FRIDAY / ECONOMICS 102 (10:00-11:30) / INTERIM

"Soojung."

A pause.

"Soojung-ah." Another pause.

"Soojung..."

Yet another pause.

"Krystal!"

"What?" Soojung finally responds in a harsh whisper, still looking down at her pen and paper with a concentrated look on her face, clearly she does not want to talk. She's trying to take notes as their professor begins to lecture. Quick scratching noises can be heard whenever her pen comes in contact with the paper. It practically hypnotizing to Jinri.

Soojung has always been the diligent one, the hard worker, the brighter one. She works towards a goal and sticks to it while Jinri just goes with the flow, she isn't concerned about the smaller details and focuses more on the whole picture. But Jinri is okay with that, it feels reassuring that she has someone to keep her in check every now and then.

"I'm bored," Jinri whines; she hates, no, she loathes economics. It's not her thing. She could care less about how money systematically works and stabilizes the nation's economy. She only signed up because it meant having a class with Soojung.

"That's because you never do anything in this class," Soojung retorts, "maybe if you pick