Café
Real and not Pretend : Book 1 — The GenesisA week had passed since the encounter, a week of Lisa drowning herself to studies and practice, a week of exhausting herself to the extent of staying at the theater room just to dance, her only way of letting her sadness, frustrations out and escaping from the reality.
Tonight is no exemption, Lisa stayed in the studio until 9 o'clock in the evening until her body seeks for food and rest so she complied, having her body collapse due to overworking is the last thing she'll ever want to happen.
After gathering all her stuffs and changing to oversized jacket and sweatpants, Lisa heads straight to the open café right across the university to have something to eat.
Her colleagues found out her routine right after school and practice when Wendy, another theater lead and colleague, saw her in the studio - dancing to different songs, drenched in sweat. They observed her for another day until Seulgi ended her silence and scolded her for overworking.
"We know you want this to be successful especially this is your first year but you need to stop staying here so late just to practice. Wendy saw you twice around 9 o'clock, only had a bottle of water lying on the floor! Jesus Lisa, if something happens to you, we're over and you'll never be able to perform all throughout your college. You want that?" Seulgi says as the other members, basically her seniors, agreed.
Seulgi is right though, if she ever falls terribly ill, the council will immediately ban her from the club until she graduates. And that's game over for her. Scouts from different agencies in the industry of Theater Arts and Music would visit their annual plays to scout future talents and if she ever missed this year - it's over. Scouts are known to recruit freshmen and would visit the future plays to check on their recruits and another batch of freshmen, they never really scout sophomores, juniors and seniors because all of them are basically already recruited.
Leaving no options, she promised to not stay over 9 o'clock though, it took so much convincing and promises just to get the access back until 9 and because of these extended pr
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