During class we sat at our lab table listening to Mr. Chong talk about the class experiment he wanted us to work on. Sehun wasn’t messing around, he was actually paying attention.

I was about to copy the notes that Mr. Chong started writing on the board when Sehun spills the liquid all over the table.

“Careful” I whisper loudly and try cleaning it fast, luckily it wasn’t that bad.

“I’m sorry” He leans in close to me breathing fast “Please don’t punish me”

I look at him confused

“Don’t hit me again” He lies and he starts acting strange. I look away and notice the two girls that were sitting across from the table staring at us. I finally understood what he was doing. When I stare at them I decide that maybe it would be fun to make them think of something that wasn’t real.

I lean next to him and whisper loud enough for them to hear

“Sehun” I place the end tip of my pen on his cheek “You know better”

He pretends to be and I lightly trace the tip towards his lips

“Not those spiky heels”

I hear one girl gasp. I turn and they both looked like they were enjoying our conversation.

“Do you guys mind?”

The girls look away and I can’t help but to actually enjoy their reactions.

The bell to go home rings, I take my planner out and check it’s time for Yearbook. I say bye to Sehun as we walk out of class together.

“I’ll pick you up after yearbook”

I turn to face him “No it’s okay” I smile “I’ll have one of the chauffeurs pick me up. Thanks anyway. I’ll see you tomorrow”

I walk off and I feel eased that he didn’t hold me back, now I know I won’t be late and it made me feel content.

I was really excited that Haeryung joined yearbook too. We were able to really get to know each other better. I also took the opportunity to help her with her application again.

“That looks amazing” Haeyrung had a big smile on her face “It’s so much better than the one I sent out. Seriously, thank you so much”

“Yours was perfect, it’s just you put topics that weren’t really necessary to add. Trust me though, this will work”

“Positive thinking” She smiles and we both share a laugh “Where did you apply to?”

I pause staring at the screen. I knew I wanted to attend Seoul National University, but my dad had other plans for me, he wanted me to choose K-Arts. I just wasn’t sure if I wanted to go through the whole process again. It’s been four years since I’ve danced and even when I do practice, I was nowhere near perfect to audition for my scholarship, especially when all I have in mind when I dance is my mom’s accident.

“I’m going to stay in Seoul” I smile “SNU”

“That’s a really great school”

I nod. I knew it was and I was hoping that I was good enough to get accepted for the class of 2016. I had my fingers crossed.

Haeryung and I walked out together after yearbook, she was in the middle of telling me about the old guy she dated back at her old school but she stops herself when she looks over at something. I follow her gaze, spotting Sehun leaning against his car, waiting.

“Ready?” He asks

Haeryung smiles at me “I’ll see you tomorrow. Thanks again for all your help” She says goodbye to me, waving her hand as she sneaks a peak over at him.

I wave back and when she walks off Sehun has my full attention.

“What are you doing?”

“I told you” He opens the door for me “We have plans”

I chuckle “No, we don’t”

“You made a deal”

“No I didn’t”

“Yes you did” He lightly smirks “You agreed to hang out while I agreed on doing my work”

I cross my arms “I never said I was going to keep hanging out with you. It was a onetime thing.”

He his lips keeping the smallest smile on his expressionless face “Fine” He closes the door “I wonder how your dropped GPA will look like on your college applications…”

He slowly walks in front of his car, walking backwards keeping his eyes fixed with mine.

“Sehun”

He reaches the driver seat “Oh well, just imagine 9 months of school x the amount of missing homework, projects, and tests. That’s a really nasty number, looks like your GPA will hit rock bottom along with mine.”

He opens the door and gets inside. I knew he wasn’t bluffing. I groan and get inside his car.

“This is how it’s going to work Oh Sehun”

I take full control, my eyes lock with his brown eyes that seemed warm for once.

“No more black mailing, I’ll hang out with you from now on but you’re going to have to accept the days I can’t and you’re still going to catch up on your missing work along with the current ones, deal?” I pause “When I give my word I never back out from it, so you better do the same.”

I call my chauffer to let him know I’m not going to need him to pick me up after all.

It felt weird canceling all my lessons for today, I wasn’t too happy about it but school does come first. Sehun was holding this whole hang out session accountable for his academics. Principal Kim put me in charge of making sure Sehun graduates and if this was the only way to get the job done than I had no other choice than to deal with it.

Just like earlier in the morning, the employees did their job by taking our belongings. Sehun starts walking deeper inside his home to the other side I didn’t get to see when I was here.

An older woman was standing right next to the open doors staring at something outside; she looked like Somi’s age.

She notices Sehun approaching and bows “Good evening Mr. Sehun. Dinner will be ready soon, should I set up an extra plate?”

He smiles “Please. Is Daehun out there?”

She smiles back “He’s been waiting for you”

Sehun doesn’t ask anything else, he heads out and I smile at the older woman. I bow and she bows in return. When I step out, I became envious of his backyard. My home had a great view but there was no way it beat Sehun’s.

“Sehun” Daehun shouts excitedly as he spots his older brother. “What took you so long?”

“Sorry” He gets down to Daehun’s eye level

He smiles at him “It’s okay” Then he shyly looks over at me

“Hi” I wave and he waves back hiding behind Sehun, how precious.

Sehun stands up “Come on, let’s wash up for dinner and we can play something else after”

He nods picking his soccer ball up and carrying it on his side. We all begin to walk back towards their mansion. Daehun looks up at me.

“What’s your name?” He asks

“Rina” Sehun blurts out

I pull my eyebrows together at Sehun letting out a chuckle and giving him my real name.

“Please, please, please” Daehun kept repeating the same words to Sehun as we were sitting in the private study room. We had finished dinner and I decided to stay to work on the homework together. We were actually getting things done and we had one more page left but we weren’t getting it done because Daehun wanted to play.

“I can’t” Sehun replies “We need to finish before it turns 7:30”

Daehun puts his eyebrows down being upset with Sehun. I knew he was mad but he looked to adorable that it was hard to take him serious.

“You always say to never put a time on things”

“I know but Hayoung wants me to do homework”

Daehun turns over to me “Hayoung can we please go out and play”

Sehun smirks and leans in closer to Daehun “She’ll say no. She’s really boring”

He tried to whisper or he did it on purpose for me to hear, either one it didn’t matter to me. He just made me want to prove him wrong.

I slam my text book and close my notebook “What do you want to play?” I smile at the cute little boy who beams with joy.

Sehun had the soccer ball under his left foot, waiting for me to make my move. I honestly wasn’t good at playing but I was trying my best to take the ball away. He stares at me and he had a devilish look to him. I look at his feet, paying close attention to how he moves the ball around. I couldn’t predict where he was going to move to next.

I smirk and back away as I watched Daehun behind Sehun. Daehun tries taking it from behind but it was like Sehun had a pair of eyes behind his head. He moved away and it didn’t take long for Daehun to try to steal the ball away.

I couldn’t help but to laugh at how Daehun looked compared to Sehun and I thought it was sweet how they played with each other.

Daehun finally managed to steal it away and without warning he quickly passed it over to me. Since I wasn’t expecting it to come towards me, it passed me and I had to run after it.

I finally had control over the soccer ball and it was my turn to run with it. I saw Sehun right next to me and I screamed and a laugh followed right after it. Sehun catches up and places his arms around my waist stopping me.

I shout at Daehun to hurry to get the ball before Sehun does. He releases me and runs after his little brother. I run to stand in front of him while little Daehun tried scoring for us.

I put my hands on his chest trying to stop him, he softly laughs and grabs onto my wrists, and soon we’re both trying to get the last grip on each other.

Daehun shouts, he scored!

He turns around facing his little brother that was running around thrilled that he finally scored. When that happens I notice Sehun’s hand slide down from my wrist to my fingertips, slowly brushing and in an instant his touch was gone. It immediately caught my attention. That was the very first time we’ve encountered physical contact and I found it awkward.

He made nothing of it and ran after Daehun lifting him up.

I couldn’t help but to think how his hand was holding onto mine even if it was less than a second. I immediately shake the image away, thinking how ridiculous I am for even making it a big deal. Daehun’s cute smile distracts my thoughts. I smile back and give him a thumb up.