Flashback~

“Choi girl alert!” Momo heard the girl next to her right whispered loudly, enough to cause the entire group to stop talking.

“The who now?” Mina, who was on her phone the entire time, now, is fully interested upon hearing the odd nickname given by her so-called friend.

Before the purple headed girl can continue any further, all 6 of them suddenly heard a quiet soft voice coming from the bottom of the bleachers, few seats away from where they were sitting.

“Momo-shi.” The thin girl started, feet moved and twisted around in an uncomfortable and nervous manner. Momo, hearing her own name, frowned in response but still managed to give her full attention towards the girl. ‘Dark blazer? She must be a senior.’ She thought to herself.

“Yes?”

“Uhh...” The said girl paused, eyebrows scrunched together, and clearly all of a sudden having a great trouble in continuing her sentence. Momo can hear her other friends, or rather her classmates giggled, except for Mina who was sitting directly next to her left.

“I-I umm...” The girl stuttered, her face now in a much darker red shade in comparison to a few seconds ago. Both of her hands clenched into tight fists; so tight, Momo can noticeably see how both of them slowly turning to white in colour. The girl’s dark hair covering almost half of her face away from Momo’s eagle view as the afternoon wind blows gently across the school’s field.

“C-Can I speak t-to you? Privately?” The dark pupils hiding behind the thick glasses were full of hope and fear maybe? Even if the day is rather cold than hot, the girl’s cheek was softly caressed by a drip of her own sweat coming from the pores of her head. Her posture basically screamed anxious, so obvious, even from afar. ‘That’s odd,’ Momo wondered. She was about to give her own reply before Lena slightly pulled her arm sideways, and said on her behalf instead, almost in a mocking way, “I’m sorry, but who are you? This is Momo, Hirai Momo. Do you have an appointment?”

The girl undeniably sensing the sarcastic tone behind Lena’s question, shook her head gently, confusion written all over her face.

“Lena.” Mina warned the rude girl, clearly objecting the way the girl decided to approach the stranger.

“What? Just wanted to inform the girl how things run in this place. No need to be sensitive about it, right Momo?” Lena giving out a wide and sickeningly sweet smile, lightly nudged her friend with her left shoulder. Momo, upon seeing the attention has been directed to her once again, instead turned her head to her left to see the younger girl’s reaction. Now face to face with her best friend, Momo can plainly recognize the pointed look Mina was giving her. However, Momo decided to ignore the warning look and chose to faced forward to look at the older girl.

“That would be correct. I would advise you to just scoot away for now? I hope you don’t mind.” Momo shooed her away with a flick of her wrist and a tiny smirk grazing her face.

“I-I’m sorry.” The girl apologized, mouth opened to let out a mix of breathy sigh and gasp, before quickly fleeing away from the horrendous situation. Now realized how foolish she was to just approach the girl out of the blue.

“How embarrassing.” Lena scoffed as they watched her walked away across the field, encouraging the other girls to let out very loud giggles.

“Who was that?” One of the girls behind Momo, wondered aloud.

“I don’t know. I just know her surname, it’s Choi. She’s quite famous amongst the final year seniors in fact.” Lena exclaimed uninterestedly while looking profusely at her own long pink glittered nails.

“Really? Why?” Another one said, Momo can barely remember their names. Lena’s friends seem to keep on changing every single week, Momo never really bother to keep up.

“Why don’t you ask them? What am I? A messenger?”

“You seem to know a lot about her.” Momo decided to ask instead, knowing that greedy Lena would never step away from her attention. And she was right; the girl immediately beamed at her.

“Well, from what I heard, she’s like super weird or something; always hiding in the library.” Mina, on the other hand, who never shy away from expressing her bold feelings towards the older girl, snickered loudly upon hearing the seemly ridiculous comment.

“It’s called studying Lena, not hiding.” Mina shifted her attention away from her phone to Lena’s flustered face.

“Anyway, I heard she’s like super poor, like she got here under a scholarship. She doesn’t really have friends.” The girl continued, feeling extremely uncomfortable upon seeing the younger girl’s cold unwavering stare.

“But Momo, you just burned the girl down! I was right about you; maybe you are indeed a cool girl. Perhaps you can come along to one of the senior’s pool party this weekend.” Lena smirked and winked suggestively before carrying on to whatever the other girls were discussing before being offensively interrupted by the senior.

“Thanks.” Momo quietly said. She slowly turned her head towards Mina, who was uncharacteristically not in her bright playful self today. Mina now back to her own world, dropped her gaze to her phone in hand, once again muting everything around her including Momo’s current attention on her. Momo thought that the girl probably didn’t care much about what just happened a few minutes ago between her and the mysterious Choi girl, almost let out a sigh of relief. But then, precipitously she heard a low voice radiated from the younger girl, loud enough only for her to hear causing the hair at the back of Momo’s neck to rise in fear and in guilt.

“That was unnecessary, Hirai Momo.”

Later~

 
“So I was like ‘no teacher, we have two kidneys! But we only have one liver’ and he was like ‘no Nayeon-ah, we-’ Jeongyeonnie! Are you even listening to me?” The younger girl, clearly frustrated seeing how Jeongyeon had a blank expression the whole time she was telling the supposedly super funny story. ‘How rude.’

Jeongyeon snapped her attention back towards the girl sitting in front of her before giving out a half-hearted reply, “Oh? Yes, yes I am.” Jeongyeon quickly defended hers