It was a few weeks later after the incident. "Mom, could we move to Incheon? I hate being here. I don't to burden you by making you go to the school to complain and see me like this everytime I get back home." Saebyul said to her mother, after a few minutes of silence.Her mother let out a sigh, placing her hand on her head slowly. "I understand, dear. I'll start packing. We'll leave in a week. For now, it's best you'd stay at home to focus on your health. Meanwhile, I'll email your form teacher about your situation right now."
"...and one thing, mom."
"Can I apply to change my legal name? I just want to... you know, start a 'new life' in Incheon." Saebyul asked as she let out a nervous chuckle, which was thankfully accepted by her mother.
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It is the 4th day of the week. By now, almost every stuff they had bought was packed, including the furniture they had bought for themselves. Saebyul's mother had also managed to find a suitable house there. Meanwhile, Saebyul was in her room, looking outside the window and seeing a lorry gathering the furniture inside the back of the lorry."Guess it's my turn now to leave without explaining the reason to you, or say goodbye, Jisung." She said to herself.
——jisung.
It was a week after Saebyul's departure from school. 'I can't wait to meet Saebyul again.' Jisung thought to himself. He arrived at his class and his smile dropped. He noticed Saebyul was not even there, which he finds it strange since she's the first to arrive. Nonetheless, he thought to himself, that she was most likely late.Then he stared at Saebyul's locker, which now had no name for her. Confused, he approached one of his classmates. "Guys, what happened to Saebyul? Why is her name torn off from her locker?"
"Wait, you didn't heard from our class groupchat? She switched schools."
There he was, staring at them with his mouth open. "W- what do you mean she switched schools? She was fine being here." He asked. The 2 boys looked at each other. "The thing is... Haru and Hana was the reason she left." Just as soon as the boys answered, Hana hugged Jisung from behind. "Jisung~" She said.
Jisung pulled her arms away from him and glared at her. "What did you do to Saebyul?" He asked in a stern tone. "Nothing. We just taught her a lesson." Haru replied.
"What sort of lesson?"
"You know... just scolding her not to make mistakes again." She answered again.
Just then, Jisung felt something touching his palm. He then took the phone that was given by his classmate and watched the video that was already playing, while Hana stood there thinking his phone had a notification. His expression changes a few minutes after he watched the video. He then slowly put it back on his classmate's table.
"Where's Haru?" Jisung asked, his tone slightly changed to anger.
"What?"
"Where's Haru?! What the heck did you both do to Saebyul!" He shouted, grabbing the attention of his classmates.
"No- nothing! Like I said, I and Hujin plus several other girls were teaching Saebyul a lesson. Maybe that's the reason why she left- " Before she could continue, she felt a hand slap onto her face.
"Stop with that bullshit. I know for a fact that you told Haru to torture Saebyul, to which she called her friends to take part too." He said. He was beyond mad, to the point Hana was oblivious as to what is going to happen.
"Fine! I told Haru to do that because she keeps getting close to you! I told her I'm your girlfriend! In fact, your soon-to-be girlfriend." She said.
"How many times must I tell you, you're not my girlfriend, and you'll never be my girlfriend!" He said before pushing her harshly, making her fall and injure her head from the desk. He then stormed out of the classroom, leaving the girl lying on the ground crying in pain.
As soon as he reached Haru's class, he slammed the door open which shocked the students inside. He made eye contact with Haru and immediately approached her. What the students saw almost instantly was him slamming her face with the book she was reading before pulling her up from the chair.
"Was it fun bullying Saebyul?! Did you like it?" He said as he smacks her face, while she tried to block with her arms and begging for him to stop.
"Please, stop Jisung. I'm sorry..." She cried as she continues blocking his assault.
"Why should I stop? You did the same thing to her along with your friends. All of you ganged up on her and continued beating her up!" Jisung said. As soon as he sees the girl's arms getting weak from all the blocking, he grabbed her arms and kicked her to the back of the classroom.
It was at that point, several male students stepped in to stop him from further injuring Haru but to no avail. "Stop, Jisung! You're murdering her!" They said. Immediately, Jisung felt his hair harshly pulled away from the girl.
"What the fuck do you want Jeno?"
"Stop it, Jisung. She's suffered enough injuries." Jeno said as he pointed towards the girl who was coughing in pain.
"Suffered enough?! This isn't the same as to what she did to Saebyul. Have you seen it? You'd know how badly she and Hana hurt Saebyul. She and Haru were the reason why she switched schools!" Jisung shouted in between his tears. Jeno stood there frozen, having no answers to say to the teen.
"Just go back to class, I'll deal with her later." He said. Hesitantly, Jisung step out of his classroom and went back to class. As soon as he left the class, several students started chattering amongst themselves.