The tall arrogant girl isn’t present today. Mina thought that it was strange that today was surprisingly peaceful; no complains, no foot shuffles. As Mina is pondering deeply about the strange behaviour of her intern today, she did not notice the quick steps of someone behind her.

“Hey, Dr. Myoui, can we talk over lunch?” Tzuyu said from the back, startling Mina. Tzuyu’s presence is rather low today, considering she always voice out her presence in gthe past few weeks.

“Oh… Sure.” Mina replies, trying hard to pretend that she wasn’t actually stunned by the taller girl’s sudden gesture of kindness.

“I’m sorry for being so arrogant from day 1, and trust me, I will start afresh and learn diligently under you.” Tzuyu managed to rush that out while squeezing her eyes shut. Little did she know that Mina was trying hard to supress her laughter when she was being all serious.

“Hey, it’s alright to make mistakes, plus you’re new, so…” Mina said factually, trying her best to encourage the awkward intern doctor sitting opposite her.

As Mina looked up, she saw a bright and relieved smile spreading across Tzuyu’s face. Feeling embarrassed for being noticed by Tzuyu, Mina quickly looked back down to her food. She must be afraid that the smile is so bright that it might burn her retinas, or even more, melt that frozen heart of hers.

Their afternoons are as usual, filled with ward-checking rounds, and consultations with the patients.

“Sana, found anything yet?” Mina shot to the said girl the first thing she enters the apartment later this evening.

“Not really…” Sana replied rather lazily as she just woke up from her slumber. Sana has been diligently tracking down Chou Yi’s actions while working hard on hacking and collecting information from the hospital’s database. There’s no doubt that Sana is sleep-deprived, and more importantly, stressed out.

“Anyways, from what I have heard, the hospital is celebrating their 15^th anniversary next month. Maybe we can just end it with a clean snipe?” Momo said with her hands motioning the action of sniping.

“Then what’s the point of my infiltration? Moreover, we will only get rid of him, not the whole of AceAid. This is our mission.” Mina reasoned. Momo could only pout at Mina’s reply, as she turned back to her table full of her confort food.

“Girls, I really hate to break this to you, but HQ got another mission for us tomorrow night. And it’s urgent…” Sana suddenly shot up from her seat with her tablet in her hands, showing the other two the mail that she just received.

“Really? We’re in the middle of a mission already, can’t they send someone else?” Mina exasperated, clearly annoyed by the fact that they have only 24 hours to plan for the next mission, plus having to cook up an excuse to not report for work the next morning.

“What? You can’t handle it already?” Momo challenged while wriggling her brows at Mina. “You can leave the entire spotlight to me if you’re already tired, princess!” Momo continues teasing, sticking her tongue out.

As Momo finished speaking, you can literally see veins popping up on Mina’s forehead as Momo finishes what she said. As usual, Sana already got her popcorn ready, making herself comfortable on her sofa, as the scene unfolds itself, day after day.

The next day, Tzuyu went to sit down on a bench with her lunch at the cafeteria alongside her fellow intern mates. They got along well pretty quickly, considering the rivalry over a job as a medical worker in the company. 

“So, your mentor isn’t here today?” Yongsun asked Tzuyu over lunch.

“Yea, heard that she got food poisoning last night.” Tzuyu sighed. Yongsun shot her a sympathetic look while patting her shoulders.

“Anyways, I’ve been to about 4 surgeries just in 2 weeks and it’s totally insane.” Hakyeon kind of bragged to the group of interns.

“I was in one yesterday. The traffic incident one? On the news? I totally nailed it, together with Dr. Yoo.” Siwan said while smirking, clearly challenging Hakyeon on who did better.

Meanwhile, Tzuyu could only sigh. She’s only been to one over the whole internship, and she screwed up big time.

Ignoring the boys, Eunha asked with concern. “How has it been for you and Dr. Myoui? I heard that you were screamed at…”

“We’re fine, I guess… I mean like, she’s already forgiven me.” Tzuyu replied, and then turned towards Yongsun, trying to change the topic of discussion.

“I heard Dr. Moon is super charming. Have you already fallen for her?” Tzuyu shot a teasing smirk at Yongsun, causing the latter to blush at the comment. A unified ‘Ohh’ can be heard from the group.

Despite having a rather enjoyable lunch with her fellow interns, Tzuyu can’t help but worry about a certain pengu who is ‘suffering’ from food poisoning, hoping that she would be alright.

Wait, why am I worried about that ice-cold penguin? Tzuyu thought to herself. I mean she’s death-finitely gorgeous but I still hate her… Right? Tzuyu quickly shook the thoughts off.

After lunch, she continued with the rounds that Mina and she usually do from the past few weeks, but she couldn’t help it but feel that today is particularly empty without her mentor. Why do the kids seemed less lively with only her checking up on them?