SpartAce I: School Love Affair

Will we get out of this?

"I told you to put me down. ", Ji Hyo orders.

She is riding Jong Kook in the back, and no matter how strong she flails and kicks her feet, he refuses to let her down.

"Not until i get you home. ", he says.

"No. I told you, i don't need to go home. "

"But you can't walk well. How can you study with tgise bruises aching? "

"It's not. And it will just be the same at home, anyway. "

"Just shut up. ", he says.

She sighs in irritation but has no choice. So she just looks straight ahead.

It is not the first time she has ride Jong Kook's back. She already did when they had a game in the Leadership training, but it still feels different this time.

Back then, she is too distracted with the determination to win.

But now, they're just walking along a road with just little people or cars passing, for it is still class hours.

She can smell that soapy scent coming from him, mixed with the scent of shampoo.

And as she looks down, it makes her realize how tall he is, for she is really high up from the ground.

He also carries her so easily as though she is just a little kid in his back.

These things keeps distracting her from the real deal.

Right. She has to focus.

She can not go home like this.

She kicks her legs again, making him pin her legs tighter in his arms.

"Yah! ", he yells.

"I really can't go home! LET ME GO, PLEASE! ", she yells desperately.

He halts, his head jerking a bit on her direction. "What did you just say? "

"I said let me go. "

"No. The last word you said."

She pauses to think, and can not remember it.

"I don't know. What's the big deal? ", she asks impatiently.

"You just said please. ", he says.

"Did i? ", she asks. Then she remembers that she really did. "Ah. Right. "

With that, he suddenly goes to another direction.

He enters the park and bends in front of a bench for her to sit down.

Then he sits next to her.

"Alright. What's making you so desperate not to go home? ", he asks.

She looks at him, surprised on how good he guesses her mood.

She looks away guiltily.

"I just can't. "

"Why? "

"No reason! "

"Are you really not telling me? "

"There's nothing to tell. "

"Fine. ", he says and stands up. He draws closer to her as if he is about to lift her up again.

"I can't let my mother know that my aunt hit me! ", she admits, making Jong Kook stop and face her.

"What? ", he asks.

She looks down to hide her face. Admitting her weaknesses to someone else is still new to her.