Slow Journey || 2KIM

Chapter 27 (M)

The first semester of their fourth year has been over for a week now. Fortunately for Minju, her serious and hard studying has been pretty effective as she's managed to pass all of her classes and get perfect scores on all of her projects and essays, which has made her extremely happy. She can't stop hopping giddily as she's looking at her scores and grades on the big announcements' board that has all of the students' grades for this semester. She really can't believe that she made it no matter how tough life has been on her this year as working and studying has been two hard tasks to do. Her eyes scan the board in search of Chaewon's name as she smiles brightly seeing that all of her friends have passed the classes. Her smile only gets wider the moment she sees Chaewon's as expected perfect scores on the board. She feels happy and proud for her girlfriend.

"Ah, they're out already?" Chaewon groans softly as she back hugs Minju and rests her head on Minju's shoulder. Lately she has been extremely affectionate towards Minju even if they were surrounded by students around campus most of the time. None of the two cared anymore and the more they ignored the students, the less attention they paid them back anyway.

"Yeah. I passed all of my classes! Isn't this great news?" Minju exclaims happily.

"That's wonderful! We're one step closer to graduating together then." Minju giggles as she nods her head.

"Yeah. Yeah I hope so." Chaewon knows how hard Minju is working and how determined she is so graduate along with her and she swears if Minju manages to graduate by the end of this year she's going to be the most deserve student to ever get her diploma as she has been working way too hard to get it, all by herself without anyone's help or support —excluding her friends and Chaewon of course.

"Are my grades bad?" Chaewon asks her then and Minju immediately shakes her head.

"No. In fact they're better than mine but I don't care honestly. As long as I pass my classes I'm happy. And you passed all of yours too!" Chaewon smiles softly before she hums.

"I'm glad. Should we go celebrate? I'm hungry." Chaewon says before she takes Minju by her hand and leads her to the cafeteria without even checking her name on the board, completely trusting her girlfriend at this. If Minju says she passed, then she did.

"Ah it still feels unusual to not have Eunbi and Sakura unnie around here!" Yena groans the moment Minju and Chaewon enter the cafeteria and stand behind their friends at the big line to get their tray of food and head back to their private classroom as they always do.

"That's true. I miss them." Yuri says, agreeing to her girlfriend before Hyewon nods her head as well.

"I miss her around here too." She mumbles, meaning Eunbi of course.

"I think we should cherish this moment though and every other that's about to come as this is our last year here." Yuri says and Yena hits her on her shoulder playfully.

"Ya this sounded so sad!"

"But it's true!"

"I don't want to graduate. What will we do after this? I'm too young to start working seriously and become a mature business woman!" Yuri pouts as she nods her head, agreeing with her. Minju nods her head along with them even though she's pretty experienced at working and all so she's not exactly afraid of that field like the girls are. In fact, she can't wait to get an actual job, a proposal for an upcoming drama or a company to hire her.

"Yujin? Have you gotten any reply yet?" She asks Yujin as she gets reminded that the three of them —She, Yujin and Hyewon— have applied for a couple of companies a few weeks ago.

"Unfortunately not. One of them rejected us already though." Yujin replies to her and Minju pouts a little before she nods her head. Chaewon caresses her arm with her other hand as her one hand is holding the girl's hand before she says softly,