Diaries of a Distance

Chapter 25

6th week of school - Monday, 19th September...

"Yura!"

Tae Hee and Soo Jin caught up to me and we walked into the school together.

"How's Jae Wook?" Tae Hee asked.

"I don't know. I haven't seen him since Sunday."

"What? You're his girlfriend aren't you? Shouldn't all girlfriends comfort their boyfriend when they're in trouble?" Soo Jin said.

Exactly as I expected.

"Not to me. Jae Wook needs his free zone. He's pissed off and I don't want to bother him. Anyway, even if I did see him yesterday, being Park Jae Wook he'd probably just want me to go kickboxing with him."

"That's my girl. Hey, that would have been a cool idea."

Park Jae Wook appeared on the other side of me with his left arm slinging across my shoulder. Soo Jin looked defeated.

"Did you miss me?" he teased.

He was smiling and acted very normal. A bit too normal.

"Yes. I couldn't live without you", I replied sarcastically.

"We know that, Yura", Dong Wook intervened. "Uh... Jae Wook. We're gonna go training today..."

"But we could crash somewhere else if you want..." Eun Won said.

"Ch. You guys are crazy. Just 'cause I'm one-armed you think I can't watch? I can train you."

I noticed he said 'watch' and not 'play'.

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So at lunch instead of eating, the guys decided they wanted to practice for the coming Friday match.

"Jae Wook, you've still got one arm, join us!" Ki Tae encouraged.

"F*ck off and practice. You need to work."

And he was right. They found some unknown named Bong Sam and he's very unexperienced. Hell, even I can play better then him. But apparently he was the best from the reserves so they had to take him in.

"I'm bored... Let's do something else", Jae Wook said causually, holding my hand.

I pulled my hand away, "Let's not."

"Fine." He sat back down and stared intently throughout the whole training session.

Dong Wook passed the ball to Bong Sam.

Sang Woo shouted from the other end of the courts and the guy actually turned his attention to Sang Woo instead of day dreaming like he was before. "BONG SAM WATCH - it..."

Too late. The ball busted Bong Sam's head, well, almost. His head moved to one side in slow motion before his whole body fell down. It looked more like he was asleep than knocked out.

Almost automatically two guys came in with stretch-bearers and launched Bong Sam onto it.

"This happens all the time", one of the guys explained before they carried Bong Sam out.

"Bong Sam's not too bad. I think he can hold it up for the others", Jae Wook said.

The training finished and Dong Wook, Ki Tae, Sang Woo and Eun Won rushed off, not being able to wait another second for food. Jae Wook stared after them.

"They'll win."

"YAH PARK JAE WOOK. ENOUGH!" I burst out, standing up.

"What is it?"