Be With You | Seokjin

deux : punishment

Kim Seok Jin's POV

As usual, I walked to my classroom late. There's no point in arriving early and I woke up late so that's it. The moment I arrived in front of the classroom, I heard my name being called by the Class Prep.

  "Kim Seok Jin."

I slid the door open then I saw her standing in front of teacher's desk checking attendance.

  "I'm here." I replied, walking to my seat. Unfortunately, she called my name which made me stop. I rolled my eyes to meet her.

  "Wae?" I asked.

  "Tuck in your shirt, remove your earring, button your upper buttons, and roll down your sleeves, please Mr. Kim Seok Jin." She said in monotone and I sighed.

  "What are you? My mother?" I stared at her and replied tiredly.

  "Shirt 2$, earring 1$, buttons 4$, sleeves 2$ -" She started giving me punishments quickly, while writing down on her small notebook. I cut her off.

"Ya! Do you think that I'm some kind of a millionaire?" I emphasized what I said.

  "Talking back to a Class Prep 5$. So, Mr.Kim Seok Jin, today you have to give the money to the class about 14$, I suppose." She closed her little notebook and adjusted her glasses.

  "Ya ya!-" I shouted but then I got cut off. I averted my eyes to look at the person who raised her hand.

  "Class Prep, why don't you minus his point instead?" Soojung raised her hand and talked, rolling her eyes. Seriously, every single word that come from her is always the points deduction.

  "Ms. Han Soojung, do I even have points to be deducted?" I stated the obvious and she stifled a laugh.

  "Mr. Kim Seok Jin, I'm afraid to say that you can't stand here and argue with your classmates-"

  "Aish! Why are things so troublesome in the early morning?!" I yelled.

  "This is your fault!" She shouted back.

This time, we got into a real trouble. Red Hulk, the school's vice principal, slid the door open. We called him Red Hulk because well . . . you can imagine the Hulk then just changed the color to red and you'll understand.

  "Why are students shouting at each other in the early morning?!Where's the teacher?" He said in a pissed off tone then everyone fell silent.

  "Why is the Class Prep doing something inappropriate like this?" He scolded at the Class Prep.

  "Red Hul- I mean, Ssam! I'm just telling him to respect the school's rules." Hyerin said, pointing at me.

  "Two of you, get outside now!" Red Hulk demanded and we both fell silent, looking at the floor and walked outside.

Time for punishment again. It's always been fun to be punished especially with the Class Prep. I don't know why but I felt like teasing her everyday. Seeing her mad made me happy.

She stared at me and was about to hit me but I sticked out my tongue and continued walking. On the way, our teacher saw us and she looked shocked.

  "H-H-Hyerin?" She stood at a place without moving an inch.

  "Kang seonsaeng-nim, do you have any idea how these kids disturb the class? And where did you go?" Red Hulk stopped walking and faced our homeroom teacher.

  "Ssam, she was going to get the printouts of our lessons for us and I decided on my own accord, to check the attendance lists." Hyerin lied, looking at Red Hulk then looked at teacher Kang who stood there, dumbfounded.

Hyerin nudged me to join her lies as she stifled a laugh. I nodded shakily as Red Hulk looked at us. We continued walking with him to somewhere that I don't know.

  "Why the hell are we standing here in the early morning?" Class Prep muttered, with her hands up behind her head while standing one-legged in the school's hallway just like me.

  "It's your fault for shouting-" She cut me off.

  "You shouted first! I just told you to respect the school's rules. You should've done these easy tasks in the first place." She scolded me. "Aish, jinjja! I just lost my goddamn chance of studying."

  "What's so fun with studying anyways?!" I grumbled, staring at her.

  "You don't understand, kid." She gibed as she looked at me.

  "I have no interests in studying so that's fine if you don't want to tell me. It's not like I really want to know either." I lisped.

We gave each other death stares for a few seconds and looked away.

50 minutes have passed.

  "Aish! Why do I always have to stand and get punished with you?" She let her hands fall in the air and her foot on the ground. She began stomping the floor.

  "Ya, I heard Red Hulk's footsteps." I lied to her and she immediately got back to her position. I chuckled then she got what I mean, so she hit my shoulder.

  "Ya, that hurts!" I bellowed.

  "It's your fault for lying to me." She sputtered.

55 minutes have passed. Only 5 more minutes to go.

  "Why do you hate being with me this much?" I wanted to know the answer so I just asked her directly.

She looked at me and sighed. "That's right. I am delightful to know that you've finally realized that I hate being with you." She stormed.

  "24 hours a day isn't enough for me. Since I'm the outstanding student-"

  "Okay, okay. Omitting the 'outstanding' sounds better."

  "Whatever. I'm going to continue. So, I think that the school provides so little time for us to study and I'm planning on requesting the school to add extra time-"

  "Don't you dare do that, girl."

  "I've always treasured my precious study time," She continued. "That's why, standing here with an idiot like you wastes 1 hour out of my 10 study hours at school, loses 50 calories, drains out my energy and the most important of all, seeing you malfunctions my brain." She spoke quickly, counting her fingers and flipped her hair then put her hand back behind her head.

  "How nice of you to think through all those bad impacts when you're with me. So, I even crossed the amazing Class Prep's mind for a few seconds too. I'm honored, actually." I replied back sarcastically.

  "I t-think through everything in general." She stammered. "Whatever, just know that I don't wanna be with you. End of the story." She continued.

  "I wanna be with you though." I gave her a wide smile and she looked at me, frowning.