— northern downpour. ( jaeseok & miyoung )
there was a reason why qri didn’t like working with others. she has always preferred doing projects, tasks, and other (not school-related, too) things on her own because then you didn’t have to rely on anyone else but yourself. you didn’t have anyone to disagree with, to argue about how things should be done and if the project failed, you could only be disappointed in yourself so there was no pressure that you would ruin others’ work or vice versa.
and it was especially a pain in the ass when you had to work with someone who had entirely different concepts and views than you. that’s probably why christina is grumpier that day than usual; arms crossed over her chest and fingers tapping on her upper arm in a nerve-wrecking rhythm as she walks next to the boy she’s supposed to do the project ‘the history of the korean war’ for their next history class and to say she’s not exactly amused by this fact would be quite an understatement.
they didn’t even enter the museum they’re supposed to visit and gather material for the project from yet and they are already through a somewhat fiery argument about in what way they should do the work; purely virtual or purely on papers, the mix of the two or something completely different, for some reason they simply couldn’t agree so christina ended the conversation with a rather irritated ‘your brain’s capacity doesn’t catch up to mine’s so let’s stop this’ and they haven’t spoken a word since.
and as soon as they near the entrance of the museum, christina starts to have doubts again and contemplates ditching the whole thing and coming back later to do the project herself but she knows her history teacher wouldn’t be happy for it (and professor cho being her favorite teacher, qri certainly didn’t want to disappoint her). so she ignores the irritation building up inside her with a shaky sigh and turns to jaeseok.
“i was about to offer splitting up to avoid future unnecessary clashes of ideas but i guess that wouldn’t be too profitable,” she says, pursing up her lips in a smaller pout before continuing, “i think in the project we should focus on the lives and the quality of them of the korean people in wartime rather than the war itself. everyone already knows a lot about the incident but not nearly enough about all the suffering the civilians had to go through.”
