Chapter 20: [Typical Beach Teacher]
To be honest, Geon never knew the secret between Gunnar and Aoi.
He acted as if he knew so he could mess with the two.
In Geon's 3 years in [Family], his lies had not once backfired him.
And here he is now.
Geon went silent.
Should he tell Gunnar the truth?
Or should he keep lying?
"I didn't."
"I knew it." Gunnar glared at Geon.
"I considered you as a friend, yet you stabbed me in the back." The ginger-head's eyes watered.
"I didn't--"
"Kudō Aoi is a murderer. I was an idiot for thinking he was innocent. And you..." Geon's sense of hearing dysfunctioned for a moment.
'... A murderer?'
Just then, a person entered the practice room.
"Oh my goodness."
"I'm dead."
"Mom, what do I do?"
The person was no other than Berlyn Chu.
The [Typical Bitch Teacher].
The members of the group [3 Stars] lost their hope.
'I'm dead' The thought in unison.
And the one who would be the most dead is Geon.
He's currently under the effect of [Temporary Blindness]...
How can he learn the signal song's dance moves?!
Geon stopped himself from cursing.
Fuck his foul mouth.
He was more careless than he thought.
"Good morning, [3 Stars]!" Berlyn Chu greeted with a smile.
Yeah, she has always been like this.
One moment, she'll act all friendly and nice to you and boom!
Make a mistake or disobey her, she wouldn't let that pass.
"Good morning, mentor." The trainees who were sitting (on the floor) stood up while the trainees who were already standing, remained on their spot.
They bowed at her.
"Yes, yes. I'm happy to have you as my students." Berlyn Chu said excitedly.
"She ain't bad.' Geon sighed in relief.
The other trainees felt more comfortable too.
But those who knew their dance mentor's personality remained tense.
"I want you to form 4 lines. Each lines should be composed of 5 trainees." She instructed.
The trainees wasted no time to folow her words.
Geon calmly stood behind Gunnar.
The two acted as if they didn't know each other.
"Now, everyone is already aware of tbe fact that [Cap-Teen-Vating]'s signal song is callled [Dreamers' Anthem]." Berlyn Chu started.
"Yes." The trainees said in unison.
"This morning, I'm standing in front of all of you as your dance mentor. Your schedule for the week is very simple. I'll visit this practice room every morning. Mentor Guy is the one incharged of training your vocals. Mentor Hyunjin will teach you the professional way of rapping every evening." She continued.
"Let's begin."
•••
"You're doing well as members of your 3-star group." Berlyn Chu completed.
The trainees just finished dancing to [Dreams' Anthem]'s first and second verse.
They sighed in relief.
It has only been less than 30 minutes since the lesson started and yet, Berlyn had already taught them the dance moves of the signal song's first and second verse.
The worse part was that, she expected everyone to do it perfectly.
Trainees who were weak at dancing and memorizing choreographies had a hard time, but still tried their best under the heavy gazes of Berlyn Chu.
"However."
However.
The trainees' shoulders tensed up.
"Who are you?' Berlyn Chu pointed her index finger at the trainee standing at the very back of the third row.
It was Geon.
"I-it's Geon." One of the trainees answered nervously.
"I didn't ask you." Berlyn Chu glared at the trainee.
"I'm sorry..."
"You. Do you have any eyes?" Berlyn Chu switched from warm to cold.
Geon didn't answer.
He was no way in hell afraid of the [Typical Bitch Teacher].
But heck!
He didn't want to be evil-edited.
What if the editor decides to show him as a mannerless trainee who--
"Look at your fellow trainees. They are doing well-- and you?" Berlyn Chu walked towards Geon's direction.
Each eyes of the trainees she passed by were glued on the floor.
"Are you even taking this seriously? Show me the moves you learned."
Geon's world collapsed.
Learn?
Learned?
He was still under the fucking effect of [Teporary Blindness], how could he learn any dance moves?!
All he did for the past 30 or so minutes was moving according to the motions of the person in front of him.
The other trainees couldn't even let out a mere squeek.
They were too afraid to stand out for the moment-- they might become Berlyn Chu's next victim.
'Damn... I feel bad for Geon, but he's the reason why our mentor is in a bad mood.' The trainees thought in unison.
"You. You, you, you... And you..." And just like that, Berlyn Chu started to hunt down poor trainees (lol).
"Together with this passionless thing, are all talentless. Get out. Now.''
Geon stopped the urge to scream, ''what the fuck".
•••
"What do I do?"
"I'm so dead."
"It's all my fault."
It had been 30 minutes since Geon and the other trainees Berlyn Chu called out earlier were kicked out from the practice room.
They were forced to stand outside the door.
Some trainees started to feel tired, so they decided to sit on the floor.
The only ones who remained standing were Geon and the Taiwanese trainee who's name he forgot (they didn't have a name tag).
They were called back inside the practice room after a few hours.
The trainees who weren't called out earlier were sitting on the floor while Geon and the other less fortunate souls remained standing in front of them.
Berlyn Chu had this displeased expression painted on her face (as if she was that pleasing to look at, lol) while staring at the trainees she was absolutely humilliating in front of dozens of people and cameras in the practice room.
"Do you know what kind of people I hate the most?"
'It's obviously a no.' Geon answerer in his mind in a sarcastic manner.
"I've been a part of this industry for 10 years now. I learned a lot of things from professionals when I was still quite young, I taught a lot of dreamers when I became a professional myself-- while you." Berlyn Chu glared at the 5 trainees.
Her gaze fell on Geon.
"I've never met trainees so impassionate and talentless before. This is the first."
The currect atmosphere was suffocating.
The staffs and cameramen were pleased.
Berlyn Chu was raging mad.
The trainees not involved in the drama were secretly relieved.
Geon wanted to scratch his butt.