Finally, the college year has started.

After High School, being in college is a new and fresh beginning—or at least that's what Stellinah hopes to be.

Her friends catch up from behind, laughing and teasing one another about random things. She laughs along with them and also joins in on the mockery.

"You run slow as fuck!" Mai exclaims, her laughter echoing through the outside air of campus. Kasumi hits Mai's shoulder as she yells the word "bitch" back to Mai, laughing afterward. They both chase each other with the bag of fresh food in their hand, seeing who makes it to the campus center room first-- a childish race filled with excitement.

"You better not drop our food!" Stellinah yells at Kasumi as she walks alongside Hazel and Anastella. Kasumi is well-known in the group as a clumsy god of destruction.

Anastella chuckles, then shakes her head. 

As the three friends enter the Campus Center room, Kasumi and Mai have already sat down with the food on the table. 

Mai glances over at the glass window and quickly signals for all of them to get inside to eat. Kasumi takes a sip of her pop and Mai suddenly remembers about hers as well, taking her pop out of the plastic bag.

The five best friends settle down to eat their lunch, then maybe afterward, they can attempt some homework before they all separate again to their afternoon classes.

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Her head hangs still, with a bit of swerving to the left, to the right. Her eyes could barely keep up-- they close and they open like a camera lens. She tries her hardest to remain awake as the professor continues to ramble on and on about business this, business that. Well, for one, this is a business class, but she just felt so damn tired.

And eventually, Stellinah gave up. 

Her eyes close shut as she tells herself, "I'll just rest my head for two minutes.". 

She places her head on her arm that rests on the desk, her hand still holding on to her pen, her laptop screen hides her face away from the professor and her mind wandering off to lalaland.

She was lucky her professor was a patient one-- two minutes had passed quite long to now forty-five minutes.

"Please pair up with a classmate to work on this project. I'll be expecting to see everyone's presentations next Thursday." 

People started to stand up from their seats to go and seek a partner, while some sit still and ask each other to work together. While everyone chatters, Stellinah's eyes slowly parts as their volume begin to be louder and louder. She starts to go into panic mode as her heartbeat begins racing and racing, yet her head is still glued to the desk.

'What?' 

'What's everyone doing?'

She thought to herself.

Suddenly, a tap on her shoulder jolts her fully awake. She turns to the right, but sees no one, then she turns to the left, and there stood the guy who sat at the row all the way at the back. She looks at him, confused at what is going on.

Stellinah froze for a second. She could feel her cheeks firing up with flames, it'd be appropriate to call her cheeks a pair of tomatoes by now. She had no idea how to interact with the guy.

"You don't seem to have a partner yet.... do you?"

Stellinah shakes her head in response.

"Great," 

"I'm Kim Taehyung."

Stellinah's heartbeat doesn't seem to go any slower, in fact, it's racing even quicker than before. She introduces herself back to the guy, whose name is Taehyung, and she's still confused on what is going on as she had fallen asleep for the past forty-five minutes. But she couldn't just ask the guy what was happening. She was already so embarrassed.

"So, what's your major?" Taehyung asks, slowly situating himself down on the chair next to the sleepy girl who had just woken up.

"Business Management... what about you?"

"I'm in finances," he answers. "So you like managing?" 

"Um... yeah, something like that." Stellinah answers awkwardly. She still didn't understand what was going on nor why this guy decided to approach her. 

"Great! That means you're gonna do most of the management for this project, right?" he jokes, but Stellinah didn't get it. 

Suddenly, her eyes grew wide.

"We have a project?" she asks, cluelessly.

He stares at her for a moment with a sheepish smile, as if he'd just regretted his decision to pair up with the girl in front of him, but he brushes it off.

"Yes, we do. And I choose you to be my partner. Let's do our best?" he says, kind of in a quiet tone. 

"What's this project about?" 

The embarrassment suddenly leaves her body, curiousity quickly entering through. She's always been the girl who needs to know more about something first before taking action onto something. She begins to ask him questions that she was too scared to ask earlier. It all came naturally, yet she still felt the burning sensation on her cheeks everytime they looked at each other.

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"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Stelinah screams into her hands as everyone reunites in the CC room. All of her friends stare at her in confusion and with shocked faces, not understanding Stellinah's action.

Stellinah explains everything that happened in class. The others' faces light up the more she speaks about the guy, but Stellinah seems unhappy.

"I shouldn't have fallen asleep," she sighs. "I'm so embarrassed." 

Ana shakes her head, "tsk tsk tsk, see? This is what happens when you fall asleep in class."

"I know that! Gosh!" Stellinah groans, throwing her sweater to the couch behind her. She blows her hair that had fallen on her face, feeling the embarrassment crawl back into her bones. She wiggles her body and hides her face with her hands.

Mai laughs while pointing her finger at Stellinah. Hazel teases that the Taehyung guy must like her because he approached her first, while Kasumi mocks Stellinah and makes jokes with Mai.

But while hiding her face in her hands, feeling embarrassed, she could still see the look in his eyes when remembering his face. The look made her heart skip a beat, not understanding why she felt that way, she close her eyes shut. 

Her cheeks fired up again.

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Taehyung attempts to make a phone call as he walks toward his car. He settles his things in the passenger side, then sits down in the driver, starting his car.

The call goes unanswered.

"Huh... not picking up." he whispers as he looks at the caller ID.

He sighs. Since he couldn't reach her for about three times today now, he decided to just voicemail.

"Hey Suzy," he finally spoke, "I'm breaking up with you foreal this time.".

He clicks off the voicemail and begins to drive away. He massages the temple of his forehead with his right hand while driving, feeling a bit off and pissed. 

He's been on and off with his ex-girlfriend Bae Suzy for about four months now, and this week happened to be their "off" week. He has no idea what she's been up to.

He shakes the thought off and continues to drive through the streets and intersection, feeling a sense of peace overcoming his off-putting mood and irritation.

But there was one thing that he couldn't stop thinking about.

. . . . . . 

Stellinah.