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CHAPTER 20: CONFESSION

Author: Aria Dean
last update Last Updated: 2022-04-18 17:42:03

ISLA

"I like you so much that it drives me crazy…"

ONE MONTH LATER

I woke up early in the morning after receiving continuous message notifications on my phone. As soon as I slightly got up from bed, I tried to check the messages and already felt exhausted after seeing almost fifty messages.

Twenty messages from the multimedia arts course group chat and thirty messages from my group chat with Lav, Min-hyuk, and Su-bin which was created just for the project collaboration.

I decided to open the group chat with Lav since I need to communicate with them after stupidly agreeing to become the model for their high-graded fashion project.

[High Fashion GC]

LAV: What time are you guys available for the runway rehearsals?

MINHYUK: I can't. I have wrestling practice.

LAV: Seriously?! Is that more important than our project?

MINHYUK: Aren't you supposed to practice your dance with Woo-hyun too?

LAV: But the project is way too important!

Gosh.
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