"Morning beautiful."

 

I slammed the door shut and started making my way down the stairs. I looked at the time and realised that I was not going to make it back to class in time. Oh well, I’m guess I’m going to have to make another excuse again. I'm sure Mr. Cho will understand just fine.

 

"What are you smirking about?"

 

Huh?

 

Oh that's right. This pest was here. I seriously did not see him. At all.

 

"What?" I glared at him, not because I enjoyed glaring at people but because it was him.

 

The pest, probably thinking that he was coming off cool, did not answer my question. He simply smiled at me and started walking ahead of me. I ignored him and turned the other way. It might've looked like I was avoiding him but that was not the issue.

 

I chuckled when I heard him start a conversation then stopped when he finally realised that there was no one around him and that I was already meters away from him.

 

I chuckled more when I heard his frantic steps behind me.

 

And the chuckling stopped when I felt his presence nearer behind me.

 

"Hyejin," He said with a pointed look, "that was rude. How could you leave your man behind? Anyways, didn't you miss me? I was gone for a week- you didn't even send me a message nor call me, who knows, something really bad could've happened to me-"

 

"Mr Kim. Please lower your voice, classes are already starting and it's best if we don't interrupt them. You're the school president, you should know better. And please stop with your delusions, it's unhealthy and unprofessional."

 

This pest is our president, Kim Seok Jin. But he prefers to be called as 'Jin', I don't call him that though. I rarely call his name, only when we're out of school or if he forces me to. We never really liked each other, I’ve always seen him as someone who I needed to beat in order to reach the top and he made it his job to annoy the living hell out of me ever since day one.

 

That's right.

 

We are not dating. I can never imagine myself holding hands with him and doing all those sickening lovey dovey yokey- whatever those nauseating things people my age these days does. He probably thought that he wasn't getting to me like before and simply decided that he needed to step up his game and find a new way to annoy me.

So this was the result.

"C'mon baby, don't be like that. I know you missed me and don't worry, the feeling's mutual. God, did you do anything different today, you look more beautiful than before. Or maybe not seeing you for a whole week did this to me. Babe, I think I’m going to have to go see a love doctor-"

This is how it always worked with us. He blubbers on and on, trying desperately to hit any nerves while I block him completely off and swim away in my own thoughts and daydreams. He never gets tired though. The other day I asked him how he could talk for hours and he said it was because "it was me" and I remember rolling my eyes and that was how he lost my attention again. Yup, that was me being nice. Hey, at least I gave him a chance and tried to actually start a conversation with him.

Feeling bad, I tried to pay attention again. I wasn't a complete , I never was to begin with. I was one of the nicest students in the academy, I loved helping people and making people happy. Students from all year levels love me and I like it that way.

And this was what confused people when they saw how y I was to Seok Jin. They didn't do anything about it though, in fact they loved it. They love watching me be a , especially to their beloved president. I will never understand and I don't think I ever want to understand.

"-my sister ran after me when she found out that it was me that put the spider in her bowl and I had to ran outside barefooted and it was raining for crying out loud! But no, she didn't care and kept running after me and that was how I realised just how angry I made her and how I was going to die that night- Hyejin? Hyejin, are you listening to me? ...Hyejin. Kim Hyejin. Hye! Yah! Vice President!"

Vice. President.

How I hated hearing those 2 words and 4 syllables come out from his mouth.

"Hm?" I made sure that he didn't see any sign of me getting affected by him. It was Monday and I am not going to let him ruin the start of a wonderful week.

Crap. He's smirking.

 

"Vice President. How unprofessional of you to not listen to what the President is saying, how disappointing." He said rather arrogantly. The way he said President made me feel something. And it was not a good feeling.

 

"Good bye Mr Kim." I muttered then entered my homeroom class, closing the door to his face.

 

"Ms Kim, glad you decided to attend the class with your fellow classmates. Mind to inform me where you've been all these time?" Mr Cho was frowning, something I learned to get used to along the years.

 

Mr Cho never really quite liked me. I looked into it because I found it uncomfortable whenever someone disliked me. Apparently, his clan had some misunderstandings with my father and when I found out his problem with me was related to my father, I lost all interest.

 

I don't respect Mr Cho and I don't think I ever will. I find people who put their hatred on other people who are related to the person they should only be hating, irritating and ignorant. He is an adult and should've handled our relationship as student and teacher more maturely.

 

"My apologies Mr Cho. I had some affairs that I needed to attend to." I intentionally didn't explain any further. I know it was unfair but how he was treating me was unfair too. I caught a Park's eyes. He did not like this one bit.

 

"Ms Kim, just because you're the Vice President, does not give you the privilege to attend the class whenever time you want. You being a Kim also does not-"

 

"Mr Cho, I think that's enough. She already apologised didn't she?" Park Jimin interrupted. In the corner of my eyes, I caught a glimpse of Mr Cho gulping. Saying I was not happy with how the situation turned out was a lie. But I also couldn't help but feel guilty. I shouldn't have used my family's status to handle the situation, I could've handled it by myself just as well.

 

A brief awkward silence filled the room, most of the students was uncomfortable while some found it amusing and this only made me feel guiltier. Thankfully, Mr Cho didn't let the silence extend any further and quickly told me to take my seat.

 

Arriving at my seat, I noticed Jimin smiling at me with an acknowledging look. I nodded at him and he nodded back then turned his head back to the front again.

 

That was how it worked in this school. No, not just the school, rather the whole community. The Park, The Choi and my clan, The Kim, are at the top of the pyramid, while the others fight for their places under us.

 

We, are what you call the queens and kings of this country. Our clans also have connections with other countries as well, making our clans much, much more stronger and powerful compare to others.

 

It's all about power and background.

 

If you don't come from a good enough family, it will be difficult for you get any further in life. You'll always be at the bottom, serving the people from the top.

 

The Park, The Choi and The Kim are at the top for a reason.

 

And this reason is unknown. Even to me. My father told me that I will know when the time has come, when it comes. I never dared to look into it further or know more about what the reason or secret is. One, because my father told me not to and two, because I know that I was not ready to know.

 

I had a bad feeling about it when I saw the dark look my father had when we started to get into that topic. I asked my mother once, out of curiosity, and she said exactly what my father had said.

 

Sighing, I took my books out from bag and started writing the notes from the board.

 

However, after what just happened, I couldn't pay attention to class. I don't know when it had happened but I realised my eyes had wander off to stare at Jimin's dark red hair. His hair was red last week but later changed it back to his natural colour which was black. Why did he dyed it back to red again?

 

I also noticed the change of colour in his eyes. It wasn’t a very visible change, however since the Park family usually visit us in our home, I couldn’t help but notice that he was wearing coloured eye contacts. Now, i knew Jimin since childhood and everything happening under the Park’s roofs, my household will always have to know. And i was certain that Jimin had never had any problem with his eyes.

 

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"Class dismissed." Mr Cho announced, making his way to the door. I stared back at him when I caught his eyes on me. When he saw me looking at him, he quickly darted his eyes back forward and left the room.

 

"Don't mind him Hyejin, he's not worth it." Kim Taehyung, my cousin muttered when he saw the whole exchange between Mr Cho and I. Smiling, I gently brushed his hair back from his eyes and stood up.

 

"Stop worrying about me Taehyung, let's go eat. I missed recess earlier." My smile grew wider when Taehyung grinned at me. I love seeing him smile, it always cheered me up and made my day better. How his smile always reaches his eyes and the way his teeth grits together.

 

Although we were cousins, I’ve always seen him as my little brother. We have always been together since we were very young. My father and his brother are very close to each other, that's why Taehyung and I practically grew up together.

 

And my smile faltered when Taehyung's beautiful smile got wiped off by his cold eyes and frown. I followed the direction of his eyes and saw Park Jimin. Also glaring back at Taehyung.

 

"Taehyung, what's wrong?" Taehyung, as if waking up from a slumber, snapped his eyes back to me again. I ignored his weird actions and continued to look back at Jimin. Probably feeling my eyes drilling a hole at his face, he adverted his eyes from Taehyung to mine. His cold eyes disappeared, ignoring my questioning look, he turned around and left with his best friend, Jeon Jungkook. Even Jungkook was confused with how his best friend acted.

 

"What was that about?" I asked Taehyung but he changed the topic by saying he was hungry and left the room. I ran after him, temporarily forgetting what just had happened between the boys.

 

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Physical Education was one of my favourite subjects. One reason was because it gave me lots of opportunities to beat the President, Kim Seok Jin. And also because I just love how one game could get my blood pumping, I love the adrenaline and the way my lungs burn-

 

"Okay class, unfortunately there will not be any activities today," The whole class and groaned and I groaned with them, which was very rarely, "Please understand. I'm sorry but you guys are going to have to splits into groups of 5. The principal asked me a favour and I can't just reject when it's Mrs Park, right? So today, we're cleaning all the gardens! Woo!"

 

Everyone lazily stood up and started getting into groups, complaints was thrown at Miss Kwon but she ignored them and started doing some kind of cheering. As if that'll make us feel any better. "Come on guys, it'll be fun."

 

Fun? FUN? All you're going to do during the whole class is order us around while we do all the hard work. But of course I’m not going to say that to her, especially when there are this much students around. I had to keep my image as being the nice vice president so the students come to me and not to that blockhead.

 

"Hyejin, baby!"

 

"Speaking of the devil." I rolled my eyes and quickly looked for Taehyung. But I was too slow because the blockhead successfully got hold of my wrist.

 

"You looking for your cousin? Look! There he is. Taehyung!" The blockhead pointed at where Taehyung was, surrounded by our other classmates and as expected, he looked uncomfortable and was doing his best to avoid them.

 

I quickly ran to where he was.

 

"Sorry guys, Taehyung's in my team-" I pulled him out of the crowd of students, the students got angry at first but when they saw who I was, they quickly bowed their heads and left.

 

"Thanks Hyejin," Taehyung was going to smile, I was anticipating it, but I was left disappointed when I saw not a smile but a confuse look on his face instead, "umm... Why are you guys holding hands?" Huh? What?

 

I looked down and saw a hand latching itself on my hand, I wasn't holding back of course and when I looked up and saw that it was Seok Jin, I hurriedly pulled my hand back but the blockhead wouldn't let go.

 

"Mr Kim... Can you please let go of my hand?" I wasn't in the mood for this, first we didn't get to do any sports and then because of this dimwit, I didn't get to see Taehyung's rare smiles. This day was getting worse and my patience was running thin because of it.

 

"Baby, it's not me. It's our chemistry magnet that's doing this. Please don't get angry at me, blame our love for each other-" And before I knew it, I had my other hand pushing Seok Jin's face away from me, desperately pulling my hand away from him.

 

"Let go- let go of me you little-"

 

"I told you it's not me! It's our love-"

 

"SHUT UP AND LET GO YOU LEECH!" I screamed. Crap.

 

Silence. The whole gym grew silence because of my outburst. And my hatred for Kim Seok Jin grew bigger as each seconds of humiliation passed.

 

I could feel my face getting hot of both anger and embarrassment. I glared at Seok Jin and the pest dared to smile at me. No, he was not smiling, to others it looked like he was smiling but I knew the dirty meaning behind it.

 

He had won again.

 

"I'm going to boil your-"

 

"Taehyung, want to join our team?"

 

And this quickly made me forget everything about the snake who still wouldn’t let go of my hand and has now hugged my whole arm against his body. "No, Taehyung's in my team, stop forcing him- Jimin? What?" What? Why was Jimin asking Taehyung to join his team?

 

"Sure, is Jungkook also going to be in our team?" And Taehyung smiling at Jimin made me even more confuse.

 

"Yeah, I don't really have a choice. Right, Park Jimin?" Jungkook appeared out of nowhere and put his left arm around Jimin's shoulders tightly. Jimin laughed and shoved Jungkook away from him.

 

"That's right. Anyway, you two can join our group too. So that's five of us." This was so weird, the two are acting like friends. What happened back at class, was that nothing?

 

Seok Jin interrupted my train of thoughts and agreed with all five of us in a group, "Sure, as long as I’m with my baby, I don't mind."

 

"No, Seok Jin, go find an another team, “Your Baby” doesn't like being around you so get lost." I was too confused at that moment that I wasn't even thinking straight. I accidentally gave the pest more ideas to annoy me.

 

"Aww~ my baby finally admitted that she's mine. And O-M-G she even said my name in school, in class! Aww~ I’m so touched, Hyejin-ah." What is he made of? Why does he never give up?

 

This prick looked at me like I was really a baby who had just said her first word. What's even worse, he looked at the three boys as if he's showing them how proud he was of his baby. What is wrong with him? He's definitely mentally challenged, I’m sure of it.

 

"What? NO! No, that's not what I meant, stop- Stop! Get away from me, you leech! Stop touching me- Taehyung, don't leave me! Taehyung!"

 

CHAPTER 2 - END

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