Beauty and the beast

Seven

It's been 2 months since I have been staying in this school. And every night the same thing keeps happening. I think JungHan has Night terrors too. Every night. There would be loud noises and yelping. But at some point I hear him mumbling. It's been get worse.

10:39pm the clock reads. And I'm ready to go to sleep. It's a nice Sunday night. The moon is shining. And I'm sleepy.

"JungHan-ah I'm going to sleep now." I say as I put my books away.

"Mm. I'll sleep too." He gets in to his bed.

"Goodnight." I turn off the lights and get in to bed.

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I wake up to the sound of crying. I look at the clock. 2:30am the clock reads. And I get out of my bed. I have a big test tomorrow. And I can not risk failing.

I walk over to JungHan's bed. With the dim light given off by the clock I look at his face covers in sweat. He is thrashing back and forth.

"JungHan-ah." I shake his body lightly.
"JungHan-ah wake up." I sit beside him. "JungHan-ah wake up you are have a nightmare. Come on just wake up." I say into his ear.

But nothing. He keeps thrashing back and forth.

"Please don't do it. Stop." He crys. "SooYoung no." He crys as he lays there.

I move the little hair on his forehead away from all the sweat.

"JungHan-ah wake up please. Wake up." I shove him harder this time.

And he darts up. And starts to cry. "They took her. They took her." He crys. And hug him.

"Who did they take?" I ask as I continue to brush his hair back this my hand. "Who is SooYoung?"

"They took her. They just took her."

"JungHan-ah who did they take?"

"I tried. I tried to fight but they hurt me."

"It's okay. It's okay it was a dream." I whisper. Hoping that he will be okay.

He finally hugs me back. "They took her. They took her." He says in to my shoulder.

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I wake up and JungHan is still my arms. We must have fallen a sleep like this.

"JungHan-ah wake up. We have class." I shake him off of me.

"Huh?" He groans.

"Come on wake up."

"Okay okay. Get out of my bed."He groans as he lays down.

"Nope you are not going to sleep. We have a test. And we only have 3hours before we take it. So with that being said you and I are going to go study. Wether you like it or not." I pull his feet. Trying to pull him of the bed.

"But I don't want to study."

"I don't care. I'm sick of you always copying me. And then you think it's okay for you to push me around. I'm going to help you. This time we are studying."

"But.." He sits up.

"No buts." I huff making up my bed that I didn't sleep the whole night in.

"Ugh!"

"You will thank me later."

"I'm going to take a shower."

"Hurry."

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"So......" JunhHan hums as we walk through the study room.

"JungHan-ah do you want a private room?"

"Yeah. So I can kill you and no one will know." He smirks. "Sound proof walls."

I jump in front of him. Walking backwards.

"What are you liking at?"

"You."

"Why?"

"I don't know." I turn around. And open door.

I here him place his book bag on the table.

"So what do you want to study first?"I walk over to him taking off my book bag. And siting on the table.

"Hmm." He pulls the chair from underneath the table. "You." He smirks.

"Ugh. I'm being serious."

"I am too." He chuckles.

"Math."

"I hate math." He plops himself into the chair.

"And it's the one class your failing. And the class that I'm passing. And very good at."

"Ugh!"

"Fine lets make a deal. If I don't help you study and you pass the test I won't ever ask to help you again, But if you fail I help yoh everyday till you are passing math with a 87%. Or you can just let me help you everyday and still have the choice of stopping me from helping you."

"Deal. Now I'm done here." He stands and walks out grabbing his book bag.

"That kid." I shake my head.

"Eun Bi-ah?" A familiar voice asks.

"Yes?" I turn around. "Oh Joshua. What's up?"

"First can I join you in your study?"

"Of course."

"Okay good." He walks in closing the door behind him. "Now I have Ben thinking....." He takes off his book bag before stepping in front of me. "I want to sing again."

"Really? I thought you gave up on it."

"I did. But...I want to try again. Maybe at the near by church. I want to start there. Small and not so judging."

"Well I think you should. Why the sudden idea?"

"Cause. Of you. I hear you singing in the shower everyone I stop by to see JungHan before track. And I thought about it."

"It's not because of me. I can't even sing. JungHan is always so mean about it. I stop doing that a week ago."

"But u don't think you should stop. That's why I came to you. I want you to join me. Just..."

"I don't know. It's not my thing. Just something to take my mind off things. I'm sure you will do fine alone."

"Just think about it. Please?"

"Only cause it's you....now I really need to study. You can join me if you would like."

"Grate. Math?"

"Yup."

"This will be easy."