To Our Pure Little Beauty

Chapter 2

After summer, we stepped into the busy year of Junior 3. I have always prioritized important matters above everything else, hence things like immersing myself in romantic relationships were promptly kicked to the side. Plus, Meteor Garden was airing fervently back then, so I changed to being crazy about Dao Ming Si instead.

[ "Meteor Garden" is a Chinese drama and "Dao Ming Si" is the lead male character ]

The event that caused me to confirm my resolution to fangirling over Jungkook as my life goal happened half a year later. The night before the mock exams, amidst my mum’s beatings and scoldings of, “How did I raise such a forgetful pig-headed daughter like you?!”, I hurriedly rushed to the 'Study Friend' Bookshop to buy the 2B pencils I needed to shade the OAS for my mock exams the next day.

Even though this Bookstore claimed to be a bookstore, it actually sold a variety of things – from books, and stationery, to stickers, and toys, basically, whatever was trending among students, it would sell. Later on, after muddling through life in the outside world, I discovered that the two words, “Study Friend”, was a name that all non-franchise stationery shops and book shops in the country liked to use. I have no idea, if they used it thinking this name would cause numerous students to feel a sense of familiarity akin to seeing a friend, or if it was because everyone was just lazy to come up with names. But if there was a day where I decide to give back to society, I would also want to open a bookshop, on the surface it would sell books and stationery, but it would actually be a centre of students to pay a fee and make friends, especially female students, though if there were special requests, we could also sell male students at a high price.

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I entered and grabbed a bunch of 2B pencils. At that point in time, using computers to mark papers had just come into trend. I thought that the 2B pencil would appreciate in price in the near future, and I had to stock up. But the truth proved otherwise. While the price of pencils did rise by ten cents, there were many pencils specially made for shading the OAS that were produced. While everyone else was using mechanical pencils to shade their OAS, I still had to pitifully use a knife to shave my pencils. Prophets are all lonely people.

As I clutched a bunch of pencils, about to pay, Jungkook entered through the door. Perhaps out of a strange adolescent, voyeuristic mentality, I subconsciously grabbed a book off the shelf, using it to block my face as I secretly watched him.

Jungkook upon entering, made an immediate beeline for the counter. The lady boss saw him, and smilingly carried up a pile of books from under the counter. “The embroidered collector’s edition of the Four Classic Novels of Korean Literature. You wanted, I specially went into the city to obtain its stock.” 

Jungkook smiled and said, “Thank you Lady Boss, how much is it?”

“132 Dollar, I’ll take 130 from you.” The lady boss took his money. “I’m not even counting in the transport fees.”

Jungkook smilingly nodded his head. “Thank you Lady Boss.”

At that point in time our school fees were 30 Dollars per semester, Jungkook was using money worth two school years or four semesters to buy a few rotten books, if he had so much spare money, he might as well… Actually I also didn’t know what he might as well have done, I’ve never had so much money, so I really didn’t understand.

“Oppa.” A child who had come out of nowhere was calling as he tugged on Jungkook’s trousers. 

Jungkook squatted down and caressed his head. Blinking, he asked him, “Little friend, are you a boy or a girl?”