Chapter 11.1 - Act 11: Slowly 1 (2/2)
…Societies operated in a complicated manner huh.
I, who had only been following others as a non-executive, blankly listened to Lim Suhjoon’s explanation.
“Thus, our society’s objective for this semester is the presentation of a musical play and to be more specific, our goal will be to hold and succeed in the Future Arts High Festival held in November. We need to show that much of a result for the school to acknowledge us as a proper society, right?”
Festival – hearing that, Song Mirae and I looked at each other.
The Future Performing Arts High School Festival, also referred to as the Future Fes is a huge event held every November, where societies presented their performances polished throughout the year.
Indeed, it was a big event and will be a good record for future support funds.
“We should practise a lot, I see.”
“Yes we must. Well, our primary objective is to perform it during the festival and if that goes well, we will enter other contests as well. The issue though is that we aren’t the only group doing a musical…”
Scratching his hair, Lim Suhjoon-sunbae’s expression turned dark.
Club performances.
In other words, other clubs and societies will be performing as well, which meant that Cantabile, the musical club will also be presenting. And their performance will most likely be a musical like ours.
“A competition.”
“…Right, there will be a competition. The year before last year, our societies overlapped and the atmosphere back then was no joke apparently.”
Perhaps it was natural considering that they were originally one society that separated due to a difference in perspective. It was obvious that they won’t be on good terms, and if a competition was added onto that, the atmosphere definitely wouldn’t have been a positive one.
“But it was fun.”
Taking his eyes off of Yun Soojin-sunbae’s smile, Lim Suhjoon-sunbae let out a short sigh.
“Anyways, it won’t be easy. There’s a competition and while they are a musical club, we don’t have many members. To be honest, I am grateful that you joined but am also a bit sorry.”
I could see Lim Suhjoon-sunbae feeling down and shook my head.
“You do not have to. We came because we wanted to.”
“…”
Besides, I can’t even enter the Musical Club in the first place. Lim Suhjoon-sunbae didn’t know that, which was probably the reason he was so thankful.
Feeling a little awkward, I looked into his eyes and nodded.
“For now, I get the situation. We will also think of what we can do for the club.”
“…”
Lim Suhjoon-sunbae stared at me with a strange look on his face as he tilted his head.
“By the way, why do you speak so stiffly? Just speak comfortably.”
“…”
Closing my mouth, I gave an awkward smile.
…It was because I still didn’t know how to treat seniors that were younger than me. Things were easy with classmates because I just had to speak casually but…
Thinking that, I said okay and escaped the situation.
*
After explaining about our future plans and objectives, our club activity of the day came to an end. Since it was the first day Song Mirae came, we lacked time to start anything else.
I closed the door behind me in thought when a familiar golden light appeared from the other end of the corridor.
Chloe.
As that word surfaced inside my brain, I raised my hand up and called her.
“Chloe!”
“Yes?”
Turning her head back with a flick, Chloe found me and a smile resembling a flower bloomed on her face, as she ran up in small steps.
“Yunjae! Why are you here? Hello as well Mirae!”
“Hello~”
“Yeah, hi. I came because of my society.”
Hearing that, Chloe widened her eyes, seemingly surprised.
“I came because of that as well. They told me to visit and have a look.”
Now that I think about it, I realised that Chloe also hadn’t joined a society during the first semester. Maybe she was thinking of joining a society this semester, considering how she was going around having a look.
I opened my mouth with a nod.
“So? Did you like it?”
“Noo. I didn’tt…”
Seeing her lower her lips like a depressed puppy, I suddenly thought of the words I heard inside the room. The sunbae said we needed a lot more members right?
Maybe I should bring a few of my acquaintances in. With such thought, I first asked Chloe about her opinion.
“Then do you want to join our society? We decided to do a musical this time…”
Chloe listened to my explanation in silence before immediately nodding her head.
“It seems interesting!”
“It will be interesting.”
Just like that, we got ourselves another member. Regardless of whether she would be playing the piano or going on the stage, Chloe will give a good impression because she had good looks.
I smiled in satisfaction when Song Mirae tilting her head entered my sight.
“Did your visit just end? It’s been quite some time since the club activity times have ended though?”
Checking the time, I nodded in agreement. Because of our long conference, the allocated time for club activities had already passed quite some time ago. It was a bit strange for a club visit to end this late.
Chloe’s eyebrows twitched a little as she soon gave a bright smile.
“The sunbaes had a lot to say so… Huhuh.”
“Ah, I see.”
Like that, we chatted while walking outside.