✭ | GUILTY -CHAPTER ONE !
▎A click of a camera signaled her way to class, and she smiled at the flimsy material of the polaroid as she waited for it to develop. The trees around her were a mirage of hues, all different shades of reds, oranges, and yellows swayed in the breeze.
Autumn, the best season of all, was finally here and she could feel her inspiration levels rising quickly. It was nice to be able to walk to school without sweating out of her body and being miserable from the heat.
It was even better to feel content with not having much to do, and just going through the days to be going through them. School was nice in the sense that it gave her life uniform, and it gave her a routine, but sometimes it got overwhelming a bit too quickly.
"Hae!" Her attention was pulled to the approaching boy whose smile was wider than normal, and she started to wonder what he could have done to be so happy this early in the morning. Did he do something that she should be worried about?
"Chan!" His body skidded to a halt next to her and she hurried to make sure he didn't fall over. "What made you so happy this early in the morning?"
There were infinite possibilities truth be told, and she could only assume most of them included his friend Seungkwan, the one that he'd mentioned in passing that was looking into being a show host.
Chan's smile grew even wider, how was that even possible, while he laughed.
"Yes! Seungkwan's got his first offer, and he called me this morning to tell me." Images of sunshine flickering through leaves filtered into her mind at his words, and her fingers itched to grab for the nearest sheet of paper to sketch out her mind.
She smiled back at him, happy to hear that Seungkwan was achieving his goals and to see how happy Chan was for him, as she took in his face. His eyes were crinkled in the corners, his smile radiated joy, and his hand twitched occasionally as if he was overwhelmed with pride.
"I'm proud of him. I know how much of a big deal it was for him, but I'm not that surprised. Seungkwan's a natural show person, and he knows how to play his audience. He was bound to get some offer." Chan laughed again, and finally moved to hug her.
His arms wrapped around her and swung her in a circle, her laughing with him because this was a big deal. She had been there on the nights that Seungkwan and Chan had been helping each-other with their selective pathways, and she'd noticed how stressed Seungkwan would get when he couldn't remember a line.
Even if she wasn't a close friend to Seungkwan like how Chan was, she was still overly proud of the boy. He had been in so much effort, and it hadn't gone to waste. He'd kept pushing himself more and more.
He put her down and she slowly stopped laughing, realizing that a group of people were staring at them-at least two of them were. Only then did she figure out what it would look like to any outsider.
"Are those more of your friends?" She asked out of curiosity, but she didn't recognize any of them. Chan hummed in confusion as he turned to look, and he slowly shook his head.
"I have no clue who any of those guys are. I think the girl with black hair could be Chaewon, she's in two of my classes this year. She's really nice, but she's not very talkative either. The other girl...yeah I've never seen her before." He didn't seem bothered by them so she didn't worry about it.
His hand darted out to grab the polaroid and she twisted, the group momentarily forgotten as they fooled around. Chan kept trying to tickle her as she evaded him, laughing at how he was starting to grow more and more frustrated at not being able to see the picture.
