Mondays

It was the first day of school. I hated Mondays, I always have. I was seventeen and was hoping to make my first friends in this new town I was in.

My mom called just when I was walking through the hallway. It was awkward as my ringing tone was a cat meows. A girl looked at me weirdly and sighed.

"Hey, baby, guess what?" Mom's high pitched voice asked. "What?" I asked, less enthusiastic. "Stray Kids! They're going to be admitted to your school. I knew it that's why I enrolled you there". Of course I didn't believe her. What was she on now? "Mom, I gotta go, bye" I said and was about hanging up.

"No, baby, I'm being serious. I'd send you the post from JYPE.

Not all of them, but 2000 line. Wait" she hung up. I sighed, I wanted to hang up first. I walked slowly to my new class. Not everyone was in class yet.

I wanted to walk up to a pretty girl sitting at the back when a notification came in. And my notification sound was a dog barks.

Yes, I am that crazy about animals.

I hurriedly check the message while the pretty girl placed her bag on the chair besides her making sure I didn't sit besides her.

I frowned, if it was my mom I was so going to be mad. My annoyance turned to confusion and then happiness.

I literally screamed. JYPE just confirmed. STRAY KIDS 2000 AND 2001 LINE WAS TO BE ADMITTED TO MY SCHOOL.The hyung line was admitted to a nearby university.

I screamed again. This year was going to be crazy! By now, some of my classmates were already looking at me like I was crazy.

I wiped the grin if my fave and ran out of the class. I was embarrassed but heavily excites.

I stopped in my tracks as I was heading to the bathroom. It didn't make sense, I pinched myself. Was I dreaming? Why would JYPE enroll the boys in an American school all of a sudden?

I reread the post and got my answer. It was like a year training with at the new JYPE American branch. It would also help the boy with international promotions and improve their multiculturalism. Good, good, good. But it had never been done before. 

I mean, they would be under the American pop label for a year? What does that make them? American pop?

I shook those thoughts off my head. The most important thing was; THEY WERE COMING TO MY SCHOOL.

With the way that it was only me shouting out of excitement, I guessed lots of students around here weren't Stays. It was okay. It would change soon. *smirk*

I rushed back to my class as I saw a teacher walking in. I scrambled for a seat and took one besides the pretty girl from earlier. She frowned but I paid no attention to her.

"Good day class, I am Mrs. Lia, your form teacher for this year. I'd be having a record of new students. Please pass this around" she gave a register to a boy sitting in front.

The boy stared at it in fear.

"Pass it around please" she said to him. For whatever reasons, the boy shook slightly while looking down at the register.

Mrs. Lia looked at him carefully, sighed and retrieved the paper.

"Okay, if you know you are a new student, come forward and write your name".

Many students groaned loudly. We were like forty students.

Why did that boy have to stress us? He could have just pass the poor register. Students shuffled their legs to the front. I waited till more than half had gone before I stood up to sign.

As I came closer, I smiled at Mrs. Lia as she did the same. I made it a habit to smile to people, it could help their day somehow.

As I wrote down my name, I had the urge to look up at the name of the guy before me.

He was cute so I thought I should know his name. It was in Russian Alphabets.

I guessed he forgot he was supposed to write it in English Alphabets. I was just about mentioning it to Mrs. Lia when I saw the top names of the list written by Mrs. Lia herself.

HWANG HYUJIN

HAN JISUNG

LEE FELIX

KIM SEUGNIM

What in the nine planets I know was going on! They were already in school?! Stray Kids' 2000 line. "Emilia what, dear?" Mrs. Lia woke me from my trauma. I hadn't completed my name. I scribbled down, "Sanchez" and ran back to my seat.

I forfeited telling her about the Russian boy's mistake. She soon found it out and called him back. Stray Kids members were already in my school! I checked the announcement. It had been sent a week ago.

Why didn't I see it yesterday? And why didn't all the students signing their name in the register realize it was Stray Kids.

Like I only needed 'Hwang Hyunjin' to tell me. Like who else in the whole of America would answer HWANG HYUJIN.

Like someone would. But possibilities I'd see them were low.

I was going crazy!! I looked down on what I was wearing. It was okay. Just a flowery dress with a small slit. I was going to meet Stray Kids with it. 

I WAS GOING TO MEET STRAY KIDS WITH IT. I felt grateful to my mom suddenly. If this was really happening then I owe her a hug.