Shoutout. / 황현진

07 | luck

"oh diba sabi ko sayo ang cute ng uniform natin!" mashiro gushed, twirling. how she managed to do that while walking was beyond cara's comprehension.

ryujin patted her on the shoulder when they all stopped infront of cara's classroom, "good luck sayo!"

cara fidgeted with the hem of her skirt. kinakabahan siya, she doesn't know anyone in that classroom. bago lang kasi siya sa school na to because she recently moved into a new apartment. taga changwon kasi talaga siya pero gusto niyang dito sa seoul mag-aral kaya ayun. malayo din kasi yung apartment ng kuya wonwoo niya kaya hindi siya pwede dun.

kaya mo yan, cara told herself. she blends well with the crowd, wala naman sigurong masyadong makakahalata sa kanya pag pumasok siya. maybe she could just walk in and no one would even blink at her direction. cara took a deep breath and went inside the classroom. all the noises immediately died down when she entered the room. all eyes went to her and looked at her with either sharp glares or mocking expression.

"tignan mo nga naman, classmate pala natin 'tong pa-famous na 'to," someone spoke somewhere inside the classroom.

by that time, cara already stopped walking. nasa may teacher's table palang siya sa harapan ng classroom but she felt like going back outside already. there were a few sounds of chair scraping against the floor. a tall girl with an obnoxious hot pink hair paved from the back towards her. she had this smile of pure evil on her face and cara swore she saw horns on her forehead when she blinked once.

cara kept an impassive face, "hindi kita kilala."

the girl looked at her incredulously, pointing a manicured finger at her with the same color as her hair, "oh talaga?"

cara narrowed her eyes at her. raking her memories if she knows who this girl is but her mind remained blank, "hindi ako pumunta dito para makipaghulaan. i don't know you so if you don't mind―"

cara purposely cut her sentence and started walking again to the back of the classroom where there were a few vacant seats. but the girl was persistent, she pushed cara by the shoulder so she went stumbling back on her original position. good thing cara managed to keep her footing so she didn't fall on her ass.

"ako lang naman yung blinock mo nung isang araw. seya jung nga pala, di ka ata informed," she sneered.

cara blinked twice and then it dawned at her. ah, that annoying girl who kept commenting on her posts?

cara nodded in realization, "okay. so what? you were block-able."

cara saw a vein twitch on the girl's forehead and before she knew it, she was already grabbing something from the table beside her and threw it at cara's direction.

cara should've been hit―but she wasn't. because someone went stumbling infront of her, yelling before he hit the teacher's table―face first. and he was the one who took the blow for her. the book that seya threw at her now laid on the floor, a few pages torn.

"aray," the guy rubbed his forehead while clumsily rising on his feet. he turned to the door's direction at started yelling, "hoy hyunjin! ba't mo naman ako tinulak?!"

cara felt her heart stop. she turned to look at the door's direction and there she saw hwang hyunjin, that guy who yelled and humiliated her for nothing. hyunjin was looking directly at her and just like that, cara's heart kick-started and began beating furiously.

but hyunjin's gaze didn't last long because as soon as their eyes met, hyunjin was already walking off towards his seat.

"ah ano," the guy who went stumbling infront of her spoke, "i-tratranslate ko lang. yung tingin niyang yun, ibig sabihin nun nirerespeto niya yung gusto mong wag nang maging konektado sa kanya pero tinulungan ka pa rin niya kasi nagsisisi talaga siya dun sa ginawa niya tapos―"

"jisung di mo pa tapos yung assignment mo diba?" hyunjin yelled from his seat.

"eto na, eto na!" jisung begrudgingly walked towards his seat while scratching the back of his head.