G.NA’s “Black & White” | Girl’s Day ”Twinkle Twinkle”

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Eunjae’s POV~

The chime sounded once again signaling the end of another class, it’s ringing already getting on my nerves. I’d much rather have a regular school bell but I guess it just won’t do for them. I gathered my stuff and remembered from my roster that it was my lunch time.

I took this time to go to the locker office, so I could be assigned to a locker. I don’t mind carrying all of my stuff to every class but I don’t want to carry my jacket around every day when winter hits.

Luckily I managed to glance at a map of the school when I left my first period and managed to find my classes easily. I managed to avoid Su Hun, thank God I only have that one class with him, and any other bullies I’ll have to put up with the rest of the year.

I hope Tao’s doing ok.

I shook that thought away, reminding myself that he’s older, more mature, and stronger than I am. Yet I couldn’t control myself and gave in, sending him a text message to see if he’s ok.

He replied within a minute saying he’s fine. I sighed in relief and continued my way down the corridors. God this school is huge.

I found the locker office within minutes and stepped inside, almost choking on my breath of air.

Leaning over the table was my prince. His lean long legs stretched and rested gracefully against the linoleum floor, going on for miles. His posture and attitude gave off the feel of a mature man, even though I was sure he was not much older than me. He peered over his shoulder when I came in and I found my feet glued to the floor, unable to move. His pools of brown eyes drew me in, unable to focus on anything but his presence.

He gave me a smile and turned back to the lady sitting at the table.

“Please Miss Kwon, I don’t like my locker. It doesn’t have a proper hook for my coat and is located right next to the bathroom. I’d like my locker next to a better view if that is possible.” His voice had such a persuasive feel to it, as if anyone would be hypnotized by its velvet tone and obey his every command.

The lady sighed and furiously typed away at her keyboard, coming up shorthanded and saying,

“I’m sorry Mr. Kim but there are no lockers available. The only way you may get another locker is if you exchanged it with another student.

How may I help you?” It took me a second to realize she was talking to me after I noticed the prince was staring at me, moving away from the table so I could walk up.

I forced my feet to move and took several baby steps before finding the words tumbling out,

“I-I’m here for my locker.” She asked for my name and I gave it to her. I felt Mr. Kim (mental note: find out his name) looking me up and down and I suddenly grew self-conscience.

Why is he staring at me?

Is there something wrong with the way I look?

I felt the blood rush to my cheeks and adjusted my glasses, in hopes of covering my red cheeks. Miss Kwon handed me a thin strip of paper and said,

“There you go sweetie, and welcome to Seoul Academy.” She gave me a friendly smile, the first I’ve seen since coming to this school.

I tried to scurry out of the office so I wouldn’t collide into my prince, but after a few steps out I heard his voice behind me,

“Hey you, Eunmi!” I continued walking, realizing it wasn’t my name. But after a few more steps, he managed to catch up with me and gently tapped my shoulder.

I felt a spark fly throughout my entire body with that simple contact and froze.

“Man you can walk fast. Since you’re new, how about I show you where your new locker is. Ne?” I couldn’t believe this was happening.

He’s the perfect prince!~

I didn’t realize I was staring until he coughed awkwardly and held out his hand,

“Oh by the way, my name’s Jong In but everyone calls me Kai.” I felt my palms sweating a pool of salt water and realized this wasn’t the best impression you wanted to give to a person when shaking their hand, but I couldn’t just reject his offer. That’d be rude.

I reached out and made sure to shake his hand quickly before my sweaty palms would rub on his and said back,

“My name’s E-Eunjae.” He nodded and took the thin paper from my hands. Even though I already knew where my locker was from the map, I didn’t want to pass up this kind of offer.

He took several wrong turns and we didn’t exchange any words but my heart was still racing just by being at arms-length away from him. We managed to stop near a corner, finally getting to my locker. I got a locker near a window and away from the stairs, overall a good location.

Kai handed me back my paper so I could put in the combination, not even bothering to look at it since it was already well memorized the minute my eyes scanned the numbers.

I opened it to see it was newly painted, probably last year, and had two hooks on both sides of its walls. The bottom of it seemed clean and it had one shelf for books.

Kai whistled a little and tapped the locker door praising it,

“You sure have a nice locker, better than the trashed up box they gave me. Wish I had this locker, I’d do anything for this beauty.” I blushed even though the comment wasn’t directed towards me but my locker. I looked at the locker and sighed out.

“W-would you like to exchange lockers-”

“Wow really? That’s great kamsahamnida Eunjae!” Kai spoke out interrupting me. I couldn’t help but squeal on the inside,

Kyeopta~

 He handed me his paper with the locker number and combination lock and I gave him my own.

This all happened so quickly but I was on Cloud 9. Why?

Because he said my name correctly. I never liked my name in all honesty but when he said it, it felt like I was dreaming.

“…kamsahamnida Eunjae!”

“…Eunjae!”

I bit back a smile and continued my way down the hallways. I managed to find my locker in 3 minutes flat, faster than that expedition I took with Kai-oppa.

I stopped in my tracks. Do I even have the right to use his name adding oppa to the end of it?

I couldn’t believe I was flipping out over this small formality. He was older so I could call him oppa, and he told me to call him Kai so it should be fine…right?

I decided to take this mental note if I ever come across him again. I walked back to my new locker #2 and found it next to the teacher’s bathroom. It wasn’t as bad as he described it.

It had two hooks on both sides of the walls, although one was turning a shade of brown from the rust. Its bottom was clean and it had a shelf like my other one did; almost no difference. The only problem was that the paint was turning pale after years of aging.

But other than that, it was a decent locker. What made it even better was my locker neighbor.

“Tao!” I couldn’t help but call in relief when I saw him coming down the hall towards me. He gave me a small smile and I asked him how his classes were so far. He shrugged and replied,

“Ok I guess.” I figured that’s as much as I’ll get out of him while we’re in school.

“What’re you doing in this hall though?” I asked. He tapped the locker right next to mine and I jumped in place.

“You’re locker’s right next to mine!” I heard him breathe out a laugh and figured this school year will be a great one.

Kai’s POV~

I couldn’t help but smirk to myself. All of the girls are the same, the nerds being the easiest to persuade.

“Yo Kai what’re you smiling to yourself for?” Chanyeol asked, jumping on my back as he peered over my shoulder. I started putting my books into the new locker and Chanyeol soon caught on, rolling his eyes at me.

“Alright, how’d you get this nice locker in exchange for your crappy one?” I finished stuffing my locker with my notebooks and textbooks and shut it close, putting the paper into my pocket.

“Some newby Eunjae, the definition of nerd. Easiest trade I’ve ever done.” He swung his arm around my shoulder and shook his head sarcastically.

“And the kingka heartbreaker strikes again!” I couldn’t help but chuckle at this kid and ruffled his hair, messing it the style he worked hours on.

“Where’s the rest of EXO-K?” I asked and he shrugged, replying,

“Probably in class like we should be.”