Narrator's Pov
Damin's squinted at the bright lights around her when she finally regained consciousness. Her vision blurred before she blinked a few times and turned to look to her side, where a schoolboy sat on his phone.
Her became vision clearer while she looked at the unfamiliar boy not far from her.
"Who are you?" Damin drew his attention by speaking up.
"You're finally awake huh? I'm Park Jisung," Damin was startled by his amazing height when he put down his phone and stood up. He grabbed a paper cup, filled it with water, and presented it to her. She said a small thank you before she took a sip.
Her brows furrowed in confusion as she tried to figure out where she was.
"You passed out in the office, so I brought you here, in the nurse's office," Jisung said as if he could read her mind.
"Can you tell me what time is it?" Damin asked, looking around for her phone and her backpack. She glanced outside, noticing that the sun had gone down and that it was now dark.
"It's 20:15," answered Jisung, showing her the time on his phone. Damin's jaw dropped wide open.
"And you waited for me?"
Jisung gave a nod.
"It wouldn't be very gentlemanly of me to leave you here all alone," He said, drawing his lips into a fine line. "The nurse gave me the key since she had to go home, she told me to return it tomorrow so no worries,"
Damin got up and straightened her uniform.
"Well I'm awake now so you can go," She said. He didn't have to wait for her, therefore she didn't want to keep him here. What if he was busy or something? She felt horrible.
"Where do you live, I'll walk you back,"
When Damin exited the nurse's office, he turned off the air conditioning and the lights.
"You don't have to," She muttered, looking at him, as she tried to persuade him. He'd been waiting for her for hours and now he wanted to take her back to her dorm. He was stubbornly nice.
He finished closing up the nurse's office and turned back to face her, "I don't mind."
He's not going to give up, is he?
"I live at the school dorms," Damin said with a little sigh.
"Nice, I live there too," said Jisung, putting his hands in his pocket as they both walked out of the school, headed to the dorms which were a few hundred meters away from the school.
He continued, "What's your dorm number?"
Pulling her dorm number from her pocket, "Dorm number 29, yours?"
With a little laugh, Jisung said, "I stay in 30. It's exactly next to yours,"
"What school did you attend before?" He inquired.
"I used to go to Neo High in the next city," Damin replied, drawing a slight 'ohh' from Jisung.
"Why did you change schools?"
"My parents," she sighed.
"Well I hope you enjoy your time here, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me," smiled Jisung, easing her nerves.
"I hope so, too," she said. "What class are you in?" she inquired.
"I'm in 3A, you?"
"2B, so it means you're older than me right?"
"I believe so; I was born in 2002," Jisung remarked.
"I was born in 2004," Damin explained, as Jisung looked at her in disbelief.
He remarked, "Suddenly I feel old," which elicited a laugh from Damin. They entered the elevator after entering the dorm building, and exited the elevator when it reached floor 4.
"It was nice talking to you Jisung, see you tomorrow," Damin gave a small wave to her neighbor and he mirrored her actions.
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Damin packed her belongings and departed her dorm with all she needed for her class. She shut the door to her room and looked around to see a familiar face exiting his dorm as well.
"Good morning," he marked as he waved at her, and she did the same.
"What's your first class?" asked Jisung, earning her attention.
"I have Physics," she grumbled, facepalming since she despises Physics is as much as she loves food.
"Oof, good luck to you I guess," He chuckled. The school bell rang as both Damin and Jisung hurried to their respective classes.
Misun waved at Damin from her seat and she gave a small smile in return. She put her bag down and tapped Jinae to ask her a question.
"Can I borrow your notebooks to copy down the notes?"
Jinae reached into her backpack and handed Damin a few notebooks. She examined the exercise book and discovered that it contained few, if any, notes.
"Is this all the notes?" she inquired, a little bewildered.
"Take it or leave it," Jinae grumbled.
Jeez who pissed in her cereal...
"Thank you for being oh so helpful," Damin mumbled to herself, putting the 98% empty notebooks in her bag.
Even though the class was only 1 hour, it felt like an eternity for Damin, who occupied herself by drawing some doodles on her notebook and when the class finally ended, she was more than glad.
Nobody likes to put their head through the rigors of physics calculations first thing in the morning.
"Jungwon can you lend Kang Damin some of your notebooks so she could catch up with the classes?" Her ears perked up as she heard her name. She made slight eye contact with the male who sat a few seats in front of her at the same moment.
She thanked God since Jinae's notes wouldn't be helpful for her at all. He nodded at the teacher's words.
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Pretty soon, it was lunchtime and Misun invited her to sit with them again. Damin didn't want to since she had sensed the unwanted tension between her and the other three, and it appeared like everyone except Misun didn't want her there. She did, however, want to get to know Misun because she appeared like a kind person. She assumed she'd just put up with it.
The lunch table was pretty quiet as they all ate their meals while some didn't. Jinae observed a figure approaching their table and tapped Miyoung, who responded with shy giggles and smiles while waving at Yang Jungwon.
From Miyoung's angle, it looked like he was looking at her but he was actually looking at Damin. He came to a halt behind Damin and tapped her on the shoulder. She looked behind and that's when he handed her some notebooks.
Meanwhile, Damin squirmed uncomfortably in her seat, unable to ignore Miyoung's subtle glare and the way Jinae and Hajoon were both shooting her dirty stares.
"I'll give you the others tomorrow," He said and she nodded.
"Thanks,"
"I'm merely following Mr. Seonho's instructions,"
Miyoung cleared her throat and looked at Jungwon, "Hey Jungwon, could I borrow some of your notes as well?"
He turned his head to look at her, "Don't you have your own?"
"Well, I didn't copy some of them down-"
"That's your problem then," He coldly said, while Miyoung frowned and rolled her eyes.
"Don't take too long," He returned his gaze to Damin, who nodded.
"Don't worry, I'll return them next week," she stated. He quickly turned around and exited the cafeteria after that.
"Did you see the way he looked at you? He is totally into you! Youngie's four years of hard effort appear to have paid off"Jinae's remark elicited a shriek from Miyoung.
"In case you didn't know, Miyoung has a minor crush on Yang Jungwon," Misun told her.
That explains the glares.
"I ship," Hajoon added.
"She's been into him for like 4 years, it doesn't appear to be a minor crush to me," Hajoon mocked Miyoung as her cheeks flushed.
"Does he know you like him?" Damin asked, earning their attention.
"Of course. I confessed to him a few times. He always just says he would love to but he's too busy with his studies," Miyoung explained, "I'm planning to confess to him again because what if he changed his mind ya know?"
Damin shrugged herself and said, "You go I guess." She did not want to stay there any longer so she took the notebooks and excused out.
Well, that was something.
soooo thats the second chapter for yall hehe i hoped u guys liked it
im really excited for this book bcuz i have a lot of things planned 😋😋
who do u think is the peculiar one; damin or jungwon. and what do you think is their peculiarity?? 👀