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Siyeon was sitting in her history class bored out of her mind as she aimlessly tugged on the bottom of her pencil. She sighed as she realized that she had a whole of twenty minutes left. Why did time pass by so slowly?
At the thought of time her mind immediately went to that strange night in Paris last month where time had suddenly stopped for a while.
It happened a lot actually, that her mind unconsciously went to that night whenever someone talked about time, Paris or love in general.
She jumped when she felt a piece of paper hit her on the arm.
"Hey!" She whispered out and turned to her best friend Minji who muffled a laugh. Seemingly happy that she had hit her and not missed and having the ball of paper fly over the room instead.
"Sorry... you where out, again." She whispered back and gave her a wink. Siyeon blushed bashfully, it wasn't the first time her friend had seen her absentminded like that.
"Why do you even look at me? Focus on the professor you bad student!" Siyeon shot back and her friend rose her eyebrows slightly. Really Siyeon? Now you're just asking for it.
"I could say the same to you miss Lee." She chuckled as she saw the tinted red grace her friend's cheeks and decided to turn around, sparing her some further teasing but oh how Minji wanted to keep teasing her friend about her constant states of daydreaming. She knew her friend met a girl on her vacation and she just knew that she was thinking about her and it just spiced her urge to tease her about it.
Siyeon tried her utterly best to turn her focus on the professor but her friend had made it even harder for her to not think about the strange girl. It had been a month and she still missed her. She missed a stranger, how was that even possible. Not even her friends knew that she missed her... only that she thought about that night a lot, she didn't dare to tell them because they would just tell her to get over it because it's not like she would ever see her again...
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"Hey, are we going over to Yoohyeon's tonight?" Siyeon asked Minji as they where walking from class.
"If you mean "going over to Yoohyeon's" as in go over to her room that's located right opposite ours in the hall then yes." Minji laughed at how her friend made it sound like they didn't live in the same corridor. Siyeon huffed with a smile.
"Yeah yeah, I just like saying it like that and not the same old "ah let's go into Yoohyeon's room tonight", it sounds more legit." Siyeon tried to explain while exaggerating her hand movements but Minji threw her head back in laughter.
"Lee Siyeon don't ever say legit like that again." She demanded playfully as she pinched her cheek. "You're lucky that you're cute." She released her cheek and Siyeon pulled her hand up to caress the red spot with a pout.
"You know what I mean." She tried and saw her friend's expression soften a little as she nodded.
"I know what you mean I'm just teasing." She said while scrunching her nose while taking a hold of her friend's arm.
Siyeon honestly didn't like teasing. She was too used to her sister always teasing her when she was home on vacation, it wasn't the same thing when her friends did it though but it still hurt her a little. She have always struggled with her confidence and it didn't help when people teased her just for fun when in reality she would just take it personally, like she was lacking on something.
"Do you think she have fixed it though?" Siyeon asked and Minji scoffed.
"Yoohyeon would never, and trust me, never forget to fix a new game that's for sure." Minji said reassuringly as they stopped by their room to grab the stuff needed for their next and last class for the day.
"You're right." Siyeon chuckled. Yoohyeon was the only person crazier in games than her and she loved that they had that in common. Minji had only jumped on the gaming train because of her girlfriend so all three of them could play together.
"And you know for how long she waited for that game to release too, I wouldn't be surprised if she was hanging by her mailbox down in the lobby every morning for the past week waiting for her preordered game to arrive." Minji exaggerated in a dramatic tone and watched as Siyeon fell into laughter on her bed.
"That's so true, I can totally see her doing that." Siyeon said as she pictured her friend hanging by her mailbox. Suddenly she felt a light slap on her butt.
"Hey we still have a class to go to."
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Siyeon and Minji stood outside of Yoohyeon's door and frowned when their friend didn't open up.
"Should we text Yubin? She must know where her roommate is?" Minji suggested but both girls froze when they heard beeping sounds from inside of the room. They looked at each other knowingly.
"She is... Isn't she?" Siyeon asked and Minji nodded while inhaling deeply.
"I won't say that I'm surprised..." She said in disbelief and lifted her hand to knock harshly on her girlfriend's door.
"I'M COMING WAIT A SECOND!" They heard from inside and both girls facepalmed themselves. They heard muffled curses and the sound of something sliding and crashing from the inside.
A minute later Yoohyeon opened the door slowly to reveal an annoyed friend and an even more annoyed girlfriend. She chuckled a little in embarrassment while scratching her neck.
"Come in..." she said and stepped aside to let them inside, both girls shot her a glance as they passed her in the doorway. Not letting her breath even for a second without showing how annoyed they where.
"Hey I'm sorry, it came this morning and it was my only motivation getting through the day!" She blamed but the girls didn't look so convinced.
"At least I let you inside even though I knew you would be mad at me..." she pressed but they didn't budge, they just stood there and looked at her in disbelief. Making the slightly taller girl feel even more regretful.
"You said we would play it together Yooh, for how long have you been playing? I thought we decided on meeting 7? Couldn't you wait just a few hours?" Minji asked sounding a bit hurt and Yoohyeon's heart broke at the sight of the girl's expression. She slowly went up to her them.
"I'm sorry... for real... I should've waited for you. I know you where just as excited as I was for it's release. I should've waited..." she said filled with guilt with tears forming in her eyes. It was typical Yoohyeon. She felt so much that even knowing she hurt a person made her cry.
"Hey Yooh, it's fine, really. At least we can play it now! You can just teach us and we don't have to struggle with getting to know the game for the whole night." Siyeon tried to lighten the mood as she stepped closer to pull her friend in for a tight hug. Yoohyeon sniffled in the crook of her neck.
"T-thank you." She said as she pulled away to look at Minji who was looking back at her plainly.
"Min..." Yoohyeon started but she didn't get to finish before the girl threw her arms around her.
"It's okay baby. I'm sorry for exaggerating and making you feel bad, it wasn't my intention, of course it's okay, I'm so sorry." She said while hugging the startled girl tightly. It was also typical for Minji to feel bad after seeing Yoohyeon tear up, she always did even though she didn't do or say anything wrong. As soon as the taller girl relaxed she hugged her back. They stayed like that for a moment and Minji caressed her girlfriend’s hair softly.
"Guys I'm third-wheeling here..." Siyeon coughed lowly and the pair parted from each other. They gave Siyeon an apologetic look before they settled on Yoohyeon's bed. The gamer girl had installed a small tv in her room so she could be granted access to her games anytime and they always spent their free days cuddled up on the bed playing.
"This track is an international one, we can play in which city we want!" Yoohyeon exclaimed as she swiped through the different cities on the map.
"Isn't it a little unfair that you get to play with a cart that you've already upgraded a few times before we arrived?" Minji asked with a pout and watched as Yoohyeon's expression fainted. Having already thrown in the towel, acknowledging her loss to her girlfriend who always won. She didn't mind though, she didn’t mind at all.
"You can play with it if you want." She said buttered and handed her the console she was playing with. Minji took it and kissed her cheek, she had gotten what she wanted. She knew her girlfriend was better than her anyway.
Siyeon looked at the couple and faked being hurt while bringing a hand up to her chest.
"This is unfair, you can't bias each other because you are a couple." She pouted and Yoohyeon stuck out her tongue.
"When you get a girlfriend you'll understand Singnie." She said while pecking her girlfriend's cheek. Siyeon looked at them with admiration. Was it weird that she wanted a relationship just like her friends had?
She watched as Minji snuggled closer to Yoohyeon while intertwining their fingers lovingly.
No not weird at all. She answered her own thought with a smile tugging on her lips.
Her mind unconsciously went to the stranger in Paris. How her warm hand felt in hers, how affectionate she had been even though they didn't know one another. How would it be to have a relationship with her... to be with her for more than just a short time.
"Hey she already has a girlfriend, remember?" Minji teased and Siyeon blushed. It was as if she had read her mind.
"I wish..." she let out under her breath, thinking it had been inaudible but her friends gasped and threw a pillow at her. Siyeon messily tried to defend herself with her hands.
"Siyeon, honestly you've been daydreaming a lot the last couple of weeks and it's because of that stranger... maybe we should try finding her? You obviously want to and we want you to be happy." Yoohyeon said and Siyeon looked down.
"How are we supposed to do that? I don't know anything about her... not even her freaking name." Siyeon sighed. She still scolded herself for not asking for her name, she could've easily done it and the girl would've given it to her in a heartbeat.
Why didn't she...
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Siyeon was laying on Yoohyeon's bed as the two friends flickered with their phones. A normal Sunday of theirs. Minji was at her book club and the two girls where left alone, accompanied with a whole lot of boredom. They never realized how much joy Minji brought the small group until she wasn't there.
They had been friends forever even before they started university together last semester. They met each other in preschool and have been sticking together ever since.
"Hey Singnie?" Yoohyeon asked absentminded as she was looking down onto her phone. Siyeon hummed in response and watched as her friend looked up at her.
"You know how I almost know nothing about my roommate?" She asked and Siyeon frowned but nodded her head.
"Yubin? Yeah we barely see her, doesn't she like, live somewhere else?" Siyeon asked and Yoohyeon nodded.
"Yeah I think she lives with her friends on another uni not too far from here, I've heard her talk to them over the phone. I think she might be dating one of them actually. I don't know but that would make a good reason for it, right?" Yoohyeon discussed and Siyeon nodded in agreement.
"Yeah totally... We see her in class and all so she sure still goes here. I'm curious though, have you talked to her at all?" Siyeon asked while putting her head on her hands and Yoohyeon scratched her neck in thought.
"In the beginning of the first semester we talked a bit just because we would share a room but then we just stopped and she started to become absent... but I'm curious too, she seems nice." Yoohyeon said as she bit her lip.
"Yeah... do you have her Instagram?" Siyeon asked and her friend looked up at her.
"I'm not following her but she must have it, everyone does!" She beamed and opened the app to search for her roommate.
"What's her surname?" Siyeon asked as they had tried to combine "Yubin" with everything that came to mind.
"Oh of course! It's Lee. I only remember that because it's the same as yours." Yoohyeon said and pinched her cheek teasingly.
"Why do you two always to that!" Siyeon exclaimed and soothed her cheek with her palm.
The couple just couldn't resist pinching her cheeks.
"Sorry but you have the cutest cheeks Singnie." Yoohyeon said while giving her puppy eyes.
Siyeon sighed and they got back to what they where doing and tried typing Yubin's full name and just as they thought her profile popped up.
"It's her!" Yoohyeon beamed and pressed the icon. Both girl’s happy faces faded when they saw that it was private... the world seemed to be against them today.
"Try follow her then, it wouldn't be weird since you practically live together." She said and Yoohyeon mindlessly nodded while sending a friend request.
"But... Isn't it weird that I start following her halfway through our first year? I should've done it in the beginning oh my god now she will just think that I'm stalking her!" Yoohyeon suddenly exclaimed in panic and Siyeon chuckled at her dramatic friend.
"We are stalking, Yooh." Siyeon teased and watched as Yoohyeon grasped a pillow and buried her face into it, like she would disappear just because her head was hidden.
After a few minutes they heard the phone on the mattress vibrate, followed by a short notice. Both girls looked down at the screen with their mouths agape.
"She just gave you permission to keep stalking." The black haired girl said playfully and picked up the phone to quickly unlock it. Yoohyeon reached over her and pulled her friend down onto the bed in the process, battling to get her phone back.
"Hey Siyeon give it back! I don't want you to accidentally like something! Come on give it to me!" She demanded while holding the girl's wrists with all of her might. She had planned on putting all of her weight on her to bend her arm lightly when the girl suddenly froze underneath her. The phone slid down her hand and landed on the mattress again. Yoohyeon's eyebrows knit together.
"Siyeon, are you okay?" She asked while fishing up the phone again and sat up to give the overwhelmed girl some space.
"What did you see?" She pushed as she frowned deeper while scrolling through her roommate's Instagram page. Not finding any oddities, no alarming ones at least.
"I-" Siyeon pressed out and Yoohyeon turned her head to her. She saw Siyeon's expression and almost got a little worried, never had she seen her friend like this. Almost blank as she stared mindlessly into the room. Unreadable.
"Siyeon you're scaring me, what did you see?" She tried while shuffling closer to gently place a hand on her cheek to turn her face to meet her gaze. Siyeon almost had tears in her eyes and Yoohyeon felt helpless.
"What did you see? Tell me." She pleaded and watched as her friend swallowed down hard and took the phone from her and scrolled up to one of the latest posts in Yubin's feed. She pointed to a girl beside Yubin and Yoohyeon studied her face closely for a moment as she didn't recognize her at all.
"Do you know her?"
"That's my stranger..."
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