CHAPTER 5

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“…”

“…”

When I came out of the palm tree, Alan was standing at the back door of the school.

The smell of cigarettes followed him everywhere he went.

He stood with his legs crossed and looked at me.

I pretended I didn’t know him and walked past him, but he followed me quietly.

There were a couple of small stationery stores behind the school, and the rest were several villas in a winding alleyway.

The back side has yet to be developed, so I had to go past it to get to the main road.

To be honest, cars are difficult to come by around here, and there weren’t many people around 10 o’clock in the first place when the night self-study was finished.

It was only natural that I would be bullied here.

The streetlights were turned on, but I was still worried.

Is the CCTV working properly?

It made me pay more attention to crime prevention as I was standing next to Alan.

I was still suspicious of him, despite the fact that his ears turned red and his eyes lit up when he saw me, or that he gave me angX, bought me food, and even bought me ice cream.

First of all, he might have lured me with food, but from then on, he might slowly get to the point.

For example, waiting for us to be alone in such a dark and deserted alley.

I clutched the bag strap around my shoulder.

I strengthened my forefoot so that I could run away if necessary.

My older brother has a quite violent temper. 

I was a fast runner because I was always running away from my brother.

“Jeff...."

Did Alan notice how wary I was?

He carefully called me.

To respond to him, I said, “Yeah.”

“Did it hurt when I messaged your shoulder?”

“Yeah.”

He asked the obvious question.

Alan lowered his gaze to his hand. He clenched his fist and asked me once more.

“Is it really inconvenient for you?”

His voice filled the early summer night. 

I licked my lips.

I didn’t feel uncomfortable with Alan because of the constant entanglement throughout the day.

It was rather comfortable.

He couldn’t control his strength and acted a little arbitrarily.

Despite the fact that he reigned like a king, didn’t he fill my stomach, massage me, and showed me a lot of his strange behavior as if I were at a zoo?

“… Are you taking me home?”

When I asked the question carefully, Alan answered softly.

“Yeah.”

I didn’t know what to say, so I just licked my lips.

“If it’s uncomfortable,”
he continued. “I’ll only take you near the neighborhood.”

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