before me, stood an ocean of students wearing the same school uniform.
the cafeteria bustled with students and it was loud — really loud.
eyebrows furrowed, i let out a small groan. crowded and lively places just didn't appeal to me. i glanced over at woojin who sighed and i could clearly tell that he didn't enjoy the busy environment as well. we quickly lined up and received our food on a tray.
as we made our way through crowds of people, i followed woojin to a table — no, it was more like a garden.
a garden filled with pretty boys.
there i saw daehwi waving at me energetically and jaehwan giving me a small wave to acknowledge my presence. seongwoo greeted me with a wink. however, there were seven other unfamiliar faces sitting at the table. all of them were good looking, but each had different charms to them.
"everyone, this is shin seolhee," jaehwan introduced me as he scootched over to make a spot for me while woojin left to sit beside daehwi.
as i sat down beside jaehwan, i could feel a million eyes on me; especially from the girls in the room. it felt like lasers were firing out of their eyes to eliminate a mosquito and that mosquito was supposedly me. i turned to face the guys at my table which wasn't much better than scary glares from the girls. the atmosphere was awkward because of yesterday's incident in the group chat.
it was obvious that i didn't leave a good impression on them yesterday.
"i'm yoon jisung and i'm a third year," one boy finally spoke up and introduced himelf. "welcome, seolhee," jisung clapped his hands in a circle; his lips perked up into a neat smile.
"nice to meet you," another person greeted me before shoving a slice of pizza into his mouth. "sungwoon and i'm also third year."
one by one, the boys spoke up and formally introduced themselves. i struggled as i listened carefully to each introduction so that i could memorize all of their faces, names, and grades.
the third years were jisung, sungwoon, and minhyun. second years were jaehwan, woojin, jihoon, and me. daehwi, jinyoung, and guanlin were first years.
"kang daniel and i'm a third year, which makes me your oppa." he flashed a charming grin at me and then nudged the boy beside him.
the boy beside seongwoo had peachy pink hair which made him look soft and cute. however, that was before he opened his mouth.
at that moment, i automatically assumed that he was the cranky donkey kong from the chat.
"this is so unnecessary.." donkey kong started to complain. "it's not like we're at some sort of blind date and introducing ourselves—"
"oh umm.." seongwoo interrupted the boy and elbowed the pink-haired boy. "this is kang daniel and he's a third year as well and he's always grumpy, so don't feel offended by his attitude," seongwoo laughed.
"grumpy? he must be always on his man period or something," i commented.
everyone's eyes widened as they looked at each other and then they bursted out into laughter — all except daniel. even that shy looking kid, jinyoung, was laughing along and the ever so chic woojin cracked a small smile.
daniel sat there, looking like he was half embarrassed and half annoyed.
between his laughs, sungwoon gave me a thumbs up, "hey seolhee, i like you already! i approve of you."
seongwoo glanced at me and then at sungwoon, "i called dibs on seolhee first."
"ahh, don't worry, slate boy. you know that i have a girlfriend already," sungwoon said. "seolhee is all yours."
"but.. seongwoo.. i don't understand why you would want a gorilla like her," jaehwan cut into the conversation as he squished my cheeks.
"shUT UP—" i slapped jaehwan's hands away from my face and he started to laugh like a psycho which startled minhyun who was sitting across from jaehwan.
"don't be so mean to a cute girl like her, jaehwan!" jihoon pouted at the psychopath and then smiled gently at me which attacked my poor heart.
"jihoon, why are you attacking my poor heart?" i say as i clutch my heart dramatically.
"w-wha—" jihoon looked flustered and probably took me seriously, "i— are you okay, seolhee?"
guanlin wrapped his arm around jihoon's shoulder and snickered, "it's an expression, hyung. why are you always so gullible, jeojanghoon??"
we spent the rest of the lunch hour, cracking jokes and teasing each other, but daniel stayed silent.
finally, the bell rang and everyone began to clean up after themselves and left the cafeteria.
"seolhee, you should rejoin our group chat. i think it'll be even more fun with you," jisung patted my back as he also left the cafeteria.
"okay, i will," i nodded as i finished cleaning up.
"let's go back to class, seolhee," woojin said.
as soon as i walked towards woojin, i felt my phone vibrate in my hand. i stopped and turned on my phone to see what notification i got.
you have received [1] new message from ANNOYERING
frowning, i opened up my chat with yerin to see what message i received.
《ANNOYERING》
ANNOYERING
you didn't find yerin anywhere at school, right?
ANNOYERING is typing...
ANNOYERING
does this erase your doubts of her being dead?
if you want to find out more about her death
come outside to the courtyard and stand right beside the main building
and make sure that
no one else comes with you.
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A/N: AAAAAAAA thank you all for the 100+ views !!!!! i didn't expect that my fanfic would get any views HAAHAHA
and energetic's teaser sounds like a bop!!! iM SO EXCITED
