1 Since 3rd Grade

Choi Ae-ri was an extremely gorgeous girl, with long and curly red hair and big crystalline-light-blue eyes, a curved body, and a memorable and beautiful smile. Since 3rd grade, Aeri loved Park Seo-jin, a white boy with black-pitch wavy hair and shining golden eyes, with all her heart, and everyone around her knew it. She did absolutely everything for him even if there wasn't anything for her in the end.

Aeri never asked for anything. Neither for his attention nor his love. She never had expectations, because when they were kids he made it clear that he would never love her.

So, she never did anything expecting to gain something in return.

And unfortunately, even doing everything she could for him, she was invisible to his eyes. He never really saw her, nor realize what she did for him, neither remember that she liked him since they were kids. Always treated her politely and coldly, as he did with everyone, except for his best friend.

Aeri refused each and all the boys who tried to have something with her, once her heart already had an owner, she didn't want to break other people's hearts.

When they were in their third year of high school, Seojin fell madly in love with Ah Kim-soo. Kimsoo who was a newly transferred student in the city saw the opportunity of becoming popular and started dating him.

That was when Aeri had her heart broken and after all those years, realized once and for all that she would never be able to be with him. She stopped doing everything for him and started acting coldly with everyone, focusing only on studying. Even when she tried erasing her feelings for Seojin, she wasn't able to do it, so she decided to ignore him and everyone around him.

And what hurt her the most was the fact that no one missed her at all.

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One year after that, at the end of their last high school year, Seojin caught Kimsoo having sex with his best friend, Lee Jae-woo, and everything went down the hill. Two days after they broke up and after the whole scandal, their graduation happened as well as their last ball. And all Aeri wanted to do was give him a big bear hug because she knew he was lonely, but she didn't have to courage to do it.

Aeri's older sister, Ji-ah, came to her house and dressed her up for the ball, seeing as how she lived alone at her home because her parents had emancipated her, and they also were on a business trip outside the country. A divine navy blue dress in style princess marking all of her curves, her long and curly red hair loose with a tiara made of diamonds at the top, a sweet but beautiful makeup, jewels, and a pair of delicate silver high heels.

The first person she saw was Kimsoo in her short red princess dress, with heavy makeup and a huge hairstyle. The bitch was kissing Jaewoo as if nothing had happened, as if she hadn't done anything wrong alongside Seojin's ex-best friend.

Aeri turned the other way and saw Seojin's sad and disappointed expression. She just wanted to hug him, but turned around again and headed to the buffet, where she talked with her teachers about the fact that she got accepted at Harvard in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious and important university in the United States.

It passed midnight when, a drunken Seojin, picked up a fight with Jaewoo, who was also drunk. Aeri searched for a teacher but she didn't find any, all the adults had already long left the ball. She got pissed at the fact that all the students, including Kimsoo, only watched the fight, they didn't even move an inch to separate them.

So she did it.

Aeri got herself literally in the middle of both of them and screamed her lungs off for them to stop fighting. Kimsoo tried to stop her, but the girl started trembling and didn't move an inch when she saw the look on Aeri's face. She warned Seojin's ex to put herself together and get Jaewoo out of there, or things were going to end badly for the blonde bitch.

None of the useless idiots at the ball tried to help her get Seojin out of there, they were all watching as if that shit was an interesting tv drama. So, she took his arm and put it over her shoulder to help him move out of there. And holding his other hand, she put him inside her car and headed to her home, because she knew that if his parents were to see him drunk like that, he would be a big problem.

Aeri thought to herself, about how much she hated to see him injured, sad and lonely. About how much courage she had to do what she did, and about the fact that her heart was beating faster than ever.

She started shouting at him, about all the bad things he has done to her without realizing it. About how reckless he was acting, about how stupid he was to believe in the obvious trap called Kimsoo, about how ridiculously cold and dense he was. And she put it all out because she knew he wasn't listening, and she cried.

And shout to herself about how stupid she was for still looking up to an asshole like Seojin, who broke her heart and never gave a shit about her. She spoke about how she hated herself for the fact that she still had feelings for Seojin, about the fact that she was still madly in love with him even after ignoring everything about him for more than one year.

Aeri looked at the boy at her side and saw him sleeping with a sad expression, she took a deep breath and calmed down. Not long after that, she was in her house, trying her best to help drunken Seojin to get in.

She brought him to her room and pushed him under the cold water, kind of waking him up, she gave him a towel and guided him to her bed. Then she set in front of him with the medicine and started treating Seojin where Jaewoo hurt him. He kinda looked sober, but she knew he wasn't.

And when he looked like he was about to cry, she did what she wanted to do for a long time, she hugged him tightly. To her surprise, he hugged her back with the same intensity.

When she realized, he was holding her tightly, she was on top of them and they were already kissing. She couldn't think straight, her mind went blank and she let the desire and their intense sexual attraction talk for herself, and he did the same.

Clothes flying here, shoes flying there, and both of them gave themselves to each other at that moment.