Dream University (EXO Fanfic)

Chapter 76 : Annual Platinum Visit

Meanwhile. Hallway. Eun Hee's POV.

It's only been yesterday since that incident but it feels like a whole lot of distance has already stacked between Chanyeol and I. Just breathing with him beside me seems like a hard task to do to be honest. "You know, we shouldn't really keep doing this." spoke Chanyeol, straying my eyes away from watching my shoes motion. "What do you mean?"

The sun streaks inside the glass window, blinding a bit of sight every now and then as we motion along the other students in the campus. "I mean, we shouldn't act like strangers to one another. It's true that we did break up last night, and by keeping both our attitudes like this.. well, I don't think the members would like seeing such negative auras around us. Don't you think so as well?"

It made me question how calmed he really is when he said those to me. Is he really the clingy Chanyeol that held onto me for almost a month? I spoke dryly, "I also think that it will affect the other people around us as well.." Almost halfway near the Platinum door, Chanyeol looks back at me. "I'll go on ahead, okay?"

Automatically, I felt my feet solidify in place. Yet again, I see Chanyeol's broad back facing me again with heavy emotions clinging onto me. He enters the Platinum room without even glancing back at me once, and even if he did look back towards me, what kind of face will I make..?

"Well, well, well. Look who's back from the rotting countryside." It was Krystal whose usual perfume swarmed the whole area. I lifelessly turn back to find her circling me with an amuse smirk, "I don't know what you did, but whatever it is made Chanyeol's dad lose fifty billion won because of Chandork." I felt my head tilt back from the massive amount of won she mentioned. She stops in front of me, slapping both my cheeks lightly.

"By the look on your face, you seem to be highly guilty of what you did. You know what, maybe if you weren't even here in the first place, maybe everyone would have been so happy, you know. Because from what I know, all you do is hurt the people around you." says Krystal as a matter-of-factly. Each word she threw at me felt like arrows stabbing me right across my heart.

But what she said may be so true to the point that it hurts. I do things and end up causing trouble to others. Chanyeol came to my rescue leaving a fifty million won deal back in Seoul when all I needed was a shoulder to cry on back at Busan. "You're right. I've been a clown since I first came here in Busan, but you know what.. I don't ever want to go back being that cowardly girl anymore. I want to change and be someone who can stand up on her own. Not even you can bring me down anymore, Krystal."

I agitatedly walk pass her who seemed to have luckily dodge my means of bumping into her threateningly. I await for her usual shriek or hair pulling, but none came at all after I walked away. For the first time ever, I felt like a changed person.

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Outside the Dean's Office. Eun Hee's POV.

I waited for almost an hour just outside the dean's office. I hear faint murmurs, but I can't really tell what they were saying feeling as if they were talking distance away from where I was. It didn't seem like there was anything to worry about inside, but knowing that the dean has something to do with this whole thing between Kai and I makes me wonder what it really is.

Moreover, from what I eavesdropped that horrid night, it seems that the dean and Kai are not really uncle and nephew. If that's the case, the both of them must be hiding something so big away from everyone.. "Eun Hee..?" I look up, straightening my posture as I see Kai who recently got out from the Dean's office.

"Eun Hee, what are you doing? Didn't I tell Chanyeol to escort you back to the Platinum room?" says Kai, looking fidgety. "Yeah, he did. But there's something I want to talk to you about." I spoke solemnly as I can. He stares at me for seconds and later starts walking at the opposite hallway. "Look, if this is about what you've eavesdropped the other night then I'm afraid I can't tell you, Eun Hee."