The beautiful smile of yours.

I woke up early, took a bath, and changed into my uniform. Although today was the first day of school, and I wasn't excited at all. Wearing my uniform, I walked downstairs to make my breakfast, which was scrambled eggs with toast on the side. I drank coffee like always. I finished my breakfast and said goodbye to my brother, whose work started tomorrow.
It took about 17 minutes to walk to school because it was close to where I lived. We just moved back to Seoul from Busan. On my way there, I saw a lot of students with the same uniform that I wore. Standing in front of the school gate, I sighed and walked in. Inside my new school, I found people staring and whispering at me.
“Who is she?”
“She’s so pretty.”
“She looks really nice.”
I rolled my eyes and tried to find the principal’s office. There, we talked about all the usual, boring paperwork. The woman behind the desk kept talking about of good this school was. I kept my stone face on and just nodded to what she said.
“Follow me and I show you, your classroom!" she exclaimed with a fake smile.
After I followed her, she opened the door to my new class. The homeroom teacher was talking about math. Damn, I thought with the other students, it looks so boring. I walked in and followed Ms. Fake Smiles.
“Today we have a new student so please welcome her!”
I walked in front of the class room and bowed.
“Hey," I bluntly said, "my name is Areum. Please take care of me."
The teacher said that my new seat would be beside Rocky. What kind of name is that? He raised his hand so I knew where he was sitting. I walked over to him, nonetheless. He flashed me a big smile, but I just looked cold at him. His grin quickly turned into a frown. Ignoring him, I sat down. Instead of paying attention in the class, I looked out of the window beside my seat.
When the bell finally rang, I stood up and left to head to the rooftop, which wasn’t that hard to find. I sat on a bench there and began to eat my lunch. I saw shadow above me and looked up. It was the guy named Rocky. I looked down again and continued to eat as if nothing happened.
“Why are you so cold?” he asked, taking the seat beside me.
“Why do you care?” I asked, still munching.
“Because I don’t like people who are cold,” he answered, trying to get my attention.
“Who said you should like me?” I asked.
But before he could answer, I stood up and began to walk away, leaving him at that bench. I passed several guys on the way out. I ignored them and continued walking down the stairs.

My next class was art. I walked inside and sat by the window. The teacher walked in and I introduced myself. He said we should "just draw what was on our minds". When I finished my drawing, I stared at it. It was a drawing of a girl laying on the road with blood everywhere. There was even a little girl kneeling beside her. Realizing what I just drew, a tear rolled down my face before I quickly wiped it away. I was about to throw it out, but the teacher noticed. He walked up to me and took the drawing.
“It’s very creative," he said, admiring it, "I especially like the emotions expressed here.”
I just nodded at him while waiting for him to shut up. When he finished talking, I went back to my seat and began a new drawing. But before the pencil touched the paper, the teacher dismissed us. We walked out of class, our backpacks slung over our shoulders.

We had a 10 minute break so I decided to sit outside. I saw a big tree and sat under it's shade. It was the perfect weather; it wasn’t too cold or hot. I closed my eyes to enjoy the nice breeze but someone started tapping on my shoulder. I opened my eyes and turned around to find a group of boys. It was Rocky and his friends. I was about say something but Rocky cut me off.
“Please don’t be mad,” he said.
“And why did you think I would be mad?” I asked with a confused look.
“Just because," he looked down, as if I was going to scold him, "you’re a little cold.”
“Do you want to hang out with us?” one of his friends asked. I rolled my eyes and accepted their offer.
“So where are we going?” I asked. They started jumping in excitement.
“Wait," Rocky said, "before we go, we need to introduce ourselves!"
“Hi, I’m Jinjin.”
“Hi! I’m Sanha!”
“I’m Moonbin.”
“Hallo, my name is Eunwoo!”
“Hey~ I’m MJ!”
“I’m Rocky, your seatmate,” he said smiling.
I introduced myself and left. They followed behind me. I walked over to the new bubble tea shop, which was supposedly good. When I made my way inside the cafe, I was looking at the ground. Once I looked up again to take my order, I couldn’t believe what I saw.

Notes

:))) - leejongsuk_is_bae