"I should've been nervous for the upcoming exams. But right now, because I've gotten close to her, I'm nervous for something else."
- Yashiro Jin-Woo Kwon
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Today's the day where the group once again gathered for another group study but the place is different because today, they were currently at Shaina's house but just like the other day when they went to Eivan's for a "group study", they were lazing around comfortably again. The amber-eyed male clicked his tongue in annoyance, unimpressed by the group's laziness, "Are you freaking kidding me right now, guys!?"
"I swear to Yami's hamsters, if we don't properly have a group study today, I'll beat all of your butts!" Eivan exclaimed, huffing as he glared at everyone in the room, more specifically, three certain male gamers before turning to the quiet girl with a softer look in his usually calm face, "Except you, Jihyun. You're cool." He finished, earning a small sigh of relief from the said girl along with a smile after softly saying the words 'thank you, Eivan.' to him, returning the smile she gave him all the while his loud girlfriend stood up from her original laying position on one of her bestfriend's bed.
"Why swear on my damn baby hamsters, you freaking prick!?" Yami questioned, glaring at the most intellectually capable male in the group, and possibly the whole class, her hands on either side of her hips making her look like an angry mother scolding her naughty child, her brows meeting each other in the middle as they were heavily crunched up together.
"I swear, if you even look at my baby hamsters the wrong way, I'll beat you half to death, Eivan!"
"If you're so itching to do it then why not beat me to death fully, woman?" Eivan gave a blank look at his fuming girlfriend who obviously wanted to choke him to death just by him mentioning her precious pet hamsters, although he knew that she wouldn't do so since despite of their love-hate relationship, they're still lovers.
"It's my darn hamsters you're swearing at here! It's natural for me to be annoyed, other than Hyunnie, those are my babies you were speaking of!"
The couple continued their one-sided bickering, unaware of the two usually quiet pair who were conversing with each other, along with their groupmate and a certain girl with highlighted hair who refused to not be a part of the conversation despite having a different partner herself.
"I think the topic is easier than most. Other topics have so many things included in it, they're very broad but ours isn't even that hard and it would surely give us high grades, especially since our teachers definitely favors our circle of friends the most!" Glenn beamed, referring to the chosen topic for their group activity while brushing and running Jihyun's hair in his fingers after she finished putting her camera back in her bag as she just finished taking photos as preparation for the hairstyle he wanted to do to her hair while admiring her brown hair's texture, softness and shine, nodding to himself in approval before he started sectioning her hair, separating the rest from the ones he's planning to tie in a braid.
"Which hairstyle are you planning to do to her hair this time, Glenny?" Yuna questioned, wondering what the hairstyle would be today, "I'm just curious since everyday is always a different hairstyle but it's always with braids."
"I'm planning to do a half-up hairstyle but with braids, you know, like that one girl from Sword Art Online? The main girl's hair." Glenn answered, still braiding the sectioned hair before telling Jihyun, who was talking to Yashiro and Lisa about something, to hold on to the already braided hair section to which she agreed instantly before he started to braid the other section.
"Oh! You mean Asuna Yuuki? I freaking love her! She's best girl!" Yuna smiled and clapped her hands, already knowing that Glenn's planned hairstyle would look good on her bestfriend.
"You just love braiding Jihyun's hair, huh, Glenn?" Lisa said with a smile, holding unto her demure bestfriend's hand, interlocking their fingers together before giving her a warm side hug, earning a glare and a harsh hit on the shoulder from the heavy-handed male of the group.
"Don't hug her while I'm doing her hair!" The hairstylist of the group exclaimed, glaring at the youngest of the group before moving on to tying the two braids up together in the middle of Jihyun's head with an elastic he got from one of Shaina's drawers and finishing it off with Jihyun's hairclip, clapping and smiling to himself in approval after having stared at their friend's beautiful hair.
"You always do her hair. You must really like it." Lisa pointed out her unanswered question, lightly rubbing her free hand on her stinging shoulder, thanks to the heavy-handed hairstylist.
"Hell, yeah! Jihyun's hair is the best and the straightest here!" Glenn answered with great enthusiasm, proving his point further by brushing some of Jihyun's hair.
"Hey, now that I thought about it, what's your hair type, Hyun?" Yuna questioned, looking at the usually quiet brunette.
"Hair type? Um..." Jihyun paused, her free hand on her chin, her finger tapping it, seeming to be in deep thought due to her posture and unblinking brown eyes which didn't go unnoticed by Lisa although she decided not to say anything for now, "1b, I think? I don't know, I'm not really sure."
"1b? Ah, that's so cool! I want to have 1b hair type too!" The highlighted-haired girl exclaimed, her free hand running her wavy hair through her fingers, wishing to have straighter ones like Jihyun so they could be "hair twins", in her own words.
"Hey, you lot are in your own little world again!" Yami yelled after having already finished her little quarrel with Eivan and noticing Lisa, Yuna, Glenn, Jihyun and Jinwoo, who had been quiet the whole time only participating in a few conversations here and there, talking to each other as if they were the only ones in the room, more specifically, Shaina's room.
"Wow, coming from you, Yami, the queen of daydreaming?" Yuna remarked, looking at her nails.
"Shut up! Hey, Glen! Do my hair too!"
"You shut up!"
"Take that back this instant, Min Yuna! I'm older than you!"
"Yeah, you're older than me but you act more immature!"
"How dare you!? After all I've done for you!?"
"You two, please be quiet, we're in Shai's house." Jihyun pleaded, not pleased at all by the fact that after the moody Yami yelled at and argued with her ever-so-level-headed and intellectual boyfriend, Eivan, she decides to yell at and argue with the also moody second youngest of the group, Yuna.
"What's all the ruckus about!? You're all so noisy, especially you, Yami! I can hear y'all from a mile away! Well, except Jihyun and Jinwoo. But my mom and dad are downstairs! They can hear the damn yelling! It's embarrasing, aren't you all ashamed!? Except you, Jihyun and Jinwoo, my lovelies." Shaina yelled after slamming the door open, hitting the wall next to her boyfriend, Frederic who almost hit his arm on the door had he not moved away before the infuriated owner of the room strolled past all of them on the way to Jihyun and stopped in front of her and scooted and leaned down, whispering something to Lisa who nodded her head and smirked before hesitantly and slowly detaching her hand from Jihyun who looked at her in confusion as the highlight-haired girl smiled only for Shaina to grab her by the hand.
"Come with me for a sec, Hyun! I need your help in the kitchen since you're good at cooking! Let's make lunch!" The red-haired girl said before she smiled and helped Jihyun stand up before letting go of her hand to tie her hair up, looking at the quiet girl to see her massaging her temple lightly, "Hey, are you okay? Is your head hurting?"
"Huh?" Jihyun asked, unsure of what she heard the girl with the ponytail said, "Oh, no, I'm fine. I just felt a little dizzy."
"Oh. I might have a medicine to help relieve headaches. You can take some later after lunch, for now, can you help me make lunch? You know these bunch are lazy."
"Yeah, sure."
With that said, the two walked out of the room, Shaina slamming the door shut after sending a hand signal to Eivan and winking at Lisa who gave a thumbs up before she mouthed a small "good luck!" to Yashiro which confused the said quiet male as he stared at the door with raised eyebrows before turning to Eivan after he cleared his throat, signalling for the rest to sit in a circle around the shy, quiet male as if they were a cult.
"Now that Jihyun isn't here," Eivan started as he sat down directly in front of the confused and nervous male, "Let's talk, shall we?" He smirked.