The Difference | MiMin

Part 6

Monday morning, as expected, we were rushing. No time for breakfast, no time for showering, especially since Miyeon forgot to set her dozen annoying alarms (that we secretly learned to depend on), last night.

Gosh, Miyeon and I have an exam today. Did I review? Of course not, apparently we both forgot about it. Meh. If I was meant to fail, I'll fail. Nah, just kidding. I have to make a quick review before the prof came. I'm not a sucker for high grades, don't get me wrong, I just don't like the feeling of failing either.

During my first year in CUBE, I felt so inferior from the other students who are the same age as me. Since, first and second year students don't have majors yet, we have the same classes but are grouped according to our skills, which put me to the lowest level in addition to me being a foreigner. My friends moved to the Advanced class on our second year while I was left at the Beginners'. At that time, I met Soyeon, again, who was on her first year. We became dorm mates, and she helped me a lot. She patiently tried to understand my Hangeul and corrected me whenever I was wrong, and then we met Soojin and...

Wait. I got lost from what I wanted to point out. Anyways, my point is, that feeling of being left alone at the Beginners' Class made me hate failing in anything. I don't try to over-achieve as well as I don't see the point in it. I always try to be in the middle, if possible. Which made my life boring, I guess.

As I glanced to my right, Miyeon seems worried looking at her few notes.

"Why?"

"I don't like Math. I think I'm gonna fail this." The distressed look on her face made me want to laugh, but I hold it.

"It's okay! Let's fail together!"

We laughed together at that, before Miss Lim entered the room.

An hour and a half ended, we checked our papers and... Hey, I passed! Well, barely, but at least I passed. That's enough for me.

Give me an exam in language proficiency and I'll aced it, but Math? No thank you.

"Hooo... Please remind me later to find a tutor in Math." My seatmate/dorm mate quietly grumbled.

"How about that new Professor, Sir Lee?" Her eyes rose from her paper. Uh oh, why is she looking weirdly at me? I gulped an invisible lump in my throat. "Did I say something wrong?"

"Can we please not mention him in any conversation?" Oh? What's wrong with her? The last time I checked, they're good friends, he even helped her in the last evaluation?

"Why?"

"I felt bad about all his efforts. He even taught me the choreography, and I promised not to mess my performance, but I still did."

"Yah, it's okay! Everyone makes mistake, and what happened to you wasn't a big deal. Just do better this week, or the week after, I'm sure you'll overcome your stage fright eventually."

"Thanks. But what should I do with Seo Ho-oppa?"

"Uhh.. I don't know, just apologize like any normal person would do?"

She narrowed her eyes and sarcastically said, "Gee, thanks Minnie, that's really helpful, I didn't even think of that."

I shrugged, "No problem. Glad I could help."

I gave her my sweetest smile, to tease her further. She sighed, which made me smirk. I'm so mean. Hehehe.

Lunch break came, and we went to the cafeteria which was quite crowded today. I couldn't see the other girls.

"Wait here, I'll go find the kids." I was afraid that Miyeon would grow awkward of eating with me alone for the first time since usually either Yuqi and Shuhua or Soojin and Soyeon would join us, so I volunteered to search for any of the girls.