Stand By Me [Chapter II]
Chapter II
'So this is my new school,' Yoona thought to herself when she's entering Kyunghwan highschool.
It was the most prestigious highschool in South Korea. People who graduated from here will usually continue their study at the greatest universities. Kyunghwan highschool had the most difficult and complicated test of the whole country before finally you could legally being a student of this school. Their students were practically the best among all the students in the country. But there would always be some other ways to get into this school if you have money. In short, you could say this school only has two kind of students, the students who have the greatest brain and they who have the most money.
'And I possibly classified into the second class, those money students. I have never took the exam test and now I am just legally a student here with no efforts,' Yoona thought to herself again.
“Or maybe no. Since I studied in one of the greatest school in Japan before, maybe they took a look from my history! Hahahahahaha...” unconsciously Yoona mumbled and laughing out loud.
She was walking from the gate acrossing the field. Some people looked at her with strange look when she laughed.
“What? You never see someone's laughing?!” Yoona shouted at them. Some of them walk faster after threw a disgusting look.
“Aish, these people. Really. How could you say this is the best school out there?” again, Yoona mumbled alone.
Yoona kept walking until she realized she has no idea where the headmaster office is. She has to go there before the bell ring and the school started. She flashed her eyes around to find someone to ask and she spotted a tall guy who's leaning on the wall and reading a book nearest to her. She walked towards him.
“Excuse me, can you show me where the headmaster office is?” Yoona asked with a smile.
No answer.
“Excuse me,” Yoona talked louder, but she keeps smiling. “Can you show me where...”
The guy glared at her and she quickly stopped. This guy was indeed good looking-well, except for the glare of disgusting look he just threw to Yoona.
“Why are you glaring at me?” Yoona lost her smile.
He looked back to his book. Still don't say anything.
Yoona snorted madly and she put her hands on her waist, “Look, I was just asking about headmaster office and you glared at me. What kind of students are you? Did you never be teached about respecting others?”
That tall guy stand still there, reading his book like nothing's happen.
“Cih,” Yoona snorted. “Bookworm. Geek.”
“At least I can read, cause I guess you can't read?” that guy finally spoke after Yoona turned around to leave him.
Yoona turned back again just to find that annoying face of that should-be-good-looking guy in front of her, still glaring at her, “And what was that suppose to mean?”
The guys pointed to something near them with his head. Yoona turned her head to looked at it.
“If you don't know what it is, I'll tell you, it called map and it will show you where the headmaster office is. I'm sure you've passed it before you came to me and disturb me with your disturbing face,” the guy said coldly-and somewhat annoyingly to her ears.
Yoona's face get redden. She's never been treated like this ever since she was born. She's a nice girl-everybody says it-she acts nicely to people and people usually would be nice if she's nice. This guy is the first guy who acts cold to her. This guy was the most annoying she has ever meet.
“Now if you let me, I am going to continue my reading,” the taller person turned his head back down to his book, ignoring Yoona who's now glaring madly at this man.
“Yah!” Yoona shouted. “Can't you speak nicely to everyone?”
His eyes back to Yoona, “And you're thinking you nice? Calling everyone with 'yah!'?”
“I was only asking a place! I was being nice! You were the one who start this, you were the one who made me not nice!”
He didn't answer. Yoona kept glaring at him and he bravely looked back with his cold sharp dark eyes. After a minute of silent, he coldly asked, “Have you finish?”
Yoona fell speechless on her spot. Too mad to speaks.
“Changmin, there you are!” suddenly a high pitch voice appeared from nowhere.
He turned away from Yoona to see a light brown hair girl was walking to him. He smiled-Yoona was a bit surprised of how his smile looked so warm, really different from his cold glare. But then she remembered that she's still on a fight with him. “Sica,” he said back.
The girl he called Sica was shorter than Yoona. She smiled-more like grinning-happily while walking to him-whom she called Changmin.
“The headmaster is looking for you,” Sica said after she stood beside Changmin.
Changmin glance sharply at Yoona without saying anything. Sica followed his sight and did an eyes contact with Yoona. She smiled to her, which make her forgetting the fact that there was still an annoying guy standing between them.
“And she is...?” Sica asked Changmin.
“Another brainless girl who got into this school only with her money,” Changmin mumbled clearly.
“Hey, I hear that,” Yoona shot coldly.
Sica smiled to her with an apologize look. She's offering her hand, “I'm Jessica, Jung Jessica but you can call me Sica.”
“Im Yoona,” Yoona took her hand with smile. Compared to how Changmin treated her, Sica is 100000000000x better.
“You said headmaster is looking for me?” Changmin asked Sica.
Sica turned to look at him and she nodded, “He has something to tell you about new student or something like that.”
Again, Changmin glance coldly at Yoona before he started to walk from his spot, “I have a bad feeling,” he mumbled.
Yoona cursed silently at the way he stare. Sica still standing there blankly looking at the two.
“Brainless, aren't you following me?” Changmin looked back after he took five step away.
“You're talking to me?” Yoona asked back.
“I'm not sure. What I'm sure is Sica has brain,”
“Why I should follow you?”
“Because I am going to headmaster office and you were going there also, weren't you?”
Yoona realized her lost. She bit her lower lip and slowly walk after Changmin. Sica still looking at them doing nothing.
“Forever brainless,” Changmin mumbled.
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“Perfect,” Yoona said sarcastically to herself. “I was hoping I will not meet him anymore and now I find out he's the chairman of my class.”
She walked lazily behind the previous tall guy that later she known named as Shim Changmin.
“You know what, brainless? Sputtering behind me will not solve anything. You're just wasting your energy,” Changmin said without looking back.
“Then you don't have to hear that, skinny leg,”
Changmin stopped and turned around at his spot really quick, making Yoona bump into his chest.
“Yah!” Yoona shouted, feel annoyed.
“You're calling me skinny leg?”
“I'm glad you have good ears,” Yoona said back as she took one step to the right and walked away.
“I should give you a mirror. You're so skinny even winds can blow you away,” Changmin muttered as he turned around again to walked after her.
They walk together through corridors. Although Yoona wasn't really sure where their class is, she stay to walk in front of him cause at least she have a better view than looking at that tall disgusting guy. Changmin walked behind her with his cold expression, hands in his pockets. The girl in front of him didn't realize that they has already arrived in front of their class. He smirked as he turned into the classroom. That was the moment when Yoona realized Changmin has got into a classroom and she followed him, still cursing him.
“Guys,” Changmin said to the class. The class were so noisy before he came in but they immediately listened to him when he stand in front of the class. Yoona walked closer to him, a bit feel uneasy knowing how much he affected his classroom.
“We have a new friend here,” he touched Yoona's shoulder asking her to take a step forward. She feel some strange shivers when he touched her shoulder but she ignored it. However, she moved forward as he asked.
“She transferred from Japan and now she's continuing to study here. I guess you guys can take care of her,” Changmin said again. The whole class put their attention to their chairman. Changmin turned at Yoona and said calmly, “Introduce yourself.”
Yoona nodded, “Hello. My name is Im Yoona, you can call me Yoona. Please take care of me.”
Yoona recognized some guys' stare were fixed at her while some others gasped and whispered some words like 'pretty' or 'beautiful'. Yoona was used to this, but still it feels awkward for her. Some girls looking at her with curiousity or some unsecure looks. She smiled awkwardly to the class.
“Changmin, let her sit beside me!” a guy said immediately at the moment Changmin gestured himself to tell Yoona where to sit. Yoona realized he could be said as the most handsome boy after Changmin in this class.
'Wait, did I thought Changmin is handsome?' Yoona cursed herself.
Changmin smirked, “No, Kyuhyun. I know you're just dating Kwon Yuri by yesterday. Im Yoona-ssi, you sit beside Sica.”
Yoona glanced at him disgustingly. This was the first time he called her name instead of 'brainless'. She then looked around and found the previous light-brown hair girl waving at her. She smiled and walked towards her.
“So you are that new student!” Sica greeted Yoona. The new student smiled and sat beside her.
“Please take care of me,” Yoona said with her polite and sweet smile.
“I hope we're going to be a good friend,”
Yoona nodded, “I guess I can make a good friend with anyone but him.” She looked at Changmin who's now saying to the class about waiting for the teacher to come.
Sica laughed, “He's just not really easy to be close to someone. But once you know him, he's not that bad.”
“I wonder is there anyone who’s close to him?” Yoona said sharply. She fixed her sight to the guy who's walking to his seat in front of Yoona.
“It's rare, I'm quite sure,” Jessica said-Yoona laughed full of satisfy-”But I am one of those rare one,” Sica said as she continue to laugh.
“It must be hard for you,” Yoona said with such a sad expression. Changmin has sat in front of her after they changed glare.
“You better don't be close with her Sica. I'm afraid you will lose your brain like what happen to her,” Changmin said bluntly but didn't turning back.
Yoona kicked his chair and he finally turned around, “Yah!”
“Stop calling me brainless, skinny,” Yoona hissed.
“You don't have to be so offended if you're thinking you're not,” Changmin shot back. Then he turned back again to face the whiteboard.
Yoona puffed her cheeks with a pissed face. Sica looked at them with confusing look. Luckily the teacher came so the two cannot continue their fight.
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“How was it in Japan? Tell me! I've never been to Japan and I really want to!” a girl with deep black hair asked Yoona while they had their lunch at canteen. She's Yuri, Kwon Yuri. Sica introduced her to Yoona before they were going to the canteen. Yuri was a student from the next class of Yoona and Sica's. She's one of the most wanted girls in school. She's unbelieveably hot, nobody can resist her sexiness. She could be looked so sexy eventhough she's just wearing simple school uniform.
“It's cool,” Yoona answered while she keeps eating her full plate of lunch. Sica and Yuri were surprised to see her portion of meal moreover to the fact that Yoona was the skinniest among them. “The weather is nicer than here. You know when it's spring, the flowers are everywhere and it's really beautiful.”
“Were there many hot guys?”
“Yuri, you always thinking about guys,” Sica sighed.
Yoona laughed, “Yes! There so much hot guys there! But I don't know, Korean guys are more fit my type,”
“Anyway, Yoona,” Sica tried to turned the topic. “You said you studied there for 8 years and now suddenly your parents ask you to come back? What happen?”
Yoona shrugged, “I'm not sure. I haven't got the clear point yet.”
“Japan is a good country to study and next year is your college year. It would be awesome if you continue to study there. There must be a really important situation if your parents suddenly take you back,”
Yoona shook her shoulders. Sica was right, but she really don't know what's the reason of her parents.
“Talking bout college year,” Yuri said as she sipped her orange juice. “Have you got your tutor, Yoona?”
“Tutor?”
“There's a tradition here where all the last year students like us would have a special tutor to guide us to the college year. The tutor is a graduated student of this school. And you know what Sica,”-Yuri turned to Sica-”My tutor is Jung Yunho!”
Sica gasped, “No way.”
“Yes!” Yuri shrieked. “I really can't wait for my tutorial. I mean, he was the hottest man ever in this school and he's the ideal man of every girl.”
“And he has a brain cause he's got into Seoul University,” Sica added. “My tutor is Park Sandara, anyway.”
“Oh! Last year graduated student that got a scholarship to Sorbonne University next year?”
Sica nodded excitedly.
Yoona looked continously from Yuri to Sica, not knowing anything. She ate her last spoon of lunch.
“Since you're new here, I guess you would know your tutor in couple days,” Yuri said, smiling to Yoona.
Yoona just smiled back, really have no idea with this whole tutor thing.
*****
Hyorin looked at her daughter satisfyingly. Yoona was wearing a simple white elegant dress and put some pastel make up on her face. Her daughter is really pretty and never fails to amaze all the people around her with her pretiness.
“Umma, you really don't want to tell me where are we going tonight?” Yoona asked for the thousand times. They were on a car that heading to somewhere that Yoona has no idea where is it. Her dad departed already with the other car.
“I have said, it's kind of dinner with your father's relative,” Hyorin answered with a simple smile.
“Appa never asked me to go with him to his colleague's dinner. It's a special dinner right? But what for?”
Hyorin just smiled.
“Is appa getting promoted?” Yoona asked a nonsense question. Her father was the owner of Im Coorporation, he has the highest position. Where should he be promoted?
Hyorin laughed, “You'll see later, baby. It's not only about your father's relative. He's one of your father's old friend. And it's about you and your future.”
Yoona frowned. She opened her mouth to ask for more but her mother stopped her with her warm smile. Yoona decided to kept her thoughts and questions herself.
25 minutes later Yoona and her mom arrived at a hotel. Some black suit guys opened the door for them and lead them to a high class restaurant of the hotel. Yoona tried to look inside the restaurant but what she got was nothing. The restaurant seems so empty and quiet.
“Why so empty, umma?” Yoona asked.
“You know your father likes everything to be private. Especially this kind of occasion,”
“What occasion? Umma, stop teasing me and just tell me already. What’s happening here?”
For the nth time, Hyorin just threw a smile for her daughter.
“Shim family and Mr. Im has been waiting you,” a waitress greeted politely as Yoona and her mother get into the restaurant. Then she leads their way to a long table in the corner of the room. It make sense how Yoona can’t see what’s happening inside from outside the restaurant earlier. It’s really cornered.
‘Wait, did she said Shim family? Why does it sound so familiar?’ Yoona thought.
“Ah, here’s the princess coming,” a familiar voice of her father greeted her when she reached the table.
Yoona smiled to all the people at the table. There were 3 persons there waiting at the table. Her father, Im Yonghwan, who’s sitting at the corner, a man around the same age with her father sit across him, then beside him sat a woman which must be his wife and a young man which must be their son who had his head down looked not so interest into anything. Hyorin took a sit beside Im Yongsan and Yoona took a sit beside her mother, across the young man.
“Ah, she’s really growing up,” the old man-who should be her father’s colleague-smiling at her. “The last time I saw you, you’re still a baby carried by your mother, so did Changmin.”
Yoona lost her smile after she heard that name, “Ch-changmin?” She looked at the young man across her. She knows that dark brown hair. But… There are so much man named Changmin in this world, right? RIGHT?
She’s in the middle of her panic state when slowly the young man lifted his chin up and she clearly saw who he was. The same person she met at school today, the same person that pissed her off today, the same person who is the chairman of her class. That Shim Changmin.
It’s not only her who surprised. Changmin also can’t hide his surprised face. He looked at Yoona with a terrible expression just what Yoona threw to him.
“I guess you have met at school today?” Changmin’s father asked them, he grinned happily. “Yonghwan-ssi and I manage to make you both to stay in one class.”
None of Changmin or Yoona answered. They’re still completely shocked.
“Looking at their shock expression, they must be knew each other. Minnie, are you surprised to see your classmate here?” Changmin’s mother caressed her son’s shoulder while giving a warm smile. Changmin was still staring at Yoona’s doe eyes.
“You see, you’re both actually had known each other since you were born. But times flew so fast and we didn’t have a chance to gather around like this before,” Changmin’s father said again.
“But finally we’re here. Ah, it’s really like a family gathering,” Yoona’s father added.
“Soon we will be a real family,” Changmin’s mother said. Yoona’s mother laughed as the woman across her laughed.
Yoona looked away from Changmin to see their parents. What is this all about? ‘Soon we will be a real family’’?
“Abeonim, are you saying she is my…” Changmin slowly said, but he cut his words.
Yoona looked terrified, ‘What he's asking? I am his what? Am I the only one who not knowing anything???’ she thought.
“Yes, Changmin,” Changmin’s father smiled to him. “Say hello to your future wife.”
The whole world of Yoona turned upside down. Her jaw dropped. She can’t think anything. If Changmin said she’s brainless at the school earlier, now she knows the actual meaning of brainless.
For God sake…. FUTURE WIFE???
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