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Thursday nights have always been reserved in my life. For as long as I could remember ever since Junior year of high school, Thursdays were always dedicated to catching up.
As the four of us grew older, our lives got more hectic due to school and work. It made it a lot harder for us to hang out like we always have and instead of letting our friendship wither away, we made a deal to meet up every Thursday. Wether it be at our favorite café, Central Park, a night out at one of our favorite restaurants or sometimes even getting drunk at someone's apartment.
It really didn't matter where just as long as the four of us we're together.
Tonight we decided on going to Seulgi's favorite place—Emilio's Ballato. A fancy Italian restaurant we've dined in more times than I could even count.
"If it isn't my favorite kids." Gloria approaches the table. She was an older sweet Italian woman that had worked at Emilio's for almost twenty-five years now.
"Good to see you Gloria." Jinyoung greeted. Naturally he took her hand into his own and gave it a small squeeze. "How are you?"
"My husband and I are celebrating our twentieth anniversary today. So I think I'm doing just fine."
Congratulations! falls from all of our lips. I could faintly remember meeting Gloria's husband, Giovanni. Almost just as sweet as his wife as he threw numerous compliments at me, raving about how 'beautiful' I was.
"Shall I put in an order for your usual or are we feeling for something different tonight?"
"I think we're just sticking with our usual tonight." Seulgi speaks first and briefly glances at us for confirmation, we all nod. "We will take a bottle of your best red wine though."
"And that yummy bread with the garlic butter pretty please?" I quickly add.
"Coming right up!" Gloria sweetly smiles.
Jennie and I lived together while Seulgi and Jinyoung lived a few blocks away from us, separately. I didn't really see them unless we coincidentally ran into other through the streets of New York and of course a weekly Thursday nights.
"I've been so busy with classes." Seulgi sighs, sinking back into her seat. "I love my kids but once they lose focus it's damn near impossible to get it back and then I'm sitting there for another thirty minutes to an hour trying to get back to rehearsals," she rambles.
I can help but chuckle at her frustration. "I still don't understand why your wasting your time teaching classes when you could be traveling the world and performing for thousands." I shake my head. Seulgi was an exceptional dancer. She studied and graduated from Juliard on a full scholarship. She was praised by some of the most prestigious dancers across the country. But when the time came for her to travel across the world and perform in the biggest theaters, she didn't.
