Chapter 15
Then, Dohyun said, "I knew the two of them. We used to train together. But why are they here? Looks like something happened." Minho then joined the conversation, "don't you see their postures? They must have done something bad. It looks like they caused a scandal."
Jun nodded, "yeah, it sure doesn't look like crossing a simple rule." Then, suddenly, one of the directors, who realized the five of them are here, asked in a serious tone, "hey, you five. Who are you?"
Only then, the rest of them also realized that the group of five is here. Chairman looked at them with a frown and asked, "What are you here for?" Minsu pushed Jun forward while whispering, "Hyung, you are our leader. Good luck."
Jun cursed Minsu inside his mind and stepped forward, "we were told that you summoned us urgently." The Chairman's frown became deeper while replying, "I mentioned after the dinner. Not, right now."
As the four of them became a little bit scared looking at the Chairman's expression, Jun calmly bowed, "We apologize Mr. Chairman. We will leave and return by then."
Then, without even hearing his reply, Jun slowly walked back and whispered to others, "let's get out of here, quickly, before he takes his anger on us." After saying that, Jun opened the door and stepped outside. Followed by him, everyone bowed once and immediately exited that office.
After returning to their training room, Dohyun asked excitedly, "so guys, what do you think happened? Maybe it's a drug or an s*x scandal? Shall we check the news? It must have been already got leaked, right?"
Jun replied, "Don't let your imagination, wild, Dohyun. Whatever the case, it has nothing to do with us." Then, he clapped, "c'mon, everyone. Get into the formation. Let's continue where we left off. Minsu, take the lead."
As the four of them stood at the back, Minsu stood at the front and started dancing while they followed his movements. Meanwhile, at the Chairman's office, as the idols and their manager kept on apologizing, the Chairman collapsed on his seat and sighed, "No amount of money can
You saw those trainees, right? They were about to debut. I even took out their apartment allotted for them and gave it to you because you said their previous place was exposed and media might hara.s.s your boys based on rumors. And yet, the scandal eventually came into the light even after two months pa.s.sed and now the rumors became a fact."
As the manager apologized again, Chairman glared at him in anger, "don't need to apologize. You are already fired. Just get out of my sight. Go…" As he roared, the manager bowed and walked away from there.
Chairman then turned towards them and said, "You eight, just go and hide at your apartment for a few months. Only post an apology on your SNS accounts and nothing more. No conversation. No talking to the media. Nothing. And certainly, you won't be sighted at the company too. Understand?"
As they nodded and thanked him for not disbanding the team, he kicked them out of his office and then, one of the executive directors asked, "what should we do about their song? It's good that we have only recorded the song and no shooting has been done. So, we can give it to a group like UnitedX or 2TA."
The other executive spoke, "no, they already died in popularity. No use in giving a song written and produced by someone like Nam Su-Jin. If we can give it to a rookie group like A2A, who recently debuted three months ago, then I think it would be useful after their debut song died out of popularity. We just need to wait two more months."
After listening to both of the suggestions, the Chairman then thought for a while and replied, "rookies, huh? I know what to do with it. Call Nam Su-Jin and tell her to be here within 2 hours.
Two hours later,
After having dinner, five of them went to the Chairman's office and found an unfamiliar lady sitting before him.
Looking at them, The Chairman then stood up with a smile and said "Sujin, this is the new group I'm talking about. What are you all standing over there for? Come forward and introduce yourselves to her. She's Nam Su-Jin, one of our finest songwriters, composer, and producer."
Jun and the others bowed to her and greeted her, "Pleased to meet, Nam Su-Jin sunbae." As the leader of the group and the oldest, Jun then, stepped forward and bowed again and introduced himself. Then, one by one after they introduced themselves, Nam Su-Jin looked at Jun and asked, "Sungjun, you are the Main Vocalist, right?" Jun nodded in return, "yes." Sujin then said, "YeongCheol-s.h.i.+ just showed me your performance from the yearly evaluation. Not bad, you know how to write a song and compose, indeed." Jun bowed, "thank you, sunbae."
Then, she looked at YeongCheol and said, "First, I want to let them sing the song. Only then, I will decide whether we should go with them." While Jun and the other four having the same thoughts, the Chairman spoke, "I guess you all now got what's going on. Congratulations, your first debut mini-alb.u.m is here."
Hearing him, Jun was surprised as he asked, "Mr. Chairman, we are getting a mini Alb.u.m at our debut?" Sujin replied instead of him, "not yet. We have only decided Debut single with two songs. But you all are lucky to have one of them, right in front of you. If you can pull it off and reach my expectation, then, you will get a Mini Alb.u.m."
All of them looked at each other and smiled and then bowed, "thank you, Nam Su-Jin sunbae, Mr. Chairman." Then, Nam Su-Jin took out a pen drive from her handbag and gave it to Jun by saying, "there's only one song in it. Divide the parts by yourself and come to Block-B of the 6th floor, production department by 22:30 hours."
They didn't go to the English cla.s.s and just stayed in their training room. After reaching the room, Jun connected the pen drive to the tab and played the song that was sung by the Galaxy group. After hearing the whole song, Minsu commented while nodding, "it's indeed a good song." Jun replied, "Yeah, the lyrics are great. The composition and the background are good but…" Minho interrupted, "I didn't find the rapping part interesting. I think I can sing better."
Minsu then looked at Jun and said, "Since this is just a trial, as the leader of our group, Hyung should divide the parts for us, first, to not waste more time."