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"You ready, Mya?"

She and Izzy had been standing outside of JYP's office, waiting for him to call them in for their evaluation.

"I've heard that if your evaluation isn't good enough, then you just go back to the A rank," Izzy said.
"That's not too bad, I guess," Mya mumbled. "Although coming all this way just to be sent down would be really defeating."

Izzy nodded in agreement just as the doors to the office opened up.

"Wang Mya? Byun Isabelle?"

The two girls stood up and bowed at the sight of the owner of the entertainment company.

"Hello sir!"

JYP smiled at them and gestured them inside.

"I heard you two made quite a show yesterday during your first evaluation. It's incredibly rare that your first performance will get an automatic s-rank, in fact, I've had trainees here for ten years that still haven't received the rank."

Mya and Izzy's chests both swelled with pride at the news. Clearly this was something that they could brag about.

"I want to start with Mya's evaluation then move to Izzy's. I will give critique after each performance and whether or not I think you will be allowed to move on. However, I also want this to be a private performance, so Izzy, please step out of the room and wait until I come find you."

Izzy nodded and sent a smile to Mya.

"Break a leg," she beamed.

And then the girl was gone.

Taking a deep breath, Mya got into place as the opening notes to What is Love began to play.

The entire time she preformed, she pretended as if she was performing in front of a bigger crowd rather than just JYP; it helped her to remember to be attentive to her facials and her movements.

When she finished her performance, JYP clapped for her enthusiastically and Mya stood straight up while catching her breath.

"I think that you are an amazing performer, and more impressively, an incredibly stable singer. Your rap could use a little bit of work, but I do see a place for you in a JYP group."

Mya's smile stretched across her entire face at hearing his words.

"I'm going to move you through to the debut process. However, I do not have a group created for you at the moment. So please, continue to practice and do not settle. Should someone catch you slacking, your process for debut will be reset or you will even be downgraded to a previous rank."

The Chinese girl nodded her head seriously.

"I understand, sir, thank you for giving me this chance!"

JYP only smiled at her.

"You earned this chance."

With that, Mya stepped out of the room and came face to face with Izzy.

"How was it?!" Izzy asked, clearly a little nervous.
"You are going to be amazing," Mya promised. "Don't even worry about it and good luck!"

Izzy visibly relaxed at her words and sent her a calm smile.

"Isabelle? I'm ready to see your performance."

Izzy nodded and stood up straight.

Then the younger girl disappeared into the room.

Mya looked around for a seat as she decided to wait for Izzy to come back so she could hear her evaluation.

So she waited about another five minutes and as soon as she heard the door open up, she hurried over only to find an Izzy on the verge of tears.

"Izzy?"
"I messed up," she sniffled.
"What happened?" Mya asked, gently pulling her into a hug.
"I- I messed up the words while performing and then I was thrown off the whole thing," Izzy said, finally allowing herself to cry. "I've been moved down to the A-rank in the meantime."

Mya's heart dropped.

Turns out the only friend that she had made would not be continuing with her in a debut process and there was even less of a chance that they would debut together.

"I'll support you when you debut," Izzy whispered to her, wiping away her tears.

Mya only pulled her into a hug, not wanting to acknowledge the loss.

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That was the last time she had seen the girl. Riley had come and recruited her only a week later, after all.

Since then, Mya had been on a straight path to debut.

Lost in her thoughts, Mya had basically missed the whole performance.

"Back on stage," Riley whispered and moved towards it.

The girls stood next to the other group, named Seas0n, and waited for the judges' verdict.

"All the votes have been tallied!" Sana announced, pulling out her cue card.
"The audience vote that counts for 50% have voted for their favourite performance!" Dahyun added. "And the winner is..."

On the screen behind them, two little bars were shown going up and down and then finally...

"The winner of the audience vote, by six votes, is Seas0n!"

Mya felt her heart sink into her feet.

They had lost the audience vote? And because she had been so distracted, she couldn't even have a reference as to why they had lost!

"However, the other 50% comes from the judges," Sana said as if to remind them that it wasn't completely over yet.

So as JYP picked up his microphone, Mya held her breath.

"First of all, congratulations to both groups on such stellar performances. It was absolutely flawless and no matter what, both teams are very worthy of winning that debut role. That being said, there are still many challenges coming your way and this is the first of many.  But my vote for today does go to Seas0n because I felt that they were able to be more showy with their performance in terms of their abilities and that was really due to their song choice."

Heck, Mya didn't even know what song they performed, she had been so lost!

"Actually, myself and the rest of Stray Kids disagree with JYP; we do believe that Seas0n was able to show off their skills better, but as a GROUP, Bittersweet had better chemistry and overall, the song no longer felt like a Stray Kids song which was exactly what we were looking for today. We were here to judge the group's ability to work as a team and see how well they meshed together and for that reason, we believe that Bittersweet had the better performance today."

At least the idols were on their side.

As Sana and Dahyun began the closing remarks, Mya became lost in thought again and while doing so, her eyes met Izzy's.

Izzy sent her a subtle wink that went unnoticed by the cameras and Mya instantly knew: this was going to be much more of a competition than she had anticipated.

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Competition is heating up!!!!

Next chapter will be texting, I promise

Sorry for the late update today <3

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