THREE YEARS AGO
Classroom
Sooyeon's friends had held a surprise birthday party during break for her when she just transferred to her school. Park Sooyeon was a pretty introvert who didn't really like celebrating but only gave in to her friend's begging. After singing happy birthday, cutting the cake, eating the cake and whatnot, they decided to play a game of dare and dare in hopes of helping Sooyeon break out of her comfort zone.
In their class was a famous handsome duo Kang Woo Jin and his second-hand man Cha Min. Woo Jin was well-known as the cold-hearted heartthrob who decreased the room temperature wherever he went. However, his polar opposite best friend was somehow always bubbly and energetic.
The class gathered around Sooyeon while Woo Jin reluctantly joined because Min dragged him to the circle despite knowing he'll get beaten up for it later. Min successfully managed to make him join the circle and coincidently he had seated his friend right across from the birthday girl. A wide grin spread on his face when he came up with an idea to set his single friend up. The others were surprised to see the Great Kang Woo Jin join them but pretended as if nothing was out of the ordinary.
Using a water bottle, one of their classmates spun the bottle and it landed on Park Sooyeon. They all cheered when it landed on her but then realised on the other end of the bottle, was the one and only Kang Woo Jin. As if it had landed on the devil himself. Everyone tried to come up with a dare that would hopefully not offend Woo Jin the Great in any sort of way.
After what seemed like forever, Cha Min spoke up and almost gave everyone a heart attack.
"I dare both of you to look into each other's eyes for one minute. Simple."
Everyone knew that it was impossible to stare into the eyes of this cold-hearted guy for one minute, let alone five seconds. If you could look at him in the eyes for at least two seconds, it was a miracle that you were still alive.
The classroom was filled with silence as soon as they set up two desks facing each other and had the two victims of their little dare game sit facing each other. Cha Min set the timer and the two people who sat before him began their minute-eye-contact game. For Woo Jin, he felt as if time had frozen and he found himself lost in eyes that resembled pools of golden honey. Sooyeon had also lost herself in her opponent's eyes that seemed like two dark bottomless holes which triggered curiosity in her heart. It made her want to be the light in those lifeless eyes. Both were in a trance when they were suddenly brought back to reality by Min's timer going off. Min didn't realise a minute had passed until he felt Woo Jin's icy glare. In fact, the whole room didn't move until they heard one word. Cold and clear, "Next."
Everyone snapped out of their daze and continued on with the game. The bottle was spun five times until it landed on Sooyeon and Woo Jin again. Again, the noise level dropped, and everyone relied on Min to come up with another dare for them. Min gulped when he saw everyone's hopeful gaze on him, but before he could open his mouth to spout another useless dare Sooyeon cut him off which took everyone by surprise even the cold prince himself.
"I dare you-"