Missing the Subway

What is True Love?

I hadn’t seen MyungSoo since I gave back his lunch box during the lunch break three days ago; it troubled me a quiet a lot, because I didn’t know what I had done to make him so angry. I did tell him that it tasted well, so what was the problem? Was he angry that I ate his food?

It was Sunday today and only five days left to Christmas, and I didn’t know if I should by a Christmas tree. It was just me after all, and besides I had already bought my gift. I heaved a sigh and glanced out from the window and watched as people passed by with satisfied smiles plastered on their lips as they made way towards a happy Christmas time.

The Sunday past by with me only lying on the couch, watching shows and movies that where running on the television. I didn’t know how long I had been lying there before I woke up and noticed that it was already morning, and that meant school. I slowly turned my body around and I forgot that I wasn’t in my bed and plunged towards the ground. A loud thud sounded when I hit the floor and I cursed for myself as I stood up and proceeded towards the bathroom.

After refreshing myself, that including; showering, cleaning my face, eating breakfast and pack down the lunch I made yesterday before I put my school uniform on and grabbed all the stuff I needed for a busy day in school. When I stepped on the subway train I noticed that it was unusually empty for being a Monday morning. Maybe some had already taken winter vacation to travel out of the country. But that also meant that I got a seat.

“Next stop; Oksu”

When the doors slid open I ran towards the other platform to catch the next train, if I missed it I would miss when the school gates closed, and that meant that I had to jump over the stone walls surrounding the whole school. I had only done that once and that time I almost sprained my ankle because of the 1 ½ meter drop that it was to the ground. And that wasn’t something I would risk doing again, definitely not.

I saw how the doors started to close, which meant that I had no chance in life to be able to make it in time.

*Crap*

I missed it, yet again. I glanced up on the time table to take notice of when the next train would arrive to the platform, 3 minutes. Maybe I had a chance after all, to make it in time. It wouldn’t hurt to try, right?

Yeah right, I didn’t make it though I practically ran as someone was chasing after me, but that didn’t help because when I arrived in front of the gates they were already closed.

*Crap, crap and crap*

If I didn’t want the school to report home for me being absent then I had to jump over the wall, even if I didn’t want to. I had to walk a bit from the school gate so that no one would see me, and as I was standing there ready to climb up a tree that were growing next to the wall I heard a voice behind me. I turned around, fearing the worst that a teacher had got me. My heart jumped a bit at the sight. It was MyungSoo and his scary eyes standing there and not a teacher.

“Oh thank god it’s only you” I uttered and saw how his eyes flicker from my eyes to the wall and then back at me.

“Hehe I missed the train” I explained as if I had done something wrong, well I sort of had when I missed the closing gates a few minutes ago. I focused my stare on the ground since I didn’t want to look straight into his eyes, for once I didn’t want to know what color his eyes were showing. I glanced up and was about to start talking when I took notice that he wasn’t there anymore.

*Huh where did he go?* I questioned myself and turned around to look in the other direction, but I didn’t see him anywhere. *Okay then, if he wants to ditch school then fine* I felt anger boil inside of me when I turned my attention to the tree ahead of me and as I were about to grab the brace I spotted him sitting in the tree, like he was waiting for something.

“What are you waiting for?” I asked him as he where staring down at me.

“You” he replied and stuck his hand down from the tree, I stared at it as if it was a dangerous object before looking up at him, his face hardened and I had to think fast or else he would be even madder at me. I took his hand in mine and then felt how he lifted me up in the tree before he climbed over the wall and jumped down.
*Okay, just relax and don’t look down* I prepared myself and the fact that I where afraid of heights didn’t help much either. I climbed the wall and sat down on the edge and saw how MyungSoo where stretching his arms out, like he would catch me when I jumped. Suddenly it felt like I where going to jump 15 meters and not 1 ½ meter.

“OMG I can’t do this” I cried as I felt my heart pounding harder and harder, but not in a satisfying way. This was just pure terror and discomfort. “Just jump” I heard MyungSoo’s oh so familiar voice call. I closed my eyes and slowly pressed my body off the wall and I fell, it felt as I were plunging towards my death before a pair of strong hands took a hold of my waist and made everything stop.

I blinked my eyes open and saw how close we were standing, his lips where just above my eyes and I gulped down on my saliva before pushing him away.

“K-komawo” I thanked him and hurried towards my homeroom while clutching my heart. Because it was hurting so much, *god if I knew that jumping of a wall would hurt this much then I’m never doing it again*.

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I where currently in my classroom as our homeroom teacher Park Sung Hyun; a middle aged man with dark hair, potato nose and ugly glasses covering his eyes were talking about how the school would have a showcase in the aula, the next day due to the winter break that would start tomorrow and end on January the fourth, 2011.

Some of the students showed no interest in wanting to hear about it, like someone named; Lee Hye Im, Chungdamn’s own ‘princess’. Who I also knew was taking interest in MyungSoo. Well it wasn’t like I cared, ha I don’t even think MyungSoo himself care about that, or maybe I was just hoping that he wasn’t. Well anyhow I sort of looked forward to watch the showcase.

*Doorbell rings*

“Finally lunch” I whispered to myself and slung my bag over the shoulder and made way towards the cafeteria, hopefully there would be a table free for me to sit at. “Don’t think about entering this room” Hye Im was standing in front of me with her four friends standing next to her, two on each side. “I have the same right to enter this room as you” I replied slowly as I started to get angry, she had no right to tell me where I could go and where I couldn’t, it wasn’t like she owned the school.

“Okay then, if I can’t get in here then I’m off eating lunch together with MyungSoo-sshi” I threatened, though I had no intention in eating together with him, heck I didn’t even know where he was since I hadn’t seen him all day after this morning.

“Oh, no you’re not” Hye Im growled as she took a step closer towards me; with her friends fallowing close behind. *Okay, I better run or I’m dead meat* I thought and made a go; I ran up the main stair and then turned right before I ran down a long hallway while looking for a door that I could escape through. I heard Hye Im’s muffled scream as I fiddled with the door handle to the room furthest down the long hallway.

I took a quick glance behind myself before I swung the door open and stepped inside, luckily for me it was empty so I closed the door and locked. Just to be one the safe side if they tried to open the door.

Seriously sometimes I didn’t understand the mind of a girl, despite being one myself. If she liked MyungSoo that much, why didn’t she just confess? Like how hard could it be, either you’d get a yes or a no, that can’t be too hard, right? Well obviously it was.

After calming down from all the running I sat down on the floor and glanced around in the somewhat small, but yet cozy room, which looked fairly familiar to what a storage room would look like. Except that this room was quiet empty to tell the truth.

“Why are you here?” a voice suddenly appeared right behind me and practically scaring the hell out of me. I turned my head in the direction of the voice, and there he was, just like any other day.

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-poisonapple
#1
great fic, thank you!
Inarikonkon
#2
Chapter 40: Loved this fanfic!