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Do you like these lollipops? I sort of guessed, but they're lollipops right? So that's good! They look pretty, right? I tried to pick ones with colours I think you might like. There's five here but don't eat them all at once! You'll get sick.

I look at the lollipops that had been left in my desk, they certainly are pretty. All of them are brightly coloured and look delicious. "Are those yours?" Yujin asks, grinning at me

"Yes, but no you can't have any." Yujin pouts, "Why not? There's five." I hold up the note and she reads it "Aw, that's so cute! Okay, fine, you can keep them to yourself."

"I don't think I even want to eat them, they're so pretty." Yujin nudges me and raises her eyebrows "No, I'm not giving them to you." Her face falls for a second "Dammit, I wish I had someone who would do this for me." She said
"Hey, I don't know why they chose me." I tell her, she shrugs

"I don't really know why either." She says with a grin, I stare at her in disbelief "I'm kidding, you're a wonderful person, Kyungwon."

"No, not really but sure." I reply, "You're much better than I am." Yujin snorts and goes to her seat, "Yeah, right." I grin at her and she grins back.

The teacher opens the door and then almost immediately closes it, "That is one bright classroom." You can hear from the outside, it's a substitute teacher. They finally step into the classroom, blink a few times and walk to the teacher's desk. "Okay, I'll do the roll call first. What class is this? Um, uh, well, um, ah! Oh ew, science." He mutters the last part under his breath, a little louder than what he had intended to. The class shouts out responses ranging from 'same' to 'me too' to 'it isn't that bad'

"Anyways, Ahn Hyunjoo?" He calls, "Ahn Hyunjoo? No? Okay then, that was awkward moving on."

"Okay, so, class. Did anyone do anything this lesson?" Several more studious people raises their hands, I do too. I might as well get it done today rather than being yelled at by the teacher next lesson. Our actual science teacher is horrible. "Well, um, I'm guessing class is dismissed or do you have another lesson now?"

"Are you actually a teacher?" One kid from the back asks, "Yes, I am. I just haven't worked at this school before. On top of that, I teach history - not science." He sighs "Anyways, is class dismissed?" He asks, looking around for a trustworthy student that will give him the right answer. His eyes land on me.

"No, not yet." I reply, the class all nod in agreement "Well, enjoy your next class." The teacher says with a shrug before he picks up his stuff and leaves

"Who even was he?" One kid named Jaehyun asks, all of us shrug. He didn't mention his name nor did he have a name tag, "A cool teacher." Someone replies from across the classroom

"You all might want to shut up, we have satan herself next." Yujin shouts over the noisy class, everyone immediately settles down and straightens out their uniform. I race to the back of the room and grab my book before the teacher arrives, sliding back into my seat right as she opens the door. Letting out a sigh of relief I open my book and pick up my pen, ready to start learning.

Wasn't that substitute we had for science weird? Actually, no, he was kinda cool. Don't you think? We have music next, right? We're all performing our pieces, you'll do well. I can always hear you practicing, even though you try not to be too loud. Wait, that sounds creepy... I'm not a stalker, I swear! Anyways... good luck!

"Good luck to you to." I mumble under my breath before placing the note into my bag. "What was it this time?" Yujin tries to see what the note contains but I had already put it into my bag,

"Just about the music exams we have today." Yujin nods,

"I see, wishing you good luck I guess?"

"Yeah," I reply "oh, there's Jinyoung and Jihoon!" I point the two of them out, sitting at the table we usually all sit out
"They got out early today." Yujin notes before proceeding to wave maniacally at them, "Hello!"

"Hello, Yujin! Hello, Kyungwon! How are have the two of you been today?" Jihoon greets us, "We're both good, what about you?" Yujin says answering for me, I give Jinyoung a smile and a little wave. He returns the gesture.

"I'm okay, I guess. I mean maths was boring, but that's not surprising." Yujin's face scrunches at the mention of maths
"Yeah, your maths doesn't sound fun. My brother's in your year and he said it's really difficult - and he's supposed to be smart."

"Yeah, it's difficult." Jihoon pulls out a container and squints at it, opening it he peeks at the contents "What is it?" I ask, trying to get a look at what's inside "That looks fine, do you not like it or something?" Whilst I can't the quite make out what it is, it looks edible and delicious. Jihoon nods,

"Yeah, I don't really like it." He takes the lid off fully revealing the food, truthfully it just looks like a bunch of food thrown in together. "Does anyone want it?" He asks

"What are you going to have?" Jinyoung inquires, Jihoon shrugs "I could always just buy something." Youjin peers at the food skeptically "Do you want it, Yujin?"

"I mean, yeah, sure. If you really don't want it, the food looks edible so I'll eat it."

"Okay, thanks." Jihoon pushes the container towards her "Can I have some of yours though? I fell awkward just sitting here watching you all eat." Yujin looks down at her own food, she has about five packets of triangle kimbap - keeping in mind that those were the ones she hadn't eaten yet. She sighs and gives Jihoon one, which he grateful receives, "Thanks."

I'm really nervous about music, will I do well? Even though you don't know exactly who I am, I hope you'll like my performance! Your performance will be amazing! You're singing a quite a pretty song if I remember correctly, just like you... hehe... anyways, like I said before - good luck! ~

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