Chapter 1
Teaching a Tomboy and a Diva
“Are you serious?” Key scoffed while glancing at his soccer team, which consisted of two sweating and panting people. The day was bright an especially dry, producing a good time to play a sport. The whole shining group had deiced to take advantage of this day and spend it playing outside together. Of course Key was opposed to the idea when the leader recommended it early that morning; he had already planned an extravagant trip to the mall hunting down any available accessories he could find. Somehow, though he got stuck playing with the rest of the group, letting himself get seduced by Taemin’s slick lies. The younger boy had stated Key would gain inspiration from the bright day and finally be able to put that outfit together, but so far he has only gotten the blue prints for a new invention called the anti-sweating machine. Seriously though, how much could you sweat in an hour?
Key’s disgusted gaze traveled from Minho’s skinned knees to Amber’s sweating forehead; she attempted to dry with her hat. Key couldn’t take anymore from the beating sun, and just surrendered, throwing in his imaginary towel, actually wishing he had one at the moment.
“We are beating you scrimmaging you guys, so could I go to the mall now?”
“No! We have to finish the game or we can’t really call this a playing day”, growled Jonghyun.
“Calm down you Dino, I just wanted to go to the mall and buy some things.”
“Its fine let him Jonghyun. After all the almighty Key does behave like a girl”, Amber scoffed while holding up an invisible skirt, and doing her failed attempt of a curtsey.
“Really, now? Well last time I checked girls were suppose to look like girls, and not like sweaty apes”. His head traveled up and down Amber’s dirty body.
“It’s more comfortable this way, you damn Diva”.
“Then don’t judge my accessories you unidentified gender!”
“Can’t we just finish this game?” Minho was panting, the determination of winning the game with a hefty score, not wavering for even a second.
“I agree, Jonghyun said he would buy me a chicken if I could go through the whole game without tripping”. Onew wriggled his eyebrows, saliva dripping from his hanging tongue when he uttered the word chicken.
“No way, I’m leaving”, Key stomped of already heading for the highly anticipated shower.
“No hyung, don’t leave! We have to finish this game!” key ignores Taemin's pleads, already stripping off his grime filled shirt and chucking it into the hamper.
“Dirty Key, is not a happy Key”, he plainly stated while hopping into the shower.
When he finished, he quickly scampered across the tile floor, only a think towel covering his wet body. Key snatched the already assembled outfit from his closet and draped his body with it, not bothering to completely dry himself. In only a matter of seconds, the diva was dressed and out the door, with his wallet at hand.
“Diva! Wait up!” A husky voice from behind called. Like he was commanded, Key came to an abrupt halt and waited for the bombarded footsteps to reach closer proximity.
“I’m going with you”, Amber stated while casually brushing beside him. Key gazed at her intensely, while brushing off the spot where her dirty body made contact with his shoulder.
“Why?”
“Because Minho said he would buy me new soccer cleats if I convinced you to come back with me. But I know you’re not going to come back so I might as well just accompany you.”
“Fine but don’t come so close to me, you smell like freshly mowed lawn”.
“I do? Awesome!”
Key sighed and continued walking, Amber trailing behind him lost in her distracted thoughts. This was odd, Key had never been alone with the tomboy, nor had he ever wanted to. He never found anything they had in common and just preferred to stay away from her manly traits. Key liked Amber better when she was on stage, and preformed just like all the other girls.
“You walk funny”, Amber said while sliding herself next to him.
“Well you don’t have an ”.
“Gee thanks, I’d rather not have one than be occupied with more assists”. Amber made a funny nose, spitting out her sticky saliva on the sidewalk.
“That’s freaking disgusting! Can’t you behave like a girl?”
“Not really, releasing spit is one of my best qualities, even Jonghyun says so”, she smiled triumphantly.
Unbelievable, so manly and note even denying the fact.
When the duo reached the mall, Key instantly felt like he was in familiar territory. He passed by all the store windows, analyzing where the best deal were occurring and where the most attractive things were. He was so entranced with his shopping, he didn’t notice when the tomboy had left, but not before telling him she was going to buy new basketball short. He waved his hand in response, not really paying attention to anything she was saying. Key walked into a store, gazing at the colorful wristbands that would go perfectly with his coordinated outfit.
“So pretty”, he smiled.
“Oppa, I agree they are so nice. You have really good taste”, said a random girl.
“Thank you, you seem to as well”, Key couldn’t help but accept the compliment, even if it was from a complete stranger.
“Do you think the yellow ones would go good with an orange sweater?”
“YES! That’s what I was exactly thinking”, Key squealed.
“And the purple ones would go better with pink”. Key nodded enthusiastically while realizing he had just made a new friend.
Key conversed with the girl, advising her in what accessories to buy with the clothes she had just purchased. She gladly took all the help she could get, as both of them ransacked the whole mall as if they had been best friends for years. But after the fifth store, Key realized he didn’t even know the girls name.
“Oh, my name is Jessica”, she smiled brightly.
“Mine is Kibum, but everyone calls me Key”.
“So Key, do you want to get some smoothies?”
“Of course, we need to gain more energy before we go for some after shock shopping. Both of them laughed while walking towards the smoothie stand. They both discovered they had the similar liking for a strawberry smoothie, seeing as they ordered the same exact thing, right to the dot.
“We have so much in common”, Key smiled while setting himself on a nearby bench and wriggling to the left, leaving room for his immense amount of bags.
“We really do, this is the first time I met someone who could find accessories so quickly”. Key grinned widely while complimenting her on the same thing.
Suddenly the diva felt the sun disappearing from the glass roof of the mall, the heat no longer radiating on his cheeks. Key looked up, and realized it was just the figure that was approaching them, whom was blocking the light.
“Aishh, Oppa, there’s a really hot guy approaching us, do you know him?” Jessica giggled lightly, while she brushed her hair to the front of her shoulders.
“Alright Diva, how much of the mall did you buy?” Asked the random guy, who was standing over them? Wait that was no guy. It was Amber.
“Holey …. You look like a really hot guy”
Amber was currently wearing a black leather jacket, with a nice violet shirt underneath. She was wearing skinny jeans, which revealed her strong and formed legs, while a pair of combat boots and purple hat finished the outfit.
“Thanks, I think? And who’s this, does Kibum have a girlfriend?”
“N-n-no, stop speaking rubbish”. The truth was; Key was actually starting to like Jessica. He had always said that his ideal girl would be one that could model clothes nicely.
“Hey, I’m Amber”, the tomboy smiled, earning her a confused expression from Jessica.
“I know what you’re thinking; Amber is a girl not a guy. But she can really pull it off, right?” Kibum sighed, realizing, Amber had ruined his chances with the fashionable girl.
“You really do look handsome, though”, Jessica still looked a tad dazed.
“It’s alright; she has that kind of effect on people. When guys see her they instantly think she’s part of their posy, because she spits like a llama”.
“Shut the hell up you diva”, Amber spat, while nudging him in the gut.
The instant giggles from a crowd of girls began as Amber retracted from her sudden burst of action. The tomboy looked at them, and then smirked deviously.
“Watch this new friend. Gotta earn some numbers for that playboy”, Amber flipped her hair, making the girls from the crowd squeal.
“What is she doing?” Jessica asked.
“Just watch”, Key said while rubbing his gut.
Key observed as the girl made her way to the group of smiling girls, snaking her boyish charms in the process. How the girl was able to get so many phone numbers from the same , remained a complete mystery.
With only a couple hair flips, a few smiles, and of course some million dollar chuckles; Amber came back with a stack of paper in her hand.
“How many?”
“I’d say about seven that should get me a new comic from Jonghyun”.
Key scoffed at the competition the two playboys had with each other. Every time they went out, they would see how many numbers they could get from unsuspecting girls. Who ever got the most, had the liberty of choosing one of the loser’s items and keeping it as their possession from then on.
“I’m going to go trade these in for some of the Dino’s possessions. So I’ll see you later diva and… sorry I didn’t get your name”.
“Oh it’s Jessica”, she giggled.
“Oh alright. Bye Jessica.”
Great, the new friend fell for the tomboy too.
“Wait up Amber, I have to go back with you or else Minho is going to hate me even more than he already does.”
“Well then hurry up before I leave you, and there’s no way in hell I’m going to help you carry all those bags”.
Key grasped all his bags and left with Amber, but not before retrieving Jessica’s number and making plans to meet each other.
As the two walked silently towards their shared apartment buildings, Amber couldn’t help but ask the question that had been bothering her for a while.
“Do I really seem like such a guy?”
“YES!”
“Thanks, Mr. Enthusiasm”.
“You’re quite welcome”, Key said attempting to get a tighter grip on his already falling bags.
“But is it that bad?”
“Why do you care?”
“Because I just do!”
“Snotty little unidentified gender…..”
“Stop calling me that!”
“Okay, Amber Liu, even though we don’t talk much and we just communicate by fighting, I know something is up. So just spit it out, before I whack you with all these bags.
“Fine”, she pouted. She actually looked like a girl when she pouted, how cute.
“Go on…”
“So when I went to buy the basketball shorts I got led into this spa thing instead, and that’s where they bathed be and I clothed me. They lady who was in charge put me into some really girl clothes, so I felt awfully uncomfortable when I left.”
“And your point is...”
“Patience you damn diva! I went to go buy some more comfortable clothes at the store and I saw this really nice guy there. He asked me why I was in a Men’s clothing store, and that’s the first time I ever felt embarrassed to answer. I told him the truth though, and he said that it was pretty cool. His name was Donghae, and he was actually really nice. So after I picked out my clothes, I changed in the dressing room and he said bye to me, he gave me his number so we could play basketball sometime…. But…”
“But this time you don’t want to be like a guy friend, do you?”
“EXACTLY! So Kibum, I’m asking this with all my heart, can you teach me how to be a girl?” Amber came to halt, and was ready to get on her knees and plead her heart out. But that’s when she heard, “Sure”.
“PLEA- Wait, sure? That was easy…” Amber glanced suspiciously at the struggling diva. ; Just give me those”, Amber sighed and took half of the bags.
“But on one condition”.
“Here we go”….
“You teach me all about your boyish charms”. Key’s mind, instantly imagine Jessica’s smiling face, the first girl he has ever truly wanted. Sure Key was able to get many other girls because of his handsome looks, and maternal instincts; that many woman seemed to find attractive. But this one would take work, work he was willing to put in.
“That’s it? That’s sure as hell easy.”
Key nodded.
“Well you got yourself a deal pretty boy”, Amber stuck her hand out and Key accepted it. They both stood there, with triumphed gleams in their expression, still shaking hands.
Oh, a deal it was indeed.
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