The Close Strangers

t w e n t y - s e v e n

"I'm so happy that the exam is finally over," Lucas exclaims in excitement as he embraces Chan.

Chan shakes his head, "Shut up. You should start to pray that you'll get good grades."

Lucas pouts slightly, "You know what? I'll end up wasting my time because I know I won't ever get good grades."

They enter the gymnasium, searching for seats on the tribune as Yerim's eyes wandering around the field to see where Mark is.

They are about to watch the basketball sparing which Yerim and Mark talked about last night. Lucas isn't in the team tonight because he said he misses being the supporter of the match instead of getting support for the match.

Yerim ends up sitting between Jihoon and Hyewon as her eyes still wandering around. She finally finds Mark when that guy stands up from the bench, warming himself up.

She nods as she agrees with her thought that is saying how hot Mark is in his basketball jersey.

Everyone, including her, can't help but jumps out a little when Lucas suddenly squeals like a girl, clapping his hands while calling Mark's name out loud.

The guy whom Lucas calls immediately turns his body around, backing the direction where Lucas and his friends are because he's so embarrassed just to see them.

"You said you didn't want to join the team because you miss being a supporter," Hyewon talks to Lucas who is still calling Mark, "But, it's more like you just want to embarrassed Mark."

Lucas smiles slyly, "You finally got the point."

"Also, I just want to teach you all how to be the right supporter. You've watched Mark and me for a thousand times, but all you guys ever did is just sitting and clapping your hands."

"Here, you should do something like this," Lucas gets up from his seat, clapping his hands once again before calling Mark's name again.

The owner of the name suddenly comes toward their direction, motioning Lucas to come down to the lowest tribune. Lucas does that immediately, but he drags Yuqi with him.

"Do you know what the word 'fuck' means?" Mark asks while wiping his sweat with the towel in his hand.

"That means you," Mark continues before he gives Lucas a 'fuck' sign with his hand. He walks away from there, leaving Lucas speechless, but only for a second because right after that, Lucas calls Mark louder than before instead.

The match went pretty well even though the Seoul National University's team ended up losing. Lucas runs into the field right away to join his teammates, meanwhile, the rest of them are waiting on the tribune.

"I suddenly realize how amazing our friendship is," Chaeyoung suddenly says, causing everyone to turn their heads to her.

Instead of being touched, they are more like disgust by her words.

"I mean likeㅡ our friendship is filled by supports, loves, affectionate. It's filled with good things only."

"Also, we've always been there for each other," She adds.

Her words still can't change the expression on her friends' faces, so she tries even more just to make her friends admit that their friendship is indeed amazing. She finally stops when they hear the sound of people fighting from the field.

It successfully makes Yerim getting up from her seat before she runs off the tribune to go there.

"It's Mark!" Yerim shouts as she runs, following by her friends.