2013

Jihye's pacing in front of the field, her hands trembling as she clenches them, her head peeking through the walls with two of her ponytails moving along the way her head's moving. Jihye clears , her hands busy fixing her bangs and her two ponytails before placing her palm on her chest. She takes a deep breath before she walks inside the field and she could hear her school's cheerleaders are loudly cheering for her school's football team. She scrunches her face as she looks at the weird splits and jumps the cheerleaders are doing beside the field. 

"Jihye!"

Jihye turns her head towards the voices that's calling for her, her lips tilted into a smile as she saw her bestfriends waving enthusiastically towards her, their hands tightly gripping onto one another, making Jihye clicks her tounge and narrows her eyes towards her bestfriends that's dating each other. She takes the seat beside Jaemin, her eyes wandering towards the soccer players that's busy fighting over a ball on the field. Jaemin nudges her,

"Your oppa is there."

Jaemin pointed towards the tallest guy among the other players. His bangs bouncing up and down as he runs across the field with sweats shining around his handsome face. Jihye smiles, her eyes never leaving the guy and even her head moves, following wherever the guy runs to. 

"He scores most of the goals for our school, as always. And see that over there, the one that's doing the weird splits?"

Jaemin then pointed towards the pretty and tall girl who's grinning and waving her pom pom enthusiastically after she stands up from doing her weird splits. Jihye nods, pouting and turns to look at her bestfriend,

"She's your oppa's classmate and they said she has a huge crush on him. So you better work quick little sister."

Jihye bites her bottom lips, she nods and they both clenches their fists as they look at each other,

"Fighting!"

Their loud voices make everyone who's cheering for the soccer team turns to look at the two bestfriends, with Jaemin's boyfriend, Baekhyun's laughing as he hides his face in his palms. Jihye and Jaemin bows, muttering series of apologies as they turn to look at each other and laugh. The game ended after almost half an hour with their school winning, obviously. Jaemin forces Jihye to stand up once they saw their school's soccer team is moving back inside their changing room. Jihye could feel her heart thumping so loud that she's afraid it'll pop out. She purses her lips, turning to look at her bestfriends, Jaemin and Baekhyun who's holding hands and smiles at her, giving her all the supports they have.

"If he rejected you, tell me directly, As his senior, I'm going to kick his ."

Baekhyun said, making Jihye laughs, holding up her hand in an 'okay' sign before she makes her way down towards their changing room. Jihye bows at the teachers that's walking pass her until she stops in front of the soccer teams changing room. Loud cheers and laughters could be heard from the inside of the room, making Jihye doubts her decision to confess right at that moment. She purses her lips, her palms resting on her chest as she exhales and inhales her breath. She's about to knock at the door when it's suddenly wide open from the inside, making her stumbles to the front and bumped onto something hard yet sturdy. Jihye moves away and her eyes widen when she saw it's Sehun's chest that she bumped into. Yes, Oh Sehun - their soccer team's captain, the school's most wanted guy, the kind of guy that with only his face could make millions, no probably billions of money, also the one that Jihye's been crushing on ever since she first saw him playing soccer during her orientation last few months. 

"Are you alright?"

His voice low yet so alluring, making Jihye blush as she looks down at her white sneakers, nodding her head timidly. Sehun's about to walk away after he's sure the girl in front of her is okay, until Jihye's soft hand gently tugs on his jersey, making him turns to look at her. 

"I have something to tell you. Can we talk in private?"

Sehun pouts, making Jihye's heart beating even faster with his cute little pout. Sehun nods and walks towards the end of the hallway. Jihye purses her lips, looking down on her sneakers,

"I like you, Sehun sunbae. You're like the caffeine that keeps me awake all night as I think about you, you're like the sun in my darkest days, my rain in my hottest days. I like you, I really like you."

Jihye could feel her cheeks redden but her heart somehow feels a little less burdened that she finally confessed to the person she likes. Regardless on how he'll react, Jihye will always feel proud of herself for being able to be honest and speaks up for herself. She could hear him snorts after a while and that snorts turn into laughters, Jihye looks up, his eyes turn into crescent as he laughs annoyingly, his hand on his stomach,

"Caffeine? Seriously? Which part of tumblr did you get that word?"

Sehun said in between his laughters, making Jihye wanted to run and hide under her desk for the whole year until he graduates from their high school, and she wouldn't have to face him again. Jihye remains quiet and seeing that he doesn't seem to stop laughing, Jihye turns away and almost walk away from him when his voice stops her,

"I don't like you. And please, don't use that words to confess again in the future. Damn, I couldn't stop laughing."

Sehun continues laughing as Jihye runs away from the place leaving Sehun who's laughters can still be heard across the hallway. Jihye could feel her tears falling down her cheeks but she quickly wipes them away and she swore from that day that she'll never ever wants to cross fates with that Oh Sehun anymore.

2020

Jihye's fidgeting on the small pink plastic chair, her legs vibrating as she stares at her phone while biting her teeth. A message comes in, her eyes widen and a frown appears on her face as she reads through the text message, until she screams and jumps off the chair, making the aunties that's washing the plates in front of her looks up at her with smiles on their faces.

"I MADE IT IN! I MADE IT IN!"

Jihye shouts and the aunties quickly put down their sponges, standing up to pull her in for a hug. Jihye jumps along the hug as she giggles,

"You better tell your parents."

Aunt Jinah said, making Jihye nods and excuses herself out from the restaurant's kitchen, Jihye's parents own a famous chicken place so while she waits for her internship application to be approved by the company she applied for, she offers to help her parents at their restaurant for the time being