𝐒𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐇

#.. FIFTY-ONE

"so, jiseok, you're really gunil's boyfriend?" one of the boys asked as they surrounded his desk.

jiseok looked up, confused. he just fell asleep, having napped a little. yet he was brutally woken up by the "cool guys", who smacked his neck, hard.

it took him some seconds to realise what they asked. "the fuck do you want?" he spat back, not even bothering to answer the question, making all of them laugh.

"my little sister here has a crush on him" the boy put his arm around the girl next to him. she was probably a freshman, based on how shy she looked, being surrounded only by juniors.

what was she doing by having a crush on a senior? this would never work.

jiseok's brows furrowed. "and what am i supposed to do about it?" he didn't expect to be pushed down from his seat, hitting his head against the desk behind him.

"you'll break up with him?" he laughed, as if it was the most obvious thing. despite the sharp pain on the back of his head, jiseok just scoffed.

"eh- and why exactly would i do that?" it just took a fraction of a second until some of his friends landed a punch on his stomach.

the boy himself just knelt down next to jiseok. "because i'll make your life hell if you don't, faggot."

their intense glaring at each other came to an end, when someone suddenly pulled the bully up.

"who do you think you are, milksop?" it was one of his classmates, a classmate he was somewhat close with - seungmin. jiseok smiled lightly upon seeing the boy.

the bully laughed. "oh, another faggot. are y'all in some kind of cult? the gaybos?" his friends laughed, too, and seungmin just laughed along.

"yeah, maybe, great idea. you should become our leader, asshole." his voice dripped with sarcasm. "now leave him the fuck alone or gunil will come and fuck you up personally."

both jiseok and seungmin knew that their eldest would actually beat him up if it meant to protect his boyfriend.

the boy didn't believe him. "why would you do that for? you twinks can't stand up for yourself?"

his little sister grabbed his arm, signalising him that it's fine but it no longer was about her having a crush on gunil.

seungmin stepped closer, ready to fight if he had to. "what? you just want me to start so you can give me the fault for the fight-"

he couldn't finish his sentence, receiving a blow right in his face. his lower lip busted, blood starting to trickle out of it.

jiseok was on his feet again by that time, his vision blackening entirely due to the impact on his head. so he wasn't ready to hold the fight back.

and it started to escalate. seungmin, obviously defending himself, punched back, even harder than he was hit. the collision of fist against face reverberated through the room, the faint crack of his nose was heard if one paid really close attention to it.

blood started oozing out of it. "crazy psycho" the boy muttered, looking at seungmin with a derogatory gaze before starting to swing at him, his friends getting a hold of seungmin so the other could punch and kick him freely.

jiseok, who recovered from the hit, tried to make them stop. "what the fuck is wrong with you?!" he shouted, trying to pull the boy away.

but it just contributed to the boy growing even more angry, turning around and landing a hard slap in jiseok's face.

jiseok hissed loudly, having to hold onto the desk next to him in order to not collapse. he still felt dizzy and light-headed, as if he suffered from a concussion.

taking a look towards seungmin, jiseok was surprised - his lower half of the face was entirely covered with blood, that either gushed out of his nose or his lip.

red spots indicated that hematomas would form there later on. he looked seriously injured, his head hanging low as other boys still held him in place.

yet before anything further could happen, their teacher entered.

"what do you think you are doing? let go of him, immediately!"