For the next nine months the girls trained to the brink of insanity. The three section leaders worked every day, two of them only stopping to sleep and go to school, one only stopping to sleep. Sunhee often stayed up late into the night helping as well, due to her sleeping issues. Those that didn't work late into the night still put their all. As Keira suspected, Sams voice thrives with the help of her members. Eunjae was amazing as always, and had began to help Taemin with her skills, and get over her fear of freestyle. Sunhee and immediately taken up the role of the eldest member and began to help all of her dongsaengs, especially Semi and Annelisa. The girls all worked together amazingly and got along like a dream.

The boy team all got along very well as well. At first, Jisung and Hyunjin didn't appear to work well together, and often had many arguments about petty little things like dancing and rapping. Eventually they began to get along, and now were almost the closest in the group, other than Chan and Felix, the young Australian that still struggles with Korean.

Today both groups were meeting up for a photo shoot. It was the official photo shoot for the television show. Each group was getting a solo shot and a group shot. There will then be a single shot of the two groups facing each other, showing the fact that they are against each other. Everyone was extremely excited as it was their first proper photo shoot. But there were two that weren't so excited.

Semi, to be frank, was absolutely terrified. She had always been very insecure about her looks, and never really liked being the centre of attention. But now she had to be front and centre, by herself in an image that will show off every insecurity she had about herself.

The other person that was not to thrilled was the maknae of the boys group, Yang Jeongin. Jeongin was very young and quite naive. He had always thought that he would be able to do anything as long as he had the help of his friends. Now, looking at all of his friends, he had slowly realised that, at least in his eyes, they were all so much better than him, and there was no way that his group was going to debut with him on the team. He thought that he let the team down. Now that they were having a photo shoot, he was going to be a proper part of the team. And he didn't want to let his friends down in any way.

The eighteen trainees walked into a large room. The two leaders had been given a letter that stated where they had to go and what time. They had gathered their members and all gotten into an extremely large Van. The Van had practically been given to the two groups now, and it was going to be used to transport the two everywhere they had to go. Two minutes into the journey, Annelisa and Minho had ( the two bonded over being 98 liners and quickly decided they wanted to be best friends) decided that the van needed to be named. They dubbed the Van Susan.

The room that they were currently in was very large, and was spilt into four sections. In the top left The was a wall covered with a red background, in the top right there was a wall covered with pink and purple background. In the bottom left there was a large space that seemed to be for makeup, hair and clothing for both groups, then in the bottom right there was a viewing area where you could look at all of the images.

It was everything that Keira and Chan had ever dreamed of. They looked at each other, the two had chosen to stand side by side, holding each other's hand as if it was all just a dream and occasionally pinching each other to prove that it wasn't, and grinned. Their eyes shined with glee. What they had waited for so long for was finally happening. To them. Not just their friends. Finally it was happening to them.

"Ok everyone. Please look this way" a loud voice echoes throughout the room. They look over and see a man in all black. He had an earpiece on, Keira assumed that it was a way for him to find out where everyone had to go.
"Please may both the groups go to get their hair and make up done. Once that's happened, can the boy group go to the top left where the red wallpaper is, and the girl group go to the top right"

The two groups nodded and began to walk over, Chan and Keira leading the groups, practically skipping with their hands still glued tightly together.

Semi looked at herself in the mirror. She had been styled, her hair and makeup done, and been dressed it a beautiful black top that had a cross on the front, paired with a purple pencil skirt and glittery heeled boots.  Her hair had been styled so that it was parted on the left, her fringe swept to the right. Her eyes were done with a slight gold tint, with a red tint on her lips. She had been given earring that hung just short of her short hair. She looked beautiful. For the first time she was not concerned about her flaws. They couldn't be seen. She was astonished.

Semi was the first one to have her photos taken. She was called up to the screen, and positioned in front of the purple and told to pose. She didn't know how do, so just tried a few things out. Eventually, the photographer told her to put her hands behind her neck, and moved closer to her. The light was blinding for a moment, causing her to blink slightly. Thankful it was a few seconds after the photo was taken, cleaning behind a beautiful photo that she had not realised that she was capable of producing.

Next up was Taemin. She had been given a pink dress that had black spots that were in an animal print. It matched perfectly with her now purple hair, and had been out with black and red platform shoes. Her makeup had been done with a pink eye, and a pink lip that were the same colour and matched her dress. She looked very beautiful, and someone had noticed. A certain dandy boy was very attracted to her, and was about to go over when he was swept off to take his own photos.

Sunhee was next. Her hair had been styled up in a messy bun with strands falling out. Her outfit was way too complicated for her to understand, she needed people to help her out it on. She adored it though, it was long and complicated and beautiful and she adored it. Her lips were a deep red, and her eyes were a dark red as well. She had a little experience with modelling, so she took no time for her pictures to be taken.

Next up were Sam, Annelisa then Jungsook, in that order. Each produced a photo that they thought they could only produce in their wildest imaginations. They all stood around the screens together, clasping each other's hands tightly. This is real. They finally had the chance at debuting, and these images were the what that finally sent the message into their minds.

Next up was the leader, Keira. She was forced into a short dress, that was multicoloured and beautiful. It was made up of different shapes and patterns, each random but precise. She wore white heeled boots that were laced up and matched the colour of the top of her dress, and her lipstick was the same pink as sections of her dress. The whole makeup dressing thing was not completely new to her, she was part of sixteen in 2016, but it didn't make the process any less peculiar.

After her was Eunjae. The dancer had been given a red top and shorts that had black and purple spots on it, as well as a mesh cover to go over the two. Her boots were red with white at the bottom, which made it very hard to her to walk, she had to hold onto Deoksoo to walk in front of the screen where her photo would be taken. She stopped at one point to have a go st Jisung after he laughed at her for needing help (He said that she was a baby, and j believe her comeback was "Oh go do one to lazy asshole", clearly the English slang that Keira used daily was beginning to rub off on the group) The photographer initially wanted an image of her standing, but she could not keep her balance, moving and messing up the picture in the process. Luckily the photographer was nice enough to let her sit down, which meant that the shoot was over in two seconds.

Last but definitely not least was Deoksoo. Deoksoo was extremely nervous, she was never the biggest fan of fancy dress with the full makeup and hair and clothes. But she knew that she would have to get used to it if she wanted to be an idol. Luckily thought, she was given a much tamer outfit than her members.  She was given a grey shirt, something was in it but for the life of her she couldn't tell, and black shorts. Around her waist was a belt that had long trails of heels handing from it, going all the way down to her ankles, where hello ankle boots began. Her lipstick was the same colour as her feather earrings, pink. She was another lucky one that was able to sit down for her photo, so that her feet did not begin to hurt because of the heels like Sam and Semi, boy he who weren't yet used to standing in heels.

The group then came together to take a group shot. They all stood in a line, The leader being centre. They all stood with a black yet confident expression. This was done to show "that the girls are not like other girl groups, not emotional but strong and confident", or at least that's what the photographer said after Semi, the happy girl that she was, asked why they weren't allowed to smile like they usually do.

Finally, they took one all together, the girls and boys. Each were lined up on either side of the shot, the girls on the right, boys on the left. They were standing in a diagonally, Chan and Keira standing at the back closest to each other, Jeongin and Semi at the edges. They were in age order (apart from the leaders), glaring at each other to show the competition of the show. It took a long time because Keira, Chan, Minho and Annelisa couldn't glare at each other for longer than ten seconds, which caused everyone else to laugh.

After that photo was finally taken, the girls gathered around a very large screen, along with the boy group as well. Each photo was show one at a time. There were hoots and hollers every time the screen changed to a new picture (lots from Minho when Annelisa came on and vice Versa, Jisung and Eunjae booed at each other's for some reason, and extremely loud cheering screaming from Keira and Chan when each other's came on screen, the female jumping into his back when his photo came on)

The day finally ended, and the groups were allowed to take off all the fancy clothes and makeup and go back to their dorm.

Changbin was absolutely exhausted. His face hurt from scrubbing at it trying to get the makeup off, his head hurt from having hundreds of stylists pulling at his hair, combing and gelling it every which way.

He was tired. Tired of working, tired of running around and trying to please everyone. Most importantly he was tired of being ignored by one of the people he cares about the most.

Nam Deoksoo was a friend of his ever since she first came to Korea. They became close as they had very similar interests. She was kind, funny, sarcastic and beyond beautiful. He fell in love with her almost instantly. He knew he was whipped from the moment she introduced herself to him.

They grew closer and closer until one day they weren't. He doesn't know what happened but she just stopped talking to him, instead spending more time with Keira and Jungsook. She would ignore him when they passed in the hallway, only addressing him when she absolutely had to, when he spoke to her or they were around friends and one person asked them both a question.

It pained him beyond believe that the person that he liked, actually was basically in love with, ignored him as if their friendship never existed, as if he never existed.

Seeing her today smile and laugh with her friends, some of his too, felt like a million knifes to the chest, and he ended up avoiding speaking much throughout the shoot. He kept his head down throughout the day, only looking up when he had to take a picture. It wasn't too difficult to keep a straight face during the photos as he didn't feel happy at all.

Changbin fell backwards onto his bed. Chan, Felix and Jisung were in were in the kitchen helping making ramen for everyone, so he was alone. When we was alone, that was when he finally let his tears come out, and his true emotions show.

Deciding that he didn't want any food, he turned off the lights and climbed into bed. He wrapped himself up in his blankets and finally let his tears fall. He pressed his face harshly into his pillow and began to sob loudly, the noise coming out muffled by the fabric as his heart is broken in two by the first and only girl he has ever loved.

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