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Taeyeon comes back to Seoul after almost a month-long of breathing. She feels like she is now ready to make her life worthwhile this time. She comes home to a messy apartment, she sighs at the scene. She tries to keep her cool or else she won't do anything about it. She slowly picks up things along the way, and stacks it on her arms. She stumbles upon an empty paper bag which was used for take outs, as she picks it up it reminds her of the girl she asked out as a joke for like a month ago.

"Date me instead."  She smiles to herself and remembers how startled the girl looked like at that time.

Taeyeon manages to clean up a bit. She feels like it almost feels like home, but not home enough. She sits in front of her laptop to check her e-mails. She scrolls down nervously. And at one point, one catches her attention as the subject says: [SM Studios] Game Tester | Kim Taeyeon - For Interview

SM Studios is very well known for their player vs player shooter game in which Taeyeon plays ever since it launched. Taeyeon has always dreamed of being in the gaming industry that she pursued IT and programming related courses during college and managed to finish with flying colors.

Taeyeon has landed jobs in the field but she has her heart set on SM Studios for so long. And she feels like this is it.

She writes down on a sticky note "I can do this" and pins it up on her dream board-- where her hopes and dreams are pinned and one by one being fulfilled. One of the pictures pinned falls on the floor as she leaves the desk. She turns around to the sound of the paper as it touches the floor. She takes the picture that seems to be a little faded by now. She feels a light tug on her heart, she stands there fighting her thoughts of putting it up on the board or crumpling it and throw it away. But she feels bad on both, so she gets a book and slides it on a ran