Clique (txtXitzy)

15. Day 29

"Taehyun-ah," someone called from behind him. Taehyun shut his locker door and turned around to look at the person.

"Hey, Somi-noona," Taehyun said, "What's up?"

"I was just wondering why Beomgyu didn't reply to any of my texts over the weekend, is he somewhat ignoring me?"

Taehyun wheezed and tried not to laugh sarcastically at her. If there was a least favorite activity that Taehyun had, it was to spot another one of Beomgyu's fangirls. And to deal with them.

"No, he's just taking a break from stressing over school and basketball, why? Anything important?"

"Yeah, it's just that the school's Anonymous Valentine traditional celebration is coming in two weeks and all of the class presidents from each form except him came to the meeting yesterday to organize the event together so I was curious why he ignored his responsibilities this time when I heard he was always enthusiastic about Valentine's day."

Taehyun's mocking face turned solemn as she explained and he asked himself where the hell Beomgyu was. Nonetheless, he became humbled after learning she was sane enough to be serious about school while being a full-time 4th gen ice-skater and not fall madly in love with her class president partner, namely Choi Beomgyu.

"Yeah, he does love Valentine's day because he gets a whole lot of chocolate each year from his schoolmates alone, and don't forget his fans too. And hyung loves Valentine's chocolate as a form of his ego-booster," Taehyun laughed, "I'll talk to him about it, but can you please find time to give him a re-run of the meeting personally?"

"Of course," Somi replied waving him goodbye while slowly leaving to get to her class before the bell rang, "I'm always one call away when I'm not training."

"Somi is... awesome," Taehyun told himself under his breath. He found it strangely unique of her to be so well-organized with her life and manage to be bubbly, friendly and kind most of the time when she was 99% more tired than she looks on the outside.

...

"Hi Chaery, Hi Ryu," Somi greeted her close friends when she got in, "Have you thought of who you're sending chocolate to this year?"

"What?" Chaeryeong removed her earphones, "I don't even understand the whole program."

"The Anonymous Valentine thing is when girls pre-order home-made chocolate from the student council to raise money for orphanage donations, and then the class presidents of the boys' classes will give the chocolates out to those who get them instead of the buyer so that they don't know who gave it to them."

"That's so cute! Can we personally have the cards customized too?" She exclaimed, "Like the student council will write every single card for them?"

"Yeah, that's actually the hardest part for the class presidents to do," Somi said with a smile and a half-hearted sigh.

"Should we help you?"

...

"Yuna-ya, I'm here."

Yuna looked up to see the roof of the school where the sound echoed from. Not on the rooftop, but rather on the plates of the roof's slope, sat Choi Beomgyu with his banana milk and pre-valentine's chocolate bar in his hands. The break time had started, and the two arranged a meetup at the unseen part of the school buildings where they could be together that morning before the school bell rang. The junior academy and senior one was divided into different school grounds, and they couldn't be caught dead at one another's cafeterias hanging out together in front of tons of students so they came up with that place.