Dahyun - 6

Chaeyoung - 5

Tzuyu - 4

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"Omma," Dahyun said one Saturday afternoon," Chaengie and me want Chinese lessons." The three siblings were sitting in the dining room doing homework. Well Dahyun and Chaeyoung were, Tzuyu had finished ages ago and was writing in neat Chinese characters on the lined piece of paper. Jihyo had convinced her to write a letter to her best friends (the ones outside of school, not Joy and Yeri because they wouldn't understand anything). "W-What?" Jeongyeon spat out her water all over the carpet in shock. "Why do you want Chinese lessons sweetie?" Nayeon asked after a while. The whole room had frozen - bar Tzuyu who was happily scrawling on her paper - at the sudden announcement. "Tzuyu has them!" Chaeyoung whined, pointing an accusatory finger at the youngest girl. Tzuyu still wasn't listening and was now drawing kisses all over the paper. "Chaeng," Jeongyeon explained," Tzuyu only has them because she isn't Korean. She comes from a place that speaks Chinese." 

"It's not fair! We want Chinese lessons!" Dahyun said as she kicked the table leg. Jihyo - trying to diffuse the situation - came to a conclusion. "How about you two go along to Tzuyu's lesson tomorrow and see if you really want lessons?" DubChaeng nodded excitedy as they jumped around the room.

*

"Are you sure that you don't mind?" Jihyo asked again as Mark - yet again - reassured her that it was fine if Chaeyoung and Dahyun wanted to watch the lesson, that it would be more than welcome. "Calm down Ji," Victoria laughed from her seat on the sofa," Chaeng and Dubs will be fine." Sitting down on the sofa in defeat, Jihyo leaned against Amber's mother. "I'm just scared that they'll disrupt the lesson," Jihyo confessed," Those two are so problematic!" Jeongyeon and Nayeon chuckled from the kitchen where they were conversing with BamBam and Kris. 

In the dining room, Dahyun and Chaeyoung were sat at the dining table as Mark began to show the other children what the new words were. The Chinese characters seemed so strange to Chaeyoung and her older sister. It took them a while to realise that they should probably be copying this down, having glanced across the table to find Tzuyu's head down and her pencil zooming across the lined paper.

The next part of the lesson Dahyun and Chaeyoung were left out for slightly, Mark was going to test how well the other children remembe