2 The Spring of a 3rd year College Student

Mina was already a 3rd-year student in the Theatre Arts Department. She remembered back then when she was still a freshman in their university, Mina used to admire all of her sunbae, but now that she has already become a sunbae herself, first-year students looking up to her is like the most burdensome thing.

'I admit I enjoyed the attention," she thought to herself and flipped her hair.

She is not an attention whore, if you may think she is. She naturally grabs attention wherever she is. She's your usual kind, charismatic and beautiful upperclassman you will ever have. Also known as the goddess of the Theatre Department at Chung-ang University! She can be good at singing too, so she has been the female lead character of their school musicals.

Boyfriend? She had three ex-boyfriends ever since she started college; none of them lasted as she was bored of them trying to stop her from achieving her dreams to become a successful actress. They just want her to become her boyfriend for show anyways, what scumbags.

In terms of Mina's acting career, she has been auditioning small roles for dramas and CF since she was a freshman; she landed jobs on TV, usually as extras, playing as a ghost, a bully student, the younger version of the female lead, etc. She also had a CF once, and it was advertising for color lensed eye contacts.

Once, she was rejected for a role because she was not skinny enough, she usually weighs 52-53 kilograms, and they told her that the role as the male lead character's first love needs to be below the 50 kg barrier. Heol! Sometimes, the beauty standards in her country are way too ridiculous! But if ever she wanted to succeed, then there's no way out. She still maintained her weight, at least for now, and will lose five kilograms more of weight altogether after she graduates.

"Mina-sunbae!"

Mina heard a deep manly voice call her as someone tapped her right shoulder. Mina turned to look around, and she saw a tall, handsome guy smiling brightly. He seemed like he's 5'8 or 5'9 in height; his hair stood out the most, it was the tentative color of the sun, yellow. If you think 5'8 or 5'9 is not tall then, shut up, her height is only 5'6. She considered anyone taller than 5'6, tall. Anyways, he was wearing a white t-shirt underneath his black and yellow checkered coat.

"Jiwon-ah!" Mina answered him and patted his back. He seemed like a baby chick, but he's all grown up now.

"I switched partners with Soojin-sunbae," His right hand traveled on the right side of the pocket of his jeans while his left hand caressed his hair shyly. "She wants to be in partnership with his boyfriend, which is my best friend too."

'That Soojin! Prioritizing her boyfriend over her best friend! Whatever! If they break up, she promised herself that she won't ever comfort that traitor Soojin.' She angrily thought to herself annoyed at the fact that Soojin exchanged partners.

"And I want to be your partner too!" He said, then did an awkward laugh. "Is it okay with you sunbae?"

Mina smiled back at him, "Of course!"

***

Both agreed that it would be better to practice in an empty classroom. Jiwon and Mina chose a room and practiced the script's dialogues first. After they got the hang of it, they decided to act it out for real.

"Look at me," Mina used her nasal voice to act cute. "You brought me home, now what? Isn't it time for us to eat?"

"What do you mean, it's time to eat? We already finished eating here. Jiwon asked Mina, bewildered by her cutesy acting. "You can have an ice cream; there's one in the fridge if you want a dessert."

"No! I don't want ice cream," Mina whined. "I want to eat you!"

Silence filled the room. Jiwon stared at her with a shocked face as it was supposed to be; he came back to his composure and walked away from her. "Our rooftop house is small, so bear with it. You can sleep if you want. You can sleep at the bed, and I'll sleep on the couch."

"Ohh! So are you saying you want to sleep with me?" Mina teasingly asked him and hugged him, making sure her boobs touch his back. "Come! Let me eat you! Rawwr!"

He turned around and held both of Mina's hands to free him from my hug. He stared at her in the eye, "No."

Mina smiled at him, "Are you sure?" She tried to wiggle her arms, but to no avail, Jiwon was stronger than her, and she failed. "It hurts."

That should be the end of the script, but instead of releasing his grip, Jiwon stared at Mina's eyes, then stared at her lips. His right hand traveled his way to Mina's waist and pulled her closer.

"That was the end of the script! Thank you so much! I think you'll do well as a male lead character in the future," Mina patted his head using her free hand and smiled at him awkwardly, "Jiwon."

The next thing she knew was that he placed his lips on mine. Then he broke away and said, "I like you." Mina stared at him blankly, shocked by the sudden kiss and confession. "Am I not allowed to like you?" he whispered, "Sunbae?"

Jiwon grinned at Mina and started kissing her softly. His lips started to move softly. I felt his minty fresh breath as he tried to trace my bottom lip using his tongue. I felt I came back to my senses, and I parted away from him.

"Jiwon-ah," Mina called out his name softly. "Let me think this through, you can't just force yourself to me like that."

"Yes sunbae," He grinned at Mina playfully. "What do you think if we will add this kind of scene the moment we film this scene for the project?"

Holy fck. Mina thought he was making a move on me! He was just thinking of adding the kiss for the scene---not because he wanted to kiss her! Can someone dig Mina a hole? She wanted to cover herself up.

"All we need to do is for someone to film our scene together," He continued to say. "I know a sunbae from the filmography department. He's prickly but we are close so I'll get him to film our scene together." He leaned in closer to Mina, "Do you agree with the kiss scene, Mina-sunbae? It's for our project. We better make sure we make it through prelims together."

"It is okay," Mina looked away from him and stared at the floor. She was wearing flat doll shoes for today; they would be at the same height if she wore heels today. "For an A+ grade. I'll do everything, we are prepared to be good at acting anyway!"

"Great, sunbae." Jiwon patted Mina's shoulder, stared at her lips, and whispered. "I wanted to do more--"

"What?"

"I said, I wanted to get an A+ too!"

"Okay, should we rehearse our kiss scene again?" Mina said, "What do you think? We should think of the angle first."

As Jiwon did not answer, Mina took a step forward, closing the distance between them. "Which angle do you think is better for you?" They were standing near the board, and Mima gestured that the camera would be at the back, filming our sides. I guided his hands on my waist, and I rested her arm on his chest. "Would you like to turn your head at the right?"

Jiwon did as Mina asked, and she slowly approached her lips in just a split second. "Like this? Do you think this is okay?"

"Well, I think it would be better to have a proper kissing scene." Jiwon shyly said and scratched his head. "As you know, the proper movement of two leads' would be better."

"Okay," Mina replied. His face suddenly lightened; this guy sure knows how 'flirting' works.

"Should we practice now?" Jiwon blurted out, "I mean, I'm still free for now." He looked at his watch, "It's still 1:30 in the afternoon. My class is at 4 pm."

"Let's just have a rehearsal again tomorrow, before your sunbae comes," Mina said to him as she walked to the teacher's table and got her purse. "Memorize your script, okay?"