crumpled papers // park woojin

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today didn't seem like a normal day to yerin. she felt sympathetic towards woojin. she could relate and feel the feelings and emotions he felt.

why?

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"i heard jieun unnie got rejected by woojin yesterday,"

"jieun must be really sad,"

"no, she's really angry,"

"why did he reject her?"

"i feel sorry for jieun,"

the whispered comments filled the empty halls as jieun walked with two other female friends at both of her sides. anger and sadness raged inside jieun. boiling inside her. yerin was at her locker. she grabbed her books for class and eyed jieun as she took a turn to her homeroom. yerin closed her locker as whispers continued. by then, she made her way back to her class, where jieun just walked in.

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during class, woojin was like his normal self. taking notes every time the teacher said something important and listened to every word that escaped the teacher's lips. he ignored all the whispers that were spreading around the classroom and waited until lunch came. he packed his things back into his backpack and took a glance at the girl three seats left of him.

"yoo yerin," he called her. yerin looked up and met eyes with him. he gives a toothy smile and walks towards her, putting on his backpack.

"yes?" she sits ups and puts her backpack on as well.

"can i eat lunch with you?" he asks.

she choked.

"l-lunch? w-with me?"

nice stuttering yerin

"mm," woojin smiles and nods, "lunch,"

"i guess," yerin plays with the hem of her skirt. her hands clamy and sweaty. she tried losing eye contact with the male latter because her heart was going to burst out of her chest.

why are you beating so fast dammit

"okay, let's go," the male latters grabs yerin's wrist and he pulls them out of the clasroom.

eyes of furry followed their every movement.

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"u-uh," they made it to the lunch room, but yerin looked at how he held her wrist.

"o-oh," the male latter gave a small chuckle as he noticed he was still holding onto her, "sorry," he says and chuckled a little. the two grabbed their lunch before deciding where to sit. nearly all tables were occupied.

"oh, there?" woojin asks as yerin looks to where he pointed. a table that was stuffed in a small corner. she just nods. sitting, yerin felt eyes piercing right through her. she looked around a little and saw eyes locked onto on her and woojin.

"don't worry about them," woojin says. yerin averts her eyes back to woojin as he smiled and began to eat his lunch. so did yerin.

"are you doing anything after school today?" woojin asks.

"huh?" she looked up at him, "after school?" he nodded.

"i want to go back to that food stand like last time," he commented, "their food was really good!" yerin could only let out a little giggle. but she stopped, rethinking how got those cold stares from everyone. chills ran up her arms making her hairs stand. she shook her head out of her thoughts.

"okay," she says.

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as soon as the bell rang. yerin was the first to leave the class. she quickly went to the school garden and whipped out her notebook and pen as she quickly began writing.

17-08-27
i heard park woojin rejected jieun in the halls. i wonder why. and then at lunch, park woojin asked me to eat lunch with him. i answered yes. why? i don't know. it was a stupid answer and even those girls were looking at me because i was with their dear park woojin. you're an idiot yoo yerin. you've gotten into a mess. huge mess

she ripped out the page and crumpled it. stuffing the notebook and pen back into her backpack. she ran out the garden and threw away the ball as she dashed to the front of the school gate. she saw woojin sitting on the wooden bench, fittling with his hands.

"sorry," yerin says as she stops in front of the male.

"are you okay?" woojin was surprised at how heavy she was breathing. he stood and placed a hand on her back.

"why were you running?" he asks. yerin stands up and takes her breath.

"sorry, i had something to do,"

"will you be ok?" woojin asks in concern.

"yes," she nods. the two began walking as soon as she regained her normal breathing. the two students made way to the streets of seoul and to the same food stand. as they sat, they stuffed their face with all the food. the owner was laughing to herself at the scene in front of her.

"aigoo, slow down, the food won't move," she told the two students and laughed. woojin and yerin looked at each other and laughed with the lady. as soon as they were done, woojin paid.

"it's ok, i invited you," he says. yerin thanked woojin before they made their way to the bus stop, sitting on the black bench. the sun was down and the dark blue sky was seen above.

"i don't know if this is appropriate to ask," yerin began.

"what is?" woojin looks over at yerin.

"um," she stopped, "why did you reject jieun?" she asked rather quietly. although woojin heard it clearly and chuckled. yerin looked at the male latter wondering why he was laughing.

"ah~" he nods, "a lot of people are wondering about that," he says.

"ah~ you don't have to answer if you're uncomfortable," yerin quickly waved her hands with a pang of guilt in her head. he just chuckled.

"i only rejected her because there was someone else on my mind," he responds. once he finished his last word, yerin's bus came.

"be careful going home," woojin tells her. she gives a nod before heading on the bus and heading to the back. outside, woojin waved to her as the bus drove off.

who?

"it's you, yoo yerin,"

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oh my goshhhh i feel like this is speeding up and escalating so fast!! i hope its not tho but oh my goshhh I'm having hecka writers block rn and it's so difficult to keep writing i don't know why ;)))
i hope you guys enjoyed this chapter because it feels longer than the other chapters...hehe (it's was crappy for me ;))))
xoxo - lienao1 <3