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On days passed by,

Daehwi's POV:

What will I do? What if he finds out what I was trying to do? Am I gonna lose him? I'm already alone in this class even they think I'm a nice person they ever met. They don't know that some people hid their feelings behind those smiles to avoid their peers of a bothersome. I don't need someone to worry about me, which I'm the only one can worry them.

I flinched from this sudden hand in front of my table as my thought disturbed. I slowly traced this arm towards the face and I saw him again. When he knew I recognized him, he sat across me crossing his arms and deadly stared to my eyes. My mouth was occupied so I quickly munching them and tried to swallow as faster as I can leading me to choke. He arched his brow and help me to catch up my breath by slamming his hand behind my back. I coughed as I can finally got some air then lend me a water bottle. "Go drink it," he coldly offers and I did it.

It's sort of odd to witness this cold guy approached me first when I'm certain that I greeted him first everyday. Is he going to say we will be friends?! This would break his history since he don't dare to have someone to be with him, I giddily wondered. "Mr.Yoon told me..." he attempted. "To be friends with you..." he looked away. I don't know if he was avoiding eye contact or being shy, but I think I find it cute??

"Sure why no-" "I'm not finished yet," he cut me off abruptly as I didn't budge after that. Why so mean, I huffed. "I'll give you a deal, convince me that I trust you so we will be that way," he leaned towards the table, hands partly interlocked and rest infront of his mouth. "Friends?" I clarified which he snarls annoyingly but nodded anyway. "And if not?" I was curious. "Then you're just wasting my time to be with you," dryly responds.

"All of them see me that I don't have issues with me, complete requirements for every life they have, no problem on a certain arguements, never minding that I wouldn't bother such a thing cause I never miss out any good stuffs. I lost my mom, my dad abroad and had no intention to come back, me trying to keep them positive cause that's my role anyway," I briefly confessed my struggles throughout my hardships. Jinyoung, on ther other hand seemed listening to me attentively even his face is blank to say.

"I didn't come here for having an open forum, Daehwi," he glared, now I felt embarrassed and discouraged at the same time, I might burst into tears anytime. "But, I'll say, I can relate from what you admitted," which beamed my mood a bit, like I thought it was just me, but he could have different way.

Jinyoung pursed lips and wandering eyes, is he hesitating to tell about his worries? I was about to ask something but he continued, "Mr.Yoon tasked me to invite you going to the local library," he said, if this is the chance that we will be hanging out, it'll be so fun to know more about him! "Of course I would love to go there! I usually read books!" I twinkled my eyes thinking how many books that would struck me just from the title itself. "Welp, I don't," parted his gaze towards the other table which I tilted my head.

H

e doesn't look like he's serious at the moment. I can tell he's quite lonely to look at it. I heard he used to be alone, always arrive the school early cause he likes school, but not with his classmates. Then could it be, the food?!

He stood off the chair and laid his hands on his pockets, staring me back. "Meet me downstairs in a nick of time, I never wanted to wait anyone," then heels moved away from my table. I swallowed and bid goodbye to him behind, still on my seat. He turned to glance and proceeds stepping out the cafeteria. He turned! I excitedly yelped in my mind. For a few minutes without any notice, my food are done and heading back to my classroom.

I arrived my classroom and saw a boy wearing glasses busily occupied a book he holding. "Oh, where have you been?" Without a glance, I flinched that he suddenly asked when I didn't say a word to him or anyone. Maybe how I step that he recognize my gait sound.

"I was in the cafeteria," I sat in my assigned seat. "Sorry if I didn't accompany you, I got called by out Math teacher," he flipped the page to read then. "It's okay, I just got a surprise presence came to me," I slouched trying to peek what he was reading but he slammed the book close and placed it down on his desk. "Oh, well you got a lot of close peers here anyway," he thumbs up but I rather shaking my head no. "Not really, we barely talk I guess," Eric has no clue what I was talking about even I gave him some gestures and facial expressions.

"Uurgh, it's Jinyoung," he twitched his brow, expecting pretty bad to hear from me. "Go on," "He's offering to be my friend but," Eric simply leaned back with a disappointed face plastered along him. "NOT WHAT YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT! he got told by Mr. Yoon and so he just said it to me, then changed the subject," I exclaimed.

He placed his elbow on his desk, rubbing his chin like thinking some possible outcomes why he did that. "Maybe, he's not sure," he glimpsed me a bit and I admitted that he has trust issues. "You said, people barely trust you cause they know you are nice, too nice, which is sort of suspicious, yet they didn't ask you why are you that way," I rather looks at him in complete attentive then. "So...?" He crouched a bit, now placing his elbows below his laps then started making gestures. "It's like this, he want to know about you, yet it's really hard to make him believe you once, he opened up,"

This make sense to me, "How did you come up with that?!" I wondered out of the blue so he wheezes instead. "Observation, Daehwi, you should really need that when dealing some uncertainty with each other," few students are slowly adding up and our room are getting filled while we were conversing.

"I guess, I'll try?"

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