Forgotten Love

Chapter 1

I slowly opened my eyes as I felt the sun shone upon me. "Ah~ Soo Bin-ah, please close the curtain," I mumbled as I covered my face with my blanket, but she later took it away from me. I rolled over my bed and hid my face behind my pillows as I murmured, "Jebal, Soo Bin, close the curtain."

"Just get up, will you? We'll be late in our class." And that immediately made me sat up. I immediately took a look at the clock over the table beside my bed only to know that I only had at most 40 minutes to prepare my things and myself. I hit my head in frustration as I stood up and made my way to the bathroom. "Aish!" I uttered in annoyance.

Burn that alarm clock! Why didn't it wake me up earlier? I have still a lot of things to review on my History subject.

"Yoo Jung-ah, did you read something on our History book?" I heard Soo Bin asked as I started taking a bath.

"I read nothing! Blame that alarm clock!" I cried out.

"I didn't too."

A smile immediately flashed on my face as she spoke those words. Assa! You don't have to worry now, Yoo Jung-ah!

I changed my clothes after taking a bath and soon stepped out of the bathroom.

"Oh? What's with that smile? It' so creepy!" she told me as I headed towards my table.

"It's just that I was worrying about that History subject since I didn't read anything. Somehow, I felt relieved since we're on the same boat. I'm just hoping we won't be called later," I chuckled. "I'm all set now. Let's go!"

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"Jin Young-ah, please help me if ever I will be called, huh?" I whispered to my seatmate as our History teacher started scanning our names for some recitation. I sighed in relief as he nodded. I even silently prayed that I wouldn't be called for today's recitation, but I supposed bad luck was really with me now.

"Kim Yoo Jung," our teacher called out.

I had no choice but to stand up and faced our teacher. Be confident, Yoo Jung, so she won't ask you some difficult questions!

I looked at Jin Young and beg him for help through my gaze. Thankfully, he smiled and nodded as he soon took a look on his book.

"What was the strangest thing Crown Prince Lee Yeong did before he became a king?"

I'm doomed! Bad luck was really with me! I slightly tapped my fingers on my table in nervousness as I really didn't know the answer, didn’t even have the idea what to answer.

"It wasn't written on our book," I heard Jin Young murmured. Just, what?! How would I answer that question now?

"Politics was all written on the book about that Crown Prince. Then, being the Crown Prince was the strangest thing he did? That's absurd! Thankfully, I wasn't the one being called," I heard someone whispered from behind, making me so envious of them.

But, "Falling in love with a eunuch," I suddenly blurted out. Someone laughed from the other row. Even I, chuckled at my own answer as I realized what it meant. The Crown Prince falling in love with a eunuch? That was ridiculous! How did he even fall in love with a man?

"What? Is he a gay?" Soo Bin exclaimed as everyone burst out laughing. Our teacher then tapped his stick on the teacher's table to put us in silence.

"Then, are you saying that he is a gay as what everybody claims?" How will you support your answer now?

"Uhm, yes?" I hesitantly answered. "Ah, he's not. Because the eunuch turned out to be a girl."

"A girl? Did they allow a girl to be a eunuch?" someone from the class asked.

"No, they didn't," I responded.

"Then how did she even pass those physical tests?"

"She just, somehow, passed those tests through luck, maybe. Her paper was tagged as passed by mistake. Later on, when another physical test transpired, one of the head eunuchs who later became her friend passed her although after knowing she is a girl." What was I saying? Where did those words came from? I didn't even heard or read those things from any record books.

"That's right!" our teacher suddenly exclaimed which surprised the class especially me. Did I really get it right?

"I was going to share that trivial thing to the class but I guess, someone already knew it," she added. "You may now take your seat, Yoo Jung. Thank you for answering that question."

I sat down, but I felt that I wasn't really on my right self now. Everything was just absurd! I didn't even think about it. It just came out from my mouth, all of a sudden.

The bell soon rang which ended our History class. Soo Bin sat beside me right away after Jin Yeong left.

"Liar!" she suddenly rolled her eyes. "You said you read nothing, but you even know that trivial thing about the Crown Prince."

"It surprised me as well. I really didn't read anything, but I don't know how I knew about those things."

"Geojitmal hajima! Geundae, did he know the eunuch's identity from the start?" I shook my head to answer. "So, did he fall in love with the eunuch even before knowing the eunuch's true identity?" she curiously asked.

"Ah~ Molla~!" I exclaimed as I put my head on my arms over the table. "How did I even know those kind of things?" I murmured.

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"Do you want to come with me?"

I shook my head. "I want to go home now. I need to figure out where I learnt those kind of trivial things about the Crown Prince."

She laughed. "If you really don't know about those things, maybe someone possessed you earlier, someone intelligent or someone from the past who knows that trivial thing or maybe the Crown Prince himself."

"Yah! Don't you dare try to scare me!"

She suddenly ran away as she waved her goodbye. "I'm going now. Take care on your way home. Be kind to those possessors, huh?"

"Yah!"

She just laughed as she turned his back on me. Kurae, maybe someone did that to save me. I was thankful to him anyway.

I was on the midst of walking when the rain suddenly poured down. I immediately searched for my umbrella inside my bag, but unfortunately, bad luck was still with me. I left my umbrella on my dorm. Babo, Yoo Jung!

Running somewhere was the only choice, but when I did, someone suddenly grabbed my hand and something covered my head. I turned around only to see a stranger in front of me, sweetly smiling.

"Ra On-ah..."