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Location : Lounge, Chicago O’hare International Airport
With : Shay Knox
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Shay had already reached for his bag for the stain remover before Seung could hardly open her mouth to protest. From what he mentioned earlier, a new student such as him trying to make friends or at least acquaintances in an unfamiliar setting was natural. Leaving her previous team, the mates she had bonded so well with over the years, behind due to consequences, loneliness was more intense than she had anticipated upon her first arrival. Seung looked at the stick on his palm hesitantly. “Thanks.”. You didn’t have to. There were a lot of things she was grateful for to the couple of friends she had gained at KA. So from that perspective, Shay wanting to make friends was only natural, and Seung happened to be the one to share an interaction even if it was accidentally. She took the pen.
At least the guy seemed good.
“I’m in junior year too.”, she replied to the question adding a mental note that they might be seeing each other in classes if they overlapped. Seung could not but break her stoic expression into an amused grin before apologising shortly after, without faltering the smile, “I’m sorry. You must have had a hard time. But it’s actually funny.”. Her gaze as a memory of her father brightened her smile, “My father used to exclaim in English expressions all the time to the Koreans who were weak in that language. It used to confuse everyone.”, she shared.
The attention, however, was brought back to the match she was watching. Her head jerked up to meet Shay’s eyes, shocked at the coincidence that the game on the screen was the matche between the teams of USA and France. “What position does she play in?”, she enquired, visibly excited, zooming on each player on the screen until Shay identified his aunt, only to have Seung’s eyes are star-struck and widened in their sockets. “French setter Joëlle Guillaume is your aunt?!”, her voice taking a notch up, at the mention of one of her rolemodels. Who would not be amazed by Joëlle’s tactics?! Formidable to the opponents and dependable for the teammates, Joëlle Guillaume was some Seung aspired to be.
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@bpalmer - Shay