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C H A P T E R O N E .
"—is change for the better or worse?"
A sigh escaped my lips as I finally sat down, tired from all the running that I did just to get here on time, but apparently our prof was running late as well. I grabbed my towel and wipe the sweat on my face,
"Why are you late?" Jaemin, my best friend asked and I rolled my eyes
"I'm not late," I said, "you're just early," I tried to find a comb,since I know that I look like a mess, but to my dismay I don't have one,
"Here," he placed a black comb on my desk, "hurry up and brush your hair, you look ugly," he snorted which made me roll my eyes
I then started combing my hair, "why are you bullying me?" I pouted
He giggled and shouted, "cute!" Before pinching my cheeks, "you know that I'm only joking, right?"
I hissed and glared at him while trying to push his hands away from my face, but I didn't succeed so I huffed, "nana, it hurts," he quickly pulled away but smiled ever so widely, as I placed the comb down and soothed my red cheeks, "it hurts," I pouted,
With his infamous smile still plastered on his face he let put a squeal before attacking me with a bone—crushing—hug, "You're so cute," he remarked and kept on hugging the heck out of me,
I just sigh, since I'm so used to this, it's like a thing we do to keep being friends, everything is simply part of my daily routine—yes, getting hugged to death by my weird best friend is part of it, but what's not is being stared for way too long by the quiet exchange student who sits right across the room, not wanting to have a bad image to someone who actually transferred a few weeks ago, I smiled—but it somehow ended up being an awkward one,
I mentally slapped myself as he might interpret it in a wrong way—he cant either think that I was feeling uncomfortable under his gaze or that I am silently crying out for help since I'm being tackled by a huge weirdo.
I still kept on smiling and waited for him to smiled back but he didn't, instead he looked away coldly and turn his body around, fully ignoring me, which actually made me sad or mad
"Well that's rude," I mumbled
"Rude?" Jaemin asked and finally let met go, "who's rude?" He asked looking around to find the rude guy
I shook my head, "it's nothing, don't worry—"
"Sorry, I'm late," our professor burst in, his necktie not neatly tied and his hair was messy, he coughed and placed his things on his desk, "okay, class, we'll change seats," he announced and he earned both whines and squeals, some may be contented with their seat mates and some wants a change
As Mr. Lee call out names, and started arranging seats, I grew anxious as I've never been seated with anyone beside Jaemin and Seungmin who by the way was transferred to China in a replacement for the new guy, I looked at my best friend who is already looking at me
"Jae, he won't separate us, right?" I asked and he nodded showing his smile
He slang his arm around my shoulder and giggled, "don't worry, (name), I'm sure he won't change our seats since we're practically at the back of the class, so don't worry," he assure and I smiled
But boy I was wrong, "Lee Donghyuck, Na Jaemin, please exchange seats," Mr. Lee announced and I gasped, not only that my best friend is going to seat across the room but I'm also arranged to be with Lee Donghyuck, the loudest, nosiest and naughtiest in our room,
I looked up to Jaemin who's gathering his stuff, he looked at me sadly, "don't worry, (name), it's not like I'm leaving, I'm just seating right across the room," he said before pointing the abandoned seat Donghyuck had left and the Chinese boy who had his head hanging low, Jaemin smiled before finally making his way to the other side of the room
"Well, that was dramatic," I heard someone said behind me, I looked up and see Donghyuck, smiling sheepishly at me, "hello, nice to meet you, I'm Donghyuck, I hope you are way more fun than Jeno—Jam and that Ren something guy," he said and shake my hand,
"What's your name, by the way?"
"(Full name)," I said, "nice to meet you," I added, before bowing slightly
He giggled again, "stop being so formal, loosen up a bit, and please be funny, that's all I'm asking," he said and I laughed
"Well, I guess I can be friends with you after all," I laughed
The brown haired boy slightly tilted his head, I smiled, "I mean you are just as insane and weird like my best friend," I looked at Jaemin who is already having a conversation with Jeno, and the Chinese guy, I still don't know his name tho. Donghyuck followed my gaze and he nodded his head
"So you're best friends with the one and only, Na Jaemin, huh?", he then asked again, "since when?"
I shrugged, "since the day our mothers set us up and let us play, which is probably when we were around two or three years old,"
Donghyuck's mouth fell agape, "wow, that's so cool, I also have a best friend!" He said excitedly, his eyes shining
I smiled, "tell me about him—"
"It's a girl, and she is the complete opposite of me, which often made me ask myself why am I friends with that girl," he said and I laughed, "but I don't know, we still get along well," he said
I smiled, "That's great to hear," I said, "is she also here in Seoul? I mean I just really wanted to meet her, she seems nice," I scratched my nape, I sounded like a creep
He giggled, "sadly, she's not here in Seoul, she's still in Jeju, but she said she'll come here and go to the same college I'm going," his eyes shone again, as if he is looking at stars, maybe she is like a star to him
"Great I want to meet her too," I laughed and so did he, but I catch the quiet guy looking at my direction again, and just like what happened earlier—
