TEASER THREE
🎓 CLASS OF 2020 :: ORIENTATION IN SESSIONGeum Gunwoo, Jeon Jinho, and Jang Jaerim were all sprawled on the couches in the parlor of C Factory, a small study café that was near the University of Ulsan. The three of them were still dressed in their commencement gowns, now officially university graduates after six long years, with their caps resting on the coffee table in the middle of the parlor.
“I can’t believe we’re finally done,” Gunwoo said after scrolling through his phone to look at his graduation photos. “It felt like this day would never come.”
“Speak for yourself. I still have graduate school,” Jinho shot back with a slight groan. “Remind me again why I’m suffering through a PhD?”
“Because you’re a nerd,” Gunwoo playfully answered, expertly maneuvering to dodge being kicked by his friend.
“Kiwoo and Jaerim are the nerds. Not me,” Jinho protested as he pointed at the two other boys, who each raised an eyebrow.
“Just because we’re quiet doesn’t mean we’re nerds,” Kiwoo said from the counter where he was busily cleaning glasses.
“You love studying though,” Jinho replied, gesturing to the cubicles in the main room of the café. “Why else would you manage a study café?”
Kiwoo just stared at him before plainly saying, “No more free coffee for you if this is the thanks I’m getting for letting you waltz in here whenever you want.”
Jinho immediately paled at the thinly veiled threat before dashing up to help the younger male at the counter. “You know I’m kidding, right?” he asked with a laugh, lightly elbowing Kiwoo in the side and taking the half-washed mug from his hands. “Besides, nerds are in nowadays. All the girls wanna date nerds.”
Gunwoo then smirked at his younger brother. “So when are you getting a girlfriend, Kiwoo?”
Kiwoo easily shot back, “When are you getting a girlfriend, old man?”
“I’m too busy for that right now,” Gunwoo answered airily, waving away his younger brother’s sharp rebuttal. “I’ve got a bunch of meetings next week with some publishing companies to review contracts before I sign with one of them. And then it’s hustle time to get my songs out into the world.”
“You can still do both,” his older sister, Yeonwoo, pointed out as she glanced affectionately at her husband, Yoo Minjae, who was sitting next to her with his arm wrapped around her waist. “If Minjae and I had followed your logic, we would’ve never gotten together.”
“I mean, if the r
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