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Hyejoo had finally arrived at her school at the early 7AM in the morning, she was still half-asleep since she slept at 5 in the morning. Not that she was playing games or spent time on her phone— she clearly cant sleep. She had taken a nap at 2pm till 6pm and she had her full energy during midnight.
She rubs her eyes and went to the entrance, greeting Ms Park as always with the “good morning” and thanked her for the hand sanitizer. Hyejoo went up to her class, her black ties bouncing around when she steps over steps, holding the fence as she almost fell due to her clumsiness, “Fuck.”
She opens her mask for her to breathe- she remembers when she was 14, she almost got choked with short of breathe as she went upstairs with a mask on, she swears she saw a light flash during the mess. Shes very much learned her lesson now.
As she finally reached up to to her classroom floor, she heads to her class.
Step over the room, her classmates greets her with a smile and wave, she greets them back with the same response.
She drops her bag to the floor as she reached her table, immediately sitting down and resting her arms with her head laying on it.
“Aish aish you always be sleepy. Cant you spend time with us?” Her bestfriend, Yeojin shakes her hair as she sits down infront of her. She hums, a sign of her not wanting to talk anyone right now.
Yeojin sighs, she stood up and continues to talk with other friends.
Its not like she doesnt want to talk to her friends, shes just having a feeling when you want to be alone. Hyejoo sighs, rubs her eyes when she looks around her,
She sees Yerim, getting excited and cheering over something Yeojin just told her, while Jinsol is talking about something to Jungeun and Sooyoung, probably about gundams— Haseul and Jiwoo is chatting, Vivi is just doing her homework, Ryujin is showing something through her phone to Yuna, Hyunjin and Heejin.
Hyejoo groans, she doesnt want to think about her right now.
She backs herself a bit, she ties her hair into a low ponytail and sets herself earlier position. Now shes feeling more comfortable, she closes her eyes and took a short nap.
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She wakes up with a feeling of soft hand massaging her head and playing with her hair, she calms down. “Keep that up Yeojin..” She mumbles so low that almost comes with a whisper.
Someone chuckles at the respond of that, and that chuckle seems too familiar for her to forget. This is probably a dream anyway— She thinks.
The person stopped massaging her head and took a sit infront of her. She groans, “Ugh why did you stopped that—“ she lifts her head up and stopped talking.
The person is infront of her was— her. Her with that dumb smile, her little teeth poking out and the way her eyes is squinting, now with more mature features showing,. “Hey,”
She was too shocked to see her right now. She never expect her to come to her class and just massaging her head while shes sleeping and then suddenly, shes infront of her?
woah. this might be the best dream she ever had.
She tilts her head and frowned and sighed, “if only this wasnt a dream..” she went back to her early position again.
“Silly. Its not a dream.”
Okay now woah, who told her that a person in your dream can say that, is this a lucid dream? maybe?
“what the fuck…”
She rubs her temples and swiped her messy bangs up now into a middle part, The person reached to her head and fixed it back to front bangs. “You look better with that.”
Now what the actual fuck, she’s actually not dreaming? shes her? the person shes fallen in love for 7 years with is here? the person thats in different school is here? how did-
“Im sorry bro, she seems slow to function…” Yeojin pats the persons back and sigh. How silly was her bestfriend was so so so slow that she had to embarrass herself infront of a person she would never do such a thing.
Nonono she cant think clearly right now. She havent met her since she was 12. Now she was 17, who have changed clearly with a better person,smarter from placing 20 in class to top 3 in her class— whos now taller, voice more deep and not high, now eyes more fierce, jawline is more defined and more more other mature features.
She looks at her—she may have moved on(maybe not) but just seeing her again made her feel so so so different. She stares at her, with hopeful eyes,
“Hey, Chaewon.”
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It turns out Chaewon was moving back here because of her father’s new job. She only told Yeojin, and surprises everyone else. Everyone welcomed her with open hands, Hyunjin hugged her about 10 minutes saying ‘I miss you i love you’. Yeojin tells her about what has been happening during when she was gone, including all of her friends embarrassing stories, everyone was so happy that she was here, back to them again.
But Hyejoo, she feels a bit awkward, she hasnt seen her for a long time and also didnt message her much, she blames school for making her busy much that her and Chaewon hasnt talk all day like they usually do.
But its nice. Its nice to see everyone is here again together laughing. She smiles at the views until she caught Chaewons eyes, she grins at her.
Chaewon said something to Jinsol and nodded, she approaches Hyejoo. Hyejoo maybe expect for her to say ‘Hi’ or anything else, but what’s unexpected was a hug. A hug from Chaewon. After all these years-
Oh.
That little promise they made when they were 12.
She remembered.
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“ Hyejoo-ah! I know today is my last day being here, so lets spend alone together as for the rest of the day!” Chaewon exclaimed and holds her hand with excitement, today was the last day that Chaewon will stay here, when Hyejoo first heard the news, she broke down and cried and kept saying ‘please stay i dont know what i will do without you,” ‘stay please.’ ‘I dont want you to go.’. Now if you say Hyejoo was overreacting like Chaewon was dying, dont say that.
Hyejoo was scared. She was scared that she will be lonely for the rest of the day, she was scared that no one would help her with homeworks anymore, she was scared that no one would listen to her rants anymore, she was scared that she will never receive a text anymore, she was scared that she would forgot how Chaewon would look like, she was scared that she would forgot how Chaewon would sound like again.
She knows that she has other friends to talk with and others— but its not her. Its not Chaewon.
Hyejoo knows she can just facetime her or call her, but its just— it doesnt feel the same. It doesnt feel the same how Chaewon was sitting beside her holding her hand and plays with it. It was just, it felt empty. She was not used to it clearly.
“Okay. Lets spend the rest of the day together, but we will have one promise.” Hyejoo smiles at Chaewon,
“Okay! What promise?”
“Promise that, if we met again after years, i want you to hug me. And please, please..dont forget this promise.” Hyejoo holds up her hands and points her pinky out,
Chaewon looks up to Hyejoo, she sees tears forming on her eyes. She brings her hand up to wipe it, “I wont.” She smiles.
She brings her pinky to lock with Hyejoo’s.
Hyejoo thinks she loves this moment with Chaewon the most.
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“Ive missed you so much.” Chaewon leaned forward and snuggles more into Hyejoo’s hoodie. Chaewon missed her so so much. Everyday she would think of Hyejoo, ‘is she doing okay?’ ‘Is she eating well?’. Chaewon asks Yeojin to know how was Hyejoo doing instead of Hyejoo, herself. She was scared that Hyejoo doesn’t remember her anymore. But part of her knows that Hyejoo will never forget her.
They are both idiots arent they?
Chaewon sighs of the smell, shes missed this smell. Hyejoo put her arms around her and leaned down,
“Ive missed you too.”