Strange Hearts || Heeseung

12

Sometimes Yuju wonders if her life has ever made sense; her whole life never had a good moment, not even when it was her birthday. When she was still living with her aunt, she was forced to clean her house or buy groceries right after school.

When she had to live with her sister in an apartment, it was no better. On the contrary, she also had to take care of her drunken and ruthless sister.

But there was one thing that Yuju liked. She has been interested in music all her life, including playing an instrument or making songs and melodies. Yuju had always wanted to go into a studio and produce her own song. Although she could not sing at all, but write songs and think up melodies for it.

She will probably never come to that in life. First, she usually doesn't have time for it; second, if she planned it, her heart might stop her from doing so and third, she will be homeless and not have any money for it because she will be kicked out of school.

And now it was the next day, second lesson. Yuju didn't listen to the teacher because she was thinking about being told by the principal tomorrow that she's going to be expelled. All because of Heeseung, she looked over at him.

He was sitting in his seat as usual and secretly looked at his phone, laughing and showing it to his friend. Yuju's heart grew cold and she looked nervously at her empty paper, what lay before her.

Soon the photo would be uploaded to their school website and everyone would see it. Heeseung has made her his victim, to later make fun of her. Even if she didn't go to school, everyone would find a way to bully her.

Heeseung caught Yuju staring at him once; he had a cold look in his eyes and looked right back. Yuju's heart began to beat faster.

She had not met with Garam for the project yesterday. She thinks that Garam is just taking advantage of her, pretending to like her and then swearing at her fans about Yuju. Garam was just the typical diva, everyone loved her.

When it was the first break, Yuju sat again in the new construction area and looked out of the window. She watched Heeseung hanging out with his friends and girls running after him. Heeseung was the first person from her entire school to address Yuju. Although she didn't have the best experience with him, he was still the first to talk to her.

It rang for the next lesson, now they had exercise and as usual Yuju would sit on the side and be unnoticeable. But that's not how it would work today.

"Ha, you can't participate? But you don't look sick," the substitute sports teacher laughed. They were already in the gym and the rest of the class was warming up, while Yuju had to explain to the teacher why she can't join.

"But I really can't," Yuju stammered nervously. She hated it and her biggest fear had become to get a teacher as a substitute in sports.

The 48-year-old looked at himself provocatively and said: "Girl, I've heard from other teachers that you have never taken part in physical education. Stop making stupid excuses and join the gym class!"

"But my heart is sick," Yuju looked at him with tears in her eyes. She had already heard a lot from this sports teacher that he is the strictest and no one could run after his physical education.

"Stop arguing with me and even if you do, you won't die," he laughed sneering and turned away from her. He called the whole class together in a circle, and explained that

Everyone started to run and Yuju had no other option but to walk along. She had done well in the first round, but after the second it was harder and harder. She felt her heart change its beat all the time; her eyes began to tear and she was getting little air.

"Kirai Yuju, don't slow down!" the gym teacher shouted to her. She stopped and looked at the floor, soaked in sweat and nauseated.

"Yuju?" she heard someone say behind her and suddenly her heart warmed up, she turned around and saw Heeseung. He looked at her with concern and approached her carefully, but in that moment he had not acted like a 'playboy', but another. She felt her cheeks turn red.

Suddenly, Yuju began to tremble violently and the place where her heart sat began to hurt. She closed her eyes and grasped the painful spot. The pain grew bigger and the power left Yuju and she fell into the darkness...