𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗧 𝗖𝗛𝗢𝗖𝗢 ➵ 𝗁𝖺𝗇 𝖾𝗎𝗇-𝗀𝗒𝖾𝗈𝗅

1.

It was weird. How the boy she met yesterday was asking for the year and at how he was startled while looking at her best friend, she was surprised when he addressed him as his 'dad' when in fact they look like they are in the same age. Even when Jang-Mi made a joke about it to Yi-Chan, she is still weirded out by the boy they met, he introduced himself as Yoon Dong-Jin.

She doubt that his name was actually Yoon Dong-Jin, but he knows a lot so Yi-Chan wasn't that suspicious or doubtful like how Jang-Mi suspects the boy. But then again, Yi-Chan was quite gullible or he would be suspecting someone but would brush it off.

"You what?!" Slamming her palm on the wooden table, her eyes were wide open as she looks at her best friend who sheepishly look away with a grin on his face. "You started a band?!" Her brows were knitted together, Yi-Chan could practically see question marks floating on her head as he watch how she was eyeing him like he was stupid.

And in this case, he actually is.

"Are you crazy?! You don't even know how to tune a guitar, so how could you know how to strum it!" Grabbing both of his shoulders and shaking him rather harshly but she didn't care and whining noise left the boy's lips, he was getting dizzy by how harsh and hard she was shaking him. "You don't know any instrument!" She continues to nag and shouts, not caring when their neighbour could hear them.

Then her eyes slowly landed on the boy sitting next to Yi-Chan who only watch as she harasses the other, he was currently staying in with the Ha's in the Snail Garden, she heard from Yi-Chan's grandmother that the boy was the troublemaker's tutor. She then let go of her best friend's shoulder and squints her eyes at him.

"So, he's not Yoon Dong-Jin like how I speculated." Jang-Mi leaned on her arm as she prop both of her hand on the floor, her legs are crossed together as the three of them are sitting on the floor. "What's your name?" Tilting her head to the side, she can see how the boy seem to be nervous under her gaze. He was more nervous now rather than when Yi-Chan's grandmother was testing him and giving him equations to solve earlier.

"Ha Eun-Gyeol, 18-year-old." The boy whom introduces himself as Eun-Gyeol bow his head as both of his hands are place on his knees, he was bowing as a sign of respect.. to his elders.

"Oh, you're older than me." The best friend of Eun-Gyeol's father exclaim, her eyes widening as she fix her posture and place her fist in her palm. "You wouldn't mind if I call you 'Oppa', right?" Yi-Chan's eyes widen at the inquiry of his best friend, he is older than her but he never heard her call him by that endearment or that sign of respect.

Eun-Gyeol only shook his head and smile at her. He couldn't help but to find her actions quite cute.

"Then, Oppa, why were you pretending to be someone yesterday?" Her investigation goes on, Eun-Gyeol was surprised as he thought that the girl would let it slide and would forget about it but boy, was he wrong, Sol Jang-Mi never forgets. Sweat roll down the 18-year-old Eun-Gyeol's face as he was beinf interrogated by a 'measly' 17-year-old Sol Jang-Mi.

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Ha Eun-Gyeol is a mystery, he looks fine, his face is really attractive if Sol Jang-Mi could say. The girl also finds his personality quite funny, he reminds her of Yi-Chan, at how gullible he was, Yi-Chan was joking about unicorns but the boy immediately believed it and look at where Yi-Chan was pointing at. He is extremely smart, Jang-Mi couldn't belive that the things that weren't taught in her class yet, Eun-Gyeol knows about it.

But his sudden appearance and inquire about the date seems questionable but Sol Jang-Mi decided to let it slide.

For now.

"Future?" Jang-Mi repeared Eun-Gyeol's word, he looks serious about it as he stare at her. The two of them were casually talking to each other while Yi-Chan was at school, Jang-Mi and Yi-Chan don't go to the same school but she actually has classes today but was last minute cancelled by her classroom teacher due to an accident.

"What do you mean?" Her brows furrowee as she looks at him, her eyes observing his behaviour to his clothes, it was Yi-Chan's. "I came from the future.. I don't know how I got here." Eun-Gyeol continue to explain his situation, Jang-Mi just listen and try to see if he was lying about it.

It was not often she hear jokes about this kind of thing, but Eun-Gyeol look so serious when telling her. Her eyes scan his whole body for any movement that indicates that he was just joking or lying to her. But there were no any sign.

"Hmm.." she just let out a hum, wondering what could she ask him to see if he was actually frank abouy his statement of being in the future.

Eun-Gyeol eyes her with inquisitive eyes, his gaze travelling down to her hair that shines when the sunrays would hit her, down to her eyes, it was in earthy tones. He could feel sense of warmth under the gaze of Jang-Mi. Then he could see tiny freckles that decorates her face flawlessly, it was like they were in the correct places that accentuate her looks. Eun-Gyeol couldn't help but to glance at her lips when she suddenly lick them, it was pouty and there weren't any lipstick nor lipgloss adorning them, they were naturally pink and moist to the eyes.

"Well," his thoughts were cut off when Jang-Mi suddenly spoke, his eyes going back to her eyes, seeing that under the hazel tone of her eyes, she believes him. "I guess you wouldn't lie about some things like this." She flashes him a smile, showing off her pearly white teeth—that her mother forced her to go to the dentist two or three times a month. "You were visibly confused when we saw you yesterday, and you just stole someone's identity as well in order to find a place to stay."

Sol Jang-Mi truly believed him. There were no options for not. As she could clearly see that the boy was telling her the truth and no one would tell a lie like this. She was a walking lie detector after all.

"But, you shouldn't live your life here in 1995 all dressed in Yi-Chan's.. clothes." Jang-Mi want to tell it loudly at how unfashionable her best friend's clothes were but she find some clothes to be cute.. the one she picked for him.

Eun-Gyeol watch as she rambles and rambles about things he don't understand, he was too in awe of her face rather than what's coming out of her mouth. Surely, if her dad is friend with someone like Sol Jang-Mi, an attractive girl and his best friend, Yi-Chan of the future would have tell a story or two about her. Wouldn't he?

Unless, there were more to it than what meets the eye.

♡︎༄,'; ALSEPHINA'S NOTE:

MINT CHOCO! I deeply apologize for the long wait. Been too busy with school works, since they're rushing the end of the school year.

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