Lisa was born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand - quite far away from Korea. She lived there with her family up to this year, when her family decided it was time to move to Seoul. That's when Lisa's life changes. She goes to a new school. New kids, ne...
I walk down the hallway, with one of my backpack straps on my shoulder, half asleep, but trying not to show it. As I get in front of the classroom, I look in through the glass door. Nobody really seems excited about the first school day. Well, if this wasn't my first day ever at this school, I probably wouldn't have been excited either, so I kind of understand them. In a way...you know what I mean. I walk in and look at the clock on the wall. 7:58am. I adjust my flower crown and go pick a seat. Perfect.
I sit down somewhere in the class. I look to my right and see a bunch of boys, which I find normal since I avoided the girls as much as possible out of shyness.
The class is pretty loud and distracted, so they probably didn't see me. I smile to myself. Great.
Soyeon's P.O.V.
Class is really loud this morning. People seem to be happy about seeing each other again. I look around. On my left is Wendy, and on my right is Yuqi.
"So, how was your summer?" Wendy asks me excitedly and energetically.
"Eh", I shrug, staring at the blank wall in front of the class. "I went to Busan for about...a week...and then came back here. Not much. Yours?"
"AMAZING!" she exclaims and starts giggling. "I've spent two months in the USA and gotten myself some awesome stuff."
I loved Wendy's positivity, but sometimes she was so energetic and agitated it was tiring for me. I looked at her and she smiled widely, like she always does. I smiled back, slightly. I look to Wendy's left, and I see Rosé, Soojin, and Irene. They all seem bored.
"Yo!" Yuqi exclaimes, and she pokes my arm with her finger. "Look at that new girl. She's so damn pretty!"
I look across the room, to see the new girl sit on a chair. As we made eye contact, she smiled widely - not as wide as Wendy's smile, but still very charmingly - waved at me, and immediately looked away.
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Wow, she really is pretty, I thought. Who is she though?
"I want to meet her in recess", Yuqi said, smiling excitedly. "And you will help me."
"I saw her in our database as I was reading", Nayeon said, leaning over to me from Yuqi's right. "Her name is Lisa...or something. She comes from Thailand."
Lisa, I thought. Hmmm. Interesting.
I was the most popular girl in the grade though. What if she was going to take that from me now? But you are Soyeon, I thought to myself. This girl is not you, and you are not her. You are always better. Even if Yuqi wants to meet her, that doesn't mean I have to be her friends as well, doesn't it? I've only just seen her once and I can predict we are not meant to be friends.
