SpartAce I: School Love Affair

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Ji Hyo is walking along the path to her house, being grumpy at what she has just saw.

She wanted to see Jong Han earlier, but Jong Kook shooed her away.

She was about to go home earlier when she remembered that she forgot to get a book from her locker, so she went back to get it, only to see Jong Kook and Eun Hye meeting in the hallway in where he was waiting.

"He could've just said he was meeting Eun Hye eonnie. Why would he shoo me away like that? ", she asks to herself. "Tss. He thinks i'll disturb their date. ", she says bitterly.

She opens the gate in their house and steps in.

"Don't worry! I won't be a third wheel in you guys! ", she says.

"Ji Hyo-ah? Who are you talking to? ", her mother asks from inside.

"Nothing! ", she answers and hurries inside their house.

She kisses her mother and father and then heads to her room.

After eating dinner, she goes straight to bed, thinkingnof how chaotic her day had been.

She stares at the ceiling of her room, lying flat on her back.

"Who would do such thing? ", she asks herself.

She had so many haters before, but none of them actually gone this far tgat they had to spend money and print lots of those posters.

Because of that, she has grown an involuntary instinct to keep a distance between her and the others who has been in the poster with her.

She falls asleep thinking about what she would do in the next day.

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Jong Kook joins the others in lunch the next day, only to see that Ji Hyo is not there, again.

He sits next to Kwang Soo, who is craning his head to look for the someone, too.

They are unusually silent, today. Each of them having their own way of looking around.

This makes him remember what Eun Hye said the yesterday.

She is right.

These guys just can't stop looking for Ji Hyo whenever she's not around.

But he holds himself mainly responsible for what Ji Hyo has been in. Eun Hye did it just because she thought he likes Ji Hyo.

It is a ridiculous idea, though.

His train of thoughts is cut off with Dong hOon's sigh.

"Where is that girl? ", he finally asks the others.

"Right. She's nowhere to be found. ", Jae Suk answers.

"She's in class earlier. But she never spared a glance at us. "

"It's like she's avoiding us. ", Joong Ki says, pouting slightly.

"I think she is. I met her in the hallway earlier, and she just suddenly changed direction. ", Seok Jin adds.

Jong Kook is about to talk when he notices that the students around them starts talking louder, and their eyes turn into a particular direction.

The entrance of the school cafeteria.

The seven of them turns to its direction and sees Ji Hyo.

Staring at her, Jong Kook sees the old Ji Hyo. Her head held high despite the stares and glares aim at her, her gaze unwavering, her poise straight and confident, and her face expressionless.