I don't like the world, I only like you

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Chahee is my best friend, my High School classmate.

According to various rumours, when Chahee was young, she suffered from a huge bout of illness, and hovered near the brink of death.

As a result, her parents didn’t impose any expectations on her in relation to her studies  they were satisfied as long as long as she could run and jump about like a healthy kid.

Chahee lived up to her parents’ expectations, never ever falling out of the bottom three places in all the big exams and small tests she sat for.

I was extremely stressed when I first entered school. When I was in Junior High, I could still manage to squeeze into the Top 10  however, when I came to High School, I realized that there would always be people better than me.

A simple glance around the school compound yielded geniuses everywhere. I couldn’t even bear to compare my trashy results with theirs.

Once, when we were taking our Mathematics exam, I had absolutely no confidence.

Chahee was seated right behind me, and when she handed in her paper, I was extremely shocked  she had answered the difficult questions with an entire page of scribbles!

My vision turned black momentarily and I thought in my heart that I was dead I’m going to be the top from the bottom this time round!

After class, Taehyung helped the teacher to mark the Mathematics Paper.

When he returned he comforted me,

“Don’t worry, you scored slightly better than her.”

I told him not to comfort me . I saw that her answer sheet was full of her scribbles.

Taehyung was at a loss for words,

“She didn’t even answer a single question  she simply copied each question five times.”

Our school had two sets of uniform  a blue set and a red set.

Once, a high ranking official from the Ministry of Education was due for a visit.

Thus, the form teacher thus kept stressing that everybody had to don the red uniform. I’m not terribly clear on whether Chahee simply hadn’t listened or she had merely forgotten but when Monday rolled around, the whole school was dressed in the bright red uniform.

Only she alone donned the blue uniform, looking terribly conspicuous in the queue.

Our form teacher was so angry that she rebuked Chahee loudly in the corridor,

“It’s all because of you that our school is unable to obtain an excellent grade! You’re just like mouse shit, spoiling the whole bowl of soup! This is going to be recorded as a big fault…”

No matter how open and carefree Chahee was she is still a girl. After getting scolded in front of so many people, she could only lower her head in an attempt to repress her tears.

I wanted to comfort her, but I hesitated as we had a huge fight a few days ago. Although I don’t recall what we fought about, I remember that the sorrow that I felt when I ended my friendship with my best friend it was as though I had broke up with my boyfriend.

That day, after we finished our first lesson, we received a sudden notice to assemble below the block.

Everybody guessed that we were going to receive a lecture from the principle because of the school uniform. Chahee was so scared that her face turned white.

The form teacher starting rushing everyone to assemble below the block, leaving me alone in the classroom. At that moment, I made a decision  for my friend, I’m going to suffer the punishment together with her.

I changed into the blue school uniform and walked into the queue. Taehyung was terribly surprised, because the uniform I was wearing was his. He frequently left his blue school uniform under his desk as he was too lazy to bring it home.

When Chahee saw me, she was momentarily stunned before bursting into tears, her cries ringing out extremely loudly.

The moment I saw her cry, I too, burst into tears. Perhaps I was scared that my actions would really be recorded as a big fault. If this was a movie, and the camera was capturing the scene from above, one would be able to see two small blue dots facing each other and crying aloud in a sea of red, as though the two blue dots were crazy.

Even the principal who had stepped onto the podium stopped his lecture, and stared at us in surprise.

Of course, neither of us really received a big fault. Both of us were simply assigned to do clean up duty for a month. Chahee told me that having grown so old, that was the single most embarrassing incident in her entire life but because of me, her memory of that incident became an extremely warm one.

At that time, she felt that we would always remain friends forever.

I texted Chahee over Ktalk, and we agreed to watch Cha eun woo’s new movie during the upcoming weekend.

Chahee: “How can this man be so timelessly handsome!”

Me: “The male god lives forever, Eunwoo exists eternally.”

Chahee: “When I finally strike it big, the first thing I’m going to do is to be his sugar momma.”

Me: “Wouldn’t it require a lot of money to be his sugar momma?”

Chahee : “Even if I can’t be his sugar momma, I can surely have a one-night-stand with him at the very least!”

Me: “Then we have to work harder and earn more money.”

Taehyung who had been silently listening to us all this while, finally opened his mouth,

“By the time you guys earn enough money, he would already be infertile.”