"So what's this stupid story is about?" Soojin asked to Shuhua who was crouching on the floor, painting the roots of a fake tree for the scenario; Soojin offered to help but after making a mess, Shuhua was quick to snatch the brush out of her hands before telling her to just stand there and be pretty for others to admire. 

Shuhua chuckles. "Romance" She said, then hums, poking her chin with the brush as she thinks harder "with a side of Tragedy, I believe" she adds, gesticulating with the brush, pointing at Soojin with it. The blonde covers as she notices the bright brown stain on the girl's chin. "What?"

Soojin crouches next to her. "You told me I was an useless mess when I tried to help but look at you" She laughs, pointing at her chin "You managed to paint yourself"

"That means I'm a masterpiece" Shuhua replied right away, using her sleeves to get rid of the stain. 

"Do you always have a narcissistic answer ready to use?"

 "Yes, It's called being confident" 

Soojin smacked her shoulder, it was almost like out of instinct and Shuhua didn't even flinch, she was used to that by now. 

"Ah, Back with the gratuitous violence"

"That was hardly an actual slap" Soojin defended herself "If I wanted to hurt you, you would be in the infirmary right now" 

She notices how Shuhua looks at her, there was this smug smile on her lips that made her frown, hand twitching at the need to smack her again. 

"So you admit it? you never wanted to actually hurt me?" 

"Not enough to get me expelled" Soojin said "I would break your neck any time tho" 

"Tsk tsk. Always showing your love" She said, focusing on her work again. Soojin then decides to change the topic.

"You like acting?" She asks after a few seconds of silence and Shuhua only nods. "Why?" She doesn't know why she was curious all of sudden, maybe it was because the girl was the only person in their group that Soojin somewhat knew, she was too shy to talk to anybody else and so she stayed there next to Shuhua. 

"My mom was an actress" It's her reply, short and simple, eyes still focused on what she was doing, Soojin expected a more elaborate answer but that never came, Shuhua just dipped the brush into the paint and kept on working on that tree.

"And…?" She encouraged the girl to keep going, not wanting the awkward silence to come yet.

"And what?"

"She's an actress-"

"Was an Actress" Shuhua corrected, without looking at her. "She dropped that dream after she got pregnant; My Father believes that a woman's priority should be her child and not her job so she quit"

"Oh" Soojin felt awkward, there were some questions in her mind regarding Shuhua thanks to that new piece of information. "I didn't know that"

Shuhua chuckles. "I'm not exactly known for talking about my tragic backstory, Seo Soojin" She mocked. "But I'm surprised Yuqi didn't said anything about that to you guys" 

Then again, Yuqi managed to be more sensitive about Shuhua's family than Shuhua herself; She guesses the other girl didn't want to feel awkward having to explain that to their friends and just never talked about it.

"What about your dad?"

"My dad was the captain of the basketball team of his school, back in Taiwan" Shuhua said "He works as a lawyer now" She adds, standing up and Soojin did the same. "Give me the green paint" She said, pointing at the bucket near them before turning around and dipping her brush on the water to clean it up. 

"Aren't you tired?" Soojin asked, grabbing the bucket that was on top of the old piano, and dragging it back to Shuhua who looked at her with a frown. "I mean, It's almost time for lunch"

"I brought my own lunch, so I won't need to go to the cafeteria." She quickly started to paint the leaves of the fake tree, with a focused frown on her face. "There's so much work to do," she adds.

"Ok" Soojin replied, looking at the girl. 

This girl seemed to have the tendency to overwork, Soojin noticed; But that's none of her business and so when the bell rang, she left the auditorium right away, not sparing another glance at the girl on the stage, working on the scenario.

The school's hallway was less of a chaos now that Shuhua was too focused on the school play to have time to scream around the hallways with Yuqi and have fights with Soojin that would end up with the cheerleader trying to hit her with her backpack or some other act of violence, as much as having their eardrums assaulted by their team captain's voice wasn't a pleasant feeling, they were starting to miss is.

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