Exchange Student || PURINZ

chapter 6

HUH YUNJIN
A few months later

I sat there in class watching the clock tick, aimlessly waiting for lunch. I was hungry, like really hungry. The bell rang and students piled out the classroom, making their way to the lunchroom. I made my way to the lunchroom, to see Kazuha sitting at a table.

"Hey Zuha" I say, sitting down with her. "Hey" She says happily. I notice Chaewon's bad on the ground and I pick it up and place it on the table. "Hey Zuha, where's Chaewon" I ask. "She went to the lunch line to get lunch. I brought my lunch today" she says, pointing to the lunch line. I look over to the lunch line to see Chaewon standing there, waiting for her turn to get lunch. Kazuha then goes on to ramble about different things, all I can do is just sit and listen.

I stand up, leaving my bag on the table. "Where you going?" Kazuha says, stoping her rambling. "Gonna go get my lunch, be back soon" I say, then I walk away to the lunch line.

__

KIM CHAEWON

I stand in the lunch line, watching and waiting. Conversations about who knows what happen all around me, it's loud but not to loud, like the party a few months ago. Soon, it's my turn. I grab my lunch and see Kazuha waiting for me at the table. I start to walk over when suddenly, someone steps in front of me. I slightly look up to see Wonyoung standing there, with a mischievous grin on her face.

"Oh look, it's the freak exchange student with like, zero friends" she says as her friends walk up behind her. I feel my anxiety rising. This is not good at all. Yujin, Wonyoung's best friend whispers something in her ear and she bursts out laughing. She turns to me again, looking me up and down with a disgusted look on her face. I look down, remembering what the kids in Korea did to me. Wonyoung grabs my chin really hard and makes me look at her.

"You know, it's rude to look away when someone is talking to you" she says. "And where did you get those clothes, the dollar tree?" she says. Then she grabs my lunch and hands it to her friend, who then throughs it in the trash. She laughs. "Aw, why don't you go dig your food out the trash" she says, her voice laced with mockery. I just wish for this all to end.

__

HUH YUNJIN

I'm waiting in the lunch line, when Nako, the quiet, Japanese girl in my science class speaks up to me. "Hey, you know Chaewon, right?" She says, looking nervous. "Yeah, why?" I say, confused. "Well, turn around and look" she says, pointing behind me. I turn around to see Chaewon getting bullied by Wonyoung, their laughing at her and even threw her food away. The sight makes my blood boil. No one messes with her. No one. I storm over there. "Hey!" I yell, getting Wonyoung and Everyone Else's attention.

"Well, if it isn't Yunjin, the quiet loser" Wonyoung says, smirking. I pull Chaewon behind me. "Leave. Her. Alone" I say, my blood boiling, my heart pounding. Wonyoung takes a step forward. "And if I don't?" Wonyoung says, then Yujin grabs Chaewon's arm, which makes Wonyoung laugh and me ten times angrier. All hope is lost and I grab Wonyoung by her hair.

Then people surround us, recording and cheering. Then staff and teachers push through the crowd and break us up before real damage is done. Wonyoung's face is bruised, then blood drops from her nose. The teachers take her to the nurse, while I get sent to the principals office. God I hate Wonyoung's guts.

__

"Have a seat, Yunjin" the principal says. I sit down in a chair in front of his desk. I sit quietly. "Huh Yunjin, what you did in the cafeteria is completely unacceptable" He says, in a firm and stern voice. "She started it" I say. "Explain" He says. "She was picking on Chaewon, so I jumped in" I explain. "I understand and appreciate you were trying to protect a friend but you could have handled the situation differently" he says. I stay quiet. "I don't want to have to do this but, your suspended for two weeks" He says.

I stand up in surprise. "What!? You can't suspend me" I protest. "You need to learn the consequences of your actions" He says. I sit back down. "You may leave the school now" he says. I pick up my bag and leave the office, then I leave the school building, I text Chaewon to explain what happened.

YUNJIN: hey, I got suspended, so see you when you get home