Second Chances

A Parallel Line

"Taengoo-yah!" Yoona caught up with her best friend. "Why do you look so sad?"

"Ah, nah it's nothing. Don't worry!" Taeyeon replied, giving a forced smile. The two best friends sat down on a bench in the school garden.

"Yah Kim Taeyeon, are you insulting my intelligence? I know you better than that, spill! Has it got to do with Wooyoung?"

"Sigh... Well, yeah. Kind of."

"You're upset that he accepted Tiffany's request?" Yoona prompted her further, wanting Taeyeon to pour out her feelings in a bid to make her feel better. It saddened her to see happy-go-lucky Taeyeon sad. Taeyeon remained silent, and merely nodded.

"That bastard, how dare he upset my Taeyeon. I'm going to tell him off this moment!" With this, Yoona stood up suddenly and was about to walk away when she felt a hand pull her back.

"No Yoong, please don't tell him. He has had a crush on Tiffany for so long, don't spoil his moment." Taeyeon's voice cracked, and it sounded like she was about to cry.

Yoona's expression softened and she sat back down next to Taeyeon. "Taengoo... Then what about you?"

"It's okay... If he's happy, I'm happy too." Yoona sighed deeply and shook her head in disapproval. However, she didn't say anything further as she was afraid that it would make Taeyeon more upset. The two best friends shared a comfortable silence and just looked at the scenery before them, both having their own thoughts.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Okay class, today, I'm going to revise differentiation and integration with you. Take out the worksheets that have been given to you in the previous lesson and start looking at the questions if you haven't. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask...." Wooyoung was about to fall asleep listening to Leeteuk (Mr. Park) drone on and on about Mathematics. He wasn't in the least bit interested and felt that he was wasting his time; He had better things to do.

-Flashback begins-

(Note: This happened right before the lesson, not in the past. So this Wooyoung is the Wooyoung from the present. Haha I'm sorry if it's confusing!)

"Aish... Mr. Park is so weird. He doesn't care about us, does he?" Taecyeon whined.

"Yeah... Don't you feel that you can never tell what Mr. Park is thinking?" Taeyeon gave a thoughtful look.

"Hey! There should be no reason why you should be concerned with that!" Wooyoung suddenly stood up and exploded. Everyone in the room gave him a weird look.

"Chill Wooyoung... Anyway, I think he belongs in the losing lot?" Taecyeon pulled Wooyoung down to his seat.

"Yeah, maybe!" Taeyeon replied.

Wooyoung, upon seeing this, gave a big grin and said, "You think so too? Don't forget what you feel about him being in the losing lot, don't ever forget that!"

Taeyeon stared at him and gave him a nudge. "Why?!"

"Okay? Okay."

"Eh Youngie, you're so weird. You're even weirder than Mr. Park!"

"Well I think he's quite interesting... And he's rather handsome too!" Yoona stated.

"YAHHHHH don't get yourself interested in him! What's so good about him?!" It was Taecyeon's turn to explode.

-Flashback ends-

Wooyoung looked around and realized that the whole class was absorbed in their own activites. Leeteuk simply gave the impression of being plain boring, and he didn't bother to communicate with his students. Everyone in their class thought that he couldn't care less about them. Hence, they didn't give him respect and ignored him most of the time. Even Mr. Kwon, who was the supervising tutor today, didn't bother to listen to Leeteuk.