first love ⁀➷ y.jw ✓

7

We finally arrived at school. We got off the bus and he followed me into the school. We began passing by multiple stares and whispers as we walked down the hallways together and next to each other.

"Oh my gosh! It's Hyewon!!"

"Guys, it's Hyewon unnie!!"

"Woah. Who is that with her? Is that her boyfriend? Hyewon has a boyfriend??"

"He's good looking!"

"Wow, he's so lucky...."

"Hyewon unnie is also lucky! He's handsome."

I look over at Jungwon and he's a bit shy, looking down at the ground with a flushed face. I ignore the others and I look straight in front of me and he follows me to the lockers.

Coincidentally his locker was almost right next to mine. Walking up to the lockers, Minju and Yeji were already there, waiting for me.

"Oh! You're here." Yeji gives me a hug after she got off her phone.

"Good morning, Yeji and Minju unnie." I greet them.

"Good morning," Minju looks at me then at Jungwon. "I'm Minju. It's nice to meet you." She introduces herself.

"I'm Yeji." Yeji says as well.

"Hi.. I'm Jungwon. You guys are Jay and Sunghoon hyung's little sisters, right?" Jungwon asks them, looking a bit puzzled.

"That's right." Minju nods her head.

"I hope you feel comfortable around here soon! We're all here for you if anything." Yeji kindly tells him.

"Thank you." He responds.

"Let me see your schedule." I ask him.

He hands me a slip of paper from the side of his backpack. He has two classes with me, but the other two are different from mine.

"You have English and Math with me. First and second period." I give him back his paper and he takes it.

"Oh. That's good, then. I'll see a familiar face in at least two of my classes." He shyly grins at me a little.

"Yeah. When class starts and ends, you can just follow me." I say to him and he nods his head.

I turn around and face my locker, unlocking it to put some of my school things inside. I take out my two binders for my first and second class, carrying it in my arms. I close my locker and lock it back up.

"I'm so annoyed!" Yeji groans.

"Why?" I ask her, turning back around to face them.

"I had to walk to school today. Sunghoon slept over his girlfriend's house." She explains to us.

Minju snickers. "That's Sunghoon for you."

"Tell me next time. I'll get you an Uber." I look at Yeji with a small frown. "Your house is far from school. Why didn't you take the bus?"

"I lost my bus card." Yeji pouts.

"Stupid." Minju teases.

"How did you get to school, Jungwon?" Yeji looks at him.

"I walked with Hyewon. I took the bus with her." He answers, putting some of his things in his new locker.

"Oh yeah! I forgot about that." Yeji snaps her fingers in realization.

"How old are you, by the way?" Minju asks him.

"I'm 17. Born in 2004." He responds.

"I'm older than all of you. Call me noona, okay?" Minju smiles.

"Sure." Jungwon nods.

"You kind of look like something..." Yeji starts. "Oh!! You know what you look like? A sheep garden!"

Jungwon blushes and I giggle.

"Sheep gardens are cute." I add.

"You're calling him cute, then." Minju smirks again, but at me this time.

I shake my head quickly, getting flustered.

"I'm just saying sheep gardens are cute." I gulp.

I take a peek at Jungwon and he's blushing even more.

"Yeji said he looks like a sheep garden. Then you said sheep gardens are cute, so basically you're calling Jungwon cute." Minju flicks my forehead and I let out a whine.

"That's not what I meant by that, unnie!" I roll my eyes, trying to play it cool.

"Unnie, leave her alone. Hyewon's all red now." Yeji points at me, laughing.

While the two were laughing and teasing me, Jungwon and I made eye contact; he gave me a small but cute smile. The bell rang for class and we parted ways, Jungwon following me to our first class.

I walk over to my desk and I sit down, looking at Jungwon talking to the teacher. The teacher and Jungwon then stand in front of the class.

"Class, we have a new student. Please introduce yourself." The teacher says.

Jungwon bows at the class.

"Hi, my name is Yang Jungwon. Please take care of me." He greets.

"You may sit next to Hyewon." The teacher tells him.

Jungwon nods and walks over, sitting down next to me. The class begins to look at us and they start to whisper, but I ignore it.

"Unnie! You look super pretty." A younger girl named Jiyoung shouts to me.

I chuckle in awe. "Thank you, Jiyoung. You look really pretty too."

She turns to her friends and blushes, almost squealing to her friends. I look away and at my desk, taking out my things for this class.

"Today, I have nothing assigned for you guys, so consider it a free period. Please behave and put away your phones if you see other teachers passing by us." Mr. Kim, the teacher, announces.

The classroom begins to fill up with loud chatter and laughter. I put away my supplies back in my backpack and I take my phone out, looking at some things online.

"Does this usually happen?" Jungwon speaks up.

"What?" I ask him.

"Free periods. Where you guys do nothing." He responds.

"Only for this class. Mr. Kim is really laidback. He's different from all the other teachers." I inform and he nods his head.

"That's super lucky that I got his class, then. And I'm in it with you!" Jungwon exclaims to me happily.

I chuckle a little, suddenly feeling my heart flutter. I gulp, not knowing how to feel. Did my heart seriously just flutter because of him?

Oh no.