THE SUN'S FATE ,, 선우

𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄.

03 : bad treatment

"Ouch.." Sunoo rubs his ankle. His face showed that he's in pain.

"Weak. I just slightly pushed you," Hana scoffed, arms crossing as she looked down at Sunoo.

Sunoo looked at her in annoyance. "Slightly? You called that slightly?" He has been practising with her for hours now and he could tell that they're not practising. It's almost looking like a torturing session and he's the victim.

Shouldn't she go easier on him? Does she expect him to be strong when it's his first time and he got bullied and punched by her friend? Sunoo glanced at Ryu that's sitting not far from them, playing a game on his phone. If only he knew he's a member here too, he would definitely take back his words and search for another taekwondo class.

Without any warning, Sunoo was being dragged by Hana. He yelped in pain. "Let me go!"

"Do 100 push-ups." she said as she stood in front of helpless Sunoo who's panting heavily. She lifted her eyebrows when he looked at her in disbelief. "What? You can't do that?"

"I'm not that strong.."

"Then leave this place. If you can't do that, you're not meant to be here. You want to be strong and protect yourself from bullies. Isn't that the reason why you joined us?" Hana words hit some realisation in Sunoo.

He clenched his fist before changing his position on the floor. He started doing push-ups and started counting. Sweat trickled down his face as he tried to catch his breath before continuing the push-ups. He could hear Ryu cheering for him but he didn't hear any sounds from the girl. "50.. 51.. 52.." Sunoo gasped. He didn't dare to take a break because he knows that Hana is watching and she might make him start from one again.

But she has been quiet for too long which made him curious to look up. He looked up to see her not looking straight at his face but sleeping soundly on the counter as she leaned against the wall. She looks unbothered with her arms still crossing over her chest. Sunoo blinked his eyes a few times as he was eyeing the girl.

His push-ups session stopped for a while as now, he's watching how her head is moving up and down. "She might fall in any second if she sleeps like that.." Sunoo stood up and walked towards her. Just like what he guessed, her head moved to the side which caused her body to be unbalanced.

Sunoo immediately wrapped his arms around her to prevent her from falling. He sighed, slowly lifting her up before placing her on the couch. "I'm surprised that didn't wake her up,"

"Is she sleeping?" Ryu came beside Sunoo, looking down at Hana. "She must be tired from overworking. Don't be surprised if she suddenly falls asleep out of nowhere. She's always been like this." He said while putting a blanket on her.

"Does she not get enough sleep?" Sunoo asked, a little worried.

"Yeah, she can't because she needs to work at night. I already told her she doesn't need to come here everyday and get some rest at home but she never listened to me." Ryu sighed, shaking his head.

Sunoo just nodded before continuing his push-ups but Ryu stopped him. He told Sunoo to just go home since he had worked hard for today.

At home, Sunoo wouldn't get out of his room. Every part of his body was sore, especially his legs. It's not been a week since he joined the taekwondo class but he has been tortured by Hana. He didn't understand her. It seems like she hated him and he didn't understand why she hated him. Did he do something to her?

A knock on the door startled him as he quickly got up from his bed and sat at the study desk. His mother entered the room with glasses of milk and cookies for him. "What are you doing, son?" She placed the plate on the table.

"Just doing my homework," he pretended by writing down something on the book. "Thank you for the cookies" he smiled and it grew when his mother caressed his hair and kissed his forehead.

"My son is studying hard," she said before leaving the room.

After making sure his mother wouldn't come back again, Sunoo jumped onto the bed. He tried to ease the pain by stretching his legs. He did watch some videos on youtube about Taekwondo and he wants to try to do a split.

"I don't think this is going to be hard."

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Sunoo hopelessly walked in the corridors, looking down. He still couldn't get over what happened last night. He failed to do the split. Not only fail, he even ripped the pants. It's his favourite pants! He needs to practise harder next time.

Just when he got to forget the last night accident, he suddenly tripped over someone's feet, falling to the floor with his face hitting the cold floor first. He groaned, hearing laughter coming from behind as he turned around to see three bulk guys looking down at him. Sunoo gulped down his saliva, and his legs started trembling with the thought of them going to bully him.

One of them crouched down, his arm extended to touch Sunoo. He flinched when the guy held his shoulder, pressing down on the amount of pressure on the shoulder which made him greet his teeth.

"You must be Kim Sunoo, the talk of the town!"

"Uh.. yeah I am," Sunoo tried to answer as politely as he could because the least he wanted was to make him upset with any of his actions. Sometimes you basically did nothing but it still annoys people for some reason. At first, Sunoo didn't know why they would bully him or punish him by kicking his stomach because of mad when he did nothing wrong to them. That's when he realized, they just wanted to bully him. No reason at all. They enjoyed bullying the weaker one. That made them feel like they're the strongest.

"Oh no! I'm so sorry! You probably tripped over my friend's feet! Hey, you moron! Apologize to Sunoo!" He pushed the other guy's head, pushing him towards Sunoo.

"S-sorry.."

"That's okay!" Sunoo got up and smiled at them. He was about to walk away when they stopped him again.

"Hey, let's be friends. I think you're handsome enough to be in our group!" The tallest one said as he wrapped his arm around Sunoo's neck, almost covering half of his small face.

"Hahaha.. really? But I'm fine tho—" Sunoo could feel himself choking for air when the guy tightened the arm around him. He patted the arm, asking for him to let go before he did it. "Thank you! It's an honour to be in your group!" Sunoo brightly smiled, showing his perfect teeth. Honour my ass..

He watched three of the guys walk away before he ran to his classroom. He could feel himself just gotten into something.. bad.