SpartAce I: School Love Affair

Mong Ji & Kookie

Kim Jong Kook enters school the next day.

Ji Hyo is right. He can't get Jong Han back if he ruins himself. He has to endure and wait for the time to get Jong Han.

That time will come. It will.

"Sunbae. ", a member of the Tae Kwon Do club calls him as soon as he gets into the school building.

"Ou? ", he answers.

"Where have you been lately? "

"I had something to take care of. "

"Kian wants to take to you after class.", the member says.

"Okay. I'll see you all later. ", he says and leaves before the guy can say something else.

"Hyung! ", Gary calls when he meets him in the hallways.

"Hello, Gary-ah. ", he greets but still continues to walk.

Gary walks with him. "Where have you been? We were worried sick. "

"I had something to take care of. "

"Really? Why do you look thinner? "

He glances at Gary, down to his own body and back to his dongsaeng. "Am i? "

Gary nods.

"Well, i don't know.", he answers and climbs the stairs to the second floor.

"Where are you going? That floor is for the second years. ", Gary says.

"I know. "

"Your floor is on the other building, hyung. "

"I know. "

"Are you seeing someone here? ", Gary asks as they arrive in the second floor.
Girls from each rooms starts to glance their way.

He might be poor, and a but slacking off from school, but his reputation as the president of the Tae Kwon Do club seems to have made a cool image for him, attracting some girls here and there.

He ignores them and is searching for one familiar head to stand out in his gaze.

"You seem to be quite popular. ", Gary says, smiling at the girls.

"You, too. ", he says, as he notices that others are also sparing stares at his companion.

Gary chuckles shyly. "They just find me charismatic when i do music. "

"They just find me charismatic when i fight. ", he says.

"Eeehy. No way. I heard a lot of girls talk about how tall you are. How manly your arms are, and how charming your small eyes look. "

Jong Kook frowns at Gary. "You're one hell of an eavesdropper. "

"Eeehy. I did not eavesdrop. They just talk so loud for me to hear...oh, there's Ji Hyo-ah! "

His head immediately jerks to where Gary is looking.

And there, sitting in one corner of the third classroom is Ji Hyo.

Unlike the others, she is sitting still, her gaze fixed on a book, and her face expressionless. The noise that her classmates is making doesn't seem to bother her at all.

"Tss. This girl, seriously. She asks so differently inside the classroom. ", Gary says.

But Jong Kook is too busy staring at her face.

Her cheeks looks puffy but lean, with tinges of natural blush. No sign of any slap marks, or swelling, or bruises.

That seems to relieve him.