Broken

58

"Why am I here? Not that I don't appreciate you guys, but I was hoping to go home and spend the rest of the day with my man and my woman." Jihyo complains when everyone had agreed to walk around the park after eating.

"Well, you could be less thirsty and enjoy some time outdoors." Nayeon smirks and gets a flustered Jihyo.

"Truth be told, the three of us have been looking forward to sleeping in this vacation, like, all day everyday would be great." Dahyun steps up.

"Oh, and how so? Tired of your activities before you all came over?" Chaeyoung taunts.

"Actually, we are. There is this college scholarship program and we are all trying for it, every applicant must submit an original piece." Chris explains. "And there can be group submissions as well, but each must submit something individually anyhow. So, there have been a lot of all nighters."

"Oh." The smallest one is rendered speechless.

"Yeah, so your horny ass should stop trying to make us look like we do stuff we really don't." Dahyun concludes, looking smug.

Nobody knew what kind of weird connection Dahyun and Chaeyoung had developed, but those two made a team that none really wanted to be around for too long, Jihyo just made sure to have a talk with both of them and get them to promise that Chaeyoung would not be climbing anything, at all. Ever.

"But, isn't it early to be trying for college scholarships?" Sana brings up and the others seem to have just thought about it.

"Not exactly, this scholarchip we are trying for is a full scholarship and we even get some spending money too, not just a few things get paid for. And it's like, five stages of competition." Chris explains further.

"But still, two years is kind of far away." Momo comments.

"Kinda, if you look at it from the outside, but really, it's not enough. We'll have to produce full songs throughout the entire process, they have to be original and the amount of songs we have to present can vary from stage to stage." Dahyun stops 'glare fighting' with Chaeyoung and joins the conversation.

"How does it work, exactly?" Momo got really interested.

"We only know about stage 1, and some rumors about stage 2. Like, for the first one, we have to present one classical piece and one contemporary piece, both must complement and interact with each other, if we want to try for groups, which we are, the number doubles, and all four must communicate, and we can't use the ones for the individual entry." Jihyo is the one explaining this time. "For the second phase, there are rumors that it will be electronic music and brass, again, they must make sense with each other, but we hear both songs must work when heard separately and overlaid."

"Okay, I don't understand half of what you just said, but two years suddenly sound like not enough." Nayeon huffs. "Now, enough of you three nerds, let's have fun while we still can. I doubt any of you will be coming over in the near future."

And so they do, truth be told, they couldn't afford to take the very vacation they were in, but the nest two years promised to be very draining for them, and any time they could spend with their families was welcomed, one of the reasons Chris' parents were also on their way to spend the holidays with everyone, they were going to the Sons' Jeju house, meaning, they should do everything they wanted in the next two days, before they go, there would be no time for anything once they got back.

Nayeon was still very worried, all of the girls were, but she was Jihyo's big sister, but the look of peace the younger girl had the entire time assured them all everything was going great, no more resentments, no more fear, no more anything negative, it was clear for all the girls that Dahyun and Chris were the ones Jihyo loved now, and the withered buds or the beautiful flowers meant less than they once did for the three of them.