Love.

A one-sided love is one of pain and loneliness. Looking at the boy you like and knowing he will never look at you with those tender and beautiful eyes is ing depressing. A one-sided love .

A one-sided love especially for the girl who sits at the back of the class, unnoticed and neglected. She is like any other girl who wishes to have a loving boyfriend and to experience the feeling of being in an ethereal relationship.

Eunji knew that her time admiring him from afar was ephemeral. She needed to do something to make him notice her.

And so, she did.

But it wasn’t in a good way; he probably hated her because of her doings.

 ”When will he ever notice me?”

Eunji muttered forlornly to nobody in particular, flipping over the pages of her high school book. Her eyes lingered at Myungsoo’s face which was next to Hyeri. Whoa, even the school book editor supported them. Everyone loved that couple—they were meant to be together; a perfect match.

She could never compete with Hyeri.

Sure, Myungsoo’s admirers felt bitter and angry at first but those feelings soon morphed into pure envy. They wanted to be in Hyeri’s position so badly that they bashed the innocent Hyeri. She did nothing back to the haters; she basically ignored the hate that was growing.

However, Myungsoo was in bliss with her so his admirers were very much contented. Except for Eunji. She was envious, bitter, angry and mostly jealous. She had liked Myungsoo since the first year of high school. This wasn’t fair.

Life was never fair to her.

Life was never fair to anyone.

You get some and you lose some.

She was always the outcast, the neglected girl who sat away from the crowd. She wanted attention—love from people, as well. Eunji needed somebody special as well. While mostly everyone had dates, she had nothing.

“Why aren’t my feelings reciprocated? The boys I like never like me. I am so…sad…so sad…” She questioned Yeon Hee beside her, her mind shouldered with so many uncanny thoughts.

She gazed at Yeon Hee—she was beautiful. Eunji always felt like the ugly one in any—every—crowd. When she hung out with Ha Yeon and Hyeri, they lifted up her spirits even though she hated Hyeri very much, to the core. Eunji had to say that they both were really nice people. They made her feel accepted; made her feel important to them.

You see, it had always been Eunji.

It was always her in the wrong, being blamed on. It was always her who was the ugly one.

“Unnie, someday, you’ll find someone who truly loves you. For now, you have me, a best friend who loves you regardless of anything,” Yeon Hee whispered gingerly, taking note of how fragile Eunji was. If she spoke one wrong word, she didn’t know what Eunji would do to herself. She always felt indebted to Eunji and she wanted to help her swim out of her ocean of agony. Eunji had done so many things for her when she was lonely and scared—nobody saw her in times in difficulties except for Eunji.

Eunji had always been an exception.

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Hyeri knew what she had to do—as a girlfriend, as his best friend— to guide Myungsoo out of his depression. He had been sleeping in for the whole day, not bothering about the fact that his assignment was due in a day’s time. Given his sit