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part 2: the bystanders

Seriously, Jung Stupid Taerin? You were asleep at 2 AM and wake on 8 AM? Where do you think you live in? The Sims world?

The fact that her eye bags clear as a day, only a reminder for her mistake to chatting with an anonymous boy on the stupid viral dating app.

This is the first time in history, I got a detention because of just a lewd thing for an adult.

And she’s not even an official adult yet. She needs to wait until June to turn officially nineteen and that’s two months from now.

This is ridiculous!

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"Oi, dumbass!" As the class busy to switch subject, a girl with strawberry scented hair - the shampoo she's been using for months - turned her body in front of Taerin's desk. It felt like there's a bloom of sakura petals that choked everyone's throat in every sway of Choi Seonwa's long brown locks.

A pink sweater wrapped outside the long haired's spring form. Dark brunette dyed hair, a tiny bracelet with flower beads, and the creamy lotions of others fruit flavour layered on her porcelain skin. In Taerin's eyes, Seonwa was the figure of a choco-strawberry-ice-cream if it can breath.

"How can you get into this new mess today?" The smirk on her lips was also as pink as a rabbit tongue. Seonwa's slow and soft gesture of checking the wrist-watch only filled her feminine yet mischief aura. "You step inside the class on 9:27. Isn't that a bit too much for your standard?"

The bob-haired with lavender perfume who's being questioned chuckled as she propped her head, start doing the triple-large-homework from Mr. Kang. Standard? Even doing delinquency become a new normal to Taerin's friends. She grinned in proud, "Overslept. Forced myself to finish a novel until 2 AM."

When the word of "novel" poped up, a shadow of long haired ghost flashed from Taerin's right shoulder. "Wait, you stayed up for a book? What novel was it?"

"Ah, this worm right here." Reacted to the innocent ghost interference, Taerin's smug widened, her bob that hang like a curtain shaked softly on her cheeks.

Lee Yoonseo's black medium hair sit straight on her shoulder. No strange hairstyle. A little scent of a vanilla clouding the neat of her collar. She's sweet, but more plain compared to Seonwa's bright choices of accesorries. Yoonseo's style was just like a shy decent girl, just felt right in place.

But is she actually a decent girl? Well, it's not unusual for everyone to catch a red cover of a book titled The Shining in between the notes on Yoonseo's desk. For few days, she changed it to The Crime and Punishment and Sherlock Holmes to help her to zone out at the corridor's bench. Is that actually what a decent girl read?

Whatever the answer is, today, the girl had Murder on the Orient Express under her arms. Making the decent aura glitched as her pupils became dark whenever her brain swallowed something that attract those frowsty sharp detective radar. Especially the moment when she talked about literatures.

"Heaven by Meiko Kawakami," Taerin finally responded. Flat, tried to supress any despair, but still admit, "It was hell, I bawl like a crazy by the ending."

"Oh, that book!" Yoonseo's eyes lighting even further as Taerin mention the title. She close her "O" mouth with Agatha Christie under the delicate soft grip of her fingers. It's more weird if she wasn't familiar with it. A dark psycologycal novel, with beautifuly written theme of bullying. Her type of genre to destroy herself from the inside. "I remember reading it a while ago. It was intense, wasn't it?"