THE SECOND HEROINE || extraordinary you ff (slow updates)

37: before summer break

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Wish I didn't have to go,
It's hard to leave you all alone, baby
Even when we're far from home,
Yeah, we're right where we belong...

- 6 Months by John K

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Ara's POV

"But two weeks is too long!" Jinmichae complained while chopping some cabbages.

Joon and I looked at him and chuckled. Then I spoke up, "Jinmi, we're living in the comic world. Time is different here, remember?"

Jinmichae sighed and stopped with what he was doing. Then he looked at us and said, "Just don't get into trouble during the trip. Especially, you, Hyun Seol."

I was about to protest but he cut me off before I could say anything. "I know that you do your best to stay out of a drama, but I also know the trouble seems to follow you wherever you go. So just take care of yourself," Jinmichae added before he continued with his job.

Then Joon joined in, "Shouldn't I be the one saying that? I'm her older brother, not you."

"Yes, you are. That's why I'm expecting you to watch over her during the trip," Jinmi replied back.

"Tsk! As if I don't watch over her in school- alright, fine, blondie!" Joon exclaimed and right on cue, the school bell rings.

I shook my head at the two as I walked out of the kitchen and into the dining hall. I grabbed my backpack from the table nearby and called out, "Orabeoni, hurry up! We're gonna be late for the first period."

Joon showed up beside me, taking his backpack with him, and sighed, "Does it matter if I have to attend the classes? It's not like they take attendance."

I looked at him in disbelief and asked with furrowed eyebrows, "Did I just hear you say it doesn't matter? Whatever happened to the 'Good Student Hyun Joon'?"

"I'm just tired, Seol," was what my older brother said before walking out of the cafeteria.

Then I looked over at Jinmichae and saw the worry on his face as he continues to chop the cabbages. I bit my bottom lip and walked back inside the kitchen.

"Hey, Jinmi, what's wrong?" I asked stopping in front of the kitchen island.

Jinmi sighed and looked at me. "I... It's nothing." Then he forced a smile at me and placed the chopped cabbages into an empty bowl. "You should head to class, Seol."

"But-"

사작!

I mentally flipped. I was cursing at the Writer the second I showed up at A3's study room. Just why am I needed to have a stage this early in the damn morning was all I can say over and over in my head as Stage Me walked over to the couch and sat down facing a very busy Namju.

"Should I be worried right now?" Stage Me asked her cousin as she wondered what he was up to during the first period.

"I'm trying to figure out where we can have our summer trip at," Namju replied back as he looked through his phone.