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8

The boy seemed to have realized someone was staring at him. He looked up, sweeping a frosty glance over Lisa, jolting her back from her dreams. Treating her as thin air, he left the shelter without any emotion evident on his face.

Only when the back view of the guy could no longer be seen did Lisa walk towards the bus stop. Right then, the bus arrived. Lisa tapped her card and sat down by the window. Looking out at the thoroughly washed city, the memory of the boy from before flashed past her mind.

The third year of middle school was a critical period, Lisa's thoughts were quickly swept by a sea of questions, but whenever she took a break, the boy from before would cloud her mind.

However, she didn't meet him even in graduation. Yet on the first day of high school, she and Jennie met Jimin and through him, she met the boy from her memories.

Unlike Lisa, that boy, seemed to have forgotten their meeting in the rain. When Jimin had introduced them, he nodded his head coldly, not even bothering to open his mouth. Lisa only found out his name from Jimin afterwards.

Jeon Jungkook. That night, when Lisa was leaning on her desk studying, she couldn't help but write those two words in her book.

Those two words consisted of many strokes. Slowly but very seriously, she wrote each stroke neatly into her book. With each stroke, Jungkook was not only engraved in her book but also in her mind and her young heart.

In her high school, the classes were separated according to grades. Jimin and Jungkook had excellent grades, both entering the first class. Lisa and Jennie both had mediocre grades, entering the third class.

Jimin and Lisa were close and would often hang out together, hence the frequency of her meeting Jungkook increased significantly. With each meeting, she started to pay more attention to him, and late at night, when she lay on her bed, the frequency at which she thought of him would also increase.

Gradually, it became an obsession. Whenever she went to the washroom, she would deliberately pass the first class just to sneak a peek at him. When she managed to catch a glance of his familiar form, her heart would thump uncontrollably, but whenever he wasn't around, her day would dim slightly. After class, she would drag her friends to the field for a jog, acting as though she was there to exercise when her true intention was to watch Jungkook play basketball.

After year one, Lisa was sure that Jungkook would pick science major so she followed along blindly. She also found out that the classes would be separated according to the grades once again. In order to enter the same class as Jungkook, she studied hard for the very first time in her life. 　

It wasn't that Lisa didn't get tired, but knowing she would be in the same class as Jungkook gave her a strong drive to carry on.

She persisted and was rewarded with surprisingly good grades in the exam that would decide her class. All the teachers were shocked, naming her the black horse.