REMINISCENCE

CHAPTER 7

KYUNGSOO'S DOUBT

KYUNGSOO'S POV

Yesterday was a fine day. Luhan was finally out of the hospital and was able to join us to attend class. It's not always like this so we enjoy the little get together we have during special occasions. I was assigned to buy the cake and muffins for the said occasion. I know that Luhan likes sweets so i ordered strawberry cake for him. On my way to school, I saw Suho walking at the hallway with a girl right next to him. Tsk, he's always on ladies. I took the other way so that I wouldn't bump into them.

It took longer for me to reach the venue but it was more peaceful. When I entered the room, Lay was tying balloons at the table side. I walk over to him and gently placed the cakes on the table. He looked at me then to the cakes.

"Are these pastries okay?" he asked. I look at him with dismay.

"I wouldn't bother buying them if they aren't." I replied coolly. Lay just shrugged and started tying the balloons to the chairs.

"You're not thinking of a kiddie party aren't you?" I asked. Luhan is not 6 or something so why the hell is he tying balloons everywhere?

"Luhan likes balloons."He answered without hesitations.

"How did you know?"

"He told me before."

"When he was 6?"

"Just let me be Kyungsoo…" Lay told me and continued tying the balloons. I just shrugged and walk my way towards the Board. I was also assigned as the one to right the "Welcome back" thing. The other members entered the room after a while.

"Is Tao already here?" Xiumin asked.

"No. He wasn't." I answered while still writing on the board. Knowing Tao, he's still caught up with his wushu stick at their club. That guy really doesn't have any considerations. I looked around and noticed Kai was not around. Maybe he's still caught up with what happened between him and So Hee. Really, relationships are so complicated. I don't understand the fact that when two people liked each other, they wanted to be together and when they are already together, they wanted to separate. It's confusing. Maybe because I never liked a girl before but it doesn't matter, I'm not interested anyway. Unlike Suho. Then, as if on cue, Suho entered the room and explained why he was late.

"She was the one I'm assisting; actually I was with her before I came here." Suho boasted.

"So that's why you're late…"I barged in.

"I was on duty!" Suho reasoned.

"Whatever you say Mr. President…" I blocked. Knowing him, he never thought of it as one of his duties but to do what he wants with his position.

Suho don't want to start a debate with me anymore so he managed to shut up and helped Baekhyun with the banners, then, my phone rang. Sehun was seated next to where my phone was so I told him to check who was calling me then he answered, "Kai is calling."

I put down the chalk and wiped my hand with my handkerchief before pressing the 'answer' key.

"Hello?"

"Kyung-hyung, is So Hee there?"

"No. She was the one assigned to get Luhan from the hospital…"

"Ahh... I see…"

"Is anything wrong?"

"No. everything's okay… I guess…"

"What time will you be here?"

"At around 7:00."

"Okay, got to hang up, I'm doing something…"

"Okay Hyung… bye."

I put my phone back to the table and walked towards the board to finish what I started. Luhan's welcome party is planned well so everything must go according to plan.

After the long wait, Luhan already arrived with So Hee and we started the party. It was fun. I mean, we are always so stressed out about school so doing something worthwhile is very refreshing. We had games and such so that the party would be memorable. I saw Kai and Luhan talked. I hope they settle things now. Kai is a very mature person so I know that he will take actions to his decisions.

It was quarter to 8 already so we started cleaning up. So Hee said she will just catch up because she left her phone inside the room. As expected, we came in late and Suho immediately explained why we did so and Mr. Jung allowed us to take our seats already. It's really nice to see that everyone is well, after that incident with Luhan, we are finally at peace.

"Now that half of the class are already here, let's start our lesson." Mr. Jung said. He walked towards the black board and started scribbling the topic on it when somebody knocked on the door; it was the Dean, Mr. Han. "Can I have a word with you Mr. Jung?" he asked. Our teacher excused himself and walked over to the Dean. After a few minutes, Mr. Jung came back with a student.

"Class, it seems like there is someone who wanted to join us." He said.

The students became silent the moment they noticed her. All the attention was on her now. This girl was the one I saw with Suho earlier. She looks different up-close. Suddenly, I felt cold. I looked at the air conditioner and it was on "1" so it means that it was not supposed to be chilly. I felt weird.

"You may want to introduce yourself young lady." Said Mr. Jung. The said student bowed to him and faced us. I looked at her and the chills worsen.

"Hi. My name is Min Luna. It was very nice to meet you everyone," the she bowed towards the class. We did the same for her.

"You may now take a seat." Mr. Jung told her and she started moving her way towards Luhan. So Hee was not around so maybe she assumed that it was an available seat but she only stopped next to him and faced the seat at his right where Baekhyun was seated. "Can I take this seat?" she asked him. Her voice was sweet and very charming. Baekhyun wasted no time and took his backpack to let her occupy the seat next to him. She smiled and sat cautiously. I saw that she's very well mannered. Then she looked at Luhan and Luhan did the same. They exchange smiles and turned their heads towards Mr. Jung.

She's mysterious. Normally I can put people in groups like Suho belongs to the conceited people's group, while Lay belongs to the out-dated group. I can't put her to any group, just like Luhan when he first came to school. I shake the thought off my head. Her personality is not my business. I have other things to think about. Maybe she's just weird, especially her smile. I'll just stay away from her to stop interrogating her. By just looking at her, I can say that she can't be trusted.

After a few minutes, the bell rang indicating the class is over. It was lunch time already. The teacher went out the classroom along with some of my classmates. There are only a few now who are still inside the classroom including us. Suho stood up and walked towards her seat. They started talking then Suho took her hand and pulled her over to us.

"Guys! I would like you to meet Luna. Luna, these are my friends." Suho said and started introducing us to her. The chills are still there, but it's bearable. Suho started introducing each of us to her. When it was finally my turn to be introduced, she looked at me and our eyes locked. Her eyes are that of a deep shade of brown. It was beautiful. But I still don't feel comfortable with her, it's like she's hiding something… whatever it is, I don't care. As long as she don't cause trouble…

"Sorry about that, okay moving on, that guy's name is Kyungsoo." Suho introduced me to her and I just looked at her with uninterested eyes.

"Hi. I'm Luna. Nice to meet…you…" she held out her hand tome for a handshake but unlike Baekhyun and Chanyeol, I just manage look at her and shrugged. She slowly put her hand down. Suho looked at me for being rude and wanted to say something but Luna beat her to that. "It's okay, I guess couldn't please everyone, you know. It was still nice to meet you." She smiled and bowed her head towards me. it made me feel awkward, but still… I don't want to be involved with her. The introduction went on until it was Luhan's turn to be introduced.

"Luna, this is Luhan. He's the one I told you about, the same case with you." Suho said and told Luhan to come closer.

"Hi." Luhan said. He looked at her and she smiled.

"Hello, I'm Luna." She offered her hand to him and he took it.

"Luhan. I'm Luhan." He added. Luna broke the handshake first. "Your hand is very warm. I really wanted to meet you when Suho said that you are also new here" She said. There was something different to the way he looks at Luhan, or maybe I'm just imagining things. Luhan just smiled then suddenly the door opened and So Hee went inside.

She shifted her gaze towards So Hee and at that moment, she looks like she really hated her. I turned my head towards So Hee's direction and she was looking at her with surprise eyes.

The others looked at her too and Suho called her to come closer. She complied.

"Where have you been? Why didn't you attend class earlier?" Luhan asked. So Hee looked at him and smiled.

"Oh, we have an emergency at home…" she said then turned her attention to Luna.

"You're just in time, So Hee! I'm introducing her to the group." Suho said. He pulled So Hee until she was standing in front of Luna. It seems like she doesn't know what to say to her so Luna spoke first.

"Yoon So Hee, right?" she asked. I looked at her with confusion. How can she know So Hee if it's her first time to be in here?

"Do you know her?" Suho asked. She nodded. Then So Hee smiled at her.

"We met each other on the Bus stop last week." So Hee said. "It was raining that time so I went to her and told her that there are no available buses that time so I offered her my umbrella and asked her to just come with me to the Train station…" she added.

"If she didn't help me, I could have walked home." Luna exclaimed. She then looked at So Hee and smiled. "I told you that I'll tell you my name when we meet again. I'm Min Luna. Thank you for helping Me." she then bowed her head for So Hee. I don't know but there's something weird with her statement, 'when we meet again…' it's as if she's certain that they'll see each other again.

"Hello, Luna… you also have a nice name…" So Hee answered and bowed her head to her. Maybe they really talked when they saw each other that night. The others doesn't seem to care of what they are talking about so why should i?

"So… what do you say about adding another member to the group?" Suho suggested. I faced Suho and wanted to protest when the others already decided.

"That would be great!" Chen added the looked at Kyungsoo, "What do you think?" he asked me. I looked at him and just shrugged and said,"You decide."I guess I just take what everyone decides. I don't want to cause any trouble myself.

"Then there's no reason to disagree…" Lay said.

"So it's settled then! Luna, welcome to the group!" Suho said and patted her shoulders.

Everyone smiled at her and she did the same. I just tuned my gaze towards the window because unlike the others, I still doubt her. I know she was looking at me but managed to ignore her. She just turned back her gaze back to Suho.

"I'm so happy to meet all of you guys…" she said.

"Actually, there's still one more guy to introduce to you but he's not here at the moment because of a competition." Suho answered. "You'll meet him soon."

"Okay…" was her only reply. After the introductions and welcome, we heard a growling sound.

"What was that?" Xiumin asked. All of our attention turned towards Baekhyun when he raised his hand.

"That was me. I'm hungry already!" he exclaimed. Then suddenly the room was filled with the sound of laughter of everybody. We almost forgot that it was lunch time already.

"Okay, okay. We will go to the cafeteria now, I'm already hungry myself." Suho said and everyone started walking towards the door when Suho notices Luna not moving from her spot.

"You coming?" he asked. Luna looked at him, smiled and shakes her head slowly.

"Maybe next time." She answered. Suho hesitated at first but seeing that she might be doing something, he waves his goodbye and catch up with us. She was now the only one left inside the classroom.

When we are already out of the building, I looked up towards the window of our classroom and saw her looking at us after she sensed that I was looking at her, I immediately turned my eyes back on track. I don't understand but I really don't like what I feel about her. It was like she's up to something that I couldn't figure out. I was startled when somebody patted my shoulders.

"You're spacing a lot today, hyung." Kai said.

"I think I'm just tired…" I reasoned out. I'm really tired of thinking, of looking for answers. I just closed my eyes to free my head from too much stress.

"Then why don't you take a rest after we eat lunch? I'll take you to the clinic if you want…" he suggested. That was a good idea. Maybe if I sleep for a while it'll help me clear my mind.

"That'll be great, thanks…" I answered. At this kind of situation, I'm really thankful that my best friend is there to help me loosen up a bit. I feel bad that I couldn't do anything for him when he's stress himself but I know that I need to warn him of what is bothering me.

"Kai…" I called out. We are five steps behind from the others so I know they can't hear of what we are talking about.

"Yes hyung?" he asked.

"You trust me right?" I looked at him and he looks confused but still managed to answer.

"Of course, I can even trust you with my life…" he answered truthfully.

"I have something to ask of you…"

"What is it?"

"Keep away from Luna…" he looks shocked and was about to ask me why but I beat him to it. "She can't be trusted…" he looked back at the path and I did the same.

"I don't know what you're thinking right now hyung but I guess there's nothing wrong with following you…" he said and smiled.

"Thank you…"

"What are friends for, remember?" he said and squeezed my hand gently. The others started calling for us and we walked together towards them.

It's always better to be cautious when you're not sure…

END OF CHAPTER 7.