Strawberries | SKZITZY

17 ~ letters

"Someone's been attending classes regularly lately.... " Yeji heard Ryujin tease Hyunjin as she walked into the class.

"What's the use? All he ever does is drool on his desk." Yeji placed her bag on the chair and headed towards her locker to get her books for the morning class.

She opened the locker and the first thing she sees is a pink enveloped letter. It had kuromi stickers on it and she figured out the sender was likely a female.

She checked to see if it had the name of the sender just to find a pseudonym reading "Your well-wisher".

Curious, she opened the letter right where she was standing.

I tell you this for your own good, stay away from Hwang Hyunjin if you don't want your high-school life turning into hell. You might have not come into their notice yet, but once you do, there's nothing you will be able to do. They will dig deep, from things u don't want anyone to know to things u thought were personal, they expose it all.

A mild shiver ran through Yeji's veins. What in the cult had she just read, she thought. She stuffed back the letter at the bottom of her locker. Trying her hardest to think nothing of it.

Throughout the whole period s Yeji's mind wandered back to that letter. She couldn't concentrate.

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Their group had now grown, with Felix's inclusion, they had become a group of five.

"Hello, my name is Felix and I was born and raised in Australia but came here a year ago to finish my high school." Felix introduced himself.

"Chan lived in Australia too!" Ryujin exclaimed. "That explains why your Korean is broken."

"Heh, am working on it." Felix chuckled shyly.

"Its cute." Ryujin smiled widely displaying her endearing whiskers as she turned to Yeji who grinned in agreement.

"I lived in Australia up until I was like 12 then came here." Bangchan added. "Nice to meet you Felix."

Felix gladly shook Bangchan's hand.

Yeji was awfully quiet and sulken most of that day. She was the type that would go completely quiet when she was worried about something. However she tried her best to not let it show.

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*In class*

"Yongbok, move back." Hyunjin tapped on Felix's arm while addressing him in his Korean name.

"Gladly." He smiled. He was actually interested in talking to Ryujin and ask her for tricks on how to control Hyunjin.

Hyunjin watched Yeji as she stared into the void and simply sat beside her before pushing a canned strawberry milk.

"Drink this." He said but she didn't hear.

"Yeji, are you okay?" Ryujin tapped her shoulder from the back.

"Oh, yeah." She faintly smiled.

"What's this for?" She asked Hyunjin.

"For you. Drink it. They say sweet things lighten up your mood." She accepted it after staring at him suspiciously.

He then handed her one of his airpods. The song "wash away" by geeks was playing.

She looked at him, her first thought was that she should be pushing him away as the letter advised. The letter brought back memories she has been running away from, secrets she was scared to be out.