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There's something about you
that I cannot describe,
because, I don't know,
the world just seems a
tiny bit brighter.

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"Byul-ah, sorry for not calling to check up on you earlier as I've been quite busy. How are you? How's the new school working for you? How was the first day of school?" Seulgi asks excitedly in the phone as Byulyi finds herself stirring some ramen with her chopsticks. "I'm honestly surprised I've made it almost a week in for this semester, and Joohyun sure isn't making it easy for me..."

Byulyi's mind lights up in an instant, causing a teasing smirk to form on her face. "Let me guess; you both have finally confessed your feelings to one another and are finally dating and planning your marriage and honeymoon already and𑁋"

Seulgi chuckles on the other side as Byulyi loudly slurps up her ramen. "Well, actually..."

"OMO?!" The loud response from Seulgi's mouth caused Byulyi to spit out her ramen almost everywhere, causing Daebak to jump away from the girl in an instant. Byulyi tightens the grip on the phone in her hands, placing it closer to her ear as her chopsticks float inside the bowl before she finally turns on speaker mode and tosses the phone onto the bed. "Dammit, you made me spit out my ramen."

A loud laugh rings across the room from the other side of the line as Byulyi growls in frustration to clean up some of the mess around her. "Ah, don't make fun of me Seulgi-ah! You owe me a pack of ramen."

"Fair enough, unnie," Seulgi says, stifling another burst of laughter. "I'm just kidding. We're not dating but..."

"But?? C'mon, I almost wasted some perfectly good ramen for this."

The line goes silent for a bit, as if the world came to a singular pause. Byulyi checks her phone questioningly to see if the call was still continuing just in case Seulgi hung up, but she didn't, though nothing came out from her end.

"Seulgi-ah?" Byulyi calls out to her worryingly, fiddling with the metal chopsticks and accidentally hitting them together, causing a ring to echo around the room.

Byulyi's hear her clear her throat loudly, "We're not dating, but you're sort of right about the feelings but not the confessing part. It's really hard to explain..."

Byulyi nearly spits out her ramen again. "Are you kidding me? That's great! Do... do you know if she likes you back?"

She could sense a shaking of her friend's head on her end or a disappointing frown due to the unbearable silence again.

"I don't," Seulgi states, her tone discouraged and a sigh coming out of her mouth. "It makes me nervous to think about, considering her popularity at school. She's practically worshipped as a beauty queen. What if I'm the reason that can taint her reputation? What would other people think about me?"

"Aish, I don't know much to tell you, Seulgi-ah," Byulyi says disappointingly, her advice absurdly limited. "Korea is a very... conservative country, you know? It's not like we can openly promote ourselves in the street or we'd get scolded."