THE INTRODUCTION
For You In Full BloomI headed down the hallway in search of my new locker. It was situated on the second floor at the end of the west corridor. I placed my folder in the locker when I found it and scanned my surrounding.
The school looked so much bigger from the inside. I could see a garden bathed in sunlight out of the window. A large tree stood in the middle with benches surrounding it. The atmosphere seemed tranquil and serene, or maybe it's because class was still in session. I'm guessing it will be a different story once break time comes over.
I put my backpack into my locker and grabbed my books and timetable. I scanned the paper, I need to be in room 2B for homeroom. I slammed the locker door and spun the dial before heading away.
I started to feel nervous again when I got near room 2B but I decided to just face it head on by pushing the door opened and stepped into the room before my nerves threatened to show again.
The subdued talk ceased immediately. I didn't dare to look around and only had eyes for the teacher who stood behind his desk. He looked taken aback for a moment, eyeing me up and down before turning to look somewhere where the students sat. I fidgeted nervously. I knew this was a bad idea.
Anybody who looked at me will know for sure I'm a girl. My face was girly enough, what with my long eyelashes and pinkish lips. It didn't help that my cheeks were quite round and squishy-looking. The only boyish part on me was my hair, because seriously, it's like rule no 1 in B&E an all-boys school, get yourself a haircut. I nearly, nearly backed out when the stylist brought his scissors near my long, glorious mane.
But the end result, I'm proud to say I looked handsome in a pretty way, well, that's what the stylist was saying. Me, I was still in shock over my lost hair that were scattered all over the floor.
But then the teacher only sighed and held out his hand. "Are you a new student?"
I kinda nodded, I think.
"Please introduce yourself to the class"
Can't I not? I slowly turned to face the class, keeping my head down. It was so quiet and i was sweating bullets again.
"My name is Lee Haneul. I'm from Busan. Nice to meet you."
Nobody said a thing. I chanced a glance upwards and quickly looked down again. They're all staring at me, I thought to myself. They knew I'm a girl. Goodbye me, it's fun while it lasted.
I flinched when somebody started wolf-whistling. "Woah, this guy looks like a total babe."
Laughter erupted. Then somebody was saying, "Looks like Luhan has a competition." There were loud guffaws around the class.
"I'm manly!"
I'm guessing that was Luhan. Now i'm dead curious. Was my secret safe? Why was nobody pointing out that i'm a girl? And who is this Luhan and why did he have to yell that he's manly?
I tried to search for Luhan over the noise that was climbing again, but the teacher placed his hand on my shoulder and told me to go and sit. I thanked him and scanned for an empty seat, great, there's two empty ones at the back of the class.
I kept my eyes on the seat, and nearly face-planted to the floor before my hand shot out automatically and grabbed something t
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