The morning school bell hasn't even rang and my whole class is already in ruckus.

It was because the first subject is Literature, and the teacher happens to be our homeroom, Mrs. Nam. Although there was never any direct nor written statement, everybody knows that she gives 'surprise' quizzes every single Monday for extra points in our test scores. Her quizzes are actually well-known for being very hard, even nearly impossible. But us being desperate senior year students, it was an opportunity we can't afford to let slip from our hands.

Some were quietly reviewing the materials that she had taught us last week, some were memorizing aloud, discussing things they forgot, and some were even making tiny cheat sheets.

Sitting behind me was Lee Insoo, who looked like he's having a horrible cold. He was holding his texbook up straight, trying to memorize. But it kept falling because he kept dozing off, probably because of the meds he took.

I too, was trying to memorize some things.

CLACK!

I couldn't stand hearing the sound of the book's back hitting the table multiple times. I was holding a piece of paper, which was a summary I made last night containing of all the things that Mrs. Nam has taught, but kept looking backwards towards Insoo.

Should I give him this?

I unknowingly started tapping my feet out of nervousness. I wasn't confident yet that I would succeed on the quiz since I still have some things I kept forgetting, but seeing Insoo like that, my heart just can not take it.
I let out a long sigh before finally turning my body towards him.

I hope I'm not going to regret this.

"Yah Lee Insoo, wake up," I tugged his sleeve.

He looked startled and shook his head a few times, trying to wake up, before looking at me with his still droopy eyes.

"Yeah?"

I placed my "sacred" summary paper on his table, "Use my notes instead, it's easier to read. And I've marked the things that are probably gonna appear in the quiz pink."

"Huh?" he blinked his eyes a few times before finally getting what I mean and accepting the paper, "T-thank you Seolji-ya."

I nodded then slowly turned back to my desk.

Now let's just hope I survive.

I tried calming myself down and thinking positive, but my heart is beating like crazy I feel like dying.

Calm down, calm down, it's just a quiz.

I tried looking around to find calm people to put as role models and actually calm myself down. But to my dismay, those who are calm during times like this are always the same people. There are, to be more precise, two types of calm people during these kinds of situations.

Type one: people who are calm because they have wholly given up on school.

Those people are Kwon Hyunbin, who is leisurely flipping a trendy magazine and trying to get inspiration from famous models as he is to be one, and Jang Moonbok, who is mouthing some incredibly fast words without sound, probably preparing himself for some rap audition.

Type two: people who do not need more study to ace the test.

The perfect example for this category is Kim Jonghyun, class president and student body vice president, indulged in a book about succeeding scholarship interviews. He was always the type to study every single day at home so that he'll be prepared for everything and face it without problems. Not to mention that he was already born a bright student.

I'm destroyed...

I messed my own hair with both hands before abruptly laying my forehead on the table.

BAM!

Ouch.

I was rubbing my forehead when the school's bell finally rang and Mrs. Nam entered the class.

"Stand up. Say your greetings," Jonghyun commanded the class.

Everyone placed their books away in horror and half-heartedly stood up before greeting, "Good morning teacher."

"Good morning class! Did you all spend your weekend well?"

"Yeeees," everyone answered weakly, their attention on not forgetting what they've learned.

"Great, I have a surprise for you today!" Mrs. Nam said, being overly cheerful.

"Yeah right, a quiz," I heard Kim Seulgi mumble from Insoo's left.

"Today we have a transfer student!" Mrs. Nam said to everyone's surprise.

I looked towards Seulgi, whose eyes shot open and jaw dropped.

"So there's no quiz today?" said Hyunbin, who was also surprised and actually came to care.

I gulped seeing the table on my left, which happens to be the only empty seat remaining in this classroom.

Seolma...

"LOL I was just kidding, we're having a surprise quiz today," Mrs. Nam grinned, taking out the quiz papers she had prepared.

"I give you two minutes to prepare your stuff."

The whole class groaned and tidied their table, taking out their stationaries and such.

Oh, I almost forgot one thing.

There is actually one more person in type two of the people who remain calm during crisis.

There's Ong Seongwoo.

He sat a table away from mine, the empty seat being between us. He was actually asleep on his table, his mouth slightly opened.

This type of kid is the type everyone hates.

He never took notes, doesn't join any private academy or study groups, and seems to spend all of his times on part-time jobs, yet his grades are always on a race with Jonghyun's.

But he was so much more than that.

He was humble, he never bragged about his grades. He had a lot of friends because he is very friendly, easy going, and hillarious. Very unlike Jonghyun, he was no model student. At one glance people would've think that kids like him probably doesn't do well in school and have no future: his uniform is messy, he sleeps all the time, and make ridiculous jokes about how he should be a professional slate-holder.

And that is why, nobody actually hates him.

"Seongwoo-ya! Yah! Get to your senses!" Jung Mijoo vigorously patted on Seongwoo's table, waking him up.

"Hng?" he looked up, trying hard to seperate his heavy lids.

"Quiz is starting."

"Oh, okay," Seongwoo fixed his sitting position.

"Thank you girl, looking fine today," Seongwoo winked at Jung Mijoo and laughed.

Mijoo rolled her eyes and turned back to face her desk.

"One minute to go!" I heard Mrs. Nam say.

Okay, just... do your best and survive.

I thought, taking out my black pen from my pencil case. I was anxious as heck and had problems trying to calm down and focus, my mind was going everywhere.

"Hey, hey!" I heard someone whisper.

Geez. Why are these kids still so noisy one minute before a quiz.

"HEY!" I felt someone tap on my arm.

Surprised, I turned to my left and saw Ong Seongwoo reaching out to me, now sitting on the desk beside me that's supposed to be vacant.

So he was calling for me?

"Can you lend me a pen?" he said, his whisper being a tad bit too loud to be called one.

"A-a pen?" I raised my brows, "Wait a sec."

I searched through my pencil case for a pen, but was not able to find one.

I mean, another one, than a pink pen with a Jigglypuff on its top. I got it from Heo Boram, my bestfriend who now lives far away from town.

I can't actually lend him this.. It would be too embarrassing if someone like him knew I had this kind of pen.

"I... don't think I have any--"

"I'll just use this one okay, thanks!" he said, suddenly snatching my Jigglypuff pen out of my pencil case.

"W-whoa.. Okay," I said, my eyes a little widened from the surprise.

Seongwoo then stared at the pen for a couple of seconds before chuckling, probably just realizing how funny the shape of it was.

This is tainting my reputation as a high-schooler.

I thought, trying to control my breath as my heart was racing and my face was getting hot.

"Hey, if I look at it again, it kinda reminds me of you. You both have eyes that are shining and pretty," he said, looking back and forth at me and the Jigglypuff.

Thud!

I thought I heard something thump in my chest.

I tried to smile and let out a small laugh, "Ha..haha, thanks."

I saw him smile back and return to his seat.

That was.... a weird comment for one to say.

"Okay, please pass these to the person behind you," Mrs. Nam handed the quiz papers to the people sitting in the front areas.

I clicked my pen and braced myself for what I was going to face.

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