lee hyesoo pov
"I don't wanna go..."
"come on, you are going to be late if you don't get ready now, minji said and tried pulling me up.
"minji, no. I don't wanna go, I don't wanna see hanni, I don't want people to be talking about me."
"hyesoo, you are still going to have to face it eventually. might as well do it now," minji said reassuringly. "you have friends that support you too, so don't worry too much."
"ok..."
"I'll walk you there," she said and held my hand.
—
when we reached, minji didn't let go of my hand at all. it felt oddly comfortable.
"I should probably go now. I will come later to check on you," minji said and gave me a hug.
just then, hanni walked past. she eyed minji and I hugging. she stayed frozen on her spot and wouldn't move. she just stared.
"bye," minji said as she released me. hanni took this chance to approach me.
"hyesoo... are you feeling better?" she asked and cupped my cheeks.
my first instinct was to smack her hands off my face. I don't know why I reacted like that.
"what..."
"leave me alone, hanni-ssi."
"hyesoo, what is going on?"
"stay away. if you are not going to trust me, then it's better if you just stay away from me," I said. I could tell she was hurt by this.
I hurt her.
the words just smoothly rolled out of my mouth and I said things I didn't really mean. my mind was all hazy.
"hyesoo, I'm sorry... I wanted to trust you, I really do. it's just there's a lot of things out there to prove that thing right."
I grimaced at what she said. what things prove the rumour right?
I sighed and turned away.
"hey, are you really ignoring me?" she caught up to me and grabbed my arm.
"leave me alone! how many times do I have to say that I did nothing wrong? I love you so much but you can't even trust me and believe that stupid made up rumour with no valid proof!"
I ran away from her and into the school. I was just so overwhelmed with my emotions.
—
in a class I shared with hanni, she was late. I didn't really care but I got worried.
I was sitting beside kazuha this time instead of the usual spot.
"did you guys fight or something?" she asked me.
"did you not see the... post?"
"oh. right. sorry," she said and patted me on the back.
"I heard from yunjin and your other friends, I know you're not like that," she said.
"thanks... I just wish someone else knew it too."
"who? hanni? is that why you guys aren't really together now?"
"yeah... she doesn't trust me and thinks that I really did something. she even thinks there's more evidence."
"damn, that must hurt," kazuha said and gave me a small reassuring smile. "if you still love her though, prove it to her."
"how? she doesn't even believe me."
"figure that out yourself."
I shrugged and turned back to writing my own things.
"kazuha, can you move?" I looked up to see hanni standing in beside me. kazuha looked at us awkwardly. she hesitated and was going to stand up when I pulled her back onto her seat.
"sit somewhere else," I said to hanni. I gritted my teeth while saying that. I didn't like being this rude to her, but she won't even trust me so why should I be nice?
she stood there a while more before defeatedly moving to sit at the back.
—
"hey," jake, chan, giselle and yunjin came to sit with me.
"we're here to accompany you because too much people are staring," chan said.
"and they want all the attention on them instead," felix came out of nowhere and said. we all stared at him and he cleared his throat before sitting down next to chan.
"how are you feeling mate?" jake asked me.
"better," I replied.
"good. by the way, yunjin and giselle uploaded another post while you weren't here to clear things up. some people are still siding with the rumours though."
"who the hell even wrote those about our baby?" giselle asked and hugged my side.
I felt something hit my back and turned around. my back was wet now. someone threw something at me.
"look! it's the whore!" a girl named ryujin laughed at me with her friends.
"imagine a whore and a slut together!" her friend, yeji, added in.
I was enraged by their words. calling me a whore and hanni a slut again? I am going to kill them.
I flung the tray in front of me towards them, resulting in ryujin getting hit by it. her arm started bleeding profusely and she screamed in pain.
"what the fuck?!" yeji yelled at me.
"oh my god..." chan sighed and rubbed his face as he knew that I had once again got myself into trouble.
