"rude?" they both said in unison and then scoffed.
jaehwan looked at her in disbelief, he couldn't process what the girl just said. the one who almost crashed into him was her, why did she say he was rude?
"I'm sorry, who were the one that almost crashed into me?" he asked with his hand on hand his chest, like pretending he was hurt.
"I'm sorry, who were the one that didn't help me when I fell?" she asked with his hand on her chest, mimicking jaehwan.
they both did a deadly glare competition until the MC called haneul for the 5th time to come up on the stage.
"Lee Haneul, please just come up to the stage right damn now,"
haneul gave him another single deadly glare for the last time, and mouthed 'you owe me'.
as she came up on the stage, the crowds were an absolute mess. they knew that haneul was the school's troublemaker.
they thought that her perfomance can only end with one and only ending.
it'll end up in a total mess, they thought.
for the music event she was going to play The Rose - Sorry.
a/n : promoting my men
it was an absolute achievement of her to finally perform her favorite group song, she had been listening to it almost a hundred times a day.
when she sat and about to play, the crowds were still a mess. she stepped closer to the mic and let out a small chuckle.
the crowds were no longer a mess, the eyes were focused to her.
she realised the sudden change of the atmosphere and decided to say something she always wanted to say to everyone.
"it's funny how everyone of you portrayed me as a whole mess because I'm school's trouble maker," she said with her gloomy sad eyes.
"now, let's chill up a little bit and listen to what I'm going to sing, losers," she continued.
the gasps from the crowds were heard, mr. park rubbed his temple. it felt like he regretted his choice of making haneul participate in the music event.
as she was about to sing, the speakers weren't working, the mic can't be turned on.
mr. park started going insane and went to the backstage to see what was going on.
haneul was shocked, she didn't even make any of these mess, then who?
she looked to every direction and spotted a black hair, tall, and handsome young man gave her a wave and then gave her two thumbs up.
she was confused, who was he? why did everything go weird today?
she knew that he was the committee the event by his outfit, the committee outfit.
she decided to go down from the stage and chased him, he smiled to her and walked away from her sight.
hyejoo was actually chasing haneul, when haneul stopped, she decided to scare her.
but to no avail, she just couldn't prank haneul with her own pranks.
haneul stood frozen and looked to every single direction, hyejoo realised her frustration so she decided to ask her.
"haneul, what's wrong with you?!" hyejoo asked her, haneul's back facing her.
"a man!"
"a man?"
"yes! a young damn fine man literally gave me a wave and two thumbs up! he's the committee too! you know him hyejoo!" haneul turned back to see hyejoo's expression.
"look, clam down okay!"
"it's calm," haneul looked at her with a bored expression and her arms crossed.
"I know, that was a pun. just wanted to make things chill,"
"do you have an absent for the commitee?"
"uh, yes?"
"where is it?"
"in yunmi'sー"
haneul laughed really hard and said
"did she put it in her socks?"
hyejoo hitted her arms and shushed her.
"what? it's true though!"
hyejoo looked at her in a disbelief.
FLASHBACK
it was summer, everybody was having a party.
drinking cold beverages, popsicles, etc.
haneul was really enjoying the weather, she thought everybody was having fun. then she spotted yunmi's sitting alone and eating every single popsicles available on the table.
haneul decided to come to her and asked her to at least have fun a little bit, yunmi thought that haneul was walking towards the table to get popsicles.
so she searched for things that can be stuffed for the popsicles, she was in absolute panic and she kept searching it.
then she found a sock, and she put all of the popsicles into it and ran away.
haneul saw it and she couldn't help to feel grossed out of her actions.
FLASHBACK ENDS
"I saw it with my own eyes, hyejoo," haneul said for the thousand times.
hyejoo never believed what she said about yunmi because all she knew about yunmi was that she was an absolute nice girl, she got all the good things in the world.
"hyejoo, what the frick frack are you doing here? get the book!" haneul pointed her to go back to the backstage and get the book.
hyejoo ran towards the backstage in a speed of light, as she was running, she bumped into a man that made the both of them fall onto the ground.
and he was no other than sewoon.
"woah, are you okay? I'm sorry," sewoon said.
"wーwhat? no! it's my fault! IーI'm so sorry!" hyejoo got up from the ground and fixed her hair.
then she lend her hand to sewoon so that he could get up.
sewoon wholeheartedly took her offer, when their hands touched, she felt tense all sudden.
"you okay?" sewoon asked and waved his hands in front of her eyes.
"yーyeah, just tired since I'm the committee. you know gotta take care of this and that,"
hyejoo awkwardly laughed and pressed her lips to a thin line and ignored the eye contact that sewoon wanted to make.
"then, let's go to a cafè together so that you can relax for a little bit!" sewoon didn't give her time to answer, so she just dragged hyejoo all the way to the cafè.
hyejoo totally forgot that she had to take the absent book for haneul. so she went along with him.
haneul waited her for a really long time and just stand there like a lost kid looking for their mom.
"where is she?!"
she felt a tapped on her shoulder, she immediately thought that it was hyejoo.
so she unconsciously hitted his arms and shouted.
"where the hell have you been huh?! I looked like a lost lost kid searching for theirー"
she knew that she hitted the mysterious man, so she automatically bowed a 90 degree bow and keep bowing and keep saying "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry".
he noticed how shameful she felt so he tapped her shoulder and said
"it's okay,"
she looked up from her bow and saw his face from close.
so damn fine, absolutely ethereal.
she just wanted to curse in front of him for how fine he was.
"I thought you were my friend! now this is one of the reason why you shouldn't scare me," haneul exhaled a deep breath. she noticed that the damn fine young man wasn't talking, he just kept looking at her.
"wーwhat's with the stare?" she shivered from his stare.
"aren't you going to ask me what I did to the speaker and the mic?"
she was shocked when she found out that he was actually the one who messed all of it.
she liked him already, another troublemaker to replace seongwoo from her old high school.
"aren't we going to introduce ourselves too?"
haneul said. they both chuckled at how stupid they were.
"lee haneul," she offered her hand for him to shake it.
"hwang minhyun," he gladly accepted it.
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