SpartAce I: School Love Affair

Sleeping Beauty

Kim Jong Kook is exhausted. He had just lost her chasing squad after taking a few turns around the area full of trees, stumbling on the ground and getting his knees wounded in the process.

Still, he is relieved to see Ji Hyo back in their room as he enters.

She is sitting in the bed that used to be his, being pampered by the other guys.

Gary hangs a blanket around her shoulders and makes sure she does not get cold. Joong Ki offers her a cup of hot chocolate. While Kwang Soo is mending tge wounds in her arms.

He receives a glare from her as he walks in.

"Why did those girls do this to you? ", Dong Hoon asks, his brows creased in anxiety.

"I don't know. ", Ji Hyo says.

"Hey! How could you head out alone at night? What could have happened if i did not see you from this window? ", Gary scolds, pointing the window of the room. "I almost ignored it thinking you were just a bunch of girls sneaking around. "

Ji Hyo keeps quiet and just looks down.

"Argh! ", she snaps at Kwang Soo. "It hurts, you-----! ",she stops before she could say what was in her mind.

Kwang Soo stares at her in disbelief though. "What were you about to call me? ", he asks.

"Nothing. ", she answers.

Jong Kook lies in his own bed, ignoring the commotion in the room.

An hour later, the others starts going back to bed and sleep, but he is still wide awake.

He almost screams out loud when he sees a long haired woman approach his bed in the darkness.

He gets up when he realizes it is just Ji Hyo wearing her hair down on her shoulders.

"Yah! ", he yells in silence.

"Follow me. ", she orders in a low voice and then heads out the door without waiting for him.

He has no choice but to follow, closing the door behind him silently.

"Yah! How could you sneak out this easily after what happened? ", he asks when they arrive in the lobby where there were couches set up as a waiting area.

"Sit down. ", she says, pointing the couch.

"Stop ordering me around. ", he complains but still sits on the couch.

She does not answer and instead sets down a medicine kit, which he did not notice she was carrying, in the table in front of them.

She sits on her knees next to him and takes out some cotton balls and antiseptic.

He seems to be surprised of what she is doing, and he instinctively inches away.

But she gives him a piercing glare and pulls his knees closer.

"What are you doing? ", he asks.

She does not answer and just starts tapping the wet cotton ball on his wound.

"Argh! ", he grunts.

"Tss. How can a guy be so cowardly? ", she criticizes.

He pauses and stares at her, trying to figure out if she is talking about what is happening or about what happened earlier. But her pale, pretty face is just too blank to read.

"Don't put too much pressure on it. ", he says hesitantly.

Her eyes looks at him judgingly.

He syddenly feels uncomfortable that he already is.