The journal of an Empty Soul

Andria POV

7.00 am, bedroom.

Kringggggg~!! *my alarm clock rings.

I look at the clock and was shock that it’s already 7.00 am. I’M LATE!!! My class is at 8.00 am!
I quickly take my shower and choose random cloths to wear. I ran down stairs and skip breakfast.

‘Andria! Don’t skip your breakfast!’ mom yelled before I go out the front door.

‘It’s okay mom, I’ll grab something to eat before I reach the university!’ quickly ran out.

I grab my keys and turn on the ignition.

I reached the university within 15 minutes. I park my car somewhere near the university and ran into class. I sit at my place while looking at my watch, it’s 7.30.

‘Yes!’ I said loudly. I manage to come before 8.00 am.

*Not noticing someone has been staring at you since you enter the classroom.

‘Wake up late aye?’ asked someone.

I look at the person. Oh, it’s JB. He smiles at me.

‘Yeah, too tired I guess.’ I explained.

‘Tired?’ he asked again.

Why does he even care? Do I need to explain further?

‘We spend hours on doing our assignments yesterday, remember?’ I feel annoyed.

‘Assignments? I don’t really feel tired after doing all of that though or is there something else that makes you feel tired like thinking about something that makes you ‘all red’ yesterday?’ JB smirks.

‘What do you mean?’ acting like I don’t know.

He winked and turned around. He makes me remember the incident that had happened between me and Mark. I blushed again. JB I hate you! I tried to calm myself by reading my lecture notes.

Suddenly, I can feel a finger poking my cheek. I turn around and realize that it belongs to JB.
‘All red again aye? Your cheek is soft and warm.’ he said while keep on poking it.

I become stiff as a statue and my heart beats fast. I feel like I need to do something. I grab his hand and move it away from my face.

‘Y-Yah! Stop it! You are making me uncomfortable.’ I angrily whispered to him.

‘Really?’ he grabs my hand and squeezed it. He starts to intertwine my hand with his.

I instantly look at him. He smiles at me and look me in the eyes with a loving stare. I feel really weak right now. Is he trying to torture me right now? It has to stop. I instantly pull my hand from his. I have to go back to my senses.

*without both of you noticing, someone is watching over what is going on between you and JB.
‘Ehem! Ehem!’

I turned around and I found Mark seating behind me. JB do the same thing.

‘Oh hyung, you just came?’ JB asked.

‘No! I have been here for 5 minutes. Oh before you asked, I saw everything that had happened between you and Andria.’ Mark look pissed. He took out his headphones and put it on his head.
I can hear loud music came out from his headphones. He tried to avoid his eyes from meeting mine. Is he jealous? No can’t be. We barely know each other.

I stare at JB and he just winked at me with a smirk on his face. What is he trying to get from me? Seriously!

11.00 am, cafeteria.

I bought my food and went to the garden just outside the cafeteria. I don’t want to meet them during lunch. I don’t want to be awkward around them. I look up to the sky, it’s pretty cloudy today. It is just nice. I feel relax now. I munch on my sandwich and drink my favorite banana flavor milk. I close my eyes after I finished eating my lunch, stretching my hands out and enjoy the moment. While stretching, I can feel that my right hand hit something hard. What’s that?! I stop stretching and I saw someone sitting next to me rubbing his forehead.

‘Ouch! That hurts~’ I can hear him nagging. He turned and stares at me. It’s Jinyoung.

I quickly grab his head and checking out his forehead to make sure he isn’t hurt.

‘I’m sorry Jinyoung-aa. I’m really sorry, does it hurt so much?’ blowing his forehead.

His face and mine is just one inch away. I can feel his breath on my neck. It gives me chills.

‘Blowing it won’t do any good, unless you kiss my forehead. Please~’ he begs and look at me. Our eyes met for a few second.

I tried to pull my hands but Jinyoung hold it tight. He put me in an awkward position, I try to pull again but he won’t let go. I can hear people whispering and talking about us.

‘Yah! Stop it already.’ I whispered at him feeling embarrass.

‘I will if you kiss my forehead.’ We are staring at each other. He pouts.

I hesitate. What should I do? If I kissed his forehead, people would think that there is something between the both of us. Should I do it? Okay Andria just closed your eyes and kissed it already. I’m going to make a run after this happen.

Here goes…*peck*..I can feel my forehead is a bit wet.

Oh! What’s that? I haven’t kissed his forehead yet. I instantly open my eyes. I saw Jinyoung’s neck. Huh? I looked up and realize that Jinyoung just kissed my forehead instead. What?! I instantly pushed him and ran away.

‘Andria..I..’ Jinyoung try to say something to me but I keep on running.

I ran as far as I can. I finally stop at the university’s rooftop. Heavy breath came out from my mouth. I sat on the floor with my arms hugging my knee and thinking about what just happened.
‘Why did he do that? Does he like me? What did he want to say to me?’ I spoke out loud. Ugh! I should have listened to him but I’m too shy that I made a run.

‘Hey can you please be quiet, at least! I’m sleeping here.’

Huh? Who is that?...I turn my head towards the person that just spoke.

Jackson! Wow isn’t this good? He just heard what I just said. Hopefully he won’t ask anything about it.

‘Oh I’m so sorry Jackson.’ I stood up and going to make a move to my next class, Morphology.

‘Hey wait up!’ he yelled and ran to me. ‘Let’s go together to our next class.’ He adds once he
stands next to me.

‘Our? What do you mean by our?’ I’m curious.

‘Yah! Don’t tell me you didn’t know that I sit behind you every Morphology class.’ He said looking at me in the eye. He look disappointed.

‘What? Really? Sorry for not noticing you Jackson.’ I replied feeling guilty.

‘That’s pretty rare for me that a girl didn’t notice my wild and sexy looks.’ Putting up his naughty looks and move his head towards me.

‘Yah! Stop it.’ I pushed his chest and ran down stairs.

‘Yah Andria! Wait for me!’ he yelled and chases me.

At one time I was stopped from running. I turn and notices Jackson just grab my hand.

‘Yah, I said let’s go together. Why are you so stubborn huh?’ he pulled me and drags me to the Morphology class.

While in the morphology class…

I can’t concentrate on the lecture; I keep hearing my classmates whispering especially the girls.

‘Who is she anyway? Keep hanging out with boys..Just now I saw her and Jinyoung at lunch kissing foreheads and just now she hold hands with Jackson.’

Suddenly I can feel someone tapping on my shoulder. I turn around and Jackson gave me a folded paper. I took it and read..

‘Hey, just ignore them okay? You know better, there is nothing between us right? Unless if you do have feelings for me? I won’t ignore it.’ I quickly turn around and said to Jackson, ‘No!’ I whispered.

‘Okay!’ he said out loud and smile. The whole class turns and looks at us.

‘Mr.Wang, you do agree to be grouped with Andria? Then it settles. So class, I give you 2 weeks to finished up the project. See you next week.’

What!? What just happen here? What project? With Jackson? You got to be kidding me. Well I can’t blame the lecturer while I’m the one that didn’t focus in class. I barely know what the lecture and project was about. I stared angrily at Jackson. He laughs.

‘Well looks like the both of us going to get busy.’ He winked and smirked at me. He stood up and grabbed my phone and called his phone. I should have use password to lock my phone. I really regret it.

‘I’ve got your number. I’ll text you when we can start the project and where should we meet up.’

He gives back my phone and ruffled my hair.

‘Yah! Wang Jackson!’ he laughed and ran out from the lecture room.

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