Remember how we ended up being partners in Chem class?

Yeah, how predictable.

I didn't like you back then, but you were persistent.

Eventually, you grew on me, and I fell for you.

And it's stupid and cheesy and hella cliché, but I'm going to say it anyway:

you weren't there to catch me so I just...

s h a t t e r e d.

[Flashback]

"I like to read and write, what do you like to do?" you asked, your eyes glimmering in your dimlit room.

I simply grunted in reply, not wanting to talk.

"Oh, come on, won't you just talk to me?" you asked pleadingly.

I shook my head. God, you were so annoying back then.

"You're going to talk to me one day," you said with a small smile. "And I'm going to make sure of that." [End of Flashback]

*****

I'm feeling a sense of déjà vu right now. Today, in Bio, the teacher paired me up with some girl I didn't know. She's annoying the way you used to be and she's all smiles and giggles.

I'm not falling for it this time though, she's probably just as dark as you are, Dara. I'm not falling for it this time, I'm smarter than that. I'm not falling for it this time, I know better than to do that.

I didn't want to work with her, she reminded me too much of you. She smiled the way you smiled, she laughed the way you laughed. Hell, she even annoyed me the way you annoyed me.

She told me her name was Park Bom today, introducing herself the way you first did. But then I realized, that even though she was a lot lik