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dance dance ; 0.7

"hey jiyeon can i talk to you?"

"what is it?"
she gave me her usual 'keep on talking and i'll shove a banana peel down your sock' evil glare which i had feeling she's owned since she was born

"i just saw the results of who made it in the dance team," i began "i saw i didn't get it. so could i get a reason why?" i asked carefully

her glare scared me so much, every jump scare had nothing on her.

"do you really want to know?"

i nodded timidly

she sighed
"you're a big distraction."
she said bluntly

"i'm a what now?"

"your presence would knock soonyoung out of focus and the team would suffer because of it."

"but you're the team leader too, can't you lead by yourself."

she grimaced "we only work the best when we work together."

they work together?
and there was no murder needed?

"i mean he doesn't like me that much, to distract him from the whole team" i scoffed but the look on her face didn't seem to joke along with me "does he?"

she sighed
"trust me, when he likes someone it's hard for him to concentrate."

i narrowed my eyes in curiosity
"you seem to know a lot about him."

she shrugged
"we've been in the dance team together for some while now."
jiyeon explained but for some reason, i thought it lacked some depth. i just knew she wasn't telling the whole thing

"look if you were there, soonyoung would clearly be biased towards you." she explained
"and we need a co-leader who can judge everyone fairly."

i excused us "he's not that biased towards me."

she furrowed her eyebrows in protest to my statement "he said your popping was great." she said in shock

"i mean, i wasn't that bad." i tried to bring myself up

"even hyunbin could do better. and he can't even do the grapevine."

oh crap, my popping must really be that bad then.

being compared to hyunbin in levels of dancing had made me realise i wasn't even that good compared to what the others had set me up to be

"did soonyoung agree with you."
i asked

she nodded

well great, that feel umm great

"oh well," i fake chuckled "thanks for the talk i guess. i've got to go."

after my chat with jiyeon, my mood plummetted further down than felix's voice in victory song

i shouldered the bag on my shoulders, shifting my feet ready to leave.