Imperfectly Perfect 2

66 : Missing in Action

"Dahyun! Kim Dahyun!" Sana flails her arms and calls out in the middle of the busy cafeteria. "Over here!"

It is the peak hours of lunch time at the school cafeteria. Every university person is bustling around to secure a table and get some food into their system. This is of course in the hopes that a full meal will not cause them to doze off in their afternoon classes later.

"Where's Pres?" Dahyun asks as she places her cafeteria tray on the table already occupied by Chaeyoung, Jeongyeon, and Sana. "Don't tell me she is still at the council office, dedicating her life to some council task."

"She's not." The soccer ace quickly answers. "She said she has to meet with someone and pick up something outside of the university. She will be out this afternoon and will be back before evening."

"I see." The council secretary nodded in acknowledgement as she casually took the open seat beside the cheer captain.

"Ahh. Really?" Jeongyeon comments in wonder. "Pres is out again with someone?"

"Yeah." Chaeyoung lets out a faint sigh. She spoke without even looking at the other girl. "Like last time."

The council treasurer nods slowly. "Like last time, huh?"

The soccer ace promptly rolled her eyes. She knows that behavior from her roommate. That is the same look that Jeongyeon gives her when she teases the smaller girl about Mina's secret lover.

Dahyun asked again, already chewing some rice on her mouth. "Is it related to the upcoming leadership camp?"

"I don't think so." Sana butts in to answer. "She already instructed me to go to Tzuyu's university later. I will be doing the camp related tasks that she is supposed to accomplish today. If that was what she would be doing, she didn't have to ask me to cover for her."

"Ahh. Really?" Jeongyeon continued to slowly nod, all the while giving Chaeyoung a teasing look. "So, Pres has somewhere else to be, huh?"

"Tsk." The soccer ace just glared at her roommate.

"Maybe she already has too much on her plate?" The council secretary pursues the topic. "You know that Pres has a habit of doing everything by herself and dropping the tasks to us when she is neck deep with paperwork."

"But you know..." Sana puts down her cutleries and stares at the ceiling for a moment. "Mina has been getting these calls for the past few days. The calls were weird because whatever we were talking or whatever she was doing, she would stop and take the call and leave the room."

"Oooh." Jeongyeon began nodding slowly again like a bobblehead in constant motion. "That sounds intriguing."

"Tsk. I know, right?" The cheer captain raises an eyebrow. She consecutively turns and squints at Chaeyoung. "Do you know what those calls were about?"

"Yeah. Son Chaeyoung." The council treasurer quickly puts her elbow over the table and rests her head over it. She also squints at the soccer ace's direction. "Do you know what those calls were about? Do you know who Pres is— Ouch!"

"Deserved." Chaeyoung sticks a tongue out to her roommate who she just stomped her feet on under the table.

"So I'm assuming that her lover also doesn't know, huh?" Sana wears a wide smirk. "Thank goodness the best friend wasn't left out."

The soccer ace gives her an annoyed look. "Hey— That's not something to be happy about!"

"I wonder where my sweet Mina went." Jeongyeon comments again in an obvious tease.

"I wonder what my Minari is doing right now." Sana also adds in.

"YOU TWO—" Chaeyoung purses her lips, closes her eyes, and heaves in a deep breath. "Ugh!" She then took her glass of water and drank it roughly like some shot of alcohol.

"One tiger cub successfully went mad!" Jeongyeon yells victoriously as she and Sana give each other a knowing look. They high five each other and laugh loudly to themselves.

They ate in faint chuckles for a while after that, making sure their plates would be clean before the afternoon schedules they would be catching up.

"But, Sana..." Dahyun turned to her classmate after a couple of minutes of silence at their table. "Will you be fine going to another university alone? Do you need help? I can accompany you."

"Aww. It's fine, Dahyunie." The cheer captain flashes a proud smile. "I'll take a cab so that I can be sure I won't be lost."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. You should do that." The council treasurer chuckles. "You kind of give off the vibe of a girl who gets lost on her way back when tasked to buy some brown sugar from a convenience store."

"Hey, Yoo Jeongyeon!" Sana started yelling in annoyance. "I wasn't familiar with the place at that time! And you also got confused—"

The council treasurer quickly cuts her sentence to continue her mocking. "She was even oh-so proud before leaving."

"I know, right?" Dahyun rolls her eyes and also joins the teasing. "I remember her saying something like—" She pauses a second to project a bubbly face. She speaks in a much higher tone, trying to imitate the cheer captain. "No, it's fine. It's just a pack of brown sugar. I can handle it."

And all the girls at the table burst into laughter.

"And then—" Chaeyoung adds in between chuckles. "And then an hour later, she was lost in the wilderness crying because of a pack of brown sugar."

"And— And then—" Jeongyeon is now laughing so hard. "She hurt herself by kicking the car's tire— out of her own frustration."

Dahyun holds her stomach while also chuckling. "I know I should be sorry for her but it's just so funny."

Sana just paid each of them an unamused look. She spoke to them in a very sarcastic tone. "Yeah, yeah. You're all my good friends. I can see that." She tried to stifle her chuckles at her own clumsiness but also gave in to join in the happiness in their table short after.