"Turn your head to the left then put your hands up," Lisa said while executing. "Then move your right foot to the back and do a back turn," she continued while others were executing also.

"Lisa, break time!" Jaehyun, one of the dance troupe member, shouted.

"Okay, ten minutes. We aren't in the half of the dance yet," and everyone went to their respective places; some went to take a rest while the others went outside of the dance room.

Lisa felt she was in need of water; she went to the corner where her sports bag was placed, looked for her water tumbler and immediately drank some of it.

"Lisa, where's Chaeyoung? She's already fifteen minutes late," Jennie, also part of the troupe, approached.

"She isn't still here?" Jennie nodded, "Did you call her already?" Jennie nodded again.

"But she isn't answering. I already called for about five or six times,"

Lisa closed her eyes, as if lowering her temper down. "She can't be late! The grand finals is fast approaching and we aren't in the half of the dance yet! Call her again!"

"Lisa! Jennie!" someone called.

Both of them turned to face whom it was, "Taeyong! What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to stay in your office?" Lisa queried.

Jennie smiled at Taeyong, "Well, I need to show you something." Taeyong gave them a look. "Let's go to my office."

— • —

"When did you see this?" Lisa asked Taeyong.

"Just earlier. When I came inside here, I saw that on my table. I was a little bit late because of the traffic," Taeyong said and that made Lisa cursed.

"If she's going to leave the troupe, she should have done that from the beginning! Not now that we're in the midst of chaos!" Lisa screamed and Jennie got startled.

"It's Chaeyoung's penmanship, I'm really sure of it." Jennie said while reading the letter of leave from Chaeyoung.

"I can't believe that woman!" Lisa shouted and kicked the floor, putting both her hands on her waist. "She just left like that?! Without any reason?! That's why she wasn't answering your calls?!" Lisa was shouting at Jennie.

"Don't shout at me, I'm not Chae—"

"Shut up!" Lisa exclaimed, making Jennie got startled again.

"Uh, Lisa. Let's go outside. You need to cool down your head," Taeyong said while looking at Jennie. The latter just smiled. Taeyong accompanied Lisa outside from his office.

— • —

Lisa entered the dance room when she noticed everyone was waiting for her. "I'm sorry, I'm late." she said in a tired voice.

Jennie approached her, "Don't worry, Lisa. We already found a replacement for Chaeyoung,"

Lisa's mind was a little bit rusty and she wasn't abled to process Jennie's words directly. Lisa's eyes went wide.

"You already, what?" Lisa remained frozen.

"It's Ten," Taeyong suddenly appeared. "He's a friend of mine, from Thailand. I called him and asked for some hel—"

"Taeyong! What you did was a mistake!" Lisa shouted.

"How could that be a mistake?" a man while his hands inside his pockets, approached. "If you're thinking that I'm a slow learner, then, think again."

"He already mastered the dance steps, Lisa. Jennie and I helped him," Lisa's eyes went to Taeyong then to Jennie then to Ten.

"Then, show me."

Ten smirked.

The whole troupe together with some of their back up dancers, watched how Ten claimed the dance room, it was as if Ten was really born to dance.

Full of confidence, huh? Lisa had thought.

Jaehyun cheered for Ten and Lisa gave him a look. Jaehyun mumbled his sorry and just silently clapped his hands.

It's not because everyone likes you, you're already that good. She had thought while still watching him dance moves.

Ten stopped from dancing and looked at Lisa, "Did I get all the steps, right?"

So full of himself. I can see his head getting bigger and bigger already. She had thought and while looking at his eyes.

Lisa crossed her arms. Jaehyun, Jennie and Taeyong were watching her closely while the other back up dancers were patiently waiting for her reply. Ten was already catching his breath.

Okay, I admit he's good but still, he's so full of himself. I still don't like him. As if I'll ever like him, no way. Not ever. She had thought as she arched a brow at him.

"Maybe," Lisa replied and looked away. A smile crept on Ten's face.

She turned to Jennie, "Let's start practicing for the new steps." she said and marched towards the place where she should stay at. Everyone moved to their places also.

That made Ten's smile went wide.

"Okay, guys! We can do this!" Jaehyun shouted and went to the sound system. He maneuvered the laptop and the speakers began to produce sounds.

Lisa began teaching the new steps as Ten's eyes were only glued to Lisa's back.

She's different. Ten had thought while executing the steps Lisa was teaching.

Ten got startled when suddenly Lisa turned to face him, he immediately looked away.

Did she catch me? Ten had thought and slowly looked at Lisa again. He saw her back. Thank the gods, she didn't.

— • —

Lisa went out from the comfort room of their building. The building was owned by Taeyong. It was only a small building that's why they decided to make it as their dance room.

The troupe was formed because they were all classmates since high school. It was Taeyong's idea to form Black Nct—Lisa didn't know where was the Nct came from.

And when she asked Taeyong about it, "I just thought Nct's cool." was his reply followed by a laugh.

Lisa spanked his head, "Idiot!" she exclaimed, "But anyway, I liked it. Black Nct."

Lisa smiled at the memory when she was snapped back to reality because her phone inside her jean's pocket, vibrated.

It was a call from, "Jisoo?" her bestfriend.

"Lisa! How are you? Did Chaeyoung come back?"

"She didn't."

"I heard she went to Canada."

"What?"

"That was I heard from an old friend,"

"Who?" Lisa's forehead creased when Jisoo wasn't talking anymore. "Hello? Jisoo?" she called but still no answer from Jisoo and when she looked at her phone, "Aish!" the battery was already dead.

So, she decided to go back in the dance room to charge her phone since her charger was placed in her sports bag.

Lisa was taken a back when she saw Ten, mopping the hall way.

Look at this guy. She had thought. Playing the role of a good guy again.

"Hey, you!" she shouted, her forefinger was pointed at Ten.

Ten halted, "I have a name, Lisa." he said and continued mopping.

"Whatever," she muttered and walked on the newly-mopped floor. Her footprints left some dirts onto it. She looked at Ten, "Oops, sorry," she said.

"You did it on purpose," Ten closed his eyes and looked at her again in the eyes.

"I didn't,"

"There's still a place that wasn't mopped yet you chose to walk there,"

"Oh, there is?" Lisa sneaked her head to look at Ten's back, "Sorry, I didn't know."

Lisa was taken a back when Ten suddenly threw the mop on the floor, "Tell me, Lisa, why are you doing this to me?" he advanced towards her, making their gap to become small.

"It's because you're so full of yourself! The moment you got here, everyone's praising you and your head became bigger and bigger! If only Chaeyoung didn't leave the troul, our paths won't cross!"

His jaw clenched and grabbed her right arm with force as he moved his face closer to her, "But our paths did cross," he said with emphasis before he let go of her arm.

He leaned backwards and was about to turn away when Lisa, "See? You're so full of yourself! Haw dare you grabbed my arm! I can't believe you did that to me! Who are you?! My parents didn't even laid a single finger on me! But you? You did that to me and even moved you face closer to me? My goodness, I didn't expect I'll get insulted just like that. That was my first time and I never expected yo—" Lisa's words halted when she felt something brushed on her lips. Her eyes went big when she realized what he did.

He looked at her eyes before he turned away, pocketing his hands.

"I only did that to shut you up. You're so noisy that you almost made my ear drums to explode," he said and took a step forward, leaving her behind.

Lisa was about to speak when she saw him suddenly stopped his tracks. Her eyes went big when he turned to her again.

"And by the way, your reasons of disliking me are too shallow, Lisa." he said before he finally left her, dumbfounded.

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