SLOW NOT SO
-anonymous

A girl with short, brown hair walks around the unfamiliar compound of the new school she just stepped into. She walks down the corridor with her hands gripping tightly to the straps of her bag, hoping to find someone that could show her around. She had just come out of the school office after acquiring her time table for the week and thought that she would do a little walking around.





“Hi, you must be the new student.”





The girl immediately turns around at the sound of the bubbly voice. She is greeted by a girl no taller than her and has long auburn hair. The bubbly girl smiles at her and s out her hand.





“I’m Lee SoonKyu but please, call me Sunny. I’m the student council president.”





The short-haired girl takes the outstretched hand and shakes.



“I’m Kim TaeYeon. It’s nice to meet you, Sunny,” she says rather timidly but returns the smile.





“It’s nice to meet you too. Have you gotten your schedule from the office yet?”





TaeYeon nods her head. Just as she’s about to open to ask if Sunny could show her around school, a loud banging noise can be heard not too far away. TaeYeon turns to see a student getting roughed up by a girl in a leather jacket. Sunny turns her attention to the noise as well and frowns.





“Hwang Mi Young! Get over here!” Sunny yells.





The girl in the leather jacket turns around and frowns at Sunny. The poor, fragile kid on the receiving end of the girl’s tantrum almost sighs in relief.





“You got lucky this time,” the leather jacket girl says before pushing the kid against the locker before walking over to where Sunny stands with her arms folded.





“What?”





“What did I tell you about shoving people against lockers?” Sunny questions the rebellious looking girl.





“Nothing.”





“Well, I’m telling you now not to do it, alright?”





The girl merely rolls her eyes. She turns her attention to the unfamiliar person standing in front of Sunny. TaeYeon shrinks a little at the gaze, feeling slightly afraid.



“Who’s this? I haven’t seen her around before,” she asks, jerking her head towards TaeYeon.





“Don’t be rude. If you introduce yourself I’m sure you’ll find out,” Sunny says and lightly hits the girl’s shoulder.





“I’m Tiffany.”





“My name’s TaeYeon, it’s nice to meet you.”





Tiffany merely nods at TaeYeon’s introduction.





“Now that’s done with, Mi Young, I need you to show her around school,” Sunny says after checking her watch.





Tiffany turns to Sunny and frowns.



“Stop calling me that of I’ll start calling you SoonKyu again. And why do I have to?”





“Fine, fine. Don’t call me that, I’ve got an image to keep and you have to because I’ve got a board meeting to attend.”





“So? Get one of your lackeys to do it.”





“They aren’t my lackeys. They’re called prefects. Come onnn, can’t you do this for me just this once?” Sunny says and pulls out the aegyo card.





Tiffany’s expression contorts into one of disgust and her eye even twitches a little at the display of cuteness. Eventually she sighs in defeat.



“Fine. You’re lucky you’re my cousin, otherwise I would have pushed your face into the ground a long time ago.”





Sunny smiles at Tiffany.



“I love you too.”





Tiffany rolls her eyes at Sunny and holds back a smile.



“Now go before I change my mind.”





“Alright. I’ll see you later then. Be nice.”





Sunny then turns to TaeYeon.



“Don’t worry, Tiffany won’t bite. Or at least, I’m sure she’ll try not to.”





TaeYeon smiles nervously and waves as Sunny makes her way to the meeting she has to attend. She turns to see Tiffany already quite a distance from her. She chases after the girl and slows down after she reaches her side.





“Why d’you leave without me?” TaeYeon asks.





“It’s not my fault you’re slow.”



“Anyway, that’s the staff room and over there’s the office. The restrooms are around the corner and the classrooms aren’t too far away.”





TaeYeon nods and mentally makes a note of the places Tiffany just pointed out even if some of them were kinda vaguely pointed out. The bell rings, indicating the beginning of school. Tiffany sticks her hand out, palm up, in front of TaeYeon as they continued to walk forward. TaeYeon looks at her hand and looks at her questioningly.



“Hand me your schedule.”





TaeYeon quickly takes it out of her pocket and gently places it on Tiffany’s palm, still afraid of the rather fierce looking girl.



“Relax, I won’t hurt you,” Tiffany tells TaeYeon and takes a look at the schedule that was handed to her.





Her eyebrow arches slightly and she hands it back to TaeYeon. Tiffany readjusts the bag that has been slung over her shoulder before shoving her hands into her pockets.



“Come on. You’re in my class.”





TaeYeon follows obediently behind Tiffany, feeling slightly surprised to know that she was placed in the same class as the rough girl. They arrive at their class and Tiffany opens the door without knocking. The teacher that is already present turns his attention to the door and is surprised to see Tiffany walk in.



“I see that you’ve decided to join us today, Miss Hwang but you’re a little late.”





“I’m not late. You’re just early and there’s a new girl,” Tiffany says and briefly gestures behind her before walking over to her place.





“Ah right. Please come in.”





TaeYeon walks in and stands in front of the class. She bows once before introducing herself to the class. After the short introduction the teacher tells her to take a seat and the only vacant one happens to be beside Tiffany. She gulps a little before making her way over to her seat.





Tiffany is leaning back in her chair with her arms crossed over her chest and her eyes closed. TaeYeon can see the earphones plugged in her ears trail down to the mp3 under her desk. She can even hear the faint sounds of the music that is playing, emitting from the earphones.





‘She really is a delinquent.’ TaeYeon thinks as she focuses her attention to the mathematical question on the board.





She immediately frowns, unable to understand anything that is written on the board. The teacher finishes his explanation and turns to look in TaeYeon’s direction, or rather at Tiffany.





“Miss Hwang, if you have time to take a nap in my class maybe you would like to come up here and answer the question on the board.”





The whole class turns their attention to Tiffany. The students who are already used to Tiffany’s behavior always finds it interesting to watch when a teacher decides to challenge her.





“The answer is three,” Tiffany says after just taking a peek at the question before closing her eyes again.





The teacher scoffs and flips the pages of his book to check the answer.



“Now, if you’d only pay more attention in my class, you would know that your answer is absolutely,”





The teacher pauses and suddenly everyone’s eyes are on the teacher. His eyes widen and he looks back at Tiffany who now has her eyes open ever so slightly with a smirk on her face.





“Right.” He finishes.





“Told you.” Tiffany says and hears the person in front of her chuckle.





“You just enjoy doing this to the teachers, don’t you?” says the girl who chuckled earlier after turning around.





Tiffany just smiles at her friend and closes her eyes again. The short-haired girl turns her attention to the new girl sitting beside Tiffany.





“Hi, I’m SooYoung, Tiffany’s friend. It’s nice to meet you.” The girl says and sticks out her hand.





“I’m TaeYeon. It’s nice to meet you too.” TaeYeon replies, happy to have met yet another friendly person. She wonders how someone like Tiffany could have so many cheerful and friendly people around her.





“Don’t be fooled by her act. She’s actually a really nice person.” SooYoung says and points towards Tiffany.





“I heard that.” Tiffany says.





“I know you did.” SooYoung sticks her tongue out at Tiffany who still has her eyes closed.





“You better keep that tongue back in before I cut it off and feed it to the birds outside.”





SooYoung immediately retracts her tongue and frowns.



“Such a vulgar person you are.”