"Omg I'm excited!" Hikari admited adjusting her ear piece.

"Really? I'm more nervous than excited." Jiyeon confessed and Hikari squeezed her into an embrace. "Debut stage here we come!" Hyal bounced around happily.

"Can you stand still for a moment?" Suddenly Hyal got scolded by the manager. "I m trying to speak here." Hwang Yeri raised her eyebrow at the girl and Hyal blushed. "Sorry unnie."

"So as I was saying," Yeri turned back to Seulhee and Mari listening to her. "just have fun outwhere." The older smiled widely at two and hugged them.

"Girls are you ready?" Nagyeon questioned already standing at the stairs to the stage. "Aye aye captain." Shungyoung saluted and Nagyeon glared. "Leader-nim I mean." Maknae blushed and lowered her gaze as Soora rubbed her biceps comforting her bandmate.

"Winner is about to wrap up. Good luck girls." Yeri waved at her girl group like a proud mother and Seulhee pulled up a wide smile. "One by one."

Nagyeon whispered to the girls as they got into the line. The leader was standing first with Hyal, then two maknes. After them: both rappers and at the end Seulhee with Mari, so two of the dancers could finish up the intro with powerful twist of martial arts.

Winner's guys started coming off the stage still waving at the fans. Soaked in their own sweat, but happy as ever they noticed eight girls standing on the stairway leading to stage. The smiles got even brighter as they passed by and girls greeted them slightly bowing. Mari gulped as out of the blue Taehyun stopped by her and winked at her offering his hand. She took it tilting her head and nervously glanced at the girls making their way to the stage already.

"Mari, right?" He spoke and she nodded. "I remember you from the trainee days! I wish you best of luck out there." Taehyun suddenly pulled her into the hug and Seulhee glanced back surpised that Mari was still down there at the back-stage. "Maybe you could dance with me one day?" Taehyun whispered and let go of Mari walking away where the rest of Winner was changing for the following performance.

"What was that?" Seulhee elbowed Mari as she blushed and both of the girls waited for the cue to burst into stage. "No idea, but I am totally fine with it." Mari chuckled and they saw the camera guy turn the camera's eyes to the entrance, they inhaled and ran on the stage doing few flips on the way.

"Annyeong Serens." Nagyeon greeted the crowd and it went wild. "Serendipity imnida." And all the girls bowed smiling. Their hearts were racing out of excitment. First stage- their dream was coming true.

The show went on as the girls performed delighted by a welcoming crowds reaction. Soora cought a rose flying right at her and waved with it in front of the camera. Hyal send chills down everyone's spine with her vocals as Hikari and Mari performed their solo dance break. Shungyoung and Jiyeon was enjoying the stage more than ever as their part came and Nagyeon wraped it up waving at the crowd and walking off the stage as Seulhee kept on doing agyeo until she was dragged back-stage by the members.

"You were wonderful!" Suddenly Hyal felt a pair of arms wrap around her and she was squeezed into the group hug together with Seulhee. Girls turned around and saw Hanbin smiling at them. "Thanks." They echoed in unison.

"I guess it's our turn." Donghyuk smiled and Hikari held hed thumbs up for him. "Oh don't be scary pants dongsaeng." Jinhwan messed up his hair causing Jieyon to laugh.

"Will you cheer for us?" Chanwoo asked Shungyoung with Yunhyeong patting maknae on the back and the youngest of the girls nodded. "Time to go guys!" Junhoe hurried winking at Soora everyone and Hanbin let Seulhee and Hyal go as Bobby fist bumped Nagyeon while passing by.

"We were awesome weren't we?" Mari was happy and her mood immediately transfered to other girls. "We sure were!" Jiyeon agreed bouncing around. "We were best of the best!" Shungyoung cheerfully shared her enthusiasm with bandmates. "I say, why don't we treat ourselves for some ice cream?" Soora suggested. "Best idea ever!" Hikari agreed.

"Do I hear someone talking about ice-cream?" Suddenly Taehyun approached the girls with the rest of Winner's boys. "Can we... can I join?" He bit his lip looking at Mari and she shrugged as Seulhee stepped in-between two raising her eyebrow. "Of course oppa." Nagyeon nodded. "Hyal-ah, what are you doing? We should go." The leader grabbed main vocal's wrist as she couldn't look away from the monitor watching iKON boys perform.

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"Say Mari, where did you learn to dance like that? I couldn't look away." Taehyun asked twirling the spoon in his ice cream. The choreographer glanced over at her sunbae and grinned. "You can't learn something like that, you have to be born with it." Shungyoung chuckled like crazy and everyone looked at maknae as she choked on the ice cream sauce. Seulhee nodded agreeing with Mari and smiled to herself looking at the reflection of her in the shining plate under ice cream dessert.

"Well I sure would like to have your talent." Taehyung assured taking a spoon full of cold sweet and staring at Mari. "You guys live across iKON, right?" He now managed to shift his gaze at everyone and Nagyeon nodded.

"They are one floor above us." Seulhee corrected. "And then across the hall." Soora added. Taehyun smiled like a protective father figure and eat a bit more ice cream.

"Well then just promise me that you'll be good girls, with such temptation near you." Taehyun jokingly warned causing maknae turn red and Hikari laugh. "Especially you Mari." Now he was dead serious. "I wouldn't want you to get hurt." He leaned in, but soon lied back.

Serendipity stared at Taehyun frozen as he atempted to eat the rest of his ice-cream dessert ignoring the fact that every single person from both groups was staring at him like an alien who just landed on Earth.

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Hello Serens~

Debut stage yay! And ice cream after!!!

I just wanted to say that I am very proud and pleased with all of you being so attentive and commenting lots. I don't have enough words to express how thankful I am that all the girls, who got accepted, are commenting without exception and supporting the story. I am very thankful~ and I hope we can keep this up till the very end. Lots of love.
-Hyze.