The Nerd 👓 [Kang Ha]

5

"You could've gotten in trouble." Suyin frowned at her brother who held an ice pack to his cheek. "Comparing you to Haneul, it looked like you were carrying a weapon." She remembered the man's face a few days ago.

"Not my fault he can't fight back." He hissed his teeth. "Think he's gonna do plastic surgery to fix his face?"

"If he wants it, he'll get it." Suyin shook her head.

Ðejaun watched her for a moment before sighing. "Alright, get up."

"For what?" Suyin looked at her laid back state on the bed, living her foot to show her ankle. "I'm on house arrest."

"We're going to the game room. I hate this sappy shit." Ðejaun lifted her onto his shoulders and carried her to the game room.

"Sorry but, I don't know how to play MK." Suyin looked apologetic when he put the game on screen.

"Don't worry, I'll teach you." Ðejaun gave her the controller.

~~

KITANA WINS! FLAWLESS VICTORY!

After the game spoke those words, Ðejaun stood up and took Suyin's snack with him.

"Hey!" Suyin looked at her empty hands.

"No snacks for cheaters!" Ðejaun ate the snack, feeling bitter.

"But I wasn't cheating." Suyin laughed because he was doing his stank face.

"But you did." Ðejaun sat back in the gaming chair. "Saying you never play the game before- you know every damn move!" He kicked the side of her chair.

"I'm sorry!" Suyin laughed at his defeat, finally admitting. "I just studied the moves one time on YouTube. I never played it before so I technically wasn't lying."

"Mhm." Ðejaun sounded unconvinced and took up his controller. "One more round."

MILEENA WINS!

"Again."

RAIDEN WINS!

"Again."

LIU KANG WINS!

"My G- Again."

This went on for the whole evening until it was night.

Their parents came home with food bags in hand, calling for the two to come down and eat.

Not hearing a sound, they assumed the worst and rushed up the stairs. They searched every room and came down to the gameroom at the end of the left side of the mansion.

Walking in, their mother saw the heartwarming sight of the two sleeping in the L shaped couch. Their father only saw the GTA loading screen of that one girl in a bikini.

Their father raced over, took up a pillow and hit Ðejaun with it. "Boy, a wah this you in here a do?!"

"Daddy, a wah happen?!" Ðejaun tried dodging the hits but knew it would only get worse. He peaked at the screen and saw the woman in bikini changed to his character standing in a parking lot.

Oh, GTA.

Poor Suyin and Sooyin just stood and watched the father chase his son down the hall.

~~

The next day, Suyin begged her parents to go to school and she was allowed to on the condition of letting her parents know if she felt even a slight bit of sickness.

So, here was Jang Suyin at the front of the classroom door. In her few days of missing school, she missed the J-TCR but still got recognition for what she did.

Suyin walked to tech class and answered a few questions before going to the restroom.

After doing her business, she passed by the boy's restroom where she spotted Ha, his friend shown in the photos and the principal's son.

As the principal's son walked out, he met eyes with Suyin who waved slightly at him, making a slight pink come to his cheeks before he scurried off.

Suyin saw the guy crying and pitied him, fixing her glasses and walking off.

"I can't help you anymore." Tae-ho choked out.

Ha stood silent, eyeing his friend but also the reflection of Suyin walking off.

~~

And there was the blackmailer himself, going through the files of different students' secrets, sending the message to Jae-I before clicking on the file of Jang Suyin.

The file showed three pictures and one video.

Clicking on the video, it showed the murder of the oldest brother in the Jang family.

Ju-won pushed the glasses up from the bridge of his nose, smirking a bit.

~~

Suyin met up with Jae-I in the halls and walked with her the rest of the free period, stopping in Ha's path.

"I thought the two of you weren't coming to school anymore." Ha looked at the girls sitted on the sofa in the special class lounge room.

"I'll tell you....whatever you want to know...about your brother." Jae-I finally made eye contact with Ha.

Ha stepped forward, encouraging her to start talking.

"We were all out partying..." Jae-I started the recollection of that night. "It was Woo-jin's brithday, and they were bullying In-han, so he ran outside. That's when the accident occurred."

"He was tortured so much he couldn't take it. So much he ran out into the street." Ha told them. "It was them, wasn't it? Choi Yun-seok, Kim Ri-an...."

"It wasn't them." Suyin shook her head.

"I know you're suspicious of Ri-an but...he wasn't behind it." Jae-I tried to convince him. "It was my fault. If he was never friends with me or Suyin, then In-han wouldn't have been bullied by everyone at the school. So don't blame it on anyone else. Take it out on me." She sounded close to crying.

Suyin held her hand, lacing their fingers together as she felt the guilt coming from Jae-I. She could only do so much about the bullying and blamed herself for not saving In-han.

"Please help us." Suyin called as Ha was about to leave. "We're being blackmailed by someone here."

Jae-I was a bit shocked at the news of someone blackmailing Suyin as well before it went away, tears starting to fill her eyes.

Ha looked at Jae-I before looking at Suyin, assuring if it was true. Suyin nodded her head.

"I need to find them before I leave. I don't care if they're just threatening us. But Ri-an..." Jae-I breathed out. "They're trying to bring him down as well."

"If it's heloing Kim Ri-an, you'll need to find someone else 'cause I have the same goal as the person threatening you." Ha denied, about to leave again.

"You said you would help us get through all this." Suyin brought up his words from earlier.

"If Ri-an falls apart, I'll fall apart too." Jae-I had tears going down her cheeks. "I don't want him to get hurt."

Suyin went over the odds in her head. If the video got out, not only will she get charged, but her family's reputation would be in the gutter. And Haneul would definitely find a way to make it worse for her.

"And me?" Ha inquired.

They went on for a while with Ha joining in on the waterworks until he left abruptly. Jae-I wanted to be left alone so Suyin followed Ha outside.

Suyin turned the corner and was about to call for his name when he caged her into the wall.

"I came back to school and you cage me into a wall? What if I hit my head again?" Suyin mused.

"I thought you being the daughter of the CEO of T-Co. would know the person who's blackmailing you." Ha frowned.

Suyin pursed her lips and fixed her glasses. And I thought this was going to be like one of those kabedons in romance books.