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"A side love story is similar to our lives, where there is no main.
When it doesn't come to a canvas or a novel, when there are no frames or pages to limit what can be seen, we are all main characters of our own stories. The bystander is a victim or assailant in another picture."

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Jihye

After an hour Sungyeol and I were done with planing for our project, we had our topic ready and we're almost done with preparing our content. With my pencil in hand, I read through the lines of the textbook on the table occasionally underlining what seemed important.

A heavyweight on my right shoulder makes the pencil slip out of my hand, I turn to Sungyeol's sleepy head leaning on me. I smile to myself and turn to him, holding his head between my palms gently so he won't wake up. With my fingers between his soft black hair, I laid his head on my lap while his long lean body lied on the carpet we sat on.

I played with the short strands of hair that came on his face, realizing that I like to watch him sleep and shaking my head at the creepy thought.

I turned around slowly, not moving my lower body and got a cushion from over the sofa, and moved to lay his head on it. One thing I knew about Sungyeol is that he likes coffee a lot, coke too. I made us coffee a while ago. How can he fall asleep?

His reaction was so funny and sweet, first, he furrowed his eyebrows, "you made this?" He asked. I nod my head and sit beside him, taking a sip of my coffee. I licked the foam off my upper lip and nodded at the satiating taste.

I looked back at Sungyeol to see him snapping his head away from me to the coffee mug. I smiled and waited for him to taste it, when he did all I got was a subtle nod.

I sighed, feeling content at the brief gesture and went back to work while he shortly joined with short remarks and opinions. He's smart, not bad at all. I turn to my book and to continue my work. A loud intake of breath made me turn to Sungyeol again and giggle softly, the doorbell rang and I jumped up, jogging to it.

I looked at the intercom screen and saw Sungyeon smiling at me. She had the key and she knew the code yet she always rings the bell for me to open the door for her, when I asked her what was that about she told me words I seem to always remember.

"Someone opening the door for you feels different, it's like they were waiting for you all along. Making you feel wanted."

I smile and breathe out before opening the door for her, "Hello!" she greets in a happy tone, I nod to her.

"How was your day?" I ask, taking her bag and putting it on the couch. She looks around and spots Sungyeol before giving me a pointed look. I shrug, "we had a project to prepare for, we just finished a while ago, and he kind of passed out."

She nods, giggling, "so like him, but his brain works well right? I mean although he's the laziest student ever he still isn't that dumb."

His brain works well right? I took a moment rethinking the phrase, who says that? It's liking asking if a car's air conditioner works well, or not. I shook my head, sighed, then nodded.

"Hey, don't give me that," she pokes my shoulder.

"Give you what?" I laugh, knowing she referred to my dismissive manner.

"That," she mimics my shake-sigh-nod as her hair moves all over the place and I laugh.

"How was your day at that fashion academy? I don't see why you take those courses though, Eonnie."

"I'm too bored, while you are in school I got nothing to do. So why not take master courses in my field? hitting two birds with one stone."

I nod, patting her shoulder, "you ate?" I ask and she nods while we walk to take seats on the couch.

"I had some ramen noodles nearby."

I huff, "Eonnie! I told you we should eat healthily, I think the whole family seriously has a dieting problem. Daeyeol likes appetizers and desserts way more than he should, Sungyeol digs in unhealthy food and drinks too much soda and caffeine. While you, you don't even eat well-"

"I see you've been observing Sungyeol?" Sungyeon cuts in with a knowing smile.

I furrow my eyebrows then look away, "N-no, I didn't observe anyone. I-it's just obvious. Yeah," I reply, getting off the sofa and sitting back on the floor to continue my work, "and by the way, I didn't only talk about him. I mentioned Daeyeol and you too."

I look back at my book while Sungyeon started laughing her heart out, I shake my head and exhaled nervously. "Stop!" I hiss but with no avail. So I stand up grumpily and walk to my room.

Thank god Sungyeol is asleep-

All my relief disappears when I hear Sungyeon from outside, "oh, you are awake!" She laughs.

"Yeah, you are too loud Noona."

Heck. I throw out a couple of more colorful words and jump onto my bed, face down then let out a muffled scream.

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"Tell me what's wrong!" I coax Janna as we walk out of class, heading to our lockers. Nothing. She doesn't reply. I start building and making up my own scenarios. None sound rational enough, except for one. "Perhaps you're, you know." I start, she turns to me with the heavy books between her arms.

"I don't know...?" she says so blatantly. I huff and roll my eyes.

"I mean are you getting any cramps, mood swings, and--" I get cut off by a push at my side from her.

"Shut up! No. What's wrong with you." She groans and we stop at her locker.

"I was just asking! Well on my defense, you look miserable enough for me to suspect you're on your week."

She ignores me, opening her locker and putting the books in, "you know who's my partner on that science project?" She says, her face hidden in the locker while I star at her shoulders in deep thought.

"Yeah, if I'm not mistaken its Myungsoo," I reply now checking my nails which Sungyeon just manicured yesterday. I smile at the memory, I stop smiling and snap my head up. I've been complaining about Sungyeol all morning while she was just nodding with the occasional relatable remarks.

"Oh dear... he- he's your partner!" I repeat myself while she looks at me blankly, I rewind how he looks at her and the fact that he is many girl's target.

"Yeah, exactly. That's what's wrong. He. Annoys. Me."

"All guys annoy you, no-- all people annoy you. You even say I annoy-"

"That's not the same."

"-you. Okay then? What did he do?"

"He is, you know, odd. He stars at me while we are supposed to be working, makes me repeat myself. He's slow. "

"Because your voice is too low? The guy has the right to make you repeat your words because your voice is so low." I retort.

"No, I'm sure it was loud at that time. Anyway, he seriously acts suspicious." She closes her locker and turns to me.

"Well yeah, he stares at you more than he's supposed to." I stop and smile, "do you think he likes you?" I ask.

She only smacks my shoulder and walks away, "wait I was just joking, wait no! I wasn't! It's possible okay!" I jog behind her, "you've been attending the same school for quite a while together, right! So-"

We both stop when Sungkyu and Myungsoo come into view, "hey ladies," Myungsoo flashes his dazzling smile and I involuntarily smile back while Janna looks down.

Today her hair was in a high ponytail and a black hairband was around her head but still failed to put away the short brown stray strands that framed her face.

I look back up and smile at Sungkyu, "Jihye." he smiles back, I nod and look at Janna. She looks back at me with questionable, frustrated eyes.

I shrug. When I hear hissing I look back at the two handsome boys, Myungsoo nudges Sungkyu and hisses something to him, while in return Sungkyu pushes him away and hisses back, threateningly. Finally, they look back at us, "would you like me to walk you back to class, Jihye?" Sungkyu asks.

"Oh, sure-" a stinging sharp nudge at my upper arm makes me stop, I look back at Janna to find her frowning at me, warningly. "I don't know, Janna and I'll be walking back after putting my books in my locker." I finally say like the loyal person I am.

One more nudge and a threatening look from Myungsoo to Sungkyu makes Sungkyu step forward and take my books from between my arms, "I could help you with that too!" He smiles again.

I stutter when he starts to walk ahead with my books, "h-hey uh," he continues walking, ignoring my protests. I get no choice but to turn to Janna and make an apologetic expression, "you saw that right, got to go, mate."

She nods subtly as if she's going to go through internal destruction in a few seconds, with a pat on her shoulder I walk away. "Sungkyu, wait," I call, jogging behind to catch up with his long strides. When we turn into the other corridor he suddenly stops and turns to me.

"Oh my," he says leaning onto the wall and sighing, "thank you so much," he says.

"For what?"

"For coming with me, you don't understand. Myungsoo wanted to talk to your friend, Janna, but she's never alone so he asked me to take you away."

"Oh," I nod, "but why does he-"

"If I couldn't get you away then I would have to get dinner for the whole group which means losing a life-saving. They eat like--"

"I don't think it's necessary to complete that sentence, why would Myungsoo want to talk to-" I cut myself off as my previous words replay themselves in my head.

"He likes you."

I let my jaw hang low as I look back at Sungkyu, "yeah, he sucks at hiding it when he's interested. He keeps watching people who he's interested in all the time, how they move and what they do."

I nod all along confirming my suspicion, "but won't that be trouble." I refer to the threats girls throw at each other to stay away from their unconventional crushes and there happened to be a war about Myungsoo. I didn't know if Sungkyu read between my lines or not, in fact, there are some girls who called dibs on him as well. Let alone each and every member of their group. Infinite.

But still, I don't want Janna to go into that chaos, "don't worry, he'll take care of it."

"I hope so."

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