The Love Story of Grumpy & Happy

01

╰┈➤ ❝ Class 3-1, the girl in the corner ❞

Everyone is nervous on the first day of school. New classmates, new teachers, et cetera, et cetera. Even if it's just a new year, everyone is anxious about the new topics they'll learn.

Everyone except for Kim Hyeri and Park Jongseong that is, but due to different reasons. Kim Hyeri is never nervous about new year topics, she studies them the year before. Why? 

Well, its because she has no friends. No friends = boredom. So she decided to just study new lessons a year before. 

But for Park Jongseong, it's a whole different reason. While everyone is out trying to make friends, Jay can just initiate small talk and immediately find friends. He doesn't struggle at all, that's his skill.

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I wake up due to the loud sound of my alarm. I turned on my phone to check the date and... damn it, it's the first day of senior year. 

I freshen up, get dressed and have a light breakfast. After all that, I peacefully walk to school while listening to my daily playlist. No, it does not consist of perfectly organised songs, instead, it's just a combination of songs I just found out existed. Maybe that's why Laufey is playing right after RIIZE...

Anyway, on the way to school, I bumped into a crowd of girls from my school. Why would anyone waste their time on stupid VIP students early in the morning?

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Smiling, I come out of my car. Before I even get to say goodbye to my mother, girls crowd me. They scream my name as I awkwardly smile. 

"Jay, what class are you in?" "well, I'm not sure, I haven't entered the school yet-" "Jay, can you please be in my class?" "I don't think I have a choice-" "JAYYYY" 

You get what I mean, right? Then of course, as usual, my saviour comes and drags me out of the crowd. "thanks, Hoon." "senior year's first day and you're already becoming the monkey in the middle?" I looked at Sunghoon with the "shut your mouth" expression before entering the school.

As soon as I entered, I got dabbed up by the one and only Sim Jaeyun. "what's up Jaeyun?" "it's Jake." "potato, tomato."

The three of us checked our name list and unsurprisingly, I was in the same class as none of them. "ah, another year of loneliness..." "Sunghoon, you literally own this school." "HOW DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING?"

Class 3-1 sounds quite pleasing to my ears, despite the dismay of Jake being in Class 3-5. The three of us separated and moved to our classrooms.

As I entered the class, I was pleased to see it was rather empty, with just one girl and two guys being there. The girl was on her phone, the two guys were playing with their thumbs.

I was about to sit on a seat but saw the name tags on the tables. Aw, man, I really wanted to sit at the back this year. In the end, I sat in the middle of the classroom. 

Since it was very quiet, I looked around, my eyes catching upon the girl. She looked quite pretty sitting in the corner of the classroom.

Slowly, everyone arrived as well as the homeroom teacher. "Good morning, I'm Mrs Han and I'd like everyone to introduce themselves. 

When the introduction stopped at the girl in the corner, everyone looked at her, expecting her introduction.

"My name is Kim Hyeri." That's all she said before sitting back down. I introduced myself as I stared at Hyeri. Wait, am I really staring at a girl?

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Can this dude stop staring at me? It's making my palms sweat and I'm trying to copy down the damn timetable...

I know that that dude who shoots lasers out of his eyes is like the popular school guy. I don't know his name or anything but I know that girls go crazy for him.

Before you call me a pick me, I do find him really good-looking. But, I just don't want to chase after any guy, it's too much of a hassle since getting your heart broken is not very fun.

My last crush was literally a disaster, causing me to lose literally all my friends. That's why I don't have any right now. I'm too afraid to make any friends, and too afraid to lose any either.

Long story short, that bastard called me a stalker when I never dared to do so...

Anyway, this is going to be a long year...