While Seulgi has to take her 'detour,' Joy, for her part, has to go all-out on her own hustle as she takes on the last year of her internship, a vital prerequisite for finishing her course which is quite notorious for having delayed students. Veterinary medicine is no joke and there's been no shortage of stories in Elbi where vetmed students would find themselves extending for another year or so before they can graduate.

Seulgi and Joy would be so busy that they can only mutter an 'ingat 'tol,' 'morning pre,' before they go take on their separate stress-filled shindig, but when night arrives, they will - over karinderia food or the dependable de-late delights - talk and laugh about anything and everything. Then they will bicker over who will wash the dishes - and bid each other goodnight.

But after another gruelling 525,600 minutes, the time came when Joy finally finished everything - as in everything - she needed to finish so she can don on the much-coveted sablay.

During her graduation ceremony, Seulgi bawled harder than anyone else - even Joy's parents - that Joy cannot help but laugh at her.

"Best friend ko 'yan!" Seulgi shouted when Joy's name was announced. 

"Labyu 'tol!"

"Labyu pre!"

They shouted simultanenously as the other graduates looked at their moment with delight. Joy's voice cracked as she shouted her 'labyu pre!' line because she couldn't really imagine surviving college life if the bear wasn't by her