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lia placed 5th in the global rankings, something she was happy about, but she noticed how jay, niki and k werent in the debut line-up. which upset her and she hugged niki the whole time.

when she sat on her chair after getting her badge and nameplate, the third test was announced : concept test. she was curious as to what the concept would be and excited for the song it was paired with.

"we will now reveal the mini-mission to decide the units." she tilts her head to the side, curious as to the mini-mission, well that was until "say the name, seventeen. hi, we're seventeen!" was coming from the screen.

her eyes widen with pure joy and sparkles as she stood up and points to the screen with her mouth wide open, "seventeen! omg! they'll come here?!"

a few boy chuckle at her joy and mimicked her reaction making her embarrassed and sit back down while hiding her face.

lia's picture was flipped over on the hit side, her mood immediately going up as she hypes herself up mentally, it was one of her favorite songs. she knew the song in and out, she did various covers in various years and was a proud carrat.

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when the unit was watching the choreo video lia was already dancing along to the song, matching with the video perfectly. "lia you're so good! oh my gosh!"

"arigato, nini!" she smiles happily with a laugh.

"i'll do myungho's part, is that alright? alright!"

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the next morning lia arrived at the bathroom and saw sunoo doing everyone's hair. she then goes to her unit and laughs, "naw your so cute!"

she takes the heating tool and fixes their hair, focusing on it intensely as to not burn them or herself since the tool was very very hot.

when they practiced again lia joined, lazily dancing along as she helps the others aswell. a bright smile on her lips as seventeen's performance unit came on the screen.

"jun and myungho, i-land has a lot of foreigners.. maybe you can give them some helpful advice!" hoshi told the 'china line' of the group.

"guess what!" the youngest adds, "i heard lilly would be here aswell..!"

lia's eyes widen, she did see them sometimes in the company but she didnt know they knew her or even remembered her name for that matter. they also knew she was chinese which she kinda got but still she was very shocked.

the group of four came inside the practice room and introduced themselves after the 'pretty-u' unit came aswell, "say the name! seventeen! hi, we are seventeen!"

the i-landers clapped as lia looks at each of the four in awe.

"then let's start with hit team!"

lia looks to her unit and smiles, getting into position she looks to the8, "watch me, minghao!" she says in chinese, causing the older boy to smile.

she performed what she practiced all those years ago, happy with her performance at the end. hoshi complimented the team as she and the others clapped again.

she watched the other unit perform and was shocked by sunghoon's brightness, she knew sunoo would pull it off perfectly so that was given.

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when they arrived outside for something unknown to them she bounced her legs next to heeseung, excited to see what would happen or what would be shown on the big screen in front of her.

her eyes glossed many times when she heard the messages for the boys, happy and glad that so many supported them and had fallen in love with them. she was wondering if there would be a video for her as well but didnt think too much of it.

what surprised her was when a young boy come on the screen, he reminded her of her old neighbor in canada, cute boy that always wanted to dance with her since he saw her the first time.

"hi, lia! i love you!" he blurts out, causing her to laugh, "i really really love you! i've always cheered for you since i saw you in that show that my mom left on, since then i'm always watching you! i really hope you debut and that you'll make it really big! i'll always choose you, love you!" he says in chinese, waving aggressively at the screen with a big grin.

she held her hand in front of her mouth, pursing her lips as she tries to suppress her tears. her once closed eyes open again as another video showed up, again it was for the girl.

"hello, lia! i'm very proud of you and how far you've come, i cant wait to be at your concert along with the others! you've inspired me so much, i have a dance group that im leading and we got very popular, all thanks to your words of confidence! i'll always support you! i love you!" a young girl around her age said in french, a few didnt know she could speak french in the first place.

the last message was the one that broke her, "hi, i'm very nervous right now but i've always wanted to tell you that i'm a really big fan. i watched your videos since the beginning of your career and when i heard you would be in i-land i couldnt have been more proud! you've always talked about how you wanted to be an idol, how you wanted to be on the big stage and how the people would watch you do what you love. i'm sure there are many other fans like that out there, i'm honored to voice my feelings out for not only me but also the others. we'll always support you and we'll never leave your side! we love you!"

lia was hiding her face, leaning forward as her hands were covering her face and she was quietly crying. this was something new for her, she was famous before she came into i-land and she always thought that would affect her votes or that she wouldnt be liked by many. she basically already had what many wanted and here she was still wanting more.

she was really glad that her fans support her and that they would always be by her side, heeseung silently helped her sit up and turned her head to his shoulder, letting her cry and hide her face as she was very vulnerable right now.

when she calmed down again she noticed the q&a going on, and coincidentally heeseung had to do aegyo teached by sunoo.

she laughed before he even started,  even more when he finally said, "heedeungie~!" she laughed even louder, slapping his arm as he hides his face in her shoulder, her hand covering her mouth again while she laughed.

it went on like this, either laughing could be heard or she was yelling along with the boy. it was really funny and she couldnt contain he big smile.

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the announcement of the third test came and lia was sitting very stiff on her chair, watching and analyzing the choreography.

she noticed that 'chamber 5 (dream of dreams) was rather, how would she say, it was rather cute and she was sure whoever was in that team would do very good, she just knew sunoo would be in it.

'flame on' on the other hand was her piece of cake, she really liked it and hopes she could perform that song rather than the cutesy one.

"i-lander kim sunoo, who placed first in the mini-mission, may go to the second floor and choose your song and members." lia glanced at heeseung after sunoo went by her, silently pointing a finger at him and doing his aegyo gesture while laughing without a tone.

he got embarrassed and his eyes went wide, gesturing her to be quiet but she just continued to silently laugh knowing sunoo he would choose heeseung for this song for sure, she just knew it her gut was telling her.

jay looks at lia, seeing her silently teasing heeseung and joined in, "i think sunoo will choose lia, she's cute and hasnt done a concept like this in a long time."

she stops her silent laughing and her finger that was pointing at heeseung fell down, she whips her head to him, "how do you know i did a concept like this before?!" she asks, her eyes narrowed as she glances at heeseung and sunghoon.

he shrugs, "your reaction answered my question, thats for sure."

she sighs in relief, "i thought you showed him the video!" she says, hitting heeseung softly on the arm.

he puts his hands up in defense, "maybe i did, maybe i didnt."

when it was lia's time to go see which unit she was in she silently prayed for it to be not the cutesy one. her prayers seemed to have not been listened to because when she opened the door sunoo came jumping out of a corner, yelling a loud, "surprise!" 

she screams, holding her hands over her ears as she looks at the floor with wide eyes, blinking a few times she looks up to sunoo who had a concerned expression on his face, thinking he did something very bad.

she takes her hands off her ears, clicking her tongue while breathing out a deep sigh, "aish! and here i though i wouldnt have to do anything cute again.." she grumbles.

he laughs at that, "but you're so cute! you'll do perfect i know it!"

she silently nods her head before the two formed a plan to surprise the other members which in the end were heeseung, jungwon, jake and taki.

when she noticed heeseung in front of the mirror alone she walks to him with a jump in her step, "looks like you have to act cute heedeungie!"

she laughs out at his horrified look and points at him, laughing at his misery with her head looking at the ceiling.

"yah!" jake lets out, pointing at lia, "jay told me you've done the cute concept before! show us what you can do!"

lia's eyes widen again, "aish! this boy doesent let go of it!"

she clicks her tongue yet again, looking at sunoo as the two silently go in front of the mirror together. she knew the lyrics already so she closes her eyes waiting for the music to start.

opening her eyes she was suddenly a different person, at least in most of their eyes, heeseung was silently laughing with adorable eyes that held love clearly inside while she was singing her heart out with sunoo, both having bright expressions on their faces.

after that lia hugs her pillow as she was already practicing the moves she saw in the choreo. she looks in the direction of the boys and laughs out loud when she saw heeseung just crashing on the floor.

"are you okay? heedeungie! answer me!"

"too intense! thats too much!!"

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jay came inside her room as she was drying her hair with a towel, already changed in more comfortable clothes.

"whats that?" she questions, slowly taking a few steps back, already guessing what it was.

"just take it please-"

she shakes her head, "no. why are you doing this? you arent leaving my side, you arent going anywhere!" she says, her last words more harsh then at the beginning.

he sighs, quickly taking her hand and putting the letter in her hand before quickly leaving the room, leaving her alone with the letter. she looks at it before throwing it on her bed lazily, "i'm not crying today." she says with an exhausted sigh.

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"with 6 in refreshing and 6 in explosion concepts, they've been preparing for the third test. tonight, the 11 i-landers who will survive and continue to perform will be revealed. among them, who wont be able to make it to the next performance?"

"before we start the announcement, lets take a look at their current ranking determined by the midpoint results of the global voting. rank 1, kim sunoo. rank 2, lee heeseung. rank 3, park sunghoon. rank 4, taki. rank 5, lia. rank 6, jake. rank 7, yang jungwon. rank 8, daniel. rank 9, hanbin. rank 10, k. rank 11, niki. rank 12, jay. we'll now show the global viewers' final choice."

lia stood very nervous, not knowing how good she was or how many viewers voted for her, how many people liked her. she spaced out, only coming back when heeseung played with her fingers silently.

"we'll now announce the second survivor. this survivor received 1,699,999 votes and therefore ranked 2nd among the 12 participants. the second place was part of the 'flicker' unit and the 'chemi test'. the second survivor of the global voting is.. i-lander lia."

she breaths out so heavily, as if she had just carried a very big stone on her back, she holds her hand over her mouth turning to heeseung who had a big smile on his face, the two hug each other as she whispers, "i cant believe it.."

"i really want to thank everyone who voted for me, it means a lot to me wherever you're from! i'll continue to work hard and to make you all proud. i thank you for supporting my dream, helping me to accomplish my dream. it means a lot and i hope we'll see each other one day on stage. thank you." she says, bowing.

bang sihyuk takes his microphone, "i'm very proud of you, lia. keep up with the very good work." his dad smile showing brightly as he looks proudly at the girl.

she bows once again before walking towards the egg and back to i-land rather slow, still realizing what just happened.

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