"Let's go, after the company introduction, I'll take you to meet my sisters."

After going up and down the company a few times, Choi so-young patted her chest and pulled Kim Tae-yeon to a certain practice room.

"I think...... This will be slowly introduced later......" Kim Taeyeon, who was dragged away, wanted to withdraw her hand, Choi so-young's enthusiasm caught her a little off guard, her kindness, Kim Taeyeon also knew, but she didn't plan to meet so many people on the first day, after all, people have known each other for a long time, and it is inevitable that she, an outsider, will suddenly appear.

Choi so-young stopped and looked at Kim Tae-yeon with a dark face: "What, do you look down on my Choi so-young's sister?" Although the words were a little ugly, Kim Taeyeon knew that Choi so-young had no malicious intentions.

"No...... No, I didn't mean that. Kim Taeyeon tilted her head in embarrassment, making her a little uncomfortable with such close contact.

"Oh? What does that mean? Cui Xiuying continued to ask, and the close look made her realize that the person in front of her was very white, how to say it? Milk, she suddenly looked forward to what Kwon Yoo-ri would look like when she stood in front of Kim Taeyeon.

"Yes...... Is it ......" Kim Taeyeon hesitated, saw that the face in front of her was getting bigger and bigger, hurriedly took a step back, took a deep breath, and prepared to go out, "Because we just met, Xiuying Xi will take me to meet your sister, I am not prepared at all, it will be embarrassing!" ”

"Hey, my ears ......" Kim Tae-yeon, who was out of the way, didn't control the volume of her voice, and Choi so-young, who was closest to her, was unlucky, and after Kim Tae-yeon finished shouting, she felt her ears ringing faintly.

"I'm sorry~!" Looking at Choi so-young, who was plucking her ears, and Hwang Mi-young, who was dumbfounded on the side, Kim Taeyeon knew how loud her voice was just now, and after reacting, she hurriedly bowed to Choi so-young and apologized.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's just that you can't be deaf, but your voice is loud enough." is worthy of being a soprano elementary school student on stage at that time, but it seems that her voice is a little higher.

"I'm sorry~!"

"Don't apologize, let's go, if it's your reason just now, it's completely fine, they won't embarrass you." After saying that, Choi so-young ignored Kim Tae-yeon's reaction and took her hand again and left.

Kim Taeyeon, who was dragged away again, wanted to cry without tears, not because she was afraid that they would embarrass her, but because her appearance would embarrass them, as if she had completely reversed it......

Although Hwang Mi-young, who was following behind Choi so-young and Kim Tae-yeon, couldn't understand what they were saying, she could roughly guess what was going on from Choi so-young and Kim Tae-yeon's changing expressions.

Is this what the book says about women turning their faces like turning the pages of a book? ……

"Bang!"

The door of a certain practice room underground was kicked open by Cui Xiuying without pity.

"Children, introduce you to my new juniors, come on!" Cui Xiuying, who had just stepped into the practice room with one foot, shouted at the people inside.

Kim Taeyeon, who was standing behind Choi so-young, was extremely embarrassed, and it was also a trouble to be with someone who was too enthusiastic, but she was really still suitable for the method of 'falling in love over time', 'love at first sight' or something, and the progress was too fast.

"......" Cui Xiuying's enthusiasm did not get any reaction from the girls in the practice room, if silence is also a reaction, then the girls can be regarded as a reaction.

After a long day of silence, a girl with a little dark skin walked up to Cui Xiuying and crossed her waist helplessly, "I said Cui Xiuying, do you know that you just kicked the company's public property." ”

"Ernie, it's wrong to vandalize public property." A timid voice came from the practice room, and Kim Taeyeon didn't see a figure, so it must have been blocked by the wall.

"Xiuying, if the company investigates, don't drag us into the water." A girl with dyed blonde hair and about the same height as Kim Taeyeon also walked over with her waist crossed.

"Xiuyingoni, how many times have you kicked the door?" Another voice similar to that of a little boy came from the practice room.

"Remember to pay." A short, cold sentence followed by the little boy's voice coming from within.

"Hey, you only care about the door, right, no one cares about the juniors I bring, besides, this door has long been closed, and I have kicked it no less than ten times, and it is still strong, so I don't have to worry about it breaking down at all." The girls' criticism made Cui Xiuying unhappily crossed her waist, and every time she kicked the door, she would be verbosed by them, and her ears were calloused.

"The juniors you bring? Sorry, I only saw Pani behind you. This sentence instantly pierced the heart of Kim Taeyeon behind Choi so-young.

"Huh? Only Pani? Choi so-young turned around in surprise and found that Kim Taeyeon had just been blocked by herself, and Hwang Mi-young was standing a little obliquely, and Hwang Mi-young's height was even taller than Kim Tae-yeon.

"Hey, I said Taeyeon, why don't you grow any longer?"

I'm sorry to disappoint you······ Kim Taeyeon hung a black line, with a helpless face, it's not her fault that she's so short, it's wrong that you shouldn't be so tall.

"Hello seniors, my name is Kim Taeyeon, I'm from Jeonju, please give me a lot of advice."

"Huh? So short. ”

"Huh? So white. ”

Two people, two words, one sentence pierced Kim Taeyeon's heart, and the other soothed her wounded heart.

"Ah, how can anyone say bad things in front of others when they meet for the first time, Xiaoyuan, don't apologize quickly." The black girls slapped the blonde girl on the back.

Senior, can I think that what you mean by your words is that you can say bad things behind your back?

"Huh? Yes! I'm sorry! Kim Hyo-yeon, who reacted, hurriedly apologized.

"It's okay senior, you don't have to apologize." Kim Taeyeon hurriedly bowed back, in South Korea, it is a big deal to ask the seniors to apologize, and as a junior, you can't just accept it calmly. But the girl was right, she was too short.

"Oh, okay, okay, let's go in and talk about it, what do you say when you stand at the door." Choi so-young pulled Kim Taeyeon with one hand and Hwang Mi-young with the other, squeezed away Kwon Yoo-ri and Kim Hyo-yeon, and led the two of them into the practice room.

"Okay, re-introduction, this is the junior I brought, Kim Taeyeon, from Jeonju, is the first singer and the winner of the grand prize in the 8th S.M Youth Auditions, that's 9000:1~!" Choi so-young put her arm around Kim Taeyeon's shoulders and leaned on her body to introduce the girls, and there seemed to be a little pride in her words.

"Former ...... Hello seniors. Unlike Choi so-young's ease, Kim Taeyeon blushed and bowed in embarrassment, and she almost stumbled Choi so-young, who was leaning on her shoulder, when she suddenly bent over.

"Jung so-yeon, you can call me Jessica." After a long day of silence, the first to speak was not Kim Hyo-yeon and Kwon Yoo-ri, who were the most active, nor Lim Yoon-a, who looked outgoing, but Jung so-yeon, who looked the most unapproachable. For Kim Taeyeon, Jung so-yeon has never forgotten this name since she heard her singing, this name that makes her feel a sense of crisis, she knows that Kim Taeyeon will definitely enter the company and will become another strong opponent for her.

And the girls who are familiar with Jung so-yeon's personality turn their eyes back and forth between Kim Taeyeon and Jung so-yeon, and they are curious about what Kim Tae-yeon has that attracts Jung so-yeon and makes her the first to introduce herself.

As one of the parties involved, Kim Taeyeon was uncomfortable staring at the girls, and wanted to ask, but she didn't know how to speak, so she could only stand there and smirk.

"Hello Taeyeon Ernie, my name is Seo Joo-hyun." Seo Joo-hyun broke the eerie atmosphere in the practice room.

"Hello senior."

"Hyun, how do you know Taeyeon is older than you?" She didn't seem to say how old Kim Taeyeon was, and looked at Kim Taeyeon's face......

"Intuition." Seo Joo-hyun gave an answer that made people roll their eyes, in fact, she didn't know why, she only knew that when she said Taeyeon, she blurted out the word Ernie as if she had been calling it for a long time and had become a habit.

Well, congratulations to you, Xiaoxian, who has finally acquired the first skill that symbolizes a woman - a woman's intuition. Cui Xiuying rolled her eyes speechlessly and slandered.

"Hello Taeyeon Oni, my name is Lim Yoon-a, you can call me Yoon-a."

"Yun'er seniors are good."

"Hello, my name is Jin Xiaoyuan, you can call me Xiaoyuan, I'm really sorry just now."

"It's okay senior."

"Hello, my name is Kwon Yoo-li, you can call me Yoo-li."

"Hello Yuli, senior."

"Hey, don't always be a senior, you're still better than us, you're called old." Kim Taeyeon finished bowing to the others one by one, and Choi so-young patted her on the back with an unhappy face.

"......"

"But what, just call the name." Kwon Yoo-ri interrupted Kim Tae-yeon's words and put her shoulder on her shoulder with a smile on her face.

"I ......"

"What am I, it's decided, this is the request of the seniors."

It's too enthusiastic or something, she really doesn't get used to it.

Kim Taeyeon, who was blocked by the word senior, had nothing to say, could only accept it silently, and Hwang Mi-young was just smiling from the time she came in to the end of the introduction, watching quietly from the sidelines, except for the introduction part she could understand, she didn't even have time to turn the dictionary for other words.

After getting acquainted with the girls, Choi so-young and Hwang Mi-young took Kim Tae-yeon to a practice room on the first floor to audit, which is one of several practice rooms dedicated to teaching C-level trainee classes, and where Kim Tae-yeon will take classes in the future. Before class, Choi so-young returned to her practice room, and after getting the consent of the dance teacher, Kim Tae-yeon sat in the corner of the practice room and listened carefully to every movement taught by the dance teacher.

During the free practice, Kim Taeyeon recalled all the movements of the dance teacher in her mind, and although she wanted to dance again, she had only followed the video for a few months to dance the basic dance, and she was asked by the dance teacher to warm up in the corner and stretch. It wasn't until she felt the pain coming from her thigh that she knew that in the past few months, she had completely forgotten that there was such a thing as stretching in dance, and she didn't pull hard enough, splitting her legs......

After class, Kim Taeyeon stood up with the help of Hwang Mi-young, and she seemed to see a dark future again. Before leaving, he cleaned the practice room with Huang Meiying, and cleaning the practice room for new trainees has become an unwritten rule passed down among trainees.

That night, Kim Taeyeon met another roommate in the dormitory, Zhang Liyin, a girl from ZG, who knew Chinese, surprised Zhang Liyin and Huang Meiying, Zhang Liyin was surprised that Kim Tae-yeon's Chinese made her feel like a native of ZG, Huang Meiying was surprised that Kim Taeyeon could also speak Chinese, and judging from Zhang Li-yin's reaction, Kim Tae-yeon's Chinese was as proficient as her English.

Before falling asleep, Kim Taeyeon stared at the ceiling, thinking about what happened today, and those familiar and unfamiliar faces flashed back and forth in her mind.

Why does it feel familiar when I see them, is it because of her memory? But why is it the feeling of a loved one? Why?

Unable to resist the onset of drowsiness, with questions, Kim Taeyeon slowly entered the dream, and a sentence before falling asleep flashed in her mind.

The most familiar strangers......