Class ended, Wooyoung was just about to go to his next lesson: geography.
"Lee Ji Eun?" he asked himself when he saw a girl, wearing a long black niqab, run through the gates, heading left. Since Wooyoung hated geography anyway, he decided to skip class and see where the girl was going in such a hurry.
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"Ji Eun?" he whispered, trying to call the girl. She walked to a shop and a few minutes later, started working.
"Ji Eun-ah!" called Wooyoung.
"...Jang Wooyoung?" she whispered. Wooyoung ran up to Ji Eun and asked "what are you doing here? Why are you not in lesson?" Ji Eun bowed her head in shame. She had failed to keep her secret, that we was working, safe. "What's wrong? Are you not going to answer?"
"Please follow me..." Ji Eun retorted as she headed outside.
She looked up, nervously at Wooyoung. "Don't tell anyone I work here, please." she requested.
"Is it that bad to work here?"
"No... People will think I'm weird for skipping class and working instead so..."
"Well, for your information, I too am one of those people. If one of the teachers find out that you're doing this, I don't think they'll a—"
"They know." Ji Eun sighed, showing that she was not in the mood to have the conversation that they were having. "The teachers know and acknowledge that I work here."
"Really?! I want to do that too..."
"Don't wish for unnecessary things. I'll be leaving now. I have work to do."
"Why?" asked Wooyoung, not turning to look at Ji Eun "Why do you always skip class? Are you perhaps force—?"
"Stop it."
Wooyoung turned around, fearlessly. Ji Eun repeated "stop it. I'm not forced to do this. I'm doing it because I have to..."
"So you're for—"
"I need to earn money in order to live!"
"Why don't you get it off your parents then?"
"What parents?" asked Ji Eun. Wooyoung could not see her face but he understood that she was both agitated and sorrowful.
"Do you not have parents?" he asked, raising both his eyebrows innocently.
"I have no need to tell you that..."
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, causing Ji Eun's niqab to fly up. However, Wooyoung turned around and closed his eyes just in time so that he wouldn't see her face. "I didn't see- don't worry."
Ji Eun ran inside the shop; Wooyoung walked back to school.
"Ginger, Ginger!" screamed Sunny as she ran up to a pretty girl who was holding a mirror, admiring her beauty.
"What is it?" she asked, placing the mirror on the wooden table.
"Look at this picture." Sunny answered. She gave her phone to Ginger and Miranda peered over to look too.
"Is that not—"
Sunny covered Miranda's mouth. "Keep quiet for now. We may need to use the information for later when we need it."
"Send it to our group chat Sunny." grinned Ginger.
