancing all of a sudden and it felt as if the world around me came to a standstill. My breath became heavy and I could feel myself sweating. I was all covered in drops of sweat and I knew that it was over for me. It was all over! The long awaited audition was pretty much messed up. I was shattered and half-ashamed of my inability to handle situations. The other half was still hoping for a second chance so that I can continue my dream of being an idol. But it was useless now that I have showed my incapability.

I laughed to myself at this thought and then held my head up once again and with a almost fading smile and teary eyes I said "I will do better next time'' and with this I thanked them politely and then left the audition hall. My eyes were all red and my cheeks wet with silent tears as I walked out of the hall, preparing myself to leave. On my way back I met Mark. I didn't want him to see me like that so I rubbed my eyes and walked past him. Mark waved at me but was surprised at this sudden ignorance. By the time he realised that I have completely ignored him and probably won't stop to wave back at him he stopped me by calling my name.

"Hey Eve! you remember me right?"

I was not in a mood to joke around so I decided to keep quiet.

"How did the audition go?" He asked looking at my red eyes.

I was quite sure that he already knew the answer and I felt it to be useless to repeat the most obvious thing so I just nodded to his question. I myself didn't know if it was good or no.

The no response treatment from my side kind of pissed Mark off and he said "guess you really need to learn some manners before fitting in the korean culture".

And that was it, that's when I lost it and bursted out of frustration.

"I'M NOT GONNA MAKE IT THROUGH THE AUDITIONS MARK.DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND! IT DIDN'T GO WELL!" I pretty much yelled at him.

He was totally shocked and so was I at this sudden outburst of emotions but I was in no position to explain things to him. It was just a couple of hours since I met him and I probably won't be seeing him again. I apologised to him and made my way past him.

I wanted to leave, I wanted to leave that building fast. It was embarassing for me to stay there after how I messed things up. Looking at the shinning posters of the SM artists made me wonder if I could ever really be an idol.

It took an hour or so for the audition to finally end and soon it was the time to declare the results.

"All the participants of the SM Global auditions please come to the audition room." the staffs announced.

I was no longer scared.I no longer felt my heart thump or my stomach tingle.I knew that my name will not be announced. I watched as the other participants were almost shaking out of anticipation. I was surprisingly cool and had a straight face with no signs of fear or nervousness but a part of me wished to feel the same as other participants.

When we reached the audition hall we saw the judges there for the very first time. I observed them thoroughly. They were three in number , one of them was a very beautiful, confident women in her thirties and the other two were males and in their fifties and there was an aura coming from them tht brightened the already lit room. We all greeted them and the female judge started talking to us with an experienced, professional smile on her face.

"You all did very well. I  was really amazed by how talented you all are at such a young age."

I  laughed to myself at this. Only I knew what talents I hold. I couldn't even show my full potential.

"But we only need the best. The names I will be announcing now are selected and will get the chance to be our trainee." She continued.

She started announcing the names and I got lost in my own thoughts. I was only brought back to reality when I HEARD MY NAME BEING CALLED!

"Eve , Yukhei,....." she went on.

Did she really just call my name? I was not excited because I couldn't even believe if what I heard was right.

"She just said the name Eve right?" I asked the girl beside me.

"Yes" she said.

I was almost in tears . I just couldn't believe if something like that was actually possible.

I held back my tears and when she was done announcing the names and everyone except the selected ones had left, I went upto her,

"I didn't complete my audition , I stopped in the middle of dancing so why did you choose me?" I asked her and got the most unexpected answer. She looked straight into my eyes and without smiling abit she said

"Because you are just like a Blank Canvas!"

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