âLook there is that girl I told you about.â
âThe Senior who dropped out for one year to have a baby or something?â
âI heard that the father of her baby was way older than her and he would not have anything to do with her or the baby.â
You took in a deep breath to control your anger. You hated how immature these college students are. Instead of getting to know you better they just make up their own stories about you and pass it around. Most of what they loudly whisper about is fake. There is only about a one percent truth.
Yes, you have a child, however she is not your biological child. You were walking home one day when you had heard the cry of a baby. You followed the cry to a a pile of blankets which contained a 10 month old little girl and a note. Apparently her mother could not deal with motherhood and decided to abandon her baby. After keeping the baby for a two whole nights and a day, you had fallen in love with the little girl and could not just let her go into the system. At first your family was trying to get you to give her up but then they had also fallen in love with her.
You walked into the class and decided to take your usual seat at the back by the window. Everyone was giving you curious glances making you feel uncomfortable. You put in one earphone and decided to draw out a tattoo that you plan on getting.
You can hear some high pitched whines from some girls getting closer to the class signaling that the popular kids are near. You curse whichever force that had blessed you with being in almost every single class with them, you think they call their little group X..EXOO or something like that. There would have been a time when you might have been one of those girls with hearts in their eyes for them, but becoming a parent really changes things for you. All you really want to focus on is your child and doing anything possible to support them.
After a few minutes the students became completely silenced. You pulled out your earphone and looked to the front to see the lecturer writing something on the board about the composition of your year end mark. A twenty five percent weighting goes to an assignment to be done in pairs...great.
The lecturer cleared his throat, âOn the board is how your final mark will be calculated. All of the assessments and tests are compulsory. For our first order of business some of you will pick your partner from the names the hat and none of you will be allowed to switch.â
There was a collective groan from the class. Some of the girls looked a bit excited. You figured out that it is probably because they would have a slight chance of picking the name of one of the EXO boys. You were oblivious to the fact that someone was staring at you with hopeful eyes.
âI have pick half of you who will come and pick a name. First one is Oh Sehun.â
From then on wards you just blanked out a bit. Not really paying attention to names until you heard yours. You walked up to the front of the class and put your hand in the bag grabbing the first paper you touched. You prayed that this person would be a bit decent towards you. The lecturer took the paper and unfolded it. You could feel the glares and hateful thoughts towards you once he read out the name.
âY/N and Park Chanyeol,â the class began to get rowdy,âsilence! I will not hesitate to make you all stay behind and clean the sports and recreation areas!â
You made your way back to your seat with your head down. A few of the students tried to trip you but you just managed to dodge all of them.
âThe people who picked names can come to the front to get the assignment sheet. For the rest of the lesson you should meet with your partner to discuss your chosen topic and I suggest you meet up after classes because it is due 2 and a half weeks from now.â
To simply say that he was happy to have Y/N as a partner was an understatement. He remembers watching her during lunch time with her small group of friends as they seemed to gush about a popular guy who winked in their direction. Her cute blush made him get butterflies because it just made her look more cute and innocent. He wanted to confess to her but then she just disappeared.
He asked her friends about where she went and they had just brushed him off saying that she was fine and not to worry about her. After a few weeks he began to hear rumors about her. He knew better to believe them.
He sat down in the empty spot next to her and put one of the assignment sheets on her desk catching a glimpse of her drawing of a flower.
âThatâs a really good drawing.â
âWhat kind of flower is it?â
He knew that it probably take some time to get her to warm up to him. He was determined to make her talk and laugh.
You were amazed that Chanyeol had come to sit next to you. You figured that he would have convinced the lecturer to let him group up with another pair and leave you on your own. Yet here he is looking like an adorable puppy trying to make a conversation. You scolded yourself for judging him and being a bit too cold. You gave him a small smile.
âItâs a tiger lily. I actually plan on getting it as a tattoo.â
His eyes lit up and he looked extremely excited.
âIf you want I could take you to my artist. He is really good.â
He rolls up the sleeve on his hoodie showing you the tattoos that he has. You were impressed by the work and also by the slight sight of his muscular arms. You let out a sigh imagining what it would be like to have his arms wrapped around your waist.
âWe should sit together at lunch to discuss the projects and would you like to meet at my house or yours?â
You were snapped out of your little day dream by snapping fingers in front of your face.
He let out a chuckle in his deep voice.
âYou are so cute. I asked you if you wanted to meet at your house or mine. We should meet every day to get this done on time.â
âI think it would be best to meet at my house because of Junhee.â
âY/N...I want to know how much of the rumors are true?â
You were a bit taken a back by his question but happy that he asked you anyway. You had told him the whole story. It amazed you how he just listened to you without making any unwanted comments of âwhyâ and âyou are too youngâ. You looked into his eyes and only saw pure adoration.
âYou are amazing for doing what you did. I can only imagine what you must have had to go through to keep her.â
You smile at him, feeling better to know that not everyone will judge you harshly for your decisions.
It was time to go for lunch. You knew that Chanyeol had wanted to meet with you for the project but you could not seem to find him out of class and he did not tell you where to meet him. Your common sense kicked in and you had decided that he would most likely be found in the cafeteria.
You scanned through the mass of hungry students looking for Chanyeol. With every passing minute your heart began to sink. Maybe he decided to ditch me to be with some popular girls, maybe he just decided to leave me to do all of the work, maybe he is too nice to tell me to my face that...Your thoughts were interrupted by a gentle tap on your shoulder and a soft, sweet voice calling your name. You were shocked to see Lay, the famous foreign exchange student standing behind you.
âHello...Lay?...â you were confused as to how he even knows your name.
He let out an adorable giggle, âChanyeol sent me to get you. We donât eat lunch in the cafeteria anymore because some of girls began to fight just to sit at the tables around us.â
You nodded in understanding. You were happy that you avoid that kind of commotion since you go and eat your lunch in the nearby park. Lay grabbed your wrist and began tugging you through the cafeteria. You eventually realised that you were heading towards the empty rooms that are used for dance classes.
You and Lay enter the room. You recognize the rest of the popular group sitting in a circle eating their food. You stare a little while longer at Chanyeol, finding that way that he eats adorable. Who knew that this deep voiced giant could eat so cutely...
Laughter could be heard from the side of you and a few of the boys closer to you turned around to look at you with smirks on their faces. You then came to the conclusion that you had spoken your though out loudly. You put your head down and began to blush.
âY/N!! You are finally here. Lay, what did she tell you to make you laugh so much?â
You tried to give Lay the best death glare that you could, but it just seemed to amuse him more as he pulled you into the circle and made you sit down.
âShe just said that you look cute.â
âYAH!! I did not say that.â
âWait...you donât think Iâm cute.â Said Chanyeol while pouting.
âI just said that you look cute when you eat.â Your voice became a bit of a squeak.
âThank you. I think you are very pretty.â
You could feel your heart pounding and your face heat up. You put your head down out of shyness and tried to calm your raging hormones. At this rate you could have a high chance of having a heart attack. You heard someone, probably Lay, say something in mandarin. You could understand about 2% of what he said. Some other voices began to speak in mandarin too. They spoke over each other and a bit too quickly for you to understand anything.
It was Chanyeol who had screamed out making everyone go silent and then burst into laughter.
Lunch had went by quickly. You had gotten to know all the the boys really well and see each of them display their talents. The boys seemed really eager to meet your meet your daughter and they had even offered to babysit for free. Occasionally you and Chanyeol would steal glances at each other, sometimes it would feel as if you were having a secret conversation with him. Eventually Chanyeol had managed to move his way next to you and intertwine his hand with yours. It felt like the most natural thing in the world. Like you were made for each other.
I was actually inspired by this video I saw on Facebook where this college student adopted a child she had found. She really loved the child as if it was her own, however the other older women with children just made up assumptions about her. She had met a guy who was a bit older than her and he offered to help her babysit. The whole video was narrated by him and by the end he had expressed his admiration and affection towards her.....