Act of Benevolence

03

Jaehyun sat down in his classroom and saw Hobak walking down the hallway. "Ah noona."

He stands near the frame, and reveals the signature, deep dimple.

"Jaehyun? Me?" She pointed to herself, and he chuckled and nodded like a child.

"Are you okay?" He closes the door so they're the only ones in the hallway, and his voice is hushed and concerning.

"Of course I am." She smiles and Jaehyun huffed.

"I'm sorry, my hyung is a bit blunt sometimes, but how did the audition go?"

His hands drop out of his pockets.

"I felt very confident thanks to your kind words before auditioning." She answers, and Jaehyun opens his arms to embrace her with a comfy hug.

"Wow, your cologne is strong!" She says and she readies for a sneeze.

"Bless you."

"Oh, thanks!" She laughs awkwardly through the hug patting him,

"Bless you for being alive." She stiffened and heat rose to her cheeks.

"You're being too nice," She shoves him off, "I appreciate it, but don't tell me you're covering up for your friend."

Jaehyun stood with confusion and his puzzled look only made Hobak believe she was right.

"Heya children!" An older kid swings his arms around the two,

"Just wanted to say you should definitely not waste your time on just school and work, because next week is fair week!"

Jaehyun noticed how Hobak was shuffling with her feet cutely and he decided to take the chance and say it, "Hobak,"

her eyebrows touched each other, "Um, what happened to calling me noona?"

"O-Oh Noona-" Jaehyun's wall break, and he scratched his neck awkwardly,

"Do you want to go with me? To the fair?"

"Daw this boy cute! Go with him girl!" The guy slaps Hobak and he went away.

"I mean, I like to go that stuff with my friends.." She answers.

Jaehyun shouldn't even think of saying Aren't I your friend? Because that will go downhill..

"Then, can we go as an item?"

Wow Jaehyun is great with terms isn't he?

"Jaehyun, I'd want to think about this more."

Did she just reject Jung Jaehyun?

He only chuckles in response, "Remember I asked you first."

He walks back inside his classroom, and she finally lets go of the breath she was holding.

"He's so nice." She gushes and walks off to meet up with her friend, Eunhwa.

"Yah! You cannot believe!" Hobak rushes over to the lockers,

"The fair? Have you heard? Jaehyun asked me to go with him!"

Eunhwa only rolled her eyes, "What happened to "I wanna focus on school", "Friends first", or "I like my single life" ??"

"But-"

"No buts, we're going with the girls, not a boy." Eunhwa crosses her arms,

"And, Bak, why aren't you in class?"

"I had to deliver this note, but I bumped into Jaehyun." Eunhwa raises a suspicious brow,

"Well hurry up, I don't want to see you skipping class."

"Hypocrite."

For a long moment, they stare at each other in the empty hallway, and burst into laughter.

"Well, I'm leaving you winner." Eunhwa shuffles Hobak's hair, "Go away then." Hobak teases and walked off to room 705.

"If I open, this envelope, they won't even notice.. It wasn't sealed with the sticky, licking part." Hobak says to herself,

"Should I..?" She ponders as she finally made it to the 700 hall.

"Nah, that's too rude for me to do." She knocks on the door of 705, and there was no response.

She knocked again, "I'm coming in, okay?" She walked in slowly and saw a figure dancing. Majestically, amazingly, beautiful..

His headphones were in his ears, and he was the only one inside.

"Hello?" She called out nicely again,

"Aigoo, his eyes are closed."

She decided to just walk up and tap him, when he opened his eyes, she felt the cold sweat drop from her forehead.

"What." He says with distaste.

"I think this is for you." She places it on his shoulder and walks off.

"Wait." He calls out when she reached for the knob,

"It's from my older sister.." He said nervously, and he looked at the envelope and his hand was shaking.

"What's wrong?" Hobak stays put,

"I just- I'm a little- I'm unprepared." He stumbles upon his words,

and Hobak nodded awkwardly, "Did you want me to read it for you?"

"No, you can't read." He answers quickly and Hobak angrily sighs and reaches for the door.

"She's in the hospital." He reads a little of it. Hobak watched his features as his face was filled with worry.

"I don't want to read the rest." He threw the envelope.

"Yah, it's your sister." Hobak reaches for it,

"I can't. I'm not ready to read it." He covers his face,

"I'll hold onto it for you, I won't read it-" Hobak offers,

"Whatever." He covers his ears with the headphones again, and Hobak left the room 705.

So much for that.

*ooooo!!! if any of y'all are coming across these edits, I am actually working on the sequel rn! (Sept. 17, 2019).