Yunjin has always been the kind of person who knows exactly what she wants and exactly how to get it. She had always wanted to go to Yale since her father was a Yale Alumni. It is a story her father loved to tell; how he went to America as a young, poor immigrant, defied all odds and through hard work and patience landed himself a spot at a prestigious college. The embodiment of the American Dream. Yunjin had always wanted to continue with the legacy, but when they moved back to Korea, things suddenly changed a bit. She decided then that maybe she couldn't go to the Ivy League, but she will try her best to get into the most prestigious Korean university: Seoul National University.
That is the reason she's currently sitting in the library sweating over her History paper, because she needs top grades.
"You're disruptive," Jay comments flatly when Yunjin heaves the millionth deep, life-tired sigh.
Yunjin pushes her thick History book and hundreds of notes to the side and glances at Jay. He's sitting across from her, his quirky round glasses reflecting the light of the computer screen that he's intensely focused on.
Yunjin watches him for a moment, impressed by the way his fingers fly across the keyboard with incredible speed without a second of hesitation.
"What are you doing?" she asks curiously, desperate for a distraction.
Jay's speedy fingers don't pause as he answers monotonously, "Creating an app."
Yunjin scoffs softly and somewhat fondly, the corners of her lips tugging up in an amused smile. If there's someone capable of sounding bored and nonchalant while in the middle of being inventive, it would be Jay. He's a technology nerd and Yunjin wouldn't be surprised if he created some kind of highly functional robot in the future.
By now, she knows Jay well enough to know that he isn't going to elaborate without prompting.
So she taps her pen against the table and asks, "What kind?"
She's met with nothing but the sound of the clicking keyboard and just when she thinks that Jay is going to ignore her, he answers dryly, "The failed kind if you don't give me room to concentrate."
Yunjin rolls her eyes and lifts her hand in defeat and follows it with a mocking imitation of closing a zipper across her mouth. Jay barely glances at her.
Luckily, Yunjin doesn't have to look elsewhere for a distraction, because the next second they're joined by Jake and Eunchae.
Yunjin hears them before she sees them.
"Yunjin!" Eunchae calls halfway across the library and earns herself a fierce shushing from Miss Lee. Eunchae apologizes profusely and waits until she's close to excitedly shove her phone screen in Yunjin's face,
"Have you seen this?"
"Gossip twitter made another poll to see who people were voting for and this time you're in the lead!" Jake tells her before she even gets a chance of making sense of Eunchae's screen. He pulls out a chair next to Jay and flings his book bag onto the table.
"265 people voted?" Yunjin says, more interested in that than the fact that "Team Huh" has pulled 138 compared to "Team Kim's" 127 votes. "Our senior class is like 250 at the most?"
"The whole school is invested in the election drama," Eunchae says, and drops down in the seat next to Yunjin. She offers Yunjin a protein bar - her favorite, the blueberry one - and Yunjin gratefully bites into it. "I've heard that the freshmen are trying to emulate the drama but for their class presidential campaign."
"Especially now that this election drama has turned drier than stale bread," Jake says around the red lollipop stuffed in his cheek that leaves his tongue and lips bright red. "They're failing miserably though, cause they're trying to fill shoes that are too big. Kinda cute actually."
