WRITTEN BY AQUABUGGY
In the classroom
“ Jonghyun-shi!!” A tall, lean girl with shoulder length wavy hair approached him and stood by his table with a red paper bag in hand. Mae Yeon and Jonghyun who were chatting, stopped and Jonghyun looked at the girl quietly. “ yeh, Minjung-shi?”
Minjung smiled and batted her long lashes, “ I made you these…,” she said in a cute voice and took out a very impressive looking lunchbox, so very colourful and tempting. While doing so, she looked over his shoulders at Mae Yeon and shot her a knowing smirk, then devoted her attention back to him. Song Mae Yeon rolled her eyes in disgust and turned back to her reference book, suddenly engaging in the photosynthesis process that seemed far more interesting than MinJung.
“ Gomawo Minjung-shi… This looks really good,” Jonghyun smiled at her and studied the lunchbox greedily.
“ Eat well!” She winked at him before leaving and went to her seat, on the other side of the
classroom.
“ Yeonnie, look! This is such a feast!” He bubbled and nudged Mae Yeon playfully. “ Share it with
me?” he invited.
Mae Yeon glanced over his shoulder again, and as expected, Minjung stared at her through the narrow slits of her eyes, daring her to eat the lunchbox she prepared especially for him. She shook her head, “ Not hungry..” Jonghyun frowned but shrugged it off and tucked the lunch box inside
his drawer.
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“ Yeon-yeon, did you wait long?” Shin Jae Hwa hugged Mae Yeon from the behind. Mae Yeon laughed lightly and pushed her friend off her back. “ Ani…”
“ Where is Minho?” Yeon asked and her friend shrugged. “ Who knows…”
“ Ah, okay…, shall we go then?” Mae Yeon started walking with Jae Hwa beside her.
Suddenly her friend fished out a lemon-green envelope from the pocket of her uniform. “ This is for you!”
Song Mae Yeon stopped walking and stared at the green envelope in her friend’s hand. “ Me?” she
said and took it. “ Who is it from?”
“ I don’t know,” Jaehwa shrugged. “ Some random girl just passed it to me in the hallways just now… she said to pass it to you…” Mae Yeon cocked her head curiously, studying the envelope before opening it. Her name was neatly written on the cover of the envelope.
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“ Omo,” Mae yeon breathed out. Jae Hwa peeked at the little not in her hands and squealed. “
YOU’VE GOT AN ADMIRER! KYAAAAAA~!”
“EH?” A deep voice interrupted from behind them. Jae Hwa and Mae Yeon immediately turned around at the sound of his voice. It was Minho, walking closer and closer to them with his backpack over his shoulders. He smiled mischievously at them. “ Who is it?”
“ Don’t know… She just got this,” Jae Hwa shrugged and pointed at the green envelope. He raised his eyebrows questioningly.
“ Let’s go home,” Mae Yeon said casually and continued walking, after tucking in the green envelope into her pocket safely. Who on earth could have possibly given her that?
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It has already been one week and she’s been receiving those green envelopes consistently for every school day. The curious thing was that her ‘admirer’ knew her favourite songs and wrote parts of the lyrics down on his letters. The identity of her so called admirer haunter her thoughts that morning as she bit the end of her pencil, deep in thought. Without her noticing, Jonghyun approached her.
“ Are you really planning on chewing your pencil off Yeon?” No reply. He smirked playfully then sighed and inched closer to her.
“ Yah…. Song Mae Yeon…,” he shook her shoulders gently.
“ NEH?!” Song Mae Yeon snapped back into reality when she felt strong,warm hands shaking her shoulders gently. She blinked her eyes in confusion and flinched when she saw how close he was to her.
“ Done?”
“ Neh?”
“ Spacing out..”
“ Ah, yeh…” She mumbled, embarrassed. A hint of pink began colouring her flushed face which earned a quiet chuckle from him when he saw her face. He decided to go back to his seat to let her re-compose herself. Suddenly, Jonghyun reached into his drawer and pulled out a pile of presents. “ Wow, this is early… Isnt Valentine’s day in three days still?” he muttered. Mae Yeon watched him from the corner of her eye as he looked through his share of gifts.
She lets out a sigh. Some of the cards were really pretty and the presents, really expensive. What she was planning might seem nothing compared to theirs. She smiled to herself, sucked in her breath and turned towards him again.
“ Yah Jonghyun ah! “
“ Neh?” He instantly looks up and looks her way.
She pointed at the cards, smiling, “ Don’t tell me NONE of those girls caught your eye,” she raised her eyebrows and said it in a light tone. Jonghyun turned away and smiled to himself. “ Nope.”
“ Not even one of them?” her curiosity got the better of her and she stared at his side-frame.
He smirked and turned towards her. “ No… but,” he paused.
“ I do have someone in mind though….” He said quietly avoiding her eyes and smiling quietly to himself. Mae Yeon was surprised by his confession and felt her heart drop just a bit. She felt kind of disappointed that he had someone in mind already.
“ Does she know you like her?” she asked suddenly.
“ No..” is she really that blind?
“ Aren’t you going to tell her?”
“ We’ll see…,” he said and played with his hands, smiling. Why do I want him to tell her? Is it because im his best friend and I want to see him happy?
“ Does she like you?” Mae Yeon asked softly, and when he looked her in the eye in surprise, she looked away. Jonghyun didn’t answer her and just shrugged his shoulders lightly, laughing. “ Why are you so interested Yeonnie, are you jealous?”
“ A-ani… curious…” she said hurriedly.
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“ yah, is she really that oblivious?” Minho nudged Taemin who was peeking through their classroom door.
“ He’s practically confessing!” Minho pointed out.
“ Aigoo, Yeonnie-shi!” Taemin groaned.
“ Jonghyun likes her!” Both of them said together and smacked their foreheads.
“ yah.. but I heard Minjung-shi is eyeing him though,” Taemin whispered.
“ her?”
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I’m always by your side, singing you a song
Would you look at me now, standing here…
Would you look at me now, standing here…
Do you know which song this is?
< Seungri Outro>
Mae Yeon flipped to the other letters she got.
There’s no one like you, even if I look around it’s just like that, where else to look for?
< Super Junior, No Other, first line>
“ Whoa, this guy must really like you Yeonnie ah.. How did he know all your favourite songs?” Jae Hwa asked, lying down on her friend’s bed going through the letters he sent. Mae Yeon shrugged and bit her lip thoughtfully. “ I don’t know..”
“ Well, putting that aside, Valentine’s day is really close! What are you planning?” Her best friend chirped and bounced on the bed, all excited, eyes gleaming. Mae Yeon smiled at her friend sheepishly. She actually thought of baking cookies for her best friend, Jonghyun for Valentines. Problem is, she’s terrible in the kitchen. She’s a hazard when put in the kitchen alone.
“ Ah.. I was.. thinking of.. giving something to..” Yeon mumbled.
“ jonghyun?” Jae hwa finished for her and clapped her hands gleefully. Mae Yeaon blushed and nodded quietly. She never gave him presents on V-day before, this would be a first. If it ever happened.
“ I was thinking of baking him some cookies, but you know how I am in the kitchen…” she sighed.
Jae Hwa giggled and hugged the heart shaped pillow tightly. “ I knew you’d give him! KYAAAAA! Im excited!!” She said and rolls around on the bed. Mae yeon got up and smacked her with a pillow, “ YAH! Stop being so loud!”
“ You’re blushing you cute little thing! Awwwww… Alright alright I’ll stop.. Yah! Since im here, I’ll teach you,” Jae hwa said smiling. She stood up and dragged Yeon by the hand down to the kitchen for an one-on-one cookie making lesson.
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“ Yeonnie! Don’t put too much flour!!!!”
“ Sorry!”
“ YAOUCH!” Yeon yelped. “ That baking tray is so bloody hot,” she grumbled and rushes over to
the sink. Jae hwa shook her head, “ Aigoo…”
“ SUGAR Yeonnie NOT SALT!” Jae hwa scolded when Mae Yeon accidentally picked up the salt basket that looked similar to the sugar basket.
After 2 hours, the kitchen looked like a bomb had hit it but a tantalizing scent wafted in the air. Jae hwa took out the cookies from the oven and let them cool off on the counter. “ … and that is how you do it,” she said proudly looking at her golden brown perfection, her signature cinnamon cookies.
The girls cleaned up the mess and savoured the freshly baked cinnamon cookies they made together. “ That wasn’t so bad…” Mae Yeon smiled, munching on the cookie happily and received a glare from her friend. “ yeah, because I was here,” she pointed out.
“ I think I can do this….,” Mae Yeon said confidently. Jae Hwa gulped and faked a smile. She wasn’t so sure she could.
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“ If I didn’t like Jonghyun already, I would’ve liked you,” she said thoughtfully looking at her recently received letter. Another one with the lyrics to her favourite song. She smiled and put it away in the special box she bought to put all the letters he gave her these past few weeks.
Mae Yeon walked to the kitchen with the recipe book in her grip, her eyes focused and determined. “ Oppa, thanks for helping me out!” She smiled at her brother who was sitting in the kitchen, reading a comic book.
“ No worries… Just don’t poison me alright?” he smirked playfully, understanding his sister’s abilities in the kitchen. She pouted and stalked off to the pantry to get out the ingredients. She spread them out on the table and got to work. She had flour smeared on her face, and cookie dough on her apron and hands. She wasn’t the neatest ‘cook’ ever, so it was fairy understandable. Her first batch was up, and she presented a few to her brother, who eyed it curiously. Suspiciously, he extended his hand and picked up a cookie, and popped it into his mouth.
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“ YAWWW, Are you trying to break my teeth Yeon?!” He exclaimed after painfully munching his sister’s cookie. He looked at her apologetically, “ The cookie is way too hard. You could kill someone with this you know,” he said and tossed one in the air, letting it drop on the kitchen counter. PAK! He raised his eyebrows at her, “ See?”
Mae Yeon stared at her first batch in dismay. “ ottokeh, I thought I did everything right?”
Her brother walked over, sampling her cookie dough. “ You probably put in too much flour….,” he commented. Mae Yeon sighed and threw her first batch away and started on the second one.
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“ Oppa, these are done,” she said nervously and passed her brother some of the new batch of chocolate chip cookies. He reached out and ate one of them, and immediately his handsome face frowned. “ Its… not really cooked,” he said softly and saw his sister’s face fill up with disappointment. She dropped the tray on the counter and sat down beside him. “ This will never work… stupid stupid idea,” she said into her sleeve, her head resting on her arms.
Her brother patted her head gently. She made at least four batches already and each of them had problems. “ Oppa, I give up…” she muttered quietly.
He shook his head, “ Aigooo, come on Yeonnie… try it one more time,” he coaxed her.
“ I’ll just end up killing you in the process. Do you really wanna die because of cookies?” she said grimly with a hint of sarcasm, all while holding up one of her deadly cookies. Implying that her cookies were either too hard at the risk of breaking his teeth or too raw that can get him a bad tummyache.
“ I might even end up killing him with this…”
Her brother laughed freely at her rant. He shook his head in amusement and pulled her out of the chair. “ Come on dongsaeng, one last try,” he coaxed her again.
“ This time, I’ll help.. okay?” he smiled at her. This is one of those rare times he sees his sister trying so hard to do something for someone she obviously likes. He pinched her cheeks and scruffled her already-messy hair. “ Let’s go!”
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Magically, after much hardwork and cookie dough, they managed to finish the final batch of cookies that smelled awfully tempting. The freshly baked chocolate chip cookies glowed as they came out from the oven and Mae Yeon couldn’t help but plaster a delighted smile on her face. “ There, told you it’ll look good!”
She nodded. “ But does it taste as good as it looks?” She asks hesitantly. He extended the already-cool tray of cookies to her, “ Why don’t you try some… the cookies you baked?”
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Valentine’s Day… in the afternoon
“ What you got there Mae Yeon?” Taemin chirped and stopped by her locker early the next day. Valentine’s Day. He peeked curiously inside the cute paper bag she had in her hands.
“ oooooh, you’ve got a Valentine’s Gift!”
He saw that she was holding a paper bag, and inside that bag, there was a smaller ‘bag’ that had a ‘home-made’ sticker on it. “ Are those chocolate chip cookies?!” He exclaimed excitedly.
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“ Who are you giving it to?”
She shyly smiled and took out a small card inside the bag. Taemin inched closer and what he saw brought a smile on his face. “ Let’s go find him!” He pulled his best friend’s hand and began dragging her along the hallway.
“ Yah, Taemin ah… not nowwww,” she hissed, pulling her hand back from his strong grip, however failing.
“ No no no, you must come now…” he insisted.
“ YAH, his fangirls are there!”
“ So? You’re his bestfriend…,” he retorted.
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“ Taemin ah…” Yeon whispered.
“ Why are you so scared? Its Valentine’s Day. Girls give guys gifts. You’re a girl, he’s a guy..” he wiggled his index finger in the air. “ Right?” he smirked.
She gripped her paperbag tightly and took a deep breath. “ Okay, I’ll pass it to him,” she said confidently and plastered a nervous smile on her face. “ Here we go-“ she said and stopped midway. It appears that someone had already beat her to it.
“ yeonnie? Why aren’t you going in…?” He stepped beside her and peeked inside.
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Minjung stood facing Jonghyun with another lunchbox in her hands. This time the lunchbox was black with a red ribbon wrapped around it. A proud look in her eyes, she presented him the gift for Valentine’s Day. Her classmates ‘ooh-ed’ and ‘ah-ed’ at her presentation of the yummy feast made especially for him. Mae Yeon watched in dismay at the scene playing out in front of her.
She looked down at her very simple packaging of homemade cookies and smiled sadly. “ This is nothing compared to That feast..,” she mused. Taemin looked at her worriedly. “ You should still give it to him…,” he insisted but she shakes her head.
“ I almost killed my brother’s taste buds trying to make these…,” she laughed sadly. She looked inside the classroom once again and nods. “ Look taemin ah, he’s got so much yummy treats already. Not receiving mine is no biggie…,” she shrugged.
“ I’ll see you later Tae,” she bowed quietly, and walks off in the opposite direction. She felt so hurt, it took her hours to finally make a yummy batch that perhaps he might enjoy. When she saw what Minjung gave him, she couldn’t help but compare the two gifts. She sighed. “ Maybe I should’ve given these to the green envelope guy.. At least I know he likes me,” her mind said thoughtfully.
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While walking in the hallways, she passed by Minho who was carrying two white paper bags himself. He waved at her, and she stopped by him. “ Minho, annyeong!”
“ Hey… what’s that you got there in your hands?” he asked.
“ This?”
“ You can have this,” Yeon said and passed it to him.
“ Really? …. Kamsahamnida,” he smiled happily.
“ At least someone will eat it…”
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“ Why isn’t she here yet?” Jonghyun stared at Yeon’s empty seat. “ She said she’d walk home with me today,” he pouted and played with the gifts he got.
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At home
In the evening, Minho dropped by Jonghyun’s house to pass him the paperbag, when he found Yeon’s card in it. He had a mischievous gleam in his eyes when he passed the paper bag to him. “ This is for you,” Minho said simply.
“ From?”
“ You’ll see,” he said and walked off before Jonghyun could say anything else. He held the paperbag firmly and brought it to the kitchen. There, he took out the smaller paper bag inside, that had the sticker, “ home made” on it.
His face broke out into a grin when he noticed his name neatly written on the bag, with the handwriting that he recognized so well. It was from Mae Yeon!
He read the small card that came with it :
I don’t even know what to write here….
I know cooking isn’t my thing, but I tried really really hard to bake this for you.
I hope you …. Like it… ><
Happy Valentine’s Day Jonghyun.
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Just as he’d asked her, Mae Yeon was waiting patiently in front of the patio of their favourite café, looking out to sea. It was already evening time, and the sun had begun its descent into the horizon. He walks quietly up to her, smiling.
“ Yeon ah, did you wait long?” He greeted her. She shook her head, avoiding his gaze.
“ Ani, just got here…”
“ mmh…” he said and pulls out a green envelope, passing it to her while staring out into the sea. “ Here, “ he said simply.
“ Where did you-“ she started but stopped and took it from him. He laughed quietly as the wind messed up his hair fondly.
“ I love the cookies you made me Yeon,” he smiled and turned towards her.
“ Deh?” she stared at him with wide eyes.
“ … much better than any other gifts I’ve gotten,” he continued, his eyes sparkling.
“ go on, read it…” he coaxed her and pointed at the green envelope.
She looks at him, and opens it carefully with him watching her from the corner of his eyes
My name is Kim Jonghyun and I really like Song Mae Yeon. <3
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