i woke up to the sound of my little brother from hell, haejun, constantly chanting my name from the upstairs corridor. "haera! wake up!" he barged into my room. "don't make me shoot you with my brand new nerf gun!" he threatened. he was cute, but fiesty.
i groaned sleepily, followed by several incoherent mumbles. "what time is it?" i asked, rubbing my eyes.
"about six-thirty," he answered.
letting out yet another sleepy groan, i struggled to sit up from my bed. i was tired as fuck.
haejun ran off with his nerf gun, yelling, "omma! i woke her up! where's my dollar?!"
i released a chuckle. i don't know about you, but i wouldn't trust a six year-old with telling the time, so i reached over to my phone on my night table to make sure.
Wednesday, February 18, 2016.
6:24 AM.
while i was supposed to be getting ready for school, i unlocked my phone to respond to any text messages i had, but my eyes widened at the sight of a large number of twitter notifications i had. immediately, i opened up the twitter app and my jaw dropped once i saw all of the hundreds of retweets, replies, and followers I had gotten on the @vernonscousin account.
as i skimmed through all the notifications with a surprised facial expression, i gasped upon seeing that #vernonscousin2k16 was in the trending list.
"what the... oh my god!"
pledis_17: @vernonscousin [17's 버논] are you really my cousin?
my eyes were wide open, and my jaw was dropped. he actually believed it.
oops.
vernonscousin: @pledis_17 yea waddup cous
the sound of my mother's voice yelling, "haera! you're going to be late to school!" snapped me back to my normal thinking.
"i'm going now!"
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my entire school knew about the fake account. the whole day was spent hearing people gossip about it. luckily, no one but yejin knew i was the only behind it. at least i thought.
when i arrived at the lunchroom and met them at our usual table, bora and jangmi, my other close friends, instantly bombarded me with questions. but clearly, yejin either exaggerated the news, or left an important detail out.
"i can't believe this! why didn't you tell us you were vernon's cousin?!" bora exclaimed, eyes widened at me.
i rolled my eyes. "i'm not," i replied curtly. "it's just a prank, dumbass."
"is it really?" jangmi shot me a glare, narrowing her eyes.
my only response was a nod.
"oh. that's disappointing," bora muttered, slanting her lips, unamused.
"anyways, i'm actually really surprised that he replied! you're a fucking legend!" yejin brought up.
"currently wondering how the hell you even came up with such a weird idea," jangmi mumbled, scratching her head.
i chuckled. "honestly, i have no idea myself."
"hey, haera," yejin said. "since you're vernon's cousin now, don't you think you should get into seventeen?" she smiled. she always tried getting me into them, along with bora and jangmi, and luckily for them, i thought it was a good time to get into them.
