Byun Baekhyun has a huge crush on Kim Taeyeon, a senior in the same school he's attending. He doesn't know how to approach her, so he asks help from Nam Hyora. She agrees to help him, only to regret her decision a bit too late.
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May has finally arrived, and gone were the carefree days of April. Although the weather was perfect for picnics and outdoor activities, students were slumped in their desks day and night, reading textbooks, answering tests, and self-studying on the internet. Baekhyun, having promised Hyora to help her with Chanyeol, didn't even had the chance due to their hectic schedules.
The Seniors are particularly working even harder, for their college tests were only a few months away. Even devil-may-care Luhan have succumbed to the pressure of being a 12th grader.
But on one particular night, Nam Hyora wasn't working on anything academic at all. It was eating her inside to be staring at her desk in utter frustration, the huge amount of homework and readings screaming for her attention.
Yet she paid those no mind, for she was focusing on something far more important.
Baekhyun was turning eighteen tomorrow, and she hadn't got him anything.
Groaning, she slammed her head on her palms, her elbows on the desk. If I hadn't been so busy I would have got him something!
What frustrated her even more was the undeniable fact that she was worrying so much over such a petty thing. It's just the loser's birthday, right? He celebrates those every year, so why even bother?
But then her mind would stray to Baekhyun's face, that awkward, pale, flawless, beautiful—
Wait. What?!
Hyora fought the urge to scream, afraid to distract Hanna from her own studies.
Even thinking about Hanna and her mother, Haejin, was eating her alive. Other than her studies, she was working her ass off by accepting more commissions for her artworks and even started doing other students' art projects for a good price. She needed to help the family, because if she won't, she wouldn't handle living in this house being a huge burden.
But now she wasn't even doing any of those, all because of this annoying loser that kept pestering her mind.
And then it came to her so suddenly, an idea so bright it affected the expression on her face.
A broad smile tugged at her lips, finally thinking of a birthday present that was so simple yet one of a kind.
Why hasn't this arrived to her earlier, when this was the one thing she couldn't live without?
Her blood pounding in excitement, she grabbed her box of art materials and opened her notebook for her drafts, the gears in her mind immediately working to imagine a sketch.
Of course! An artwork!
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The next morning, Baekhyun woke up to a number of text messages, all of them consisting of birthday greetings. After replying his thanks to them, he closed his eyes again and yawned, reveling in his special day.
