I felt a bright light on my face, making my eyes squint awake. I woke with a throbbing in my head and my neck. I looked around and surveyed my surroundings through the grogginess in my eyes, I was in an unfamiliar place. I tried getting up but winced as I held my neck. The cut was now covered with gauze. My limbs felt heavy, and the heavier duvet wasn't helping. I freeze as I relzie I
'Where was I?' I thought to myself. I scratch my head trying to clear the foggy memories in my head.
I look down to see that I was wearing an oversized light blue, long sleeve shirt with black basketball shorts. My eyes dart around the room as I try to find my uniform. I try to swing my legs off my the bed in a hurry to find my clothes and figure out where I was, but my legs give out from under me. I fall, causing a loud crash onto the marble floor. I wince as I hold my arm in pain. Why couldn't I move?
My heartbeat starts to quicken as I tried to come up with an escape plan.
"Looks like someones awake after being asleep for 2 and a half days.." I turned towards the direction of the voice and see a tall man with a mask and a hat standing by the staircase. I again can't really make out his face as I squint to see what face lies behind the mask.
"I-I am sorry for troubling you. I'll get going now." I said in a hurry feeling embarrassed,
"No, eat then leave." He said while nodding his head towards the kitchen. I stand up and walked over to him.
"Let's get you breakfast, yea." He said and with that, we walked into the mysterious man's kitchen. There was already food on the counter and he sat me at the counter and watched as I stuffed my face.
"Aren't you going to ask why I am wearing a mask?" He asks, watching me stuff my face with boiled eggs.
"No," I said wiping the edges of my mouth, "you probably have an excuse I shouldn't pry."
I can see him look away but it looks like he's hiding a smile by the way his eyes lift.
"But now that we are on the topic... Who are you, sir?" I say still trying to get a good look at the man.
"Haru-" He stops himself, his eyes widen at what he had done.
"How do you know my name?" I lean forward towards him again, trying to look at his face more."Do you go to my school?"
"Anyways hurry up and finish eating you still have to go to school." He says, turning around in a hurry.
"Isn't today Saturday?"
"You slept for 2 days, it's Monday."
"Crap!" I say while speed eating and finishing my plate of food. I run and grab my clothes from the living room and dash to the kitchen again. The man is still standing there.
"Uhm... Thank you for..uhm..."
"It's fine," the mystery guy says cutting me off. I put aside my pride for a second and touch the mystery guy's arm and look him in the eyes.
"No really, Thank you."
He avoids eye contact and I pull away.
" Well, I better get dressed and leave first..since uh..ya know. you probably want some privacy..." I was stumbling over my words like an idiot and walking backward away from him. I bump into a vase but luckily catch it before it crashed into the floor. I am a mess.
"Bathrooms upstairs on the left." He says while pointing up.
"Ah~ okay thank you, I'll be quick," I say and run upstairs and slip into the bathroom.
I look into the mirror and my cheeks are burning hot. I splash cold water onto my face and hear a knock on the door and I open it and the mystery man is standing outside with a comb and a toothbrush.
"Here." He hands them to me timidly as if I will find some way to break them.
"Thank you," I say and smile and get back to getting ready at the speed of light.
I finish getting ready at a record time of 9 minutes. I step out of the bathroom and walk around looking for the mysterious man. I got to the door at the end of the hall and softly knocked but there was no answer, I was naive but not to the point where I'd walk in like the girls in the dramas. I went down the stairs and left a note saying that I was off. I walked to school which was really close by. It could either be a coincidence or that the mysterious guy attended our school...
'Ah, Haru you need to stop acting like you are an investigator. Stop overthinking everything.' I think to myself as I focus on getting to school in one piece.
I get to school and sit at my desk pulling my books out and wait for the lesson to start. My mind started to drift and think of the night. What did that one leader say? What could've happened if the mystery guy didn't come? And who was this mystery guy? How did he know my name? Things weren't adding up in my head at all. I was woken out of my thinking when someone tapped me from the back. I turned around to find Mateo smiling at me.
"Good Morning, how was your weekend?"He asks, giving me a genuine smile.
"I slept through it haha!" I say trying to laugh through my trauma.
"Are we still hanging out on Friday?" He asks, eagerly awaiting my answer.
"Of course! I can't wait!" I really was excited. Other than Kenji, I've never actually been alone with a guy before.
"I am excited to! I-" Mateo was cut off when Dae Hyun walked in and slams the door behind him, He walked to his seat and threw his bag down. I look at Mateo and mouthed to him to talk later. I turned back around and looked at Dae Hyun. He was always in a sour mood in the morning but nothing like this before. What was up his rear?
He turned and glared at me and I glared at him.
And the game began. Neither of us blinked or made a sound. The class went quiet too, so quiet that you could hear a spider coughing. The teacher came in a few seconds later and we both turned and looked at her ignoring each other.
I was really starting to wonder why he hated me so much? No one knew who my father was and I haven't really done anything wrong since I transferred here. I put Dae Hyun aside and started to take notes to distract myself from his burning glare.
"Okay Class with your new-found knowledge of song composition you will get into a group of three and create your own songs and later perform with your group-" Ms.Kim was cut off when everyone cheered that we would be doing a group project
"-That I assign." She interjects. The students stopped cheering and the class went back to its solemn mood.
"Ah, I hope I am with Dae Hyun" one girl whispered looking at him dreamily.
"NO! He is MINE!" the other whispered, hitting her friend in the head.
Dae Hyun smirked and winked at the girls which put them in a weird fangirl frenzy.
"Tch- so cocky.." I muttered under my breath. The teacher droned on about the project and started putting us in groups.
"Baharan, Jackson, and Yeon-Seok; Yura, Sojin, and May; Yong Sun, Hyeri, and Yujin" She went on until she called my name
"Haru, Mateo...."
I turned around and smiled at the exciting Mateo behind me.
....and Dae Hyun. Okay, get to work! This is due on Wednesday." She says as she finishes up the grouping of the assignment. The smirk that was on his face disappeared and he gave me a blank expression. I looked down at my desk and we all stayed like that for a good 5 minutes Until Mateo cleared his throat and spoke.
" So guys we only have today and tomorrow to work on this, So I say we go to my house after school today and get it over with"
"That's fine by me. How about you Dae Hyun?" I say looking over at him rolling his eyes.
"kay." He says shortly.
"Okay Haru, give me your number so I could text you the address," Mateo says, pulling out his phone.
"Ah~ okay," I say reading him my phone number, my cheeks burning the entire time.
I gave Mateo my number and we discussed what kind of theme the song would have. Daehyun was weirdly silent. I glance over to him from my paper I was writing and see that he was sitting quietly and observing me while I talked to Mateo.
Why was he looking at me like that?