chapter two
THE SARCASTIC AND THE FOOL
Go Soojin, Lee Jaehwan

For the past half an hour, Soojin had been gritting her teeth so much, her gums are starting to get numb. Crumpling the third paper from her book, she brought the ball up to her face and threw it harshly at the back of Lee Jaehwan’s head. Startled, said boy turned around cluelessly, hands rubbing at the spot where the paper met with his head, trying to locate who was the culprit that kept abusing him with crumpled sheets.

Pathetic , Soojin thought as she kept a natural expression on her face, as if she had no idea what was even going on in their classroom. Raising her head to look at Jaehwan again, she felt herself freezing when she saw that the boy was already staring at her with an unreadable expression. Soojin cursed under her breath, thinking that she was finally caught after a whole year of throwing paper balls at the annoying brat. She was taken aback when a shy blush decorated his cheeks, instead of an angry reaction like what she expected from him.

She sees Jaehwan opening his mouth, as if wanting to say something, but the thought might have died because he turned around before she even got to hear his voice. Well, that was weird.

Walking down the school hallway with a few books in her hand, she looked exactly like what normal High Schoolers in her state would. Except she is not a regular High School student, at least not from the outside point of view. Eyes bold with dark make-up, some called it a smokey look, but Soojin says what the is a smokey eye and ends up scaring everyone that dares to question her about her style. 

She brushes past everyone with a glare, lips formed into a frown that looked almost too natural. Her gloomy and intimidating aura caused her a lot of misfortune throughout High School, earning herself almost no friends at all. It is not something she mourns over though, instead she is almost grateful when people choose to ignore her. The only memorable conversation she had in the hallway was when an annoying classmate yelled a bright “Good morning, Soojin!” and earned herself a cold “Who the are you?” from Soojin. Soojin thought the shocked expression on the other’s face was hilarious, but made no attempt to form even the smallest smile. Destroying good mornings, that was something she enjoyed doing.

Because of all this, she was personally surprised when someone called out to her in the hallway, at least she thinks it’s her, who else is named Go Soojin in this school anyway. Tilting her head slightly, enough to have a look of her back, she felt annoyance bubbling at the pit of her stomach when she came face to face with Jaehwan. He came to a halt at least a feet away from her, anxiety evident in his eyes.

“I, uh..” He muttered, hands brought up to scratch his mess of a hair bashfully. Soojin replied with a quirk of an eyebrow, clearly uninterested with whatever he had to say. Catching up on her bored reaction, he quickly reached behind his backpack, embarrassingly dropping almost everything inside to the floor.

“I have no time for your -”

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