“With your smile, I fall for you more. Every time you move, my world just stops. The song of my heart is just for you. I hope that one day, you’d feel my hidden emotions.” 
- A translation of Ngiti by Ronnie Liang

Seokmin’s always seen Yuna. But the thing is, he’s sure she doesn’t see him. In a typical high school food chain, Seokmin belongs to the funny guys who aren’t jocks at the middle of the food chain. Sure, he has friends up there, but he prefers his other nerdy friends who would do his chemistry homeworks with him over his jock classmates who’d rate the people they’ve slept with in one to ten. Yuna, on the other hand, is on a little higher caste. She’s bright, funny and popular. She’d never want to be a cheerleader because she thinks it’s boring, but she takes AP Calculus because she thinks it’s fun and a lot less boring that cheerleading – but she’s never ostracized for it, and it makes Seokmin amazed all the time.

But what amazes him the most is her smile.

She always smiles, it’s weird, in his eyes. One time, and the only time they ever interacted, her period leaked to her pants, not that he was looking at her – she was wearing white pants that day. Being the gentleman that he is, he gave her his jacket. But even though Yuna was in trouble, she didn’t forget to smile.

Maybe, he likes her. But he knows he can’t. She hangs out with the best people, he hangs out with the people he’s actually friends with. He knows he can’t sit with her.