Kyuhyun Point of View

Slightly rusted gates towering over seven feet high, a court yard pond placed in front of the trail to the main building that was probably four feet long and two feet deep, antique-looking buildings scattered around here and there, and finally, not to mention, lush green shrubs adding more beauty to the scene? This was definitely the place.

I glanced down at the white piece of paper held in my hands before peering back at the new boarding school I was going to be attending starting tomorrow, Jangmi Academy. I heard rumors about this place. Not about their title as being one of the most prestigious boarding schools in the country—which, in my opinion, it doesn’t look like that at all, probably because this academy gave off this weird, eerie atmosphere rather than a flamboyant, rich one. Maybe it’s just me, or maybe it’s due to the fact that rumors I heard about this rich academy were the ones consisting of horror tales, the fact that many students had gotten kidnapped from this very place centuries ago, or how there are these so-called “ghosts” roaming around the school.  

But, going back straight to the point, I, Cho Kyuhyun, a straight-A student from an every-day typical public school from Seoul, was now going to step foot into this “haunted” school and I would be here to stay until I graduated college. Am I scared? Not even. I light snorted as I stuffed the paper that consisted of the school’s address back in my pocket, unfazed to the fact that I’ve probably crumbled it even more than I had already did the past hours as I was packing up my belongings from home and riding on a train to get to here. Walking on the cobblestone path, dragging my suitcase with me as I did so, I made my way over to the main building of the school and to the lobby.

Once I had finally made it inside the school, my whole viewpoint of the place changed. It was grand here with polished, marble floorings, chandeliers, mahogany double-doors and a series of stair cases that leaded to who-knows-where, most likely to the classrooms, club rooms, music rooms, staff rooms, anything and everything a school needed. For a few moments, I stood there, dazed, forgetting that this was not some five-star hotel, but instead a boarding school.

In my moments of amazement, I failed to notice that there were two figures behind me and before I realized it, I had rainbow confetti dumped down upon me, a sharp-high pitched noise piercing through one of my ears while happy shouting rang through the other, and, finally, I felt someone ruffling my hair a bit too harshly.

“Welcome to Jangmi Academy!” When all the commotion finally stopped, I groaned and wiped the confetti off my brown locks and glared at the two grinning culprits that nearly made me go deaf.

“You’re our new student right? Cho Kyuhyun!” The first one piped up. I noticed he wore a sapphire blue uniform rimmed with creamy white that had pants to match, dark brown hair, and a dimpled smile.  “I’m Yang Leeteuk, the Student Body President.”

“And I’m Kwon Yesung!” I glanced over to his companion who had messy midnight black hair, dark almond eyes….with eyeliner..?, and a uniform similar to Leeteuk’s except it was a black and rimmed with blood red and topped off with black skinny slacks and a few skull pins on the blazer. “I’m not the Vice-President, leave that to Heechul-hyung, but I’m the Historian in the Student Council! And, we almost forgot, we’re gonna be touring you around the school! Did you like our welcoming entrance?” He sent another chubby cheeked smile at me as he twiddled with the pink and yellow party noise maker in his hand.

“No.” My sentence wiped the grins off their faces as they stared at me in shock. Though, I continued on nonetheless, “You two literally made me go deaf. If I was the jumpy-type of person I’m sure I would have died of a heart attack.” The two stayed silent for a few more moments before bursting into laughter.

“Yup, we accomplished our goal!” These weirdos….Once the laughter finally died down from the two, Leeteuk finally spoke up again. “Anyways, enough of that, let’s get you started on the tour! You’re going to love it at Jangmi Academy!” Leeteuk grabbed my wrist as he and Yesung began to drag me around the building, ignoring the mess that they had created at the main entrance. “I mean, just look at this place! It’s so fancy and if you come from a poor background you’ll absolutely love your stay here!  Also, the teachers are so nice and the Student Council members which are me, Heechul, Yesung, Ryeowook, and Henry, will definitely not make one single day at this school be bland!”

After an hour or two, we finally stopped at my dormitory building, which happened to be the Eunhasu Dormitory lying on the East side of the school. I gave a relief sigh, happy to know that, after this, I would finally depart from Leeteuk and Yesung. Throughout the tour they would never stop talking about everything and anything in the mind as they slowly strayed away from the topic of having to explain which is what in this school and, being the hyper-active idiots I’m sure they are, they loudly broke into rooms of studying students before introducing me to my soon-to-be fellow classmates and then storming away from the classroom, still dragging me and acting as if nothing ever happened.

“And now here we are, at the Eunhasu dormitory!” Yesung exclaimed as he slipped his phone back into his pocket. Didn’t Leeteuk already tell me this just a few minutes ago? Well, seems like someone was behind on a few things while he was texting away “And, before you say anything, yes all the dormitories are designed different from each other and, no, we don’t care about your complaints about one dormitory looking better than another!” Well...Okay then. I see how the academy is.

Once Yesung finally opened the double doors to the dormitory, it happened again.  Someone from the inside blew a blow horn which, automatically, made me cover my ears as the sounds of poppers followed and confetti danced around in the air.  Shouts of “Welcome to Jangmi Academy!” filled the room as I groaned and two figures then ran up to me to give more greetings while the other just strode over. 

“Hello! Uh, sorry for the commotion,“ Finally someone noticed my displeasure, “But we’re just making a warm welcome for every new student that comes across in this school. I’m Kim Ryeowook, the treasurer of the student council.” He grabbed my hand and shook it, giving a small bow before looking back up to me with a smile. I noticed that he was considerably shorter than me and had light brown hair with his bands swiped to one side of his face.

Next, some hamster-boy, who also ran up to me, introduced himself. “I’m Henry Lau, the Social Chairperson of the Student Council!” Henry's hair lightly brushed his neck and he wore the same uniform as Ryeowook; a dark, navy blue blazer outlined with white and skinny white slacks. “Both Ryeowook and I are sophomores and, since you’re a sophomore too—we looked up your information—you’re going to be wearing the same uniform as us and maybe even attend some of the same classes!” Oh, great.  Finally, the last one who just walked over to me introduced himself.

“Kim Heechul, Vice President—" I heard a small "more like Vice ident" from Yesung which Heechul ignored for the moment, "...of the Student Council and I’m in my first year of college with Leeteuk.” It may be a sad thing to admit, but I think I like Heechul out of the other 4 student council members. He was less hyper, which resulted in being less irritating to me, especially in a situation like arriving in a new academy--which, ontop of it all, was a boarding school. Then, finally,  the dark-haired boy tossed a dormitory room key at me, which I caught, before finishing off. “Your room is on the 3^rd floor and number 81, you can go find it yourself. You're 16, you're old enough to go wander around the halls alone." Well, seems like Leeteuk, Yesung, Henry, and Ryeowook's attempts at making a warm welcoming just flew out the door. I nodded as I watched Heechul whip around and begin shouting at Yesung due to the fact on the other trying to rub a bad name on him. On the other side, Ryeowook and Henry were slowly moving away from the scene as Yesung yelped out his sorries and Leeteuk just stood dumbly by me. I couldn't help it, but an amused smirk snuck on my face at the scene. 

Then, finally, it seemed like Leeteuk began to function again because, in a second, he marched over to Yesung and Heechul before ripping the two apart.

"Yah! This is no way to act when we're trying to make new student get use to the new atmosphere here!" Leeteuk began to lecture, "As your guys' hyung and leader I demand  that you troublesome dongsaengs drop this obnoxious attitude and behave yourselves!" Yesung gave a quirk mumur of  "Yes Teukie-hyung!" while Heechul gave a meer roll of his eyes. After he was done, Leeteuk let the two idiots go before turning and giving me another bright smile.

"And then I guess this is the end of our little tour!" He concluded. Little tour? No way. Not even. "We just remembered we had a student council meeting in a few but, if we weren't quite in a pinch right now, we'd definitely be able to guide you to your rooms!" No thank you, no thank you. All I wanted to do right now was to either just toss my suitcase in a random corner and sink to the abyss of dreams or whip out my computer and game consols and amuse myself in the digital world. With a small bow, Leeteuk walked out the door, with his minions-- I mean fellow student council members, following right in suit. When the door was shut close, I didn't waste anytime to go to my dormitory room. Now I had peace and quite! Now I had time to go to sleep or play Starcraft! That is, until the other students end their class sessions for a day.  Then bump in paths with my room mate.