“Oh, shoot, I forgot something in the library. I’ll be coming home a little later, umma. Don’t wait up!”

Without even waiting for a reply from the other end, she ended the call, turning around while tucking her cellphone into her pocket. Jung Eunji was in a hurry, running back to school, although already on her way home, half-way there.

The girl groaned in frustration and never she thought she could be this careless by leaving her text book in the library, which was probably closed by now. She was too busy studying the content of resource books, trying to gather information for an upcoming assignment about insects and her text book seemed not much of an importance.

Once she got into the school gate, it was dark and it was about to rain, like she had heard on the weather forecast this morning. 

No way.

She ruffled her hair in frustrationㅡno, double frustrationㅡbecause not only did she forget her book at school, but she also forgot to bring an umbrella from home.

Great. Just great. 

It took her seven minutes to reach the library, located near the end of the main school corridor. The room wasn’t as dark as she thought it was, leading Eunji to think that someone was in there. As she opened the door and took a few steps in, the room was still as quiet as it was, because libraries were usually quiet.

That is, until she heard a voice. “We’re closed already. You can come back tomorrow.” Eunji jerked in surprise, widened eyes searching around the room and finding it’s way to a guy standing behind a bookshelf, thick books in his arm.

‘It’s only him, Eunji,’ 

She thought to herself as she took a sigh of relief, bowing her head in apol