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chapter six,
the one with a matchmaker

━━━━ KITTY and vivienne stayed in lunch until their next hour started which fortunate for them they had the same class. vivienne and kitty talked the entire way there and kitty brought up how good of a matchmaker she is trying to get vivienne to silently and unknowingly say yes but vivienne knew what kitty was doing.

"so how long have you liked him?" kitty asked as they walked up the stairs to chemistry class.

"kitty," vivienne sighed deeply, pulling the strings of her backpack. vivienne couldve just lied to kitty but kitty knows and she could tell, it would be useless to lie to her. "since i was 10 but then i stopped and until like two days ago something flipped. but i'm not like head over heels, i just feel different around him."

"like butterflies? like i want to be with him every second of every day? like you can't breath when he's around because your heart is beating so fast you think—"

"kitty calm down. i just get nervous around him that's all." vivienne laughed. kitty checked the time and let out a gasp.

"we're going to be late!" kitty said and in a matter of seconds the two newly friends rushed up the stairs and down the hallway entering the classroom. kitty and vivienne entered the classroom panting heavily. vivienne almost tripping when she spun around the door to enter the classroom.

"congrats, kitty and," he was a new teacher, vivienne could tell by the way that he was nervous.

"vivienne."

"and vivienne. right on time." professor finnerty, or alex, said and both kitty and vivienne greeted him back. there were two spaces free, one with min ho and the other with quincy. vivienne didn't hesitate to sit down besides quincy and kitty grumbled underneath her breath stomping her way over to min ho.

"hey, do you know where was min ho this morning?" quincy asked leaning over to vivienne. the filipino girl only shrugged her shoulders taking out her notebook and her pencil. quincy leaned his head on his hand and raised an eyebrow at his best friend. "vivy."

"i don't know, q." vivienne laughed shrugging her shoulders but quincy gave her a look. "i really don't know but we did talk this morning when kitty went to go grab our uniforms." vivienne said and quincy grinned and signaling her to go on. "we talked things out. we're good now."

"and yet you didn't go sit down with him. why is that?" quincy asked. vivienne was going to come up with an excuse but was quickly saved when kitty started humming to a familiar song that everyone knew of. quincy and vivienne frowned their eyebrows knowing the song and glancing over at kitty.

"it's him." kitty said proudly of what she did.

vivienne's face turned into a bitch face and so did quincy's. only the trio know about the secret that min ho feels embarrassed about due to his mom who would make him do them, like the commercial. and they know how much it means to min ho to keep it private and not let any find out. kitty might've done it in spit in min ho and sure it was karma for her nickname but what the duo was wondering is who told her about it.

"okay, okay. everybody can pick their own lab partners, but quickly. chemistry doesn't do itself." alex said. quincy and vivienne relaxed knowing that they weren't going to be moving at all. well that's what they thought until kitty came in between them.

"min ho wants to sit with you." kitty said.

vivienne laughed, "no he doesn't kitty. go sit by florian." vivienne said pointing her pencil over to florian who was reading a book.

kitty huffed getting closer to vivienne and her mouth hovering above vivienne's ear. "i'm trying to get florian to sit down here with quincy. please vivi, just for this once and then next class i'll sit with you." kitty then backed up, pouted her lips and gave vivienne pleading eyes.

"you owe me, covey." vivienne mumbled scraping the chair on the floor, picked up her backpack and stomped her way over to min ho. "the things i do for my friends. where is my number one best friend reward." vivienne scoffed reaching the stool besides min ho and slumping down.

"well don't look too happy to be my lab partner." min ho said sarcastically never looking up from his notebook and continuing to write things down. "did you tell kitty about the you know."

vivienne turned her head over to min ho and frowned her eyebrows and squinted her eyes at him. then it clicked when min ho gave her a look which was him shaking his head. "oh! about how an adorable baby you were," vivienne teased dropping her head onto the palm of her hand and smiled at min ho. "no min ho i didn't."

"i was an adorable baby?" min ho teased back.

"everyone was. i don't think there was one single ugly baby. you're not special." vivienne said just to press his buttons on till his max. it's probably her favorite hobby, whether they're good with one another or arguing.

"okay, let's not forget that your the baby from that commercial where you sang and forgot all the lyrics to it and the clown that was the host made fun of you for it." min ho said leaning closer on the desk.

"i was 5! and i didn't realize how many people were going be in the audience." vivienne said slamming her palm on the table which min ho only laughed too.

min ho continued laughing which soon vivienne stated laughing as well, somehow his laugh was also contagious to vivienne and the fact that he ever remembers was the funny part of it all. the two good friends continued laughing forgetting whoever was around them and just enjoying each others presence.

kitty enjoying watching the two scenes in front of her unfold. "i still have it in me."

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school was finally done with. well for the day. the second that the last bell rang, she went to go talk to her chemistry teacher, alex finnerty, about the lesson which lasted about two hours since he was explaining it all deeply again for vivienne who at the end only understood it a bit more.

when vivienne reached her dorm room she was greeted with the sight of kitty holding up a chalk board that read, grade 11th and taking selfies with it.  "hey, kitty." vivienne said softly. closing the door, taking off her shoes at the door and dropping her backpack on the ground.

"hi, vi." kitty greeted sadly.

"i heard about dae. i'm sorry." vivienne said. she's forgotten all about the small scene that kitty made with min ho during chemistry and knew that she had her reasons, which still didn't make it right, but min ho can be irritating sometimes.

"yeah. it's okay tough. i'm okay. and i'm not going to cry," kitty said her voice cracking at her last statement. "because i cannot have puffy eyes for this photo. it's a covey family tradition that my mom started, and i'm here for her."

vivienne watched as kitty sadly brought her phone back up. "let me take it." vivienne said taking long strolls over to kitty and grabbing the phone away from the red hair girl. kitty held the chalk board up and held a large smile as vivienne took the photo. "there."

but kitty didn't take the phone from vivienne, instead the heartbroken girl burst into tears and accidentally dropped the chalk bored to the ground. vivienne placed the phone on the bed and made her way over to kitty going to comfort her. though on her way to kitty she tripped over a box that was on the side causing a flower patterned book to fall on the ground.

"sorry." vivienne said and kitty sniffed up her tears kneeling down and picking up the book. vivienne then picked out a pink baby bracelet that slipped out of it. "aw, kitty, i didn't know you were born in korea."

"i wasn't." kitty said confused and vivienne handed her over to the baby bracelet. "that's my moms name. in korean. august 12th, 1993." kittys voice then dropped leaving vivienne with the suspense. "oh my god. oh my god!"

"oh my god what kitty? kitty!" vivienne hissed when kitty kept on repeating oh my god.

"i think my mom had a baby here." kitty confessed leaving the two girls in shock. what is up with this school year and it's barely even the first week.

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