***
The university corridors were full of people. The lunch break attracted the largest number of students to these walls, which hurried to fill hungry stomachs. Narim quickly crossed the filled corridors, bypassing dozens, hundreds of students whining back and forth. She had one goal now, and she was just leaving the classroom with her entire course. Chongguk fixed two bags on her shoulder, one of which belonged to Narim, and walked confidently towards the dining room.
The girl accelerated her step and blocked the guy's way in one second.
- Narim," said Jeong, a worried look at the girl.
- Just tell me why you did it. - She mumbled, literally burning a hole in the guy's eye level.
- Let's talk in a calmer place," Chongguk laid his hands on the girl's shoulders.
Narim immediately dodged the guy's hands and stepped back.
- Why did you do it, Chongguk? - She raised her voice.
- I'm worried about your condition! - The guy shouted back, and people started stopping around to listen to the two of them talking, waiting for further action from one side or the other. - You were panicking. I don't want you to get sick again! I am really worried about your condition! This is the best I could do for you.
- Oh, so the best thing you could do for me was make me look crazy? - the girl grinned nervously, clenching her fingers in her fist.
- It's better than...
The whole hallway was filled with a ringing slap on the skin, and before that, the noisy crowd around it had calmed down. Chongguk stood with his head down, holding his palm to his left cheek, which immediately showed a reddish trace. Narim's mouth was hard to draw in air, and tears were rolling down his cheeks. The right palm was burning with a strong blow, and the heart was pounding against the chest wall, trying to get out of it and break the hell out of it.
- Better than what? - the girl's voice trembled. - Chongguk, why are you doing this to me? Why? Why? - She could barely hear her whispering while her eyes were blushing, and the guy was still standing there with his head down, squeezing into one big lump of fear. Fear of doing something wrong, wrong, losing a friend.
She turned back and began to sneak through the crowd of yawns right to the exit. The noise level in the corridor was restored to its previous level. Everything was back to normal, and only Chongguk was still standing still with his head down.
***
Narim had been leaning against the edge of the bridge for an hour, looking aimlessly into the flat surface of the water, which, due to the complete absence of wind, seemed dead and immovable to the girl. The bright sun-baked a redhead of hair, which had already grown a little black at the roots. She had never felt so lousy before, and nature seemed to be against her mood and all sparkled with the sun, warmth, and love. Everyone was fine, everyone was having fun, everyone was smiling, and only Narim was bad for some reason. It's so bad that you want to spit on this world, to completely destroy the old kind, responsive, always cheerful girl and in one second become cruel, cold, angry at the whole world. Only such thoughts make it worse. Narim is not a negative character. She can't be like that. No way. Never. No.
The girl climbed into the pocket of jeans and, having found in one of them a piece of paper folded in half, unfolded the one.
- Kim Taekhyon, 82-2-318-2116.
***
Tae-young ran like a demented man to the address they called him. He knew there was no tide, so they called him for nothing, but the guy's cell phone was rarely called because there were no contact numbers in his phone book. He was called either from the university when he needed help or from unknown numbers, so he was in a hurry to get any call from the outside world like a holiday.
A soft chestnut broom ring constantly bounced, tickling his forehead, forcing the guy to wrinkle his nose and smile funnily. People who met him on the way, too, suddenly began to smile so open, sincere emotions that he did not even try to hide them, as is often the case with young people who want to shut themselves off from the outside world. Everything that came across on the way of this emotional guy, began to glow and sparkle. The person who can transform this world is Kim Taekhyon.
- A girl! - The guy shouted joyfully only when he saw a redhead shimmering under the bright rays of the sun, which seems to attract him. It reaches out to this girl. - What is your name? - Finally, Taekhyong, who was already familiar to him, ran up to her and stood alongside her, just as she had begun to look into the smooth, immovable river surface. - Tell me your name," the guy tried to catch his breath, leaning his hands against the metal fence of the bridge.
- Yu Narim," she smiled, smiling at the edge of her eye, catching the silhouette of the breathless boy, which she couldn't find room for, trying to catch her breath and calm her heartbeat after a long run.
- Oh, that's a beautiful name," he absorbed the air deeply. - I got there in a minute and a half! - I ran into the cold Taekhyong bar, trying to cool down the burning skin a little bit. - If it hadn't been for the traffic lights on the central road... Oh, my God... I haven't been running for a long time... Oh, God," the guy was already losing the feeling of some surface under his feet. - Here... Hold me," Taekhyon fell on the asphalt in one second.
"to be continued in the next part"