I felt a tap on my shoulder so I glanced at them, "Hello there!" he greeted.
And who could this be?
"I'm Miles Cha if you're wondering." he responded to the question I still had in mind to ask, how nice…
It was like he could read my inner voice or something.
"You're from Australia, aren't you?" I asked.
"Yes ma'am, our school frankly has a ton of foreigners." and, of course, there were a lot of them.
I smiled as our conversation went on till we arrived at the front of the school.
I suddenly became uneasy but I didn't mind it at all since I had to be somewhere else.
"Oh yeah, you still have a good memory, correct?" Sora stopped me and asked, just how many times has she questioned me about the same thing? "Of course."
I replied for the 12th time, she doubted me but I assured her by reciting the names of the ones we hung out with at the café. But why would she be concerned about that?
'Do they often forget each others' names?'
Well, I guess this happens a lot when you have more friends who even have tricky names to pronounce.
We resumed walking into the school grounds, the place looked like it came out of an anime series.
It was neat but for now, I wouldn't want to let my guard down.
Such a shame… 'I knew it!'
I realized that the two beside me were no longer around, even though I couldn't read anyone by their facial expressions, I had a feeling that I was currently the center of attention.
"Who is she?" said the first, "Yeah, I know right? She's pretty." the second commented, the third then there was a fourth, and so on…
I could hear all their chatter about me yet it wasn't that big of a deal.
I went directly to Miss Eun's office. She must have been the one who sent that driver to pick me up from New York. Since I saw the same car he used to bring me here, I thought it was MY mother.
I sighed at the truth, I couldn't believe that I expected it from her.
This school was my first and will probably be my last, I'm not sure.
"(Miss Lou, I see that you're lost. Please proceed in building B to your west then walk to the end of the corridor.)" the speaker went on, can this day get any worse?
'Don't tell me she'll be watching me herself from now on...'
I get that my father wasn't the type you could trust but do people have to go this far?
It was not like they were some kind of a spy nor am I in any kind of danger.
I couldn't help but be more cautious than ever, now that I knew who exactly was sending those people back to New York to watch my every action.
I knocked on the door and was given permission to enter but I could not open it, then I thought of something! I tried to move it sideways and it slid open to the so I immediately got in, and then I greeted the school director, Miss Eun.
"Do take a seat." she spoke and I obeyed. "So, what do you think? Isn't this place a beauty?"
She smiled at me, pouring some kind of beverage before handing it over.
I tried not to cut the conversation so early and I replied.
"When I entered this place, it somehow resembled a fictitious location." I started formally, sipping on the drink she handed to me. 'She knew my choice of beverage.'
She chuckled before getting to the point, Miss Eun passed a form, specifically, the directions around.
"It has been a while and I had heard of your amnesia... I hope you still know me." she finished, pointing back at the door for me to exit her office.
One thing I never really made sure of was the fact that the people here in school or even outside the area might not know that I didn't remember any of them.
I do not want anyone to be taken aback when I can't tell who they were, I should probably head on to my first class but before that, I searched for my locker as I followed the directions given to me.
'There's a day off from school? And it's Thursday, good enough for me.'
At last, the locker was just right around where my class was.
The people who passed by kept on gossiping though I could hear them, yet the issue wasn't them.
Instead, my locker seemed to be filled with something and the smell from inside was kind of familiar.
Something I was not quite fond of.
Minced garlic…
I hesitated whether or not to open it but of course, I chose to do something I had sadly regretted throughout my entire high school life experience.
'But I might have needed to put on a show.'
I then unlocked it letting everything from the inside fall without getting a single smudge on me.
"What the?!" acting as if I didn't see this coming, all their eyes were narrowed at me while the only thing I could do was slowly step back.
"Eww! What is that?" they diversely exclaimed.
I exhaled in relief that my new uniform was not ruined until suddenly I was pushed.
How unfortunate... 'This was not exactly what I expected.'
"How's the view? Is the feeling you're feeling close to what I experienced during my childhood?" a voice spoke yet all I did was to keep my head down low and tried to get up without much trouble but she did not let me go off that easily.
She took hold of my hand before shoving me back onto the ground, I didn't dare look elsewhere other than the floor, staring at the minced garlic which irritated me the most.
"By the way, Yeonju. When did you prepare all these?" she laughed.
"Surely you wouldn't have done this all by yourself, right? After all, she is your cousin too so why be on my side?" she continued, bragging about the fact that he chose not to mess with her instead of me.
I was frustrated to the point that I took a handful of the same icky matter then stood upright as I smashed it onto her uniform as well.
Indeed, I just returned the favor to my sister but did she ever consider our relationship? Nope.
I can't possibly ignore her wrong deeds and neither should everyone else since it was against what they taught regarding the school's policy.
She scoffed in disbelief while the other students started taking pictures of their so-called Queen of Mischief. I already knew a lot about this place so there was no issue except recognizing them.
'She was the one who spread all those fake rumors about me so it was only fair I stood up for myself...'
No one bothered to step in between the two of us as we just stood still, glaring at one other.
'Though I didn't know where her eyes were at…'
"Eonni!" Sora insisted on pushing Lee Haesu away from me, my friend took hold of my hand as she tried leading me out of there yet again, the mischievous queen just shouted.
"This is all your fault, if you had not stayed in contact with that spoiled brat then she wouldn't have decided to meddle with our lives." I froze as Haesu blamed Sora, none of us wanted this so why put the blame on someone so innocent?
"Haesu-eonni, she's your sister." Sora tried not to raise her voice knowing that her friend was still older than her, but there was no use in reminding her that since she disowned me long before this day.
"Sister? As if." they argued as the rest of their friends attempted to get in between the two but ended up taking sides. I, on the other hand, was standing on the side like I was not a part of this…
"No, you are just being cruel." the younger friend retaliate.
I aggressively tried to remove all the irritating smudged minced garlic from the blouse, it was not possible to get it off now so I'll just ask for another one...
In a short amount of time, everyone became silent the moment an adult finally came to end the war.
The guys were told to take care of the mess in the hall before joining the rest of us in the lecture room for an entire hour until every single one of us involved had cooled off.
--Author's Point of View--
"Time out! Every one of you within the crowd, follow me." the commotion came to a stop once the school's Director arrived at the scene, she indicated the group of friends to head to the lecture room as the crowd dispersed in the halls.
Haesu shoved past her younger sister to guide everyone to the lecture room because some of them had never entered that place until that very day unlike the others who practically spent their time there more than once a week.
Honey Lou stayed far back from the rest as they followed after the middle-aged woman.
"What a fun way to spend my first day…" she whispered.