Tae Shin is a simple boy with simple dreams, who likes to hide his half-forgotten past into the shadows of his low self-esteem. Kim JaeHwan is a sole heir to a gigantic multi-billion conglomerate, who likes to reminisce the ghosts of his happy child...
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Tae Shin tapped his pencil to his lips, his eyes glazed in a daydream and his legs swinging in a make believe rhythm.
"Shinnie?" SooMin poked his arm. "What is wrong?"
Shin snapped out of his memory induced drooling and zoomed back in reality. He quickly pulled his legs up in a cross legged position on the chair and sighed dreamily. "Noona… I think JaeHwan Senior is cool."
A sly smile lit up SooMin's face. "Cool, how?"
"He works so hard," Shin said, his eyes wistfully appreciating the paper giraffe of SooMin study desk and lips parted in a lazy, sloppy grin. "And his arms are so thick… I bet he could do anything he wants."
"You want to be like him?" SooMin put her own pencil down and sighed, somehow pleased by looking at Shin's stupid stupor. She reached for her phone and took a photo of him, for future blackmail purposes, as Shin very much looked like a junkie high on weed.
"Yea…" Shin said, his eyes still glazed. "He's voice is so deep and everyone listens to him, he's like, so important, you know? And JaeHwan Senior is so cool…"
"Yeah I get it, I get it," SooMin said, slightly irritated by the unsolicited praise of JaeHwan she had not consented to hear. "He's like the God of your school. But listen, Tae Shin, don't get to close —"
"I know," Shin gushed, "but he's a good person, Noona. He won't hurt me, ever."
"Good for you then," SooMin said genuinely. It did hurt that Shin wasn't spending as much time with her as he did earlier, but he was a little lonely soul and SooMin wanted only the best people around him. Although it did irritate her a little every time Shin's new smartphone buzzed and he jumped to look at it. He would smile at the phone and take his sweet time to reply back something, and then he would spend the next fifteen minutes conversing with that God awful boy.
"But their prices are steep, Shinnie. Don't take many favours from them."
Kang SooMin had seen Kim JaeHwan before. A few times, here and there, in the parties that were thrown in YoonJae's house. She had never paid much attention to him, other than the fact that JaeHwan and YoonJae never went along really well. JaeHwan was always with his friends, none of which SooMin remembered, but something had always struck her about that group. The way they looked down at everyone with a casual condescension. One would feel insulted just by holding their gazes.
SooMin could only hope that Shin wouldn't be too hurt.
"You have that field trip tomorrow morning, right?"
"Yes," Shin replied, "I'll be gone from morning to evening. By the way, do you have any old electronic gadgets you could give me?"
"I have a few charger cables, and an old printer. But won't that be too much for you to carry?"
