chapter 9: The audition

The next day

Emily woke up feeling nervous, the morning sun shined brightly at her face making look more beautiful than she already was .

Nicheal stood there stunned by beauty while holding Chris hand.

"Good morning mama" Chris shouted excitedly while running to hug her.

" Good morning Chris" Emily said softly while patting his head gently.

Emily stole a quick glance at Nicheal , she couldn't help but marvel at his beauty . She was really a sucker for looks, she tried calming herself down it did not work.

Nicheal looked at her with great interest and asked teasingly" am I that handsome that you can't take your eyes off me."

" No.. I m.ea...n y..es" Emily stammered wrecking her brain to find the right words.

"I just love the suit where did you buy it" she blurted out.

"It is custom made" Nicheal answered not wanting to tease her anymore.

Chris who was standing between them looked at them with confusion.

" Mama and papa is stop flirting , food is ready" Chris said while calmly walking to the dinner table.

Nicheal looked at Chris retreating figure , he felt a strange sense of happiness when Chris called him papa.

At the dinner table , Emily sat down next to Nicheal.

Emily looked at the food on the table, she couldn't help but compliment"Hmm, the looks so good uncle lee".

Butler lee was momentarily stunned but still smiled warmly at her her.

Emily glanced Nicheal continuously catching the attention of everyone in the dinning room.

"Emily snap out of it " Emily said to herself.

After breakfast, Emily and Butler lee were having a joyful conversation about what to make for dinner.

"Let eat something healthy today like mashed potatoes, radish and pork belly". Butler lee suggested.

" That sounds good , can we also have dessert". Emily asked.

Butler lee thought about it for few seconds" hmm I will also prepare desserts ".

Emily smiled feeling satisfied , she could imagine the display of food waiting for her in the evening.

"Emily let go " Nicheal said softly.

"Hmm"

Inside the car

Emily couldn't help but steal a glance at Nicheal again.

Nicheal noticed Emily looking at him but he did not react or say anything.

Nicheal smiled he couldn't resist the urge to tease her, he secretly brought out his phone from his pocket patiently waiting for her to look at him again so that he could take a picture with her .

As Nicheal was plotting his plan in his head , Emily looked at him admiringly.

(Click)

Nicheal quickly took a picture with her,

"Ahh" Emily screamed .

" Please delete the picture" Emily said seriously trying to hide her embarrassment.

Nicheal looked at her examining her expression, she looked so cute trying to hide her embarrassment with a serious face .

"Why I like it", Nicheal said trying not to laugh.

Emily felt helpless but she couldn't give up" look at the picture I look more like a fan then your wife".

"If someone were to see this picture they will probably think am a fan " she continued .

"Ohh I see let take another one and this time try to look like my wife and not a fan" Nicheal replied scarastically.

Emily tried to interject but couldn't help but feel she was in a trap set my Nicheal.

Emily let out a long sigh"Fine ".

Emily took another picture with him "how did wanting him to delete a picture turn to taking another picture with him", thought to herself.

Nicheal couldn't help but smile, "I like this one more, and see you look like my wife here"

Emily was shocked by his choice of words, like seriously did he have to repeat what she said again and again.

"Hmm I look like your wife in this one but what do you to do with it" she asked feeling annoyed .

"Ahh why does he have the upper hand in this matter" Emily thought to herself feeling defeated.

"I will use it as my wallpaper" Nicheal said happily teasing her.

According to his sister's advice, if he wants to change their marriage from an arranged marriage to a more friendly and comfortable ( love) marriage , he has get close to her for their feeling to develop.

Before Emily eyes she saw Nicheal change his wallpaper from default to the picture they just took together, she was shocked trying to hit herself to make sure that she wasn't dreaming.

"Your phone please " Nicheal asked maintaining his calm demeanor.

"W..wh..why d..o wa.nt my. ph..one " Emily stammered her way through the sentence.

Nicheal looked her with curiosity"Are you hiding something from me" .

Emily knew she wasn't hiding anything bad from him , she felt embarrassed what if he sees she , Naomi and hani's conversation about him.

Recap:

Last night after the frustrating call with her father, Emily received a link from Naomi telling her to join a group chat.

(Ding)

As soon as Emily accepted the link to join the group chat, her phone started bussing with messages.

Emily:"Hi guys" .

Hani:hey girl how are you ".

Emily: good and you".

Naomi: hey no is asking about me " . (Crying emoji)

Hani and Emily:" sorry girl".

Naomi:" I forgive you too".

Naomi: "how is Nicheal treating you".

Hani: Naomi that disrespectful, he is young master Kim, CEO of han corp the most successful company all round the world , we treat him with respect , so can't call him Nicheal you have call him young master kim".

Naomi:"ohh my bad ".

Emily: I can't call him by his name".

Hani : "no you can't".

Emily: but he told me to him by his name ".

Hani: "probably because you two are married ".

Naomi: " enough with the young master Kim praising ".

Naomi: " Emily spill the tea ,tell us everything that happened " .

Emily explained everything that happened from the time they left to when she got home.

Naomi: " wait ,he made you sit in his lap twice ".

Hani : double wait someone almost hit you, who the heck is that person".

Messages kept coming and coming , with some of messages were of them fangirling over Nicheal.

Recap end.

"Ahh " Emily tried to reck her brain ,if he those messages she will die out of embarrassment.

"Emily are you awake" Nicheal called out trying to bring her back reality.

" I need your phone to send the picture" he said showing her the QR code, waiting for her phone to pair with it.

Emily regained herself, quickly opening her phone to pair with his.

(Ting)

The picture was sent to her phone , " now change your wallpaper to this picture" Nicheal said calmly.

she also changed her wallpaper from default to the picture of them.

Nicheal seemed pleased with her action , he could tell that they growing closer but there was one thing he was curious about and must check it now before time is too late"Can I see your phone please" .

"Okay" Emily handed phone to him.

Nicheal quickly went to her contact list , desperately inputting his number on the search bar.

(Ting)

Mr Kim was how his name was saved, he quickly changed it to Nicheal and gave her back her phone .

Meanwhile Emily witnessing everything that just happened, her face turned bright red.

Tae-hyun who was clueless about what was going on at the back announced "we have arrived at your school young mistress".

"Bye bye" Emily said grabbing her phone from his hand before rushing out of the car like her life depended on it.

( Inside the school building)

"Emily wait for me" Hani shouted running to catch with Emily as she spotted her .

"Oh Hani hi sorry I didn't see you" Emily said looking at Hani who was trying to catch her breath .

" Hi ,let go to class before it's late"Hani said still trying to catch her breath.

(Inside the classroom)

Hani and Emily walked inside the class with their hand linked together.

"Naomi hi " Hani Said as soon as she saw her " Emily let go sit with Naomi".

" hi guys come have sit" Naomi smiled warmly patting the seats she reserved for them .

Hani and Emily sat down waiting patiently for the teacher to come.

" Quite class " the head teacher commanded as she stepped on the podium.

"As we all know the audition will start today , you have to do your best . The school has high expectations for you all , just to remember , the judges will judge not only based on your performance but for your potential and might even recommend you some scouting agent, that I will not lie about a lot will be present" she continued.

With that the head teacher stepped down from the podium making way for the assistant head teacher.

After giving some instructions and also direction on were the audition is going to hold for each category, they left exiting the class.

After the announcement , the once quite class quickly became noisy with some people talking , it was almost damaging to the ear.

"today is going to be a long day" Hani said sighed.

Just as Emily and her friends were about leave the class , a blonde hair girl immediately stopped them.

"Stop brat" the blonde girl shouted signaling for her team to block the door.

The blonde girl walked to were Emily was standing , she quite short compared to Emily who was close to being 6 feet.

Emily annoyed, she wasn't in the mood to argue with anybody today " excuse me you are in my way" she said coldly.

" Don't you move" the blonde girl instructed.

Emily instantly felt irritated , she turned to look at the girl who was giving them instructions." She looks oddly familiar" Emily thought to herself, but she didn't care to bother herself to remember where she have seen annoying girl from.

" Move " she repeated herself.

"Don't move" the blonde girl instructed again.

Hani and Naomi also looked displeased by what was going on.

Emily felt more irritated , she turned to look at the blonde girl again but this time her demeanor changed instantly going from calm to angry, her bright jade green eyes darkened in an instant casting a dangerous aura " tell them to move now" she slowly with her voice turning icy as she spoke making the onlookers hair's stand out.

The blonde girl was immediately scared but tried to remain calm but failed miserably as her eyes met Emily's eyes , bead of sweat could be seen on her forehead. She immediately signaled her team to leave the door.

Emily changed from bright as day to dark as night.

The blonde girl and her team quickly retreated, " let's go" the blonde girl commanded.

Emily , Hani and Naomi stepped out of the classroom , with Naomi and Hani holding hands while keeping a reasonable distance from Emily till she cools off.

" Where should we go to" Hani said after gathering the courage to walk next to her .

Emily thought for a while " the library".

"Uhh the library" Naomi said with confusion written allover her face " what are going to do in the library aren't we supposed to practice before the audition".

" Don't you trust yourself and anyways if we go to the dance rooms it will probably be filled with people trying to practice , so going to the library will be better because no one will be there since everybody will be practicing in the dance rooms " Emily explained.

"Ahh I see , should we go to our department library or the general library " Naomi asked.

Emily glanced at her was she really asking that kind of question"our department library of course what do we want to do in the general library ".

"Are by any chance trying to see jihoon" Hani said excitedly wanting some gossip.

" Who is jihoon " Emily asked feeling confused.

When Hani and Naomi heard the question they stopped walking, which made Emily even more confused" what " she asked innocently.

"You don't know lee jihoon " Naomi asked like as if her heart going to catch fire from the betrayal.

" No am I supposed to know him , like.."

" Yes you are supposed to know him he one of the most successful and talented kpop idol of sixth generation " Hani said interrupting Emily.

(Author's note) : I am trying to avoid using anything similar to the kpop world , so my novel might not be the same as the real kpop world and also in the last chapter I made use of (Ive's i am) so am changing it in this chapter , so every kpop group/idol/ company is going to fictional because am not sure if it is legal to use real kpop group's song or names.

" so he is a soloist " Emily asked still not getting the whole jihoon thing.

"No , he in a group called k9" Naomi with dreamy eyes.

" Good young mistress" Gina and Damian greeted in unison.

Naomi finally snapped back to reality when she heard Gina's voice.

"Ahh, we have reached the library already" Naomi said in disbelief.

" Emily how long have we been talking" Hani continued.

Emily rolled her eye " enough to my ears bleed" .

"Oh sorry" Hani said feeling sorry for Emily , she hear them talking non-stop about jihoon.

Inside the library

Naomi looked around " there is no one here ".

"Let's go and find where to seat" Hani said walking towards the back row.

" Damian can please search something for me" Naomi asked.

Damian looked Naomi he was about to tell her that he only takes orders from the young master and young mistress .

" Listen to her" Emily told him knowing fully well that he doesn't take order from anyone except she and Nicheal.

"What am I searching miss Naomi " Damian asked politely.

" K9 boys" Hani said.

Damian searched it up and all the information about the K9 boys was shown.

"Read it out please" Naomi ordered.

Damian and Gina glanced at Emily waiting for her command, leaving Naomi and Hani confused.

" You can read it" Emily commanded.

As soon as Emily word fell, Damian started reading everything not missing a word.

The information shown about the K9 boys:

The group K9 debut on the 29th of November 2024 , under starlight entertainment with their debut album monster which has been topping chart , broken records and has won different awards

The group consist of 20yearsold lee jihoon, 20 year old park Mino, 19 years old moon chan, and 19 years old choi youngi.

Ever since there debut they have been making headlines constantly being labeled as the sixth generation best boy group.

K9 recently announced there fandom name and position.

The K9 fandom name is keepers.

K9 position are: jihoon : leader, main dancer, sub vocalist and lead rapper.

Mino: main visual, lead vocalist , sub dancer and subrapper.

chan: center, sub vocalist, main rapper and sub dancer .

Youngi: main vocalist, sub rapper, sub rapper.

There has been rumors that choi Youngi the youngest member is dating , dispatch caught him holding hands with a girl on the streets. The rumoured girl is said to be park Alice from the famous girl group Galaxy but the idol denied the allegations.

Fan are eagerly waiting for K9's comeback in march.

The CEO of starlight entertainment personally announced that the group is set to release an album and have a mini world tour after promotions are over.

The date and places are yet to be announced.

End of information .

Emily listened carefully not because she had any interest in the group but because Naomi and Hani won't let her have peace.

"There Is a rumour that starlight entertainment is going to hold a survival show" Hani said beaming with joy.

" If starlight entertainment is holding a survival show then that means some scouting agent might be present today , so no mistakes allowed today" Emily said closing her eyes.

"Are you okay Emily " Naomi asked feeling worried .

Emily smiled brightly at her"Yeah, I just need to nap a little ".

In han corp

Nicheal sat in his office , handling some important documents.

(Knock)

" Come in" Nicheal ordered .

" Young master , the meeting with the shareholders is in ten minutes " miss rani informed him.

" And also the documents that you asked for " miss rani said handing him the documents in her hands.

" It contains all the information that you asked for sir " Miss said bowing slightly.

Nicheal opened the document and quickly glanced through it .

"Were you able to get any insider information" Nicheal asked dropping the documents on the table.

Miss rani couldn't deny the fact that she was felt embarrassed to stand in front of the young master.

Normally whenever she was given an order to get any insider information, she was always able to present the exact information needed but today she couldn't give him the information needed.

Everything in that document were information that the young master already knew about.

Miss rani couldn't bring herself to look him in the eyes, lowering her head in shame and embarrassment she answered " No say this was the only information i was able to retrieve ".

As she finished talking, Tae-hyun stepped forward , standing beside Nicheal.

He informed him "young master , the rival company has strengthened their security , we weren't able to get any significant information but we were able to confirm that there were other shareholders working for them apart from old man min".

Nicheal looked quite impressed with Tae-hyun, he was always reliable.