mini/ep ∞  yeonhee

Yoona is impulsive and reckless. A little selfish as well–

Back then in elementary school, I had really big, puffy cheeks. Not the attractive type either, they were just round – like small flesh colored globes on my face. It wasn’t all that pretty and I suffered a lot from my classmates, especially the boys. I couldn’t do anything, so I studied. I studied so hard that I became  smarter than anyone in the school. No one teased me after that. They were too intimidated, I guess.

That is, except for Yoona. She would puff her cheeks out, pinch mine and laugh. It annoyed me at first and I would tell her she was immature and throw her a mean look. Yoona never took it to heart and just shrugged it off. She was the kind of girl who was impulsive, carefree and reckless – someone who sometimes let her feelings get away from her. I was the exact opposite.

No one else wanted to play with me but Yoona. I would ask her why she liked to spend time with me and she would say it was because we were friends. Then I would tell her that I don’t need friends because I was smart. I can still remember what she replied to me that day: “Yeonhee-yah, what’s so great about being so smart if you don’t have friends to smile with?”

I was taking up Psychology but we shared a Philosophy class back in University. And Yoona had come to class very late one morning. I was sitting at the front of the class and saved her a seat but when she walked in – she was too embarrassed to go and sit beside me. So instead, I gestured to her to go sit at the back. I didn’t know who Changmin was back then. I didn’t even know that the only son of Shim Incorporation – a business enterprise known best for working closely in importing and exporting goods around the world – would be sitting quietly at the back of the same Philosophy class.

But Shim Changmin was there, and I guess I was the reason why Yoona ever met him.

At first, I di