The Broken Girl At Table 9

9 - Okay

Things have gradually settled down after my encounter with Jeongyeon and Mina last week. I eventually fell back into my daily routine of attending classes, training, hanging out with my friends and going back to my place. Only one thing was unusual with my routine, and that was because of a certain tall brooding girl that has been with me these past few days.

In fact she was sitting in front of me as we have our lunch in the restaurant of my pick today. That's what we've been doing these past few days, spending our lunch together to whichever place we want. At first, I was surprised to see her outside of my classroom waiting for me and when she saw me, she just asked me to have lunch with her. After the first time, it slowly became our thing to spend lunch together, just the two of us and even though I'm still confused about this sudden arrangement, I'm not complaining.

Momo and Sana knew everything but not once did they pushed me to answer for things I clearly have no idea about, both girls were understanding, saying that we always spend time together and even thanking me because they could use their own lunch breaks to be with the person they like. Figures.

"Why are you staring again, Im?" Jeongyeon's annoyed tone broke me out of my thoughts. My eyes focused back on her face only to see her looking at me with a raised eyebrow.

"What?" I asked.

"You're just staring at me, why?" She clarified.

"I am?" I cleared my throat, "I mean, yes, I am, no-I ugh-" I sighed, decided to stop myslef from further embarrassment. Jeongyeon's amused smirk is not helping either.

I feel my cheeks burn as I glared at her, "Don't dare say a word, Yoo. "

She chuckled, "Seriously, you were so lost in thought. Is it because I'm just too pretty or there's really something on your mind?" she teased.

"Yes," I answered absentmindedly as I tried to calm myself. There was a pause for a second before I heard her cough. It was my my turn to look at her in amusement as her face turned red.

"I'm rubbing off on you," I smirked.

"Shut up," Jeongyeon grumbled.

I laughed at her for a while before we settled back to silence as we finished up our lunch. My thoughts came back in my mind as the silence drag, my eyes locked on her as I tried to form the question I wanted to ask.

"Yoo Jeongyeon," I called her attention and when she looked at me, I paused, "Why?" That's the only word that came out of my mouth.

When she stared at me in confusion, I steeled myself to ask again, "Why are you here with me?" It took her several seconds to respond. I respected the silence that had fallen on us as I wait for her to say something.

In the end she shrugged, "Just my way of thanking you."

"Yeah right," I scoffed, "Come on, Jeong, just tell me why you're spending time with me rather than with miss perfect, " Instead of her usual snarky reply whenever I speak of Mina that way, all I get was a satisfied smile.

I look at her confused, "What are you smiling about?"

"You called me Jeong," She said with a wide grin.

That's where realization hits me and to hide my embarrassment, I try to play it cool, "You're name is too long."

"You seem to like saying my full name though," She mumbled and when I glared at her she shrugged changing the topic, "This is my way of thanking you, Nayeon, believe me."

"By hanging out with me?" I replied.

A look of uncertainty now on her face, "Yeah, I mean, you found me and took care of me," She avoided my eyes, "So, thank you, and I figured being friends with you isn't that bad."