Shanelle walks towards the Board office to confirm her enlistment for the second female role of the new movie of her bestfriend Rizalane. Well, she is not really good. She really sucks in acting, but she still tried.
After her audition, she walks to the lobby of the office and saw her classmate Mirriam running towards her.
"Hey, Shan, there are press people in our classroom. They are all looking for you," she said panicking. "Hurry up, the teachers and students are all coming here now to see you!"
"What? But why? Am I that in-demand now?" She asked coldly. She doesn't care whoever she met or whoever wants to talk to her, but speaking of the press, she felt strange about it. The last time she faced the press was when her mother died.
"There she is! Let's go!" The press, together with the teachers and the students ran to meet her. Shanelle felt that the spotlight stops on her direction as she was surrounded with all those curious from the whole university.
"Miss Park, we gerd that you and the leader of Touch5 Gabrielle Lee broke up already. What is your reactiom on your break up?" The first press person asked.
"Is there really a third party?"
"Is it true that he just used you?"
"Have you moved on already? Do you have a boyfriend now?"
Those questions just placed Shanelle on a drastic situation. It's as if she is sitting down a deady chair and she'll die if cannot answer their questions. She can see people whispering to each other as if they're thinking that she haven't moved on from Gabrilele Lee still. And that she cannot look for a more handsome and cool boyfriend aside from him.
She wanted to run away and not to come back anymore. She doesn't understand why Gabrille Lee made her life miserable and complicated. The only fault she knew she committed is that she loved him more than anything else. She gathered her strength and to took a deep breath. She will not let them overpower her. She isn't born to just be hurt and manipulated by anyone. It's time to fight. But how? What will I say? She thought.
"Miss Park? Do you still love Mr. Gabrielle Lee? Or have you moved on from him already?" The press started to ask again.
"I..." Shanelle began. "I have a boyfriend already," she now managed to say. She bit her lip as she uttered those words. What am I saying? She wanted to talk take back her last statement but as she heard the whole crowd looked at each other in confusion, she knew it. There's no turning back.
"You are saying that you have a boyfriend already. That means tht you already moved on. Is this guy one of the students here also, Miss Park?"
"I moved on. I have someone special in my life now. He's much better, cooler, more handsome and more deserving for my love. And if you're asking for his name, well, I will answer it. His name is Prince Chihoon Chu. So, please don't involve me on Gabrielle Lee's life anymore. Thank you," Shanella said and turned her back from all the people in the crowd.
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"What? When? How? Why didn't I know that? I am your assistant and will be your future manager when you'll be doing your drama with Riza but how come I don't know it?" Jam automatically interviewed her as she heard the news.
"Geez. You're there again with your WH questions. It's a long story okay?" She just lied. She hates lying especially to her friends, but what can she do? She can't tell him it's all a lie. Well, she'll definitely tell him about it, but not now. She'll wait until the issue subsides.
"So, where did you met this guy? When did you decided to have a boyfriend again?" Jam asked a bit loud that made everyone in the clss looks at her again, as if waiting to hear her story. What the hell. What's with my life that everyone is interested to barge in? She thought.
"I met him at..." She remininse her dream with Prince Chihoon. "At a garden. Full of beautiful and fragrant flowers," she rests her palm on her chin as she starts to daydream about meeting her prince. She knew that it can't really happen in real life, but, dreaming is free, anyway.
"Garden? When did you even get interested in going to a garden? You don't even love flowers," Jam looks at her confusedly.
"It's the place where I met him. And I started to love flowers since then. Tsk," she said. Well, that's true. Eversince she dreamt if that beautiful garden on top of the mountains, she started to love flowers. That dream seems real to her.
"Are you sure he's more handsome than Gabrielle? I don't think there's more handsome than him in our school," one of her classmates asked.
"Of course. Why? Is Gabrielle the only handsome guy on Earth? I don't think so," she scoffed and leaned on her seat.
Her classmates still wanted to ask questions but their teacher already entered the class. Well, thank you for saving me this time. She thought again.
"The faculty decided for the date of the Year's Prom Night. And that will be on February 14th. Four months from now. The Senior Class will host the this year's prom to celebrate their graduation from the academy. And of course, choose your date. I know that is what you're most interested with," the teacher said that made the whole clss explode into noise.
"Great. I eill get to perform on stage," Shanelle said. Well, at least she can showcase her talent on the DHA stage.
"Yeah, at least you don't have to to think about your date because you have your new boyfriend now," Jam answered. "You better bring him on that prom."
"He's busy. He can't come," she said and flips through her books to avoid her friend's gaze. How can she even invite an imaginary person? Geez, what did she just entered?