The Close Strangers

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"Hyewonnie, do you have the notes of the last Mr. Jung's lecture?" Chan asks Hyewon as he stands beside her desk, followed by Mark and Felix.

One of their lectures on this day has just ended. Mark, along with Felix and Chan, take the external class which makes them being separated from the rest of the boys who are in a different class as them.

Hyewon nods before taking out the notebook and give it to Chan.

"You know, this guy will only take a picture of your notes, but won't ever read it even before the midterm examination," Felix says jokingly with a lollipop in his mouth as he points at Chan.

"Shut up, Felix," Chan takes out his phone to take a picture of Hyewon's note, "I'm pretty sure you're talking about yourself."

Mark and Hyewon chuckle at the same time. Hyewon is actually pretty shy among her other close friends. She doesn't talk a lot because she prefers to read her note or read a novel. Even so, she really takes care of herself, judging by how she always put so much effort to look beautiful every single day.

"Anyway, Hyewonnie, you live in the university's dorm, right?" Chan asks her at the time he finishes taking pictures.

The girl who doesn't realize that she hasn't opened her mouth to talk in response nods for a couple of times, waiting for Chan to asks more about it.

"How's there? I kind of want to move there since I realize that taking the subway every day starts to kill me slowly."

"It all actually depends on what aspects you are talking about," Hyewon replies, finally releasing a sound from her mouth.

They start to talk about the dormitory as the four of them leave the classroom. Mark walks beside Felix, following Chan and Hyewon from behind. They go to the cafeteria since the rest of their friends are already in there.

"OH, here they are!" Lucas exclaims as he points Mark and the others once he sees them from the table.

Hyewon joins Yoojung and Yuqi who are sitting on the table next to where Lucas and Jihoon are.

Mark takes a seat before stealing some fries from Jihoon who doesn't do anything besides squinting his eyes, meanwhile, Lucas leaves the table to buy some food with Yuqi.

"You better buy your lunch immediately since we have a class in thirty minutes," Chan says to Mark.

"Well, aren't you going to eat?" Mark asks him, receiving a headshake from his friend.

"You should eat," Felix suddenly joins the conversation, "I heard your stomach growled in the middle of the lecture earlier."

Chan smacks Felix right away, causing the Australian boy to protect himself with his arms spontaneously, "It was Mark's stomach!"

"I'm sorry?" Mark chuckles in disbelief, "It was obviously you, Lee Chan."

"My stomach didn't do it, Lee Minhyung," Chan responds.

"You know I don't like people to call me with that name except for my family!" Mark complains as he whines loudly.

"Listen, instead of fighting over whose stomach growled, you better buy some lunch now," Jihoon says in annoyance while checking the time which keeps going on his watch.

Mark stands up before dragging Chan to go with him.

"You're saving your money again, aren't you?" Mark asks him as they line up to order.

Chan shakes his head, but Mark knows he lies. All of them know how Chan really likes to save his money to buy books and other things he wants to, but the wrong thing is, this boy even let himself craving for the whole day just to save his money.