The Road We Walk On

75 | Framed

For the next two days, the gang did their due diligence, they made sure that Rona was never left alone regardless of where she went. If she went to the toilet, Steph or Yoo Jung would be sure to accompany her. In class, Ryo and Yoo Jung would make sure to sit on either side of Rona. Ryo had been observing the girls who were already dubbed the 'anti-Rona' faction. He could see how as the days went by, their expression towards Rona had gotten worse. It did not help that Rona being oblivious to all that was around her, was just growing into her talent daily.

Rona was really diligent, if she was not studying or reading, she was practicing either at home or in the practice rooms. This diligence was paying dividends, just within the 6 weeks her technique had improved greatly. Alongside personal lessons by her tutors, her dication in the languages like English, Italian and even French was improving. As Clark had predicted, she was the monster and the star of the Voice major. However, with success comes people who grow envious of it. It did not help that Gabbie was stirring the pot, but even if she had not, jealousy would have aroused perhaps not as fast if Gabbie had not added more fuel to the tiny fire burning.

Regardless, it was clear that Rona was unstoppable at this point. What probably made other classmates even more jealous was that it was not Rona herself who was improving, in the 6 weeks, her friends - Yoo Jung, Ryo and Steph had been steadily making gains. Compared to where they started in the 1st week of school, the Professors and tutors had all noted significant improvement from all of them. Truly, all eyes were on these 4, and sadly not all of those eyes looked upon this group kindly.

Juilliard School, New York

Today was the day of their collaborative module, their group work had steadily progressed. Despite their knowledge of Gabbie, George, Yoo Jung and Ryo acted as normal around her, they did not want to arouse any suspicion in Gabbie that they knew something. As the week went by, Gabbie was growing more frustrated with the lack of progress. Despite her best efforts to smear Rona, which was working on some level. It was not moving as fast as she wanted it to, it also was not helpful that Rona kept doing well in her studies and practicums. It just re-emphasised again just how talented she was. It was the complete opposite to what Gabbie had been experiencing in school.

Although she now had a group of larkey (so to speak), her reputation within the Piano major was mediocre at best, she was not the worst but neither was she outstanding. For the most part, during her one on one lessons with the Professors, she often would get criticised from her technique and failure to connect with the songs she plays. She was getting really tired of things just not going her way, if she did not create some sort of upset by the end of the semester, her plan to get Seokhoon and be the Queen of Juilliard would completely fall apart.She had to do something drastic a bit.

It was break time for the class and the group were sitting together chatting. Gabbie came to the group and asked to speak to Rona alone. Rona went with Gabbie but what Gabbie did not foresee was that Seokhoon would be following her.

Urm, Seokhoon this is somewhat private.

That is fine, I will just be standing slightly further away. Seokhoon only took two steps back to give them some sort of space but was still able to see every move of Gabbie's. What Gabbie did not count on when was going to execute her plan was that So Hyun was also in vicinity, she too was on her break from her dance practice. She saw Gabbie talking to Rona and decided to look from a distance. She noticed Gabbie was holding something at the back of her hand, she could not quite make out what it was.

All of a sudden, there was a struggle between the two. To most onlookers it looked like they were fighting, Gabbie tried to wrestle Rona while Rona was trying to shake Gabbie's hold on her. Seokhoon immediately stepped in and shoved Gabbie off Rona, all of a sudden, Gabbie cried out that she was bleeding. When they looked over they saw that blood was coming out of her fingers. In a flash, everyone was confused with what happened. Everything happened so fast, Gabbie started to see that Rona had fought with her and ended up injuring her precious hands. The Professors were quickly notified of the incident and separated Rona and Gabbie. They brought Gabbie to the doctor's office to get her hand looked at.

Rona was completely stunned, she had absolutely no clue what happened. She was just talking to Gabbie, and Gabbie suddenly began to accuse her of saying certain things behind her back, even though Rona kept denying it, Gabbie was working herself up into a frenzy. Suddenly, she was grabbed by Gabbie so hard that she was struggling to break free. Seokhoon shoved her off her and that was how she was freed, then Gabbie began to scream. Rona could not know how she could have hurt her, her nails were not that long nor sharp to tear skin. Plus she was not even holding or touching her hands. Seokhoon stayed with her as they were in one of the Professor's offices. She explained her side of the story and luckily, Seokhoon was near enough to confirm that Rona did not in any way hurt Gabbie.

After Gabbie got her hand all wrapped up, the doctor stated that the cut was not deep and keeping the wrapping on for 1-2 days should do it. Gabbie was then left alone in the office while the Professor went to collect witness statements. Gabbie was sitting there, feeling rather proud of herself. At this rate, Rona would have to be disciplined for harming a student, Juilliard highly condoned any kind of physical action against another. Gabbie was smiling to herself happy that her plan was going to succeed, when So Hyun walked in.

Note: Don't you want to kill Gabbie? Don't worry me too!