Minji came back from the faculty room, carrying a folder filled with documents.
"You're here, finally!" Niki exclaimed, excited to finally introduce his friend group #1 to his friend group #2.
Minji sat down on the table beside Heeseung. She didn't notice at first, but then she saw that the person in front of them was someone else.
"So guys, these are my other friends!" Niki told Sunoo, Heeseung and Minji.
"This is is Jake, he's a soccer player." Niki said
"Hi, you guys must be the friends Niki keeps telling us about. It's so nice to finally meet you all!" Jake said with a warm smile as he shook hands with the three.
Heeseung observed him as he was shaking hands with Minji.
"This guy's too kind. He doesn't look like the guy that's looking for a girl. This isn't the one that Niki's trying to introduce to Minji." Heeseung thought to himself.
"And this is Jay, he's an athlete too! He plays basketball."
"Hi." Jay said with a small smile and a nod.
"Looks like a playboy, but seems innocent. He just met us, he's probably loud but he hasn't come out of his shell." Heeseung thought, again, not too threatened by Jay.
"And this is-" Niki was introducing the boy, but he cut Niki off.
"Park Sunghoon." He said as as he extended his arm out to Minji for a handshake.
"There it is." Heeseung thought, squinting his eyes.
"I'm a figure skater. Professional Athlete actually." Sunghoon said with a smirk.
"I'm a fiGuRe sKatEr, pRofFeSsiOnaL aThleTe aCTuaLLy."Heeseung said under his breath as he rolled his eyes.
Sunoo, who sits beside Heeseung, heard what the older said. Sunoo tried his best to contain his laugh.
"Yeah! Hyung represented Korea many times! He's really good maybe you should check him out sometime!" Niki told Minji
Minji was impressed, she had never met someone so accomplished. It was natural for her to be interested in people who have a lot going on in their life. She loved being friends with very interesting people.
"Nice to meet you Sunghoon." she said, eager to get to know him.
Sunghoon smiled at her, making sure to flaunt his charm as to leave a good first impression - which he successfully did so.
Heeseung rolled his eyes, not amused by what Sunghoon did.
"Minji you should go hang out with Sunghoon! You two can go ice skating and- OW!!!" Niki shouted.
Jake, Jay and Sunghoon who were at the other side of the table looked at him, confused why he just said that.
"Oh I'm sorry. My hand must have slipped." Sunoo said with a sassy tone.
Niki hissed at the older, before continuing what he was saying.
"Anyways, you two should- OW!!' Niki shout once more.
"Oh I'm so sorry, my hands keep moving. It's like they have minds of their own." Sunoo told Niki with a fake smile.
Sunoo then glared at Niki, looking at him all seriously.
Niki realized what he was doing wrong, and then he had to change the topic quickly.
But Sunoo beat him to it. Sunoo doesn't trust Niki, he thought that Niki would say something about Sunghoon and Minji hanging out again.
"Hi I'm Sunoo, student body president for the last three years, make sure to vote for me too this year!" Sunoo introduced himself.
The three boys at the other side of the table laughed and smiled awkwardly at Sunoo.
Sunoo smiled right back at them, and then did a hand gesture that pointed at Heeseung.
"Heeseung." he said, trying to look cool and cold.
Sunoo face palmed, getting second hand emmbarassment from his hyung's actions.
"Ohhh, so Heeseung-" Sunghoon was going to ask Heeseung something, but he was cut off.
"That's Heeseung hyung to you." he said.
Everyone felt the awkward tension at the table.
Jake looked at Jay, to which the older responded with a shrug.
Sunghoon was taken aback by the older's words.
Niki smiled in a boxy and awkward manner.
Minji raised one of her eyebrows, confused as to why Heeseung has an attitude he normally doesn't have.
Sunoo face palmed once more.
"Right...Heeseung hyung, you're in college right?" Sunghoon asked
"Yeah, first year, why?" Heeseung responded again with that cold tone.
"What's your course?"
"Economics and Business Management."
There was awkward silence again because of the way Heeseung talks.
"So....what course will you guys take? You're in 12th grade right? So you'll be college next year too." Sunoo asked in an attempt to lighten the mood.
"Physics - Quantum Mechanics to be exact." Jake replied.
"Criminology." Jay said.
"Psychology." Sunghoon responded.
The other group was impressed, well, most of the other group.
Sunoo looked up to his new hyungs, eager to be friends with such cool people. The same can be said for Minji and Niki, they were very impressed by the 3.
Meanwhile, Heeseung sat tall and proud, keeping up his self-proclaimed 'cool' aura.
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As the two groups talked, they started to get to know each other more - hoping they can be one big happy friend circle.
Sunoo and Niki were busy conversing with Jay and Jake as they all ate their lunch. They talked about lots of stuff, but mostly about what they thought about Niki.
"He's cute and cool and all, but sometimes he can get too annoying." Sunoo said.
"Hey! That's mean!" The youngest of them all replied.
The two hyungs laughed and continued talking to the younger ones.
Meanwhile, both Sunghoon and Heeseung were vying for Minji's attention.
"So, have you skated before Minji?" Sunghoon asked.
"Yeah she has, a lot of times. With me." Heeseung replied with a squint.
Sunghoon looked at him weirdly, so confused why he's acting like that.
Minji in the on the other hand, was very amused by the interactions between the two. She doesn't understand why Heeseung is like that, but she is still amused by it.
She was giggling at the cuteness of the two, until something from far away caught her attention.
She saw Jungwon walking at the empty area - an are sort of like a field filled with trees, where students can relax and take time to unwind from their studies.
She suddenly remembered that she had duties to him, to be his guide. She felt bad for not being with him - leaving him when the whole point of their arrangement was for him to have someone around for the first few days of class.
"I'm sorry, I have to go. I'll come back quickly, I just have to go somewhere." Minji excused herself from the table.
Sunoo, Jay, Jake and Niki nod at her, while Sunghoon and Heeseung had different responses.
"Is it your drink? Do you want me to get you a refill?" Sunghoon offered.
"No, I'll do it, besides, you don't know the exact drink she likes." Heeseung said
Sunghoon made a confused facial reaction - the "???" kind of confused.
"It's a complicated order." Heeseung said
"No no, I just have to talk to someone, I have to go." Minji said.
"Hey wait! Who? Let me come with you!" Heeseung responded.
Minji just shook her head and told Heeseung to stay there and talk with others.
Heeseung sat down, he looked bummed out. Meanwhile Sunghoon laughed at Heeseung.
"What?"
"Nothing, nothing."
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Minji ran as fast she could in order to catch up with Jungwon.
She was looking at him while running, so that she wouldn't lose sight of him.
She saw him pass through a tree, but unfortunately, the position she was at made it difficult for her to see what was behind the tree.
She ran faster, hoping to catch up. But as she reached the tree he passed by, she lost track of him.
"Where'd that guy go?" she thought to herself as she took a break from running in order to catch her breath.
She was too busy regaining her energy, that she didn't notice that her shadow blocked something.
"Uhmm, excuse me, can you please move? You're blocking the light." a boy sitting down on the ground said.
He was drawing on his sketchpad, but he halted because the sunlight was covered by Minji.
"Oh I am so sorry." Minji said as she moved.
She then started looking around again, assuming where Jungwon went.
She couldn't see where he is or where he went, so she decided to give up and go back to her friends.
She started walking back to where she came from, passing by the boy and the tree once more.
The boy under the shade of tree looked at Minji once she was far away from him already.
He rolled his eyes and continued,
His eyes glowed crimson red as he drew once more.