"hopeless." she says as she shakes her head, glancing at Shuhua who's mind obviously gone to somewhere else.
+++++
Lunch came and Shuhua's slowly back to being her usual happy self, she still remembers the nightmare though but she chose to ignore it.
She walks towards their school entrance to meet both El and Sana who's already waiting for them.
"yah! Shushu, you're neglecting me as your best friend." El said as soon as they got their visitor pass, now walking back inside the school and towards the cafeteria.
"I'm not..I just forgot to text you since my phone died on me last night and I was so sleepy." she explained and El nodded, putting his arm around Shuhua's shoulder, ruffling her hair.
Some students saw them and immediately rumors about them circulated their whole school. Shuhua's famous after all.
"wow, will Soojin kill me for all these rumors going around?" El asks as he still has his arm around Shuhua.
"she wouldn't bother, I guess." she answered.
"yah! I'm finally going to meet my soon to be daughter-in-law!" she heard Sana happily say beside her and so she chuckled.
"I hope so." Shuhua said as they entered the cafeteria.
Shuhua found them on their usual spot and so she dragged El and Sana to go with her, Tzuyu following behind.
"hi everyone!" Shuhua happily greeted them, but her focus is only on Soojin who seems to be busy with her phone.
"hi!" Yuqi greeted back.
"wait, leave your things here first and let's go order something." Shuhua said and the three agreed.
"we'll be right back!" Shuhua said as she once again dragged the two.
Meanwhile, Soojin looks up from her phone to look at where Shuhua went.
"they kind of look good together." Yuqi said, looking for Soojin's reaction.
"they do." was her only response and the four of them shook their heads at how hopeless Soojin looks.
Soojin continued to watch Shuhua and El together and she saw how Shuhua just lets El hold her hand, lean on her shoulder and put his arms around her like that.
can't it be me instead? she thinks as the four is walking back to where their seat is.
Soojin then pretended to be busy with her phone again.
"hi again everyone." Shuhua greeted them again and Miyeon and Yuqi chuckled.
Shuhua then sat beside Soojin as she tried to check what the girl is doing with her phone, then suddenly she heard someone clear their throat.
"Shushu." El called and Shuhua looked at him, who's just sitting beside her, Tzuyu and Sana on El's right side.
"right!" Shuhua awkwardly laughs.
"you all know who Tzuyu is..BUT, you gays haven't met the love of her life, Sana." she said, introducing Sana to everyone.
"hi, I'm Minatozaki Sana." she greets and Yuqi had her eyes wide.
"wait, so Tzuyu's in a relationship?" she asks, shocked.
Sana, though confused, she still nodded with a smile on her face.
"I actually transferred here in Korea because of her." Tzuyu spoke that earned an awed expression from the others.
"that's sweet." Soyeon said, smiling at the two.
"yes, she's the sweetest..also the coldest." Sana said, clinging on to Tzuyu who only rolled her eyes at her.
"you both are cute together." Minnie commented and the two thanked her.
While everyone's talking around her, Soojin's on her own world thinking about Shuhua.
It actually doesn't matter now that Tzuyu is not whom Shuhua likes or her ideal girl because Shuhua's already bound to marry someone else.
And as that thought consumed her, she decided to just breathe some fresh air.
"and this is---" she cuts Shuhua off just before the girl can introduce El.
"excuse me..I need to go somewhere else." Soojin said, standing from her seat.
"eh? to where Jinjin~ah?" Shuhua asks her and she so doesn't want to hear Shuhua's excited voice right now.
Or be with her presence. She feels like it's slowly killing her.
"she texted me and I'm about to go meet her now." Soojin lied and she then smiled at Shuhua.
"this is very important..I'll meet you all later, I mean..I'll try to come back as soon as I can." she continued as the others nodded at her.
She then turned her back on them.
Any second now she's going to cry from how she's feeling.
As she walks away, she can hear Shuhua's voice calling for her, followed by Minnie's voice telling Shuhua to just let her be.
I really need to move on.
