Tao sipped his regular white chocolate cocoa. It was his favorite drink in the morning. It just made him 10x happier no matter what happened during the day. It was still pretty early and there were no customers yet, and the other staff hadn't even arrived.

He just sunk lower into his regular seat as he put the cup of coffee on his furnished oak desk. He noticed his reflection on the crystalized paperweight on his desk. His eye bags were as dark as ever, making a black rim around his lower eyelid. It was probably due to him working overtime.

But now, It was still his 'rest hour'.

 

Then, he heard the huge twin glass doors creak open. He looked outside. The person was a petite girl.

 

The doorman wasn't there yet so Tao was worried that the door would be too heavy for such a person. He immediately got out of his chair and hurried for the door to help the girl.

But when he was about to open the door for her, the door already fully opened. 

waah. .she managed to open it herself

 

And in came the cutest girl he had ever seen. She was wearing something like a man would wear. Baggy jeans, loose white shirt, a grey hoodie and a plan black beanie. But. .she still looked so girly.

 

 

The girl effortlessly closed the door behind her and stared at Tao with her huge doe eyes. Tao couldn't help but get momentarily speechless. He also noticed that the print on her shirt was a panda. He looked at the shirt. He just loved them, even though he has like 5 panda shirts already, he wanted to ask where he could buy that.

The girl raised an eyebrow at his odd behavior.

He regained his senses and remembered the required formalities.

"Oh. .uh good morning." he said.

 

The girl just flew past him with a blank face. "There's nothing good in the morning if a random guy checks out your s." she said frankly.

 

Tao's eyes almost bulged out of his sockets. "But. .I was--"

 

I W-WAS. .WAS JUST LOOKING AT YOUR SHIRT

Before he could even straighten things out the girl cut him off.

"Yeah. .yeah. .whatever."

 

Then she went off to explore the library wordlessly. So Tao just went back to his seat. He couldn't believe what had happened. He got mistaken for a ert. His cheeks were flushed as he buried his face into his palms and clenched his eyes shut, hoping that he could forget the embarrassment.

 

When he removed his hands from his face he was startled to see that the girl was directly in front of him.

 

"Yo ." she said crudely.

"?" Tao repeated.

 

"Yeah, that's what I'm going to call ya from now on." She said. "So you work here?"

 He just abhorred his new nickname, but he still nodded.

"Where is the Roman history section in this place?" she inquired.

 

"It's on the eighth lane of the second row." Tao replied. 

She lazily flicked her wrist as she turned around. "thanks."

 

Tao followed her with his eyes to see if she got the right lane. Fortunately she did. She scanned the different titles for a while and picked up some books and scanned them again. Until she spotted a book on a shelf that was too far for her to reach. She raised her arms, but it was no use. She jumped up to reach it, but it was just slightly too high.

He couldn't help but smile.

Even though she was a bit rude, he felt obligated to help her, he approached her.

 

"Want some help?" he offered.

But the girl gave him an unexpected response, she glared at him, making him step back a bit. She continued to reach for the book, but she again struggled.

Tao furrowed his brows and wondered why she didn't want any help. But she's a customer, and it's kinda his duty to help her. So he went behind her and grabbed her desired book anyways.

He handed the book to her.

 

She eyed the book, then eyed him. As if she was sizing him up.

"Yah. .wanna die?" she said darkly. He couldn't expect that those words would come out from such a small and soft-featured face. He was speechless and confused.

 

And she was. .scary.

 

The girl turned around and and again flicked her wrist. "Ugh . .never mind." she said.

Tao reached out for her to give her the book.

Wait. .what about your book?

But instead, the girl turned around again and kicked him in the shins.

Tao grunted and stopped to rub his now throbbing leg. He has never been kicked before. And there was absolutely no reason why she would do so. He watched her back as she left the library.

 

She's the weirdest girl ever TT.TT

 

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Nana was pissed. Veeeeeeryyy painfully pissed. She overslept on the day of an important exam and so she missed it. Garnering a perfect zero for it. Her university has this weird policy that once you miss and exam, you can't take it anymore. The only exception is when you get hospitalized.

"Ugh. .I wish I just got into an accident rather than oversleeping." She mumbled to herself as she kicked a stray can on the sidewalk. To her luck, the can had something IN it. It was still about half full of coffee and it wet her shoes.

 

She just wanted to scream and hit somebody. And she would've, but there was nobody to hit cuz it was still five thirty in the morning.

DAMMMIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTT. .

 

Stupid can! Stupid school! Stupid extra reports I have to pass next week in order to pass!

 

 

 

Yeah, the consequence of her missed exam is that she had to make 5 reports of the history of 5 different places that is due on monday. At first she was fine with it, she just planned to copy paste everything. But, her  professor just went like 'I expect you to send me the book titles of the references you used. Borrow the books from Emperean library. You can't lie to me since I can check the library's database to see if you actually did it.'

Most professors couldn't actually care less wether a student made a report truthfully or not, just as long as they pass it. But her professor was one of the rare douches who cared.

 

Ughh. 

 

Somebody, please pass by so that I can hit you.

 

She finally arrived at the cursed massive library. At least the library offers free borrowing fees for students.

Nana opened the massive door and closed it behind her. Then, about a few meters away from her. She saw a suspicious looking man who was looking at her, in a weird way. He wore a loose black sweater and black fitted jeans which made his very tall stature look even taller. His hair was a tad longer than normal, his fringe almost covering his left eye, and his exposed one was  like glowering or staring at her intensely. It also seemed like he wore eyeliner. Nana always found it weird that guys would wear eyeliner.The one word to describe him probably was: emo.

 

She looked at him for a bit and tried to figure out why he was staring at her. She followed his line of vision and realized exactly WHERE he was staring. 

 

At her chest.

 

 

"Oh. .uh good morning." he said.

THE HELL?? he had the nerve to even talk like he's doing nothing?? Damn ert!

 

now here's someone to hit. Her fist was shaking and wanted to land sooo badly onto that scary face of his. But she tried to suppress it, maybe her professor will find out or something.

 

So, she just let it go.

 

She just walked away and tried to find a book, but not before replying: "There's nothing good in the morning if a random guy checks out your s."

 

The guy glared at her even more.

. "But. .I was--"

 

Now he's angry??! 

She was twitching now, trying to control herself. Before he could say anything more annoying she just waved him off.

 

"Yeah. .yeah. .whatever." she said, with a flick of her wrist.

 

Then she went off to explore the library wordlessly. But then she realized that going through all the massive shelves here to look for the history section would just take too long a time. She reaallly didn't want to do it, but since that works here. She needed to ask and just set her pride aside.

 

She went over to the 's desk. He was covering his face with his palm all emo-like. 

 

"Yo !" She said to get his attention.

 

The guy looked at her. For a moment she thought that he would initiate a fight, but didn't.

"?" he repeated.

 

 

"Yeah, that's what I'm going to call ya from now on." She said rudely, frankly she didn't really care if she got into a fight with this annoying y emo dude, she needed to vent out the stress anyways. "So you work here?"

He stiffly nodded.

"Where is the Roman history section in this place?" she asked.

 

"It's on the eighth lane of the second row." he replied. 

 

"thanks." I said while immediately going over to the said section. She began searching for a book that could help her with her reports. She spotted some, but put them back, realizing that they lacked some information. Then, she saw a book title on a high-up shelf that looked promising. She reached for it while trying to extend her legs and back as much as she could. But still she couldn't

 

She always HATED her height.

She went for it again with a jump, but slightly missed.

Her eye twitched in frustration.

 

On the corner of her eye she saw the guy SMILING. Yup. he was smiling. Her fist curled up into a ball.

Is he making fun of me now?? huh?!

The dude even went towards her.

"Want some help?" he offered.

But Nana just glared at him. She figured that he was just offering to mock her. Douches like these aren't even worth hitting. She continued to reach for the book.

But suddenly, that did something that made the hairs on her body stand on end. He went behind her. She could feel his huge body towering behind her. He was so freakin' close, only inches away. She even felt his hot breath on top of her head.

 

He handed the book to her. With that creepy intense glare of his.

 

She eyed the book. 

The hell is wrong with this guy?? using the book as an excuse to hit on me.

Her temper was just about to explode. She examined him and tried to figure out if she  could defeat him in a fight. He was tall yes, and he was lean too, but his body was a bit lanky and off-balance.

Nothing a few years of judo training couldn't beat.

 

But she reminded herself that guys like these aren't worth being late for. So she just settled for a threat.

"Yah. .wanna die?" she said as intimidatingly as she could.

 

Nana turned around and  flicked her wrist. "Ugh . .never mind." she said.

 

But the guy followed her again.

 

 he STILL won't give up won't he??

She couldn't help it anymore, so she turned around and kicked him in the shins. The man doubled over in pain and finally stopped following her.

 

She couldn't believe how easy that was.

 

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chap 1's ouuutt!

AWWW. .poor Tao. haha. I kind of got the idea of this story because when I first saw Tao's teaser he's like all bad- and stuff, but when i saw him on variety shows. he was just soo kyuuuutt! hahah

 

So i guess Tao always gets misunderstood. xD which can be shown in this chap.

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