Who are you?
Why do I always see you stealing glances?
Why do I always see you no matter where I am?
Until I got used to seeing you everywhere.
It is as if destiny makes way for us to meet.
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Why don't you want to get out of my mind?
Why are my eye...
I looked at my wrist watch, it’s 2:45 PM and we still have about 3 hours before going home. I sigh when it feels like time is moving slowly.
While our teacher was teaching in the foreground, she was making jokes and we were laughing when I suddenly looked out the window to my left side.
All of a sudden, my gaze landed at the woman who was in the other building. I was suddenly embarrassed and swallowed deep at that time because I was still smiling so she might think I was smiling at her so I quickly turned my head in front of the class.
Then I felt she was still staring at me so I couldn't help but look at her too and looked at my front over and over again. We were like broken plaques in what we do. Until I was irritated, I even asked my mind who that woman was! Then I said to my thoughts ‘If she doesn’t stop, I’ll slap her face.'' I was even eye-rolling at her when she pissed me off.
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NO ONE’s POV
After school, Yong Sun was in their living room and she was holding a pen and notebook to do her assignment while her mother was watching news on their television. She stops when suddenly the girl earlier at her school pops up on her head. She is still irritated whenever remembers her and she doesn’t understand her actions towards the unfamiliar girl.
“Who’s that girl?” she says. “Why was she staring at me earlier?”, now she is in deep thoughts. “Maybe I thought she was looking at me but…she looked at me a few times”. She explained and convinced herself that the girl was really looking at her. She shook her head to get the woman out of her mind and continued to do her assignment.
Meanwhile Byul-Yi is talking to Lisa over the phone. The person she was talking to on the other line invited her to come over to her house on Saturday and was instructed to include Hani and Soyou as well.
“I will invite IU and Seulgi Unnie too.” Lisa said from the other line.
“How about our boys?” Byul asked Lisa. “Don’t you want to include them?” She added.
“Unnie, Mom doesn’t want to have boys in our house. You know she’s strict and she didn’t know I have boy friends”. Lisa is now laughing.
“I think aunt doesn’t know her child was not a girl. Does she?” This time Byul is the one laughing.
“What are you talking about?! You too! You’re not a girl!” Lisa said irritatedly. “See you on Saturday! Let's be quiet to the 3 boys.” Lisa bid her goodbye to Byul.
I’m a girl, Lisa. She mumbled to herself before going to her bed.
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On the next day, Yong Sun is now sitting on the bench near to their classroom and she’s with her classmates. Her classmate Jimin is the closest to Yong Sun since the first week of class.
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Yong Sun even borrowed some notebooks from Jimin when she didn’t finish her writing because the time was over.
While eating her snack, Yong Sun turned her attention to the group of people heading to the cafeteria and she thinks they are freshmen students because of the color of their ID lace.
While she is looking at that group, her eyes find the same girl from yesterday and she is with them. She focused on her and even convinced herself that the girl was her. Suddenly her eyes widened in shock when the girl looked at her too.
Meanwhile Byul feels she wants to turn her head to the left side, when she does she sees an eye who is also looking at her. She doesn’t know but she feels something strange again in her chest.
The two girls who met each other’s gazes once turned their heads in unison to the other direction. They even both sigh heavily before they turn their attention to their friends as if nothing happened.
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“What is that though? Why was my heart beating a bit when we stared at each other?” Byul even holds her chest to calm. “Is that the same girl from yesterday? Who is she?” Byul interrupted her thoughts when Soyou pushed her to move the queue at the cafeteria counter.
“Byul?! Don’t you want to eat? Move!” Soyou said while rolling her eyes.
“Oh! Sorry!” Byul answered with a polite smile.
After eating their snacks, Byul and her classmates went out of the cafeteria to head back to their classroom but on their way she looked back at the vacant bench where she saw the girl earlier and turned her sight to the girl’s classroom. She is wondering who that girl is.
To their own classroom, where Byul is on the second floor and Yong Sun is on the first floor at the opposite building. The two girls are still stealing glances until the class is over and everyone’s ready to go home.
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Byul along with her two friends, Hani and Soyou are now in the train station and they are lined up at the ticket counter. Meanwhile Yong Sun and her classmates are in the passenger platform and waiting for the train to arrive at the station.
When Byul's group had already bought a train ticket, they immediately went to the passenger platform.
When they are already there she’s shocked when she sees the girl earlier is very close to her position on where she is. She noticed that she was slightly taller and whiter than her.
On the other hand, Yong Sun didn’t notice that someone was looking at her and watching her closely. She wouldn’t even notice that the unknown girl she had been staring at many times throughout the day was just behind her and very close to her.
When the train arrived at the station, they immediately went in and sat down in the vacant seat. When they were seated properly, Byul sat across from Yong Sun because she wanted to see her face in full.
She kept looking at her when Yong Sun suddenly turned to her and looked into her eyes. Those were the times when she felt her world had stopped slightly and at the same time she felt as if something had awakened inside her that she did not know why.
While Yong Sun didn’t know what she would do when she stared at the girl in front of her, she did not even know whether to look at her right or to her left side.
The two only lost their long gaze when Hani talked to Byul and Yong Sun cleared her throat silently and turned to her left side before she sighed deeply.
After a long gaze that happened earlier, Byul is still stealing glances at her, while Yong Sun pretends she doesn’t care and avoids her gaze until she reaches her destination and bids her goodbyes to her classmates. Byul looks at her right side when Yong Sun stands up from her seat and goes to the door of the train. Before Yong Sun leaves the train, Byul looks at her one last time.
