vol.² ▎DIFFERENT ✓

CHAPTER 48

+a/n: why is he doing this to me- also credits to the owner. woojin dancing to gashina is a life saver, look at those body rolls boi

It's strange and I'm afraid, I need you.

"Have you been studying?" Minji's father asks as the girl walks through the door, just getting back from school. Minji inwardly sighed but nodding, nonetheless.

"I've been revising all my notes, doing practise questions, light reading and re-writing them." She listed but no matter how much she tried getting them in to her head, it just won't work. Her mind is always occupied because of Jihoon.

She's scared that she might fail a subject or two, again.

This is why her dad has been concerned about her. Minji's father never really wanted her to date neither Daniel or Jihoon because he knew they both would be a distraction for her studies, he was low-key against her relationship with them.

After all, he was just looking out for his daughter.

But now that Minji promised to focus on her studies, Mr.Kim is becoming less paranoid about the exams coming up, he didn't want the same thing to happen to Minji like last year.

He just wanted a great future for his daughter, as annoying as it might seem, -striving her to have full focus on her studies- it will all pay off in the end.

"Good. I expect good grades from you." He tightly smiled, not taking his eyes off the television. Minji slightly nodded before sighing and jogging up to her room.

The girl closed her door behind her and set her bag near her desk. "No distractions for you today." She muttered as she turned her phone off.

Minji was scared of disappointing her father again, she really needed to focus on her studies so no one else would be put to blame because if she didn't study well and got a low grade or a fail, she knew her father would blame her friends being a bad influence for her.

He would either bring up Minji dating Jihoon and how he distracted her with her studies or would either blame her other friends and Minji for her failure or both.

This is why she sometimes wished she didn't attend a co-ed school. Most parents always assume that if your grades are low then it's because of a boy, it's not always boys.

Maybe it's that they're having a bad day that caused them to do terrible on their exam or maybe it's just the pressure that put them off during the exam.

Beforehand, the girl had shoved the heartshaped box inside her bag because she knew her father would be making a fuss about it after she promised she would only focus on education for now.

Minji didn't want anyone getting scapegoated, she didn't want to involve anyone else in the mess so she needed to do well for these exams despite the huge pressure the school and her father is giving her.

Do parents know that expecting from a child will cause such great pressure? And this pressure would put them off track causing them to do badly on the test.

>>

"Wow, this secret admirer is really dedicated." Nari chuckled as she examined the white bunny plushie, the stringed loop on top of it's head, hanging on Minji's locker door and of course not forgetting the bunny shaped sticky note stuck to one of it's ear.

Minji took the sticky note and read it.

To: Minnieji :D

Did you enjoy the box of chocolates yesterday?

Anyway, I've always wanted to give this bunny plushie to you. Do you remember it? Hint: It's from a claw machine ;) I never really got the chance to give it to you so I figured today is the day!

I hope you like it, I struggled alot trying to get you this but after a couple of tries, I finally got my hands on it.

Think of the bunny as me for now, when time comes, I'll show you who I am. Do you have an idea of who I am? I'll give you another hint, I have an 'i' on my name :)

Haha it might not be that helpful but I like teasing you, Minji.

- >.•

Minji furrowed her brows, the bunny brought her down memory lane.

Claw machine. Bunny plushie.

She remembered when she took Jihoon out for his birthday, Minji remembered seeing the same exact bunny inside the claw machine but the thing was, Jihoon got her an apeach plushie instead.

There was another one with Daniel, they were on a date that time and it was the same claw machine but different place. He tried grabbing the bunny plushie for Minji but luck wasn't with him that time.

Minji has played many claw machines with Woojin before but she doesn't remember him wanting to get her a bunny plushie.

That means it was one of those three, the letter hint didn't help her as they all had an 'i' on their names.

"An 'i' on their name, damn could that be me as well?" Nari joked as she read the small note. Minji chuckled before taking the plushie off the handle and stuffing it inside her bag with a small smile forming upon her lips.

She honestly didn't know what she's going to do if she finds out that Jihoon was the one whose been giving these things to her. Actually, she wouldn't know what to do if any of the three gave it to her.

Little did she know, someone had been stealing glances at her from down the hallway, mirroring the small smile on Minji's face.

"I'm glad she likes it." He mutters.

His deep angelic voice, smooth as ever. The voice that calmed Minji the most when comforting her.

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a short chapter today :"(

but who do yall think it is ??? also your comments from last chapter made me smile haha.

okay but can yall believe that if i didn't divide the story in to two books, it would be at chapter 99 right now (excluding chapters that don't contain the story) omg how can a book be so long-