I woke up at 5:47 AM.
My hand reached automatically for the training schedule that should have been beside my bed, already calculating how much time I had before vocal warm-ups.
Then I saw the crack running across my old bedroom ceiling and the curtains that never quite closed. There were no footsteps in the corridor, no distant alarms from neighboring rooms.
I remembered.
My phone showed 5:49 AM. No production alarm. No morning briefing. No rehearsal schedule.
The other finalists would be waking now. Jisoo would complain about the hour. Jinwook would already be dressed. Yuhyun would lie in bed for another five minutes, bargaining with himself before getting up.
For weeks, I'd complained about never having enough time. Now I had an entire day and nothing to do with it.
I remained under the blanket until sunlight reached the foot of my bed. Not because I was tired. I simply couldn't think of a reason to move.
