Childhood lovers ~ Shin Junghwan/Shinyu

14.

"Why the fuck were they glaring at you? You did nothing wrong." Jiho said.

If you wondered when Jiho came and joined us, Jiho joined us when he saw Dohoon and Hanjin holding the trays of food to the table and decided to join us.

"That's exactly what we're saying! She did nothing wrong but they've been staring at her since she entered the school building with us." Dohoon said.

He still sounded heated and mad so we tried to keep it calm.

"Maybe it's because of your popularity? That could be a possibility." Jiho mentioned.

"We thought that too, but we're not quite sure of that." Youngjae said.

"It might be, you know how popular these dudes are. If you hang out with them without the school knowing your relationships with each other, they're probably going to remain that way." Jiho explained.

I tried to think about it, it did make a lot of sense. Jealousy could be present in these situations.

"I agree with Jiho. This might be one of the reasons, but why were boys staring then? It's not like they'd be jealous of the same thing." I explained.

"Maybe because they find you attractive." Youngjae jokingly said. "Good point Youngjae. If someone just asked you for your number, it might be a sign others would want to too." Jiho said.

"YO I WAS JUST JOKING AROUND AND JIHO'S SERIOUS ABOUT IT-" Youngjae said.

"Well... it could be a possibility too, but I'm not usually popular for my looks." I said to Jiho.

"You post on Instagram often?" Jiho asked. "Yeah I do! Why?"

"Maybe they've seen you on Instagram and found you attractive, they would think it's impossible for you to be here all the time and stare. There's another possibility if you have a big following." Jiho explained.

"I do have a big following... lots of likes on each post too... I recently rapidly grew my following too." I said to Jiho in shock, he was right about everything.

"Jiho... are you a psychic? How do you know all this?" I asked.

"Maybe because I also got those glares when I came for my first year last year in September, I figured your stares connected to my reasons to the stares. I'm also very popular in this perspective, not for my dance skills or personality." Jiho said.

So he went through the same thing everyone at this table did once they came to Yonsei to study...

"Ohhh, so you went through the same thing? Holy crap then how many people have been through this?" I asked.

"We don't know exactly but definitely the popular who were popular in high school would get the glares. Well, at least from the wealthy students from rich families, the nepo babies would." Jiho said to me.

"Oh- well they would be expected though so..." I said to Jiho.

Wealthy people are always like that, so I don't think it's a surprise they would judge new kids that were popular.

"Well, we'll look out for you!!" Seyoung said. "Thank you but won't it be a bother-?" I asked.

"To keep you comfortable, I'd get through anything Y/n." Seyoung said.