Catch Me (Purinz/Chaewon x Yunjin)

August: Part Three

Chaewon had thought, coming into the year, that English was going to be her favorite class.

How could it not be?

She shared the period with two of her best friends, who amused her endlessly with their antics, and everyone with eyes had to admit that Sunmi Lee was hot. That, and she would get to spend the year reading some of her favorite books and just generally enjoying literature.

But then Huh Yunjin had waltzed into her life and ruined it all.

Perhaps the statement was a bit overdramatic, but Chaewon couldn't find it in herself to care.

For a person who craved routine, she'd been dealing with a lot of change recently, and Chaewon didn't quite know how to cope with it. She was already under a considerable amount of stress, what with her father's passing, having to work to make ends meet, and the looming challenge of a competition for art scholarships on the horizon. She didn't need anything to make her life even more difficult.

But, alas, fate was not on her side and, for whatever reason, she'd been cursed with the company of one Huh Yunjin, SSE's new darling superstar.

Perhaps she'd done something horrible in another life to deserve this sort of treatment.

It must have been something awful, like genocide of an entire people.

And, as though life wanted to torture Chaewon even more, she'd brought Minju fucking Kim into the classroom as well, a final "fuck you" to Chaewon's mental stability and happiness.

Of course, Yunjin, the new football superstar, would be dating SSE's head cheerleader, and Chaewon's self-assigned archnemesis. Of course. As if she'd be dating anyone else.

Most people didn't understand the level of loathing Chaewon possessed for the cheerleader, and she didn't expect them too, because sometimes she didn't even understand it herself.

It had originated in preschool, which was an odd place for a rivalry to start, because more kids in preschool were just worried about snack time and squirreling around when they were supposed to be sleeping. But not Chaewon. No, Chaewon had always been an artist, throughout the entirety of her life, so she had spent every available moment in preschool painting. In the beginning, Chaewon and Minju had had a tentative friendship, bonding over their mutual appreciation for bright colors and mutual distaste for drooling little boys.

But then, Minju had committed a betrayal of the highest offense.

She'd smeared paint into Chaewon's hair, and, while the brunette had been rushed off to try and clean it, the other girl had taken her painting and ripped it to pieces, effectively sabotaging Chaewon's art and taking the gold star sticker for the day.

It seemed insignificant, and Minju probably didn't even remember it, but Chaewon never forgot, and her burning hatred for the girl only grew from that day onward, especially after the incident freshman year that Chaewon refused to speak of, because they couldn't seem to escape each other. Wherever Chaewon went, Minju was bound to follow, because the universe just loved to make Chaewon's life hell on earth.

So, she wasn't particularly interested in spending time with the girlfriend of the girl she hated, educational or not, especially when said girlfriend had insulted Jane Austen. Jane Austen .

What a stuck-up bitch.

"Whoa, there, who shit in your cereal this morning?" Chaewon sent a withering glare in Sakura's direction, causing her friend to flinch slightly, before grinning apologetically up at her friend. "Hey, Wonyoung and I already apologized for conveniently forgetting you were a person, but Lee would've paired you with Yunjin anyways, in the spirit of peace and unity."