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Field

This is boring. Baek Kyung isn't the type to pay attention to boring shits like this. In fact, he never pays attention at all. He sighs and turns his head to face the window.

The outdoor basketball field lies a few meters away from this French classrom he's stuck in. Basketball is the thing keeping him in this school. In a few minutes, the bells will ring and he will run like a wind to the locker room to change and then get into action. Little does he know someone else will be joining him in the field that day.

Han Seojun's head feels like blowing up when the bell rings. He went to school in South Korea for 10 years. Now suddenly he has to learn French after whisking himself to the United fucking Kingdom. He thought brits are supposed to speak English :)

He stood up from his seat, only for Baek Kyung to crash into him.

"Watch where you're going you scum!"

Baek Kyung didn't even acknowledge him, he ran straight out of the building.

"Aren't you supposed to be in trouble?" Soojin asks him while putting her pencils into her pencil case.

"Oh him? Nope, he said he'll make an excuse out of it that doesn't include me in any way possible" Seojun shrugs.

"Vented out your anger in someone else?" Seokkyung suddenly joins in.

"Ya, I didn't invite you to join the conversation" Soojin said, annoyed.

"No but I don't need to be invited. A queen comes and goes as she pleases"
She winks and strolls her way out of the classroom.

"Wa that level of confidence, I swear" Seojun scoffs in disbelief.

"And this?" Seojun stares down at Baek Kyung's desk while pointing at it.

"This level of mess being left by that rich spoiled brat" Seojun shakes his head after seeing the things left by Baek Kyung on his desk.

"That's my mess to clean up after. Don't worry I'll make sure he won't leave another mess for me to take care of" Soojin sighs while picking up his stationeries and puts them into where they belong.

"Well you better. Anyway, you haven't gotten yourself in trouble. That's shocking"

"Not yet. Just wait until one of them peasants starts to annoy one of us. The rest will come quickly and it'll be endless detentions from then on"

"Ya which club are you signing up for?" seojun asks as Soojin walks towards the door.

"Dancing. It's arts and sports in one package so I don't have to take another club to  'balance' the whole shit like the school requires us to. You?"

"Singing and basketball"

"Basketball? Really?"

"what?"

"Oh you're definitely going to enjoy it. So much" She walks out the door, leaving a puzzled Seojun behind.

"Wait, what does that mean?!"

She doesn't answer, she just sends a little wave in response and continues to walk away.
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"Ah, Mr Han! Come along, just follow the others warm up and we'll focus on the techniques before sending you off to a small game"

Seojun returns the coach's smile before the view of Baek Kyung on the field washes away that smile completely.

"At this point I can accuse you of copying everything I do" Baek Kyung said in an annoyed tone while staring at him cynically. Seojun scoffs.

"At this point, I'm just gonna ask the skies if I had ever done anything wrong in my previous life"

This is a nightmare. Roommates, classmates, and now, teammates. He sighs and calms himself, and follows the rest of the team warming up.

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The applause erupts in the room like thunder. Even the vocal coaches are impressed by Joo Seokkyung.

"Bravo Miss Joo. I can see you have experience in singing"

She just bows and smiles at the endless praises from the coaches. Little do they know her future sister-in-law can sing just as good, if not better than her.

She walks up and returns to her seat. A student suddenly pokes her right arm with a pen.

"Ya, are you Joo Seokkyung?" a student on her right leans in to her.

"I'm sorry, are you blind? Literally the name tags on my belongings screams Joo Seokkyung" she rolls her eyes.

"So you're the Joo Seokkyung?" another student from her left joins in.

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"Joo Seokkyung from little Hera club. Joo Dantae's progeny, you know joo Dantae, the person who hid his ex wife and tortures her"

Seokkyung knows that story of course, but it's not like she can do a storytelling to them about the real things that occurred anyway. So she just shrugs them off.

"So are you Logan Lee's step daughter?"

"Listen here you assholes" She grabs them both by their collar using both of her hands, one on each side.

"I'm pretty sure you earned those so called infos from the Internet. Everything you've asked me can be answered if you'd just Google them, so please, help yourself"

She releases both of them and and sends them a fake smile. Gosh surviving here might be harder than she thought

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"He and Baek Kyung play well"

"Yea I heard his father bribed the coach to let him play in his previous school"

"No wonder they play alike. Both rich spoiled brats"

"You motherfuckers might want to shut up before he voluntarily reminds you that he isn't deaf. He can kill you the same way I can" Baek Kyung said, not bothering to even look at them. He just opens his mouth while changing his shirt.

"Ya let's go before be kills us. Thank God he can really play, or else people will notice his grandpa bribes the coach to keep him on the team"

"You know them?" Seojun asks, drying his hair with a towel.

"I know their faces and their back numbers. Don't care about their names, they don't matter much"

"Huh, guess I'm gonna have to really copy you this time"

"I'll allow you. They're worthless scums anyway"

For the first time, they're on the same page.