The Close Strangers

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"Yerim-ah, hurry up!" Yoojung says excitedly, can't stop thinking about what they are going to do next since their class has ended.

"Whoa, Yoojung-ah," Jihoon rests his arm on top of the head of the shortest girl among all of them, "You seem so excited."

Yoojung glares at him even though she must try her best to look up to him.

Different from yesterday, this day turns out to be one of the best days for Yerim.

Even so, started from this morning, Yerim ended up not going to the campus with Mark. He has to come to his basketball match which held at the time their class started. So, Mark and Lucas didn't attend the class and his friends couldn't come to support them like yesterday.

That's why Yerim hasn't gotten a chance to talk to him. She just hopes the argument they had last night will be forgotten once they meet each other.

When Yerim came into the class this morning, Yoojung suddenly shouted out in excitement as if she's about to explode with happiness.

It turns out, Yerim passed the dance audition. She didn't have any idea about that because she didn't have a phone.

Actually, it's not only her but all of her friends also passed it. Mark, Felix, Chan, Yoojung, literally all of them have passed it.

Isn't that amazing? They can celebrate the good news together.

"Jihoon-ah, can you drive us to the Student Activity Center?" Yoojung asks him while holding Yerim's arm.

"Where are Felix and Channie?" He knows that those guys should go to where Yerim and Yoojung need to go.

Yerim shrugs since she hasn't seen them because they had a different class this morning.

"Let me call them," Jihoon says as they walk together out of the class.

They decide to meet each other at the Student Activity Center main hall since Chan and Felix are already on their way there. They only need fifteen minutes to arrive there.

Yerim doesn't know how many times Yoojung is pulling her hand while trying to run in excitement.

"Calm down, Yoojungie," She says, "You might break my hand."

Yoojung doesn't listen to Yerim, instead, she shouts loudly when she spots Felix and Chan waiting for them.

Felix and Yoojung end up holding their hands together while jumping like a little kid, meanwhile, Chan immediately goes to Yerim, pretending not to know the other two people.

"Let's go," Yerim says after she tells Yoojung and Felix to stop jumping around.

They walk to the room where the people who passed the audition told to be gathered. That's actually the room where Yerim usually does her dance practice with the university's dance team every week.

But, forget about that, now she's the part of the dance competition team.

"Where's Mark?" Yerim asks once they arrive in front of the room.

"He's still on his way," Felix responds, "But, he told us to come in first."

Yerim nods before opening the door, being the first one to get into the room, followed by her friends from behind.

As expected, the room is already full of people. Yerim knows a couple of people in there since some of them are also coming from the university's dance team, but most of the people in this room are new in her eyes.

Not long after that, a couple of people who introduce themselves as the instructor throughout their preparation until the competition ends come to the front of the room.