deceit • Han Seojun x Kang Soojin

27. play the game

27. play the game

Kang Soojin felt better when the medicine worked, although slowly, yet something better than anything. She couldn't open her eyes, they were drooping and rightfully so with the medications she was given, but she could hear faint noises. And not just any noises, angry, frustrated and worried Han Seojun noises.

"Ya," She managed to speak up when Seojun asked the school's assigned doctor whether or not Soojin would be alright soon for the tenth time, "Han Seojun, you need to shut the fuck up before I do that myself!" That made the doctor chuckle while Seojun narrowed his gaze at the girl laying on the bed with discomfort and painful grunts.

"And how are you going to do that?" He asked, folding his arms across his chest, "you cannot even stand."

"I don't have to..." Soojin scoffed, hand holding her heavy head, eyes still shut, "I just have to tell you to go back to class."

Seojun stood back as the doctor wrote something down for the girl, "I am not going to class, not with you almost dying like that..."

"I wasn't!" She croaked, and regretted screaming immediately with the pain in her throat accelerating.

"Aigooo, aigooo, Kang Soojin turns out you are the one who needs to shut up." For that Soojin had managed to squint and seeing Seojun chuckle at her misery, she shut her eyes again. 

"You can leave," the doctor, a intern of the nearby hospital, a woman in her twenties looked at Seojun, with a determined nod, "she needs a nap and she can join class, if she feels well enough." Seojun nodded back, thankful to the doctor for the help. 

"Take care, rest well." Seojun waved at the girl who was already asleep, from the way she remained still, the medications overpowered her senses. He sighed, turning towards the door but turned back again, "she is really going to be fine, right?" Seojun asked, a glimpse of the old Seojun who lost his father and best friend was evident in that question. "Nothing will happen?"

The doctor chuckled, she could sense the nervous boy, "she is going to be fine, it is just stress and common cold." She watched Seojun look at the sleeping Soojin with a hopeful glance, "you are a very caring boyfriend, its so sweet to see boys being so kind." She then retreated to her stack of papers and Seojun was about to correct her, but did not. 

There was no point in correcting a stranger about what their bond was. 

So Seojun walked out, thankful that Soojin was just stressed and nothing major, and while he crossed the kids that broke out for lunch, he could feel their pointed gaze on the back of his head. He glanced at them, once or twice, but they would not budge. Upon entering his half empty class, he went straight to his desk and rested his back which hurt with all the Kang Soojin weight he had carried. 

"Is Soojin okay?" Su-ah approached the boy, and he very lazily opened his eyes, nodding. "What happened?" 

"She was faking it." The girl from two desks ahead said with a chortle and a scoff, "Kang Soojin is not to be trusted."

"YA!" Seojun yelled, but was cut off from another classmate.

"Why are you so agitated?" Seojun noticed Suho and Jugyeong were also present in class, supposedly waiting for him to return, "Soojin is a class bully, she can very well fake it, for sympathy." The boy from besides her said, others agreeing. "Is it true Han Seojun, are you dating that bully?" 

Han Seojun was seething, not only were they wrong, they were stupid in pinning one mistake of hers over all of her good deeds. His hands fisted, white knuckles and clenched jaw was never a good sign for Seojun and Suho picked on it immediately. "Let's not," Suho said, standing up, Jugyeong and Su-ah nodded, "if she is sick, we hope she is okay."