Idol Star School by Nara Noelle

Author:Nara Noelle
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Terry

During the days leading up to the students’ second assessment, my band members and I refrained from arguing. RJ didn’t curse me out, and I played my part in putting together the next surprise we had in store for Hamin, no questions asked.

When I’d previously walked past Hamin practicing in an empty dance studio, late into the night, I wondered if my fellow band members and Rye’s suspicions could’ve been the result of a misunderstanding. Perhaps Hamin’s determination stemmed from how truly desperate he was to become a performer. Once or twice, I even considered going in and giving him pointers.

However, these days, I couldn’t stand how he came to my classes and acted like nothing had gone down between us. While I didn’t intend to confront him about his hidden voice recorder, I had the feeling if I were to do so, he’d seamlessly feign innocence. Anytime I spotted him practicing, I reminded myself of how no contestant with honest intentions would’ve gone out of his way to bring the device to the island. I hated not knowing what Hamin was hiding, and that took away most of the guilt and sympathy I might’ve otherwise felt toward him.

Once I arrived at the Song Center on the day of the assessment, I went to the control booth of the main concert hall. I met the sound designer and handed him a list of tracks each student would be performing to and a USB stick with the appropriate audio files. Normally, I’d have assigned this task to one of the gofers, but today, it was of utmost priority to me that the sound designer knew exactly what to do. Afterward, I joined Arang, RJ, Vik, Eugene, and Doc in the judges’ elevated seating area.

“Nice to see you, Terry,” Eugene said, raising his hand.

“It’s good to see you too,” I replied as I sat down beside Arang.

Although the judges lived down the hallway from me, I hadn’t seen much of them lately. Technically, they were supposed to help me and my band members run our lessons. But so far, each of them had dropped by my dance class exactly once—basically doing the bare minimum to get footage for the show. Additionally, Rye had been the only judge to stay for the entire lesson. I figured joining the cast of Idol High School was nothing more than a relaxing getaway for them; they were getting paid to take a break from the stress and bustle of living in Duvil.

Eugene peered at the empty seat next to him. “I take it Rye won’t be joining us today?”

“No. Apparently, he’s busy taking care of some urgent business,” Doc said.

Before Eugene could respond, a gofer came over and blurted out, “I’m taking orders for drinks. Could everyone tell me what they’d like?”

“What did you say?” Vik snarled.

“Would you like something to drink, sir?” the gofer faltered.

“Hey! You!” Vik got up and grabbed the gofer’s shoulder. “How dare you interrupt the middle of our conversation like

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