Never in Yena's wildest dreams did she envision today going the way it did. To be fair, nothing in her life has ever been normal, but the events of the day were stretching it by a lot. If she told anyone other than her two best friends what happened, they'd probably look at her like she was a crazy person.
It all started when she'd woken up this morning to thunderclaps echoing throughout the sky. She could've sworn that the forecast the night before said clear skies, but they've been wrong before. That just meant she had to reschedule her picnic with Chaewon and Yujin in case it rained.
On the train ride to her college, she noticed the ocean waves were looking a bit choppier than usual as well. No problem, she'd never been a fan of the beach anyway growing up.
Even stranger was when she stepped off the train, she was greeted by a dead rat that got stuck all over her shoe. Gross, but with luck like hers, she wasn't exactly surprised. She was born with an illness that kept her single mother working around the clock to take care of her after all. This seemed par for the course.
When she finally made it to campus though, she was reminded that there were some good things in life as she watched a tall girl bound towards her like a big puppy.
"Unnie! I thought you were going to be late for a second!" She said while pouting her lips. Yena chuckles and gives her friend a pat on the head, which was difficult because the younger girl was taller than her.
"Just had a little wardrobe malfunction, Yujin. Nothing to worry about," Yena explained, and it was at that moment that the stench finally registered in Yujin's nose.
"Agh, what in the world is that? It smells like you stepped into a dumpster!" The younger girl complained, her nose scrunching up.
Yena winced. "Okay, maybe the malfunction is still malfunctioning." She said, scratching the back of her head in a What did you expect me to do? way.
"Well, you better hope everyone else doesn't have as good a nose as me then. Minseo and the others already give us a hard time as it is." Yujin replied, still waving her hand over her face to get the smell away before a playful smirk emerged from her face. "Or maybe this is just the skunk stench you need to get Sunwoo away from you."
Yena could only roll her eyes at that side comment. No way she wanted to think about some random guy hitting on her this early in the morning.
"Let's just go already. You said we were running late, right?" Yena said, turning back towards campus and walking ahead.
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"Well look who's last to arrive- the super senior. Did you forget to set your alarm again in your old age?" A young woman covered in designer clothes taunted as soon as Yena and Yujin walked in.
Yena would like to say that she'd gotten used to that insult by now, but that wasn't true. It still ticked her off. On top of her illness causing her to start school later than usual, she also had a bad case of ADHD and dyslexia that always seemed to get her in trouble. If she had to count, she'd say she's already been kicked out of five schools growing up, not exactly the type of rep you carry around like a badge of honor. She was lucky actually that this college, the Seoul Institute of the Arts, didn't care much about age in looking for enrollees. Instead, they looked at your talents, and one thing Yena knew she could do well was dance. Still, the tuition would've been too much for her and her mother to afford if it weren't for the scholarship they offered her- the same scholarship that was awarded to her two best friends, Yujin and Chaewon.
"What's the matter? Cat got your tongue today? Or should I say duck?" The woman said, continuing to pepper Yena with insults while her group of friends laughed along.
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IZ*ONE and the Olympians: The Forbidden Ones
Adventure*IZ*ONE Greek Demigod AU" Yena, Chaewon, and Yujin had always thought that their friendship was a product of fate. Ever since the trio met, things just seemed to click. They were the only ones in school who ever understood each other, and there was...
