2 Polka

Yu Yan

"Shut up, you idiot!," Su Lijie hissed while covering my mouth.

"What the heck is wrong with you? I haven't seen you in a while and the first thing you do is lift my skirt! We're not kids anymore, damn it!"

The nerve of this guy!

"And apparently in the days that we haven't seen each other, your taste in undershorts has gone downright bizarre. Pudding prints? Really?"

I punched him in the arm and it has not gone my attention that his arm is hard, hmmm, someone is working out while he's away.

"Stop lifting my skirt up, what are you, 11? You're 23 years old now, damn it!"

"Yeah and you look 20 years older than me," he sniped and outright ignored me afterwards, then he went on his merry way leading me to the conclusion that he only came here specifically to annoy me, which he successfully did so. What 20 years older than me? I'm only younger by 1 year than him, damn it! I could not help but grit my teeth hard.

I'm annoyed at myself for letting his annoying-self annoy me, and the number of "annoys" in this sentence is too damn high.

We were kids (I was 10 years old while he's 11) when we first met, and needless to say it was hate at first sight.

I transferred to City H School and was touring the school grounds when I passed by a deserted room and heard a slight snore on the other end of the closed door. I kept quiet and struggled to hear the noise again, and there it was. I pressed my ears on the door and was able to confirm that the noise definitely came from the other side of the door.

Seeing that there are no people watching, I sneakily got inside the door and hurriedly closed it. I did not notice the "No Trespassing/Keep Out" sign labeled outside the door. I looked around the room and see shelves of books and records.

I went on ahead to find the slightly snoring sound until I reached the edge of the room. There I saw a kid in male uniform lying with a black mask on, apparently sleeping judging from his posture and the dead giveaway of the snoring sound that came from him.

I tiptoed my way silently towards him, curious to see the face behind that black cat mask. I reached out and tried to gently tug the mask off his face.

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Su Lijie

I was enjoying my peace and quiet sleeping on my secret hiding place when suddenly I feel someone trying to pull my mask. I really hate someone disturbing me in my sleep.

In a moment of sleepy unconsciousness I pushed the perpetrator hard and I heard a loud thud followed shortly by a scream of pain.

She had successfully removed the mask off my face but she paid for it by landing on the ground in her butt in a very compromising position. From her looks, he reckon she did not suspect the sudden aggression from someone who seems to be sleeping soundly.

I crossed my arms and glared at her hard.

"What do you want?"

"I.."

She became speechless. He saw her lips thinning in a line while battling an internal struggle. He's slightly amused by the myriad of facial expressions passing on her face.

Instead of answering my question, her mouth suddenly began spewing words not fit for a child their age.

"You insolent motherf*cker! Not only did you push a woman (a WOMAN!) hard until I fell on my ass, you did not even offer me a helping hand to stand up while being unreasonably hostile towards me!" she huffed.

A woman? She dare call herself a woman?

"I'll only call you a woman when you stop wearing childish prints, Polka"

And with that I stuck my tongue out and immediately left her on her own and exited the room. It was silent for a few seconds until I heard a shout.

"COME BACK HERE, YOU BASTARD!"

I ran away this time to get away from a certain crazed lunatic. It seems she realized a few seconds too late that I just called her based her underwear prints, polka dots.

And that nickname stuck until they're now grown-ups.