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“Sunha you should snap out of it.” Mina grumbled as she munched on a Dorito and bumped shoulders with her best friend. Sunha sighed dreamily and pouted.

“How do expect me to snap out of it?! The Kim Hyun Joong was in the same building as me, the same classroom as me! We were basically breathing the same air!” Mina rolled her eyes as Sunha continued to rant on and on about how her idol crush came into her life and made her the happiest girl alive blah blah blah.

Two days have passed since the girls first entered the school, which means two days have passed since they have met their substitute, Kim Hyun Joong.

When Sunha went home the very first day, she couldn’t help but blab on and on to her mother of how happy she was with the transfer and how she was one step closer to achieving her dream- her dream being that of becoming Kim Hyun Joong’s house wife.

It was hilarious in the eyes of the other family members, and pitiful in the eyes of Park Mina. I mean, why would they like him? Since day one he has only been teasing her 24/7. Every time he wants to introduce something new to the classroom, he makes sure to use her as his example, knowing it gets on her nerves. And afterwards he would comment on how badly she did it.

Mina stuck her hand in her Dorito bag, only to feel the few crumbs left in it. She sighed and crumpled up the bag, standing up from her seat. “Sunha,” Sunha, who was still talking about her idol, stopped for a second and looked up at her friend. “Eh?” Mina grinned and shook her head.

“I’ll be back, I’m just going to throw this away and get some tea. You want some?” Sunha nodded happily. “Lemon tea for me!” She said cutely. Mina nodded, stuffed her left hand in her coat pocket, and her right one out while holding the empty bag, and she began to walk back into the school building.

Unconsciously, Mina began to hum a lovely low tune as she walked up the drink vending machine and whistled at the many choices there were of drinks to have. She spotted the lemon tea and punched the code in for the tea after inserting her money.

Mina watched not amused as the machine pulled the both tea bottles out and placed them on the platform. When the platform glass opened, Mina stuck her hand in there and grabbed her merchandise before it could close on her.

The warmth of the tea spread throughout her fingers and she smiled softly to herself. Raising both the drinks up, Mina put them on either side of her cheeks and sighed.

“Now this is heaven,” She spoke her thoughts out loud. A deep chuckle was heard from behind. Mina turned around only to see one of the underclassmen shaking their head at her. He had a cute face and short black hair, obviously taller than her and a handsome eye smile.

Not that Mina had any interest in his face. In fact, after catching a glimpse of him she turned back around and faced the opposite direction, still feeling the need to absorb the heat from the precious drink.

“If you keep doing that you’ll end up taking in all the heat and the drink will be cold.” Mina swallowed. As much as she wanted to say he was wrong, he was right. Mina slowly let her hand pull away from her face and grumbled a low thanks before she rushed out of the building.

That was one of the things she still couldn’t get used to; People talking to her. And not just any person, her school mates.

Now Mina is known for being antisocial, she never started a conversation first, nor did she ever continue it. A simple hi, bye, and that’s it. And if she was paired up with someone she didn’t know for a project it was, “I’ll do it myself, and we’ll both take the credit for it”. Nothing else was meant to be said, nothing else was said.

But now the atmosphere at her knew school was totally different. People came up to her and asked her questions, she asked her for her name, they complimented how well she looked in the uniform despite the other girls that made their shorts appear shorter than what they appear, or wear bigger padded bras to bring attention to their not so noticeable chest under the school uniform. She was literally a natural beauty.

Mina, feeling awkward because of the attention could only respond with a few words or small mumbles. The attention was alright, but she didn’t expect to get used to it any time soon.

Mina took a step outside and exhaled deeply. Ever since that one day in which she got hurt, she couldn’t help but feel a bit tired these past few days. Going up and down the stair multiple times was beginning to get tiresome. A small voice in the back of her head told her to petition for an elevator.

Unconsciously, Mina raised the bottles of tea back up to her face and sighed once again. She loved the feeling of warmth. Her body temperature was usually always low, so she felt cold all the times, and Seoul weather didn’t help either.

“If you do that, the drinks won’t be as warm anymore.” Mina’s eyes opened as she recognized that voice. “And I don’t think anyone enjoys drinking cold tea.” Mina slowly turned around and saw a handsome tall male with a brown coat and a deep red scarf wrapped around his neck.

Mina glared up at him in silence as he looked back down at her, not daring give him a piece of her mind. “Stubborn brat.” He muttered, but loud enough for her to hear.

Mina now had begun to shoot lasers through her eyes. Slowly, she took steps up to him, catching him by surprise. “What are you up to?” He thought to himself.

Mina put both drinks in her coat pockets and rolled her sleeves, in a threatening way. Hyunjoong raised a brow and took a baby step back.

“You wouldn’t dare hit a teacher would you?” He asked, a bit nervous, but he wouldn’t admit that. Mina raised her small bare palms near his face and surprisingly, let them rest on his cheeks.

Mina reddened a bit but she noticed that his face was warm, and his warmness tingled through to her fingertips.

Hyunjoong’s eyes widened and he pulled Mina’s hands away from his face, and looked down at her pale hands.

“Why are you so cold?” He asked in disbelief. He couldn’t believe how cold her hands were as they were on his face for only a few seconds, but those few seconds were enough to make him want to peel her hands off if him. Mina shrugged her shoulders and pulled her hands away from Hyunjoong’s who was holding them and staring at her face with confusion spread around it.

“I hope you understand why I do what I do now.” Mina told him. She rolled her sleeves back down and stuffed her hands into her pockets feeling the warmth of the lemon tea spread over her fingers again.

Hyunjoong continued to stare at Mina and he raised a brow. “You’re strange you know that?” Min swallowed and nodded slowly. “And rude, and quiet, and sometimes stubborn” He continued.

“Do you seriously think I came here to hear you insul-“

“Despite your defects there has to be a little bit of good in you.” Hyunjoong cut her off. He bent down so that his face was some 5 inches away from hers and Mina could see into his dark brown eyes, some stirred up in her stomache, but she swatted the feeling away mentally, and it worked.

“Even though you have a lot of defects, I know there are many good things about you.” Hyun Joong smiled. “but I have a feeling only the people close to you know how about your good side.”

“That’s right,” Mina said monotonously. Hyunjoong chuckled and stepped back, leaving Mina relieved that his face was finally away from being near hers.

“Well then I have a request for you.” Hyunjoong stuck out his hand and tilted his head to the side slightly, creating an all too innocent look for a man his age. “Let’s be friends and get closer. I want to see the many sides you have yet to show me.”

Mina looked at his hand curiously, and felt something inside of her tell her to shake it. It was as though her mind wasn’t in control and her hand slowly lifted, letting her little small hands be engulfed with his for a shake.

Something swelled up inside of Mina’s chest, and this time she couldn’t get rid of it. She didn’t like the feeling, but she didn’t hate it. But what Mina liked the best had to be the way how warm his hand was against. She loved the feeling of being warm.

Mina looked up at his face while raising a brow,  maybe this guy wasn’t so bad after all. Their hands separated and her substitute was smiling widely at his hand.

“You actually shook my hand.” He said in a teasing voice. Mina crossed her arms over her chest.

“Well you wanted to shake hands didn’t you?” Hyunjoong nodded his head and he bent down, letting his lips be a few centimeters away from her right ear.

“Now that you shook it, I don’t think I could ever wash my hand agai-OOF”

 Mina didn’t think twice about pushing him harshly away from her and she growled in disgust as he rubbed his arm that she just so happened to mistreat.

“Stupid ert.” She said as she turned around and walked back to the courtyard where Sunha was sitting, forgotten by her best friend, and enduring the stares of everyone else in the school.

Hyun Joong smirked at Mina’s walking figure in the distance. “She’s really something..”

“What took you so long!” Sunha whined as Mina took her seat next to her and passed her a tad bit warm drink. “And it’s not even hot! What did you do?!”

Mina ignored Sunha’s annoying complaints as she opened her bottle and took a sip of the lemon tea. It really wasn’t that warm anymore.

He was right, Mina thought to herself as he lips pulled away from the sweet substance. Nobody really likes to drink cold tea. Mina’s eyes shifted over to her hand which had its fingers sprawled against her lap.

 “He actually wanted to get to know me,” Mina whispered to herself silently as she observed her hand. If this was a different person, she would’ve thought it were a trick. But something in his eyes told her that he was sincere and saying the truth.

Taking her sight of her palms she began to think of other things, Kim Hyun Joong, was now pushed out of her mind and hopefully to Mina, never coming back in again.