Disclaimer: I do not own BOF- its original plot, characters, etc. I'm just a mere fan who loves the SoEul couple. :D
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Chapter 8: The Other Girl
Ga Eul stopped to look at her fiancé who was standing next to her and looking at the girl who passed by.
"Sunbae, you just promised me while ago that you'll throw your Casanova ways and after a few minutes, here you are, looking at a girl." Ga Eul teased him with a smile.
Yi Jung looked back at Ga Eul and wrapped his arms around her shoulder. "You know what? You're gonna be late for your class. Hop in." He opened the door of his trademark sports car.
Yi Jung started the engine and sped up to the Math Building where Ga Eul's first class would be. Before going out of the car, Ga Eul looked first at Yi Jung and said, "Sunbae, I think you need a few days to completely get that Casanova out of you. Well, if you really want to throw it away. Anyways, thank you again Sunbae."
Ga Eul pushed open the door and went out to attend her first class. Upon reaching the hall for her statistics classes, Ga Eul quickly looked for Jan Di. As she passed by rows of students, the diamond ring in her left hand kept glittering under the light. "Jan Di- ah!" Ga Eul called her friend who was sitting at the middle row.
"Ga Eul- ah. Where'd you come from now? I've been looking for you all morning since I've seen your Porsche."
"I just went somewhere." Ga Eul answered her as she settled herself beside Jan Di.
"You also answered that two days ago when you joined that dance for Yi Jung Sunbae. Where are you really from?"
"Jan Di- ah! Look. We have a new classmate." Ga Eul pointed at a girl who just entered the hall. The girl who entered was the same one Yi Jung was looking at a while ago. She was the same girl with the soft curls just like Ga Eul. Anyone that can see her from the back would say that she's Ga Eul. However, when the girl turned around, she has smaller eyes than Ga Eul and has no dimples unlike Ga Eul.
Jan Di turned to the direction Ga Eul was pointing at and she commented, "Ga Eul- ah! She looks like you from the back."
"Really?" Ga Eul asked.
"Yes. You both have those soft curls. You really look like the same. She can be mistaken as your twin."
"You're exaggerating Jan Di- ah." Ga Eul commented.
The new girl walked around the room, looking for a chair to sit on. She found one, the chair next to Ga Eul which is the only chair left empty. She approached it and asked the two girls chattering, "Does anyone sit here?"
"None. You can take it." Ga Eul said with a smile on her face.
The new girl sat next to Ga Eul and just stared at the people around her. Jan Di, being friendly, talked to her. "Hi! What's your name? I'm Geum Jan Di." she extended her hand for a handshake.
The girl took it and shook and hands as she said, "Hello. My name's Kang Rae Min. I'm a transfer student."
"Oh. Nice to meet you. Here's my best friend." Jan Di pointed at Ga Eul.
"Hi. My name's Chu Ga Eul." She and Rae Min also shook hands. "Nice to meet you."
Rae Min gave them a smile. "Nice to meet you too. I'm glad I met new people at my first day here."
Their statistics teacher arrived after a while. They had their class for about an hour and a half. Afterwards, when the bell rang for the end of the classes, Jan Di, Ga Eul and their new friend, Rae Min, got out of the room together to head for their next class.
"Wow. You're taking the same classes like us." Jan Di commented.
"Yeah." Rae Min answered with a smile. "I'm very fortunate on my first day, indeed."
They were walking past the grounds of Shinhwa High to get to the Arts Building where their next class- World Music- is held. The three sat next to each other once again. Their topic for today is the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig Van Beethoven. Throughout the next hour and a half, some of students started to doze off while others started to scribble down things in their notebooks because of the boring lesson. Only Ga Eul and Rae Min remained focused all throughout the lesson. The lesson was interesting for Ga Eul for she got to know more things about the two of the greatest composers. She smiles whenever she remembers that night when she and Yi Jung talked about the said composers. Once the class has ended, the three went straight to the cafeteria to have their lunch.
"Aaaaaahhhhhh." Jan Di yawned. "How come the two of you were not bored at that?"
Rae Min chuckled. "It's interesting. Getting to know those two great composers gave me more idea at why their compositions are such. I actually like classical music."
"You and Ga Eul are the same. I don't get why you two like that kind of music. It's boring." Jan Di commented.
"Jan Di- ah, you just don't know how to appreciate classical music." Ga Eul replied. "I listen to Mozart's compositions whenever I do pottery. It inspires me."
"Omo? You do pottery Ga Eul- ah?" Rae Min asked.
"Yup. I do that to unwind." Ga Eul replied. "Why? Do you do it too?"
"Yeah. Omo?" Rae Min said once again.
"Why?" Jan Di and Ga Eul asked in unison as the three of them took their seats at a table.
"Is that the F4?" Rae Min asked with awe in her face. "And, is that So Yi Jung? The famous potter prodigy?"
"Aaah." Jan Di and Ga Eul chorused. "Yeah." And the two girls giggled.
The F4 were approaching their table and Rae Min's eyes widened more at that.
"Yo!" Woo Bin greeted them.
"Hey Jan Di! Why aren't you answering my calls?" Jun Pyo shouted at his girlfriend.
"Do you always have to yell at me?" Jan Di asked, raising her voice as well. "I have a class, pabo."
The other two boys and the two girls chuckled at that. Ji Hoo remained quiet on the side. Yi Jung smiled at Ga Eul and waved his hands as he approached her. Rae Min, who was sitting next to Ga Eul, whispered to Ga Eul, "Ga Eul- ah! Did you see that? So Yi Jung smiled and waved at me!"
Ga Eul just smiled at her new friend's comment. Yi Jung arrived their table in no time and asked Ga Eul, "Have you eaten yet?" he asked her.
"Nope. We're about to." Ga Eul answered.
Rae Min, on the other hand, was staring dreamily at Yi Jung. The lad noticed this and asked Ga Eul, "Ga Eul- yang, who's your new friend?"
"She's Kang Rae Min. Jan Di and I met her at our statistics class. She's a transfer student." Ga Eul introduced Rae Min to Yi Jung. "Rae Min, this So Yi Jung. And that guy with the curly hair is Goo Jun Pyo. The other one is Yoon Ji Hoo and…"
"I'm Song Woo Bin."
"Omo! You guys really are the F4?!" she asked, standing up and shaking hands with each one of them with pure excitement.
"What do you think?" Jun Pyo asked with an irritated tone. Jan Di stepped on Jun Pyo's foot and glared at him to stop his behavior.
"Wow! I never thought I could actually meet you guys! I'm Kang Rae Min. Nice to meet you." She bowed down to them.
"So, where are you from?" Woo Bin asked.
"I'm from the United States. I used to study there but things went hard for me so I came back here in Korea." She answered with a smile on her face.
"When did you start classes here?" Yi Jung asked, thinking if she could be the girl she danced with two days ago. She could be in there, seeing from her excitement when she met the F4.
"I just started today." Rae Min answered. Yi Jung felt that again, he was wrong of thinking that it could be Rae Min but then, "But I was here two days ago arranging school stuff."
'Could it be her?' Yi Jung thought. 'It fits. She has those soft curls, the same height, and almost the same voice. And what? Love Spell? Could it be really her?'
"Uh. Rae Min, do you happen to use Love Spell?" Yi Jung casually asked.
"How'd you know? Yes!" Rae Min answered.
"Yah Yi Jung! How can you do that in front of your fiancée? Asking a girl if she uses that perfume?" Woo Bin teased Yi Jung.
At that, Jan Di's eyes widened as so is Rae Min's. "What?! Fiancée?" Jan Di exclaimed. "There are only three girls here. Me, Ga Eul and Rae Min. It couldn't be me of course and not Rae Min either." Jan Di analyzed things and then, "WHHAAAAAAAAT? Ga Eul- ah?!"
Ga Eul looked at her best friend and stuck a piece of bread inside her mouth. "Jan Di- ah, you're too noisy."
Jan Di chewed the bread Ga Eul had put inside her mouth. Once done with the chewing, Jan Di said, "Why didn't you tell me? And… and… and… how?"
Ga Eul looked down out of embarrassment. Sure, the whole school knows now. "I was about to tell you when I'm ready. Jan Di- ah, I'm sorry."
"But how? With Yi Jung Sunbae?!" Jan Di was exaggerating things now.
Ga Eul stood up and dragged Jan Di to a corner where they could talk to themselves. "It's arranged marriage, okay? Our grandfathers planned it."
"Then why did you approve of it? I warned you!"
"Yes. Yes. I know Jan Di- ah. I know what you're thinking. I already talked to my grandfather to cancel it but he said no… for now. We had an arrangement that if Yi Jung Sunbae… makes me cry… then my grandfather will cancel it. He thought we give Yi Jung Sunbae a chance." Ga Eul replied.
"Chance? You know that it will happen. You've cried a river of tears for him already."
"I know but things can change right? Besides, he gave me this." Ga Eul showed her left hand to Jan Di. The diamond ring that Yi Jung gave to her early this morning was glittering.
Jan Di calmed down upon seeing the ring. "It's beautiful."
"Jan Di- ah, I'm sorry for not telling you. I was just not ready to say it. I'm really sorry." Ga Eul apologized.
"There's nothing to apologize for not telling me. I understand that. Ga Eul- ah, just one thing, okay?"
"What's that?"
"If he makes you cry once again, cancel the engagement right away. You've been hurt enough."
"I understand." Ga Eul nodded her head.
On the other hand, the only ones left in the table while Jan Di and Ga Eul were talking were the F4 and Rae Min. The F4 were talking to each other as if no one else is near them. Meanwhile, Rae Min was staring at Yi Jung the whole time. She was absolutely charmed by the young lad in front of her that she did not notice Ga Eul and Jan Di to be back at the table.
Once back at the table, Woo Bin announced, "Hey, you two, come tonight at the F4 lounge in Seoul Hotel. We've got to celebrate the engagement of Yi Jung and Ga Eul."
"Okay." Jan Di and Ga Eul said in unison.
"I'll pick you at home, Ga Eul- yang. 7:00 PM?" Yi Jung asked. Ga Eul nodded and smiled at him.
Rae Min, who was rather an outcast from the group, bluntly said, "Can I come too?"
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