winter flower ; zhong chenle

prologue

"i'm lost trying to find
the reason i was born....

and then i met you."

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lee areum.

it was a warm day in seoul. the sun was shining, the wind blew briskly, the lakes were shining, flowers blooming. it was beautiful, but to areum, it meant going to school.

areum had a difficult time in school. she was a quiet and reserved girl, deemed mysterious and weird by her classmates. thus causing her to be picked on. an outcast.

though she had no friends, she had a brother, called donghyuck, who protected her when he witnessed his younger sister being bullied.

areum and donghyuck were completely different.

donghyuck was popular. he was a senior, and very well-known, as well as well liked. he'd adapted the nickname Haechan, meaning full sun due to his popularity and ability to brighten up just about anyone's day; like a sun.

areum, on the other hand was, as i said, an outcast. she didn't talk much nor did anyone really know who she was. areum was a very pretty girl, but nobody noticed her beauty because nobody noticed her.

she felt lonely, and hurt. she had no one. no one to hang out with on weekends. no one to vent about her problems to. no one to love her back. she was just... there. she had given up home and fell into a darkness.

she often found herself depressed, thinking everyone would be better off if she was gone. "as if anyone would notice." she would think, and then she'd suffer in silence, unbeknownst to the world. she had no reason to continue on. no reason to smile.

that was until she met him.

him being zhong chenle. she met him in eighth grade. he was new and was looking for his classroom, which was self-proclaimed by the latter, as pretty difficult to find.

while searching for his class, he spotted a girl walking by. that girl being areum. he thought she was pretty, which intimidated him. nonetheless, the boy walked up to the girl with a bright smile.

"hi!" he had smiled brightly, spooking the girl. she looked around, thinking he had been talking to someone else.

"i'm chenle! what's your name?" the boy had asked, yet again speaking to the girl. she concluded that he was, in fact, speaking to her and she stuttered, "i-i'm areum. lee areum."

"nice to meet you, lee areum!"

chenle stuck his hand out and though she was hesitant, areum shook his hand. after their mini introduction, chenle remembered why he had walked over there in the first place. not to stare at the pretty girl, but to ask for directions.

"i'm new here and today's my first day."

he started and it made since to areum.