I got home from school after taking the bus. Taking the bus takes longer than the train for me, but I wasn't willing to keep switching train lines to get home.
I unlocked the front door and came inside, my mother home. She's in the kitchen, and the smell of seaweed soup fills up the whole house. I take off my shoes and lock the door, running up to her.
I give her a back hug and she flinches but laughs when she notices that it's me.
"How was school today?" She asked while cutting up green onions.
"It was fine." I breathe out of relief to see her.
"Did you make any new friends?"
"Oh God, no." I make a disgusted face.
"Eric comes back on Wednesday. He's really the only friend I have, and Soyeon is too busy to talk to me" I pout.
"At least Eric is coming back! He's a good kid." My mom exclaims.
"Yeah, I agree. Well.. I'm gonna go upstairs." I let go of my mom.
"See you, Jihyun-ah"
I walk upstairs, taking a quick shower. When I was finished I sat at my desk while drying my hair with a towel, checking my messages between Eric and I.
ericpoopoo: hey hyunnie~
jihyunnn: miss u ;(
ericpoopoo: miss you too dummy hehe. at least I'm coming back in two days!! i get to see you
jihyunnn: guess who i'm working with for a project
ericpoopoo: 🦉🦉🦉
jihyunnn: sunwoo -.-
ericpoopoo: BAHAHAHAHA my FRIEND sunwoo?? rlly??
jihyunnn: it isn't funny u doofus. this project will take months to complete and i have to work with HIM. if u guys are friends, why can't u 2 work together ?? T^T
ericpoopoo: it doesn't work like that bby but i'll use my ultra handsome skills and looks to convince mr kimmy so that i can work with you guys
jihyunnn: ur skills never work then
ericpoopoo: bye jihyun -.-
I laugh, and then I suddenly get a message from an unknown number. I raise my eyebrows in confusion, reading the message.
(***-***-****): Hi it's Sunwoo
I nod to myself and change his contact name.
kim sunwoo: I just wanted to text you so you know it's me
kang jihyun: oh alright
kim sunwoo: What are you doing right now? Are you busy?
kang jihyun: i'm not doing much, why what's up
kim sunwoo: Can I come over so we can work on the project
I freeze up a bit, not knowing what to say. I didn't know how to react, since I've never invited a boy over my house before. Plus, my mom is home.
kang jihyun: what about your house? i can come over
kim sunwoo: You can't. Just, let me come over yours. What's your address?
kang jihyun: 36 ****** **
kim sunwoo: I'll be over shortly ^^
I turn my phone off and change into sweatpants, since I was wearing pajama shorts. I was already wearing a hoodie so I didn't need to change my top. I leave my phone on the desk and go back downstairs to let my mom know.
She's still in the kitchen cooking, as usual. I lean on the counter and speak up.
"Mom," I begin. "A friend is coming over to work on a project with me, okay?"
"A friend?" She looks back at me, smiling.
"Did Eric come back early?" She asked me.
"No, it's someone else. It's not Soyeon, either."
Her eyes widen and her smile gets bigger.
"You're finally making new friends. I'm proud of you, Jihyun."
"Mother, it's not like I haven't had other friends in years.." I pout.
"It's exactly like that, sweetie." She laughs, teasing me.
"Hmph. Whatever." I smile.
"Come taste the soup."
I walk over next to her, and she blows on a spoon with soup in it. I wait for her to stop blowing on it and then she feeds me it, while I'm just carefully sipping on it just in case it's still hot.
"It's good.. but.. add a little more salt and sugar. And more seaweed." I nod.
"My little chef." She says sarcastically.
The doorbell rings and I walk over to it, opening the door. It's the bright red haired boy again, Sunwoo. He looks at me and gives me a small smile, but he seemed a bit saddened.
"Come inside." I say to him.
He comes in and takes off his shoes. My mother walks up to us and smiles at him, Sunwoo bowing to her.
"Hello, Mrs. Kang. It's nice to meet you" he smiles at her.
"It's nice to meet you too! Work hard~" My mom pats my head.
We nod and go upstairs into my room. He awkwardly looks around, then decides to sit on the window seat. I go into my backpack and take out my biology notebook, putting it on my desk.
Luckily the desk was next to the window seat where Sunwoo was sitting.
"I went ahead and planned everything out already, I doubt you came up with anything." I say, flipping to a page.
"Well- I.." his voice trailed off.
"It was expected, that's fine." I scoff a little.
He stands up and looks over at my notes, examining my drawing for the project. I glance at him and he's focusing really hard on the drawings, as if he was actually taking the time to read it and study it.
"I think it's good. We should have more hypotheses, though, to have a better base start." He looks at me.
His use of vocabulary throws me off. He seemed like he knew what he was talking about.
"That's what I was thinking, too. Just wanted to see if you agreed." I nod, agreeing with him.
We both sit on the floor, reading off our own textbooks to create more notes in the notebook. It was mostly silent, except for the times we discussed about the work.. until he spoke up.
"Jihyun."
"Hm?" I hum in response, writing down notes.
"I know how you think of me, it's obvious."
"That isn't related to the work." I shake my head, not paying attention to him.
"I know you think I'm just a fuck boy." He sighs.
"You're exactly right." I nod, still not paying any attention to him.
".. that's okay. You can have your own opinions." He hesitates to say something else.
"I know. Let's get back on topic." I say.
"Right.." he mumbles.
For the whole afternoon, we worked on taking notes and collecting information about the topic we were doing a project on.
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partners ⁀➷ k.sw ✓
Fanfictionkang jihyun gets partnered up with kim sunwoo, a popular boy in school, to do a school project that was going to take months to finish; she had thought that he was like any other stereotypical popular boy.. was she right, or was she wrong about him...
