Chapter 32
Hyesun replied, "yeah, I worked as a manager of AOE back when Jun was a trainee at ZC. Well, we knew each other, even before that. You can say we're old acquaintances and quite close too, aren't we?" As she looked at him, Jun turned his head away and replied, "nope, we aren't. You just looked after me when I was young."
"Aw, really?" then suddenly, Jun's ear was pulled by Hyesun, as she transformed into a completely different woman and shouted, "you brat, this sister of yours came all the way from America and you were behaving like a brat? You really become cheeky these days, aren't you?"
"Sister?" As the four of them were stumped, Jun shouted in a cry, "ah... Noona, I'm sorry. Don't pull my ear." As she left his ear, he rubbed his ear and complained slowly, "don't you know that every part of an Idol is precious? What are you doing here at our agency? Didn't you say you were never returning to Korea? And what about Eunji?"
Hyesun replied, "actually the thing is... we can talk about it later. This is the workplace." She stopped in the middle of a conversation after realizing there were others too. Then, she turned towards everyone, who were shocked their new manager was Jun's sister. As Minsu pointed them out, "you two were brother and sister?"
Hyesun replied, "no, we're cousins by a distant relation. Both of our paternal grandmothers are sisters. Anyways, we have a lot of work to do. First, let me congratulate you all for doing a splendid job. People say we should strike it when the Iron is hot. That's why from, now onwards, all of you will be busy with the promotions."
The idols and even Jun was surprised as her behavior changed suddenly and turned to a professional while she looked into her handbag and pulled out
As soon as she exited the training room, Minsu asked, "Hyung, just what kind of a family you are born from? First, you, then your little sister from Sparkle and now, this elder cousin. Are all people from your family, beautiful or something?" Jun replied seriously while looking at the schedule, "Minsu, we don't have the luxury to joke around, anymore."
"Eh?" As Dohyun wondered out loud, Jun showed them their schedule. Aside from their practice, free and eating timings, it has the names of the music shows that they were going to perform to promote their debut alb.u.m, which contained music shows like The Show of SBS MTV channel, Music Core of MBC channel, Show Champion of MBC Music channel, Inkigayo of SBS channel, and M countdown of Mnet channel.
Dohyun cursed out, "f***. This b****** of a Chairman wants to extract blood out of us or something?" Jun looked at him with a frown, "Dohyun... language." Dohyun bowed a little and closed his mouth, "oops, I'm sorry, Hyung. But this is too much." Minho nodded, "I agree, this is too much."
Then Jun replied, "it's not uncommon. Almost every big company promotes their idols in five shows per week. Anyway, we spent a lot of free time for the past few days." He clapped at once and then said, "It's time to get back to work. We don't know what song they will choose. I guess it's Energetic since its way more popular than the other three. So, by the time, Hyesun-Noona comes back, let's practice the Ch.o.r.eography."
A while later, Hyesun returned with a few more papers, after meeting with the Chairman. Looking at them who were practicing intensively, Hyesun didn't disturb and stood silently. A while later, as the song completed, Jun stopped the music as he saw Hyesun was watching them in silence with a smile on her face.
"Noona, you returned? By the way, you didn't tell us which song we are going to promote." As Jun asked her, Hyesun replied, "Ah, I forgot about it. You were going to actively promote two songs for two weeks. After two weeks, you will also partic.i.p.ate in a couple of variety shows along with the music shows. It isn't decided yet. We will talk about it, later. Overall, this whole promotion period lasts for a month. Afterward, you will get a break, maybe a week. Oh! One last thing Chairman said to remind you. Even if the shows allow lip-sync except for Music core, you will have to perform live singing. So, work hard boys... fighting..."
As Jun and the rest were surprised and Minsu asked, "two songs, instead of one?" Hyesun nodded, "yeah. The first week is for "Energetic" and the second week is for "Burn it up" and depending on the popularity, you will promote one of them for the following two weeks. By the way, you won't be active in social media yet. After your press-meet, I have seen a lot of people, especially those diehard fans of ZC entertainment are talking bad about you, Jun, for not returning to ZC.
Although, they got their mouths shut up the supporters stating about how ZC was the one who abandoned you when you were facing in crisis. For the past couple of days, there was like a mini-war gone on between the haters and supporters but it was stopped as the number of supporters grew more.
But, still, its better if you stay away from social media for now until you all have your own established fanbase, or else you will be hara.s.sed for sure. That goes for everyone else too. Just wait for a few months, first, until people digest everything." As they nodded, Hyesun continued, "Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention one more thing that Mr. Chairman has told to inform you that you can carry your mobiles in the agency too." Hearing about it, a smile appeared on all of their faces.
Meanwhile, at Signature, Chairman JinHwan growled in anger, "that d.a.m.n brother of mine has done it. The Echo has produced rookie monsters, indeed. These four songs completely overwhelmed my rookies. I need to do something." He immediately called someone and spoke, "h.e.l.lo, Junghwa, when is the last concert? Ok, after that, tell them that they will only have two days of break and will be partic.i.p.ating in variety shows for now and promote their songs."