Chapter 2

A few weeks went by and Donghae was getting more and more comfortable at our school. Blending in easily and even gaining quite a measurable amount of popularity. I wouldn’t blame him; ALL the girls at our school were practically drooling over him anywhere he went. It was quite disturbing to see, actually. WHHAAATT?? IT IIIIS!! Drooling girls everywhere are kinda scary…a bit.  But he was a smart boy and he knew who to trust and who not to. That’s probably the reason that Sophia and I and a couple others were his only friends.

“Alright kids, now before the bell goes, I’d like to make an announcement.” Ms. Derry tried to say over the increasing noise.

The class paid her no attention and continued to chatter on as usual. Trying to talk over someone else’s conversation was hard; especially when they were trying to talk over someone else’s conversation, and so on and so forth.

“Its very important!!” she tried again.

We quietened down the slightest bit, but it was all that was required for us to hear the devastating news. I mean its not THAT bad but…

“Your half-yearlies are coming up…”

With a synchronised groan, the class began to complain about the never-ending work and the assignments and the tests. But there was a very handsome I did NOT just say that SOMEONE that didn’t seem very upset; he looked almost…glad…? GASP! How could anyone possibly be GLAD about a TEST!?

I turned to look at Donghae and found him revising. He had his English book and maths textbook open, and was taking turns to read both at the same time. I found myself gawking at him for a while before a hand waving infront of my face distracted me enough to look away.

“Aren’t you gonna study?” Donghae asked.

“We still have like 3 weeks don’t we? Why bother starting now?” I laughed shaking my head at him in a disapproving manner.

He shrugged “I’ve always found it easier to study a bit everyday instead of cramming the night before. You get more done ‘cause you have more time and you’re allowed to slack off for a few days if you need to.”

I looked at him with interest. The kid had a point; the more time you have, the more you can revise. “Hey…”

Dongahe looked up at me with a questioning smile.

“…d-do you…um… do you wanna come over to…t-to my place…on…umm f-Friday… and have like…um… a-a study date… or something?” I mumbled feeling embarrassed about my sudden change of mind.

He was silent. I looked down at the desk infront of me.

Suddenly, I felt self-conscious. He wasn’t saying anything, and I didn’t know why. I felt like backing out. Somehow I lost all my confidence in one go. I was sitting there looking down at my desk, and for all I knew he had either gone back to studying or was still staring at me like I had been at him a few minutes ago.

“Um…you know what…n-never…m-…” I started

“Yea, maybe I will come over. I don’t think it’s a bad idea. I mean you seem like the type to procrastinate so I think you’ll need all the help you can get. Am I right?” Donghae interrupted me.

I froze and looked up at him with an are-you-serious?-omg-thank-you-so-much!! face.  Blushing, I looked down again. “Uhhh...yea…you’re right.” I said, slowly nodding.

The bell rang and Donghae looked up smiling. “LUNCH!!” he yelled as if he were an 8 year old. I couldn’t help but laugh. It was cuute alrightt?? He stood up and then looked down “Aren’t you coming?” he looked at me inquisitively, cocking his head slightly to the right. Man, he was cuute!

“Naa, I’m gonna go…to the…uhh…library…you know…to…s-study…” I looked down out of shyness. What the HELL??

“Riiiight!...Kayy, have fun!” and with that, he left.

 I took a deep breath a reeeally reeeally deep one and tried to calm myself down and sank into my chair. I hadn’t even noticed how fast my heart was beating; out of nervousness, that is. Man! Why does he make me feel like that? Seriously! But I didn’t have time to worry; I was on a quest to prove to him, and myself, that I could study. And study well!

As I walked to the library, I couldn’t help but smile at myself. I though back to what had happened during the past few weeks. New kid shows up, I suddenly become his ‘guardian’ because he’s too shy to do anything, he breaks out of his shell and becomes the most popular kid on campus, and I’m left behind with a raging heartbeat…because of him…Do I like him…?

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eheheh sorry for the late update...i went overseas :)

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