Complexity

Yap Girl

Xinyu Pov

I was still thinking about what happened at school. Sohyun slammed the door and sat next to me as if nothing happened. Did she join us in chatting? Of course not. She laid her head back on the table.

"Argh Zhou Xinyu!!! How can I be friends with her" I lay myself on the bed while looking at Sohyun's Instagram that Nien gave me.

"I wonder if she has social media or not"

"Her Instagram is 'auntum_han'. Just search"

"han? Isn't her name Park?"

"I don't know either"

"She's active on Instagram apparently" she uploaded many photos on Instagram. Starting from photos of her guitar, photos of her cat, photos of cakes or coffee, and photos of herself of course.

"How can she look so beautiful" I can admit she's quite beautiful.

"Maybe I should stop. I'm afraid I'll like one of her posts later" I just turned off my phone and thought of a new strategy to befriend her.

Sohyun Pov

"If you don't finish it, don't expect to be able to go home" I just smiled a little looking at the note on top of the notebook that I believed wasn't mine.

"Again?" I just smiled bitterly and worked on the questions in this notebook. This wasn't the first time I'd done someone else's assignment. And this wasn't the first time I'd entered high school. There were several people from my junior high or elementary school that I met in this high school. Even though I hoped I could live peacefully without burdens like this, it turned out I was wrong.

I worked on my assignments at the Public Library which was open 24 hours. I was comfortable here. Besides being able to study peacefully, I could stay away from the problems that happened at home. Problems at home kept popping up, which I couldn't even sleep peacefully because of them. 

"Yeah Park Sohyun... just do it first..." I did it as best I could as correctly as possible. If I was caught doing it carelessly, I could be beaten by them.

"I can't believe the person who saw me at that time was Dahyun. But she really kept her mouth shut huh"

The very quiet condition of the Library managed to make me do my assignment quickly. There were no disturbances coming from the right, left, front, back. The arrival of the new student did indeed disturb my sleep in class. She kept wanting to be my friend which made me a little traumatized because of that.

"What does she want..."

It only took 2 hours, I finished this person's assignment. Before I continued doing my own assignment, I rewarded myself by looking at Instagram. There was a new notification that turned out that someone liked one of my posts. My post which was in the cafe, only showed the food and drink that I ordered.

"zhou_xinyu? Is this Xinyu's account? She stalked my account?" I looked at the contents of her account and just realized that she was very beautiful. The contents of her account were also too random. starting from her dancing, singing, chasing dogs, eating ice cream messily, and there are several posts that show her speaking Chinese.

"beautiful..."

I personally really want to make friends. But the behavior they gave me, managed to give me deep trauma. The Modu class which originally consisted of 23 people, now has 24 people because of Xinyu's arrival. Almost everyone in the class wanted to talk to me but I always protected myself by being rude. Xinyu who had just arrived that day I even cursed rudely. I understand that she just wants to be friends, but I'm still too scared.

"Sorry Xinyu..." I turned off my cellphone and did my assignment.

The days with Xinyu as my "deskmate" went quite noisy. Usually people would stay away from me because I didn't want to talk to them, but Xinyu still insisted on talking to me. There were many things she talked about. Xinyu's arrival has been counted for 2 weeks and honestly, I enjoyed all the conversations she said, even though I still didn't dare to open my heart. 

"Sohyun, do you like matcha? I like matcha. People say it tastes weird, but I like it," she said while writing the material explained by the teacher. Even though I didn't look at her, I still listened to everything she was rambling on about. And secretly I wrote down everything she liked. I don't know why I ended up like this, as if I was going to open my heart to her.

"Soh-" Sohyun realized, she could take advantage of you

"Shut up. I'm trying to study" she immediately shut up and focused forward and not in front of me anymore. I do like quietness, but if she suddenly shuts up like this, honestly it bothers me a little. But at the same time, I shouldn't fall for her trap again.

The break bell rang. I wasn't interested in eating lunch because I would definitely be bothered by them who kept forcing me to do their assignments. I was sick of it. They called themselves friends, but I didn't feel like friends did that.

"Sohyun, aren't you eating?" I heard the voice of the Class President, Kim Yooyeon. I just shook my head and changed my head position so that my back was to her.

"Break time is only 30 minutes. Come before that time" I just kept quiet so she would leave quickly. As I expected, she immediately left and left me. I was very sleep deprived because I worked part-time from 10 pm to 5 am. The distance from the convenience store to my school was quite far which also took time, considering I walked and didn't take public transportation. I had to save. Because of that, my sleep time was greatly reduced and made me often fall asleep in class. Zhou Xinyu's arrival in this class did indeed succeed in making me more awake because of her rambling. So I could use that to protect myself.

"I'm sorry Xinyu, but I have to protect myself"

Xinyu Pov

"HOW?" I hadn't finished speaking when Kotone had already stuffed my mouth with bread.

"Don't scream." I just kept quiet and ate the bread she gave me.

"Do you still want to be friends with Sohyun?" I nodded and I could see Kotone sighing heavily.

"It's really hard. Good luck."

"What's wrong with me being friends with her?"

"There's nothing wrong with it. But you see how she keeps moving away?"

"What's she afraid of?" Kotone threw the milk carton she had finished drinking into the trash can near her. I clapped my hands because the carton went in easily.

"I don't know for sure. Try asking Nakyung." I quickly stood up but Kotone grabbed my hand.

"But not now. The student council is having a meeting. Didn't you see Nakyung not in class since morning?" That's right. I hadn't seen that sharp-eyed figure since morning.

"Apart from Nakyung and Yooyeon, who else knows about Sohyun's past?" Kotone seemed to be thinking about something and then nodded.

"I don't know. But Dahyun said she was a witness? At least she knows something we don't. But Dahyun isn't someone who easily tells a secret. Don't try too hard"

"So you're telling me to give up before trying?"

"i could say like that" I let out a heavy sigh as I leaned back on the bench I was sitting on. As I looked towards the field, my eyes caught a familiar figure walking towards the Warehouse. The Warehouse where Sohyun played guitar. I immediately got up from my spot and ran after Sohyun.

"WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" I didn't respond to Kotone's question. What I wanted now was to hear Sohyun's Voice