I felt ecstatic to say the least. I had survived my first day, and I was still alive. I had met Taemin and had not fainted, but actually was sorta annoyed with him. Awesome! He was not what I imagined he would be. He was in fact better then what I imagined. I couldn't wait for my next class.

When I got back to my dorm at 1pm, Mika had already gathered our friends and they were eagerly waiting for me in our room when I opened the door. Yoojin, JiWoo, JinHye, MinYeon they were all there. But where is Dongmin? Didn't he want to know what happened? I quickly thought to myself.

"Hey HyunMi!" they exclaimed in somewhat of a chorus. I giggled.

"Hey guys. How was your first day of classes?" I asked them throwing my shoes off and collapsing on my bed, cuddling with my teddy bear. YooJin scoffed.

"How was our day?! Don't you mean to tell us how your day was?" she said smiling and raising an eyebrow. I giggled again.

"Well, yes I mean your day. I mean I jus-"

HyunMi! Tell us already!" MinYeon said cutting me off impatiently.

"Aish, ara ara!" I said giving her a face. She gave me one back and laughed. I squeezed my stuffed bear tighter and sighed. I looked up at their faces and cracked up. They looked so eager to know. Okay well...the school is really nice. It's very different from schools in America. It's such a large school I almost got lost leaving. I passed the library, Omo, the library is soo huge. It was really cool looking and had thes-"

"HyunMiiiiiii!" Mika said drawing my name out with impatience. "Can we turn off the nerdness for a few minutes? Tell us about Taemin now!" I laughed.

"Fine. So, yeah, Taemin didn't show up for class. He-"

"What?! He didn't show up?" JiWoo said with disappointment.

"Why? Is he ill? Shouldn't Key be taking care of him?" Mika asked.

"Did he transfer classes?" JinHye added.

"Was there a SHINee emergency?" YooJin said her eyes widening.

"Yeah, a SHINee emergency?" MinYeon asked, nodding her head.

"Guys, guys! Wait a minute. All of you take a deep breath. Taemin is perfectly fine. He just missed first period. Not because he was sick or anything, but just because he got a late start this morning. I told them smiling, and then proceeded to repeat what Taemin had told me. After I was done we were in a hysterical fit of giggles.

"Wow, it sounds like its all Dubu's fault" Mika said shaking her head and then burst out laughing.

"Awe, that's so adorable how everyone in SHINee came together like that to help them get to school." JinHye replied smiling with a far away look on her face.

"Hopefully Onew will wake up on time then ne?" Yoojin said giggling. "Taemin seems really sweet, and I can't believe he got you to confess your fandom like that!"

"Yeah really, so funny how he learned that from Key too! Maybe a lot of people pretend they aren't fans around them." MinYeon exclaimed

Taemin really shocked me today. He's really nice. Hopefully, I will be able to get you guys to meet him!"

"That would be soo great and I'd be very thankful and appreciative!" JiWoo said smiling. The others nodded and smiled in agreement.

"I guess well see what happens then.  I yawned. "Oh! Do any of you know where Dongmin is? I wanted to fill him in on everything."

"Hmm, I haven't seen him all day." YooJin replied. No one else knew where he was either. I'm sure he'll turn up later." She added. I nodded, but still felt a little disappointed. Then in remembering the day, YiWan came into my head.

"Ooooh what a wierdo." I said to myself. They all looked at me in confusion. "Oh I didn't tell you guys. Well, umm, there is this very odd student in my class. His name is Eliot YiWan... he has some sort of staring problem. I said rolling my eyes.

"Is he good looking?! " YooJin asked me leaning in closer. I couldn't help but laugh and the others did too.

"Yeah, he's good looking Yoojin." I replied. A huge smile came over her face.

"Well what are you complaining about?! A cute guy was staring at you! He must like you!" she said her face growing bright. I laughed and shook my head.

"So he was just staring at you? Just a blank stare? Mika asked, moving to sit beside me. I remembered his face. Very intense eyes, they were deep and suggested a million things.

"Well, it wasn't a blank stare like someone staring off into space. It was a stare, sort of filled with meaning, like he was trying to talk to me with no words. Something like that. He kept doing it and he didn't care if I caught him doing it. He was odd. After class he told me he missed the states and then practically disappeared. I cocked my head still miffed by it.

"Well, that's rude of him to stare at you like that."JinHye said. "If he likes you, he should just say it. Sounds to me he was doing it purposely."

"Maybe he was shy." JiWoo suggested. "But if he is, that doesn't explain him staring at you like that. Shy people don't stare at people like that and then not care if someone catches them staring." We sat in silence thinking it over.

One hour later after we did more fangirling over Taemin and SHINee things, they all left our room leaving Mika and I alone. She was getting ready for her after school program that started at 4pm.

"Taemin seems like a really cool person." She said as she put on a pair of shoes. I smiled up at her from my computer.

"Yeah he is. My conflict is, treating him like all the other students and not giving him special treatment. I don't want my students to think I'm favoring him.  I answered her slowly. Mika giggled.

"YiWan might get a little jealous right?"

"Haha, very funny. I just hope he doesn't stare me down tomorrow too. If he does, I will definitely say something to him and it most likely won't be nice. If he has a problem with me, then, umm I wanna know!"  Mika smiled and stood up.

"Well, I'm going to get a head start to my program. I might get lost so it's better to leave now. Mika said wrapping a pink scarf around her neck.

"Okay chica, have fun!" I said walking her to the door.

"I will, and if you end up talking to Dongmin later, let me know what happens okay?"

"What do you mean? I'm just gonna tell him about Taemin." Isaid, my brow furrowing with confusion.

"Well, I mean...okay. Yesterday, you know when he was talking to us in our room, it sounded like he was goin-"

"Mika, I'm borrowing your black flats okay?!" Yoojin interrupted her, sticking her head out the door of her room.

"Sure, fine by me!" Mika answered her. Yoojin smiled and closed her door and I looked at Mika expectantly with my arms folded across my chest.

"So, you were saying, about Dongmin?"  I said urging her on.

"Right, well-" Mika's watch beeped. "Oh crap! I have to go it's almost 3:30! Adios mejores amiga!" she told me running off toward the elevator. I sighed and leaned my head against the door frame.

What was she going to say? I was a little too excited yesterday and easily could have overlooked something he said. I guess I'll just ask her later. Hopefully she doesn't get some mysterious hottie staring at her in class too. Psh! I'm crazy, what girl wouldn't want that. But still, YiWan...gave me chills, in a both good and bad way. Aish, so confusing. I thought to myself before going back in my room and shutting the door.


MIKA POV

I was in a major rush and I didn't want to be late. The subway seemed to take forever and unfortunately but expectantly there were no more seats, so I was forced to stand. I was rocked back and forth lightly bumping into people as the train sped along the tracks nowhere near fast enough for my satisfaction. Dios mío! This isn't  going fast enough! Ah, finally we've stopped! I quickly exited the train and caught a shuttle to Seoul National University. This program was being held at the university in a classroom. Sitting on the shuttle, I couldn't help but feel a little uneasy. I had no idea what to expect and was very curious as to what the students would be like. After a quick drive, we pulled up to the Uni's language department building. I noticed a van sitting parked close to the curb, it had dark tinted windows. I wonder who's in there. I thought curiously, trying to avoid glancing at the van as I got off the shuttle. Digging in my shoulder bag, I fished out my folder that had a small map and the room number for which the program would be held, and set off in search of it. After a few moments and a small flight of stairs, I found the classroom. I looked through the window and saw there were students inside and my project manager Lia Cho. The classroom was large and airy with a cheery vibe.

"Mrs. Cho?" I said to her hesitantly approaching her, as she fumbled through some papers in a folder. She looked up quickly and a smile spread on her face.

"Mika, I'm glad you made it! You did a great job with all the work I requested of you beforehand. Thank you for doing it." She said warmly. I smiled back at her.

"You're welcome." I told her kindly. I quickly looked at the classroom, it was half full and people were busy talking to each other.

"You're desk is over there we will start class now. We are going to do a quick check to see if everyone who signed up is here and then we'll start the introduction to English grammar. How does that sound?"

"Sounds fine to me." I told her before walking over my desk to put my bag down. As I was taking a pen, notebook and the classroom schedule out, the door opened again. I looked up briefly and then went back to my bag and froze. What the hell? I thought and looked back up. I definitely wasn't dreaming. Everyone in the classroom seemed to inhale at once, and Mrs. Cho looked way too thrilled.

"I'm so glad you made it. I can understand how hard it must be, considering how busy you are." She said to the tall, quiet figure looming with a nonchalant stance. A smile broke out on his face and he slowly attempted to cover it with his hand.

"Ne, Kamsahamida seongsaenim."  He told her in a very deep voice, though despite its bass its volume was still relatively low. I looked back at the classroom and girls were quietly squealing and staring with wide eyes. The guys not squealing but still in somewhat of a shock. ..and me? I felt like I was imagining things.

"I want to introduce you to our student teacher. " She walked over to him placing a small hand on his back and guiding him towards me. I realized she was really bringing him to me and slightly panicked only slightly. No, no, no, what are you doing?! Don't bring him over here!! But of course she couldn't hear my thoughts. So I put on a bright smile and tried to stop my heart from jumping out of my chest.

"This is Mika, she'll be teaching the class on certain days. Mika this is Minho." Of course I knew it was Minho, I mean how could I not? He was tall, quiet, dark haired, large eyed, full lipped talented perfection. But her saying his name...confirming that it really was him put a bit of a new perspective on things, considering the fact that up until then, I was really thinking I was imagining him. That all of HyunMi's Taemin talk had gone to my head and I had imagined the 2nd youngest SHINee member walking into my class. Haha, well you were definitely wrong Mika. Oh, what is that smell? Is that him? My god he smells good.

"Yes, nice to meet you Minho. I'm a big SHINee fan. Welcome to our class." I told him firmly. Good job now I just have to keep pretending I'm not some crazy fangirl for the whole semester and we are good! Letting him know I'm a fan should be alright. Besides better to tell him, less he try and pull that stunt Taemin borrowed from Key to use on HyunMi.

He did that really adorable and sort of rare smile again and I fought an urge to say Awwwww.

"Nice to meet you too. A SHINee fan? Thank you for supporting us." he said nodding his head. He seemed so genuine and older then 17. Mrs. Cho directed him towards a seat and though he obviously had some fans in the class, once Mrs.Cho took out her teacher guidebook and directed them to take out their student books, the class became all about work. I couldn't help but glance over at him during the class. I noticed things, like how he absentmindedly stared into space, or slowly chewed on his pencil eraser or how he rarely ever seemed to blink. Do aliens blink anyways? So Minho was the one in the tinted van I had seen earlier. Even sitting in his desk he looked like he was modeling it. I shook my head, because Minho was definitely going to be a distraction to me. Why in the world is he so handsome?

The class ended before I knew it and I felt good that it had went pretty smoothly excluding the Flaming Charisma showing up and distracting my thoughts. Mrs. Cho seemed really grateful to have me helping her out and I realized I didn't care I didn't get an actual class, but a program and being honest Minho wasn't the only reason why. Since class was over, girls walked over to him asking for autographs and pictures. He gladly obliged, posing and signing things for them. When the last fan had left, I walked over to him.

"This is interesting having you in this class. My friend who is also in the Exchange has Taemin in her classe." I told him smiling, as he put his jacket on and then his backpack.

"Taeminnie..." he said with a smile. It's a small world. I would have taken English at my school too but the class was filled. So manager-shiii made me take this program course." I nodded my head. I got somewhat lost looking at him that I didn't realize a few seconds later, I was still nodding my head. Oh Mika, you are such a dork! His facial expression turned shy.

"Oh, yeah, well, I hope you learn a lot and have fun in this class. Maybe you and Taemin can help each other out as you learn?" I asked him. He let out a small quiet laugh and nodded his head and then turned to leave. He stopped at the door and turned back towards me.

"Bye Noona." He smiled.

"Bye Minho." I replied back to him. He grinned.

"Annyeong." He said politely and with a small bow of his head turned and left the classroom. He just can't stop the charisma can he?

HYUNMI POV

I was in the laundry facility section of our floor, folding up some clothes humming to the music playing on my ipod. I was still happy about meeting Taemin and was wondering what I should wear for tomorrows class. Taemin said I'm cute hahaha! That's coming from one of the cutest boys I've ever seen in life.

"HyunMi, hey, how are you?" I looked up and saw Dongmin coming in the room, setting a laundry basket on the table.

"Hey Dongmin, I'm pretty good and you?"

"I've been good, just lots of class work."  I nodded my head in understanding. He went to a dryer and began taking things out and putting them on the table to fold. We sat in silence folding clothes.

"I have something-"

"You weren't there-"

We said at the started at the same time. I giggled and he smiled. He gestured his hand to me in a you first statement.

"Umm, I told everyone about meeting Taemin. I was wondering where you were, but no one knew." I said looking at him slowly.

"Yeah, I wish I could have been there, but I got caught up in some stuff. Did I miss anything huge?" I laughed.

"Just a bunch of girl's spazzing away." He grimaced.

"Well in that case, I'm glad I wasn't there."

"Yah!" I said giving him a face. He grinned.

"Taemin is a very cool person though. He's really sweet and nice and sneaky"  I said scrunching my face up remember how he tricked me.

Dongmin laughed and we continued folding clothes. I looked up at him again, and to my surprise caught him looking back at me. I looked back down at my clothes quickly clearing my throat. I heard him sigh and I looked up at him again. He stared back at me and this time, I didn't look down.

"What? What is it? Is there something on my face?" I asked him touching my face in alarm. He shook his head.

"No, your face is perfect." I smiled at him then.

"Of course it is!" I said jokingly. He laughed again.

"HyunMi?" he said in a serious tone. I looked back up at him. "There is something I need to ask you."

"Really?" he walked a little closer to me, I unconsciously inhaled. The vibe in the room became different. It was too obvious to ignore.

"I've been wanting to ask you this for awhile." his voice a notch lower. I stared into his eyes.

"What?" I said in a barely audible whisper. His hand reached towards my face.