Joohyun ran fast to beat the now closing school gate but failed. She scoffed, mad more to herself than to the person who closed the gate. It’s her first time being late, and it’s all because she couldn’t sleep thinking of someone. She hates herself for not being able to resist on thinking of him. “Now, I have to be sanctioned for being late” she whispered. It’s not like she hates cleaning (the punishment for being late is to clean the campus), what she doesn’t like is messing up her schedule for the day. “I’ll have to inform mom to fetch me an hour late for our appointment.” she took her journal and write it as a reminder, then took out her book and started reading “Might as well read while waiting for the gate to open.” She thought

Yonghwa let out a frustrated sigh when he saw the gate closed, because of his band practice he can’t afford being late due to its consequence. “Aw ! The boys will kill me for this” he muttered. He looked at his fellow late comers that are standing near the gate waiting. And someone caught his attention, the cause of him being late today. That beautiful girl who’s holding a book and reading, totally oblivious of her surroundings, Seo Joohyun. “Such a sight to behold this early morning.” He whispered while staring at her, he dared not approach her, not with all the people around. “CNBLUE can’t practice later because of this, but Joohyun would be there after class for the sanctions too… Not bad” he smirked

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After class, the freshmen late comers were gathered and were instructed to clean up the garden area at the back of the campus. There were about 5 of them, Joohyun was tasked to clean up the leaves that fell from the trees while the others picked up weeds and some water the plants. She was heading to where she planned to start cleaning when she heard voices that made her stop and hid herself behind a tree, she peaked and was not surprised of what she saw basing from her phone conversation with her cousin Hyo last night (heart to heart talk with her mom was interrupted by Hyo’s phone call) Jung Yonghwa is really popular with the girls, and a lot had tried confessing their feelings but Yonghwa always decline, albeit nicely. Another girl has mustered the courage to confess.

“I baked these muffins just for you, oppa. Please accept it.” with the girl’s back facing her, she can see Yonghwa’s reaction.

He brushed his fingers through his hair, he gave her an understanding smile “I’m really grateful for your thoughtfulness, but if accepting your gift means accepting your feelings then I’m sorry. I hope you understand and I sincerely hope you can find a guy who’ll love you back.” He said in a sincere and apologetic tone

The girl nodded “I understand” she walked away with shoulders slightly slumped

She saw him sighed and looked around. She was hoping for him to go so