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"Areum I just got the best idea to earn quick bucks."

"What, are you gonna go around sleeping with girls with that charming face of yours?" She prompted as a joke, his mind was always up to no good and that thought could possibly be true, and that's exactly what she expected. "Absolutely right, just kidding. I wanted to audition to be a trainee but all I know is songwriting, playing the drums and the electric guitar."

And that brings back the flashback of how they had met. This was what try-hard freshman, Na Jaemin's requisite university Instagram introduction post read ;

Hi I'm Na Jaemin and I played badminton in high school but don't think I'll be continuing in college because I was pretty bad at it considering how un-competitive I am. I'm looking for a roommate and I'd really like to live in Guro-Gu, preferably Sugung-dong since it's near school, but anything works for me as long as it has a bed. Hit me up if you think we'd make a good match, but I like talking with almost everyone haha.

I'm really into music and can play the guitar, drums, and even songwriting. I like listening to music which has a sad break-up or horny genre, although I have never been in a relationship sadly, but my favorites are Chase Atlantic, Keshi, Troye Sivan, and The weeknd. Would bop to Korean-pop on occasions as well.

I'm one of those who prefers playing games, mostly grinding Valorant or Osu. I am really interested in joining the technology club team here so hit me up and we can grind together sometime because my skills are a little rusty, it's been a long while since I played. Nonetheless, I also do a little skateboarding but I am definitely not a skater, just one who can accomplish basic tricks.

Slide into my direct messages if you think we can be friends, @najaemin on instagram. Excited to meet y'all, haha.

It was accompanied by several pictures, a couple of which are selfies at that famous tik-tokers angle, one of him with his friends at prom all doing that Frat Boy pose and biting their lips with a squint of their eyes, and a couple of him with his family. To an outsider doing a very quick glance, it pretty much reads the same as a rather extensive dating profile.

The truth of it all is, as Areum were scrolling through the hundreds of obligatory university Instagram introduction posts in search of a freshman year roommate, she stumbled upon Jaemin's intro post, one that had captivated her attention with his looks, and she thought how she would never cross paths with him.

The moment she laid eyes on his first above-the-head angle selfie, she knew that it would be unlikely that Areum and Na's paths would ever cross. He played guitar and was one of those gamer boys, and she wanted to audition for your university's concert band. He was beautiful but in that sort of college frat boy who can crush one at a beer pong kind of way, and those who downs shots of Spirytus Vodka. Craziest of all, he was a performing arts major, and she was walking in as an undecided humanities concentration.

Impossible. There was no way the two of them would ever meet, and she accepted that fact right off that bat. At a school her size, she could go through these four years not knowing a majority of her class, it was that huge of a size. And Na Jaemin would be just known as one of the casualties.

On the very first day of orientation, Na Jaemin comes up to her on the sidewalk, wearing a white t-shirt with a leather jacket, thigh black jeans, and questions Areum if she was here for the orientation as well? He's lost.

He is that type of guy who she imagines getting eaten up by any girl who meets him almost immediately. He's charming and winsome the same way a baby deer is, but has no problem wearing clothes that remind one of his great fashion sense despite the empty wallet. He is, for lack of a better term, extremely good looking, near perfection.

"Yeah." She had replied on the sidewalk, squinting to look up at him since the sun was shining directly right in her eyes. "I'm heading to the auditorium right now. Wanna walk with me?" And that is exactly how she stumbled on him, coincidentally with his first move.

"Okay, sure." Jaemin had replied, smiling with all of his teeth. Even in the sweaty summer heat with his black leather jacket, might be bonkers but who cares, he looked even nicer in person. "Thanks, by the way. I'm Jaemin. What's your name?"

She knew that already, how could she have forgotten him. Areum had grinned up at him. The universe has always worked in mysterious ways. "I'm Areum. Nice to meet you."

And that's exactly how he entered her life as a complete stranger, and she wonders, wonders how they paths would be crossed just like that. Areum wouldn't call it unlucky, but mostly delighted about it, although the last person she wants to meet was him, she'd count herself lucky to have a friend like him where they stuck to each other since day one.

They were worlds apart, the path in career choices already sounded too different, one into technology and the other, haven't exactly made up her mind yet. Perhaps the only similarity they had between each other was their love for music, their almost so alike taste in music, and people like this gets along easily, knowing how one could possibly feel through the songs they listened. It's a beautiful way of understanding, a blooming friendship.

It came across her mind at times when she's just staring right at the opened textbook, letting words of Shakespeare english seep through her brain, what if he never approached her, would her life still be so, seemingly boring?