the tutor | choi beomgyu

chapter 32: april's fool

9:00 AM, Thursday, April 1st, 2022

You yawned and stretched, making your way down the school hall. Your peers seemed extra chatty today but you weren't sure why, maybe something was just in the air.
"Y/N, Y/N, Y/N!" Hyeongseo came walking up to you.
"What's up?" you asked.
"Do you have anything prepared for today?" she asked. Prepared?
"What do you mean?" you asked.
"C'mon you can tell me! Everyone knows I don't go super big anyways," she said. You were in utter confusion at her words.
"I'm sorry?" you had a puzzled look on your face. You slowly watched her face change into realization and then pity.
"Oh that's right, you've never experienced it at this school," she sighed.
"What are you talking about??" you were so lost.
"I'd be breaking code if I told you, sorry Y/N," she put her hand on your shoulder.
"I'm so confused," you whined.
"You'll be heavily targeted too, such a shame," she had a look of pity on her face.
"I'm going to my locker," you shrugged.

Something is off about today, you thought as you approached your locker. I need to get answers from elsewhere, you began unlocking your locker. You felt a sudden cool breeze on your neck. Immediately you clinched and goosebumps scattered across your body.
"Hey!" you swatted at the perpetrator.
"Morning," Beomgyu chuckled as he went to his locker.
"How was practice?" you asked Beomgyu as you opened your locker.
"What? Last night? It was good cause I got to throw one at Yang," Beomgyu referenced his basketball practice the night before. There was a pause while the both of you exchanged items from your bags, to your lockers, to your hands.
"Hey, do you know what's going on today?" you asked while closing your locker.
"What do you mean?" he shut his as well.
"Well, Hyeongseo said something about being prepared today, and then all the sudden she stopped asking me and just said I was gonna be targeted," you said. He leaned on the lockers and thought for a moment.
"Well, you know Hyeongseo, she's a little coo-coo sometimes so don't worry too much about it," he reassured you.
"What?" you were confused.
"That's the bell, gotta go," Beomgyu began walking off.
"The bell didn't even ring!" you yelled to him as he sped away. Coo-coo? What?? Hyeongseo isnt crazy, nobody would say that! They're just trying to cover something up, you walked followed after him. You were going to the same class after all.

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[HOMEROOM 2B]

"Gimme some~!" Choerry whined at Hyeongseo.
"Fine, fine," Hyeongseo peeled more of her cupcake wrapper down.
"Wait give me some too!" Eric approached their desks.
"Y'know what, since you guys are so greedy, I'll just get out the whole ones," Hyeongseo sighed, setting down her cupcake on her desk. She then picked up a transparent green tupperware container, and opened it up to reveal two other cupcakes. One with blue icing and one with pink.
"You take blue, Choerry take pink," Hyeongseo ran her tongue through her gums.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Choerry snatched the cupcake, quickly removing the wrapper. Eric seemed skeptical. He watched as Choerry took a huge bit into the cupcake.
"Mmmm! Did you bake these?" Choerry asked as she munched. Now that Choerry had tested it out, he went in for his cupcake.
"Eat it quickly, I don't want to get caught eating cupcakes before class," Hyeongseo said to Eric as she looked around behind her. Hyunjin could be seen entering the classroom and silently laying his head down on his desk. Just in time, Hyeongseo turned back around to see Eric taking a bite of his cupcake. She smirked as his face slowly changed from happiness to disgust. He made muffled cries as he set the  cupcake down and covered his mouth. Though her's was fine, Choerry had expected this, and so she held out a napkin to him. He emptied the chewed cupcake into the napkin.
"Ew, what the heck was in that?!" he wiped mouth with the napkin angrily.
"Just relish," Hyeongseo smiled.
"You wench," Erin spat.
"Nice one," Choerry laughed as she high-fived her.
"You can have the rest of mine if you want," Hyeongseo slid Eric her yellow frosted cupcake which only had a small bite taken out of it.
"I was not expecting my one prank to be used that early today," Hyeongseo said.
"Well you're participating in the one I sent you right?" Choerry asked.
"Oh yeah, well of course that one," Hyeongseo replied. Choerry noticed Hyunjin peering over at their conversation. She gave him a dirty look. Eric caught the look and followed it back to Hyunjin. Eric chuckled to him self for a second.
"Hey Choerry," he looked up at Choerry as he took Hyeongseo's other cupcake.
"What?" she turned to him.
"You and Hyunjin seem to be making a lot of eye contact recently," he took a bite.
"Don't you dare," she looked at him spitefully.
"Hey Hyunjin!" Eric turned to the blonde hair boy.
"Uh?" he replied.
"Eric," Choerry stood up with Eric.
"Do you perhaps like Choerry because I think she has a crush on you-!" Eric's sentence was finished off with Choerry slamming her hands over his mouth.
"Eric Son!" Choerry yelled at him.
"Trust me, I do not like that thing," Hyunjin laughed.
"What did you say about me?" Choerry turned to Hyunjin.
"Uh-oh..." Hyeongseo shook her head. Choerry pushed Eric out of the way, causing nearby chairs and desks to loudly scoot away.
"She's going to kill you later," Hyeongseo said to Eric who was on the ground.
"She can't be mad at me, it's April Fools!" Eric whined.
"Yeah but that joke might've gone a little too far," Hyeongseo returned her worried gaze to Choerry and Hyunjin.
"I can repeat myself if you want me to," Hyunjin said to Choerry as she approached him.
"No I heard you, loud and clear," she scowled up at him.
"But I don't think you're gonna like what I have to say back," she hissed.
"Guys, teacher incoming!" a boy yelled from the classroom door. Students scrambled back to their desks, some of them having to set theirs back up after Eric's fall.
"Give me your wrappers!" Hyeongseo whispered to Choerry and Eric. They tossed them into the tupperware container, just before the classroom door opened.