Attention || Seulrene | Ongoing

Step One: Meeting The Parents

"So..." she started, her breathing was heavy and drops of sweat ran down her neck to the dip of her shoulders. She took a while before she could speak again, "How many more days again?"

"Four." Seulgi said, eyes not on Irene as she searched for something in her bag. The only one who's with her inside the practice room heard her curse under her breath.

"Anything wrong?"

Shaking her head, she mumbled a small none but kept rummaging her bag.

After a few more seconds, Seulgi stopped with whatever she's looking for and sighed heavily while typing on her phone.

"Here," the older said. In her hand was an unopened bottle of water and she was offering it to Seulgi.

"It's my extra so take it." She insisted when Seulgi was hesitating.

But Seulgi shook her head and showed her phone. "It's okay. I'm about to text Eunae to bring me a bottle later."

Irene sighed and let the bottle roll to where Seulgi stood while she was on the other side of the room, her back was plastered against the cold wall. "C'mon,Seulgi. Don't bother your girlfriend for a bottle of water. Her building is far from here and besides, you've been already aching to drink even we're just in the middle of the practice."

Seulgi was still staring when she sighed loudly and closed her eyes. "It's not poisoned or anything."

There was first silence before she heard the scrunch of plastic and the faint twisting or the cap before she spoke again. "But I may have added a little bit of love potion in there."

There was a series of coughing that echoed in the spacious room and Irene opened her eyes to see Seulgi staring at her with wide eyes and water dribbling down her chin.

Biting back a loud laugh, Irene shook her head and said, "I'm kidding, Seulgi. That was just given to me by some random guy from another class. But incase it's infused with something, I can track him down for you."

She studied her expression and saw Seulgi wipe the water on her chin and took hesitant gulps. Irene smiled to herself before closing her eyes again.

Four days.

She only have four days to perfect this dance and present it to Mrs. Lee. She almost got the steps. Almost... because some of them were easy but she couldn't understand the feeling that something was missing and some moves felt peculiar while dancing alone. She didn't know why but it felt it was lacking...

It felt like it was supposed to be a dance of two people and despite having an idea, she didn't voice out her thoughts and questions. She'd wait for Seulgi to tell her her plans because they were still threading on thin ice. With her still slightly careful with the younger as the words of Jisoo haunt her to no end, and Seulgi's hesitation to approach her, they knew they had to proceed with caution.

Because one wrong move, one wrong word from any of them might crack the ground that they were standing on, and let them fall into an unfathomable pit where none of them could recover from and ruin whatever weird and complex relationship they have.

Regardless of telling herself that she trusts Seulgi and whatever plan she has, Irene couldn't keep her teeth from gnawing her bottom lip as anxiety starts creeping inside her usually confident heart.

"We can do this, right?" She asked her from the reflection on the mirror.

Seulgi titled her head and nodded, albeit a little stiffly. "Don't you have any trust in yourself?"