J laid with her head on her desk. Waiting for Seungcheol to come in and argue with her, but he never did.
Instead, it was Mr lee. And it seemed that her worst nightmare was about to come true.
"I heard you caused quite the ruckus just now." He spoke, and her head was off the desk in less than a second.
"It's not-" she began but he cut her off.
"I'm surprised you kept it up for 3 years, but you know what this means. We can't possibly reward you with a scholarship if you behave this way, now can we?" He smirked.
She felt her heart constrict, as if she couldn't breath anymore. J felt her eyes getting wet, as if tears were gonna come out-
"What's going on?" J heard that familiar voice as she felt her glassy eyes.
"Well, from what I heard is that she assaulted you." Mr lee spoke happily as seungcheol looked at J with a look of concern in his eyes. "Now don't worry Mr Choi, I will be sure to take care of this-"
"She didn't do anything to me?" Seungcheol furrowed his eyebrows at Mr lee, who was now dumbfounded.
"But-" Their teacher went wide eyed.
"I have no idea what you're saying. Or what you're trying to do." Seungcheol stepped closer to Mr lee. "Shall I inform father of this nasty rumor you've created?" He whispered.
"N-No! Mr choi. I was simply."
Seungcheol cut him off. "You will simply do your job as our homeroom teacher. Nothing more, nothing less." He smiled, aggressively fixing Mr lee's suit, gesturing at the door as Mr lee quickly left.
"I-" J began, feeling bad and grateful all at once.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hit you so hard." She bowed as seungcheol walked closer.
"It really hurt." He was less than an inch away from her now.
"I'm really sorry." She suddenly reached out, petting his nose a bit.
They both froze, as seungcheol looked at her with wide eyes. When she realized what she was doing, J retracted her hand.
"I apologize." She bowed again but hit his stomach with her head this time.
"Ah-" they both let out at the same time.
"I'm sorry. I keep hurting you." She spoke genuinely feeling sorry.
'I'd gladly let myself be hurt by you.'Seungcheol thought mindlessly.
"Are we friends now?" Is what came out of his mouth instead.
And to his surprise, J shook her head. "You don't wanna be friends with me, trust me." She looked away from him. "Thank you for helping me out just now." She bowed at him, for the 17th time as she started to walk away.
"I do want to be your friend." Seungcheol spoke as she stopped, half way to the door.
"Why?" J turned around to face him again. "I mean- it makes sense that Dino and I are friends, but why are you-"
"You're purposefully not letting me get close." Seungcheol interrupted her. "But why? What are you so afraid of?"
"You don't know me Seungcheol." She was back to her old self.
'But I'd like to.' His mind screamed.
"Fine then." He walked away from her first this time.
"Stupid boy." J smiled a little, quickly stopping herself as she became aware.
- J looked down at her watch, rushing to get to the pizza shop when she felt someone pull her into an empty classroom.
"What the-" J felt herself hit the ground with a thud.
"Wah. She's got some nerve." She looked up to see 2 girls and three boys from her class standing above her.
She remained quite. Remembering that they were still on school grounds.
"Do you know what you did today?" One of the girls asked.
"Um-" J thought back to her day but her mind was blank.
"You hurt seungcheolie." The other girl spoke.
"Oh- is he your boyfriend? I didn't mean to-" J began to get up as one of the boys kicked her back down.
She didn't understand what was happening, how could something so small turn into this?
"Is it true you're here on scholarship?" On of the boys asked.
"Answer!" He yelled, stepping on her leg as she yelled out.
"You have some nerve." The girls laughed as they left. J was confused, until she saw them closing the doors on both sides of the classroom.
"I-" J felt helpless for the second time that day, suddenly wanting to cry yet again.
"You're quite a pretty one." A guy picked her up by her collar.
"Don't be gross. She's poor." J heard the taller of the two girls speak from behind them.
"Ha-" the guy laughed as he slapped her in the face, with full force. This caused her to stumble back, hitting her head on the windowsill.
"Fu-" she grunted a bit, feeling a bit dizzy now.
"That'll teach her. What a lowlife." She heard as they all laughed.
"Who are you, to come and be in the same school as us? Eat the same food as us?" The boy, who she recognized from another class, spit as he talked.
Someone kicked the doors on the right down as J layed with her back against the wall, still.
"So this is where you've been." She heard Seungcheols voice again.
"No- don't." She yelled out, trying to warn him not to get hurt.
But instead
"Oh seungcheol oppa.." one of the girls began, with her head bowed.
"Wah." Seungcheol turned his attention to the boys standing over J
Before she coould process anything. Seungcheol began to roll up his white collard shirt. The girls ran as seungcheol went on to single-handedly beat up the three guys.
He rolled his eyes when he looked at the three boys huddled in a corner, bloodied and in tears. Seungcheol sighed as he fixed his glasses a bit.
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"Why do you keep getting into trouble?" Seungcheol walked over to J, picking her up and putting her over his shoulder.
