Seomin ran down the hall, excited to meet Jeongwon for their tutoring session. He was the only guy who could make her smile without an angry aftermath. They had exchanged phone numbers, but Seomin never got the courage to send him a message. She would type a message, erase it, and write another, only to erase that one as well. How was it she could talk to him so easily in person? Deep in her thoughts and afraid to miss a single minute of their time together, Seomin ran right into someone. “Ah, not again!” she moaned as she stood up and brushed her pants. She noticed a tall elegant woman brushing her floral dress. “I’m so sorry!”

“It’s no problem. Everyone has one of those days,” the woman said, with a faint smile across her lips.

“Sorry aga-” Seomin stopped and tilted her head. The woman looked oddly familiar. With a few blinks, Seomin’s eyes lit up. Donghae’s girlfriend! “Oh! I know who you are!”

The woman chuckled. “Really? You’re Donghae’s trainee. Seomin, if I can remember.”

“Yeah, that’s me. You’re Donghae’s girlfriend, Jieun, but seriously, he works too hard. I’ll make sure to get him to go on a date with you!” Seomin said. She glanced at her phone and gasped. “Oh gosh, I’m going to be late! Nice meeting you!”

“Wait!” But Seomin was long gone. She managed to arrive to class one minute late and had to recollect herself before opening the door to his room.

“One minute late,” Jeongwon said with a frown. She gulped and bowed, but heard him laugh. “You’re learning well about the Korean culture I see. They won’t even know you’re from America.”

She shrugged and sat across from Jeongwon taking out her workbooks. “Here’s the practice I’ve done.” He took her book, taking his red pen and scanning through her work. A few circles and x’s were placed across her page, and she pouted to see so many errors despite her hours of hard work. “That bad?”

“You scored two points higher than last time, but not enough to move on to the next lesson. Why don’t we just do practice sheets here instead of the lesson? We need to do some more reading too, since you speak just fine.” Jeongwon grabbed a stack of paper with large boxes. For the next hour, she practiced different