Muted chatterbox | Ni-Ki (Nishimura Riki) ff

01 | Winter break

Great. Back in school again. I mean, at least I get to see my friends again.
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"During winter break I went to Japan and it was sooooo fun. I went with my little brother Daniel. We went to Disneyland and the whole time he only wanted churros." I shouted awkwardly as the cafeteria looked at me.

"Umm... Yuna, I think you might've said that a little too loud..." Sunoo whispered eyeing everyone who was looking directly at us while scratching the back of his neck in embarrassment.

"I had the time of my-" I quickly got cut off by another voice.

"KIM YUNA!" K shouted.

"I have a bet for you!" K said in amusement whispering the bet into Lisa's ear.

"Okay... I will accept whatever you thought of." I said as I looked at Lisa who was holding two thumbs up.

"OK! I BET YOU-", Lisa getting cut off.

"Shut up Lisa! I came up with the dare!" And then there was a long pause. "I dare you to not talk for as long as you can. And if you do talk, I will tell Nishimura Riki you like him!" He said in amusement.

"What!? But I don't even like him!" I shouted at K in defense.

"It doesn't matter! I'm still going to tell him."

"Fine!"

"Your challenge starts... now!" Lisa clapped her hand like a seal while those words fell out of her mouth as though she had practiced it a thousand times before in the mirror.

I kept her mouth shut in competitiveness.

"I bet she won't last 5 minutes." Lisa gossiped into Sunoo's ear, wining his clap and laugh.

The bell rang.

"Well bye! Tell me how the class was Yuna! Or should I say... act out?" Sunoo said, smiling and attempting to look intimidating.

UGH. If only at the moment I could talk, I'd make fun of him for trying to be intimidating again. That stupid boy can only be wholesome and cute.

"PFFT- YOU THINK SHE'D MAKE IT TILL CLASS? HAHAHAHAHAH" Lisa said walking beside me to class.

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Muffled sounds were heard as soon as I entered the classroom with her friend. Immediately the class was silent and stared at me, WHY ME?

Then guess what? The stupid Michael Jackson wannabe kid just HAD TO shout "HEY GUYS LOOK! ITS CHATTERBOX!" and as soon as the sentence left his filthy mouth, the entire class laughed.

The teacher walked in. "Settle down class! We have a lot of work to get through. You have your presentations to do as well."

'Oh shit' Yuna thought as she had to figure out how she should explain to the teacher.

"Let's start with registration. As usual, raise your hand and say 'here' Lisa!"

"Here"

"Riki!"

"Not! Here"

I rolled my eyes.

And then after she did all the names, she got to the last name on the list.

"Yuna!"

Shit shit shit!

I didn't reply.

"Yuna?", she said, looking around the classroom.

I waved my hand around finally getting the teacher's attention.

"Please talk next time Ms.Kim."

"Geez.." her deep voice sighed.

"Hey hey~" Riki hummed while tapping my desk.

WHAT NOW NISHIMURA RIKI!

"Are you mute today or something!? You're awfully quiet." He whined.

I took out a post-it note and wrote on it:
[     I can't talk.  I'm now mute   ]

"What happened?" He questioned annoyingly.

I took off the note on top and wrote:
[     Sorry, I can't tell you. It's personal.    ]

"How are you supposed to do the presentation??"

[ I won't talk. I'm just going to write on this and tell her that I'm mute. ]

"Oh..."

UGHHHH ITS SO HARD NOT TALKING IN A FRICKIN PRESENTATION!

"MS KIM YUNA! CARE TO EXPLAIN WHY YOU AREN'T TALKING!?"

I quickly took out the post-it notes with the black liquid ink pen and wrote:

[     Sorry Ms. Lee, I became mute. I had something happen to me last week and it caused me to become like this.     ]

Wait, that's not convincing enough. I hand her my note and start breaking down in tears silently as the whole class watched.

Lisa, who had her mouth so wide open it could swallow the great and mighty great blue whale decided to shout "LIAR! You didn't even bother to-"

At that moment, Nishimura Riki went up to her desk and gave her a head pat to shut her up.

"Are you now helping Ms. Yuna take her role as chatterbox since she's mute?" Riki said sarcastically.

"N-No..."

"Then be quiet!"

"THE BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP! Ms. Kim, you can return to your desk and we shall talk after class."
With that, I returned to my desk and wrote:
[     Thanks for getting Lisa to shut up ._.     ]

"No problem! Do you wanna... maybe hang out after school? Cuz like, ya know I kinda want you to talk because now I can't annoy you due to your muteness."

[     Ugh     ]

"And I kinda like Lisa so..."

[     What's in it for me if I help you?     ]

"Anything you want as long as it doesn't exceed ₩10000"
[     Deal.     ]

Then the bell rang and I knew this lesson had ended.

I went up to Ms. Lee's desk and she asked me: "What happened? Do you want me to contact your parents?"

[     1. My parents have passed away for ages now
      2. It's personal and I would rather not talk
         about it.                                                     ]
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As soon as I knew it, I was at my last period for the day.

"I heard from Lisa you made it through the first hour... and the rest of the day..." K said awkwardly disbelief.

[     Yep!     ]

And we talked like usual about gossip and stuff. Except, my words were all on paper.
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The bell finally rang and it was the end of school. I got so excited to go home until I remembered...

Crap, I need to meet
Nishi
Mura
Riki

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