Life Was Colorless, Until You Came

3# Denying Reality

Liwoun was walking wearing her P.E uniform, she kept looking at it and pinching the fabric because she noticed how loose the pants were to her. "I wonder what we're gonna do today... Why did she say that we had to wear our P.E uniforms? Are we gonna do push ups?... Squats?... But atleast it's comfy. I mean, both uniforms are comfy... The skirt is long enough for me to be comfortable... The one's in japan are a little shorter... I still have that uniform in my cabinet. Hmm.." She looked up expecting to see a bus, but there was none. "Huh?" She was a bit early, the bus was arriving. She stood at the bus stop watching the bus get closer to her, as soon as it stopped, she hopped in and sat down.

Are we gonna do sports? I don't even know how to swim.. I hope they don't have a swimming pool.. it's okay if they make us run for an hour, not just swimming.

Liwoun peeked at the window as she looked at the vehicles passing by, she may look quiet, but her mind is a mess. Why was his camera pointing at me? Was he taking a picture of me? Was he stalking me?!?! That's giving me the heebie-jeebies. I hope he doesn't appear under my bed tonight, I've had enough nightmares.

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Liwoun was running to go to the outside gym after putting her bag at the classroom. As soon as she arrived there, she felt like she was in hell. All of the sunlight was directly pointing at the outside gym. Some of the students were running laps, but there was no teacher guiding them. She was looking for someone that was not running and saw Soobin sitting at the corner watching the others. She saw the chance and took it. Liwoun walked towards Soobin and sat beside him. But she just realized that she can't talk in korean, she was praying that he would speak Japanese. Soobin noticed Liwoun and looked at her. She could feel how cold he was just by the look of his eyes, but she noticed his pupils got bigger.

"U-uhh..." — "What are you doing here?" Liwoun's prayers were answered, she could understand him! Well... That's not a surprise, Taehyun probably already told him that she couldn't understand korean and could only speak japanese. "Don't we have P.E class?..." Compared to Taehyun, when she heard Soobin speak. She felt like she was watching a cherry blossom tree while the gods told him to jump off a building. No, seriously. I thought it was a girl talking to me, if his voice gets more quieter, I'm sure I won't be able to hear him speak as if I've lost my hearing. "We do."

Well, ofcourse we have P.E class.

"But why don't we have a teacher? Aren't we supposed to be active in P.E class??????" — "They don't care." I mean, he answered her question. But Liwoun couldn't even believe how fast his response was to every question. That's normal- I guess she was used to talking to people that take a whole week before responding to one of her questions. "You can run laps if you want to, but if you don't, then just stay here with me." She was not prepared for that. She actually didn't know what he meant by that, so she decided to ask him. "What do you mean by that?"

"Is your brain dead?"

Did he just insulted me and called me stupid!?!?!! Liwoun didn't even expect him to say that, seeing him with a straight face while saying that made her blood vessels pop. "Are you mad?" That made her even more irritated that her veins started to show up.

"You're as stupid as I expected."

"I'LL KILL YOU IN YOUR SLEEP-"

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"Taehyun didn't come to shcool today, I wonder what happened to him. Did he get kidnapped?... Why would I even think that? But atleast I still have someone to talk to. The only thing is, he gets on my nerves." Liwoun was walking through the hallways until she saw a room, it had a name above the door but it was in korean so she couldn't understand it. She let curiosity get her and opened the door to check what was inside. She saw Soobin inside the room and looked like... He was writing something on a notebook. "You should've knocked before you went in." He suddenly stopped writing and closed his notebook as he turned to face Liwoun. "What is it?" - "Well, uhm... I just wanted to ask you something-"

"What do you have to say? I can't waste my time waiting for you."

Liwoun seriously felt like biting his head off, but still, she had to be kind with him. "Why were you taking a picture of me yesterday?" She was expecting for Soobin to answer quickly but she didn't expect that he would stop working. He just sat there still that made him look like a statue, that worried Liwoun. "Soobin, are you okay?..." She didn't know what to do but just stand there, she didn't even know if he was still alive or not. "I was just testing my camera since it wouldn't focus." She was relieved that he wasn't actually stalking her, but she wanted to ask more questions. "But, why do you have a camera with you?"

"Do you think I have time to answer all your questions?"

Liwoun gritted her teeth together out of anger and wanted to stay calm but she just couldn't. "I guess I'll just leave." She left the room and slammed the door shut. Soobin let out a sigh. He picked up his pen and opened his notebook. As he was about to write, he started reading back on the things he wrote, and that's when he realized what he was writing the whole time he was alone.

"When Taehyun requested something which was to take a picture of Liwoun, I seriously wanted to deny because I didn't like it. But I had nothing to do since he was my friend. Even though you just came here a few days ago, I've already noticed how you and Taehyun have gotten close to eachother that he doesn't even have time to talk to me. I saw how he stared at you, that was when I knew he was going to like you. And I was right. I wasn't interested in any of it but everytime I see the both of you smiling at eachother, I always feel a sudden urge to stab the lens of my camera with a knife. I don't even know why I'm like this, I don't even know why I wanted to take two pictures. You've been just getting inside my head recently and I'm trying so hard to get your face out of my Imagination but it only gets worse. I've been trying to avoid you hoping it would go away, but you just manage to keep talking to me whenever you have the chance."