As fate would have it, Nari, Taeyong and Jaehyun ended up attending the same university in Seoul. Nari was in the fine arts department specialising in sculpting while the latter two boys joined the architecture department. When Nari, Jaehyun and Seulgi first heard of Taeyong’s intensions of studying architecture, all three of them cackled in amusement, assuming that he had been joking. After all this was coming from the boy who was infamous in their high school art club as being severely lacking in drawing skills. However Taeyong argued that architecture was more about strong aesthetics, logic and decent maths skills and his inability to draw was balanced out by computer softwares which was not far from the truth.

Nari originally had her aims set on another university but due to her poor maths score, she ended up going to her backup university. She had been very vocal about her suspicions that the maths teacher had purposefully given her a low score since he had never liked her and she never made his life easy. Still, things worked out for the better.

Taeyong on the other hand — being an above average student — had gotten into Nari’s first choice university but forewent that option and enrolled together with Nari and Jaehyun. The reason was simple; he tasted the bliss of being around friends and he did not wish to separate from that warm and fuzzy feeling. That of course was a secret that he kept closely to himself, with no one else knowing the truth, not even Johnny.

Seulgi was the only one of the bunch who ended up going to Busan to study media and communications. The day she left for university was filled with tears — albeit rather one-sided with her doing all of the crying — and Nari returned home having to wash dried up snot from her hair. Still, Seulgi messaged frequently and visited whenever she had the chance, thus her absence was hardly noticed.

It did not take long for everyone to settle in their own routines. Jaehyun and Taeyong had decided to rent a place together not too far from campus while Nari — being the lazy sack of potatoes she was — opted for university dorms. She got lucky and managed to snatch a studio flat that was usually reserved for third and fourth year students in the lottery. Nonetheless, she hardly ever used her own kitchen and spent most of her time at the boys’ place and they frequently shared meals together with Seulgi on video-call.

Just like that, their first year of