Monday (1/1)

Taekwoon was sitting in his desk which was located at the back of the class beside the window. It was a self study period and he was supposed to finish his history assignment but he couldn’t help when his mind wandered to other things while he looked outside from the window.‘If you’re a man then the first thing you noticed about woman would be her face, followed by her legs and last but not least her chest. What else is there to be liked?’ Taekwoon thought to himself.Taekwoon was taken out from his thought when he noticed two girls who were standing bellow the window waving in his direction. Looking around the class he wondered who they were waving at. When he realized they were waving at him, he couldn’t help the blush in his cheeks and waved back shyly at them. He could hear the girls giggled at his reaction and they were whispering to each other, possibly about how cute he was or something along that line. He ignored them and let his mind wandered again.‘Well, I guess it was just human’s nature to judge by appearance. It wasn’t just males who were like that though; even the girls are like that. No one bother about some things that they can see, like the heart. Those girls don’t like me as a ‘person’… they just like my face’ Taekwoon thought sadly. Suddenly, Taekwoon felt sleepy because he was actually not a morning person and before he knew it, he was letting out a big yawn. As soon as that though, the back of his head was being hit hardly.“Ouch,” Taekwoon let out a yelp and touched the back of his head to soothe the pain while looking behind him at the culprit.“That hurt! Why did you do it, Jiyoon?”  Jiyoon was standing behind him with her arms folded and she was glaring at Taekwoon.“You didn’t hit me with your fist, right?” Taekwoon asked in disbelief at Jiyoon.“Taekwoon-ah,” Jiyoon said and she was advancing on Taekwoon with a pen in her hand.“It’s because you’re doing something like yawning out loud like that, you got dumped by your girlfriend in a flash. Do you know that?” Jiyoon said in a matter of fact tone and she poked Taekwoon in the face with her pen a few times.“It’s about time you got conscious of this and do something about this.”“Yeah, I know,” Taekwoon answered, bored of this lecture as Jiyoon always told him the same thing.“You never listen to my advice. If you keep on like that, you’re girlfriend will break up with you soon, maybe even today.”Taekwoon rested his head on the desk and mumbled gloomily, “Thanks for your concern but I’ve already got dumped by her.”“Eh!! When?” Jiyoon asked in shocked.“Yesterday,” Taekwoon answered back and lifted his head. It was silence for a while and he could feel Jiyoon’s pity gaze on him.“She told me that I wasn’t the person she thought me to be,” Taekwoon said when he can’t bear with the silence any longer and twirled his own pen out of nervousness.“Told you so, right?”Taekwoon heaved out a sigh and continued, “It’s their own fault though. They’re the one that confessed to me first but then dumped me because I’m not like what they expected.”“Well, you can’t blame them though. It’s just whenever you’re in the soccer field, you gave off this feeling this handsome and cool feelings. Even though I’ve known how you were, I’m sometime still fooled by your performance. How should I say this? Yu gave off a feel like you’re very confident on stage, while we know how you’re in real life.”“And then there’s that face of yours that seems just like prince. That’s why those naïve girls believed you’re like a prince that came out from comic books, and to add that you even had an angelic voice to match that face.”“Well, I guess this image is going to follow me until I graduate then,” Taekwoon said with a frown and rested his head on his hand.“Huft,” Taekwoon let out another sigh, “They should’ve have realized that there’s no guys like prince in real life.”“It would be good if I could meet a girl as realistic as you, Jiyoon-ah,” Taekwoon smiled slightly as he said that.“Then should we go out together then?” Jiyoon said enthusiastically.“Sure, why not?” Taekwoon answered immediately. Jiyoon looked taken aback at how fast Taekwoon responded to her statement.“No way. You agreed to it so lightly,” Jiyoon said with disappointment.“So you were kidding.”“Of course!” Jiyoon shouted back at him.“Okay.”“I knew you didn’t mean it from the start.”“Stuff like falling in love, you never knew when it will happen…” Taekwoon whispered softly and rested his head on his hand, looking outside again.“Yah, do you guys want to order pizza?” Hakyeon asked aloud as he walked toward Taekwoon and Jiyoon’s place, handling them the pizza menu leaflet.Taekwoon nodded his head enthusiastically while Jiyoon only shrugged her shoulder. Hakyeon took a seat in front of him and they started discussing what kind of pizza they wanted.“Hey, Wonshik haven’t come today yet right?” One of their classmates said to her friend not far from their desk.“Yeah, I wonder if he’s alright. I don’t think he will come today though, he got flu last week.”“I’m worried too…”“It seems like the famous Kim Wonshik didn’t come to school today,” Hakyeon said with a little sarcasm.“Kim Wonshik? You mean the first year Kim Wonshik?” Taekwoon asked confusedly.“Yeah. He’s in the soccer club too, right Taekwoonie? Are you too close with each other?” Hakyeon looked curious.“No, he barely came to practice,” Taekwoon answered, trying hard to think the last time he had seen Wonshik.“It’s Monday today, isn’t it? The day he’ll definitely say ‘yes’. And at the end of the week he’ll say…”“I couldn’t fall in love with you. Let’s break up,” Jiyoon finished Hakyeon’s sentence. Taekwoon and Hakyeon looked in her direction with surprised. Then Hakyeon hit his hand with his palm in realization.“Ah, you went out with him too right, Jiyoon-ah?”“Yep, I went out with him for one week in May,” Jiyoon said proudly and made a ‘peace’ sign with her hands.“Why do you look so proud with that?” Taekwoon asked curiously.“Because it’s Wonshik. I feel like I’ve won the lottery.”“Anyway, I’ll never understand what those popular guys are thinking,” Hakyeon said.“I wonder what kind of person this Kim Wonshik was.”“Well,” Taekwoon said while standing from his chair, “A handsome guy.”“Yah, even that much I knew,” Hakyeon said, feeling annoyed at Taekwoon’s simple answer.“Where are you going?” Hakyeon asked when he saw Taekwoon walked away from his chair toward the door.“I told the delivery man that I’ll be waiting in front of the school gate. Please help me with my history assignment, okay?” Taekwoon said as he walked further away. He could hear Hakyeon yelling at him but he ignored the other.Taekwoon was sitting in front on the school gate while waited for the delivery man. He couldn’t help but thought back to their conversation just now about Wonshik.