-Gardenia-

-1-

As school began, the classroom to Ms. Oh's performance class began to fill. I watched as most of the faces I've been acquainted with since pre-school casually walked into their seats. I watched as my classmates began to boast about their newest form of electronic, their newest purse, or their newest piece of gold jewelry, though they most likely have tons of the same thing at home. I inwardly began to frown as I thought about how materialistic all of my classmates were.

Three of my closest friends in school sat in the seats in front of me. Ginger, whose father is a Senator, is most known for her witty attitude, glossy hair, and perfect double-eyelids to go with her bright smile. Sunny was mostly known for her lack of wits, but also for her family's fashion empire, and her always-perfect makeup. Miranda's family owned most of the electronics that a lot of the students were currently holding. With her small frame and tall nose, everyone looked up to her. Though they were my best friends, they were the most stuck up girls in the entire world.

"Do you want to go clubbing this weekend, then?" I heard Miranda ask Ginger, who grinned and thought about it briefly.

"If we go clubbing, we definitely have to bring the life of the party with us!" Ginger smiled as she turned to me. "SoHee-yah, you're going clubbing with us on Saturday, right?" She asked, possibly already predicting that I'll say yes.

I grinned and nodded. "Of course!" I replied and they happily squealed in delight.

As they started to talk about hair, nails, and clothes, my mind started to drift elsewhere.

Suddenly, I heard shouting in the school hallways. It began as muffled, but as the student ran down the halls, the statement became more apparent. The statement made my blood run cold.

"Lee MinHa, Year 2, Class A, Has a Red Card!" The student shouted as he pounded on lockers to get everyone's attention. As everyone started running outside the classroom to begin on their new target, I stayed in my seat and began to space out.

The F4 were always a complicated topic for me. I knew how they were outside of school and away from students who filled their egos. They were normal guys who were childish and mischievous at times. They were at one time like older brothers to me. When they are in Shinhwa, it's an entirely different story. They act inhumane while bullying students and making them feel inferior. In my opinion, that's what makes the F4 the most insecure and inferior people out of anyone in this school.

I walked out into the hallways when I knew that it was safe to come out. I knew that mostly everyone took the F4 notice as a chance to leave to the cafe area in hopes of running into the F4. I caught up with Summer, an exchange student, and Hyemi, who was Summer's best friend. They were talking about a watch that a student got and my interest immediately faded.

"Apparently there were only two like it in the whole entire world!" Hyemi exclaimed. "Baekho has one and Gu JunPyo has the other one!" She chirped.

"Didn't Baekho lose his watch last week?" Summer asked as Hyemi began to lean into her direction.

"I heard that Gu JunPyo threw Baekho's watch into the school pool. My boyfriend said that he saw him do it while he was coming out from the locker room." Hyemi pouted and my brows started to furrow.

"Ah, Really? I heard that the watch was $9,000!" Summer exclaimed. "Baekho isn't that rich, it's not like he can get another one of those…" She pouted as Hyemi looked at her and they both broke out laughing.

I looked at the two and bit my lip. They didn't have to be so cruel.

Suddenly, a bike sped past me and almost hit me with the clothes that were hanging off of the rack on the back of it. "I'm so sorry!" The biker apologized as she sped away.

"How gross," Hyemi shook her head. "When did we get such reckless laundry deliverers?" She joked and I half-heartedly laughed. We continued to joke around until we went towards the food area. We heard someone yelling hysterically and grouped around to find out what was wrong.

"Lee Minha is about to jump from the rooftop right now!" A student shouted, trying to get all of our attention. My heart began to pound as tons of students began to run up the stairs. I was frozen in place until I realized that this needs to end before he actually has to jump.

Someone has to stop this before it gets any worse; Even if it's me.

When I opened the steel doors, the poor guy was covered in blood as students laughed and filmed. I began to feel sick to my stomach. Why wouldn't anyone help such a quiet student, who hasn't done anything to anyone?

The student began to look down towards the ground and took a deep breath before beginning to jump. Everyone gasped and I froze once again.

"Wait!" A voice cried as everyone turned towards the owner of the scream. The tiny girl tiredly lugged her bike over to the student, dry cleaning trailing from the back. She stopped for a few seconds to catch her breath as everyone waited for her to say something.

"Who...are you?" Lee Minha asked, just as confused as the rest of us.

The girl gave a cheeky smile and a bow before introducing herself. "I'm from Geum Dry Cleaning and I'm here to deliver your clothes!"

"Is she stupid?" I muttered as students began to laugh.

"Please, bill it to my house once I'm dead." Minha sarcastically deadpanned as the girl swatted his statement off, thinking that he was joking until she took a closer look at the situation.

"D-Die! You're going to kill yourself right now…?" She questioned the obvious. "But...Why? You go to such an amazing school!" She finished as Minha scoffed.

"This isn't a school, it's hell." He commented as the girl gasped. "The real hell is outside of this school! Have you ever heard of the hell that is admissions?" She joked and everyone gave her a blank stare.

"Have you ever heard of the F4?" Minha asked and the girls brows furrowed. "F...F what?" She asked as I rolled my eyes.

"F4…? What's that?" She tilted her head to the side in confusion. "Once you get a red card from them, you are prey for the entire school. Remember that." He finished.

"You can't let them do that to you!" She began as she angrily waved her hands around. "It's always the lame losers who walk around like they're the shit! If they were at my school, I would've grabbed them and broken them!" She shouted as she made hand motions.

"Your friends are fortunate." Minha suddenly said, making the girl raise her brows in confusion.

"W-What?" She asked.

"They're fortunate because they have a friend like you." He finished as she was obviously flattered.

She put a hand on her heart while saying "Ah, I suppose…"

Her flattery was cut short by Minha attempting to jump off of the balcony. Students gasped and I felt my heart stop. I cringed and closed my eyes as time began to slow down.

"No!" I heard the girl shout as more gasps rang throughout the rooftop. I opened my eyes to see that the dry cleaner had Minha by his shirt and grabbed him, saving him from his death. I felt a sense of relief rush through me as I saw him being hoisted up. I had only wished that I was as brave as that commoner.

#

Once my driver dropped me off from school, I unlocked the doors to my spacious house made of mostly brick. I would never call this house a home because of how empty it always felt to me. "Is anyone here…?" I called out. I was met by the usual silence I heard whenever I came home from school. I sighed and walked upstairs to my room. I took off my shoes and immediately buried myself under my blanket.

I turned my TV on as I peeped only my head out from under the blanket. The news channel showed massive riots that have been happening since our early dismissal from school. My mother even requested that I would be sent home today because of the rioters making their way towards our school. I began to pout as I hung upside down from my bed.

"I just wish that the F4 didn't have to be so insensitive." I thought as I huffed. That girl at the rooftop was braver than anyone at that school. I knew that it wouldn't be the last time that I'll see her.

I turned over and buried face under the blankets completely. "Senior year is going to be my longest year…" I fake-sobbed as I grabbed my backpack to get started on my homework.

#

"Apparently we have a new student," Ginger remarked as we walked into school together. "I heard she's poor. Her family owns a laundromat or something like that." She stated as she took a sip of water.

"Poor people are so rude and disgusting," Miranda began and I frowned. "If she acts as ghetto as they do, she won't last longer than a week." She laughed as they continued to quicken their pace because they wanted a better place to see the F4. I trailed along behind them, feeling even more disconnected to them than before. Over the past few years, they became even more shallow than they've ever been. I could tell that our friendships were based more on status than actual relationship.

I watched as the F4 approached the front entrance. "The F4 has arrived!" Sunny squealed as the guys walked in. The girls around me began to scream and I scanned the faces of the F4 for what seemed like the first time in forever.

Gu Junpyo was the F4's "leader". He's spoiled, very childish and, combined with his power, can be very dangerous. His mother and my step-father are very close business colleagues so we spent a great chunk of our childhood together. Our parents wanted us to click, but it never happened because we have absolutely nothing in common.

Song Woobin is called the "Don Juan" of the group, with a charming smile to match his chill personality. Nobody knows much about his family background, but we know never to make him angry.

So Yijung is the "Casanova" of the group. He's most famous for having a girl around his arm every few weeks (Ginger, Sunny, and Miranda included) and, though every girl knows he's a player, they still fall for him every time.

Finally, there's Yoon Jihoo. Jihoo is hard to explain and he intrigues me the most. While all the other members of the F4 pulled at my pigtails or put gum in my hair and isolated me from anything they were doing while growing up, Jihoo would always be the peacemaker and I've always deeply liked him for that.

Once he looked into my direction, I completely adverted my gaze away from him and blinked rapidly. "Please don't look at me." I prayed repeatedly in my mind. Luckily, the F4's attention got side-tracked by a student. I looked a bit closer to find out that the student and Junpyo were wearing the same shirt. Knowing how selfish Junpyo is, I knew it wouldn't end well.

There was a long silence as students waited in anticipation to see what they would do.

"Woobin, do you still have your juice?" Junpyo asked coldly. Woobin perked up at the mention of his name and quickly responded.

"Yeah, do you want some?" He asked as he handed Junpyo the bottle. In his eyes, I could tell that Woobin didn't expect Junpyo to dump the juice on the poor student's shirt. Junpyo walked away without remorse, his friends following behind.

Behind me, I heard a girl ranting. I knew it couldn't have been anyone who has been here for a long time because nobody talks of the F4 so lowly.

"Oh. My. God." Ginger exclaimed in English before turning over to the girl. My eyes widened as I realized that it's the same girl who saved Lee Minha. "I cannot believe what I'm hearing!" Ginger dramatically exclaimed. I cringed because I knew that they had new prey to bully.

"I'm sorry but...who are you?" The girl (Geum JanDi, as it said on the School ID around her neck) asked, confused. Ginger scoffed.

"Ginger." She said as she posed.

"Sunny~" Sunny phonily smiled.

"Miranda!" Miranda followed because the others were doing it.

They looked over at me expectantly, wanting me to follow after them. I knew in this moment I could show this new student who isn't rich at all that not all rich people will be disgusting. I gave a warm smile and bowed wholeheartedly. The other three gasped at my warm greeting.

"Hi, my name is Kim Sohee," I introduced formally. "Welcome to Shinhwa." I finished as I extended my hand for a shake, in which Ginger slapped my hand away.

"When you were ranting, you weren't referring to the F4, were you?" Ginger asked as she began to walk up towards her. JanDi blinked a few times.

"So, the people who just publically humiliated that kid were the infamous F4?" She asked, making Miranda scoff.

"Infamous? More like famous!" Miranda cheered.

"And you better watch your mouth, commoner, or else you'll get into a lot of trouble around here." Ginger glared as she leaned into where JanDi was. JanDi sized Ginger up before backing up slightly. "You guys own a laundromat...correct?" She suddenly asked.

"Actually, it's Dry Cleaning," JanDi corrected, making the three girls start laughing snobbily. I began to clench my fists because of how they were bullying JanDi. It was as if they wanted to become the F4.

"This is my first time seeing a dry cleaner's daughter!" Sunny exclaimed as she leaned in. "It's so...fascinating!" She finished and I had enough with their attitude.

"That's enough out of you guys." I spoke up for the first time in forever. Ginger looked bewildered. "What's the difference between being a dry cleaner's daughter and being the daughter of anything else? At the end of the day, we're all people." I began.

"Does it matter if she's a commoner? Get off of her back. It must already be hard enough transferring into a new school and already being ridiculed for how much money she has," My voice was stern and my face was emotionless. It was as if I had held this in for many years.

"Can you guys grow a heart? You guys are so shallow that it's annoying." I rolled my eyes.

"Sohee-yah...What does this mean!?" Ginger exclaimed, completely exasperated.

"It means that you guys need to stop being spoiled brats and maybe one day someone will actually want to be your friend because I'm out." I deadpanned. They stood frozen.

"Did you not hear me? Peace out, girl scouts!" I asked as I raised my eyebrows, and Ginger grunted as she quickly rushed away with her friends.

JanDi looked completely amazed at what just happened. "I'm sorry for my stuck up classmates. They can be a huge pain." I apologized as I extended my hand, which JanDi hesitantly shook.

"My name is Geum JanDi" She formally introduced and bowed. I gave a genuine smile; One that I haven't given in a very long while. No one was worthy of that smile for a very long time.

"I can tell you need a friend and I'd be more than happy to at least show you around, especially with how rude some people can be around here." I smiled and JanDi returned the smile.

"Thank you so much!" She bowed.

#

As the week progressed, I began to spend more time alone and with a completely new person. I started smiling a lot more because of how warm of a person JanDi really is. She didn't talk much about clothes, money or jewelry, and we were even able to laugh about how superficial the rich really were.

As we were laughing at lunch, a mousy voice approached us. JanDi paused in eating her food, and the girl asked if she could try some. We both looked at each other and nodded. It was the first time a long while where I felt friendly and approachable.

"Disgusting...What is that horrible smell?" I heard an annoyingly familiar voice ask as they came towards our table. Ginger stood in front of JanDi as she ate, and JanDi froze, looking up at her.

"What cheap, disgusting food." She gagged as she sprayed some of her nauseating perfume over JanDi's food very rudely. JanDi had to cover her food hurriedly.

I stood up. "The only thing that's cheap and disgusting right now is your attitude," I began. "Stop being a spoiled brat." I glared and Ginger scoffed.

"Says the girl who traded us in for ghetto trash." Sunny laughed. "Last week, you were laughing with us about how stupid poor people are, and this week, you're hanging out with this trash?" Miranda chipped in as the three of them made a "tsk" noise.

"You're so fake." Ginger giggled as she walked away with the others.

I rolled my eyes, and sat back down. The exchange between me and the trio caused a bit of commotion as students started looking at me and whispering, possibly about why I'm hanging out with commoners. I could also feel someone glaring at the back of my head.

Suddenly, their attention was diverted to the F4, who were walking down the stairway and into the cafe. Students began to cheer, and from where I was sitting, I could hear Miranda's squealing.

As they walked down the stairs regally, a brave student stepped in front of the group. She was holding what looked like a cake. I cringed already because I knew that this wouldn't go well at all.

"Gu Junpyo Sunbaenim," She began, formally. "I made this cake for you by myself. Please accept this as a token of my heart!" She bowed, gesturing the cake towards him and everyone gasped dramatically.

Junpyo looked at the girl with a blank expression. He looked at the cake and began to smile, throwing everyone off guard. When he picked the cake up out of her hands, the girl looked really expectant and everyone gasped. While smiling, he quickly smashed the cake into her face.

The room was completely silent as everyone froze in complete awe. I looked over as JanDi got up from her seat and walked over to Junpyo before I could stop her.

"Why would you do that? You could've at least taken the cake, even though you wouldn't have eaten it!" She began. "You have no reason to be such a prick!" She shouted and my mouth hung open when she said that. I hadn't heard anyone ever talk to Gu Junpyo that way, not even his sister.

"Excuse me? Do you have something to say?" Junpyo asked as he stared down at the small girl.

"Yeah, I have something to say to you," She started. "Don't you have the slightest bit of remorse for other human beings, or is your head stuck that far up your ass? Do you not have a little bit of modesty for someone who has so much? What if one day she decided to jump off of a roof you heartless bastard!?" JanDi shouted and the rest of the F4 began to stare agape at her.

"Anything else?" Junpyo asked, blankly. I stood up and walked towards Jandi, holding her back by her arm. She took a look at me as I shook my head and sighed. "No, Gu Junpyo." She replied.

He wordlessly walked away as the rest of his squad followed. I could see that Jihoo was smiling at the exchange that just happened and I couldn't help but smile as well.

#

The next day, I brought ice-cream for JanDi, our newest friend,Oh Minji, and I to share. "You're too sweet! Thank you so much!" JanDi bowed as she took the carton of ice-cream. "Thank you so much, Sohee sunbae!" Minji politely bowed as well.

"It's nothing!" I swatted off as I grinned and dabbed their noses with ice-cream.

"Hey!" JanDi grinned as she tried to do the same thing, but I ended up running off playfully.

"Get back here~" Minji playfully exclaimed as she ran.

"Never!" I laughed. After a few seconds, all I heard was silence.

"Did you slow pokes give up alre-" My teasing was cut off by seeing why the silence happened. Ice-cream was all over Gu Junpyo's shoe and he blankly looked down at Minji in slight disgust.

"Oh! I'm so sorry Junpyo!" she frantically bowed. Junpyo let out a chuckle.

"Sorry?" He mocked. "If the whole world worked on apologies, there would be no police." He deadpanned as I could see Minji getting tearful and upset.

"Please, I'll do anything I can!" She pleaded as he raised an eyebrow.

"Anything?" He echoed and I cringed.

"Then lick it." He emotionlessly said.

"Huh?" Minji replied, not understanding the context.

"Lick the ice-cream off of my shoe." Junpyo demanded.

"Hey," I began, regretting it immediately.

"Quit acting like you're royalty, she already apologized and even offered to buy you new shoes," I defended, making JanDi tug my arm, whispering for her to handle it. "You don't have to be such a spoiled brat all of the time, just clean off your shoes. It's just ice-cream." I finished, making the rest of the F4 look bewildered, mainly because this was the first time they've heard me speak in years.

"Kim Sohee," Junpyo began, his expression unchanging. "You seem to have grown up to forget your manners, especially since you're hanging out with this annoying bug." He pointed to JanDi, who was obviously offended.

Yijung whispered into Junpyo's ear inaudible. "Is that so? The bug right there is that Wonder Girl shit I've been hearing about?" He chucked. "I was hoping for an S-line, D-cup girl when I heard Wonder Woman. What a disappointment." He joked as the rest of the F4 chuckled. JanDi let out a fake smile.

"I'm more than happy to disappoint you." She commented and the chuckling stopped.

"Where do you think you are? You're always butting into strangers problems." Junpyo interrupted.

"She's not a stranger, she's my friend and I will defend her if I want to." JanDi began. "You pick on people for absolute fun! You wave your money around as a trophy though it's all your parents money and you haven't earned a penny all of your life!" She shouted, completely taking the F4 aback.

"And where I come from, we call that a scrub." She stated, making Woobin and Yijung make an 'Ooooooh' sound in the background.

JanDi took out her wallet and pulled out 1,000 won. I was confused as to what she was doing until I saw her tuck it into Junpyo's collar. "Now you can actually say that you're worth something more than your parent's bank account," She said as she buried her ice cream into his shirt.

Everyone stared wide-eyed as she sassily walked off, pulling Minji along with her. The F4 adverted their gaze to me, who was just as surprised. "What…? I didn't bury the ice cream into Junpyo's shirt!" I defended.

#

The next day, my entire performance class was gossiping about what happened. I was entirely too nervous for JanDi all morning. If the school heard, then it will only take a little bit of time before she'll get a Red Card, or her classmates will bully her.

"I heard that the commoner girl dumped ice-cream on Junpyo's shirt," I heard as Ginger sat in front of me. She turned to me with a disgusted look on her face. "Your friend is a lot of trouble. I didn't think you'd be into hanging out with such a trashy person." She laughed.

"Unless, you're just as trashy as she is." Sunny teased and the others let out their witchy laughs. "Have you hooked up with any commoner guys lately? You should introduce us." She let out another laugh as the other two high-fived her.

"Trust me, I've been with you guys for more than half of my life, so I know what trashy is." I blankly stared. The laughter stopped, as they looked offended. "Tell me Ginger, has HyunKi ever called you back?" I asked and Ginger's face automatically hardened. She walked up towards me with her face visibly turning red.

"Did you start that rumor you bitch!?" She asked as she started to swing at me.

"Hey!" I shouted as I defended myself and everyone in the classroom was trying to move her away from me. Our bickering was cut short by banging on the lockers and shouting in the hallways.

"Geum JanDi, Year 2, Class B has a Red Card!" We heard a student shout as he knocked on each classroom door. My heart started to pound as I ran out of the classroom without any thought. I had to find JanDi before it was too late.

I ran towards her locker and, once I found her, I saw how exasperated she looked. "We have to get you out of here and quick." I told her as we began to walk down the corridor that seemed the most empty. Once we were caught by students, they started to chase us and we had no choice but to start running.

"Ah, Shit, we're screwed!" JanDi shouted as we took off. I made sure to grab her wrist so we couldn't be separated.

As soon as we thought we lost them, I noticed that we ran straight into the main corridor. They led us straight to the trap they set up, especially when I noticed that every other student had eggs in each hand and flour in bags.

"Now, we're screwed." I muttered as we froze.


Hello~ Welcome to my Re-boot! As you can see, I'm doing my reboot in episodic order, much like the previous story! Which means that the flow of the story will follow the story of the original K-Drama, though I'm adding my own twist to it! There will be new surprises, new couples, new characters, and a new ending altogether (With a guaranteed sequel!).

I will be back very very soon! And I want to thank Inari09 for editing all of my mistakes and picking up the pieces of my writers' block! Thank you for being a lovely friend! ;U;

Until next chapter~

-BunniUnni