#<—guy who still needs to finish the last WH book. someday….

[deathishauntedbyhumans]

hello sherlock and co fans. have you read warlock holmes. would you like to—

[ghostofvixx]

Eighteen |MTL|

You were sixteen when you fell for him.

You’ve known Moon Tail for years, ever since you were born actually. In spite of being two years older than you, he always took good care of you and treated you as his little sister, you even fought as if you were brother and sister.

When you were old enough to go to high school, you made new friends and so did he, but even though you weren’t in the same squad, that didn’t change anything, furthemore, you developed this crush on him you’ve been keeping a secret ever since you were sixteen.

When he finished high school and went to college, you both kept in touch, proving you once more how special your bond was.

Then it was your turn to go to college. You ended up going to the same University as him, since the prestige of Seoul’s University was right what you were looking for. You are still not sure about how you ended up being in the same squad as him though: So Chaeyoung, majored in medicine and Kim Yeri, majored in journalism, also known as your friends from high school, they ended up getting along well with Lee Taeyong, majored in psycology, Johnny Seo, majored in films and television, Qian Kun, majored in education and of course, your dear friend, Moon Taeil.

You can’t keep your crush on Taeil a secret, not when Qian Kun exist. That boy can read you as if you were an opened book.

“It makes sense if you think about it.” He comments as he walks through the halls with you.

“Please Kun, if you ever tell him about my crush on him I’m so dead”

“How are you so sure he doesn’t likes you back?”

“Oh come on Kun! Yeasterday he was talking about a girl he crashed into in the supermarket!”

“Wasn’t it in the library?”

“No, that was last week’s girl”

You will never get over how soon your friend catches feeling for a girl, it hurts you everytime.

“Those are just physical crushes, he isn’t in love with any of them. I’m sure you have those all the time” He tries to cheer you up.

“Have a crush on who?” Chaeyoung asks, hugging you from behind.

“Oh, it’s nothing” You say, hugging her back.

“You guys are very close now aren’t you?” She winks at you, trying not to be noticed.

“What is that supposed to m-”

“Let’s go! Yeri is waiting for us!”

Everytime you meet your friends at lunchtime, they always try to sit you next to Kun, if you ever need help, they make sure Kun is always there to help you, Yeri said that she had forgotten her jacket next to Kun’s classrom once, and her classroom is pretty far from Kun’s classroom.

So, at this point, you know what is going though their minds, and you think this is time to confront them.

“Okay, we are going to talk.” You say when you see that they are all waiting for Kun and you at the exit of the building.

“What’s wrong Y/N?” Taeil asks when he sees you are scratching your left arm, meaning you are nervous.

“Why are you trying to match Kun and me?” you ask, being straightforward for once in your life.

You see confussion in everyone’s face but Kun’s, proving you once more than he can not only read you, but everyone else. He’ll be a good teacher someday.

“Wh-what are you even talking about Y/N” Johnny asks you.

“I’m not stupid, and neither is Kun. Why are you trying to match Kun and me?” You repeat.

“Well, you guys were spending a lot of time together and we though that maybe you had developed feelings for each other.” Yeri explains.

“We wanted to make you guys spend more time together to see if anyone would confess.” Taeyong continues.

You look at Taeil, looking for anything that could tell you that all of this was a joke, but he isn’t even looking at you, making you loose a little bit of your confidence.

“It’s not Kun the one you should ship me with” You say.

“Y/N if you are not sure you shouln’t-”

“Don’t bother Kun, I’ll be fine.” You try to smile. “Kun is just a friend I have a good friendship with, guys.” 

“Who should we ship you with, then?” Johnny smirks.

“Do we know him?” Chaeyong, continues.

“Yeah, sure, why not.” You try to look as if you couldn’t care less.

“I bet it’s Taeyong!” Johnny raises his hand.

“Well, it could be one of the girls.” Taeyong raises his eyebrows and winks at you.

“I place my bet on Johnny” Chaeyoung adds.

“I still think it’s Kun.” Yeri raises her voice to be heard over Chaeyoung’s voice.

“And I say you are all wrong.” You know the person everyone is thinking about because, well, they are not dumb.

You then look at him. He’s looking at you for the first time since you asked about Kun. You can’t tell if he is either happy or angry, maybe embarrased.

You don’t want to know.

“I think I’ll go now”

You avoid him, of course.

But wanna know who you don’t avoid?

Kun.

It’s nothing personal, you just don’t want to confront the guy who you have confessed your feelings to, in front of your whole squad and who happens to be your best friend since you were born.

Everytime you think of that moment you get a heart attack. You shouldn’t have done that, that’s what you repeat to yourself again and again.

“Don’t overthink, I’m sure that if you talk to him you’ll end up surprised”

You look at him as if he has said the craziest thing ever.

“Come on don’t look at me like that. I’ll talk to him if you don’t”.

“Don’t worry Kun. It looks like I’ll have to talk to her by myself.”

You look at him and for some reason you can’t stop looking at him.

It's just hard not to feel anything for him when you know for sure that he is probably the most stunning human being.

“I’ll leave you two alone” Kun stands up and gives both of you a friendly slap in your shoulders.

None of you talk for at least 5 minutes.

“Are you going to talk or do I just keep embarrasing myself?” You ask.

“Eighteen”

“What?”

“I fell for you when I was eighteen”.

[tipsylorie]

Nothing More, Nothing Less

(Created: April 17, 2016)

Proof-reading No.1: 24th May 2021

Word count: 3,029/14K

A/N: this was a story I made in junior high school so please do not expect much but I did try to do some revisions and clarifications as I am proof reading it. If you do like it in any ways, please do reblog and comment (maybe lemme know of what you think). This is still an ongoing story even after 5 years but I still want to do my best with it and finish it someday. So.. your support would be totally appreciated! 

Once upon a time there was a girl named Lorie, she was a fifteen-year-old high school student. She’s weird and an unappealing teenager, so everyone treats her like a nobody. Even so, she’s invisible since nobody can lay a hand just stab words on her because her parents have eyes everywhere; only because she’s the next-in-line owner of the school. She’s an only child, with lack of attention given by the parents, notwithstanding of that she was not a spoiled brat. She’s still a down-to-earth person even though some of the people that surrounds her that are insecure is getting in her skin, she still does nothing with it. She just let them do whatever they want, never fighting back or telling on them. Because she knows that it was not worth it and THEY are not in her level; she’s well-composed, dedicated, smart, beautiful inside, and rich, so what else is she looking for?

On the other hand, there was Sean, he is the popular bad boy in the campus. Everyone hates him but at the same time wants to be friends with him. It’s like if you were just seen in a week with him, you are one hell of a topic – it can be rumors, gossips, and back stories of yours. However, he is lazy, not-so-smart, not-so-rich either and has broken home. Well, that’s what everyone thought due to his behavior in the school.

Sean is the exact opposite of Lorie. So, is it possible that they can be a thing?

Lorie is walking in the corridor to her assigned classroom, wearing a long-sleeved dress that’s 4 inches above her feet, with ballerina-like-shoes, and circled rimmed glasses carrying tons of books. There was only half quarter left in the school year, so for those who failed in their past grading should better start working hard like, right now. But for Lorie it’s like eating a piece cake. But that doesn’t mean she has THE ADVANTAGE because she owns the school, she actually works hard - so very hard to be deserving of having those high grades. She was not raised to cheat and use power for all self-interest; in fact, she was thought to never step on the people who are already on the ground but instead to try and help them up. But maybe because of that she is being bullied because she’s too kind.

The day passed just like a wind, it was now the end of the class and Lorie went to her locker to leave some stuffs before she headed home. But as she closed the door of her locker, there was a guy standing behind it. He was tall, fair skin, not-so-masculine body (okay… maybe a little bit), but still looking hot as fudge while his eyes showing some embarrassment.

“Can I help you?” Lorie asked with an irritated tone.

“Uh… Lorie, right?”

“Yeah, why? Finding someone to make fun with?”

“No, not that. I’m actually going to ask for your help.”

“You are Sean, right? The one that has the bad boy reputation. Why are you going to need my help then?”

“Okay, a girl with many words, that can’t even talk in front of the class. To inform you every one of us has a reputation to hold, like you, the bullied one – that’s your reputation.”

“Wow! You’re talking as if we’re close. JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, IT’S MY CHOICE IF I WANT TO BE BULLIED! Besides I know high school will just pass by like a lightning… since no one owns the time.” Lorie breathlessly let out the last words.

“Sorry! I didn’t mean for you to be offended – and dang, you’re deep.”

“Yeah, I think so too. But what is really the reason for all of these? If you are just going to lure and use me for you to upgrade your bad boy title, don’t even think-‘

“Hey! You are the one judging – so technically you are the bad girl.”  Sean said in childlike voice.

Lorie was practically dumbfounded with how Sean reacted but remained silent.

Sean cleared his throat then said, “I mean, I would like to propose an agreement.”

Lorie raised an eyebrow and asked, “Is that a fact?” Then start walking straight to the parking lot.

Sean start following her then replied, “Yes. You will help me to have good grade and I’ll help you to have a good status.”

With that words Lorie promptly stop walking. “Are you joking?” She looked back to Sean then continued while walking back to her service black BMW car, “Don’t you have any better things to do than making fool of yourself?”

“I’m dead serious, I would need your help and at some point, you’ll need mine.” Sean said with a higher pitch in the last words and ended it with a smirk that Lorie has the chance to glimpse as she halted beside the car door.

Sean thought that she would give in, and the gods showered him some luck, but unfortunately, it’s Lorie whose he’s dealing with. So, he just got a smirked back from Lorie then she went inside the car and left Sean surprised that his charms did not work.

THE NEXT DAY

“Yes! It’s the last period and no homework, so that means unlimited CSI episodes for me… Can’t wait to go home.” Words that are typed in Lorie’s phone journal.

“Okay class that’s all for today. See you guys tomorrow.” The teacher said. “Oh, I almost forgot; Sean can you stay?”

“Okay miss.” Sean replied.

Lorie was getting out to the room when she heard the teacher asking for Sean, so she just hid outside the room to gather some information.

“Sean, you are failing. If you don’t act upon this now, maybe there will no longer be a scholarship for you. Because as you know, you also need ace your academics to sustain your sports scholarship.” The teacher informed. Yes, everyone he plays one of the cliché sports but still appealing, which is basketball.

“Yes, I know miss. I’m working on it I promise.” Sean answered assuring the teacher and himself as well.

“I’m counting on it. You are dismissed.” The teacher said.

Sean only answered with a nod and exited the room. On the other hand, that made Lorie’s heart softened for the poor Sean so she-

“Hey Sean!” Lorie exclaimed as she startled Sean.

“Oh, hey Lorie. I’m guessing you’ve heard.”

“Yes, and sorry about that. But anyways, that’s exactly why I changed my mind and now I’m agreeing to help you.” Lorie said then she noticed all the awkward stares and glancing the two of them were receiving. “I mean can we talk somewhere private?” Lorie whispered.

Sean also noticed and replied in a nonchalant manner (to show he is not bothered even though he really was), “Sure, where?”

“I know a place.”

The two of them walked straight to the teacher’s lounge and Sean asked, “Why here? This is where I’m most hated… and maybe will be killed.”

“Don’t worry I got this.”

Lorie entered the room happily.

“Hi miss Lorie.”

“Hello”

“Hello Lorie.”

“Hi”

“How are you darling?”

“Fine, Thank you”

“Here are some brownies, just how you like it.”

“Oh, thank you Mrs. Santiago, I’ll take two, if you don’t mind.”

“Not at all sweetie.’

“Oh-ohkay, you’re kinda popular here.” Sean said as Lorie gave him his piece of brownie.

Lorie just gave him a smile.

“What does that supposed to mean?”

“Hmm my parents are their boss… Wait, you didn’t know?”

“hmm-WHAT?!”

“Shhh lower you voice, will you? Their trying to take a rest too you know… Here we are, my office.”

“What? you have your office?”

“Sort of, just had some free time, and some of the staff lend me their things, so yeah…”

“Ohh that’s so cool. So, my proposal, why a sudden change of mind?”

“Uhmm I realized you needed help, so why take it away from you?”

“Thank you, thank you so very much Lorie.”

“Hey, don’t forget you’ll help me too.”

“Yeah, I know.”

“Shall we start now?”

“Start what?”

“Studying.”

“Oh that. Can we do it tomorrow?”

“Okay, so the deal is off.”

“No no no! Okay, we’ll start.

“Algebra, slope…”

UNKOWN TIME LATER

“What time is it? ‘Cuz my head is going to explode with these many numbers and letters you teach.” Sean asked.

Lorie gave him a glare then answered, “7:30, wh-AT?! Oh fudgy, no more CSI.”

“Just a show, you know you can just download it.”

“I know, I mean no more time to watch it.”

“It’s only 7:30”

“For you!” Lorie exclaimed. She inhaled and say, “Anyways lets get going.”

“Yeah” Sean agreed.

THE NEXT AFTERNOON

“Now class dismiss, but please do your assignments this time.” The teacher informed.

By that cue Lorie was already halfway done with the said assignment due to the free time she got. When the class started to exit the room, Lorie quickly put all her stuffs in her bag. Then she went straight to the teacher’s lounge to finish her works.

After she finished all of her works, she then stopped in her locker to drop some of her things. When she closed her locker’s door the cliché thing happened.

“So as my thanks for your gratitude yesterday I would like to invite you in a walk.” Sean greeted Lorie with a grin.

Lorie got startled and manage to say, “Are you kidding me? It’s quarter to 5 pm so I need to get going.”

“C’mon you can just squeeze a few minutes in your schedule.”

“You are really a bad influence, but okay. Besides I just finished all the assignments.

“WHAT WE HAVE ASSIGNEMENTS?” Sean exclaimed. Then he sighed, “Whatever, let’s go.”

“You sure? You won’t do the assignments? You know you need to do it.”

“Yeah, I’ll just ask for help later. So now let’s go.” Sean said as he walked to the back door of the school.

“Why are we going out here? Where are you taking me?” Lorie said as she starts freaking out. “Oh my gosh, I shouldn’t have told you-”

Sean grabs her arms and looks her in the eyes and say, “Told me what? You are the owners’ daughter? C’mon I’m not THAT yet desperate to do such thing. So don’t worry, okay?” And he let go of her.

Lorie managed to just nod as an answer. Still followed Sean in silence.

“We are here.” Sean said referring to an old building.

“Where? A dumpster?”

“Ouch. Hey, it’s not bad than it looks. This is my second home. If yours is the teacher’s lounge than this is mine. So now come with me.” Sean said as he gave his hand to Lorie.

“Whatever, at least this’ll help me to have some reason in my life.” Lorie sarcastically said.

But Sean just rolled his eyes on Lorie’s joked.

As Lorie entered the door she was amazed with the infrastructure of the inside. You won’t see it anywhere else. It’s dark with highlights of white and many abstracts and gratifies everywhere; you will still somehow make meanings and sense upon it. One of which caught her attention is on the right wall of the hall she and Sean are walking in is a graffiti of different figures that made an overall picture of a building where it somehow showed only its perfect and ideal state, but the colors used resembles dystopian environment.  The illustration captivated Lorie’s attention until she noticed that there was a group of people talking, treating each other like brothers and sisters and having fun. She felt like out of all peer groups she came across, in here– no one left behind.

“Hey guys! This is Lorie, a new friend.” Sean informed his friends.

“Now we are friends? *Imaginary rolled my eyes*” Lorie thought.

A lot of eyes landed on Lorie but did not judged her nor intended to make her feel unwelcome, but the gang found Lorie unusual. Everything about her is new to them from the weirdly long dress she was wearing which was paired with top that has collar and sleeves that just made her look like a nun. Hence, she did look sort of funny especially to a particular girl.

“Seriously Sean, a new type of girl to go with?” One of Sean’s female friends asked.

“Shut up Lizzy.”

“Hey my Sean. I see you brought home a girl. A unique one.” Said by the dude just entered the room.

“Hey Bill, my man! Uhm-about that girl part, she’s just a friend.”

Bill looks like he’s in his twenties and a leader of some sort of this gang and Sean is his right-hand man as they seemed the closest compared to the others.

“Is she going to join the gang?” Bill asked.

“Uh nah… I’m just showing here mah home.” Sean said jokingly.

“What gang?” Lorie snapped curiously.

“Wait man, she doesn’t know.” Bill asked Sean.

Sean shook his head as an approval, “Actually not planning to.”

“Then way did you brought her here?!” Bill’s voice starts rising.

“You said my friend is your friend and - is welcome in our home!” Sean replied in defensibly.

“BUT WHAT IF YOUR FRIEND WILL CAUSE US TROUBLE?” Bill exclaimed.

“NO, SHE WON’T. BESIDES WE LIVE TO TROUBLE, DON’T WE?” Sean snapped. Then dragged Lorie and stormed out of the room.

When they were outside the building Lorie asked to cut the tension, “Did I messed your gang up? I’m sorry if I did, I really did no-“

“Hey, it’s okay. Maybe Bill is just in a bad mood. I bet it will be fine tomorrow. By then I will bring you here again, and hopefully we’ll have a better appearance.” Sean said as he assured Lorie.

“Okay, if you say so. But why brought me here? You know you don’t have to.”

“I know, but since we’ll practically spend a lot of time together, it’s better if you know.”

“You know, you’re not a bad boy at all. You are kinda soft.”

“I will take that as an insult. But to inform you, I only have my mom, so that’s why I don’t take it hard on girls. I live by a motto: ‘Girls should be respected and well treated.’”

“Aww… If I’m not too smart I might’ve fallen for you in just two days.”

“That! I will take as a complement.”

“Since it’s only 5:30, I can still help you with the assignments.”

“How about your driver?”

“I made an excuse, so he’ll pick me up at 6. So, c’mon where do you wanna make the assignments?”

“Ooh the inner bad girl of yours is coming out.” Sean teased.

Lorie raised an eyebrow, “FYI, I do this all the time when I’m not in mood to go home. So where now?”

“Maybe a coffee shop?”

“Too predictable and too many people.”

“Okay so where then?”

Lorie gave a smirk, “Library.”

“Wha-what? No way! I am going to burn in there!”

But that didn’t stop Lorie and starts marching to the school’s library.

“I guess I don’t have any choice then.” Sean muttered.

Lorie laughed while walking.

“I like it when your laughing, it lets me forget your big glasses.” Sean joked.

“Hey that’s bad! I’m just having trouble to see things far away. Like if you are in the other side of the road, without these glasses; I won’t be able to recognize you. So, I needed these. But I can still see on what’s on my way.” Lorie said as she took her glasses off - to wipe a fog off.  

Sean stopped in front of Lorie and took her glasses to clean it himself, “Yeah I get it. But it’s much better if you had a better frame for these, surely it’ll make your eyes much prettier.”

“Uh-thanks.” Lorie said as she took her glasses back. “Let’s get going?”

“Yeah sure.”

They walked in silence until they got to the library.

“Okay here we are, we need to finish quickly. So, I’m hoping you’ll be able to follow.”

“I’ll try my best. What’s the assignment?”

“Entrepreneurship: Financial Reports.

“Numbers again? My head will totally explode.”

“Hey, it’ll be totally fine. It’s easy.”

“For you to say.”

Financial Reports consists of: Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow. You can start writing these as your notes. Balance Sheet’s equation is ASSETS = LIABILITIES & OWNER’S EQUITY. As for Income Statement it also has three parts, 1. Sales, 2. Expenses, 3.Net Profit. Lastly the Cash Flow it is only the Cash in and Cash Out, the difference will be the TOTAL CASH IN/OUT OR CASH ON HAND (COH). Got it?”

“Hey! How come you are not looking in your book?” Sean complained.

“I’ve mastered these stuffs when I was in 4th grade, since then I was helping with the school’s reports.”

Sean was silent and shocked for a moment, “You are a freaking genius, Lorie. I’m kinda jealous.”

“Don’t be. It’s not easy as it looks sometimes… Can I ask you something?”

“Sure.”

“Did you mean what you said earlier? Us being friends?”

“It’s up to you actually.”

“Yeah I would love that.”

“Friends?” Sean asked as he reached out his right hand.

“Friends, just friends. Nothing more. Nothing less” Lorie confirmed as she shook Sean’s hand.

“Yes, nothing more, nothing less.”

Beep. Beep.

“Sorry I got to check this.” Lorie excused. “My driver’s here… So goodbye?”

“It’s okay. I bet we’re done anyway.”

“Not yet actually, maybe my notes will help you to finish it.”

Lorie hand Sean her notebook.

“Yeah. Thanks again. So, I’ll see you tomorrow?”

“It’s Saturday.” Lorie sad as she heads to the library’s door while Sean tailing her.

“Yeah, I know, but I’ll need you to check my work.”

“Fine tomorrow, where?”

“At the mall’s café.”

“Whatever.”

Sean just nodded as a response. Lorie was at the car’s door when Sean is right behind her. “Hey, I’m starting to think you love coffee.” Lorie said.

“Kinda.”

“Okay… Thanks for walking me. Bye.” Lorie said as she went inside the car giving Sean a last smile.

THE NEXT MORNING