The confusion finally set in on my face as I stared at the five boys in front of me whom had just introduced themselves as B1A4.

“Let’s fly B1A4!” They shouted together and erupted into laughter and clapping which only caused me to smile at their silliness. I didn’t even notice how much I was staring at Sandeul until he finally stopped clapping as much and looked at me causing me to look away in embarrassment.

“I don’t get it why are you guys introducing yourselves like a band would?” I asked after finally realizing that I should speak before things got even more awkward.

“Because we’re going to be one!” Was Sandeul’s excited response before jumping up and down and clapping once more.

“Once we’re finished with High School we’re all planning on going to South Korea and debuting as singers.” Jinyoung explained with a smile on his face. He seemed so calm to be hanging out with all these guys, but the look of CNU also showed he was calm too. Maybe those two were the oldest in the ‘band’.

“South Korea?! Are you kidding me that is super far away!” I knew they were Asian but that didn’t mean they had to debut as singers in a whole different country!

“We’re all actually from South Korea originally, but our parents took us here when we were in second grade. We learned both English and Korean, but overall we miss it there and we wish to go back. We’re working really hard and we even have some songs for when we first start out.” Jinyoung continued to explain and after that explanation I understood why they would want to go there. I’ve never listened to Korean music before, I wondered vaguely if it was good and maybe they would show me the songs they’ve made for the band.

“Yup yup!” Gongchan chirped and clapped his hands together. “Hopefully by then my voice will settle more and I’ll be able to sing more.” He was just smiling at the mere thought of singing with his friends, he had the looks for a band but that won’t get him by and he knows that too. I can see he probably practices really hard too!

“Okay so now that introduction is out of the way I have one more question to ask you guys.” I replied, crossing my arms and looking at the entire group with a very serious expression. “I’m the new girl here, I don’t know any of you and we’re all not even friends, why are you telling me all of this?”

“We’re friends now so it doesn’t matter! Besides we need all the beginning fan base we can get!” Sandeul retorted and just by looking at him it didn’t even matter what he said because to me all I could see was his shining face and he could have told me to kill myself and I might have agreed to it. Snap out of it May! He. Is. Not. Sandeul! Okay well maybe he is but he’s not!

“Shhh don’t tell her that part stupid duck!” Baro exclaimed hitting Sandeul upside the head and looked at me politely, or as politely as he’ll ever look. “We’re just welcoming the new girl to our school the right and proper way, that’s all.” If he didn’t sound so sincere I would have been frightened from his deep voice, but strangely I was calmed by it and I wasn’t so scared. I’ve finally made friends; I’ve finally started to grow up. Oh Sandeul you’d be so proud if you heard that!

When I returned home from my very first day my parents instantly ran up to me and started asking me as many questions as they possibly could. I’ve never seen my parents care about me this much before, I guess moving has its advantages to it.

“I made some friends.” I simply stated and waited for them to erupt into happiness and ask me about all of them; they did just that. “First there is Gongchan, he is the youngest and he is really quiet but that doesn’t mean he’s good he actually stole my history book during first period and I didn’t even get it back until after school. Next there is Baro he has a very deep voice and at first it kind of scared me but he is really actually a sweet guy and caring too. CNU I don’t know much about, I don’t even know his real name but I don’t expect to know everything on the first day. Oh and there is Jinyoung he is super cute and really nice and polite and apologizes for pretty much everything that the other guys do; and last but not least—“

“Wait.” My mother interrupted me and gave me a stern look, the look on both of my parents’ faces seemed like they were more concerned than happy.

“Are you trying to tell us that you made only guy friends at school today?” My father asked in place of my mother. I looked at them with a very confusing look and nodded. “Go to your room.” He ordered and sent me upstairs, before I reached the staircase I could hear the two whispering to each other.

Great now they’re paranoid that I only have guy friends, what more do they want from me? I didn’t even get the chance to introduce Sandeul—wait that might be a bad idea what with his name and appearance looking exactly like my imaginary friend. Yeah best not mention Sandeul at all to them, and maybe tomorrow at school I could talk to a girl or two to see if they want to be friends with me. Yup, sounds like a good plan to me!

“Hey May!”

I looked over at the very familiar voice and didn’t even need to see to know that it was Sandeul calling out to me from a crowd of students. Beside him was Baro and Gongchan all wearing their school uniforms except Baro had on an illegal hat on his head and continued to wear his top open, but I guess there wasn’t a rule saying they needed to button it up.

“Hey guys.” I called out and waved to them, but from the looks of the crowd I had a better chance going a different way to get to our first period classroom, sorry guys but I’ll meet you there. I turned around and walked on, not looking behind me to see their expressions. I walked around a corner and bumped right into someone. I looked up and it was Jinyoung! He seemed lost and very puzzled.

“Oh May I didn’t even notice you there.” He said but still continued to wear that confused expression on his face. Was he by any chance…lost?

“Are you lost?” I asked politely forgiving and apologizing silently that we had bumped into each other on accident.

“Uh, yeah. I’m not good with directions and the school year is still fairly new, I’ll get used to it eventually and I usually walk with Sandeul, Gongchan and Baro but they went to eat breakfast early and left me.” Jinyoung explained looking rather sheepish which just caused me to blush.

“I think I remember where it is, oh and the crowd died down so let’s go this way.” I instructed, grabbed his hand and walked onward from where I had just came from. The crowd that was there moments ago seemed to have disappeared and all the students were heading to their classrooms. It gave us a good clearing and I remembered the rest of the way to the class without a single problem.

The only problem was that I had forgotten that I was holding Jinyoung’s hand and ended up walking right into our classroom while still holding onto it. We both coughed nervously let go of each other’s hand and walked to our respected desks. I glanced over at Jinyoung and noticed Baro teasing him about something and I could only guess it was about what had just happened.

I looked away and sighed, I didn’t mean to embarrass him like that. “Do you like Jinyoung?” I snapped out of my train of thought and looked at Gongchan. He was normally really silent, or at least from what I know about him so I wasn’t expecting him to question me about it.

What were my feelings for Jinyoung? He seemed like a great guy and really cute too; he had a nice smile, he was very polite, had a cute personality. Wait do I like him?! “Of course not, I mean as a friend yes but nothing more. I already have someone I like.” Yeah and his name was Sandeul and he was my imaginary friend until destiny tore us apart and gave me this real Sandeul as a replacement.

“Oh really, who is he?” Gongchan pestered on despite the class starting and the teacher talking about something whether important or not in front of the class.

“You wouldn’t know him.” I responded and took out my notebook and decided it was best to leave the subject like that and never open it again. If my new friends found out about Sandeul not only will they think I’m insane but they’ll also think I have the hots for THEIR Sandeul!

 Gongchan seemed dissatisfied with my answer but didn’t speak for the rest of the class and left the subject alone, and hopefully he won’t ask about it anymore.

Second period was mostly uneventful; Sandeul decided to switch seats so that he could always be sitting next to me even though I had retrieved my history book from Gongchan yesterday and made sure to keep an eye out just in case he decided to steal it again. We were covering something in History that I didn’t care much about and when I looked over at Sandeul I noticed he was knocked out on his desk fast asleep. He looked so peaceful I couldn’t help but stare at him with a soft smile on my lips. Every single thing about him was the same, his hair, his face structure, his personality, his lips—I couldn’t help but remember the day my Sandeul left me and ended it with a kiss. It felt so real but I knew it wasn’t, he took my first kiss but at the same time he didn’t.

That was when THIS Sandeul decided to open his eyes and look directly at me. I freaked out and quickly turned to look at the teacher in hopes that he was too sleepy to notice me staring at him. I heard a quiet yawn from him and dared to glance in his direction, he seemed unaware of what I had just done and I sighed happily knowing I didn’t have to come up with an excuse as to why I was staring at him.

Class ended just like that and we parted ways without much of a conversation. It felt weird having friends, actual friends, and I didn’t quite know how to go about it. Do I hug them when I greet them? Do I shake hands or do a secret handshake? Whenever Sandeul greeted me in the past he’d always hug me around my waist and rest his head on my shoulders while saying ‘Welcome home’ or ‘I missed you’. But he was a different case; I couldn’t possibly do that with these friends!

Nothing eventful happened for most of the day until I hit my math class and realized something was missing…something really important.

My math book.

Gongchan I swear you will be the death of me!