Chapter 4
"Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many"
~Phaedrus
Rian POV
I feel small as I look around the huge cafeteria full of loud students, some running around immaturely, and some singing or dancing. As Jenny "guides" me through the cafeteria, I try my best to follow her and to not give anyone eye contact. But it's difficult when people give you looks.
"Is she the new girl?"
"Yeah, I guess so"
"She came from America, right?"
"Ah I was hoping she would've been pretty..."
"Yeah, that's a pity..."
"She must be really talented. I never met anyone who started school in the middle of semester..."
"I guess..."
Not understanding anyone makes me feel uneasy. I ignore them, and sit on an empty table, as Jenny goes to her friends. She obviously doesn't want to sit next me, and I don't want to sit next to her.
Keeping my eyes frozen on my hot noodles, I use the chopsticks to play around with my food. My stomach is aching in hunger, but my mind says the exact opposite.
I sigh when I see a sudden familiar shadow casting in front of me on the table. I look up and see Jenny with a group behind her.
"What?" I mutter. The last thing I want right now is to see her.
"Oh, I just came to say hi and wondered how you were doing" Jenny gives me a bright smile, causing me to roll my eyes. I bet she's just trying to put on a show by acting nice.
"I'm fine" I quickly mutter, and play with my food more.
Jenny giggles, "Are you sure? It seems like you don't know how to use chopsticks. I mean, even my 5 year old brother knows how to do it!" Some people behind her giggles softly, causing me to frown. What is with this chick? I never did anything wrong to her, so why is she being so rude? Her joke isn't even funny, so why are people laughing?
I shrug and stand up to leave calmly, but when I turn around, I abruptly stop. I find a man's chest right in front of me, causing my face to flush. I look up and stare at the familiar looking brown eyes. The same boy, the one I bumped into in the airport, and earlier this morning, stands right in front of me. His name is Jinyoo, right? I swallow, feeling confused. Is he going to insult me too? I was being a little bit of a jerk back then...
"Here" Jinyoo holds out a fork without any expression on his face. I bite my lip and after a few seconds, I carefully take the fork from his hand. Is this a trick?
"Thanks..." I mutter, still feeling confused. Jinyoo shrugs and walks away, leaving me standing frozen. The sound of Jenny's chuckling wakes me from my thoughts.
"He was always a weird guy" she mutters and walks away, with the others trailing behind. I sit back down on my chair and without any problem, I gulp down the noodles fast. But no matter how hard I try, my mind always thought of the boy, Jinyoo.
Why did he help me, after I was so rude to him? I close my eyes as I eat, trying to stop thinking about him. He was probably just trying to be nice.
When I finish two bowls of noodles, I rub my satisfied tummy and look around the cafeteria. To my surprise, almost everyone is crowding in front of a big TV at the corner of the cafeteria. Curious, I stand up and walk over to the crowd to see what's happening.
I try to push my way towards the TV, but I keep getting pushed back by the huge crowd of happy, screaming girls. I sigh in annoyance, so I grab a chair and stand on it, to get a better view.
A group of boys suddenly pop in the TV screen with a headline of "BTS". The scene suddenly changes into a picture of a red haired boy, which pretty much causes all the girls to scream. The screen let's out a message, but because it's in Korean, I can't understand it.
I stomp my right leg in frustration, I just really want to know what is making everyone so crazy. After furiously looking around, I finally find Jenny in the front of the crowd, smiling happily. I take a deep breath and jump down. I crawl on the floor, through crowd, and finally make it to the front.
"Ugh! What are you doing?" Jenny's smile changes to a frown in a second. I stand up, ignoring her expression.
"What's going on?" I manage to talk loudly among the screaming girls. Jenny rolls her eyes and mutters something under her breath.
"A famous person is going to attend our school. Like you would care" She swipes her hair back dramatically and turns back to the TV, her smile popping back instantly. I sigh deeply- what kind of translator is she?
I look at the screen again and see another picture of the same, cute boy. So he must be the famous dude that's going to attend Oaks Arts High. Sighing, I easily make my way towards the back of the crowd, with the help of the screaming girls pushing me.
I rush back to my dorm, hoping not to get lost on the way. I enter the room and march straight to my desk. I open my laptop, and search up "BTS". Similar faces pop up into the screen. I click on the first link, and immediately translate the website into English to start reading.
Bangtan Boy's youngest member, Jungkook, is going to be attending Oaks Arts High, a private school for gifted and talented kids. According to BTS's manager, and the president of the Big Hit company, Jungkook has to finish school for a year, before he continues on his role in Bangtan- even after his debut. Therefore, Jungkook is going to attend school in a week.
I sit back on my chair and bite my lip- is an idol actually going to be attending school with me? I sigh- nothing can be worse than this. There will be way too many girls screaming in the hallway everyday, and that can be a huge distraction. Part of me is excited to meet an idol, but the other half is a bit upset.
The room's door suddenly flies open, making me jump. I immediately go to a new tab on my computer, hoping that Jenny didn't see anything on my screen.
"Yah... what were you doing?" Jenny suddenly mutters and walks closer to me. My eyes widen and just when I am about to close the laptop, a hand grips my wrist. Before I can push Jenny, she rolls the chair away and quickly goes back to the BTS page. I bite my lip and look down in embarrassment.
Jenny laughs and releases her head from the computer. "Hah, don't even try, Rian"
I give her a confused and annoyed face. "What?" I mutter and stand up, quickly closing my laptop.
"Please, a guy like him would never go out with you. So don't even try when he comes here- just stay away from him" She smirked.
What? I never even had the thought! "I wouldn't even want to" I sneer and turn around, walking to my bed. Jenny follows me, and I try my best to control the urge of wanting to rip her head out.
"A girl like you? Yeah right! But a girl like me? He would fall in love at first sight!" She sighs dreamily. I roll my eyes.
"Yeah... keep dreaming.." I mutter, causing Jenny to shoot a mean look towards me. I smirk and put my headphones back on. Closing my eyes, I listen to soft music to calm me down, helping me to slowly fall asleep.
~A week later later~
I walk around the cafeteria, griping my tray as hard as I can. As I take tiny steps, I look around my surroundings, hoping that Jenny isn't nearby. Just as I am about to reach an empty table, I unexpectedly trip on something.
I land face flat on my plate of pasta. At least it cushioned me from my fall, right? I groan as I slowly look up, only to see a girl smiling wickedly.
"You okay down there?" Jenny laughs.
Before I can jump up to throw a punch or two, I see a hand reaching down towards me. Looking up, I notice that the hand belongs to Jinyoo.
Ever since Jenny became more aggressive towards me, Jinyoo became more nicer to me.
I grab the hand and stand up, wiping my face with my hands.
"Here" Jinyoo gives me a napkin. As I wipe the food off my face, Jinyoo helps by using his fingers to scrape off the sauce from my hair, licking it like a monkey. I frown at him.
"What? It's good" He mutters, licking his finger. I hear Jenny laughing as she turns around to walk away, again with the group behind her. I sigh and roll my eyes.
"Thank you though, Jinyoo" I say as he finishes licking his finger. He nods.
"And, uh... sorry for being a jerk to you earlier..." I mutter, scratching my hair. Apologizing is harder than it looks.
"No biggie. Hey, let's go to the roof and eat some snacks. I have some chips in my bag"
"The roof? Isn't it prohibited to go there?" I ask nervously.
"Ugh loosen up. Let's go" Jinyoo rolls his eyes. I think for a while and nod.
Little did I know that the roof is going to be one of the very few places that will store many of my new memories.
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Isn't the picture of Jungkook so cute??? Seriously, how can anyone be this cute?