Dull [Book III]

Reasons

Saturday was probably the crappiest day to come that week and Soojung wanted nothing else but to sleep it all away and hide in her dreams. If only sleep visited her one more time after hearing and seeing things that make her want to punch a wall.

Jiyong called her first thing in the morning, cancelling their supposed dinner date later that day. Her head instantly pounded with the phrase 'I won't make it', but Soojung kept calm and let her boyfriend explain his side, immediately saying it was fine with her when Jiyong mentioned Yoobin coming back to town with his family from France.

Yoobin is Jiyong's closest cousin and Soojung had met him once when he visited. Naturally, Jiyong would pick a family member that they didn't see very often and she perfectly understood, thus leaving her in a tired phase even though she just woke up.

About an hour later when Soojung finally decided to just go on with her day and play online games, her computer kept having technical problems despite the thousand times she turned it off and on again. She even smacked the system unit in frustration and cursed endlessly, but it just didn't work.

Her mood was already off when she went out of her flat and knocked next door where Dohee could hang out with her, only to be more discouraged about the weekend when she remembered that Dohee had her own schedule with the Youngbae guy from the university football team. Soojung suddenly didn't want to disturb her as to let the older girl worry about her date instead of having to look out for a high school student.

She went back to her apartment for her jacket, wallet and phone before going down the building, only to find her motorcycle lying on its side. Soojung panicked and ran to it right away, finding a large scratch near the wheel and the metal supporting the cushion seat concaved. She ran her fingers over the dents, huffing in defeat as she found no one in the streets who could point the culprit out.

Soojung badly wanted to just drive away but not in her motorbike's condition, so her mind was set on getting it fixed first. Maybe after she visited a repair shop, she would know what the hell she'd do.

A minute of walking with her bike on the side, Soojung's phone rang in her pocket and she had to stop so she could answer.

"What?" She said grumpily.

"Wow, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed." Sunyoung giggled on the other line. "Are you home?"

"No, I'm in hell." She huffed. "What do you want?"

"We're at the rink, just wondering if you want to come here and hang out." Sunyoung answered.

"At this early in the fucking morning?"

"This place will be crowded in the afternoon, you know. It's a weekend." Her friend pointed out. "Come on, the twins are here with me."

"What about Seunghyun?" Soojung asked and looked down at her motorcycle sadly, rubbing her hand over the seat as if comforting a person. She was now more lonely than mad and the person who did that to her vehicle didn't matter anymore. She just wanted it fixed as soon as possible.

"He's probably still sleeping but I sent him a text." Sunyoung answered. "Come on, it'll be fun. You've had your nose on schoolwork for the whole week. You should unwind."

Soojung sighed. Maybe Sunyoung was right.

"Fine, but I'm going somewhere first. Wait for me." She was about to hang up but Sunyoung yelled on the other line to get her attention again. "What?"

"Can you bring the Chinese guy with you?" Sunyoung asked, all giggly and shit. Soojung instantly furrowed her eyebrows and shook her head, even though the other girl couldn't see her.