fall into u | nishimura riki 엔하이픈

02

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

Riki stares at the girl, his mouth hanging open slightly as he processes what just happened.

Did he just get...rejected?

Jungwon's sniggers pull him back into the present, the boy trying to stifle his laughter in front of Jia. Who, surprisingly, looks quite confused at their reactions.

She looks between them both a few times before turning quickly to leave, and as soon as she does so, Jungwon erupts into fits of laughter.

"I did warn you!" He exclaims as he pats Riki's shoulders in what should be a reassuring way, but was more aggressive if anything.

"She's so...odd." Riki says blankly, looking out for the girl that has already disappeared.

"She has no filter." Jungwon says, his cheeks red from laughing hysterically.

"No shit. I've never experienced such a hard rejection in my life." Riki mumbles as he rolls his eyes. This causes Jungwon to start laughing again, to which Riki playfully hits him. "Whatever, I'll just annoy her until she gives in."

"Good luck with that." Jungwon says with a sly smirk before patting Riki's back and walking into his class.

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

As expected, Riki found Jia sat in the library, alone, surrounded by textbooks. She looks very focused, a pair of circular reading glasses sitting on the end of her nose as she scribbles down something onto her notebook.

Riki felt reluctant to go over, seeing how concentrated she looked whilst doing her work.

Honestly, he didn't want to be in the library at all. He detested it.

The suffocating silence made him physically uncomfortable; he felt as if he couldn't breathe.
He grunts lowly before walking over to her table, wanting to leave as soon as possible.

When he reaches her table, he quietly pulls out a chair next to her and sits down, waiting for her to notice him. However, she doesn't.

She continues to write quickly on her paper, occasionally glancing up at the messily annotated book propped up in front of her.

Riki looks around, feeling incredibly awkward and a bit creepy as he sits there watching her work. He decides to cough quietly to catch her attention. Her head quickly snaps up, her expression quickly morphing into an annoyed one as she recognises him.

"What do you want?" she whispers as her eyebrows furrow together in annoyance.

"I'd like to ask you again if you'd consider doing an interview with me, it would only be short, we could even do it now-"

"I gave you my answer the first time, I won't be changing my mind." She whispers, a frown falling onto her face.

Riki sits there silently, before slowly growing annoyed at the whole situation. Heeseung was expecting an article by the end of next week, and he couldn't even get a student to answer a few questions for him. How much of a failure is he?

"Listen, I really need to complete this article and I know you'd be a good representative for top performing students, so please reconsider." Riki asks, politely as possible despite the irritation he felt.

She removes her glasses, before looking back at him, a blank expression on her face. "Like I said, I'm not interested in your article."

"But- why?" Riki mutters at the girl, "it's not as if I'm asking for much, why are you being so difficult?"

"I don't owe you anything, now please leave me alone." She hisses angrily, the tone of her voice laced with finality.

"This could benefit you too." Riki adds, feeling like some sort of a business man trying to make a deal.

Jia's eyes narrow, and Riki swears he sees some sort of a smirk appear on her face before it quickly disappears. "Oh really? Go on and give me one way in which this would be beneficial to me."

Riki's mind goes completely blank, and he accepts defeat. He huffs before standing up from the chair and pushing it under the table forcefully. He throws a dirty look over his shoulder at the girl as he exits, to which he receives one back.

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

"You look miserable."

Jia looks up, her frown immediately disappearing as she sees Sunoo stood next to her. He was a bright and cheerful boy, and one of her closest friends out of the few she had.

"Maybe it's because I'm being constantly harassed by some weird guy who wants to interview me." Jia mumbles as she turns back to her work and Sunoo takes a seat next to her.

"You make it sound like you're a celebrity!" Sunoo whispers, or tries to. He seems to find it difficult to adjust the volume of his voice depending on the environments he's in. "So why is he trying to interview you?"

"The school newspaper club is doing an article on the highest performing students, and I have a feeling Jungwon put my name forward." Jia explains, thinking back to when Jungwon introduced her to the creepy journalist guy earlier in the day.

"Ah I see- so why are you so against being interviewed?" Sunoo asks out of curiosity. He knew Jia kept to herself, and wasn't one who liked attention, but it was an article on something important to her.

"I just don't want my name plastered on the school newspaper, and I have nothing to say about my achievements in school. It's just normal for me." Jia responds, shrugging slightly as she looks up at Sunoo.

"Well, it's your decision at the end of the day." Sunoo reassures with a small smile, before his face quickly morphed into a serious expression. "But if he continues to pester you, let me know and I'll sort him out."

Jia giggles at Sunoo's comment, not being able to take his threat or his serious facial expression seriously. He was too cute.

"Okay champ, I'm now officially making you my personal body guard." Jia says with a smirk as she leans forward to poke him on the nose.

Sunoo rolls his eyes sassily and sighs dramatically at his friend. "I'm being serious, he sounds weird! Who knows, he might even turn up outside asking for an interview."

"Don't say that!" Jia groans, hitting Sunoo on the shoulder with her notebook lightly.

"You have nothing to worry about, you have your own personal body guard now anyway." Sunoo says jokingly with a wink as he points at himself.

"I feel safer already" Jia says with a sigh as she relaxes back against her chair.