Me (Jeongcheol) [Wattys2017]

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Seongcheol sat in his third class which meant he only had this and another one to go before he can go home.

For a first day it wasn't that bad but his thoughts still drift around the boy from this morning and what this chinese boy said to him.

Faggot..., he thought. So this fucking school his homophobic!?

His old school wasn't very different from what he experienced today.

Someone needs to help him, he thinks.

Someone needs to help Jeonghan and his little friend didn't look like someone that could protect anybody but needs to be protected.

Without thinking about it twice, he knows that he's going to help Jeonghan.

Jeonghan with his long bleached hair and those big eyes that were shocked about someone helping him and who was so shy.

He walked to his locker. At least that's what was his plan but he got lost in the long hallways of this much to big school.

He walked around a corner. Hoping that he finally found the corridor with his locker when he heard a loud bang.

Only seconds later he saw where it came from.

The chinese boy and another guy had Jeonghan pressed against the lockers.

Jeoghan's eyes are wide out of fear and his hair was in a messy ponytail, his bag was lying on the ground.

"Hey!", Seongcheol screamed. "What are you doing there!"

The chinese boy turned around. His little friend was still pressing Jeonghan against the lockers.

"What do you want newbie?!", he shouts back and grins at him.
"What do you care about that faggot?!"

Seongcheol puts down his bag on the ground and speeds up his steps.

"His name is Jeonghan", he says calmly.

"Oh really?", the other boy says.

"Look, even the new guys know your name...", he says to Jeonghan and rams his fist into his stomach.

The long haired boy curls up in pain and lets out a groan.

Seongcheol sees a single tear fall down his cheek.

"Why are you doing this?! He doesn't deserve this!", he shouts.

"Oh you think so?! Maybe your just like him?!", the chinese boy says and makes the other boy with brown locks laugh.

"And what if?! What would you do?!", he shouts and walks up even closer.

"If I were you I would leave", the chinese boy says.

"Maybe we'll forget that you tried to help this 'thing'", he points at Jeonghan. "And you'll have a great life at this school."

Seongcheol shakes his head.

"No", he says in a steady voice.

"Let him go."

Out of the corner of his eyes he sees how Jeonghan shakes his head.

He's crying and whispering something Seongcheol doesn't understand.

Don't, the boy mouths. Don't risk anything for nothing.

Seongcheol looks away from the long haired boy.

He knows it's dumb and he should make friends instead of enemies on his first day in a new school.

But he walks up to the boy with brown locks and rams his fist into his grinning face.

After that everything wents on to fast.