𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐟 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐞 | 𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐤𝐢

008.

second period is easily the class jake despises the most.

for one, he's not with his best friend; and furthermore, he has to deal with two obnoxious teens who bother him concurrently with no avail.

the moment he steps into class, he scoffs as he sees the two boys he saw earlier that morning, sitting next to each other as per usual.

their other friend, jay, doesn't seem to share the class with them.

another reason jake loathes the class is because it's history- mostly made up of draining hours of continuous lecture from their teacher, mr. song.

he rolls his eyes as he sits down in his assigned seat, which is unfortunately situated right in front of the two people he wants so desperately to avoid.

he hears one of them snicker as he sits down, taking the opportunity whilst mr. song wasn't in the room yet to send a paper ball flying into the back of jake's head.

"what the hell?" jake mutters as he picks up the ball and heads to throw it away, an already pissed-off look making its way to his face.

"fucking goodie-two-shoes is at it again." sunghoon laughs, earning a grin from heeseung.

"obviously. look at him, probably too busy finding a bitch in his free time 'cause he's a virgin." heeseung cackles.

"i mean, or being the bitch." sunghoon adds, snickering.

jake overhears them, yearning for his best friend's kind remarks at times like these.

"park, lee, this is the last opportunity the both of you have to change your behavior before you'll be reported." jake tries his best to state calmly, eyeing the two down.

"oh really? what're you going to do? suspend us? you know we all have a dirty little secret, and i'm sure you wouldn't want that ratted out, would you now?" sunghoon smirks at his own remark.

"don't bother, hoon. he's probably messing around with that whore, what's her name...?" heeseung laughs, amused.

jake restrains himself from cursing in the middle of class at them because of the vulgar use of language they've used to describe the school's student body president.

jake is the school's historian- and he's one of yunjin's close friends, so it irritates him to hear the two refer to her by such terms.

"both of you will be receiving detention as soon as possible. i'll be notifying the professor right away." jake finally decides to reply.

"damn, wish jay got detention too." sunghoon remarks casually.

heeseung and sunghoon continue to joke until mr. song comes around, ready to direct their standardized lesson plan of the day.

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sunoo gets through the rest of his classes relatively fine, with just scatters of homework papers in his new folder.

he sighs as he finds jungwon and jake walking through the hallways, waving to them casually.

"hey, when does the bus back come?" sunoo asks, walking in line with the other two boys.

"oh, i forgot to tell you... well, we usually have until eight before the bus comes back; due to the shortage of bus drivers and because a lot of us have extra curricular activities." jake responds. "but the school's open until about nine usually, so you can just stay in the library if you want." he smiles wearily.

"noted, thanks." sunoo replies in his standard monotone voice.

he opens up the map of the school again and locates the library; but before he can even step in that direction, he's met with huh yunjin's face plastered right in front of his.

"hey kim! you getting picked up soon or...?" she asks, trailing off.

"no, i go home with jake. i think i'll be here for a while." sunoo says, motioning to jake beside him, to which yunjin nods.

jake, who was formerly occupied talking to jungwon, sees yunjin and smiles.

"yunjin, i haven't seen you all day. there's a few documents we need to handle in the office, when's a good time?" jake asks.

"i was actually heading there right now, i wanted to show sunoo the open posit we have for council." yunjin answers.

so that's what yunjin wanted to show him.

how utterly stupid.

"on a second thought, i think i need to finish my calculus homework. i'll check it out later." sunoo stated, giving them a small smile before turning around.

his face immediately drops and is returned to his casual resting face as he starts to now make his way towards decelis academy's library, following the school map carefully.

as he enters through the considerably large glass doors to the library, he finds quite an extensive amount of students, all nose deep in thick books and worksheets.

the library itself is a marvel, thousands of books lining its shelves, with stairs and tables scattered around the area for students to use.

fortunately, sunoo finds an empty seat next to a quiet looking boy near the shelves neatly labeled "mythology and fantasy books", slinging one band of his backpack unto the chair.

correspondingly to his earlier statement, he takes out the calculus homework he had received in his first period, starting to solve some of the problems.

after about an hour and a half of studying, sunoo collects his things and makes his way out of the enormous library, backpack around his shoulder.

sunoo checks the time as usual.

7:03 P.M.

he still had about an hour before the bus arrived, but his thoughts strayed on how to spend the extra time usefully.

eventually, his own body lead him outside of the castle-like building, his footsteps echoing on the sidewalk trailing out from the school.

the dim atmosphere was calming, and the small lampposts lit at every intersection where a sign of comfort to the young boy.

sunoo decides to simply keep walking along the trail and attempt to clear his absurd thoughts from manipulating his own mind, breathing in heavily at each step.

he doesn't realize the silhouette following him along the way.

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hi everyone!

i'm finally back from the dead 😭, i'm sorry this chapter took so long to come out, i was sick for the last two days and have been extremely busy :(

there might be another update veryyy soon due to the fact something interesting will happen in the next chapter hehe

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that should be all for now, see you guys in the next chapter!