Years after a life-changing farewell, fate offers an unexpected opportunity for two longtime friends to meet again. As they reconnect, they reflect on how much they've grown, the dreams they've pursued, and the bond that has quietly endured despite time and distance.
On a lovely sunny morning, an exceptional student walks down the hall.
Everyone's eyes are on her, yet there are no signals of anger or disgust in their eyes whenever they get a glimpse of her near them.
It's just another usual scenario everyday in the life for her, she thought. She was already used to it, so she neglected them and concentrated instead on going to her locker.
But it doesn't mean it doesn't effect her either. She just can't share or convey it to anybody who has been staring at her with utter fascination and amazement when she isn't very good at talking or engaging with those with whom she isn't even close with.
Who exactly is this girl anyway?
She is Myoui Mina: a nerdy, introverted, soft and pure college girl who epitomizes beauty and intelligence.
She is constantly chosen by her instructors and classmates to represent their area in school pageants and academic competitions, which she has won the majority of.
Being humble, Mina believes that there are other prettier classmates of hers who deserve to be placed in positions to participate in such pageants, but she is aware that they are no match for her when it comes to the Q&A segment, which is a very significant requirement for the event to be won, so she has no option but to accept.
Although she knows deep inside that some of them are already building up jealousy over her and that worries her. She never meant to develop a rival or enemies in the school. She just want peace and a normal day for her and others to study well.
Through those, it garnered her popularity around the school with the fact of how she possesses a gift of being smart and being beautiful at the same time.
She was happy that atleast she ain't get ignored by many because of only being nerd but sometimes she just can't help but to feel like as if it's getting way too much attraction now.
Like I said, she's an introvert. She only has a very limited time interacting and getting closer together with somebody.
And what irritates her a bit is the number of male fans trying to win her over through their different ways of presenting their charm, doing pick up moves and even directly asking her to go out.
But ofcourse, she is also a straightforward woman as a match to some admirers of hers in the campus, particularly men; through rejecting their date offers or confessions politely.
She observes and analyze how those men take action only for her and she's quite confident that most of them are just focusing into her beauty more on her the outside than to explore how great her personality and kind-hearted on the inside too.
So, secretly she may be looked like as if she's feeling bad for rejecting those fans, but in all honesty she's just huffing an air and an immediate disappointment she felt for them. No signs of mercy either, they deserve it he believes.
That's not only the straight one within her that we could describe on her too. Well let's mention about some of her looks. It includes also her hair which she never color or even change its style.
Perfectly shoulder-length black straight hair match with her innocent gorgeous face is enough for her and it wasn't hrr intention if the students that would be seeing her would began admiring her with these.
Aside from those, her grades in every subjects and her goals through her studies is what made her overall to be proclaimed as the 'Little Miss Perfect' of the campus.
A character whose role is to only focus forward on her studies without allowing any distractions (that being, relationships) to be simply great and excel in subjects and only display how it contributes to her well-being as a student.
She also is right on time on every schedule since she is the appointed head of the student council in their campus. It was a sureball win to her because the members voted for her basically due to her popularity and her ability to critically think for how can they bring development to the campus.
Outside her school image, she was always being invited by her circle of friends to join on parties. Not to drink though, she is allergic to alcohol; but to just chill and have fun until there's the signal for her to assist her drunk friends as the only one who doesn't completely black out at all.
About her favorites, well she likes music and can sing too. Mostly she jams to the songs of her favorite artists like Paul McCartney, Queen, Taylor Swift and many more.
She can dance ballet too, that's also one of the things everybody in the campus knows about her that she is a ballerina too.
Lastly, to make it short; she loves video games. Her all-time picks would be games such as Minecraft, League Of Legends and Apex Legends which she spend her entire free day grinding onto these.
Yup, she is definitely perfect as what everyone describes about her; although what they know is only not that more than meets the eyes yet.
She has everything, and many would think that she's doing very fine everyday since problems won't even last on her due to her many hobbies she can do to entertain herself and the fact also that she's literally living in such a rich background where anything she wants, she gets.
But that's the part where they are clearly mistaken.
If she will be asked how she doing everyday, she's confident to confusingly admit; she's unsure of what she would reply... because that's exactly what she's feeling within these several thoughts popping inside her head.
There was a time where she's in the middle of her deep guessing as she's asking herself what did she do to deserve all of her blessings into her life to be spoiled by her stepparents who adopted and raised her since she was little.
It still feels surreal for her to reach where she is at right now. Studying in one of the most prestigeous schools in Korea, a car, a mansion they live in, expensive clothes, huge allowance and many more. She knows these won't be nothing for her to experience if it wasn't for them.
It makes her wonder why it makes her feel special when she wasn't even their biological child unlike her older brother and she knows she made some mistakes that they might despise and put her in a consequence rather.
However, on the good side; she is very thankful and lucky to meet such an amazing people like them that she can proudly call the only family she has in her life.
In the middle of her messy thoughts, she got unexpectedly received an accidental bump on her shoulder from someone who is passing through the hallway.
It snapped her out from being separated from the reality and rotated her head quickly to look at who did it.
The other one did the same and they both locked eyes, which Mina became astounded at how breathtaking this girl really look.
"I-I'm sorry! I didn't mean to bump you, I am just late in the class right now!", the girl stutteredly apologized at her.
"Y-you can go now, don't worry about i-it.", Mina calms down the nervous girl as she disregards what happened.
"Thank you for your understanding!!!", the girl gratefully shouted at her before vanishing in her eyes, sprinting back at her feet to rush onwards her class.
Now Mina was left alone again in this silent hallway, processing her curiosity on who that girl is and why does it feel like she saw her before.
Not to mention, her heart was increasing its beats as she began replaying her first conversation with that girl she met earlier.
4 DAYS LATER
Days have passed, and thanks to the help of her circle of friends; she learned that the girl she bumped into at the hallway days ago is named Minatozaki Sana.
Sana is student in the same grade from the other section just beside Mina's classroom, no wonder why Mina speculated that she felt like she had saw her around previously.
She is also Japanese and recently she was added as the newest member of the Badminton team of the campus after she passed the training. She already gathered a lot of attention from others who watched the tryouts where she showcased her great playing skills at the said sport.
Mina didn't know that Sana is a close friend of her own friends particularly Momo, another Japanese friend and fellow seatmate of hers, which explains how she got to know Sana even better.
She was eating in the cafeteria with her 7 other girl buddies at the same table when the oldest of them all named Nayeon commanded someone with a shout to come closer at them.
All of the eyes went to the direction where Nayeon is looking and calling at, and there Mina and Sana's eyes met at one another once again for the second time, with full familiarity.
"Finally, it's been a long time since you got to eat with us in recess Sana.", the one who has the most mother-like personality of them named Jihyo said.
Momo hummed as she watches Sana come closer on their spot. "Mmm!!! Suhnuh yurr furna-"
Her words got interrupted when she felt a stinging pain on her shoulder caused by the impact of a light slap made by Jeongyeon, the one with the bobbed cut hairstyle sitting beside her.
"Pabo, swallow the food you're chewing first.", Jeongyeon aka the second mom of the group scolded the eating mochine who elicited a poor whimper in response.
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