Don't wait for me

Episode 2 - Kang Taehyun

“W-wha… what is this…?”

Yujeong was wearing a pretty school uniform instead of the teddy bear pajamas she’d slept in last night. Around Yujeong, students wearing the same uniform were freely wandering the hallway.

“...It was real.”

Yujeong held her breath and looked at her reflection in the window.

She had been a salaried office worker, but now she had the short, sharp bob of her student days.

“Wow… so I really came to the past and ended up becoming a student too… The wish box is amazing!”

Then Yujeong saw a boy who somehow looked familiar walking by.

He had a small face and a slim build, and he stood out even from far away. Several claw-machine keychains hung from his baggy black backpack.

“Looks like someone I know… huh… big eyes.”

At that moment, Yujeong met the boy’s eyes. Startled, Yujeong quickly looked away.

And then she realized it.

‘Kang Taehyun…!’

“H-hey… hey…! You! Kang Taehyun! You’re Kang Taehyun, right!”

With a whatever-happens, happens feeling, Yujeong called out his name.

And the boy, no, Kang Taehyun, turned back and met her eyes again.

“You know me?”

“Y-yeah… I do…! S-so… how old are you? Are you a high schooler now…?”

When Yujeong asked back with a stutter, Taehyun gave her a suspicious look.

“Who are you? I don’t know you.”

“I know you! And I suddenly ended up here, so… what year is it this year, maybe?”

If this wasn’t a dream, Yujeong thought. If someone had really granted my wish, then I’d definitely, no matter what it took, become friends with Kang Taehyun!

Even if it was a dream, I might as well enjoy it to the fullest. Yeah, that’s what she had thought.

“20XX… Why do you ask? What are you, anyway?”

“I see… then it’s exactly… around the time you became a trainee…”

“Huh?”

“Ah, nothing. More importantly… do you want to be friends with me?”

“I told you, I don’t know who you are. I don’t get friendly with strangers.”

He said that, but Kang Taehyun’s big eyes were full of curiosity.

‘Aaaah, so cute so cute so cute,,,’

“We can get to know each other from now on! So, um… I fell for you at first sight.”

That was true, but,,, her excuse was so flimsy she mentally slapped her forehead.

“But how do you know my name?”

Yujeong panicked and scrambled for an answer.

“U-uhhh, well, I mean, uh…! I saw another kid calling you!! It’s true! You’re so my type that I was just watching you as I walked by! I’m serious, really, really serious!”

“Pfft.”

Taehyun gave a small smile.

 

 

“Whatever.”