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"But what if," I didn't know how to say it.
"But what if what?" dad looked at me in surprise.
"But what if I don't want to move to Japan." It's out. I've got it out of myself. I can't take it back now.
If my dad was surprised before, then he's 10 times more surprised now.
He looked stunned for a minute.
"Well, are you sure you don't want to go to a better school? It would be great for your future."
"Yes, I'm sure." I nodded.
"Then, as you wish."

Omg. Omg. I can't believe it worked! Am I dreaming?

"Thank you." I said quietly.
I ate the rest of my breakfast and went to my room again. I should be unpacking, but I reached for my phone first.

Minho

Wanna meet up at the playground? : Me

I started unpacking, and then my phone rang after a few minutes. He responded with 'okay', but we didn't agree on a time.

Minho

2pm? : Me

Minho: 👍

I was unpacking, saying goodbye to my dad, eating luncb, and then 1:30pm finally came. I took a bus near the park, but I didn't actually enter the park. I didn't have to. Minho was sitting on a bench right next to the park. I sat next to him.
"Hi."
"Hi." How should I start? I didn't know, but fortunately, he did: "So, you didn't go to Japan? Are you gonna stay here?"
"Yes, I'm gonna stay here." I smiled and looked at him.
"So, you told your father?"
"I did."
He looked up on me, but the eye contact didn't last long because he wrapped his hands around me - hugged me. I hugged him back.

Oh my-. He's hugging me. He's hugging me again. Do friends hug this much?

But this hug wasn't like the other. He hugged me tight, I felt um, protected?
It was amazing. It was much better than before. Much better. Maybe the best hug I've ever had in my life.
Then I pulled away: "Wanna go get some boba?" We went to the bubble tea store and talked. We talked about really random things, like always. Because we're still friends after all. Friends. Just friends. Maybe something more? No, not yet.

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The next few days, I went to my old school like always, I talked with Minho, and we even went There, like always. I talked with Yujin and Winter and told  them about the situation. I hope they trust me and that they don't think that I faked it. And nothing of that would've happened if I transferred.

"Wanna go to my house tomorrow after school?" Minho asked me when we were having lunch.
"Sure!" I answered without thinking.
I realised it only when I left the canteen.

Me in his house. Me in his house? ME IN HIS HOUSE DOING WHAT? But I can go to his friends as just a friend, right? Right? But all those girls who he slept with weren't even his friends. The fact that I'm going into doesn't mean that we're going to have sex, right? Right? I was nervous till the end of the day, and even the day after. I'm not saying that we didn't talk. We did. I'm not sure about whether he noticed or not.

On maths, we were talking about this
equation. Neither of us understood it. The teacher hasn't even told us how to solve it. He wanted us to 'find out ourselves'. I would like to know if someone actually found a way to solve it. Maybe one or two people max. The ones that could go to school in Japan.

My dad would probably like to have them as a kid.

"Work alone," the teacher said when he saw us talking. Then math ended. I was right, two people solved it.
"That's crazy," I said.
"The math teacher is crazy," Minho said. I laughed.
"Wanna go?" he nodded way to There.
We were actually talking mostly about maths, we weren't talking about going to his house at all.
"Like I said, he's crazy."
"Right? How are we supposed to solve that?!"

We were talking and talking, and we didn't even realise that it's been a while since the bell rang. I've just taken a look on my phone and realised that it's been already twenty minutes.
"Shit, Minho, we have to go. No, we have to RUN!"
So, we came to our class, but we didn't enter.
"Which teacher are we having class with? I only remember which class I'm supposed to be at."
"Ehm, I don't know... Oh! With mister Byeon."
"Shit, we're cooked."
"So, we're not going there?" Minho asked.
"That would've been even worse."
"So, what do you want to say?"
"Hm, what about toilet?"
"For twenty minutes? Both of us? Are you for real?" I looked at him as if he was joking. He had this little smirk on his face.
"Then not."
"I got it! We can say that we were having lunch!"
"But it wasn't - oh, it was lunch break."
"We missed our lunch."

I knocked on the door. "Excuse us, we were having lunch."
"I'd better not hear it was something else. Mind your time next time."
It went pretty well, I think. But at first, I didn't realise what he meant. But when I sat down, I realised that some of our classmates laughed a bit and were staring at us. Even Yujin and Winter.  I couldn't pay attention to the rest of the class. I couldn't stop thinking about it.
"Miss Kim, could you at least pay attention to the lesson?" Mr Byeon asked.

Shit, I'm cooked.

"Yes, I am." I lied. And as the answer for his questionn 'no', I said in my head.
I

wonder if Minho could. He sat in the back, so the teacher couldn't notice him.
I asked him about it when the class ended.
"Of course I couldn't. I never pay attention in class."
I couldn't help but laughed a bit. But I was also really nervous. Only two lessons left. And I have no clue what happens next.

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It's over. The school is over. But my stress level is even higher. I'm glad I'm not having a panic attack, which I was really close to. But I had a plan. I can just walk out of school and act like I'd forgotten about it.
Everything was going right. I packed my things, got my boots on, and walked out of school. And then, I heard someone screaming my name.

I hope it's not Yujin or Winter wanting to ask me about it.

Of course it was Minho. And I thought that my plan was so good!

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