"Okay, Linna, just act normal like always." Linna psyched herself up as she entered her morning class.

She brought out her materials like usual and even tried going through them, but her eyes kept darting towards the door, watching for Sunghoon. Linna could feel like someone was watching her and she noticed Jeonghee  glaring at her. Linna totally forgot about her. She flashed Jeonghee a polite smile, but turned away with a roll of her eyes. Then when Sunghoon walked through those doors a few seconds laer did a relieved smile graced her lips, but after meeting eyes with a smiling Sunghoon, Linna immediately averted her gaze down to her textbook instead.

"Good morning, Yiseul."

Linna turned her head to see Sunghoon sitting beside her. At first she was confused, but after hearing Sunghoon whispering that they needed to keep up the facade since Jeonghee was watching them carefully, did realization settled in.

"Oh, right. Good morning to you, too, Sunghoon."

She watched him for a few seconds before Sunghoon turned his attention onto her with that dimple smile of his.

"Admiring me already?"

Linna nonchalantly brushed him off.

"Not even."

Despite her crush on Sunghoon, she remained calm and collect.

"Why are we pretending to date? Can't we fake a break-up, soon? I'm sure that would be better in the end."

Even though Linna liked Sunghoon, but she didn't want to be in this type of relationship with him. It seemed too cliche and overused. The smile on Sunghoon's face dimmed, but Linna didn't catch it as she went back to looking at her materials.

"We can talk later." Sunghoon responded and left it at that.

Linna nodded with a disapproving face, wondering when 'later' would actually happen. As for Melanie, it was a similar situation.

"So you want us to fake a break-up?" Jake asked while Melanie nodded slowly.

"Yeah, I mean there was that whole love letter incident and now we have this."

Jake softly laughed, but Melanie wasn't amused yet Jake didn't pursue the topic further or even give her a clear answer with her suggestion of a fake break-up. The pair were sitting together in class to keep up with appearances incase another set of rumors started about the two and it got back to Gaeul and the others, but luckily they were in the back so no one could overhear what they were talking about. Melanie was grateful that Gaeul was in her Tuesday and Thursday class, but who knows how it'll be until then.

"We can talk later, Chaewon."

Just as she opened her about to reply, Jake signaled for her to be quiet before pointing at the professor giving a lesson with a raised eyebrow. She scoffed with a roll of her eyes, but Jake quietly laughed and resumed taking notes. Melanie silently sighed and did some the same thing, wondering when they would actually discuss their so-called relationship. Unfortunately, the talk never happened and were left to somewhat keep up false pretenses for now. Fortunately enough, hardly any rumors spread about either couples dating or being close to one another.

"Whooo! Go, ladies!"

"Go, Enha University High!"

"Let's get it, Enha University High!"

"Y'all got this!"

The quartet clapped and cheered alongside the other audience as they watched Kana and team perform Catch Me If You Can. At first, the four wouldn't be able to make it due to work, having believed the competion was on a weekday and not a weekend, but Jaekyung closed the shop for today so the quartet could cheer on their friend. Jaekyung needed the break after finding another full-time job on the weekdays. Seoyoung still seemed to be with her fiancee in the Netherlands and helping him continued to work.

"I'm so glad that the others recovered and were able to perform with them today." Melanie said as Linna agreed.

"Me, too, because I don't wanna join the dance team and spend my hours practicing all that stuff. I prefer it to remain as a hobby."

The other three agreed. They continued to cheer on their friends and schoolmates. Afterwards the Enha University High's female dance team placed within the top ten once more and qualified for the finals held in July. The quartet were sadden as they would be back home around that time and wouldn't be able to attend.

"Do you know what do you want?" Kierra asked Jay while glancing over at the male.

The pair were at a cafe near the school with Kierra insisting on treating Jay. They met coincidentally and Kierra couldn't completely ignored him since he asked about her photography assignment that had been due a few days ago. Of course the pair had some incidents in the past, but that didn't mean the two couldn't casually tolerate one another in a civil manner out in public. Kierra revealed that because of him, she received a high mark on the project and as a reward was treating herself when her professor told her about her grade today. The others were doing their own thing and she came alone to have her 'me time'. It ended up being shared with Jay who offered to pay, but she insisted on treating him.

"Um, a regular bagel with cream cheese, please." Jay answered.

"Okay. Anything else?"

Jay told her what else he wanted before she relayed the message to the worker along with her own order. The worker then gave Kierra a number tent and she followed Jay to a table for two. Despite her open reservation for the guy to her sister and cousins, Kierra really didn't mind Jay all that much. Of course, Kierra wasn't gonna let him know that for sure. Once settled, Jay initiated conversation.

"Which one did Mr. Seo like?"

"Surprisingly, the couple aesthetics one."

A soft chuckle left her lips as Jay observed her.

"Mr. Seo said it reminded him of himself and his wife back then."

She glanced up at Jay, having caught his observant eyes upon her. Kierra averted her gaze behind him with a sheepish laugh.

"So, um, yeah, thanks."

"You're welcome, Yiyeon, and thanks for the treat."

"Yeah, you're very welcome."

Jay noticed the familiar bear once more as Kierra brought her backpack to her lap to search through it.

"You must really like that bear, huh?"

"Hmm?"

Kierra glanced up at Jay as he pointed to the plush keychain. Kierra's eyes went down and landed on the furry toy. She smiled before focusing on Jay again.

"Yeah, he's quite cute. I really like it."

Kierra went back to sifting through her backpack before finding what she was looking for, her latest photography assignment and gave it to Jay after removing unnecessary things from it.

"Here you go."

"What is it?"

Jay took the small booklet before flipping through the pages.

"Oh, pictures of us."

"Yeah. It's only right if you have copies, too, since you helped me, but if not, then you can just throw it away, burn it, or whatever. I still have them in my laptop."

"Thanks."

A soft look graced his face as Kierra nodded.

"Welcome."

Jay put away the booklet as he tried to lightened the mood or at least ease the atmosphere around them, but that just put them back into their usual interaction.

"It's good to see you being nice."

"I'm always nice."

"Not to me."

"Because you're just asking for a punch to the face."

Jay scoffed.

"You want to punch my face?"

Kierra nodded with a smirk.

"Yes. Yes, I do."

She gave him a firm look.

"Besides, it's not like I've actually done it despite thinking about it. Although I did push you and hit you on a few ocassions."

Jay's jaws dropped before recovering a second later, still wondering why Kierra wanted to punch his face, not worrying about the other times she's been physical with him.

"Why do you wanna punch me in the face?"

Kierra opened to respond, but nothing came out as she hesitated at the last second to tell him her reason. Jay cocked a brow at the sudden silence. Place his arms folded on the table, a slow smile graced his face as he leaned closer towards Kierra.

"Why so quiet all of a sudden?"

Backing away with an aloof demeanor, Kierra turned her attention off to the side, playing cool.

"Because you might get offended if I tell you the truth and then sulk like a baby afterwards like Riki."

"No, I don't."

"Yes, you do."

"There's no way that I'm just as bad as Ni-Ki about that."

Jay paused in his argument and re-directed the topic to Riki instead.

"By the way, how do you know him so well?"

"I just do."

Kierra didn't feel like explaining to Jay that she was also a foreigner living in South Korea for a few years now. She also didn't want to inform him that she knew and spoke English and conversational Japanese because he may want to converse with her in those languages, too. So, Kierra vaguely gave him an answer and hoped he would leave it at that. Just as Jay was about to probe further, another employee came to drop off their meal before leaving quickly afterwards. Jay left the topic alone upon seeing Kierra becoming excited when their order arrived.

"Okay, let's eat!"

Kierra cast him a bright smile while sorting out their order and a soft look graced his face while watching Kierra. She noticed his stare and tried to make him focus on his own meal instead of her.

"Eat." Kierra urged, breaking Jay from his trance.

"Oh, right."

Jay picked up his bagel and took a bite or two, still observing the female before him while chewing. Kierra felt his eyes on her still and eyed him.

"What?"

"Nothing."

He smiled as he chewed, but she still felt weird about the whole thing. So, Kierra debated if she wanted to ruin the mood, but decided against it. Jay wasn't doing anything to her, just enjoying his bagel. So Kierra had no reason to be mean or spiteful towards him. Maybe Jay was right and she was normally mean to him without thinking about it. Still, he didn't have to know that and so she wouldn't be informing him of her realization.

"So, um, how's the preparation going for your guys' performances next week?"

"Oh!"

"Chaewon!"

"Yiyeon!"

"Yiseul!"

"Chaejin!"

"Over here!"

The cousins turned their attention towards Jangmi and Haeyoon, waving for them in the middle section of the high school auditorium. Midterms were over and everyone were looking forward to the dance team's performances this evening as a reward of sorts.

"Will they be able to see us from here?" Melanie asked as Jangmi responded.

"Not really, but we should be fine."

"This is really crowded." Kierra commented while looking around.

More people were piling into the auditorium, filling up the seats.

"How popular is this thing?" Serena asked, amused.

"Oh? Is this your first time watching them?" Haeyoon inquired as Serena chuckled.

"Actually, it's my first time watching anything here or at the university."

"Seriously?"

Haeyoon and Jangmi's eyes widened in surprised.

"She and Chaejin hardly went to any of the school events." Linna explained Kierra nodded.

"Yeah, pretty much. This is our first event."

"Well, y'all are gonna love it."

"We're not the only one." Melanie said with a chuckle.

"Our school's dance team is really popular."

"Besides their moves, we have some beautiful and good-looking members on the team." Haeyoon informed as Jangmi grinned.

"I guess it also helps boosts' the schoo