TAE-HYUN POV:
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Wednesday is significant to what I call a tiring day. Which means that I am going to my first, third and fifth periods for double the regular amount of class time. After making it out of the confining hallways, I am uncharacteristically glad to finally make it to my first class: English.

Class is expectedly quite dull. We have done more of the same work and more of the same reading from our textbooks, which I am not too terribly interested in it. I am a bit tired. I had been stayed up late on the computer playing Fortnite with some of my online mates, which is the norm for me.

The lack of noise helps me to doze off as well. I am however still able to make it through the rest of the class with a decent amount of interest. After my quick nap I carried myself through my work. At one point, the teacher gets up to go help a student with a question she has. I take a brief look around. My eyes searching for nothing in particular. Hyuka unfortunately couldn't made it as he took few days off due to his nasty flu. By next Monday he will be back to resume his studies, I hope. The school feels dull without him and I'm not in mood to socialize.

Pretty soon the bell rings, ending class. It is time to move onto my less favorite class which is physics. I manage to get out into the hallway before it gets flooded with a tsunami of teenagers. Up the stairs and down the hall I walk for my next classroom. I take my seat which is near the back of the room while the others in my class begin to file in and talk amongst each other. I sigh and gaze at the slew of shallowly girls I have for classmates. One by one, more of my classmates trickle in.

My phone vibrates seeing it is Riki, one of my close fellas checking on if I'm still on my word. We have agreed to meet up at the basketball pitch on tomorrow's evo to play a game against few of his mates from other schools, but since Hyuka wouldn't come, I doubt I could play. After replying, I log in to my Epic Games account and start looking for new games to download, while playing Temple Run 2

Right then and there I could feel the presence of someone to my right. From the corner of my eyes I noticed they are little shorter than me.

I turn my head to see they're three girls, having some of a dutch courage. I stare at them emotionless with my eyes partly closed. I am brought from my gaze when I finally notice one of them smiling back at me, a beautiful shade of red spreads over her cheeks. I frown then turn my head away, avoiding making eye contact with them.

- ' Hello Terry!'

I frown, looking back at them again. Annoyance shines on my face.

- ' This is for you! Please accept it from us!'

Few seconds passed felt like as though time stopped. I hate when western girls talking in aegyu, especially if they are not cute or attractive.

- ' Uh. I'm moved that I almost shed tears..'

I comment sarcastically and pause, seeing a white plushy in shape of a rabbit holding a big red heart is placed up on my desk. I know if Hyuka was here he would certainly take it. He loves plushies and he accepts pressies from almost everyone. He is the plushy prince, after all.

- ' I don't shed tears, though!'

I stare at her coldly while swiftly throw the silly bunny with the back of my hand on the floor.

She frowns, looking back and forth. Maybe feeling immensely embarrassed. I resume gaming and the girl quickly left, not even care if she glanced behind while the other girls following her trail.

How annoying those girls are!

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Tea break comes and I skip it, decide to check the practice room, walking down through the corridor before resuming the second half of classes looking for Jake Shim, my basketball teammate and nuna's best friend. I'm secretly training with him alongside Hyuka, we are aiming to debute as trio idols. I know my parents are hard parents who expects an increasingly impossible workload from us. A family that expects perfection and don't tolerate the opposite, thus I decided to work in secrecy until I got the acceptance letter of one of the agencies we're trying to contact and then I would face them.

Once in the corridor I can hear piano music drifts from the practice room. It is a slow, melancholic piece that makes chill bumps rise up on my arms. I curiously follow the sound, willing to find who is playing. I feel the need to hear more of it. Usually when music is good, I get goosebumps and right now this is happening to me. The music sounds so soothing and hypnotizing, I feel like I am in another dimension. That piece reminds me of one of the soundtracks from Knights of Honor which is one of my favorite video games.

Few steps and I find the source. At the first sight, it appears like a girl with dark straight hair fell down her back. I watch from her back how her hands move across the keyboard. It is almost erotic the way her fingers make the music.

Hell ! What am I thinking? Erotic?

Maybe because I am experiencing changes of my teenage hormones like any other teen in my age.

Yep mostly because of my hormones!

Blinking several times, shaking my head like if I am erasing the mental image I got a second ago, turning my gaze away focusing on nothing in particular.

But then I throw my eyes that are widened in amazement towards the girl I have never noticed before this day and watch her playing piano, once again I like the way she plays.

While spying on the girl I couldn't feel the presence of one of my admirers.

- ' What?'

A voice startled me out of my bubble. Being caught off guard I felt like I'm blushing slightly. But I have to compose myself.

Damn it! How I get annoyed with 10th year students. Especially with that special girl, the nerdy one with a perverted mind.

Damn her! She is always stalking me.

I often overhear her sexualizing me with a bunch of her friends. I pause for seconds, calculating what I could say. If I'd ask her she would deliver the news immediately to the whole school.

I stare sternly at her eyes, not willing to break eye contact with her.

- ' What what?'

I ask back with my poker face, tilting my head to the side.

My hands both deep inside my pockets. Still my eyes on her. I can see how I'm effecting her. I want to send her away but at same time I want to extract the informations from her. She almost knows every single student in the school, due to her assistance in one of the counselor offices. Well, she mainly files chores or goes to classrooms to summon a student for a consult and then escorts the student back to class, that however makes her able to access to the files of the students.

The bespectacled pudgy girl with unfortunate gold yellowish skin squints her eyes and looks into the room.

- ' Uh. That's the new student. She's just moved in. It is said she is genius as she skips two years. She's in 12th class now!'

She informs annoyed, pushing her glasses up her nose, still her eyes on the girl.

I examine the girl again. She looks like an angel. And the music she plays is nearly as beautifully dark and unique as she seems.

The 10th year girl has been talking the whole time while I am lost in thought.

- ' Do you want to know her name?'

She asks, pulling me out of my thoughts. She seems amused though.

- ' Who cares! Move aside!'

I scold her with a cringed face, walking away while still eager to see the girl's face. Trying to not giving satisfaction for that nerdy that there is a possibility of someone capturing my attention.

As the bell rings, I stride directly toward my locker, to empty my backpack and bring my books. English again as before. On the way back to my classroom, I updated Hyuka with my new interest. I can't believe I instantly start developing some new feelings toward someone I know nothing about, judging on the weird and funny feeling in my stomach.

Through my class, I couldn't concentrate on anything but that girl. My mind is only focused on the perfect picture of the girl who I have no idea what her name is. Yet for some reasons, I wished to see her again. She somehow unexpectedly awakened an unknown feeling in me.