Ch. 4: Reason

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You're walking down the hallway, heading towards the school entrance when someone suddenly appears beside you, keeping up with your pace. You turn to your right to see who else other than the boy you had saved earlier today, looking at you with a bright smile.

"Hey, Y/N!" Hyunjin greets you quite enthusiastically, and you squint your eyes in annoyance as you feel your ears being pierced with the high pitch of his voice... Or maybe just because you didn't really want to see him nor did you want him to be talking to you.

"What now?"

"Are you heading home?" he asks, his smile unfading, but you don't even spare him a glance as you continue walking.

"No. I'm heading to my classmate's house to do a project," you tell him, trying your best to show him that you're not interested in having a conversation with him as much as you can.

"Oh... I guess that's a usual thing for you elites, then?" he asks, and you just become even more annoyed, one, because of him refusing to drop the conversation, and two, because of what he just called you.

"Elites", you thought, was a word that was too overused on the students of Class 1. It made them different from others and it was mostly what kept students from lower classes from speaking to your class casually. It ,afe you feel weird being treated like royalty when you felt like you shouldn't be.

But then again... here's one non-Class 1 student who just called you an elite and is still talking to you casually.

"By the way, I forgot to thank you for saving me at the pool earlier this day," he says, and you abruptly stop in your tracks, still refusing to look at him while you wear an expressionless look on your face.

A mischievous smile forms on Hyunjin's face at your sudden actions. "You like me, don't you?" He bends his head and turns it towards you so he would be looking at your expressionless face. "That's why you saved me at the pool. You did it because you like me." A dramatic gasp escapes Hyunjin as he steps back and places his hand over his mouth, looking at you with wide playful eyes. "You even stole my first kiss! I didn't know you would be like that, Jeon Y/N."

You immediately turn to Hyunjin with an annoyed look and a loud stomp on the ground, and he jumps as an actual surprised expression forms on his face while looking at you, his heart on his chest.

"Gosh, you scared me," he whispers to himself in a second before you point your finger at him and look at him threateningly.

"First off, no, I don't like you. Second, I only saved you because it was the right thing to do. Third, that wasn't a kiss, that was mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and I had to do that so I could save you. Now stop bothering me or else I'm gonna throw you back into that pool and I'm not gonna save you this time!" You look straight into Hyunjin's eyes as his gaze travels to your finger while he bends back to avoid it, then you abruptly drop your finger and walk away.

Unfortunately, for you, Hyunjin's not really one to easily give up on someone, and you roll your eyes and let out an exasperated sigh as you hear his rapid footsteps catching up with you.

"Hey! I know your uniform got wet that time, but why are you wearing your PE uniform? Like, don't you have an extra?"

"Nope," you tell him simply, your eyes still looking ahead.

Hyunjin gasps. "Wait, you're not poor, are you?"

Your brows furrow at his reaction, and you turn your gaze towards him. "Why? You got something against poor people? And, no. I'm middle class."

"Oh," Hyunjin says as he continues walking beside you. "Well, it's not that I have anything against poor people. I just thought... how can you be poor and still manage to be in the Section of the Elite?"

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