"Wanna go to the bowling alley down the street?"
Your friend hushes near your ear, making sure none of your classmates would eavesdrop, and leak the hangout-place plans.
"But I suck at bowling?-"
"WHAT, we'll help you, of course. Isol, Jasmine... Me?" She mutters, "But you do suck, not gonna lie-"
You playfully swat her shoulder like it offended me with a grin. "Hey! I'm not that bad..." You sulk in front of her. "Sheesh, sorry, but seriously though, what's the worst that could happen in a bowling alley?-"
Mr Jeong turns around like a blade in the air.
"Jihye, focus please-"
However, the bell had other plans.
*The bell rings, signaling the end of the school day. Which was also, the start of the friendly chaos. Jihye hushes to me: "Sorry Mr, seems like time is on my side today-"
You swat her once again.
"Ouch- No fair!" She smiles, while nudging your shoulder in response.
Before everyone started to pack their stuff up and leaves, Jihye grabs your pencil case, notebooks, textbooks, and anything that belonged to you on your desk, and shoved it in your open backpack, zipped it up and forces you to wear it.
"We don't have all day!-"
She drags you out of the classroom while holding her handbag like it's your mom dragging you out off the classroom to 'have a talk.' But this isn't a talk. It's a, 'are-you-coming-or-not-but-you-have-no-choice-but-to-come' talk.
And coincidentally in sync, Jasmine and Isol came out off their respected classrooms...
Jasmine: "Hey girls, ready for bowling?" She struts along with us, although the hallway isn't a runway-
Isol: "I'm gonna beat all of y'all with the most strikes!" *She tosses her hair with goofy sass."
"Unless I get the most pins down-" Jihye harmlessly retorted back at Isol, who put up her fists in a faux challenge-mode.
1 hour later, the group arrived to the bowling alley near the downtown of Seoul...
Jasmine: "I'm soo excited, I literally have plans while bowling..." *We enter the bowling alley, going to an empty area, next to the bowling ball-return machine... "Maybe we can team up into 2 teams of 2, or play individually, OOH, wait, maybe we can-"
Jihye: "OKAY, okay. GIRL, chill! It's a Friday, it's 5 pm, and guess what? No homework, no tests next week, and definitely, no stress. If you have any, just bowl it out girlies." She calmly gestures to Jasmine before she bubbles up her excitement-stress any further.
Jasmine: Calms down. "Yeah... everything's gonna be okay... Let's have some fun, shall..."
*Jasmine looks around over her shoulder. And to everyone's curiosity, they turned around to where Isol was staring at. Your eyes furrows on why Isol hasn't finished her sentence... so you followed your friends and saw...
4 boys. Probably from your grade... Gazing at all of you. They look really familiar... The boys looks at you and your friends with awe, you catch one of them staring at you, and immediately looks at the ground like it sparked his interest.
"... we?"
Isol: *Smirks, turns around with her hair swishing along with the motion, and looks at the rest of us with a glint of amusement. "Looks like we got company."
Jihye: Hushes loudly, "WHO REVEALED OUR HANGOUT PLACE?"
We instinctively look at one person. Jasmine: "What? You think I did it...?"
We all look at her with suspicion.
Jasmine: "... Okay.. maybe I did spill it when we were in the hallway during break. I'm sorry, it's just been a long time since we hung out because of our school stuff, or something..." You, Jihye and Isol looked at each other and faced a pouty, cute version of Jasmine...
You: WE FORGIVE YOU JASMINEEE-
*You bolted and hugged her, Isol and Jihye followed, hugging Jasmine... even though she's the tallest and mature-looking in the group. The 4 boys look at you and your friends once again, whispering, "꽤 예쁘네요..."
Why do they look so familiar... and why are they so tall?
Jihye: Muffled in the hug. "Come on girls, we came here strike some pins and make more instagram-worthy memories, who's gonna stop us now, huh? Let's go and bowl!"