Banana milk scent
The day I met ‘that kid’ was a hot and windy day. It was summer. I was drenched in sweat after doing PE and needed something to drink. Anything would do, but please, the hot sunlight shining down on me was truly disgusting. I had just finished PE and why did I have to sit by the window where the sunlight was shining so well? I glanced at the kids in my class with my eyes weary from the heat and looked around. What the heck.. Isn’t that banana milk? I got up in a hurry and ran to the kid holding the banana milk and, whoa-. I sucked on the straw. Not even knowing who the kid was.
The banana milk cleansed my palate, filled my nose with the scent of bananas, and more than anything, I felt a refreshing sensation inside. I gulped down the remaining banana milk without fear, then, expressing my gratitude, returned to my seat and flopped down. Unable to fight off the drooping eyes, I drifted off to sleep.
“What the hell did Kim Yeo-ju do just now?”
"What the hell did you do? You stole Jeon Jungkook's banana milk."
“A kid who doesn’t know, banana milk…?”
“…Uh… I don’t know, I guess I’ll figure it out.”
I had been soundly asleep, face down on my desk, for a few hours when the hot sunlight pierced me again. Ugh… It’s hot. I frowned as my face felt hot. Unable to sleep any longer because of the heat, I was about to get up when my eyes opened first and I locked eyes with a child I didn’t know.
“Hey.. my.. banana.. ”
“Wow, he’s so damn handsome.”
Ugh. Talking to myself... I covered my mouth and ran out of the classroom. Ah, embarrassing. Kim Yeo-ju, seventeen years old, I made another embarrassing memory. There was no one in the class, right..? In the meantime, the scent of banana milk wafted around me. Was it that kid's scent from before..? For a moment, that kid's face came to mind and my face turned red again. It was turning red like a cherry tomato. As if a brush soaked in water was touching the drawing paper with red paint. As I was blankly staring at myself, I heard someone running from behind shouting, "Kim Yeo-ju!!!"
Who is he? It's my best friend of 17 years, Kim Taehyung.
“Hey.. ha.. I ran.. ugh.. It’s hard...”
“What is it? Tell me quickly. It’ll be over soon.”
Don't you remember earlier? Kim Taehyung asked me while panting. What the hell are you talking about? I stared at Kim Taehyung with an expression that said, "I don't know what it is, so explain it." Kim Taehyung seemed to remember what he had said. Then he burst out laughing to himself and opened his mouth.
“You drank Jeon Jungkook’s banana milk earlier.”
“Ah ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Jeon Jungkook’s expression was legendary. He looked so embarrassed and dumbfounded ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋfuck ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ”
… .Crazy me, did I mishear just now… …How could this be.. No, why did it have to be Jeon Jungkook??!! Jeon Jungkook who was talking to me earlier..?. Jeon Jungkook is a kid in our class who has a very quiet personality and is rumored to be more handsome than Kim Seokjin from the next school. And a kid I liked when I was in elementary school. I lived without paying attention to him for a while.. And like this… Our connection is fate.
* Did you know that prologues are originally this short?