❤   When I hold your hand, the world will envy us   When you kiss me, I finally understand that this feeling will never change   My babe, baby babe, baby, baby-   Tell me really what is love   -EXO-M “What Is Love”  

 

1. Yixing and Yura have the perfect kind of love.   They first meet more than three years ago, during their first week of high school, when the two both arrive late to school on the same day and had to serve detentions together, clapping erasers and cleaning chalkboards. Yixing likes to claim it was love at first sight, and Yura never corrects him to say otherwise.    For her, it is the first, and only, detention of her life. She is a straight A student, and regularly ranks in the top 5 in semester exams.    For Yixing, it is just the first of many detentions. He receives them for a variety of things: not tying his tie correctly, being late to class, forgetting homework. The list could go on and on; Yixing is a dancer, and could care less about detentions going on his permanent record.    They are like night and day, and that is what makes them perfect for each other.       2. Chanyeol and Jisun have the reckless kind of love. It’s a new love, and therefore, crazy in all the right ways.    Chanyeol and Jisun attend different schools, and had met through a fluke. His friend had been crushing on a girl he saw at the bus stop every day, and practically drags Chanyeol with him to stalk her one day after school. The girl heads into a café to meet her friend, and that is where Chanyeol first catches a glimpse of Jisun.   When two weeks later, the two bump into each other while in line to get FT Island’s new album, Chanyeol decides that it must be fate.    Chanyeol and Jisun are more alike than any other couple they know. Both are slim and tall, with bright, bubbling personalities. They both harbor addictions to lemon drops and Harry Potter, and are both die-hard fans of the same band.   They are like two parts of one whole most of the time, and that is what makes them perfect for each other.     3. Sehun and Minah aren’t in love. Or, well, that’s what Sehun tries to convince himself, anyway.   He and Minah are neighbors, and have been so since they were 5 years old. They have also been best friends since they were 5 years old, when little Sehun pushed a bully off a bright red jungle gym for calling little Minah pudgy. Truth be told, she had been a little round back then. However, pudgy Minah had grown into a narrow-waisted teenager, big doe eyes, long dark hair, porcelain skin and all, who turns down confessions on a weekly basis.    They walk to school together in the mornings, eat lunch together on the roof during break, and walk home together after school. Half of the school already thinks they are dating, and the other half are convinced that the two are engaged. Sehun thinks that he wouldn’t really mind that all that much either way, while Minah remains painfully oblivious, focused on her passion for strawberry pocky, emoticons, and her favorite singer, Lee Hongki.    The two are able to walk in comfortable silence and spill their deepest, darkest secrets to each other, and that, Sehun thinks, is what makes them perfect for each other.     ❤   1. Yixing can feel the eyes on him as he leans against the front gates of the school.   His shirt is only half tucked in, and his tie is barely hanging on, knotted loosely in all the wrong ways. Still, since he technically hasn’t entered school grounds, the teachers can only glare disapprovingly. The students’ gazes, as well, linger on him as they pass. But then again, Yixing is used to that too. He attracts a lot of attention here, especially from the female students, because he is famous for his amazing dance skills and carefree attitude. As he straightens to shift his backpack, a flash of black hair and red scrunchie catches his eye.    “You’re late,” he calls, pouting prettily. “I told you to meet me here 3 minutes ago.”   “And you’re about to get another detention,” she replies, sighing. Yura reaches up with practiced hands, and sets out to fix Yixing’s tie.    “Don’t worry about that today,” Yixing interrupts, batting her hand away. He hears a loud commotion going on in front of the school gates, so he pulls her to the side, out of the way. “Hey, do you have any big tests today?”    Yura pauses for a moment, thinking, then shakes her head.   A devilish smile appears on Yixing’s face.    “Look what I have,” he sings out, waving a pair of concert tickets in her face.   Her eyes twinkle as she reads the name in big bold letters. FT ISLAND. Namsan Stadium, Busan.    “Shall we?” Yixing asks teasingly, and holds out a hand toward her.    Yura groans inwardly, but is already sold. School is monotonous, and sometimes, she craves a bit of rebellion.    “My mom always tells me you’re a bad influence,” she mumbles as they start off, hand in hand, away from the school. “It looks like she was right all along.”     2. Sehun feels embarrassed for the poor kid causing a traffic hold up in front of the school.   The senior probably means well, and he was one of the best looking guys in the entire school. However, confessions directed at Minah always end the same way: heartbreak.   “I’m sorry,” she says, as expected. “You are a great guy, but I cannot accept your feelings.”   “Not even a chance?” the senior asks, handsome face marred with confusion and disbelief.    “I’m sorry,” she repeats, and carefully steps around the guy. A small crowd had gathered around to watch and whisper, and she shoves her way through them harshly.    “Yah, Minah-ah!” Sehun calls, hurrying to catch up with her. He reaches her just as she turns the corner to their street, and wraps her arm around her slightly slumped shoulders.   “I feel so horrible,” she mumbles, eyes fixed on her shoes. “Why do they keep confessing to me? What’s so special about me?”   Sehun stays silent, but he thinks that he understands all the other boys.    “Why don’t you just give him a chance? Maybe he’s your perfect match,” Sehun teases, giving Minah a little shove.    “Impossible,” Minah replies, cracking a smile. “Unless he is Lee Hongki, he isn’t my perfect match.”   “Speaking of that Lee Hongki guy…don’t you think this is too much? We just faked a family emergency to attend a concert to see your idol, Minah.”   “FT Island is a band, Sehunnie. It’s not just about the looks. It’s also the instruments and talent, and you have ears so you must have heard oppa’s voice before. That, right there, is the voice of an angel.” She pauses for a second, and shoots a quick text off. “Anyway, come on. Let’s drop these books off and get going before we miss the 9:30 bus down town.”     3. Chanyeol has been waiting all of his life for this day.   Okay, not exactly, but he has been waiting excitedly for the past 4 months, ever since FT Island announced the Busan stop of their tour. Now, he was done being patient.    “Do you have everything?” Jisun asks, equally pumped. She is wearing her Choi Jonghoon shirt under her jacket, and Chanyeol nods quickly, hair bouncing in time.    He has the tickets to the concert safely tucked into his bag, and is ready to go.   Jisun pauses for a moment as her phone vibrates and she glances it over before cracking a big smile. “Remember the girl I’ve been chatting with in the fan café? Hongki’s wife*? She says she’s going to meet up with us in the city later before the concert.”   “And we’re going to win those backstage passes,” Chanyeol adds, referring to the drawing that was to take place for 6 VIP passes.    “Even if we don’t win, we’ll fight our way back stage,” Jisun replies, only half joking.    [*This is a reference to Shiwon’s nickname in Reply 1997 as Tony’s wife because she was a huge Tony Ahn fan.]   ❤   1. Xing thinks Yura is prettiest when she smiles, and he is happy to see that she smiles the most when she’s around him.    “Is that drink good?” he asks as he watches her sip her caramel mocha.   “The best,” she answers, smiling. Although her eyes didn’t turn into crescents the way Yixing’s do when he smiles, they are still enduring and full of warmth.   “We can do whatever you want today before the concert,” he breathes, mesmerized by her mere essence. “What shall it be? Shopping? Arcade?”   Yura lets out a musical trill of laughter, and leans over to drop a soft kiss onto Yixing’s lips. “Let’s just go with the flow.”   Yixings wonders what brave deeds he accomplished in his past life to deserve this much happiness.     2. Sehun is surprised to see his schoolmates in the café.   There is the school’s golden couple, Yixing and Yura, sitting together at a table near the back, heads bent close in conversation. Sehun and Yixing are both dancers, and rather good friends. Then, there is Chanyeol, the basketball playing, science loving paradox, sitting with who Sehun assumed to be his girlfriend, a slim girl with wavy curls, at in a booth.   “Hongki’s wife?” the girl asks, turning around at the sound of the door closing behind them with a wide smile    “Hi!” Minah cries, and rushes forward to hug the girl. Sehun and Chanyeol look at each awkwardly over their hugging girlfriends, and greet each other halfheartedly.    “Wait, do you two know each other?” The girl asks, excited.    “We go to the same school,” Chanyeol mutters.    “Ah, I’m Lee Jisun,” the girl replies. Sehun thinks her smile is a little blinding, but not in a bad way. She reminds him a lot of the hyperactive Chanyeol.   “She’s a fan of Jonghoon,” Minah replies, as if that explained everything.   Sehun returns a blank look.    “The leader,” Minah tries, frowning when she draws no flash of recognition. “The one that plays the guitar?”   “Ah,” Sehun replies, clicking his tongue. That one.   “How can you spend so much time with me and still not know the members’ names?” Minah asks, giving her best friend a push.    Even Chanyeol looks a little scandalized, but Sehun is too busy being distracted by the Yixing-look-alike in the back. But was that even Yixing? Sure, he would skip school in a heartbeat, but would Yura, the top student?   “I…ah…one moment,” Sehun mutters, before getting up and approaching the back table.   The two look up as he nears, and it’s definitely Yixing and Yura.    “Sehun, hi!” Yixing calls, surprised as well.    “What are you guys doing here?” Sehun asks.   “Um…trying to decide a plan of action for the day before the FT Island concert,” Yixing admits.    “Oh? We’re going too! Would you two like to join us at the booth?”     3. Chanyeol thinks that these two guys are both pretty awesome.    He first met Oh Sehun two years ago, in gym class, but has never really gotten close to him. They ran in different circles, and only knew of each other on a superficial level.     Kang Minah is the campus beauty, even if she doesn’t seem to know it. With a perfect figure, small face, and big, bright eyes, Minah unknowingly has over half of the male population at school drooling after her. Even Chanyeol begrudgingly admits to having a cr