"It seems everything I've said and done were all in vain, because of you my actions don't match my words, should I just stop now? Should I really give up and let you win, but how do I know you won't hurt me like the rest of them, how can I really trust your eyes, your innocent eyes are they real?"
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The bell rang for lunch so as usual I made my way to the cafeteria to meet with the others. Joey soon noticed me in the crowd of students and teachers and made her way towards me taking my hand pulling me along with her. "Siyeon-ah what do you want for lunch? Tell me, I'll buy it for you." Joey says with a smile.
"You don't have to do that I can pay for it myself." I told her but she then insisted making a big fuss about it, she was so cute, how could I begin to say no to her further, I ended up letting her do as she wanted. Joey was that one friend I had who was really childish and made me want to look after her, despite that really kind and considerate of others.
After a while the others then showed up as I was waiting for Joey to return with our lunch "Where's Joey?" Sua asked scanning the area as she could not find her. I simply pointed in the direction of the line and she let's out an 'ohh' and nods.
As for Seol the moment she saw me she tackled me with a hug and squeezed me tightly, squishing our faces togther "Missed you." She says still holding me.
I knew this was her way of apologizing to me, I would always end up easily forgiving her when she acted like that and she knew it, I rolled my eyes giving her the cold shoulder pretending to still be mad as I turned my head away from her.
"Oh come on. you know you love me." She says and I don't respond to her, she then kisses my neck repeatedly and squishes my cheeks which she knows I hate.
"Algesso, algesso, hajima," (Okay, okay, stop it!) "Neoneun yongseo bad-assda." (You're forgiven.) I say pushing her away.
"Let's hurry, the others might already be there." Seol says with a satisfied smile and almost on queue Joey now returns with both hers and my lunch so we go directly up to the roof.
"Oppa!!!" Joey expresses with a smile as she runs towards Lucas (Acting and Music Major) the moment she saw him.
Upon hearing her call Lucas looks up with a smile and embraces his Sister then ruffling her hair as Seol, Sua and Lucas's friends, Kihyun (Acting Major) , Yuta (Music Major) and Haechan (Dance Major) just stared at the two shaking their heads. Before Yuta invites us to take a seat.
It felt nice to sit on the roof and have lunch with them, the roof was like our secret place where we would just hang out, it was great to be away from everyone else, the times we spent together made me happy, since they helped me through a lot.
I suddenly looked around in confusion before asking "Where's Ten?" (Photography and Art Major.)
"He had some work to finish so he won't be coming today." Lucas informs me as he takes a bite out of a sandwich.
"Oh." I reply in understanding.
I guess I'll see him after lunch. I thought considering the fact he and I had art together.
Ten was a very close friend of ours and he was the only guy Seol could have a conversation with and not end up fighting or arguing. Lucas and his friends were fourth years so they would be graduating soon, Ten however was a second year like the rest of us.
"So, is anyone going to the dance at the end of the month?" Kihyun then asks making us all stop eating and turn our attention to him.
"Who? These girls? Joey, Sua and Siyeon maybe have a chance of being asked but who would want to ask Seol, with her bad temper she'll end up going alone." Haechan laughs and Seol immediately takes her shoes off and started throwing them at him which he effortlessly dodges still teasing her.
"Oh shut up!" She grumbles, giving him the stink eye still threatening him with a shoe, he sticks his tongue out at her in response making me roll my eyes.
"Yay! If you two keep fighting like that you'll end up married to each other." Sua says.
"HAH!!! That's never going to happen." Haechan expressed causing everyone to laugh.
"I'm not going to the dance." I said taking a bite of sushi with chopsticks in hand, everyone suddenly went silent so I looked up at all of them. "What?" I asked in confusion as they stared at me.
"Is there a reason why you don't want to go?" Yuta asked me.
I swallowed my food before answering him "The dance is for couples, I'm not interested in that stuff, so why go."
"Oh come now, don't be like that, who knows what might happen later on, besides if you don't get asked you can just hang with us." Kihyun suggests making me smile at his offer.
"He's right, don't put yourself down like that, I'm sure boys will be lining up to ask you." Seol says cheering me on with her smile, she then takes a piece of pork and places it on top of my rice, I laughed a bit at her gesture as the others agreed with her.
But my smile quickly disappeared "Even so, I doubt I'll say yes, but since you guys seem so bent on me coming I'll think about it, for your sake." I said.
"Yeah, we can have fun on our own." Joey then adds.
We continued eating and talking about other things along with Seol and Haechan's never ending bickering until finally, lunch ended "See you guys later." I told them as we all had to part ways once again.
We all waved at each other one last time before I finally went to my Art class, getting settled I took a seat as I waited for class to start, Ten soon came and took a seat beside me "Tenten." I expressed with a smile looking at him.
"Oh Hi Siyeon." He says smiling back setting up his things as I did.
I then noticed he looked a little distressed "Are you doing okay?"
"Yes I'm fine, I just had a lot of work to do that's all, so I guess I'm kinda tired." He replies sheepishly.
"Did you eat anything for lunch." I asked realizing he probably didn't have time.
"No, I wasn't able to." He says making me sigh with a frown, I then searched through my bag and took out a bag of chips I had gotten from Kihyun and handed it to him.
"Here eat this, its not much but it should help you until school is over." He hesitated at first but he took them thankfully.
"Thanks." He said giving me his full tooth smile.
"Quickly before the teacher comes." I instructed and he began to eat quicker.
"Afternoon students." The Art teacher Miss Lee says as she enters the classroom and everyone gets settled in their seats. "Okay let's begin class, I remember telling you that you'll be able to have a model today for your portraits, so I advise you to get started." She says as the students now have their live subjects pile in one by one sitting down in front of them.
I then wonder what was keeping Seol even Ten's model came, she did agree to come, we did make up earlier so she doesn't have a reason not to show up, So what on earth was taking so long?
I began to bite my lip impatiently and Ten notices "Are you okay? Where's Seol?" He asked.
"She definitely said she was coming." I replied still not sure what was going on.
"Maybe she forgot." Ten suggested and I shake my head at his words.
"She isn't the type to forget something like this, she knows it's important to me." I told him.
"You can always share with me." He kindly offers.
"Thanks but she'll come." I said turning down his offer still giving her a chance.
I hope.
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"Agrh!!!" I groaned in frustration rubbing a hand through my hair as I wandered around the school compound looking for the art class Seol had instructed me to find but failing miserably, this was my first time looking for this Art room, I never really ventured outside of the music room that often so I was quite lost.
After giving it another try I gave up and decided to just go back to Seol and ask for her help, after all money on the line.
...
"They should be with each other right about now." I smiled to myself, humming a song out of happiness, only to suddenly see Baekhyun appear at my classroom door making my smile quickly fade.
"Seol, I need your help." He says approaching me out of breath.
"You? Yay! You're supposed to be with Siyeon right now her class probably started already, why aren't with her?!" I ranted raising my voice at him as I stood to my feet.
"I know, I just got a little lost so can you please just walk me to her class." He requested making me fold my arms and stare at him in disbelief.
"Unbelievable," I breathed out in frustration taking a deep breath calming myself down. "Okay fine, let's hurry." I finally say after I calmed down.
"There, here you are she's over there." I said pointing at her when we arrived and he followed my finger.
"Okay." He says walking into the classroom.
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I still sat there waiting impatiently for Seol, when suddenly someone came and sits in front of me "Excuse me I think you have the wrong-" He then holds his head up with a smirk and I recognized his face pointing my finger at him as the realization hits "You, you're—"
"The guy who spilled your coffee." He says finishing my sentence still smiling leaning in closer.
"Right, that jerk, you were a student here?" I asked in surprise.
"Jerk?! Hey, I already apologized for that." He grumbles making me roll my eyes.
"Forget about that why are you sitting here?" I asked in confusion.
"Seol sent me here in her place." He replies to my surprise.
"What, Seol sent you?" Ten says as he stopped drawing and we both looked at each other.
"I'm not sure I follow." I said still not understanding the situation.
"She didn't give me a reason alright, I'm just doing what she asked." he responded.
"But why, I'm not mad at her anymore so is she avoiding me?" I asked myself, worrying that I may have hurt her somehow.
"I don't think she'd do that, something probably came up, don't worry." Ten reassured me.
"You're right, I guess I have to make do." I took up my pencil deciding to just roll with it for now since I didn't have many options left, Ten nodded and went back to his drawing. "You, try to stay still and not move a lot, in other words pick a pose and stick to it." I instructed.
"Can you please stop referring to me as 'you' I have a name ya' know." he said in annoyance.
"Right, I apologize, what is your name?" I asked starting to draw already.
"I'm Baekhyun." he said introducing himself.
"Ok Baekhyun, I'm Siyeon and this is Ten." I said, occasionally looking up at him, this awkward silence then fell upon us as I stayed focus on my work, I found myself admiring his face and his white skin they were both so perfect, his beautiful eyes that seemed so innocent as he smiled at me, his jawline was clean and sharp, he was indeed handsome and very attractive. So immersed in his features I ended up staring at him longer than I intended.
He noticed and he leaned in surprising me "I am handsome, aren't I?"
"Wha..what?" I stammered awaking from my day dream.
"Don't worry, I mean who could resist staring at me, take your time." He says mischievously turning his head for me to admire.
"I wasn't staring at you, I have to look at you in order to draw, you moron." I defended avoiding eye contact.
"Yeah, yeah, sure." He says teasing me as I roll my eyes and go back to drawing, a couple minutes passed "Hey, are you sure you can draw me well though?" He suddenly asked making me look at him strangely.
"Excuse me?! What is that supposed to mean?!" I asked in confusion.
"You don't look like you're as good as the guy next to you, no offense." He says comparing me to Ten making him snicker and I gave him a look making him stop laughing.
"I'll have you know, I'm perfectly capable of doing that, I wouldn't be in this class if I couldn't." I defended.
He raising his eyebrow and says "If you say so we'll see after you're done."
"Fine." I said in a annoyed tone proceeding to add colour to my drawing.
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I smiled at her sassy response and continued to watch her work, I traced her features and admired them, her face was filled with determination now focused on her task after I provoked her, I have to admit she was really cute and fun to mess with.
Just as Seol said all it took was for me to provoke her a bit and she would get annoyed, I strangely found her personality attractive.
"Oh look who's staring now." She says suddenly using my previous words on me.
"I wasn't staring at you." I said perfectly relaxed.
"Really now?" She asks raising her eyebrow.
"Uh huh, I was just wondering what was taking you so long, half of your class is finished, I guess you really aren't good huh?" I teased her again causing a grimace to appear on her face and I smiled wickedly in response.
"You- YAY!!!" She yells at me in frustration making her classmates suddenly look at her, including the teacher.
"Is there a problem Miss Siyeon?" Her teacher asks looking at her surprised.
"No ma'am there isn't, Mianhaeyo (I'm sorry)." She says standing and bowing apologizing for her sudden outburst, then she gave me the stink eye.
"Cute." I whispered underneath my breath which she heard.
"What did you just say? Are you enjoying this right now?" She says in annoyance.
"Wouldn't dream of it." I said giving her a smirk, she looked like she desperately wanted to smack me but closed her eyes resisting the urge mumbling something to herself as she started drawing again.
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"Its only for a couple more minutes, its only for a couple more minutes, its only for a couple more minutes..." I mumbled over and over calming myself so that I wouldn't slap the hell outta this guy, adding colour and soon the finishing touches on my artwork.
"There all done, finally." I said mumbling the last part as I showed him the picture.
His eyes opened widely for a moment before he said "Woah! Looks like all that staring paid off, look at my jawline." he said admiring the artwork.
I decided to ignore his comment as my class ended ending school for the day, I didn't ever have to see him again anyway, so why bother wasting my breath on him, I gathered my things and my bag turned in my finished assignment and walked out the classroom door.
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