Why Are You So Annoying?

Chapter 9

☾⛧ Make up lessons from Kookheon ⛧☽

Every morning always feels significantly new. Sometimes we get a good night sleep and sometimes we don't. Today, Hayi is neither of those two choices.

She remembers falling asleep right after sending Sejin's uncle a message then she woke up at past eight this morning. Technically speaking, she had enough sleep, but she feels exhausted. Hayi thinks her body got the rest, but her mind was just continuously running. She tried to take in some caffeine before leaving her house for her morning class, but that didn't help much.

Now, here she is, trying to walk as fast as she can to get to class on time. Her production class is on the 6th floor, and she had no energy to use the stairs to go up. Instead, she waited for the elevator along with the morning rush of students who are also anxious to get to their classes.

With five minutes left, she finally reached her class. This period is usually packed, and today is no exemption. As she runs her eyes through the crowded room, and she sees a hand waving towards her. There she sees Kookheon, her classmate for this course. Most of the time, she stirs away from him due to obvious reasons. But today, the last chair is unluckily beside him.

Hayi makes her way towards the back of the room before the class officially begins. "You're strangely late today." Kookheon blurts out as Hayi takes her sit. "Correction. I was almost late." She responds with a tired voice. On the other hand, Kookheon notices Hayi's pale face up close and says, "You look lifeless today." She can only nod her head since he is right after all. Kookheon continuously looks at her intently and says, "Try to put blush on next time."

It is unusual for Hayi to hear makeup advice from someone else aside from the Youtube tutorials she watches. She knows Kookheon majors in production design, and doing makeup is one of his fortes. "I don't know what's the current trends nowadays," Hayi responded to take advantage of this rare opportunity. "What do you recommend?" She carefully asks.

Kookheon almost jumped off from his seat out of excitement, "I recently found this product," he began as he takes out something from his bag. "This is from the brand 3CE, and it's called Take a Layer Multi Pot in the shade of Diotima." He opens the product to show it to Hayi. "It is a beige apricot color that will look natural on your skin tone!" He then takes her wrist to do a test swatch, and true enough, the color matches her very well. After confirming his guess, he professionally continued to put on the product on her cheeks. Hayi is amazed at how Kookheon skillfully applied it. "Now, you don't look so pale!" He said once he finished. "By the way, you have really long eyelashes. I think you don't even need any false lashes!"

His comment surprises her since Hayi never expected to get such a compliment. "Uhm... thanks." She awkwardly said as he put the product back to his bag. "Do you also do the wood stick trick?" Hayi asks when she remembered the viral video of a professional makeup artist. "Oh, that!" He said as he gives her his attention again. "Yes, I do." He continued before laughing by himself, which made Hayi confuse. "Sorry... I just remembered the first time I tried it." She waited for him to continue as he chuckles.

"The first time I did the wood stick trick to curl the eyelashes was way back my senior year in high school." He said once he calmed down. "I, obviously, do not want to try something dangerous on myself so I bribed someone to be my model." Hayi can already tell that this story won't end well. "I just followed the instructions, so I took the wood stick and hit it up with fire. I got a bit too excited and didn't check the stick's temperature before curling the lashes." Kookheon is now trying to hold back his laughter as he tells the result, "His eyelashes got burned and fell off!"

Hayi can't surpass her own laughter because of how tragic yet funny the story is. However, she pities that person for being Kookheon's guinea pig. "Good thing Yuvin's eyelashes luckily grew back even better than before, thanks to me!" Kookheon proudly states.

Of course, where Kookheon is, there Yuvin will also be. These two grew up together, and they would always come as a duo. Hayi, on the other hand, feels awkward upon hearing Yuvin's name as flashbacks of his long and beautiful eyelashes flood her mind. "You have to believe me!" Hayi's expression may have come off as doubtful so Kookheon defends himself and asks, "Have you seen his eyelashes?"

Those long eyelashes that frame his eyes well, "Ye- No! I haven't!" Hayi blurs out but caught herself before she spills any more information of last night's event. "I don't have any intention to look at it," she continues with full conviction.

"Do you mind sharing with us what you two are talking about?" The professor suddenly asks. Both of them embarrassingly sat up and apologized. Kookheon looks at her with a hint of mischief, but he didn't talk anymore to focus in class.

Hayi has never thought she'll feel so confused and embarrassed in her life. As she goes back to sitting, her phone vibrates. She takes it out and sees a message alert. Sejin's uncle responded to her message last night. As if her existing emotional turmoil is not enough, she now feels nervous to meet a big-time client. "At least, Sejin will be there," Hayi assures herself before she replies back.

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