as the world caves in | park sunghoon.

0.8 | hallway

eunji woke up in pain while the nurse was tending to her visible cuts and bruises. she glanced to the clock to see that only an hour has passed since lunch. an hour since those girls ganged up on her.

"has this happened before? some of these are old." the nurse asks her.

"no, they should all be from today." eunji lies and hops off the examination table. "thank you." she runs off before the nurse could say anything back.

after every step she takes, eunji inhales sharply. everyone should be in class right now and she tried her best to hurry through the halls before anyone could see her.

"a-are you alright?" she hears someone ask, but decides to ignore it.

"eunji." the person grabs a hold of her arm gently and she stops, looking up to face the one and only park sunghoon.

her eyebrows furrow at the sight.

what was sunghoon doing around me?

"i'm fine." she dismisses him quickly and tries to shake out of his hold, but he only grips onto her arm tighter, causing her to wince.

"shit, i'm so sorry." he releases her arm while she just stands there awkwardly.

"are you okay?" sunghoon asks again, tilting her chin up with his finger to look her in the eyes. her lips part in shock at the sudden skinship.

"i'm fine." she repeats firmly once again but the boy can see right through her. "i can tell you're lying to me." his face showed a great amount of concern and eunji was confused.

"it doesn't matter. it's none of your business, anyway." she takes a step back from him.

her snappiness took the boy by surprise and he just stared at her. he became speechless once again.

eunji just sighs and turns on her heels to walk away.

sunghoon couldn't help but feel like an absolute idiot. he should have known better than to approach her like that. the boy goes on with his day wondering what he could have said to make the situation better;

to make eunji actually talk to him.