Made in Korea by Sarah Suk

Author:Sarah Suk
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2021-05-18T00:00:00+00:00

Monday / December 2

By the time Monday morning rolled around, my mind was back in overthinking mode. There was no way Toblie would have gotten back to me by now. Callbacks for auditions weren’t even until the new year. But for some reason, logic didn’t stop me from checking my email every chance I got. The only thing that was in my inbox, though, was a list of college websites that Dad had sent me. When you get a chance! he wrote.

Between that and the imagined terror of my parents somehow stumbling into my email and seeing “Your application to Toblie School of Music has been successfully submitted” and the many notes from Uncle Hojin suggesting audition songs, I almost didn’t notice when the first bell rang and over half the tinted-foundation mini bottles I’d gotten from Mom were still left over on the music stands.

“Huh,” Pauline said, considering the cash box. “We didn’t do so well today. Maybe the worst sales day we’ve had since Halloween.”

“That’s so weird,” I said. I picked up one of the bottles designed with Namkyu’s tiger, the silver one eating a corn dog. “I thought these would sell really well.”

So well that I hadn’t even brought anything extra. No postcards or key chains or bonus items to make a package deal. Had that been my mistake? Or maybe foundation wasn’t as popular as I thought. What the hell did I know about foundation anyway? Maybe it wasn’t even what I thought it was.

“You use this on your face, right?” I asked.

Pauline nodded. “Yeah. Listen, I have to head to class, but why don’t you ask Kristy Lo what’s up?” She nodded to the band-room door, where Kristy was walking in with her flute case tucked under her arm. “If anyone will know what’s going on, it’ll be Kristy.”

“Right.” I quickly packed up the leftover foundation bottles as more band kids filed in for class. I’d have to get to Kristy quick before Mr. Reyes started rehearsals. We were performing at a district-wide band festival next week, and he was keen to have us master the theme from Star Wars by then.

“Good morning, Kristy,” I said, shuffling awkwardly over to the flute section with my backpack full of foundation in tow. “I, um, didn’t see you this morning.”

“Hi, Wes!” she said. She smiled brightly and then her face dropped into a pout. “I know—I’m bummed I missed your sale. But I saw on Valerie’s Instagram last night that she restocked all her foundations, primers, and concealers! All her products look freaking amazing, too. Want to see?”

I was still trying to wrap my head around everything Kristy was saying—primers? Concealers? Huh? Was that all stuff to put on your face too?—when she stuck her phone in front of my face, playing an Instagram video on V&C K-BEAUTY’s page of Valerie holding up different bottles of beauty products against her hand and sampling the products. My heart did a weird lurch when I saw her face on the screen.

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