After getting off work, we each went home
After showering and lying down on the bed
After staring at Minho's Instagram post for a long while
A senior's words kept echoing in my head
"Minho is more popular than I thought~"
What kind of expression was I wearing when I heard those words back then?
At that moment, when I brushed it off so casually
I couldn't remember how I had reacted, what I had said, or what expression I had made
I couldn't remember
What if Minho got a girlfriend?
I quietly tried to imagine it, but
I didn't feel that bad, and I didn't feel that good either
It just felt like I'd lose a friend
No other feelings came to mind
The next day at school, the festival was bustling along
Students busily running the booths and
the cheers welcoming the invited singerfilled the wide sports field
There were a lot of fun things at the booths
Dart throwing, rock-paper-scissors game, face painting, and more
There was a long line of people in front of every booth
As I was browsing the booths with two friends, beer in hand
one friend lightly tugged my arm and said
"Whoa, let's go check that out too!"
The friend, bouncing around like a puppy
pointed at one booth with a finger
"A mixer..?"
"Banjuhui says there are a lot of handsome guys over there!"
"Hey, if that's true, let's go check it out"
The booth we followed our friends to as if being dragged along
was packed with an unusually large crowd
Whether the rumor about lots of handsome people was true
it was full of girls standing in line with excited faces
"Shouldn't we do a mixer too? We're all single"
"I'll do it if Taeehee does it"
".. Huh?"
Even when a group date proposal had come in early in the semester
I had turned it down without a second thought
but I had also been curious about the atmosphere of a group date
Next to my friend who was stubbornly pestering me
I thought for a moment
"Just fill the numbers~"
3:3 mixer
Time limit: 20 minutes
Without even needing to line upif you wrote your phone number on the list
they would call you when it was your turn
If they were one person short
they would bring someone at random
fill the empty spot, and let the mixer go on
Apparently my friends didn't want that kind of situation to happen
"If there aren't any handsome guys, I'm backing out, okay?"
With my face flushed from the alcohol, I wrote my phone number on the list
"Wow, as expected of Taeehee"
"This is what Seo Taeehee should be like~"
I took my excited friends and headed toward the stage
The performance had already been going for a while
and a famous idol was heating up the stage
My friends, among all the people bouncing around
started filming the stage, dazed
"Now then, everyone! Are you ready for the final song?"
The crowd's cheers shook the sports field
Soon after, with a blast of music, the idol's stage began
and my friends, caught up in the mood, started bouncing too
While I was having fun enjoying the stage
I called my friends over at the vibration of the phone in my back pocket
"Hey, hey, I think it's our turn"
"Let's hurry!"
