Just like me, he didn't seem interested in others, he would always wear black, his dark hair would always be covering his eyes, and sometimes he would come up with a few light injuries on his face, and most of the time he was absent.
I guess luck wasn't on my side this time when the professor asked everyone to pair up with each other to do a group assignment. Everyone already formed the pair of two with whom they were close with leaving only me and him. I didn't want to be paired up with him but i didn't have any choice either. Everyone shuffled to sit with their pairs, and i had to do the same. We were sitting next to each other and there was a complete silence between us, i wondered if he remembered me? I thought to myself what would i say if he asked me; why i didn't help him that day?, i was thinking about it all when he suddenly spoke to me first,
"I am Dohyun, you can divide the task and tell me what to do, I'll do my part, I'm not gonna ditch you."
I was really shocked, when he suddenly introduced himself and told me that he won't make me do all the work, it wasn't like i thought that he would do something like that.
"o-oh I'm Im Shua, i didn't say that you were gonna ditch me or anything"
I said to him, as i really didn't even thought about it.
"i know you didn't said that i just wanted you to know it"
He said it with a straight face without even looking at me, he just looked at the front, and he didn't ask me about anything, maybe he didn't remember me.
"Then I'll share the guidelines with you after the class, we can sit in the cafe and work on it together then"
"Okay, let's do that"
And so we went to the cafe after the class and sat down on table besides window, we can see people passing by outside, he put his bag on a chair in front of me and looked at me as he asked me,
"i'll go order our drink, what would you like to have?"
I was stunned, he looked all dark and gloomy, but he was really a gentleman, i paused before answering him,
"I'll go with Matcha Latte"
"ok"
He looked at me before leaving which made me wonder if i had asked him for something expensive, i opened my laptop as i waited for him to return after a while he came with two Matcha Latte, he handed me one and put down the other in front of him as he sat in front of me. I just asked him curiosity,
"Do you like Matcha Latte too?"
It wasn't only curiosity but i also somehow wanted to make a small talk with him to lighten up the mood as we had to work with each other for time now. He looked down at his latte before looking at me and answering,
"Not really, i had never tried it before"
It was really a simple answer,
"then did you bought it because of mine?"
He looked at my latte, while lifting his cup,
"yeah, i was curious"
He took a sip, and then looked up as he spoke,
"it's bitter and tastes like grass"
I chuckled softly, he gave all gloomy and dark vibes but at that moment he looked just like a kid who tried something bitter or sour for the first time,
"of course it's bitter, it's made from matcha after all, did you really buy it without thinking, just because of me?"
He looked away avoiding my eyes, i could see that he was feeling embarrassed, his ears turned slightly red,
"o-of course i told you i bought it because you did, how was i supposed to know it would be this much bitter!"
It was interesting, i didn't knew he was the type to get embarrassed this easily, but even after that he was honest.
"yeah, i guess you are right"
After that we both worked together on the project for hours. Soon it was evening we decided to pack up then and went to the bus stop, we both lived in the same direction so we went together, and then parted our ways. I was really exhausted so i took a bath and went straight to the bed.