Untitled Participant (Chapter 7)
.UNTITLED PARTICIPANT.
“I’ll walk you home then.”
He said that 10 minutes ago, but your mind still replay it over and over again. Since he told you that he’ll walk you home, you‘ve been walking quickly, left him walking alone behind you. You really want to turn your head over, just to be sure he’s walking following you. But you don’t have a courage to, though you’re really curious with the scene behind you.
You take a deep breath while you slow up your step, you make your own self relax before you’re ready to stop and turn over. Just when you think you’re ready, you stop your step and face him. He startled to your sudden action, and then he lifts up, question look on his face. You give him your slight smile and motion him to come over you. Understands what you mean, he walks rush over you, step gradually slower until he reaches you.
“Feeling better already?”, he asks you, eyes on your level. You don’t answer him, just give him your slight smile, again.
“Mind to tell me what you feel?”, he continually ask you. You take a deep breath as you start walking, hear his foot steps following besides you.
“Hmm… Any choices?”
“Let’s see.. There’s A= Peevish, B= Angry, C= Combo A+B, D=3(A+B)². Now, what you feel Miss?”, he smiles as he makes a closing-menu-book-moves, pretends to be waiter.
You smile for ear to ear, a slight punch on his arm. He stares at you then he smiles again, that bracing smile, the smile that makes you fall for him.
“Finally you smile..”,
“Hmm… Finally..”, you nod to his statement.
You both continue walking, slowly like there’s nothing Gypsum Chapter to refinished waiting for you. You find him silent, no questions from him. ‘Maybe he wants you to be the one who talk first.’, you think.
“I feel like.. Hmm.. I don’t know.. I found myself angry at first, felt like I wanna force him until he tells the truth to the lecturer. But then I found myself rethink it and I felt nothing. Not really ‘nothing’ but, I felt like usual thus there’s still a bit unusual feelings.”
“Why don’t you just force him? Or let me who’ll force--?”,
“And make everything worse?”, you cut him. “Whether I force him or even punch him or not, Jinki, the lecturer wont make me free from redoing this Gypsum Chapter. You know her, no one could arguing her say.”
“So what about Jonghyun? You’ll forgive him?”
“I’ve already forgave him.”, you give him a convincing smile but there’s still a question mark on his face.
“How could you already forgive him? He just made that mistake!”, incredulity in his voice.
“I just forgive him. I think there’s no need to give him punishment or thing, if he could realize what is his mistake and change, so that’s it. But if he couldn’t, I just will not choose him again as my groupmate for the next group task.”
He keeps silent and keeps staring at you. You feel an awkward feeling of this situation.
“Hei, don’t look at me like that and say something!,”, you turn away. Shy because of his stare.
“You’re wise.”, he says of sudden.
“And you’re weird. How could you say ‘you’re wise’ to your college friend? I think wise is not a common word to say between 19 years student. I feel old.”, you pout.
“That’s a compliment, you know. And I agree to myself, you’re wise, Miss. Wise.”
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You feel relieve as you exit the lecturer’s room. Your hard work along last night gets its paid. Your lecturer approves your chapter and gives you B+ for it.
It’s 8.30 am and your next class is at 10, you cant attend your morning class because of the meeting with lecturer, so you think to go to cafeteria to have a breakfast since you skipped it because you had to rushed to meet your lecturer this morning.
The cafeteria is like usual, kinda empty at this hour since almost all of the students have a morning class. You order your food, cold noodle with chicken and banana milk. You’re like give your body a reward for a hard work its had last night. Forget about diet thingy.
You take an empty table and start your breakfast. Eyes wanders around the cafeteria, search for someone you know. You back to your food when you find no one.
You feel someone stands behind you, but before you can turn around, you find Jinki sits on beside you an he takes your chicken all of sudden.
“Hei, that’s my breakfast!”, you cover your hands on your noodle bowl, protect it from Jinki. He just smiles, continue eating your-used-to-chicken happily.
“Why you’re here? We have a morning class, rite? Didn’t you attend it?”, you ask him right away when you realize it.
“I came late.”, chicken still on his hand.
He came late? It’s not like him. The only time you found he’s late is only in your first day. He has never been came late after that.
“So how’s the Gypsum chapter thingy? Update me!”, he throws the chicken bone to the wastebasket, basketball move.
You turn around just to grab your bag, open it and search for your paper. As you find it, you hand it to him, show the B+ score off.
“Hei, you did great!”, he congratulates you while he claps his hand happily, gives you his bracing smile, three actions in a row.
“And I think you need a present for this.”
“Hmm? Present?”, you ask him, startled,
He searches something in his bag. You find it cute the way he solemnly poke in back and forth, search something, for you.
“Here..”, he hands you a key ring, a tooth key ring. You take it with smile, happy for the coincidence it’s white, your favorite color.
“Identify it!”, he asks you. You run your eyes over it, recall your last test about tooth anatomy.
“It’s third molar, isn’t it? Why do you give me third molar? I like canines’ shape better. ”, you face him.
“Do you know what’s the other name of third molar?”
“Hmm.. Wisdom teeth?”, you realize you answer your own question just when you say it. You smile to yourself as you look at the key ring. Play it on your hand just to kill the awkward moment. You realize there are many situation like this when you with him. It’s not like you complaint it though.
He takes the key ring from you with right hand while his left takes your bag. He puts your bag on his lap and places the key ring on its zipper.
“Here’s your wisdom teeth key ring, Miss wise. Take care of it wisely.”
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