Step By Step

Sixteenth Step

We reached the floor of D'Academy and made our way to the studio.

"Wait, one sec," Hyunjin told me and walked over to the reception. I saw the lady handing him what looked like the key of the studio and her thanked her. They exchanged a few words and Hyunjin turned around so that he was facing the crowd of people.

"Everyone! As you may know, Kyu-hyung won't be able to make it today," the lady behind the desk began and the crowd harmonly let out a sound of disappointment . "Hold on, but luckily Hyunjin will sub for his class today!" and the disappointment got replaced by excitement to the point that some were even fangirling. Hyunjin smiled, bowed and waved to the crowd like some celebrity. He made his way to the door of studio to open it up and let the people in. As I got to the door I looked at him surprised.

"Are you ready?" he smirked.

"Give me all you got." I replied boldly.

"Trust me, I'll have you sweating." He said back with a teaseful smile which sent butterflies to my stomach.

Oh my.

I put my stuff away, walked over to my favourite spot and began too stretch a little in advance. Through the mirror I observed Hyunjin who still stood by the door greeting and talking with people. He finally closed the door and walked over the the sound system and connected his phone to the speakers. Once he was all set he walked to the middle in front of the room.

"Hello everyone! Thank you for coming to class today. I will take over class today since Hyung couldn't make it today and I will try my very best today. For today's class I couldn't decide on what I wanted to teach, so I'm gonna let you hear two songs and you have to pick the one you like most, sounds good?"

Hyunjin looked so confident in front of a crowd of people but at the same time I could tell he was nervous. He walked over the his phone and started to play the first song. Not much response from the people as we were all listening to the song.

"And for the second one," As soon the first few counts of the song were heard people began to scream out of excitement. I tried to remember from where I heard the song before and then it hit me. Hyunjin posted a video on his instagram a few days back and it was a choreography on this song: Play with fire. "I think we got a favourite. Okay, then I'll be teaching this one, but first let's warm up."

Hyunjin put on a different song and walked back to the middle to start the warming up. There was something different about Hyunjin taking the lead, it made me feel things and made me see him in a way I would have never thought of. After 3 songs our bodies were warm and we were ready for the dance.

"Okay, some of you may recognise the song from my IG video that I uploaded and if you paid attention you noticed that there were a lot of sharp movements, but also a lot of popping. If you don't know the foundations of popping or if you're not used to it, don't worry, just fake it until you make it. So we began, 5, 6, 7, 8, hit! And you reach for your neck," 

After a few minutes or so we got through the first 8 counts and reached checkpoint one. This was a lot harder than expected and like Hyunjin said you had to fake it till you make it. 

"Switch rows, please, so that people in the back can look at themselves too," And I was now in the front. Hyunjin wasn't lying when he said he would get me sweating. He played the music so that we could mark the choreography first before going full out. He slowly walked across the room trying to see if we understood the dance. When he came near me I got nervous out of nowhere. He stood still and I could feel his gaze locked on me, making me feel even more hot. We finished the dancing and he walked over to his phone to stop the music. He started pointing out what he noticed with some dancers. 

"So guys, when you get to the chorus, make sure you hit that bass hard, out of nowhere so it has more effect," he explained and demonstrated it. He had some much body control and it was insane. After spending so much time with him I almost forgot how great of a dancer he is. "Hana," 

He walked over to me. Sweaty elevator boy. 

"Make sure, you hit your movements sharp and when to hold and release, okay? Also," 

And he placed his hand on my back.