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Chapter 7

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After hours, the weather calmed and the clouds cleared by. Birds and other living creatures which were in the safety of its homes peeked out slowly resuming its normal life. The same happened inside the classroom. Jin and the children slowly peeked out at the clear sky through the now broken windows.
 
They walked out of the classroom together. They could hear the frogs croaking and the crickets chirping. There was a beautiful rainbow hanging down the sky. The sky above looked so clear as if a storm hadn’t hit just few hours ago.
 
The ground- a totally conflicting scenario from the sky. The place was completely littered with leaves, stems and shredded ropes, metal scrapes and wooden boards all over the floor and the surrounding water. Not to mention about the opened up roofs and broken windows.
 
One of the classroom's tethers got cut off from the dock and was now barely holding with only one tether. As a result, the classroom was afloat a little away from the main dock.
 
The children sat at the end of the dock near the toilet with elbows on their knees, their palms framing their cheeks, with visible pouts and looked down sadly.

"Why do you all look sad?" asked Jin who walked back to them after inspecting the damages all over the school.
 
"The school is a wreck, what are we going to do now?" spoke IU with a pout. Jin smiled at them and said "So what? We will re-pair it ourselves- together".

He crouched to their height, moved his left hand forward with his palm downwards and said "I am in. Are you all?". The children looked at each other with lips curving up slowly and bounced up. They stacked their palms above Jin’s and shouted "Yes!! We are in". “Okay then, on the count of 3, 1...2...3…” Jin said and everyone lifted their hands from the stack cheering loudly.
 
Later, Jin sat down in front of them with a pair of scissors in his hand. He cut down the cast from his right hand and tried moving his hand. He was no longer in pain; his hand was completely fine now. He looked up at the children waving his completely healed right hand at them smiling widely. The children clapped in joy for him.
 
Jin and the children started with the repair works. First, they pulled the classroom cabin back to its position and tethered it to the dock securing it tightly.
 
They then moved on to repair the roof. Jin placed the ladder against the cabin's walls and climbed up to hammer down the metal sheets to the roof while Suga and j-hope were holding the ladder carefully from below.
 
Rose and Kookie were tidying up the place picking up all the garbage from floor and disposing them into the dustbin. Joonie and IU fished out the dirt and litter from the water around the school.

After Jin was done with roof, he walked into the classroom along with children. He carefully picked up the broken glass shards that were still stuck on the window and the ones shattered on the floor and disposed it with care.

He checked the whole classroom twice for any signs of possible shards present so that the children won’t be hurt.
 
Then the furniture was all set right with the help of the children. They tidied the classroom and went outside. Jin was hanging the bell to the entrance pillar with a new rope. He secured all the damaged pillars with new ropes too.
 
In 4-5 hours, the school was all good still with damages, but manageable. Jin made a note of all the other damages which needed professional help.
 
There was only one thing left to do now.

Jin removed his jacket and dived into the lake. The children gathered around and waited for Jin to come out.
 
When Jin peeked out of water, he had a huge smile on his face and he lifted his hand  holding the notebook high. The children saw that and cheered happily.
 
Jin freshened up and now was clipping each page of Tae's notebook to the drying rope for them to dry out.

Luckily Tae used only colour pencils and water proof pen to fill out his journal, so nothing was lost.
 
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It was already the end of school hours, the children bid their byes to Jin which he returned back. He stood next to the children when they were boarding the canoe one by one.
 
When Rose was next to board, he stopped her and asked "Hey Rose, can you stay back here today?".