✦ 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙨 | 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘰

002 | she's real

Walking briskly, Jeongwoo entered the school gate with a big smile on his lips. Haruto was following behind the latter, wearing his usual blank face.

"Haruto," Jeongwoo whined, walking back towards the tall boy. "You look like a floating paper. What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing," Haruto responded, almost mumbling.

Another guy ran towards the two boys, wrapping each of his arms on their shoulders.

"Yo!" Junghwan greeted with his mouth full of donut. "Want some?" he asked, offering the donuts that he has on both of his hands.

Jeongwoo took one donut from Junghwan and immediately took a bite from it. His eyes went wide after tasting the donut.

"Whoa," he exclaimed. "This one is so good!"

Junghwan only shrugged his shoulders with a smug look on his face. Using his other hand, he pushed another donut closer to Haruto's lips.

"What about you, Watanabe?"

"No, thank you," Haruto responded.

"If you say so," Junghwan said before he started to eat the donut, unwrapping his arms from their shoulders.

As soon as the three boys stepped on the school corridor, they were blocked by the other students. It was like there was a common on the corridor.

"Err, what's happening here?" Jeongwoo asked out of confusion, standing using the tip of his toes to see the commotion.

"We're not running late, aren't we?" Junghwan asked before taking another bite from his donut.

"Nope," Jeongwoo responded, still curious on what's going on.

Haruto continued to walk, looking like he was unbothered. He followed the eyes of the students and there, he found it.

There was one girl from the locker section, putting her things inside her locker. The students behind her kept some distance, making her have a space.

"Why are we having a new student by the second quarter of this school year?"

"I heard that she came from that one school where most delinquent students are found."

"She might also be one."

Haruto rolled his eyes, continuing on his way.

"Why can't y'all shut your dirty mouths?"

The whole corridor went silent as their eyes landed on Haruto who is still walking casually as if he never said a word.

"Speak another word and y'all will see," Haruto threatened, not even looking back as he made a turn on the right.

Junghwan ang Jeongwoo shrugged looked at each other, looking away after a second. Jeongwoo then started to walk with Junghwan following behind him.

"I'm pretty sure that all of you heard that," Jeongwoo announced to the students on the corridor while making his way towards where the student's attention are.

"Oh," Junghwan quietly exclaimed from behind Jeongwoo. "Are you okay?" he asks the girl who is standing in front of her locker, her back facing them.

"I-I'm okay," she stammered, closing her locker after without even looking at the two boys behind her.

Jeongwoo let out a quiet groan and faced the students who are still standing on the corridor.

"Could all of you please go to your respective classrooms?" Jeongwoo asks them, almost sounding pissed.

The students started to walk away little by little until the ones that are left were only the newly arrived, not having any idea on what happened.

"You can face us now," Jeongwoo tells her.

The girl slowly turned around, but her head is hung low.

"Aww, she's shy," Junghwan cooed.

"Stop babying her," Jeongwoo tells the younger boy before his eyes went back to the girl in front of them. "So, what's your name?"

"Face us, please?" Junghwan pleaded while doing puppy eyes.

The girl let out a sigh as she couldn't resist the two boys in front of her.

"Bang Yejin," she briefly introduced herself with a sly smile.

Junghwan's eyes then sparkled, excitedly pointing his index finger towards the girl.

"You must be Bang Yedam's sister!" he exclaimed happily, but covered his mouth after realizing he was being too loud.

With a confused look, Jeongwoo's gaze fell on Junghwan. "Who's that?" he asks the younger boy.

"He's my twin brother," Yejin responded instead. "Uhm, can I also know your names?"

"My name is So Junghwan!"

"Park Jeongwoo."

"Nice meeting you, Junghwan and Jeongwoo," Yejin tells them. "Thank you for earlier."

"Nah, you should thank Haruto," Junghwan told her as the three of them began walking.

"That one who spoke with deep voice?"

"That's him!" Junghwan beamed as he pointed towards Haruto who is talking with another guy.

"I should thank him also," Yejin spoke.

Jeongwoo motioned her to approach Haruto and Junghwan only nodded eagerly. She took her pace quickly, walking towards Haruto with another guy beside him.

"Ruto, a girl is approaching you," Mashiho spoke, interrupting Haruto from speaking.

The tall boy looked back, only to see a very familiar face of a girl in front of him.

Haruto felt dizzy all of a sudden as the surroundings went blurry, leaving the girl's face all clear.

"Hi, you must be Haruto."

As if he was frozen, Haruto couldn't move, even breathing was hard for him to do.

"I wanted to thank you for what you did earlier. They would've literally hit me if you did not speak..."

Haruto blinked for a few times when he felt his hearing gettting weaker. He then closed his eyes, head getting lighter as every second passes by.

"Haruto!"

The last thing that he heard was Mashiho's voice that called out his name.