The Monster Sitting Beside Me

Prologue. Meeting the Monster

(Jihoon's POV)

My name is Lee Jihoon. I'm a first year student at Daehan High School. I sit next to Kwon Soonyoung, or would, but he never comes to class after picking a fight on the first day of school.

"I heard he moves with scary people. "
"He beat up the seniors one-handedly."
"Scary."

Now, Kwon Soonyoung, is the talk of the school known as "the phantom first-year".  A month ago, he put several upperclassmen in the hospital. Even now, the walls are painted with evidence of the carnage at the crime scene. However, none of that really mattered to me.

I have a dream, and it is to earn tens of million annually from my job,  and in order to achive that dream, I have to completely focus in Calculus, for the time being. I don't have time for other people.

"Lee Jihoon-ssi, can I ask a favor from you?"
Our homeroom teacher Miss Kang just asked me one of the scariest favor I could ever hear.

And yes, here I am at Kwon Soonyoung's place. Apparently, he lives with his cousin Wonho, who owns a gaming arcade.

"Excuse me, my name is Lee Jihoon. Is Kwon Soonyoung here?"
"Soonyoung-ie? He's.."

A guy then came flying towards me, most obviously punched by Kwon Soonyoung.

"Because of you, Mario died!" the wild Soonyoung shouted at the poor guy he just sent flying.
They were actually just playing the Super Mario videogame? What the fuck.

I couldn't process well what's happening, to be honest. I'm scared the hell out of my wits.

"Soonyoung!" His cousin growled. "I told you to control yourself in here!"

"But Hyung! That guy!" he protested.
"You can't blame Mario's death on anyone else. You just suck on games. Anyways, you have a guest." the man gestured his hands towards me.

"Huh?"

Soonyoung stared at me for good two seconds and then ran out of the window from the fucking third floor. Sounds of things breaking from the ground was heard. I stood on my shaking legs.

Impossible. Is he still alive?

His cousin sighed. Maybe that was a common happening to him. But of course, none of that mattered to me. I'm only here to deliver the handouts.

"Ah, I was actually asked to drop these off." I handed his cousin the handouts since  Soonyoung just jumped off the building a while ago.

"Thanks for coming out here." the older guy thanked me and I went out of the building.

I was walking just a few meters far from the building and I heard a rustle on the bushes but  ignored it. But then, the next thing I knew, I was grabbed by strong hands and dropped me on a grassy lawn just beside the arcade. It was Soonyoung.

He was on top of me, his grips on my hands are tight, his eyes mad and he spoke in clenched teeth.

"Damn you.. Are you a spy for the school?"

"Huh?" I felt dumbfounded.

"Don't play dumb with me!" he gripped my hands even tighter.

"Ouch! That hurts!"

I think my blood isn't flowing anymore.

"I was just dropping off some handouts!" he let go of me and I could feel my blood running back my vessels.

"Handouts?" I was totally scared and dragged my butt two meters away from this monster. My whole body is literally shaking.

"You better be telling the truth." his voice, stern and serious and I could only nod in fright.

"I thought you came to tell me to go to school just like that teacher woman." his eyesthe moment he was speaking, I slowly tiptoed out of the lawn, trying to escape from the murder that's going to happen. 

"Hey!" he called out and I flinched hard.

"What's your name?"

"L-Lee Jihoon."

"Hmmm. So Jihoonie." he hummed and smiled

"Huh?"

Well damn, he just called me by my first name. And did he just smile? Weird.

"S-so this is like when someone gets sick and a friend brings them handouts." he shyly stroked his ear, his cheeks painted with the tint of pink.I was very dumbfounded. I could not even utter a word.

"Oh, you can call me Soonyoung. Since we are friends!" he foolishly smiled at me and I'm pretty sure my soul went out of my body.

"What did just happen?"

Incomprehensible. Kind of scary, even.
That was my first impression of him.