Chen peered from the tall pillars, he whipped his head back and forth, making sure that his friends were not in his sight.

He heaved out a sigh only when the coast was clear, and tiptoed into one of the senior's classroom. Chen couldn't help but smirked slightly, feeling triumph of his little plan in his head. It would work, no, it should work. And then, the prince would end up with the princess.

Chen, whose lips further tugged into a wider smile, approached his 'prey' who was just reading a book silently.

"Are you Shim Changmin?" Chen asked, taking cautious of the man who seemed to be a lot more stronger than the rumors seemed to be. And, Chen couldn't help but gulped.

"Yes, what do you need?" Changmin snapped, putting down his book on his desk, his dark brown orbs boring into Chen.

"A-ah," Chen took a few steps back, fearing the sudden rage from Changmin. After regaining his composure, he cleared his throat, and fiddled with the hem of his shirt, "You see, I need a little help from you. Do you might know Choi Sooyoung? The popular girl in our high school."

Chen didn't missed out the flickers from Changmin's eyes at the sudden mention of Sooyoung.

"You mean, my ex." Changmin scoffed, a little smirk playing along his lips.

"Yes, yes, yes, your ex. And there is this specific thing that I want you to do," Chen held his chin up, feeling proud of himself that his plan was going smoothly as he had planned.

Changmin arched his brows in interest, he murmured, "And why should I?"

Chen just gave his goofy signature smile, as he spoke in a matter-of-fact tone, "Because I will pay you, alright?"

***

Sooyoung  walked into  the cafeteria, with the tray of food tightly clasped around her hands like it was her life, or her precious baby.

"Yah!" Sooyoung yelled at those running juniors furiously, when they almost caused her tray to flip over. "Watch where you are going! Or else I will kill you!" she screamed again, not caring if others were snickering and muttering under their breath that Choi Sooyoung, they used to know have not changed.

Maybe, because she was paying too much attention on those juniors that she hadn't realized someone was coming right in front of her. And that someone, miraculously too had his eyes glued on his friends instead of looking in front and even before anyone could warn them─

Clang!

The  loud and resounding sound of the metal tray hitting the ground interrupted all the mumbles, whispers and giggles. All had their eyes glued on the epic drama in front of them, because everyone knew that if one dared to waste Choi Sooyoung's food, he or she would go through hell and maybe worse.

There was this awkward moment of silence where no one dared to even spat one word.

"You," Sooyoung cussed under her breath, her eyes narrowed into a glare as she stood up from the ground. "Mr. Luhan." She had her fists curled up into a ball, and her dirtied uniform with curry was something  that would not be left unnoticed by anyone.

Luhan who was freaked out  by the sudden cold and eerie aura from Sooyoung, could only walked back while chuckling anxiously. "Lay," He called for an urgent help, his dark brown orbs were overwhelmed by fear. "Help me," Luhan could mouthed his plea, when Sooyoung decided to take steps forward courageously.

"Do you know how many ing grains of rice you just wasted?" Sooyoung huffed, and blew her fringe away. She stood with arms akimbo, and the word 'displeased' was written across her face in neon-lights.

"W-what? Rice is uncountable, how could I possibly count them for you?" Luhan asked, he furrowed his eyebrows in confusion and stuck out his lower lip. Soon, sounds of slapping their hands against foreheads could be heard throughout the whole cafeteria at Luhan's dumbness.

"You don't need to count for me, I just need to count for you," A sly smirk crept up on Sooyoung's face.  Her eyes seemed to darken, and then Sooyoung challenged, "Let's have a friendly match of basketball later during our physical training lesson. If you win, I will forgive you but if I win," Sooyoung paused, building up the tension in the whole area as everyone held their own breaths.

"You will have other consequences." Sooyoung finished off her sentence, and left the area with the dirty tray that she was going to savor until