Enemy

Chapter 5.

That hell was over and I was finally at home but soon I was sent in my room to do my homework.
Time passed and I kept fidgeting with my pen out of boredom, trying to focus on all those numbers on the papers, when I received a message from Minnie asking if I wanted to hangout with him, Alex and the others.
Obviously I agreed and quickly changed clothes, grabbed my skate and stormed out of my house, heading to the park.
When I arrived to the meeting point, Alex and Yuri were skating, Jiminie was on the phone and sitting next to him Justin was drawing something on his notebook. Minnie waved at me, still looking a bit off and Justin greeted me as I was getting closer to them.

"bro, how you doing?" Justin raised his hand for our cool handshake.
"I'm alright man, what about y'all?" I glanced at Minnie, who kept looking at his phone, clearly upset.
"I'm good" said Justin as we both looked at the short boy sitting next to us who remained silent.
"Did you talk to him?" I asked Minnie while sitting down. Minnie sighed, playing with his own fingers and he shook his head almost whispering a "no".
"He is avoiding me.." Minnie lifted his head up to me.
"I don't understand him but just let him be, he will come to you himself, it's alright lil bean, we are here for you." I ruffled his blonde hair.
"Mhm, thank you Yeonnie." Minnie mumbled as he hugged me and we changed the subject talking about random things, school and drama.

Suddenly i found myself facing the ground, with a heavy weight on my back.
"JAY BRO!" Alex's excited voice followed by Yuri's laugh startled me, while I was held down by both of their bodies.
Minnie laughed at us and Yuri quickly got up from me, while Alex didn't bother moving from me, but I was still able to sit back up.
"Wanna play basketball?" Yuri asked looking at all of us. We all nodded and got up to go to the basketball's camp, which has a tall metal fence all around for safety reasons.
There were few dudes already playing but we had no problems joining them. The match was getting really funny, between the laughs, the jokes and the teasing about few of us not being that tall, we were all having a good time.

I slowed down a bit to catch my breath when I noticed a group of people walking by the fence, going toward the opened gate.
They caught my attention cause of the way they were dressed; black clothes, baseball and bucket black hats, black masks and black bags. Me stopping the game caused the others to stop as well and fix their eyes on whatever had my full attention.
I took a good look at them and I shivered as I recognized the lion-shaped pin on their jackets, once again; and this time I noticed they have letters, maybe initials engraved on the pins. They gave us a dead stare, looking at each one of us as they were dangerously getting close to the gate.
Justin was the closest one to the gate so I quickly told him to close it, but just like I feared, one of them started to run to the gate in order to keep it opened.
"DON' T LET THEM IN" I shouted as Justin and I ran and tried to force the gate to close, against the all-black-dressed girl with a "S." on her pin, and we succeeded. Or that's what I thought.

The other gang's members started to push the gate too, against me, Justin and two of the guys who offered to help us. But we still weren't able to keep them out. They pushed so hard that a piece of the gate actually broke and they managed to enter the camp.
I instinctively grabbed Minnie and hid him behind my back to protect him.
"I knew they would enter here, the whole scary squad.." I told Minnie, hoping they would leave soon.
The tall, scary dude looked at me as the "S." girl from the gang got closer to me.

She was the same girl who shouted my name in the hallway at school, so that caused me to take a step back in fear.
"He didn't want us to enter" she laughed, "Are you scared?" She asked me and I gulped. I was suddenly the center of their attention.
"I'm... not scared, y'all are gonna ruin this" I said, trying to not look scared in their eyes, to prove them wrong. Two young girls that I recognized as the two very young smart mouths from the school, started to pick at the guys who we were previously playing with, so they quickly focused on them, letting me finally breathe.

They made fun of everyone in that basketball camp, for the dumbest reasons but at least that gave me and Minnie time to slowly move closer to the gate.
The tall, asian-looking dude suddenly looked at me and got me off guard.
"You." he kept staring into my eyes, walking towards me. I slightly felt uncomfortable and shy so I backed up even more."Yeontan." I really felt helpless as my nickname came out of his mouth once again.
"Yes?" I answered unsure, trying to study his facial's expression.
"Come here. Why you didn't want us in here?" He teased me, grabbing the collar of my shirt, slightly pulling it. "And what the fuck is scary squad?" I left the grip on Minnie's arm as this "X." dude started to shake me by my shirt. "Y-you all are scary" I stuttered fearfully, turning my head to the side to stop the long eye contact with him and it provoked a laugh from the whole gang watching the not-so-funny scene.
He smirked, clearly enjoying his power on me "Let's have a talk dumbfuck. Listen here-"
"NO, FUCK OFF" I interrupted him, pushing my hands on his chest, away from me, as hard as I could while I quickly took my chance to run away, out of the camp.

I pulled Minnie along with me by his arm and the others just followed us out of there to avoid the gang's unneccessary bullying.
Fortunately they didn't follow us but just laughed really loudly as we ran away.
They were probably thinking how easily they've just won and I couldn't stand that thought, but what was I supposed to do? Fight them just like they wanted me to? I wouldn't dare. I brushed off my anger as we kept walking all the way towards the exit of the park.
Justin's phone rang. His dad was calling him to tell him to go home for dinner and just few seconds later Alex's phone rang too and he took few steps away from us to talk.