Chapter One
"You know, The Kai?!"

9th of December 2013

“Kai, you’re late again.”

Mr. Kang, the well known dance teacher of the university spoke up but Kai simply waved a hand as he entered  the dance room lifelessly. “Yeah, it just surprises you, doesn’t it?”

Everyone let out a soft sigh just listening to Kai's tone to the teacher he used to look up to. Now all Kai does is come late for classes or sometimes, he even skips it - giving the excuse 'I don't see why I can't'. Just when will Kai let his old self come back to his body? What happened to the passionate dancer who would be the first one to be so energetic when it comes to dancing?

Mr. Kang sighed in expectance, pointing at the space on the floor where Kai would usually sit beside his friends. “Just take your seat.”

Kai smirked and sat down on the floor before the lesson begun. No one knows when, how or why Kai became like this but they would sure kill to know. The top dancer of the university just decides to stop dancing but still attends this dance class because it was chosen in his package as he made it a permanent class - saying he would never replace this class but look at him now. It looks like he couldn't even be bothered to attend it anymore. He only has a year and a half before his years in university ends.

Wouldn’t all his talent and hard work for the past two years go to a waste? Yes.

Did that bother him? Unfortunately, no.

“C’mon Kai, dance with me. This year I want to join the Annual Dance Competition and actually kick . Last year I didn't join because you somehow miraculously chose 'not to dance'.” Lay, Kai’s close friend and supposingly his dance partner nudged him by his arm. “Go dance with someone else.” Kai said blankly, uninterested with his friend’s request - hands shoved into his pockets as he clenched onto the material of his jeans. “Dude, you’re my dance partner every single assignment we have. Because of you, I have to dance with Soon Hae. This is a living hell with her and my girlfriend agrees to want to strangle Soon Hae at certain times. Now you won’t join the competition with me?”

“Yeah.”

“That means you’ll join with me?” Hope was filled in Lay's voice.

“No.”

His hope disappeared instantly as Lay mumbled softly, “Some friend you are.” Kai simply grinned as he shrugged his shoulders. “I’m not the only dancer in the school.”

"Screw off." Lay grumbled, making Kai chuckle as the two boys walked down the halls, making girls squeal along the way but it didn't bring any effect to them, really. Lay, afterall, already has a girlfriend and Kai was simply uninterested with all the girls in the school. Some girls either want him for his looks, for the amount of popularity he has or because he’s good in bed… or so everyone thinks so. Of course, he has his experiences but he wasn’t exactly the type to go around sleeping with girls even though everyone thinks so.

But yet, he was somehow labelled as a 'playboy'. The irony behind the truth.

“Watch where you’re going.” A girl spoke up when Kai accidentally brushed his arm against hers, causing him to halt his tracks when she snapped at him. Did she just...? Kai scoffed and turned around to look at the girl dressed in a pair of jeans, black tank top with brown locks covering her shoulders from the back.

“Excuse me?” Kai raised his voice but there was no reply.

“Hey, I’m talking to you!” Kai shouted with a hand pointing at her but she simply ignored him, rushing off to her next class and he let his hand fall to his side with an irritated huff. “Who the hell?” Kai cursed and Lay smirked. He somehow loved it whenever Kai was like this, it amuses the heck out of him because it was rare to see Kai getting worked up over nothing. In this case, this was considered to be nothing but yet he was going to blow up about it.

That was very unlikely of Kai.

“That’s Hee Young.” Kai scoffed and shoved his hands into his pocket. “Hee what?”

“Hee Young." Lay chuckled. "Kwan Hee Young.”

“And is she important?” Kai asked monotonously as Lay smiled a little. “She’s somewhat a nobody.” Kai furrowed his eyebrows before he used his elbow to hit Lay’s arm, signaling him to go on. “People say she’s one of the most gorgeous girls in the university but… she doesn’t like everyone here. Not even you - based on how she just snapped at you like that."

Kai hissed softly as he threatened to smack Lay in the face but Lay grinned.

"No sweat, Kai. She doesn't like everyone here anyway - except that guy she hangs around with... uh... Minseok, I think."

“Kwan Hee Young…” Kai muttered her name softly before he narrowed his eyes at the figure that walked away from him that was long gone. 

How come I’ve never seen her before?

“She’s usually in the libraries or in the study rooms. You should check there. Do you like her already?”

Those words from Lay rang at the back of his head and he decided to find the girl who got stuck in his mind the whole day. He wanted to smack Lay for jumping to conclusions but, it doesn’t really matter. He’s positive he’s never seen her before in this university, maybe a glance or two but he has never actually seen her directly from head to toe. This urge and amount of curiosity in him was enough for Kai to hunt her down before he went back to his dorm. At least just a quick glance of how she looked like just to see if she is someone he knew before because her name sounds oddly familiar.

Although he doubts he knows her - no one he knows would talk to him like that.

Especially if it's a girl.

He entered the library silently and the girls in there squealed as well as squirming in their seats but he placed a finger on his lips, silencing them completely as well as sweeping them off their seats like a hurricane. He shook his head when he immediately labeled each and every girl before him as unimportant to him. He walked down the rows and he picked up the pace each time a girl squealed. He stopped and paused when he walked by one specific row of books but it was silent.

Furrowing his eyebrows, he took a few steps back to see that a girl was leaning against the bookshelf on the ground with a book in her hands, uninterested the fact that he was there. Is that her? He narrowed his eyes at her as he turned to walk towards her silently. She simply pulled her knees up so he could walk by, thinking he was just another passer-by but she was wrong when he stopped just as he reached beside her. Still ignoring his existence, he waved a hand a little but she didn’t even look up to him.

She was just reading for her upcoming exams as she majored in photography. She was learning in deeper about all the types of angles in taking a nice photo that she couldn’t care about anyone around her. It was always like this whenever she’s studying. He doubt it would be her considering her clothes were different but he just wanted to try his luck.

Whenever Kai wants something, he won’t stop at anything until he gets it. And in this case, it’s finding out who is this Hee Young person. Somewhat a girl who appears to be ‘no one’ to the whole university.

“Are you Kwan Hee Young?” Her eyes widened a little but he didn’t catch that, considering Kai couldn’t even see her eyes.

“Who wants to know?” She changed the pitch of her voice a little, making it more hoarse than it was supposed to be and he sighed. “Well, are you her?”

She shook her head and Kai shook his. It wasn’t exactly urgent to find this Hee Young girl but somehow, at first glance she seems different. And by different, he means that she's not an obsessive lunatic like half the girls in this university.

“Do you know who she is?” Another shake of the head but this time she took the initiative to ask, “Why do you want to know?”

Kai was going to answer as his lips parted but he scoffed instead. “If you don’t know who she is, I don’t think I need to tell you why I want to see her. Mind your own business, yeah? Thanks.” From there he turned around and walked out of the library since that row was the last row of bookshelves in the library. She simply smirked and sighed as she closed her book with the same theory she and her sister agreed to.

“Boys will be boys.” She mumbled and she stood up from the ground.

“Hee Young!” A guy called out from her right and she didn’t turn around, she waited for him to do it. That was exactly what he did when his hands landed on her shoulders. He smiled at her and ruffled her hair. “I knew you were in here!” He chimed but she placed a hand over his mouth. “You’re going to kill us for being too loud in the library. I swear, if I get to detention again because of you, you're going to answer to my sister.”

He grinned but pushed her hand away from his mouth to speak as he held onto her hand. “I heard Kai was looking for you.” She remained emotionless and pulled her hand away from his - cocking an eyebrow. “You know, the Kai?”

Yeah, the Kai. Kim Jongin. She thought irksomely. “Yeah, so I’ve heard.”