001

A girl was walking through town. It was raining. The wind was blowing hard. It was cold. A few peoples; less than usual fine weather, walking in the streets, included her. She stopped when she saw the building beside her. It was a café. She narrowed her eyes to the paper that attached on the mirror, and murmured something before entered the café.

“Do you need a new employee?”

“Omg! Look at this! Look at this! I met him on the library last night!” A girl was squealing while showed her friends something on her phone.

“Did you really meet him? This photo showed that you were stalking him last night.” The other girl sneered at her.

“What? Do you think me a kind of girl like that!?”

The two girls were arguing after that. It had almost turned into a fight before they saw a boy was walking on corridor. They stopped immediately and hurried to the door, to got a better view of that boy.

He didn’t notice them, or the other girls who was waving at him. He kept his eyes to the book on his hands. He didn’t even notice the girl who was walking towards him and bumped her.

“Ya.”

“I’m sorry.” The girl took the book, gave it to him, and then walked past him.

The boy widened his eyes and grabbed her before she could walk more afar.

“What?”

“Do you think it can be solved with a simple sorry?”

“What do you want?” She rolled her eyes while tried to free her hand. But, his grip was just too tight.

“The paper is folded.” The boy released her hand and showed her the book, especially the folded paper.

The girl opened , didn’t believe the situation thas was happening to her. Her hand was hurt for something like this?

She looked to that boy then to his book and unfolded the paper. “You can just do that like that.”

“Ya, it doesn’t look the same like before. You should-“

The ringing bell shut him mouth, immediately. That girl used this chance to ran to her class.

“Ya!”

She didn’t look back and entered her class. He hissed and put the book into his bag before walked to his class.

That girl entered her class and put her bag to her desk. She sat to her chair and then sighed in relief.

“Ya, Yoo Jiae! So you intentionally bumped to him, right?”

Jiae rolled her eyes quietly and then faced the girl who was sitting on her desk.

“What are you talking about?”

“You bumped at him intentionally, so you can touch him right?”

“I wasn’t, Min Hyemi. You could see that he was the one who bumped at me, because he was only focusing on his book.

Hyemi wanted to open but closed it back when she realized that Jiae was right. She move from Jia’s desk silently, but her friend saw that and didn’t accept it that Hyemi just stopped like that.

“Ya! Don’t try to defend yourself! I could see that you were trying to touch him while gave him the book!” that girl argued back.

Jiae had chewed her inner mouth before put a straight face and faced that girl.

“Yoon Mina… Listen to me, stop this nonsense or I will cut your tongue for real.”

Mina felt her spine chilled and walked away with Hyemi to their seats.

“Ya… she’s so creepy. I’ m so scared.”

“You’re right. Maybe you shouldn’t shout at her like that.”

Jiae could hear their conversation, but he just shrugged it off and wrote something on her note. She didn’t mean it though. She couldn’t even kick a cat.

The teacher entered the class and all of them became quiet and pay attention to her lesson.

Jiae sat at a chair on the canteen and quietly ate her food. She brought it for home because she didn’t want to use her money for something that she could make from house.

She sipped the coke that she had bought earlier and continued to eat. She pointed her head upward when she saw a tray was laying on her table.

“Annyeong haseyo.” A tall boy bowed at her.

“Oh, annyeong.” Jiae replied it awkwardly.

“May I sit here?”

“Oh, Yes.”

“Thank you.” He grinned happily at her and Jiae just replied it sufficiently.

Jiae looked at him curiously when he already sat beside her, and that boy realized it.

“What’s wrong, noona?”

“Noona?”

“Ah, I forgot to introduce myself. Hello, my name is Choi Junhong, but you can call me Zelo. I am a freshman on this High School.”

Jiae chuckled at his introduction.

“Why, Noona?”

“No, haha.” She waved her hand.”I just find it funny, how that Zelo came from Choi Junhong.”

“Ahh…” He scratched his nape.”That nickname has given by my Hyungs.”

“Oh, I see. I’m sorry, Junhong-ssi.”

“Don’t be so formal, Noona. You can call me Junhong or Zelo.” He smiled.

“Oh, okay Junhong-ah.” She smiled back at him and then they continued their eat session. It was quiet and awkward until Jiae decided to melt the situation.

“So, why are you here alone?” Jiae asked.

“My friends are kinda busy right now and hyungs… I don’t know where they are.” He shrugged.”And how with you, Noona? Where are your friends?”

She smiled acidly at him and glanced to her bread and then back to Junhong.”I don’t have any friends here.”