September 30th, 2007

“Why are we here again?”

“Seulgi, are you really going to ask that every time we stop here?”

“Some would take the hint.”

“You can leave if you want, this is my place for relaxing.”

Joohyun was donning the black hat that fell on her one fateful day two years ago. Joohyun had grown into an absolute beauty, but she would not let the hat go. Every day in school, a black hat covered half her face and a ponytail kept it simple. But that didn’t stop the school from talking about her from afar.

“No I get stopping here, but I don’t understand the hat.”

“What about it?”

“It’s disgusting.”

“You say this every time.”

“And you mention that I say it every time every time. Ow, my head hurt saying that.”

The two could only laugh at the absurdness of the whole ordeal. Despite Seulgi always questioning Joohyun’s actions, she always supported her, weird hang out spot, black hat, and all.

“I just think it’s lucky, the year after I found the hat, I got good grades, won a raffle, and even the most popular boy in school asked me to the dance.”

Seulgi sighed as this too was a repeated conversation.

“You always get good grades because you study. The raffle was literally between me and you. And you had such a bad time at the dance that you