“Was this what it felt like for you?”
At Noah’s question, Yejun shook his head and said.
“No, you just barged in all of a sudden. But Eunho said it ahead of time. That makes the screening harder.”
Noah nodded at Yejun’s words and looked back at the door.
Only their breathing echoed in the silence.
“They are coming, right? It’s already 10 minutes late..”
Yejun said, repeatedly bouncing his leg and then stopping.
“They’ll come, right? Saying they’re applying means they probably didn’t say they didn’t want to, so.”
Noah nodded, but anxiety was written all over his face.
“It’s already been 2 weeks… do you think we can gather 2 or more people in that time?”
At Noah’s words, Yejun gave a hollow laugh and said.
“If no one else applies because of Eunho, then… we’ll have to beg. You’ll go to the faculty office with me to beg, right?”
Noah chuckled and said.
“If nobody really applies, then we should go together. I’m an officer too. I love this club just as much as I love myself.”
Yejun smiled and said.
“As expected, you’re the only one.”
Then it happened. From far away, the sound of someone running echoed through the hallway. The sound of someone thundering down the stairs two steps at a time didn’t stop either. And following after that came a somewhat familiar voice.
“We’re going to be late!”
And behind it came a boyish voice Yejun and the others had never heard before.
“We’re already late. It’s not like I absolutely have to do it, so why are you waiting around insisting I join the band club too?”
Bang! The door finally opened and Eunho ran in.
Eunho said, catching his breath.
“Sorry I’m late!!”
And then something peeked out from behind Eunho. Pink hair, big round eyes, a face slightly flushed from running. He poked his face out from behind Eunho and said.
“Hello… my name is Chae Bonggu…”
Eunho said with a smile.
“Senior, can I maybe audition together with Bonggu hyung?”
At Eunho’s question, Yejun looked at Noah. Noah looked back at Yejun.
“What do we do? We can’t refuse them, can we? It’s first come, first served.”
Yejun spoke worriedly, but Noah looked at him as if to say he worried about everything too much and said.
“Anyway, there aren’t any friends coming in right now, first come first served or not. Let’s just take them. If their skills are way too low, we can think about it more then. Getting two people into the executive team at once might be a chance we never get again, and there are only 2 weeks left now.”
Yejun nodded and said.
“Yeah..”
Yejun and Noah looked at the two of them, still bickering even in front of them, and said.
“Yeah. You can use any instrument here.”
As soon as permission was given, Eunho walked over to the drums. Bambi took out the guitar she had brought herself.
”1… 2… 1 2 3!!“
Along with Eunho’s drum beat, Bambi’s guitar playing rang out. Noah listened to their performance with a serious expression, then let out a small gasp and shouted.
“Huh?! It’s Yatze!”
At Noah’s reaction, Yejun looked at him and asked.
“Huh? What’s that? Yatze??”
Noah made a face as if asking how he didn’t know and said.
“You don’t know them? They’re the kids who’ve been famous at our school lately. They even blew up on YouTube as Yatze.”
Yejun looked at Bambi and Eunho in surprise. After the intense performance ended, Eunho and Bambi watched Yejun and Noah’s reactions closely.
“Do you think we made it?”
Eunho asked in a whisper near Bambi’s ear. Bambi fiddled with his fingertips and said.
“No clue. Probably went well.”
Yejun couldn’t bring himself to say anything. It was as if his head had been plastered over with the word awesome. Meanwhile, Noah was writing something in place of the paper Yejun was supposed to fill out. After finishing, Noah handed the paper to Yejun and said.
“Good work, and the results will be sent by text tomorrow. Write your number here and go.”
The two of them approached hesitantly and wrote down their numbers. Then they awkwardly bowed and left the music room. Even after they were gone, their chatter could be heard clearly all the way into the music room.
“You said you’d tell us the results tomorrow, right? Do you think hyung will pass? Why were you so serious earlier? I really did well, right?”
Then came an irritated voice.
“Do Eunho! Do you have delusions of grandeur or something? Why are you babbling on this side, then babbling on that side. I swear my ears are going to bleed.”
Eunho’s awkward laugh spread through the hallway, and the two gradually moved farther away.
“So… what do you think? Weren’t they pretty good?”
At Noah’s question, Yejun nodded and said.
“They’re total pros.”
Noah laughed and said.
“Agreed. We taking them?”
At Noah’s question, Yejun looked at him with a look that seemed to ask if that was really a question.
“At last, success… We got everyone, right?”
At Noah’s unbelievable question, Yejun replied too.
“Yeah. We did it. Starting tomorrow, our band club is an official club too!”
The two smiled brightly and left the music room.
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Someone was looking at Yejun’s band club promo poster.
“Band club?”
He murmured, sounding interested.
“There isn’t much time left to recruit… the period is short, but let’s prepare for the audition.”
He walked through the hallway and out through the school gate.
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