#lluhansnu

The day proved to be taxing to Jieun- tests after tests piled up, in turn causing her to drown herself in notes and books up to the wee hours of the morning. Right after school, she ran over to the pet store- the place was having a half-off everything sale, so there were a lot more people than usual. Needless to say, she was quite tired.

After work, the sleepy girl tiredly changed out of her uniform and headed back for the dorm building. Her route involved going through the park, which was a highlight of her day. Today, however, she couldn’t bring herself to appreciate the flowers, especially with the dreary weather hanging over her shoulder. 

Her tired state wasn't helping either.

“Today you will start to work on a project with a partner. I will let you choose this time and see what the results will be…” Hyeri was in photography class, looking bored towards the teacher until he said that they had to team up, but were able to choose a partner. Before running off to ask, she concentrated on listening to the teacher though, it would look weird if she’d ask him to team up and in the next breath wanting to know what the task was.

“You can choose your partner now.” As the teacher said this, she stood up, took her stuff and walked towards the student she wanted to ask. It was Lu Han. Hyeri sat down next to him and took a piece of paper and a pen out, writing something down. She then tapped on his shoulder to get his attention and held the piece of paper up, so he could read what she had written.

Would you like to team up with me?

It said. She definitely didn’t want to tease him or make fun of him with writing her question down. Hyeri wasn’t sure if he’d say yes, but she wanted to get to know him: he never talked and always kept to himself, still it seemed like he watched others. So he had something mysterious about him and that seemed to attract her. She had wanted to “talk” to him for quite a while now, so this project was just perfect.

It would be embarrassing if he’d say no now, where she had taken her stuff with her now and where the others probably had teamed up already as well. Even though she was interested in psychology and she was fairly good at reading people, Lu Han stayed a mystery for her.

"I can only answer that last question." He said and shrugged casually. “I called out for you simply because I like you a lot.” She was surprised to hear that, so she stood there staring at him. Even as he started walking, she wasn’t able to talk. “You don’t have to reject me or say that you like me too, really. I’d rather not know. Now I’m off to my dorm. Don’t get yourself killed tonight, dollface.” This didn’t make her less speechless, so her eyes simply followed her with her mouth still standing slightly open.

As he took off, she thought she wouldn’t see him again until the next class they had together but as their arms brushed he stopped and something slid to her hand. He again told her to not get killed and to meet him after third period.

**

Shin Yeong sat in class, it was the third period and she was wondering if Lu Han would really show up. She somehow doubted it… would he still be talking to her now? She would’ve thought that everything was just a weird dream, but the pocket knife proved that it wasn’t. She sighed and thought back.

“I called out for you simply because I like you a lot.” “Seriously, don’t get yourself killed.” “And if you want my answer to your other questions, feel free to meet me at the rooftop after third period.”

This really confused her. She couldn’t really tell if she liked him, but she did found him interesting. Maybe that’s because he’s so mysterious…? She scratched the back of her head and bit her nose.

As the class was dismissed she made her way onto the rooftop. She looked around on her way up there, but Lu Han was nowhere to be found. I will have to wait up there, then. She stood there, leaning onto the wall on the rooftop which was supposedly there to prevent people to fall down. She played around with the pocket knife in her hands, not holding it still.

She felt sort of nervous, but she couldn’t tell why. After thinking about that encounter while walking around a few minutes, she thought that Lu Han had behaved really weird. And with that she didn’t even mean that he was talking, but that he had sort of a dangerous feel to him. Probably I’m just imagining things… maybe I was just tired last night and my brain saved things up wrong…