I saw a shooting star (and I thought of you)

Chapter 1: Falling

Yuri dropped her stack of books on her table, causing a loud bang, but she was too exhausted to react. As she sat down at her desk, she stared at her physics textbook, 'I hate you', she muttered.

'Yah! Jo Yuri!' her best friend and roommate runs into her room, angrily stomping her frog slippers. 'Just because you have morning lectures and come back at 11am doesn't mean you always have to disrupt my beauty sleep!'

'Go away, Minguri, I'm too stressed to argue back' Yuri closed her eyes and started massaging her temples, hoping her roommate would just go back to her room and sleep.

But annoyingly, Minju wasn't that kind of friend. 'That bad, huh?' she asked, worriedly. Knowing Yuri, who was always on top of all her work and loved her course, she knew something was seriously wrong.

Yuri opened her eyes to see Minju had laid down on Yuri's bed and was playing with her stuffed animals.

'I mean, why the hell does Physics have so much astronomy involved? I chose this course for the mechanics and nuclear physics, not to learn about some stupid stars and planets' Yuri groaned angrily, 'I'm not even dumb, this module is just stupid!'

Minju got up and walked over to give the girl a hug as she stroked her hair, 'You know, Chaewon has a friend that's an astronomy major...do you want me to ask if she can help you?'

Yuri pulled away to stare at the girl with hopeful eyes , 'Are you kidding? That would be so helpful!'

'Cool, they're roommates so I'll talk to her next time I go to their apartment. From what I remember, her name is Yena. Choi Yena'

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Yuri pouted as she fiddled with her pen, that Yena girl was 20 minutes late. If she wasn't so desperate for tutoring, she would have probably left 19 minutes ago.

Just as she was thinking about packing up her things, a loud crash came from the entrance. Yuri turned her head and saw a girl carrying a large telescope and apologising to the librarian for the ruckus she was causing but didn't seem to have any intention of stopping.

Oh god, please don't be Choi Yena. Yuri begged as she turned back around to avoid eye contact, picking up her pen and pretending to write.

Out of the corner of her eyes, she could see the girl shuffling around the library, tapping people on the shoulder and asking them if they were Jo Yuri. Oh crap.

After bothering a couple of people, Yena resorted to going on her phone, most likely texting Minju or Chaewon. Yuri couldn't stand to watch her struggle anymore so she quickly gathered her stuff and ran over.

'Hi! You're Choi Yena right?' Yuri stood in front of the girl and smiled brightly.

Putting her phone away in her pocket, the girl looked up, 'And you must be Jo Yuri. I've been looking everywhere for you'

'Well i was sat right there', she pointed to her seat '...we said we would meet in the library in our texts...'

'No, I distinctly remember saying to meet AT the library. As in outside of it. I thought it'd be easier than asking you to make your own way to the observatory' Yena pushed up her glasses and shrugged her shoulders, 'But it's okay, we found each other eventually! Let's get going!' Yena turned her heel and began to walk off before Yuri even had the chance to reply.

Running to keep up with the older girl, Yuri panted, 'Why are we going to the observatory? I thought you were going to tutor me'

'Well, Minju told me that you hated astronomy so I thought we should start by changing that'

'It's not a matter of liking it, it's a matter of passing this module and never looking back' Yuri couldn't imagine anything worse than staring at the sky for the whole evening.