At 16 we used the same class desk, with less than 10cm between our arms. My peripheral vision was full of him.At 26, I woke up in the morning, and saw the sunlight softly shining on his face. I thought, this is how I want to grow old gradually, toge...
When the new school term started, Taehyung and I no longer shared the same desk. I was terribly sad on the day we separated.
I even cried in secret, feeling as though the sky was collapsing on me. I was very shy and modest then, not like how I am now, sociable and open. He was also not someone who would approach others on his own volition. As a result, we hardly spoke after we separated.
Our class would head to the experiment labs once every two weeks for our Chemistry Practical.
The seating arrangement in the experiment labs was identical to our seating arrangement during the first school term this meant that it was only during Chemistry Practical that I had the opportunity to sit next to him.
As such, I would be in an exuberant mood every time I saw
“Chemistry Practical”
on my timetable. I would even dig out my best uniform the night before, looking forward to going to school with high hopes.
Once, the school distributed a questionnaire to the students, asking us about our favourite teacher and our favourite subject.
Everyone else wrote Mathematics, Languages, or Geography. I was the only person wrote “Chemistry Practical” as a joke of sorts.
I headed to the teacher’s office during break time. There, the class representative was compiling the results of questionnaire. He told me that many people had answered “English” as their favourite subject; this was likely because our form teacher was our English teacher.
“There were actually two people who wrote Chemistry Practical.” He said.
“Two?!” I raised my voice in surprise.
He nodded his head, “Yes, two.”
I remember how I felt then-Boom. It was as though a small firework exploded in my heart.
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The second year of High School meant that we were required to separate into different faculties; as a result, everyone started to scribble in autograph books prior to the separation.
Writing in an autograph book can be a rather ambiguous activity – words that you couldn’t bring yourself to say aloud could be written down, and there were a few couples in my class who got together after one party confessed in another’s autograph book.
I too, purchased an autograph book and invited the entire class to write in it before naturally placing the autograph in front of Taehyung.
