awkward °mark

(11) doodles

"you go home first. i need to see ms.han at the art room." hyewon says to sohye. she nods her head and left the school compound alone.

hyewon starts her walk to the art room at the third floor. she just needs go upstairs as her class was at the second.

hyewon knocks the door first before she entered. ms.han gave her a sweet smile.

"good evening, miss." she greets the teacher. "ah, hyewon. my beautiful and talented student, kang hyewon." ms.han complimented her causing her to blush a bit.

"come, sit here with me. i'd like to say something." she pats the stool next to hers. hyewon took the seat and made herself comfortable.

"my dear, you enjoy drawing cartoons, don't you?"

"well, yes. i guess?"

"i'd want you to represent our school for the art competition held in two weeks."

hyewon knits her eyebrows. she had never went to an art competition wether it be for fun or for real. she draws only for fun. never really considered it as a talent of hers.

"but, miss.. i only do doodles. i'm not really an artist. i don't think i could-"

"calm down, hyewon." the elder hold her shoulder. "it's not like a regular (huh?) art competition. it's meant for cartoonists like you. take this and think about it. i want answers by the end of this week." ms.han hands her a flyer about the competition and soon left just like that.

hyewon takes the flyer and stared at it. "all about fictional characters.... weird name. but cute i guess."

"i should go home now." she says to herself. she gets off of her seat and went downstairs, meeting lucas on the way.

"hey, lucas." she greets. "hyewon." he replied.

"what's that?" before he even gets his answer, he grabs the flyer from hyewon's hand. "wait-" hyewon tries to stop him but it was too late.

"what? you're going to enter this competition? with your silly amateur doodles?" he scoffed and hyewon pouted. "well, i can give it a try cause like.. we never know?"

"you should stay home and just eat your chips while watching some stupid anime. that's what you do best anyways." lucas crumpled the flyer and threw it somewhere.

"it's for the best." he smiled and ruffled her hair before he went off the other way.

with a sad look, hyewon picks the flyer up and tries to fix the crumpled piece of paper. "he's right. maybe i shouldn't. he said it's for the best. and he also said that he's always right." hyewon soon throws the flyer into a trashcan.

then, she leaves the school building. suddenly she felt a drop of cold water landed on her nose. then two drops. three. and finally she realized that it was raining. quickly, she runs to a tree and used it as shelter. though, the leaves weren't really helping.

"oh no, it's raining. why didn't i bring an umbrella?" hyewon looks up to the sky, seeing drops of liquid wets the earth. "seems like i have to stay here for a while." she pouts.

suddenly, she felt something shielding her from the rain. an umbrella. but who's?

she looked at the owner and saw,

"mark?"

"you need this?" he asks, referring to the umbrella. she nods impatiently. she takes the umbrella from mark's hand.

"thanks!" she exclaimed and went away with the umbrella, leaving mark all alone wet and cold.

mark was in disbelief. he thought that he could share the umbrella with her and walk her home like a gentleman. but it was onky in his head.

thankfully, hyewon came to her sense and stopped walking. she turned around to face him. she wasn't that far from the tree.

"wait.. you brought this umbrella to share it with me, didn't you?" she asked with a bashful face. mark nods his head slowly.

she face palmed herself, ashamed of her awkward self. "come here. i'm sorry."

mark quickly ran to the umbrella and they finally were under the same umbrella.

"i'll walk you home." he said. one hand holding the umbrella the other one he used to pull hyewon closer so they both won't get wet.

"i-i'm sorry b-but if you're far from me, m-my shoulder would get w-wet."

she smiled as she thought that mark was cute when he's all flustered. she pinches his cheek.

"oh my gosh, why didn't i met you before doyoung? i would've had a crush on you. you're so cute!"