1997

“Umma, what if I don’t want to go to this school?” I asked, too frightened and too worried about making new friends at the age of twelve.

“Seungyeon, we talked about this. It's a very nice school, you’ll be fine,” Umma said sweetly, “And you’ll make plenty of new friends.” She continued as if she were reading my mind.

I grumbled unhappily as I stood closer to my mother. Even as a twelve year old I still acted as if I were six; timid and shy, afraid of new things, new people. Having my mother dropping me off at a new middle school and not knowing a single person was frightening enough.

“Here we are. Have a good day okay? Behave and don’t forget your manners,” she said, bending to give me a gentle kiss on the forehead.

“Umma! Not here. Not now.” I hissed angrily. Being the only new student I knew that I would be picked out immediately as a little cry baby who clung to her mother constantly. And that wasn’t exactly the best impression I could make on my first day.

She chuckled in a response and tucked a stray piece of hair out of my eyesight in a caring motion. It was her motherly move. On the outside I remained indifferent to her action but on the inside I transformed into the little girl who was beginning her first day of kindergarten, her first whole school day away from her mother. Away from safety and what was thought to be normalcy. And to be honest, I was still the scared little girl I was then. Only six years older and six years stranger.

“You’ll be fine okay sweetie?” She continued.

All I could do was nod in response as I watched her give me a final hug and walk down the street only turning back once to see me enter the gates with shaky steps.

…

“All right class, please welcome new student Han Seungyeon who will be joining us today. She’s a bit shy so please make her feel welcome,” the teacher stated trying to be as nice as possible.

I bowed slightly and avoided the piercing gazes of all the other students. They stared with curiosity even though some looks they gave me could be considered venomous. Three girls in pigtails stared cruelly at me, as if I was an unwanted fly on their lunch. I could feel that they wanted me gone, and I felt like nothing more than an irritation.

“You’ll sit next to Joonmyun over there,” the teacher said, pointing at a boy with clean cut ebony hair. I gave a subtle nod and walked over to the desk in the far corner where the boy was sitting. He sat twiddling a blue ball point pen in his right hand and a scrap piece of paper curled up in his left. I sat down, unsure of what to do next. And then, class had begun.

Fifteen minutes passed of pages being turned and pens scratched against paper when a crinkled fly-away landed on my book. I warily opened it, and scrawled in blue pen was a message for me.

Hi. I’m Suho. Your name’s Seungyeon right? Don’t be intimidated by the other girls, they’re just naturally scary.

I glanced over at Suho who was scrawling down lengthy answers into his book with a content smile on his face. I peered back towards the teacher who was writing a long explanation on the board and sighed over my empty page, trying to determine if he was feeling pity towards me and how I was going to survive the rest of the year with that much work. Another paper flew over to join its comrade.

It was a kooky cartoon with the three girls in pigtails on it. Tongues of fire exited their mouths and expressions of pure rage adorned their faces. The resemblance was uncanny. And unconsciously, I began laughing like an idiot.

The whole class snapped their heads towards the back corner and stared directly at me while the teacher gave me a hard stare. If looks could kill, I would have been beyond dead by that point.

“Anything you’d like to share with the class?” she inquired coldly, her kind façade nowhere in sight. She had shed her guise and had come out scarier than ever.

I opened my mouth slowly, hoping that the next words I would utter would somehow save me from the mess when a faster mouth had beaten me.

“Since you insisted Miss Lee, Seungyeon was just laughing because she saw Miyoung pick her nose,” Suho interjected blandly. The class exploded with laughter as the girl with pink ribbons tied at the end of her pigtails covered her face in shame.

Surprisingly, she was guilty as charged. By hiding her face within her hands she had indirectly admitted to doing the deed. And the class loved it.

“Settle down, settle down! Everybody back to work!” Miss Lee shouted over the noise while briefly passing a tissue box to Miyoung which did not benefit the situation at all. The class gradually settled back into their working atmosphere, with few indulging in occasional snickers while looking at Miyoung.

I turned the drawing over to the other blank side, and in my black pen wrote thank you. Chucking it back over to Suho I ducked my head down and began to start copying what had been written on the board. A last note had been returned to me. I precariously opened it up once more, but this time being sure to keep my mouth shut and my senses aware. Written in small print was a single sentence that had turned into the answer of my childish problem of being alone.

Let’s be friends.

And that was how I made my first friend. 

A/N: Hello there ~ This is an entry for the ( Lucky Choding ) ♚ ║ Writing Contest ~ YAAAAAY. 

The lovely poster and background was made by La lumière ♕ [graphics] ~

I have used the following prompts:

#8: Life would be easier if we just loved the right person first.

#15: I couldn't have asked for a more better life.

So this will be super short; it's a oneshot. But probably like, endless scrolling long. I type too much.

If anyone was curious, which I doubt, I chose Seungyeon because she's my ultimate KARA bias and she doesn't have that many fics so I shall enjoy writing this. Also I chose Suho because .... He's SUHO. HEH. Randomest pairing I know but I'm just very random like that.

So yes, please enjoy this randomness ~

UPDATE: 5th of Dec - just to notify all, the story plot has kind of changed ... a lot and so have the prompts that I'm using so sorry for like; letting people down if they were looking forward to the original story. I kinda ran out of time here but yes, please enjoy anyways !