He opened his math book, redoing problems for practice. Tomorrow is the college entrance test, he had no time for this. He repeatedly told himself she had always been this way with Taek, nothing’s changed. The level of attention Deoksun gave to Taek still bothered him. Taek grinned then finally followed Dongryong to the dining table. “Coffee is not dinner,” Deoksun told him, frowning.

“Really?” Dongryong stood up and walked to the dining table right away. “Did you guys eat? My mom made galbi,” Junghwan told both of them. He never told them what major he would take though. After many arguments with his parents, they finally let him auditioning for musicals and such after he promised he would prepare for college entrance test next year. He brought a few comic books to read.ĭongryong hadn’t given up his dream of performing. “I’m hanging out here with you, then,” Dongryong already made himself comfortable on the sofa behind them. “I’m going to sleep at midnight,” he said. “Yes,” Sunwoo and Deoksun answered without looking up from their book. “Are you going to study all night?” Taek asked. From outside, they didn’t act that different-at least not different enough to make Sunwoo or Dongryong noticed-but Junghwan felt they both tiptoeing around each other still. Their relationship never really went back to how it was before they both found out they liked the same girl. Junghwan avoided his glance and focused on his book instead. Taek followed after him and greeted Bora too. “Annyeong hasimnikka, noonim,” he greeted her with over the top politeness. “Yah,” Bora glared at him and he bowed to her. “Aigoo,” Dongryong stepped inside the living room, laughing at them.

Junghwan rolled his eyes and focused on his book again. “It’s always better to have enough sleep, trust me,” Bora smiled at Sunwoo. They clearly planned to not sleep tonight and study instead. “It’s better to have enough sleep anyway, rather than pull a last minute all-nighter.” The night before exam usually I couldn’t study either,” Bora sighed. “I don’t know if I could stuff anything new by now,” he answered. “Junghwan-ah, do you need to ask me something?” Bora asked him suddenly and he shook his head. Although from time to time, he couldn’t resist to give in to his feeling and earn himself a confused look from her-or an angry one sometimes. He made himself focused to study and avoided thinking about her. For months he tried to bury his feelings so deep and he mostly felt numb around her now.

He felt slightly proud of her-not that he got something to do with it anyhow. He could see Bora was surprised to see Deoksun so focused and stopped picking on her for being slower than Sunwoo and himself. For once, she made peace with her sister and actually learnt from her. He stole a glance at Deoksun who sat in front of him. She made sure he drank all that and stuffed him with galbi too, on top of that. His mom, scared that he would make the same mistake as his brother, gave him all kind of amulets, vitamins and tonics to ensure nothing will go wrong tomorrow. Junghwan couldn’t concentrate with all the commotion. That’s why they camped in Junghwan’s living room since this afternoon. She had nothing to do anyway after passing the bar exam last August. Bora was bribed to give a last minute tutoring for everyone. The moms made a feast for dinner although none of the kids had much appetite. Tomorrow is the dreaded college entrance test and everyone was a bit tense tonight.

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