Stuck With You (Jinjoo)

Chapter 22

As the day nears to its end, the tent where Yujin and Minjoo were staying were now being filled with the other students who have finished the task.

The interval from when the next pairs came after the other was in random. There was no particular time of when the others arrived. Sometimes it was 30 minutes that have passed before the next pairs arrived; the other, about a whole 2 hours.

The last one to return were Yena and Yuri who arrived just before the sun set. Even with the time alloted for them to finish the task, they weren't able to answer it all. They sat sullenly on the last two empty chairs in the tent next to the others.

The two MCs started to rose from their seats as soon as all contestants were present and went over to the students who stopped chatting as they came.

"Alright, alright. Now wasn't that a fun challenge?" Tiffany started, grinning. "You got to discover this whole island, solve riddles, and even spend a day with your friends. Isn't that just great?"

The others nodded in agreement while Yena, sighed miserably. Minjoo looked over at Yujin, nodding like the rest and was wearing a bright smile. Minjoo can't help but to smile as well.

"I know you're all excited to see how many points you got and to see the final rankings so we won't let you wait for too long." Moonbin says as Tiffany gave him an iPad.

"Excuse us for the small screen as it was a bit hard trying to carry a whole screen to this island." Tiffany explained, chuckling. "Now, if you would all just move a little closer so you could see the results."

The students did as they were told and came close together, all eyes trained on the screen. After a few seconds, their rankings appeared on the tiny screen.

1st Place: Kim Chaewon & Honda Hitomi = 40 pts. + 373 pts. = 413 pts.
2nd Place: Ahn Yujin & Kim Minjoo = 50 pts. + 321 pts. = 371 pts.
3rd Place: Kang Hyewon & Kwon Eunbi = 45 pts. + 322 pts. = 367 pts.
4th Place: Yabuki Nako & Jang Wonyoung = 40 pts. + 307 pts. = 347 pts.
5th Place: Choi Yena & Jo Yuri = 30 pts. + 308 pts. = 338 pts.
6th Place: Lee Chaeyeon & Miyawaki Sakura = 50 pts. + 234 pts. = 284 pts.

A noise erupted from the students either from happiness or disappointment. They all pulled back after seeing their rankings.

"We're second!" Yujin excitedly says the moment Minjoo and her pulled away from the crowd.

"Ahh, yes. We finally passed Eunbi unnie and Hyewon unnie with their one point and now we're leading." Minjoo giggled, checking their scores again. "Oh, but we're still a few points away from the first placers."

Minjoo glanced to her side and saw Chaewon and Hitomi chatting cheerfully after seeing the results

Yujin looked at where Minjoo was staring and sighed, a small smile on her face. "It's okay. The scores aren't really far from each other, there's still a chance that we can surpass them on the next one. Maybe they'll even give big points to earn on the next challenge."

Minjoo put her head down and chuckled. "Always looking at the bright side, I see?" She asked Yujin playfully.

Yujin pursed her lips, seemingly thinking for a bit, before smiling. "Well, of course. We made it this far. Who says we couldn't win this thing?"

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The sun soon disappeared from the horizon as the students made their way back to their houses. It was a long way back as they had to ride the boats again in order to return to the island.

Both Yujin and Minjoo fell tiredly on the couch the moment they reached home.

"Ugh, my legs are killing me." Minjoo says, massaging her calves. "I didn't know we'd be walking around that island for hours."