13 ♥ Special Heart
Hearts are Made to be Broken
♥ Eunye ♥
"Well, that's all for today. Thank you, class," I close my book and start to clean the whiteboard.
"Choi Songsaenim!" Jihyun, one of my students, raises her hand when I just finished cleaning the whiteboard. "Don't you have a new vocabulary for us today?"
I blink and then fake a smile, "I will give you two words next week, okay? I promise."
Some of them look disappointed but some others just grin and tell me they can't wait until next week. One by one of them leave the classroom until I'm all alone.
I heave a sigh and take the book along, stepping out from the classroom and lock it. I'm not in my best mood today but I don't want to show it to my students.
Even though teaching is not my not my field but I'm not going to lead the kids to the wrong path. They have their dreams and I think they put a lot of hope in me as well.
"Eunye?"
I stop and find Woohyun is approaching me with his usual warm smile. Ironically it makes me feel even more guilty now.
Yesterday I felt like a lightning just struck me when he told me that it's actually his first kiss. No, it's not my first because I lost my first kiss to Leeteuk when I worked on my first 'assignment'.
I remember Hoya was really mad at me that he ignored me for few days when he found out about it. He finally started to talk with me again after a few days because I had finished my 'assignment' with Leeteuk.
Yes, I regretted everything but I know I couldn't help it. Even until now I know I look like a girl with no pride, letting guys to kiss me just for a request from another girl.
However it's the first time I feel so nasty about myself when Woohyun told me that I am his first kiss. The statement hit me hard just to bring me the fact that perhaps Woohyun doesn't deserve to be my 'assignment'.
Hyomin must have made a mistake or she lied to me about everything.
Woohyun is too innocent for a man who deserves to be my target; I can't break his heart yet I don't know how to end this mission without hurting him.
"Ah, Gyu Hyung!" Woohyun calls out when he is only a metre away from me. His face beams but I don't have any courage to turn and look at the one he just called.
I don't understand why Sunggyu acted like that yesterday and I don't want to think about it now.
"Excuse me," I excuse myself, clearing my throat awkwardly. "I need to return to the staff room. I'll see you later."
I really need to find a way out from this situation as soon as possible.
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♥ Woohyun ♥
"Excuse me. I need to return to the staff room. I'll see you later," Eunye excuses herself just right after I called Sunggyu who just stepped out from the vocal class.
"Ah, wa-" I was going to stop her but when Sunggyu also walks away, I stop and look at both of them in sequence before deciding to follow Sunggyu.
"Hyung! Hyung!" I run after him but he fastens his face. Actually he is actually running from me.
Wait a minute. Why is he running from me?
"Yah! Kim Sunggyu! Stop right there!" I order him, stomping my feet impatiently.
Sunggyu really stops but he gives me a deadly glare, "What? Did you just 'Yah' at me, Nam Woohyun? Yah! I'm your Hyung!"
I grin and take steps backward, "Ah, I mean... I just... No! No! Yah! Yah! I'm sorry! Yah! Hyung!"
He circles his arm around my neck and makes sure I can't run from him, "Say it again. What? 'Yah! Kim Sunggyu!'? Huh?"
"I'm sorry! I said 'I'm sorry', okay?" I hold my laughter while struggling from his grip. "Hyung, I'm sorry! You're running away from me so I needed to stop you! Hyung!"
He finally lets go of me with unsteady breath. He heaves a sigh and puts both of his hands on his hips, "If you dare to call me like that again, you're not going to live in peace."
I let out a laughter before I fan myself with hand and take a deep breath, "Hyung, why were you running from me? I'm serious this time."
Sunggyu rubs the back of his neck, glancing at me with unsure look, "I... I was not running from you... I just..."
"You just what?" I tilt my head, wondering what his continuation is. He has been really quiet ever since we returned from Eunye's aparment but I didn't ask him anything because I thought he just needed time to sleep.
Now I think he is actually hiding something from me.
"It's...," he puts a really awkward expression. "Are you serious about Eunye? I mean about your relationship with her... It's just around a week, right?"
"So you ran away because I was with Eunye?" I frown with confusion. "Hyung, I thought you've given up about this conversation."
"I did! Well, before...," he messes his hair and groans, "Aish! Fine! I can't keep it any longer from you!"
Finally he decides to tell me what's wrong with him since yesterday.
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♥ Hoya ♥
Choi Eunye
"Let's have dinner together tonight."
I look up from phone screen to Eunye's desk. She is looking at me, pouting her lips cutely as if she knows I will look back at her after reading the message.
I smile and give her a simple nod before returning my focus to the conversation I'm having with Dongwoo and the other teachers in dance department. We're in the middle of discussion about the upcoming dance competition.
"So the school will send two teachers as the counselors during the dance competition for the whole week," Dongwoo announces, reading the paper in his hand. "The headmaster will announce the names next week and we can submit our application letters to be the counselors willingly starting from today."
Our school will send participants for the international dance competition for senior high school students which will be held in London next month.
The audition for the students of Eungeum Art School has been held last week and five students have been selected. Therefore they will be sent to London with the selected counselors to guide them there.
Of course I will submit an application letter because I will be more than grateful to watch the international dance competition by myself.
After explaining the details, the short meeting is dismissed and I walk to Eunye. I give her a signal to leave the staff room, heading out from thee school.
"What's with the sudden dinner invitation?" I ask her when we have walked a little bit far from Eungeum Art School. "You're not going to eat with Woohyun?"
"Can't I have one with my best friend?" she sighs impatiently and tucks her hands inside her jacket's pocket. "It's alright if you don't want too. I think I'll live with ice coffee."
"Eunye," I grab her wrist to stop her from fastening her pace. I give a warning tone when I call out her name. "No ice coffee. You drank too much already yesterday."
She flinches a little and drops her gaze reluctantly, "Sorry... I just... My mood is really bad today..."
"I'll treat you for dinner, okay?" I ruffle her hair. "Don't give me that face again. Let's go."
We walk to a Japanese restaurant, the one Junhyung reccomended to me weeks ago. He said it's one of his favorite restaurants around here.
When Eunye is busy deciding the food to order, a voice greets us with obvious surprise, "Howon?"
"Oh, Hyung," I bow politely when I see Junhyung just steps in the restaurant with a girl next to him. Her name is Im Isun and she is Junhyung's girlfriend who is specialized in dancing like me. However, as much as I know, she doesn't work in a school.
"You're with...," Junhyung takes a peek at the girl behind me who just stops looking at the menu book and smiles to the couple. "Ah, Eunye."
There are seconds of silence before Isun introduces herself cheerfully, "My name is Im Isun! Nice to meet you!"
"Ah, my name is Choi Eunye," Eunye bows in ninety degrees with her best smile. "Glad to know you."
Silence again.
"Well...," Isun clasps her hands together, looking at Junhyung and me in order. "Let's take a table for four. We can have a chat together!"
"Ah, my name is Choi Eunye," Eunye bows in ninety degrees with her best smile. "Glad to know you."
Silence again.
"Well...," Isun clasps her hands together, looking at Junhyung and me in order. "Let's take a table for four. We can have a chat together!"
Actually the idea doesn't sound really good because I remember Junhyung knows about the heartbreaker rumor from Isun and I don't want Eunye to end up with questions during dinner time.
However I don't have an alibi to reject the request either so both of Eunye and I agree to sit in one table with the couple.
Thankfully the conversation just rotates about our work; I'm glad that Junhyung and Isun don't bring up subjects about the rumors. Sometimes I hold my laughter when I see Junhyung and Isun are bickering about small stuff.
"You two look really close," Eunye comments casually, giggling happily at the scene of Isun sticks out her tongue at Junhyung because he just pulled down her hoodie. "I really envy you. Right, Hoya?"
I pat her head and smile, "They are indeed a great couple."
Junhyung and Isun exchange looks and give us shy grin. Seconds later, Eunye excuses herself to go to the restroom.
"I thought Eunye is with Woohyun," Junhyung mumbles when Eunye has disappeared from our sight. "I never knew that you two are actually together."
"Oh, no, we're just best friends," I explain. "We're best friends since college. Don't get the wrong idea."
"Really?" Isun puts her index finger under her chin as if she is thinking hard about something. "Because I don't see it that way..."
"Eh?" I blink, completely don't understand what she is talking about.
"Maybe it's just a girl's intuition but the way she looks at you...," Isun points her finger at me, "...it's the look a girl only gives when she is looking at someone special for her."
"And not just a friend," she quickly adds before I retort her. "Not a best friend. Someone special in her heart."
Our conversation stops abruptly because Eunye has returned and joins us again. We eat again as if the conversation never happened but it actually has distracted me.
I keep glancing at Eunye when she is eating, wondering about what Isun just told me...
...but it's impossible. Her heart never beats for me and neither do I.
We're best friends. We're just best friends.
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