✓ cold boy next door | p.sh

05

“math class happenings”

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after the two finished their breakfast, they immediately went back to the classroom together, ignoring the gossips and mutterings of their schoolmates about them.

of course the two didn't stop teasing and arguing on each other while walking. some people who saw them were even shocked when they found out sunghoon is walking with a girl. they probably know that sunghoon is very cold when it comes to others, even his friends. but today, they can see a genuine smile on his face when he was talking with a simple long haired girl with a bangs and doe eyes, and that's not even famous at their school, han yeoji.

choi nara was just suspiciously staring at yeoji when she went back to her seat. then, she darted her stares to the man behind her friend and started whispering something to yeoji's ear, "you owe me an explanation, later."

but the previously noisy and chaotic class was replaced by an ear-splitting silence when a fat-intimidating-short man with a bald hairstyle and thicked glasses entered the classroom. it was mr. kim, their subject teacher in math.

sunghoon immediately went back to his seat in first row, as expected for the class achievers. but next to him was their class monitor, hwang hyerin, who was now glaring daggers to yeoji as if she did something bad to her.

yeoji just ignored hyerin deadly glares and comfortably rested her head in her desk. she was just too lazy to listen on her least favorite subject because she didn't even know how the solve a problem at all.

yeoji's mind seems to be flying in space while the teacher discussing infront. she's having thoughts of "what would she eat for dinner?" or "what is a good movie to watch?".

"ms. han, mind sharing your thoughts in the class?"

she didn't realize that their teacher was already calling her while she's having a daydreaming, and still comfortably curled up on her desk. she seems preoccupied by her own thoughts so she did not even feel nara was nudging her.

her daydreaming was only stopped when someone threw a hard piece of chalk at her. she looked up and saw the angry face of mr. kim that is now glaring furiously at her.

"HAN YEOJI, WHY AREN'T YOU LISTENING TO ME?!"

yeoji winced when she heard the loud, stern voice of mr. kim shouting at her. she immediately stood up and bowed to their teacher to apologize.

"i'm so sorry mr. kim. i promise it won't happen again".

"i don't accept apology so go and answer the equation on the board!", the teacher ordered. but her world seemed to collapse when she heard that from mr. kim. she looked up to see some equations that she couldn't even understand.

trembling, she still went infront the chalkboard and stares at the equation written on it. she's doomed. yeoji doesn't know how to solve the equation. hence, she just biting her nails nervously and tapping her feet on the ground while staring at it for the whole time. ‘she's already wishing to get feed up on the ground and dissapear.’

"i think ms. han is having a hard time and she needs help", a familiar voice stood up in the sea of silence. yeoji was shocked but she already knew who it came from. she immediately looked back and saw sunghoon that is now standing from his chair and looking at mr. kim's direction.

"oh, how kind of you mr. park", the teacher lightly chuckles as he prompted sunghoon to go the board. she knows mr. kim can't resist to the most smartest guy in his class. "go ahead and help her." sunghoon bowed on the teacher and went towards yeoji's direction. but yeoji immediately look back facing the chalkboard again because she was kinda ashamed to look at the man's approaching her.

"class, you should be like park sunghoon. he's smart, kind, responsible, talented and even had a handsome face. so make him as your role model and change your attitude like him", mr. kim lectured the whole class, praising sunghoon, but she can't help to rolled her eyes to what she heard. ‘favoritism indeed’.

however, her mind immediately went blank when she felt someone's presence behind her back. as yeoji caught the lingering scent of someone behind her, it stirred a cascade of emotions in her stomach, igniting a kaleidoscope of sensations that fluttered inside her. he smelled so good in his clean, fresh, and slightly floral scent.

"you should be listening", a soft voice whispered from her ear and made her hair in the skin stood up. she stiffened posture while her legs were trembling. yeoji just acted fool while sunghoon started answering the equation on the board behind her.

‘damn, she might faint on this man.’

her knees were shaking not because of the math equation but because of the man behind her who's answering it.

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