Chapter 3
Seoul High School for the GiftedKyuHyun's eyes widened when he walked into his first dance class and saw who the teacher was. It was none other than Kwon BoA, Korea's national dancer. She walked around wearing tight black leggings and an over-sized shirt with her hair pulled back into a pony tail. Anyone could tell she was a dancer.
She paced back and forth across the classroom, carefully inspecting every single one of her students. When her eyes came across KyuHyun's, he expected a smile or at least a wave but she just looked at him indifferently then moved on. Nothing, not even a "hello" or a "how are you?"
KyuHyun had spent countless hours with BoA in the training rooms in SM Entertainment but she paid no attention to him like they never happened. Back at SM Entertainment, BoA was his mentor, his teacher but now it felt like the relationship they built with each other for years just disintegrated into the air.
The aura around her wasn't scary. It wasn't uncomfortable, but the other students who squirmed under her gaze would argue otherwise. No, it was authoritative. She gave off the sense that no one should ever go against her others or the would face the worst.
All the students were completely silent. They were scared to talk in fear of what Kwon seonsaengnim would do. BoA, internally, wanted so much to laugh at the student who looked like nervous little turtle but held her face to a deadpan.
The clock struck 12 noon so Kwon seonsaengnim shut the door to the classroom signaling class had begun and no one was able to enter the dance studio until she opened the door for them. When that was was completely under her own judgement.
"Annyeonghaeseyo. I'm sure you all know who I am, ne?" Her high heels clicked on the floor as she slowly walked in front of the students sitting on the floor."This is my class and I have a few expectations for you all. I will be working you guys, hard. If you are not sweating your heads off and coughing up blood by the time class is over, that means you did not put enough effort in. None of you right now are good enough to be idols. If I see anyone giving up just because it's too difficult, I will assign you thirty laps around the school perimeter and I will be there just to accompany you and make sure complete the task. Same thing goes if you are late. Anyone late to my class will-"
"Looks like someone had a cup of nasty this morning." A foreign looking girl scoffed under her breath. She was speaking in English but the students around her held in a chuckle. KyuHyun couldn't help but laugh a little, too. Kwon seonsaengnim her heels and faced the girl.
"You," she looked at her attendance list. "Kim SeonYul, do you have anything you would like to share with the class." The students' eyes widened, all of them fixed on SeonYul, waiting for her response.
"I'm sorry but I don't understand what you are saying." The students were baffled. They didn't understand how such an innocent looking girls could speak out so boldly to a person in authority.
"Excuse me?" Even Kwon seonsaengnim could not comprehend the situation.
"I told you already, I don't know what you're saying so you should just stop talking to me." Kwon seonsaengnim was furious. Her fists were held tightly into balls and steam was coming out of her bright red ears.
"Come outside with me, now." Kwon seonsaengnim demanded. SeonYul's eyes grew to be as big as tennis balls. Maybe, she took the prank a little too far. Deep down inside, she deeply regretted her mistake. She didn't even know what came over her when she decided to talk like that. She thought it would be funny, but obviously it wasn't. It was supposed to be funny.
"Seonsaengnim!" A shorter, younger girl stood up. "Please don't do this. It's obvious she's a foreigner and she doesn't understand Korean." She tried to defend SeonYul.
"Ms. Sora Haneul, now is not the time to defend your friends, especially when you have no basis for your argument. If she didn't know any Korean, then why would she go to a Korean school? I'm sure she know plenty of Korean, don't you?" SeonYul stayed standing with her head bent down in shame. This had never happened to her before. Every time she got into a situation like this, she found a way to get out.
Yea, she knew Korean, but not enough to defend herself in this situation. How was she supposed to tall one of the most strict teachers in the school that her acting up in class was just a joke? The language barrier played a huge role, too.
"I'm sorry seonsaengnim, but I don't believe it is right to pick on a student when they cannot argue their side of the problem." Haneul kept insisting that Kwon seonsaengnim was going about this the completely wrong way.
"Enough! After class Ms. Kim?" SeonYul just nodded her head.
After class, KyuHyun waited for all the other students to leave before he left. It didn't take long. Most of the students wanted to leave as fast as the could so they didn't have to face her again.
"Ummm, Kwon seonsaengnim?" He approached her hesitantly.
"Ah KyuHyun! How are you? I haven't seen you since last year!" The frown on her face turned into a smile and her furrowed eyebrows softened up. She went over and embraced her in a hug.
He froze, completely shocked. How could someone act as cold and harsh as they did immediately change into a warm, loving person?
"Haha, I got you there with the whole mean act, huh? Don't worry. I'll tell the other students next class." She gave him a pat on the back and walked out of the classroom.
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"G-good morning class. I am Heo seonsaengnim and I will be your vocal trainer." He cleared up his throat and nervously took a gulp of his water. He chewed on his bottom lip as the class continued to stare at him.
The awkward atmosphere put out by the teacher made the the students anxious. Heo Young Saeng was always known in his musical days to be a very quiet and reserved person. How he became a teacher where he had to speak in front of people intimately on a daily basis was unknown.
One student in particular, Lee ShinYoung, especially pitied her seonsaengnim. She knew for a fact that he was uncomfortable being up there so she tried to find a way to help him find his confidence.
"Seonsaengnim!" She called out and raised his hand. He loosened his tie a bit before calling on her. "Is it possible for you to give us an example of what you expect us to be able to do by the end of the course?" His eyes widened, not in shock but in happiness. That was evident in the huge smile that spread across his face.
"Of course." He started to sing (<----- click it XD) and the timid seonsaengnim was gone. He released a completely confident aura, so sure of what he was doing. The class stared at him in awe. The way his voice hit every single note perfectly.
To some students, it made them feel even more nervous. How could they be able to sing like that? They were good singers but compared to Heo seonsaengnim, they were nothing.
He finished his song and all the students cheered for him. Immediately after, he became his same shy self again but he kept a smile on his face.
"Wahhhh!!!! Dae~~~~~~bak!" The girl next to ShinYoung cheered the loudest of them all. "Jinjja! That was sick!" ShinYoung couldn't help but laugh at the girl sitting next to her. ShinYoung thought that she looked a little familiar but dismissed the feeling when Heo seonsaengnim spoke again.
"Ms. Lee MinJung," Heo seonsaengnim called out. The girl next to ShinYoung immediately became more alert to the teacher.
"Ne, seonsaengnim!" She responded enthusiastically. She was loud, practically yelling but she never minded it. It was like she spoke at that tone all the time.
"Lower your voice please." He chuckled then went on to teach the class again.
"Jeosonghamnida." MinJung bowed her head a bit.
"Okay, today I want see all your vocal abilities so far. Work with the person closest next to you and then you can present your duets tomorrow." ShinYoung looked over to her right and saw Wooyoung flirting with a girl.
Turns out the guy she would be dorming with was him. For that few minutes she knew him, she found out he was a real jerk and a player.
Every once in a while in the dorm, some girl would knock on the door looking for WooHyun to give him a present. Whenever ShinYoung gave him the present, he would toss it near the garbage can.
ShinYoung felt really bad for the girls who spent their time, care and money on him only for him to throw it away.
Not only that, but he was constantly talking on the phone to a girl. Whenever she would pass by him in the living room, he was talking to a different girl. She tried counting how many girls he talked to yesterday and lost count by the ninth one.
"Nope." She thought. "Not choosing him."
"Hey, hey, hey, hey!" She felt someone poking her side. She turned to her left to see MinJung trying to get her attention. "You want to be partners?" She pressed her lips together in a thin line and raised her eyebrows while ShinYoung kept scanning the room.
"Well, it looks like everyone else is already taken, so why not." She agreed. MinJung jumped on her to hug her.
"Yay!" She looked like a little kid, hugging ShinYoung but at the same time jumping up and down, forcing ShinYoung to bounce lightly with her. At first, ShinYoung was slightly startled at the fact that a complete stranger would go up to her and hug her but then found herself hugging MinJung back and doing the little happy dance together.
Neither of them cared about the stares thay got from other people. Who cared if people thought they were weird? The definition of "weird" depends on the person and to ShinYoung and MinJung, they were definitely not weird. They thought they were acting absolutely normal.
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"Morning class." A tall and skinny, but handsome man walked thought the doors into the classroom. This was one of the few classes in the arts department that actually had desks.
The dance classes along with the vocal lessons were held in a dance studios so there was enough space for the dancers to dance and the acoustics in the dance studio were better than in any of the other rooms in the school. The acting classes and music classes were held in the auditorium so the students could practice being up on stage.
Kang Jina couldn't concentrate on the lesson. All she was thinking about was the fact that her neighbor and, above all, first crush/love was in the same classroom as her.
She found herself looking at the back of his head, observing the way his brown hair fell neatly, but somehow at the same time messily, across his forehead.
"Ahem. Ms. Kang Jina, is that anything interesting on Mr. Jung YongHwa's head?" Kim seonsaengnim seemed a little ticked off that Jina wasn't even paying attention at his lesson. He wasn't used to teaching. He was a composer, not a teacher. How could you teach someone a skill that comes with experience, not practice? The only reason why he was doing this was because Headmaster Lee had been pestering him for months and it got really annoying. He only agreed so that she would shut up.
Jina didn't respond. She just shook her head then proceeded with laying her head flat on the desk. She couldn't write a song inside a classroom. She felt so confined. It wasn't right. She wanted to be outside.
Jina kept looking down at her notebook, at the same song she was working on yesterday. She was just writing down whatever came to her mind. That's how she worked. She started off by writing down the random thoughts she had and then building off of that. She didn't even care about Kim seonsaengnim standing right in front of her desk.
School was never her thing. She usually skipped school. It always reminded her of her sister and how her parents always favored her.
"Ms. Kang Jina, can I see what you are writing?" Kim seonsaengnim had his arms crossed across his chest and had an annoyed expression on his face.
Again, Jina didn't answer. She kept a straight face on her notebook as if no one was talking to her. Kim seonsaengnim was extremely pissed by this point. This was the exact reason why he declined Headmaster Lee's offer to be a teacher here the first billion times. He hated kids like this.
He pinched the bridge of his nose between his index finger and thumb then began to speak again. "You all have a free period today. I need to step outside for a while."
As soon as he left, the entire class started talking to each other and the tense atmosphere was gone, except for between Jina and the guy sitting next to her. All the other students were chatting to each other and having fun but there was complete silence between the two of them, an awkward silence.
It was weird for JaeSun to be around girls. The only girl he was really close to was his sister, but then again she was his sister. How could they not be close? For some sort of reason, something was pulling JaeSun to talk to this Jina girl next to him. Ne never really had an urge like this to talk to a girl. He never had any trouble making friends before so he decided to give it a try.
"Hey!" He nudged her a little. She finished writing whatever she was writing before during class and put her head on the desk with her eyes closed. She stayed motionless then entire time.
"Hey, are you okay?" He was getting a little scared. Jina wasn't moving or responding to him at all. He shook her a little harder and she finally moved when she pushed his hands away form her arm but then went back to sleep. The notebook she was writing in had shifted from its position underneath her and he could read what she wrote.
neon jeongmal jaesueobseo (You really )
neol mannal iyu eobseo (I have no reason to see you)
neo gateun namjan isesange kkallyeosseo (This world is filled with guys like you)
jae jae jae jaesueobseo (You s-s-)
danjeomeul sel su eobseo (Your flaws are countless)
chameumyeo saranghagin sigani neomu akkawo (To just put up with it and love you is a waste of time)
Hate you eheheheheh
I’m fine living without youI Hate you eheheheheh
I’m fine living without you
neowaui gieogeun gidarin gieokbakke eobseo nan (My memories with you consist only of memories waiting for you)
chamgo chamgo chamado kkeuteun eobseosseo (No matter how much I put up with it, and put up with it, it wouldn’t end)
saranghandan hanmadiga deutgo sipeosseo nan (I-I wanted to hear those words, “I love you”)
musimhan neoui sarange nan jichyeosseo (Your unconcerned love I grew tired of it)
gibuni deoreowo jajonsim da beorigo jwonneunde (It feels terrible I threw all my pride away)
cham seoreowo naega igeotbakke andwaenna (I’m sad, is this all I’m worth?)
nan duryeowo sarangiran du geuljaga ijen (I’m worried, now, of the four-letter word, LOVE)
nan museowo nega cham useuwo (I’m scared, you’re hilarious)
neol mannal iyu eobseo (I have no reason to see you)
neo gateun namjan isesange kkallyeosseo (This world is filled with guys like you)
jae jae jae jaesueobseo (You s-s-)
danjeomeul sel su eobseo (Your flaws are countless)
chameumyeo saranghagin sigani neomu akkawo (To just put up with it and love you is a waste of time)
Hate you eheheheheh
I’m fine living without youI Hate you eheheheheh
I’m fine living without you
neowaui gieogeun gidarin gieokbakke eobseo nan (My memories with you consist only of memories waiting for you)
chamgo chamgo chamado kkeuteun eobseosseo (No matter how much I put up with it, and put up with it, it wouldn’t end)
saranghandan hanmadiga deutgo sipeosseo nan (I-I wanted to hear those words, “I love you”)
musimhan neoui sarange nan jichyeosseo (Your unconcerned love I grew tired of it)
gibuni deoreowo jajonsim da beorigo jwonneunde (It feels terrible I threw all my pride away)
cham seoreowo naega igeotbakke andwaenna (I’m sad, is this all I’m worth?)
nan duryeowo sarangiran du geuljaga ijen (I’m worried, now, of the four-letter word, LOVE)
nan museowo nega cham useuwo (I’m scared, you’re hilarious)
JaeSun's eyes widened at the words he read. The lyrics were amazing but the face such a young girls could hold in all these dark feelings of hate made him mind-boggled. How did she end up like this?
But it was the words after the song than made him even more worried.
To: Umma, Appa, and Unni
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"Hello! I am the female Kim seonsaengnim but just so you don't confuse me with the other two Kim seonsaengnims, you can call me JeA seonsaengnim." All the students, both male and female, were staring at the teacher with their jaws dropped open. She was beautiful, beyond beautiful, she was gorgeous.
The other female students were gawking over the flower boy sitting in the back corner of the room. This was an advanced science class, filled mostly with nerds wearing huge, ugly glasses but he was what Korea would consider the perfect flower boy.
He didn't talk much which made him even more mysterious and attractive to the female population of the entire student body. When girls walked up to talk to him, he would just ignore them.
By now, Aidan had achieved a whole following of girls and even though he wasn't exactly a kingka, they treated him like one. Like all people who become famous, he got a fan club and an anti-fan club (consisting mostly of jealous boys who were tired of their girlfriends comparing him to them).
What's even more amazing was this happened all in a few day. In a few days, he became one of the most popular guys in school even though 1) he was a transfer and didn't have any friends yet, 2) hardly ever spoke, 3) was one of the "nerds" in the college-level science classes.
Aidan felt uncomfortable under the gazed of all the people. He shifted nervously under the the eyes that kept staring at him and wouldn't stop. He wasn't used to it. In his old school, it was Blake who was the popular one and the more handsome one, even though they are identical twins.
He didn't like the attention and didn't know how to handle it,
Without him knowing, the class had already finished and he hadn't paid any attention at all.
"Oh well," he thought. "I'll just skim through the textbook later."
"Aidan, can I speak to you for a bit?" JeA seonsaengnim called. Just a single sentence induced a huge reaction for the students.
The guys started muttering how much of a lucky he was for getting one-on-one time with the prettiest teacher in the school. The girl complained under their breath that they would get less time to follow Aidan around and they wouldn't be able to talk to him because the teacher was, but it wasn't like he would talk back anyway. Whe nthe guys heard the girls complaining, they became even more jealous because he had the attention of all the girls in the school, meaning they wouldn't even have a chance with any of them.
That probably added a few more members to his anti-fan club.
He gave her a nod and JeA seonsaengnim motioned for the others to leave since class was over anyway.
"Well, I was looking over your grades from your old high school and they were really good. I was wondering if you would like to join in this school program we have where you could tutor one of the arts majors. You see, they have less of a focus on academic classes but they still have to pass in order to reach the requirements too graduate."
Aidan felt hesitant. He didn't like the attention he was getting and was uncomfortable around people. Tutoring someone meant he would have to spend even more time around others.
"I also saw that you aren't that involved in any extra curricular activities. I know you being a sophomore you're not really concerned with that yet but it looks so much better on your college application to see that you were involved in other things. They don't just look at your grades."
Aidan still felt hesitant and he played with his fingers weighing the pros and cons. He didn't really want to do it but if it meant he could get into a better college then why not? He decided he would do it for his appa.
"O-okay." He nodded his head a bit but he still chewed on his bottom lip. He was unsure of how everything would play out but he was willing to give it a try. Unconfidently, he signed the sheet that JeA seonsaengnim gave him showing that he would join the program.
"Okay. We'll find you a student and then you'll start tomorrow."
HELLO EVERYBODY~~~~~~~~~!
I'm sorry this was late! I was really stressed this week because I had two mid-terms, a term paper due, and public speaking. The mid-terms and the term paper were fine but what really got to me was the public speaking. Aish I hate speaking in front of people Dx.
Hehe Guess what I'm eating now... Last time I was drinking a mango shake but now I'm eating... CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES!!!!! YESSSSSS! LOL Chocolate is my addiction <3.
Before I go on, what do you guys perfer, two or three short chapters thoughout the week or one longer one like this one only on the weekends?
DID ANYONE SEE B1A4????? GAHHHHHHH SANDEUL IS SO ASFSAHGFJSDFGSG!!!!!! XD
@TheBestOfKpop: That's what I said! Gah I hate homework. Ususally on a school day I would sleep at 12am because my teachers just LOVE to pile tons and tons of homework on me so then sometimes I just don't do it XD.
@KimKyuHyun: YAY MORE COMMENTS = A VERY HAPPY WRITER!!!!!!
Haha I thought pairing Jina and Haneul together would be fun XD.
@secretseweet: LOL Melody is awesome like that XD. Oh btw does seh like being called Melody or SeonYul more?
@SuperJuniorfan13: I'm going to try to remember EVERYONE'S b-day... so look out for that.
Yessssss boy + girl in one dorm together = ????????????
Really? Strawberries and mangoes are my two favorite fruits <3 yummmmmmm
@Twiillaa: Awwwwww THANK YOU!!!!! XD I'll let you camoe later <3.
@i_candie: YES CO-ED! Imagine having to share a room with a guy you dont even know *shakes head* Aish I don'y even want to think about it.
I've only shared a room with my really really really close guy friends... and the only reason I was comfortable with it was because we knew each other since we were in diapers but sharing a room with any other guy would be scary Dx.
@dattebayo-go: Mwahahahahahaha... like your roommate?
Awkwardness... yes... I like it.
[SHSFTG] Hey guys! Hiatus is officially over!!!! Thanks for staying with me even though I didn't update for a while!
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