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chapter nine
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I piled all my manuals onto my desk as I waited for the first bell to ring. I was tired and worn out from yesterday and it doesn't make it any better that today was one of my longer days.
I placed my hand on my neck as it ached. It was my fault, I should've gone to sleep earlier, but I was up all night finishing my undone assignments. It was stupid how I always complained about being tired yet I never took time to take care of myself.
As I waited for our professor to arrive, I doodled on my books out of boredom. Surprisingly Ryujin wasn't bickering like usual, so I didn't really have anything else to occupy myself with. She was rather focused on her work.
"What possessed you to study?" I asked her furrowing my eyebrows. She didn't look back at me but rather let out a laugh, I could tell by her back movement. "My parents caught on to my grades," she replied. "And?" "And they told me if I didn't bring them up I'd lose going out privilege"
"Bummer" I deadpanned.
Ryujin let out a sigh but rapidly returned her focus to her papers.
I didn't really need to study as much as Ryujin, coming from the fact that I'd spend more time doing work than going out to the city. My parents also asked for good grades, which I dedicated most of my time to grant. I was never the shallow kid, I enjoyed being alone just to research and study things. Call me a nerd already.
My thoughts were cut off when the familiar middle-aged man, also known as my teacher walked in. We did our usual greeting and got into the lesson. I already knew most of these things but I still did my best to listen, it was the only way to keep me from falling asleep.
"Is your head that heavy?" I heard a voice whisper shout from behind me. I hesitantly turned my head towards them. "You look like you're struggling to keep your head up" Jisung satirized "You can't seem to learn a lesson huh?" I snarled my teeth at him.
I'm tired. I don't need this right now.
"I'm the victim here, an apology would be appreciated" he chimed "Victim my ass" "Can you even imagine how many children you killed?" "Jisung quit bugging me," I growled louder than I intended.
A few confused faces turned my way, the teacher stopped and shot me a quick look. I swallowed the spit that got stuck in my throat and flashed my eyes on to my manual.
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I cleaned the metal chopsticks in front of me before eating my meal. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't starving right now, I hadn't eaten anything since yesterday. In front of me, Ryujin was stuffing her mouth with the food like there was no tomorrow.
"The food isn't running away" I mocked "Won't take the risk" she muffled
After a few minutes of sharing laughs and giggles with Ryujin, Hyunjin and his gang raided our table once again.
"We're doing this again?" I lifted an eyebrow. "I don't see your name on the table," he smirked.
There were some faces at the table that I wasn't familiar with. I wasn't planning on getting familiar with them to start with but Hyunjin must've read my mind.
"Let's introduce ourselves, I'm sure you'd like to get to know us"
I would not.
"I'm Changbin" said the short dude I had interacted with before. "I'm Felix" added a very deep voice. "Bangchan!"
I knew Bangchan, well just a tad. He was an extremely ambitious person, his leadership skills were crazy good, which answers why he's the Soccer Team Captain. He was quick to help others and usually stayed positive. Plus he was pretty attractive. I mean pretty much everyone in Hyunjin's friend group was good-looking.
"My name's Seungmin" a younger-looking boy added. "And I'm Jeongin" a cute boy smiled.
The others didn't need to introduce themselves because unfortunately, I was already aware of their existence.
"Repeat all of that, I wasn't listening," I said playing with my food. I gained frowns from all of them, in which I returned with a grin.
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After eating I left the others to prepare for p.e early. P.E right after eating, now isn't that a perfect combo?
I placed my sports bag down and removed my clothes. I had already double-checked that I grabbed the right bag, once was already enough. I put on my normal sportswear and tied my hair into a ponytail.
After not too long I heard the sounds of female voices getting near the door, as I assumed a large number of girls entered the room. Thankfully I was already finished so I made my way out the door before interacting with any of them.
Unfortunately for me, it wasn't raining this time, meaning we actually had to run today. My sore body wasn't ready to run yet, especially not in the sun.
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When my whole class had finally got out of the changing rooms, we were led outside by the coach. Like the evil monster he is, we were ordered to run a few warmup laps around the basketball court.
I let out a sigh and started to drag my feet so the teacher wouldn't complain. I picked up the pace a bit just to create an illusion that I was running. It's not that I was bad at running, I just didn't like the idea of physically tiring myself out. I already do that mentally.
After some time I had completed only two laps but hell was I panting like crazy. I didn't bother stopping since the coach would start complaining about my shitty stamina. All I could do was hope I didn't pass out right now.
I had finally completed my 3rd lap and was ready to stop, suddenly out of nowhere I noticed Hyunjin jogging towards me. He was wearing a sleeveless white shirt, black Nike shorts, and a black headband. His arm muscles were quite visible. Yeah, he looked good what did I expect from the main character?
Away from the fact he looked foolishly good right now, what the hell was he doing on the same courtyard as me? As I saw it, it was definitely not raining so there was no need to take p.e with the other class.
"You're not the fastest runner are you?" he somehow appeared next to me. Still confused I didn't bother replying to him, instead, he somehow gave me the motivation to quicken my pace.
"Pfft, why the rush now?" he scoffed. "What are you doing here?" I spat "I told my coach I wanna run today, training my stamina for soccer" he grinned.
Hyunjin was also on the soccer team with Bangchan. How did I know? Everyone knew the soccer team, they were almost like celebrities to the school. Obviously, most of the girls only acknowledged the team's existence because of Hyunjin and Bangchan.
The team would often have matches on the campus's field, because of that plenty of people stayed after school just to watch them. In my opinion, that's a waste of time, why stay at school to watch a group of men that probably don't like you, when you could go to the library and read about...I don't know... lizards? Oh, right I forgot I'm an introvert who does their best to avoid talking to new people.
"What are you thinking about?" a loud voice interrupted my thoughts. "The best solution to get out of this situation" I hissed at him. "Sorry Yurazon, but I'll be here for the rest of the hour" he beamed
I wish could slap that stupid smile off his face right now.
"I have soccer practice next week, will you come to watch me?" he began to run backward in front of me. "No?" I furrowed my eyebrows. "Please? I'll need energy" "Since when did we get close?" I snarled at him. "Since you wore that wonder woman one piece" he winked at me.
Maybe multitasking wasn't my thing, or I was just obviously flustered, I somehow managed to trip over my own feet. I brought Hyunjin with me on the way down. Putting my arms out for support I felt my body hit against his.
There I was on the ground.
Faceplanted onto his crotch.
"Take me on a date first??" I heard him yap.
I immediately pulled my head up, my face quickly turned red so I allowed my hair to cover it. Even through my strands, I could still notice the number of heads turned our way. Embarrassing.
"PERVERT" I growled. "What do you mean pervert?! You're the one who threw yourself on me!" he defensively yelped. "I wouldn't have fallen on you if you hadn't distracted me" I snapped.
I regained the dignity to pull myself up and storm away from him.
Showing my face in school would no longer be an option after this.
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a/n sorry for the long wait I was busy with my studies!
