It Was Always You

Chapter 1: Senior Year

Stepping into school for what would be one of the last times, the feeling is so surreal. Coming back from summer break, to only graduate in spring; it didn't feel real, that is until I made the mistake of bumping into the one and only L. Joe. Now I'm in trouble, he's popular, hates me, and I'm about to be dead meat. I tensed as he spun around, his little group of friends watching the interaction go down.

Bowing, "Mianhaeyo, L. Joe-ssi."

"Mian?" he scoffed, "Ha, only the first day back and you already manage to piss me off? Youve officially set a record (Y/N)-ah."

Then it happened. He came in like a knight in shining armor. Kwak Aaron, god why cant he be smart and just see I love him.. I mean what? I looked warily at the sight.

"She already apologized L.Joe, dont start something you arent going to finish."

I could see a very worried Mark nodding in agreement to Aarons stern request. Mark pat L.Joe's arm signaling him to drop it. L.Joe only scoffed once more and turned to leave. After L.Joe and his crew rounded the corner, Aaron came up to me in concern.

"Gwaenchanh-a?"

"I'm fine Aaron, I could've handled it."

He only laughed, "Right, and I'm the queen of England."

I scoffed, "Wow, no trust at all!"

We both just laughed and walked in comfortable silence to our class, 3-A. There we were met with the smiling faces of our other friends. They all stood up and we greeted each other. The first to give me a hug was, of course, my beloved two other friends, Kim Jonghyun and Hwang Minhyun.

"JR oppa, Minhyun oppa! You're crushing me!" I wriggle in their grasps.

After they let go, I saw my brother sitting there, Choi Minki, looking around as if the classroom was the most interesting thing in the world.

"Yah! Ren, what are you doing here? Class is about to start and 2-B is all the way across campus!" I began to scold.

He threw his arms up and laughed, "I was just about to head out, no need for yelling noona."

I huffed and pointed to the door. Reluctantly he left, and then a roar of laughter came from my friends.

"Jeez (Y/N)-ah, you could've been a little nicer to your brother," JR chuckled.

"Yeah, well, umm...Aish, whatever!" I got flustered and just sat in my seat.

"Aww, I think she's flustered! Gwiyeobda!" Aaron exclaimed.

I blushed at the comment, it threw me for a loop that he would even call me cute. I bury my face in my book as the bell chimed, however, my blush did not go unnoticed, especially by my two other friends, who no doubt were smirking at each other and hatching a plan. A boy suddenly rushed in and bowed to the incoming teacher, and whispered something. Soon he bowed to the class and introduced himself.

"Annyeonghaseyo Kang Dongho-ibnida, but please call me Baekho," he bows towards the class.

I couldn't help but shake my head and smile, but soon my name was being called.

"(Y/N)-ssi, I would like you to show Baekho-ssi around school for today."

I smiled, A day off, yes!

Standing, "I'd be honored."

Packing my things up, I bow to Baekho and introduced myself before motioning to head out. I guided him down the halls of the overly large campus, passed the gym, the cafeteria, the nurse's office, everywhere I could think of to take him. As soon as the tour was over I checked the time and huffed.

"What is it?" Baekho asked curiously.

"Heh, there's still about 30 minutes left of school, and I don't feel like going back to class right now," I laughed awkwardly.

He chuckled at this, and I smiled when I got an idea, "Oh, I know!"

I pulled him along towards a tall hill with a large willow tree that curtains anyone under the trunk, from view.

"I hang out here all the time," sitting down, "If you want you can always hang with me and my friends, it helps to have somewhere to be and people to talk to."

Smiling he replied, Thank you. Its been kind of rough transferring mid school year.

"Oh, I bet! I mean I transferred schools once, and that was rough in itself. But to do it in the middle of the school year must be brutal," I leaned against the tree and beckoned him to sit.

He sat and for the rest of the time, we just sat and talked about random things. It turned out that we had a lot in common, and we became instant friends. Soon the willow curtain was moved to reveal my friends and my brother.

There you are, we thought you ditched us, Aaron came in and sat down.

"Correction, he thought you ditched us," chuckled JR.

I just laughed and introduced Baekho to everyone.

Baekho oppa, this is JR oppa, Minhyun oppa, and Aaron, I pointed to each respectively, And this is my younger brother Ren, hes a grade below us.

They all took a seat and struck up a conversation and by sunset I realized that we ended up spending the majority of the day at the tree just hanging out, getting to know Baekho and him us. It turned out that he gets along well with everyone, except for some strange reason Aaron was a little off around him. Soon we all went home, and I was left to wonder why Aaron was acting off. Best to leave it for now.