Color Outside the Lines

Final Chapter: Color Outside the Lines

'So...' Yena slid onto the chair across Yujin. Heejin took the seat next to the senior.

'What's up?' Yujin smiled, looking up from her english speech that she'd been trying to memorise.

'Who cares about us?' Heejin said. 'What's up with you...'

'... and Wonyoung?' Yena wiggled her eyebrows. 'Prince Ahn and her emo princess.

Yujin shrugged. 'Nothing much. Just studying. That Chuppa Chup claims that she never studies but I see her secretly doing it during her free periods.'

'You stalk her during free periods?' Yena sniggered, knowing that those two never have free periods together. At the comment Yujin's cheeks blushed red.

'I- I don't.' The class president defended herself. 'She has a free period whenever I have history and I always take bathroom breaks during then.'

Heejin cracked up laughing. 'And you somehow find your way to the library to watch Wonyoung study?'

'Nooooo.' Yujin whined covering her face. 'What I mean by bathroom breaks is going outside to sit in the bleachers for 5 minutes just to breathe. History can be depressing sometimes.'

Yena and Heejin exchanged a look and shrugged. Sounded legitimate enough to them.

'When I go there, I see Wonyoung sitting under a tree and studying. She uses the back of her skateboard as a table.' Yujin tilted her head down a little before mumbling, 'it's really cute.'

Yena and Heejin both placed a hand over their hearts, a pained expression on their faces.

'Ah! I'm crying.'

'You two are so cute!'

Yujin threw a French fry in their direction, aiming specifically for Yena's face.

'Has she asked you out yet?' Heejin asked while Yena bent under the table to pick up the French fry. Heejin and Yujin both grimaced when she popped it into her mouth.

Yujin shook her head. Heejin pouted, thinking about her struggling wallet.

'I have news!'

Yujin jumped a little when a tiny figure barrelled into Yujin's side. Just then, another girl showed up and covered the smaller one's mouth.

'Shut up, Nako.' Minjoo whined. 'There's no need to broadcast it to everyone.'

'I have to!' Nako said, breaking free from Minjoo's grip and grabbing Yujin's hand.

'What's up?' Yujin asked her best friend, an amused smile on her face.

'Minjoo wants to ask out Chaewo—' Nako's sentence was interrupted by Minjoo covering her mouth once again.

'What? No!' Heejin exclaimed at the same time as Yena screaming, 'Yes!'

'That's cool. But why do you sound so distressed?' Yujin scratched her head with the hand that wasn't being death gripped by Nako.

Yujin didn't miss the way Heejin, Nako and Yena exchanged a look with each other.

'She just can't.' Nako said with Heejin adding, 'at least not yet.'

Meanwhile on the other side of the room, Wonyoung and Hyunjin walked into the cafeteria. Wonyoung pressed her lips into a thin line when she saw Minjoo sitting next to Yujin with Nako on the other side of the class president. There was no way Wonyoung could go through with her plans.

And when she saw the way some freshmen were snapping pictures of Yujin with her arms around her best friends, Wonyoung let out a sigh.

'Hey, unnie. I don't feel like cafeteria food, let's go to the convenience store and get ramen. Or bread, in your case.'