Burning Flame (K.Sn)

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I excitedly clapped my hands as the 'I Need U' unit finished on stage. They had just finished performing, right after us. Both Hanbin and I seemed to be the most excited ones about that stage. The two of us just sat and sent the four boys, on stage, various types of hearts as they got a lot of critisism for their performance.

"Ah, I thought they were good," I commented making Hanbin immediately nod at me as the 'Fake Love' unit were called up to the stage as the very last one, "lets go~" I quietly cooed making Hanbin let out a small laugh at me.

We all sat in silence as the 'Fake Love' unit spoke with the producers before getting into position. As they did I happily patted Hanbin's arm before pointing down on stage.

"Sunoo. Sunoo-ya," I happily pointed out, making Hanbin let out a small laugh at me.

I happily sat and watched the performance... mainly Sunoo, if I had to be completely honest. I grinned and clapped happily as they lined up once again for their feedback on the performance.

"Lin?" Jay spoke up and I hummed, looking to my side, "next time, try and be a little less obvious."

"About what?" I questioned in confusion.

"Staring at Sunoo," he stated with a small laugh, making my cheeks heat up within a second as he just laughed even more at me.

At one point our unit had called down on stage to see whether our unit or the 'Fake Love' unit had placed first, and for that reason were excempted from elimination. It honestly didn't surprise me when the 'Fake Love' unit placed first, I had expected to be honest.

So once we all returned to I-Land to pack and change I was just happily skipping around and packing down all my things. Since today's elimination was decided by the producers, I didn't feel as nervous as I probably would if it was decided by the global votes. I was sure that if it was out from the global votes we were eliminated, in this test, I could already consider myself as eliminated. But I had been quite satisfied with my performance today, so it was alright.

As I returned to the lobby with all my things I patiently waited with all the boys, for the egg to light up and tell us we would now enter the elimination.

"Please move to the stage for elimination."

As per usual I walked up with the boys and waited in the egg as it slowly turned around. A lot of the boys seemed quite nervous regardless of how they had done, but I don't think I feel it in the same way as them.

"How come you be so calm?" Jake let out a small laugh at me.

"Because it's not based on the global votes," I shrugged, "I feel it's a bit more safe then."

"Hm," he hummed with a small frown before we lined up on stage.

The 'Fake Love' unit were called out first to get their placements, in order to see if any of them actually were excempted from elimination. Heeseung had placed first, Sunghoon second, Sunoo sixth and Taki thirteenth, meaning whoever placed twelth would be eliminated. After the four of them had all gone to I-Land, with a very distressed Taki among them, the ranking continued. Jungwon was revealed as the third place and then it just moved on.

"Fourth placing I-Lander have scored a total of 79 points."

"It's the same as Sunghoon-ie hyung," Daniel commented.

"He placed higher because his unit won," Jay clarified and we all just nodded.

"Lin."

"Huh?" I looked over at the monitor in confusion as my face appeared on screen.

I hadn't expected to be eliminated, but I hadn't expected to be in the top eight either. I just thought I would be somewhere between twelth and ninth place. I hesitantly stepped forward and just bowed at the producers before moving over towards the egg.

It was almost like I thought it was some joke that I had placed fourth, but not once was I stopped before the egg slowly began turning around.

"Lin!" Heeseung happily exclaimed and ran up to be the first that greeted me, "that's great."

"Yeah... it is," I slowly realized what had happened and actually smiled, "Taki," I quickly realized the dissheveled boy and rushed down and hugged him tightly, "don't cry, don't cry... it's alright."

"I feel bad, noona," he muttered as I just patted his head.

"No, no, no," I shook my head at him and quickly dried his cheeks, "you worked so hard this week, it's all deserved."

"But I didn't work hard enough," he shook his head as he pulled away from the hug.

"Hey... didn't you absolutely nail those high notes out on stage?" I questioned him and he just hesitantly nodded, "then it's fully deserved, because that means you developed a lot through this week."

"Lin is right," Sunghoon nodded in agreement as he squeezed Taki's shoulder.

"See?" I grinned at Taki who just nodded in time for K to arrive as well.

I let Taki rush off to hug K, before just watching the boys slowly return one by one.

"You know... this means we're sharing a room," Sunoo commented from behind me and I just looked my shoulder to see him smirking.

"I know," I nodded at him, "what about it?"

"It means... I can easily sneak over in your bed whenever I want," he happily grinned.

"Oh yeah... that didn't sound creepy at all," I commented making him let out a small gasp.

"I didn't mean... what? no," he shook his head with a small frown on his face.

"I know what you meant, calm down," I assured with a small laugh as I nudged his arm with my elbow, "relax."