The Nerd 👓 [Kang Ha]

4.2

It was now class time. Suyin sat beside Ha in the back while their teacher read off some notes. Some weren't paying attention while others wrote enough to pass their exams.

Suyin kept glancing at her phone if the unkown person would send back a reply to her message she had sent earlier when Jae-I suddenly left the room, Ha and Ri-an following.

"What's with them?" Ba-da inquired, looking out the glass at the three's disappearance.

Suyin, feeling to help a friend in need (and wanting to skip class), stood up and gave a small bow to their teacher before leaving with her stuff already packed in her bag.

Suyin walked down the halls and encountered Ri-an with Ha.

"I'm so sick of you tryhard scholarship pricks." Ri-an's eyes had a dark undertone to them.

'This must be how he looked at In-han...before he killed him,' Ha thought while engaging in a staring contest with the king.

Ri-an held Ha by his collar. "Listen to me. I consider you a threat to Jae-I's safety. Your kind always is. Always."

Then came Yun-seok with the rest of his gang. "Whoa, Ri-an! You don't need to waste your time with this prick. We'll deal with it, okay?"

Suyin didn't listen as she stormed past them down to where Jae-I ran through.

Ri-an had half a mind to stop her but let her through, seeing as Jae-I always wanted her near.

Suyin couldn't find her at first but came upon her at the entrance to the school, her car in front of her.

"Jae-I!" Suyin called for her. "Are you okay?"

"Don't worry about me. Is your brother okay? You mentioned that he came down yesterday, right?" Jae-I asked, hands clutching her phone.

"Yes, he's fine. Do you want to come over later? We're going golfing." Suyin offered.

"So late in the afternoon?" Jae-I spared her a rare smile.

"Best time to get-"

"The swans going." The mentioned male standing beside Suyin. "As father would say."

"I'll think about it." Jae-I waved them a goodbye and escaped in her car.

"She's hiding something." Yu-jun stated the obvious, both siblings staring out into the distance.

"I'll find out later." Suyin pushed her glasses up her nose. "What are you doing here?"

"Came to see my favorite sister in the whole world!" Yu-jun smiled at her.

"Ðejaun, don't play with me." Suyin used his other name, given by their grandmother.

"Well, I came to see the litrke bastard who caused a stir with Haneul at the Parents' Night." Ðejaun admitted.

"Oh, that." Suyin remembered.

"So I guess you're her next client." Haneul stood by the piano. "Huh?" Ha was confused at who he was. "Suyin. You know she's a whore, right?" Haneul took a sip of the wine. Ha swung his fist at the right time, gaining collective gasps from many. "Kang Ha!" Suyin's father came to aprehend the boy.

"He's in class either ways." Suyin shrugged.

"And why aren't you?" Ðejaun raised an eyebrow.

"....I need to tell you something." Suyin nervously stated, fidgeting wit hher fingers.

"Oh my God..." Ðejaun placed his hands over his mouth. "You're pregnant?"

"No!" Suyin hissed her teeth. "Get in the car!" She pushed him to the car Pablos was patiently waiting for them in.

"Okay, stop pushing!" Ðejaun was released. "Creasing my damn J's."

~~

Ðejaun sat silently at his computer table after the information was revealed to him. "And you're just telling me this?"

Ðejaun had successfully got a pin on the person sending his sister the video as a threat and had watched it, seeing that the person he's been hunting for months was his own sibling.

The day Suyin turned 16, she was covered in blood and tears streaked down her face. Her mother was fussing over her while scrubbing the blood from her hair. Ðejaun stood at the bathroom door asking, "Who did this?" Suyin only cried more.

And that day, Ðejaun swore he'd find and kill the person who did it. He had gotten the lead that the person was in America, where he went to university. Guess it was just his brother leading him away to give his sister more trauma.

"Why didn't you tell me this?" Ðejaun placed his fingers on his lips, deeply revolted by his so-called brother.

"I was scared..okay.." Suyin twisted her fingers. "The two of you were so close, I was sure you'd take his side in everything so I just kept quiet. And he knew it."

"Damn..." Ðejaun rubbed his forehead with a sigh. "I'll talk to mom and dad about some days from school so we can work up something with the principal's son."

"Okay." Suyin nodded her head.

"When things like these happen, sis, talk." Ðejaun held her shoulders. "If you don't talk, many things will happen as a butterfly effect. Like the time you passed out and went into a coma for months and we found out you were suffering mentally and had to be put on antidepressants? Dad didn't even want to leave the hospital room. We had to get uncle B to force him in a shower."

"Yeah, mom told me." Suyin sniffed and let out a sigh. "He just..."

"Alright, the bastard is dead now." He wiped her tears that were coming down her face. "As a matter of fact, we're going to dance on his grave tomorrow. Only because we're not ruining today."

"I love you, big bro." Suyin smiled and hugged her brother.

"I love you most." Ðejaun kissed the top of her head.

"Stop acting like Mother Gothel." Suyin grumbled.

"What can I say? Brother know-" Ðejaun was about to start.

"Let's go golfing now." Suyin grabbed his arm and tugged him to the awaiting car.

~~

[Haneul]

》*see attachment*
》Jae-I fainted

Where are you guys?《

》Not even a 'Hello'?

Cut the crap, Haneul《

》I wonder when you'd start calliing me by my first name
》## Hospital
》Come with your father and mother
》Dad wants to talk with them

Suyin didn't have to guess what they were talking about as the adults lef the room with a chilling tension in the air.

Suyin stood at the left of the bed with her brother while Haneul was on the other side of the bed.

From the moment Ðejaun came in the room, he didn't make his eyes leave Haneul's figure. Even the amount of air he intakes was observed by the older.

"So, how's school?" Haneul directed the question at the female.

"Your sister is strapped in a hospital bed and you're asking her questions?" Ðejaun was hissing from his spot.

After spending their childhood together, between the Yoon ffamily and the Jang family, it was the Jang family who knew how the Jung family treated Jae-I. It becoming one of the main reasons why Jae-I and Suyin were best friends.

"Hey, she'll be my betrothed. I have to know how she's doing in school." He laughed to himself. "After last year's big ending."

Suyin tensed at this, metting eyes with Ðejaun who immediately launched at Haneul.