Chapter 3.5 - Passionately 5 (2/2)
“Jo Yunjae. Teacher Kwak is teaching him right?”
“…Yunjae, yes I guess.”
“How is he?”
“…?”
Was it too random? He appeared to be clueless so Hong Yoojin changed her words a bit.
“I was in charge of their Chapel, conducting but he appeared quite interesting. He barely made it in during the interview and wasn’t even attending any concours so I didn’t really like him but…”
“‘Interesting’, is it”
As expected, he was indeed interested in his own disciple. Hong Yoojin excitedly continued her words.
“During the practices, I could hear some near-perfect sound so I thought the tenth class guys were just good. But there kept on being some static sound on the tenor parts so I thought it was Jo Yunjae but… he was actually the one singing properly while others were weird.”
“… Yunjae is indeed quite good at expressing. His learning speed is phenomenal as well.”
During the conversation, Hong Yoojin thought it was weird and tilted her head.
“But now that I think of it, it’s quite bizarre. Is it possible to have good diction with bad basics? His learning speed is strange as well… did he have some kind of illness before?”
Kwak Jungsoo was startled.
“An illness?”
“Ah, sometimes it happens to pregnant women. After giving birth, their diaphragms and stomach muscles are ruined so their basics are bad but their diction and expression skills would still remain. Unless he had a similar illness… Ah!”
After talking on and on like an old lady, she clapped her hands and shouted.
“I left the hymn book below. I’ll go and bring it back up!”
Staring at that distancing back,
Kwak Jungsoo closed his eyes for a bit.
*
After the Chapel was over, Noh Jusup faced his eyes that appeared like a puppy seeing a snowfall.
“Ohh Jo Yunjae~ You were cool back there hey?”
He would say such things while shoving my shoulder
“‘… is what I think’. Puhp! I thought it was a declaration of independence or something.”
And impersonate on the spot.
“…”
Rather than a puppy, he appeared more like a damn dog. I barely ignored while clenching hard but then he even started singing.
“From~ the suffering~”
“…Stop.”
How I wish I could hit him.
I stared deeply at the textbook while trembling before hearing someone sit on the chair in front of my desk. Glancing up, I found an unexpected girl sitting there.
Song Mirae.
While she was managing her bangs that covered her forehead, our eyes met, and when they did, her eyes broke into crescents.
“Hello.”
“…Hello.”
Since she greeted I gave a reply but she was quite random herself.
After two weeks of ignoring she’s suddenly like this? The stealthily decreasing distance felt uncomfortable so I asked while retreating my neck.
“Is there anything?”
“Does there have to be something?”
“…”
When I stared back indifferently with eyes that said, ‘You wouldn’t have come if there was nothing to say’, Song Mirae pouted her mouth once before opening up.
“Are you not going to enter the Musical club?”
“The Musical club?”
When I asked back, Song Mirae started chattering about this and that.
“You know our school’s Musical club is famous. But this year there’s only Kim Dongsik as the first-grade tenor so I’m a bit worried. Kim Wuju… won’t come in and you’re the only one left. Do you have any thoughts? You seemed quite skilled from what I saw today?”
It appeared that Kim Dongsik that guy was being quite disparaged. Inwardly laughing a little, I waved my hand in refusal.
“Sorry but I need to practise a bit more so I won’t be able to enter any clubs.”
“Don’t say that and come visit once at least~”
“Sorry.”
“…Is that so? Tch.”
The brightly smiling Song Mirae instantaneously made a sulking expression and stood up from the seat.
The Musical club… Future Art High’s Musical club was indeed quite popular but I had no time yet to enjoy going to club activities. I waved my hand saying sorry when Song Mirae who had been walking past me suddenly came to a halt.
“The thing you said back then, do you still think the same?”
“Un…?”
Song Mirae quickly flicked back towards her seat with a stiff expression. Noh Jusup who had been laying low with his neck lowered suddenly tapped me.
“Did you get scouted just then?”
“They said there are no tenors.”
“Jun Shihyuk should be able to cover it to some level though~”
While I was chitchatting with Noh Jusup, the time for the end-of-the-day meeting had arrived.
“Everyone, it is time to start so please go back to your seats~”
“Yes.”
Again, she had a strangely happy expression and when I saw that, I felt a chill run down my spine. She always brought something when she had that face…
And of course, teacher Kang Heewon who had been giving a wide smile started an important announcement.
“Everyone! You know that tomorrow is the first day of the Improvement Concert right? Please come to the Future Hall and bring your own writing equipment! The performers must come 30 minutes earlier.”
“Yes!”
An excited atmosphere filled the students.
The Improvement Concert – the little concert opened by students was now right before their noses. Was it already time for the first-runners, I thought and glanced at Chloe and Lee Suh-ah who had their performances coming up tomorrow.
Chloe brightly smiled and greeted back with her eyes while Lee Suh-ah was staring out the windows. I was unknowingly staring at Lee Suh-ah for a bit when she, who had been resting her chin on her hand, turned her head over.
“…”
Our eyes met.