Fire and Ice

Chapter 3

Monday. I woke up from a dream. Well, more like a nightmare than a dream. I was staring up at my room’s ceiling thinking about my latest nightmare, feeling all warm and sweaty even with the air-conditioning on. Normally I would forget the faces and dreams that I get, but this time the faces in them are eerily familiar and I can’t seem to forget them.

          Maybe they’re just someone I saw around town. Must get ready, it’s another day for school and I have a big responsibility concerning the new student.

          “Amber! Get up, we’ll be late for school,” I heard Minhyuk hyung shout from the kitchen. I got up and took a cold shower still feeling warm. Oddly enough, even with the cold water flowing there was a lot of steam. Talk about smoking hot.

          So we headed for school kissing our mom goodbye. We ran into Minho sunbae and Taemin at the school gate.

          “Hey Amber, Minhyuk hyung,” Taemin greeted us while showing us is aegyo. Ack, seriously even with him as my best buddy, his aegyo is just too much for me to bear.

          “Hey Taemin, morning Minho sunbae,” I greeted them back while Minhyuk hyung just bumped fist with Minho sunbae.

          “Morning, Amber!” I saw a group of girls coming in through the gate with us and greeted me.

          “Morning!” I smiled and waved to them, which in turn we heard giggles from them.

          “Amber, you sure are popular with the female students. Why don’t you get to know some of them and introduce them to us, huh, buddy?” Taemin said while putting me in a fierce headlock while walking to our classroom.

          “Taemin, with your overflowing aegyo you don’t need me to get a girlfriend,” I shot back while trying to get out of his headlock.

          “Sis, you better get yourself a girlfriend, a boyfriend or whatever. Life is short; you’ll never know when you’ll be in need of a partner in all your life’s adventure.” Wow, this is unexpected for my annoying brother to say something with any sense. Somehow, I have this gut feeling that my time is really gonna be cut short.

A shiver run down my spine, it felt like someone is staring at me. I looked around to see the new teacher entering the school. Wow, she’s really beautiful. My annoying brother has his mouth open. I mentally face palmed myself, he wasn’t even being inconspicuous. She walked the small steps up to the school building giving a mysterious smile while passing our group. Somehow I felt her eyes linger on me.

          After my hormone induced companions have recovered from their daze, we all split up going to our own classrooms.

          “Hey man, I’ll join you back at homeroom. I just need to take care of Student Council job,” I said to Taemin remembering I still had to pick up the new student at the principal’s office.

          “Okay then. Introduce me to her, okay?”

          “Sure thing bro.”

I made just in time to meet the new student after the principal oriented her about the school’s rules. I knocked once and entered the principal’s office.

          “Ah, Amber. I’m glad the student council has sent someone to assist our new student. Come in, come in.” The principal introduced me to the new student which I already told you guys, her name is Sulli.

          “Hi. Nice to meet you. I’m Amber, Sergeant at Arms for the Student Council.”

          “Hi, I’m Sulli. Pleased to meet you Amber,” we shook hands while she was giving me a very bright smile. Ugh, I’ll maybe introduce her to Taemin, they might be a match considering their overflowing aegyo. We headed out of the office and went to our classroom. It turned out she was put in our class with Taemin.

          “Homeroom is gonna start soon, we better head there first. I’ll show you around campus on free period and on lunch breaks, okay?”

          “Sure. Since I don’t have friends here yet, I might as well get to know our school, right? Ooh! We can be friends too if you like,” Sulli said while showing me her cute smile. Ugh. Who can refuse this girl if she gives out smiles like that?

          “O-okay.” I replied while scratching the back of my head.

          “By the way Sulli, our homeroom teacher just recently went on a maternity leave so there’s going to be a new teacher. She came in just last week.”
          “Okay!” she replied enthusiastically.

          So we went to our classroom just minutes before the bell rang for first period. We entered the room and introduced Sulli to the others, there was a vacant seat just in front of where I was seating and had Sulli settled in.

          A few minutes later, Miss Song came in.

          “Class, please take your seat. I will be your new homeroom teacher. My name is Victoria Song. Your previous homeroom teacher took a leave but she informed the school her maternity leave will take some time.” She smiled and looked about the room and her eyes met mine and her smile suddenly grew wider. “So until you all graduate, I will be your homeroom teacher and adviser. I hope we can all get along. I look forward to getting to know each of you,” she said the last sentence and again looked directly at me.