Act 7

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The day of the field trip arrived, the weather was nice. They were in the bus, Eri sat beside Keonhee and was looking outside the window. Watching the scenery unfolds infront of her.

Behind them, there was Jaemin and Chenle. Renjun didn't join because he was sick, that's what Jaemin told them. She felt someone nudged her and looked at Keonhee.

He was wearing earphones but he held out the other side, offering her to listen the music he was listening. Jun smiled, gladly accepting the offer. She was swaying to the beat and put her head on top of Keonhee's shoulder.

He was tensed at first but soon his shoulders were relaxed. She looked at her phone and saw a few messages from Jun.

"Hey! How was the trip?" Jun texted, Eri replied "We haven't arrived yet, what about you?".

Jun quickly replied "Fun! Teachers weren't present for 3 periods for some reason and we went wild", Eri laughed.

Keonhee glanced at her phone and saw the texts between them, he couldn't help but chuckled to it. Eri noticed then showed him the messages, they were both messaging Jun.

"Ugh, Better go! Teach suddenly came, have fun!" Jun status went offline. They both shook their heads, it was against the school rule to use smartphones during class without teacher's permission.

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They arrived at the theatre and their tourguide was already waiting for them. Eri was wobbling after the ride, She felt a bit dizzy. Keonhee of course was worried for her but she simply said "This is normal, riding the bus isn't my cup of tea. It will go away soon, dont worry".

She gave him a tired smile and Keonhee sighed in reply. The tour started and they went to the backstage area.

They were intoduced to the dressing room first then the green room or Eri would just like to remember it as the actor's lounge.

Next, the fly system. By how their tourguide explained it, chills run down Eri's spine. Its the system where ropes, counterweights, pulleys, and other such tools designed to allow a technical crew to quickly move set pieces. What if there was an error in the system? Eri doesn't want to imagine it.

After the tourguide explained all the areas in the backstage. They took a break and Eri asked Mia to accompany her to the bathroom, Mia agreed and waited outside.

She was paranoid that she will meet Yoora here and her paranoia was correct. She was checking herself out in the mirror. It was dead silence between them, Eri washed her hands and suddenly felt a splash of water at her.

"Hey!" Eri screeched, her mouth agape. She turned her eyes towards Yoora and she acted as she was shocked.

"Oh my! What do we have here? Are you okay? You don't want to walk out with that" Yoora mocked and
laughed. She then walked outside the bathroom and glared at Mia.

Mia was suspicious on why Yoora was following them. As soon as Yoora glared at her, she immediately entered the bathroom. At first, she thought the scream didn't belonged to Eri. How wrong was she.

Eri wanted to cry and looked up to see Mia with wide-eyed. She sobbed, embarrassed that someone saw her like this. Mia quickly went to comfort her, she didn't mind Eri was wet.

"I'm so sorry this happened to you, I swear that Yoora-" Eri stood and pulled Eri up. "Let's tell the miss, Eri" she suggested.

"No, don't!" Eri cried, she didn't want to trouble anybody especially on this trip. "But Eri-" Eri cut Mia off.

"Please.. After this trip, I don't want to cause anything" Eri desperately said.

"I guess.. Can you walk in that state?" Mia respected Eri's wish. Eri nodded and went to wash her face. Thank god, she wasn't wearing the blazer. She grabbed her blazer of the counter and buttoned it up, hiding the wetness.

Sure it was uncomfortable but only for a short time, Eri thought. They both walked out and went to group with the others.

Keonhee went up to them, Eri thanked Mia. Mia sent her a sad smile and went to her group of friends. "You okay, why are you a bit wet?" Keonhee asked.

"No, I'm not and Yoora did this" is what Eri wanted to say but her mouth told him "Yea, I'm alright! I used the tap wrongly" She laughed.

"Oh.. Alright then" Keonhee smiled but still sent her a worried eyes. Eri saw the enjoyment Keonhee was having this trip, she didn't want to take it away by telling her problems so she acted like nothing happened.

"Dont worry! I'm okay" Eri grinned and pats Keonhee's hair, she had to tip-toed. Keonhee chuckled and teased her short which she replied with "I'm not, you're just to tall".

Then, their tour continued. By the end of it, a rehearsal was played for them as a surprise. No wonder the fees were expensive, the students thought.

After the "show", it was already evening. It was the time for them to head back, Eri had fun especially watching the rehearsal even though the encounter with Yoora took her spirit away.

But with Keonhee having fun, she was happy for him and regained her lost spirit. All of the students were tired and slept in the bus.

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Eri was walking back home with Keonhee and Xion. Since there was no Yoora, Eri talked comfortably with the both of them. Eri was still light-headed from the bus ride.

They bought ice-cream in a cup while on the walk. They watched as the neighbourhood children playing around. That is until, one of them ran into Eri.

Eri lost balance and Xion caught her but her ice-cream splattered on the sidewalk. "My ice-cream!"

The kid ran away from the scene. "Kids these days, is a simple apology that hard?" Keonhee glared towards the direction the kid was running.

"It's okay. Also, Xion.." Eri blushed at the contact. Xion realised and let her go "S-sorry".

"Thanks, anyway" Eri looked down while Xion just laughed nervously. Both of them were blushing.

Keonhee was amused at the sight and cleared his throat "are you guys done? Also, Eri.. Since when did you become clumsy everytime you're around Xion" oops, he just had to say it.

"I swear I'm not this clumsy!" Eri quickly retorted while Xion blushed harder. Eri noticed Xion's red face and light smacked Keonhee's back.

"See, now you made him uncomfortable" Eri sighed while Keonhee was delighted. Then, They all went back to their perspective homes.

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Eri laid down on her bed, opening her phone and looked at the groupchat between her friends then Keonhee suddenly sent her a phone number.

"Who's this?" She asked.

"Xion's ;>" He replied. It will be a lie if her heart didn't skipped a beat.

"what am I acting like this around Xion?" She thought. There's no way she has a crush on him or Yoora will-

"Can't I just have a moment of peace without Yoora bugging in" She groaned, nobody ever did that to her and all because of a boy?

Of course, no blame on Xion. Poor boy has someone like her going crazy and threatening people, she felt bad for Xion.

Because of Yoora, Eri treated him wrongly at first and made her guilty.

"She's getting on my nerves" Eri clenched her fist. She just wanted her last year of highschool to end smoothly but with Yoora around, this isn't easy.

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Hey! Author here with another update, I did some research on the areas of the theater. Sorry if there were mistakes.. That's all and hope to see you in the next act.
Byeee 🌸💕

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