II.

 

Everyone put their bags down in exhaustion from a long walk while some just look around to what seems to be an empty location.

 

This is the third business trip Yunjin attended with her professor, Miyawaki Sakura, on yet another new setting.

 

A man claps his hands to get everyone’s attention. “So this is where we’ll settle and do our team building.” He pauses and smiles. “And the first thing to do is to share a tent with your partner.”

 

Yunjin looks at her professor in shock. “Are they always like this, Miss?”

 

Sakura, who’s also taken aback, shakes her head with a sigh. “No, this is the first time I’ve experienced this.”

 

“Will you be okay with this?” Yunjin asks. She feels weird at the thought of sharing a tent with her professor and that’s because, of course, with the thoughts that her friends put in her mind.

 

Confused, Sakura nods. “I guess. Are you the type to not share things?”

 

“Well, I live alone but I’ll be fine.”

 

 

 

 

Yunjin is the one who put their tent into place while Sakura’s the one who tidies the inside. After making sure the arrangement is done, she joins the crowd and found her student alone at the nearby tree.

 

She shrugs; she had no other choice but to talk to Yunjin since she doesn’t know anyone else at today’s camp. But before she can approach her, there’s a girl who did first. Sakura observes the scene quietly.

 

“Hi, sunbae.” The girl greeted quietly.

 

Yunjin looks surprised and uncomfortable which didn’t go unnoticed by Sakura. “Hi?”

 

“Uh, I just wanted to give you these”, she handed Yunjin a bottle of water and a towel, “because you look tired. T-that’s all.”

 

Yunjin’s eyebrow rose. “Oh. Thanks.”

 

“Don’t mention it, sunbae. I’ll see you later.”

 

Sakura watches the girl run to her assigned tent with a sweet smile on her face. She smirks, amused at what looks like a puppy love.

 

“You’re quite popular with the ladies despite your beliefs.” Sakura said, sitting at the chair in front of her student.

 

Yunjin erased the glare from her face, realizing that it’s her professor. “Are you indirectly asking me to talk informally to you, Miss?”

 

“Sure, I’m allowing you.” Sakura answers coolly.

 

“It .” She grumbled.

 

Sakura laughs, finding it funny how her student seems so aggravated at that simple thing. “You know it would be easier for you if you just play for the other team. You get what I’m saying?”

 

The younger girl looks at her professor incredulously. “You think it’s that simple? And I really don’t see myself with girls. So it's weird for me.”

 

“So you’re a homophobic?”

 

“No! I just don’t see myself doing it!”

 

“Take it easy, Yunjin-ssi.” Sakura giggled. “What’s weird about it? The one you were talking to is pretty, don’t you think so?”

 

“Why are you talking like it’s easy, Miss?” Yunjin asks curiously.

 

“Because it is.”

 

“It’s not.”

 

 

 

 

Sakura’s POV

 

“When did you think it all started, girls in university taking interest in you?”

 

She thought for awhile before breathing deeply. “After I joined the university’s field hockey team.”

 

Sigh. I know I shouldn’t be talking matters like this with my student but I’m so bored and have no one else to talk to. And I find her so interesting with the way she talks to me like she’s not scared of me like other students are.

 

“Do you want me to teach you how?” I ask while she looks at me confusedly. She’s such an innocent kid.

 

“No offense, Miss Sakura, but that sounds weird.”

 

“We’re already talking informally here anyway. Just give it a try.”

 

She finally nods slowly. “Okay.”

 

“Think of one girl.”

 

“Who?”

 

Seriously? “Just anyone you can think of...” Her face looks blank. “No one?” She shakes her head. “Okay. Just think of that girl earlier.”

 

“Okay.”

 

“Think of her without clothes on, as in .”

 

Her eyes get bigger, it’s so funny. “W-why would I do that?”

 

“Just try, Yunjin-ssi.”

 

She sighs in defeat. “Okay... So?”

 

“What? Nothing?”

 

“What do you mean nothing?” She asks looking so frustrated.

 

“Did you feel nothing at all?”

 

“No.”

 

Well, this is hard. “Think of anyone you