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✧ min ho;

our table at matchado is completely covered—laptops open, scripts spread out, notebooks stacked on top of each other. my iced matcha is half-melted, condensation dripping onto the table, but i'm too focused to care.

i have a highlighter in my mouth, a pen in my hand, and my brain is split between writing down notes for our film and trying to ignore the fact that kitty is sitting way too close to me.

not that i mind.

she's scanning the class roster, finger trailing over the list of names. she's so focused that she doesn't even notice the way she's absentmindedly chewing on the end of her pen.

i smirk. "you're gonna break your teeth doing that."

she startles, blinking up at me. "huh?"

i nod toward her pen.

she pulls it away from her lips, narrowing her eyes at me. "i was not doing that."

"you were."

"was not."

i arch a brow.

she huffs. "whatever." she taps the screen of her laptop. "i'm trying to see who we should cast."

it was professor alex and i's idea for kitty to just be casted as the lead role for mia. there was no other choice. mia is charismatic, witty, passionate, and unpredictable.

we felt like no one else could be the character. besides kitty created her and i like to think she didn't even realize she wrote herself in the story.

i lean over slightly, glancing at the list. "so.. if you're playing mia, who's playing sebastian?"

kitty bites her lip. "well... we need people with actual acting skills."

"so not jin," i mutter.

kitty snickers. "definitely not jin."

i go back to writing notes in the margins of the script, twirling my pen between my fingers. kitty hums to herself, still scrolling. "what about dae?"