Jaeshin's POV
I walked to my room after my encounters with Nox and Jaehyun when I passed by Doyoung. "Hey, Jaeshin," I thought he was gonna tease me about yesterday but he actually asked a decent question. "I saw Nox drag Yejin. Where are they going?"
"You didn't bother following them?" He was silent for a minute before replying, "I thought it was nothing serious, but I heard your name, whatsoever. Anyway, that's not my business so don't answer that anymore."
I chuckled. "Okay. For a second there, I thought you have a crush on Yejin." Doyoung cackled. "No way. She's way too scary." I squinted my eyes. "Oh, I'm telling her, Doyoung."
He raised his hands in surrender. "I was just kidding!" I just laughed at him and went inside our room. Bora immediately saw me and she stood up. She rushed to where I was standing and grabbed my shoulders.
"I saw what happened back there." She said with a smirk. I rolled my eyes. "There was a kid, okay? I had to lie." She laughed. "But you got Yejin in trouble." I waved my hand. "She can handle the kid."
"Point taken."
We went to our seats and Yejin slipped inside the room with a happy face. "You look okay." Maeyoung said.
Yejin laughed. "Oh. Nox lectured me about threatening. That kid was so cute. He even has the same name as the one in Dorothy Must Die series." She said and wiped a non-existent tear.
"That kid sure is cute." Yan-ne said while braiding Younghee's strand of hair. Chan suddenly appeared out of nowhere and my classmates rushed to their seats. When all of us are in our places, Chan started discussing.
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When lunch came, Nox was waiting near the door, his arms folded. "Yejin noonah!" He shouted. Yejin just smiled and picked up the little boy off the floor. "What is it? Are you searching for your Amy Gumm?" She asked and pinched his cheeks.
Nox covered his cheeks and pouted, making us 'aww'. "You didn't listen to me earlier! You were just looking at me the whole time." He said. Yejin chuckled. "I listened!"
"What did I say?"
"Threatening is bad," She leaned her mouth near us and whispered. "This little guy knows what threatening is." We all laughed and Nox seemed satisfied with what she said.
"Hmm, okay. But who's Amy Gumm?" Yejin immediately dropped Nox safely and also dropped herself on the floor, clutching the part where her heart is. "This is what I am scared of. I thought Ozma let you remember her?"
"Yejin, they're not the same person." Younghee said, chuckling. "Still." She took Nox's hands and kissed his cheek. "Go on now." Nox nodded and looked at me. "Jaeshin noonah," All heads turned to me.
"Jaehyun hyung told me to tell you to meet with him later in the gym after band practice." Then those faces' lips smirked. I pursed my lips and nodded. "Okay." Nox nodded again and left.
"Ugh, the way he walks is so cute." Yejin squealed and made grabby hands. Bora gave me that look. "Stop looking at me like that for a year, please." I said and we went to the canteen to take our lunch.
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Our band practice came and we went to the instruments' storage room inside the gym after placing our bags in the bleachers. Bora stayed there while we went to the sides to practice our pieces.
Mrs. Na called for us and we made our formation in the center. The practice went on. It was hard for us lyrists since we have to play a piece and walk around to change our formations.
The penultimate piece was Baam and we all walked to the center. "Happy 28th founding anniversary, Tomodachi High!" We all said and played the last piece then made our exit.
"That's was good! I'm glad some of you didn't mess up in the last even though the one messes that up are the drummers," Mrs. Na sent a glare at them. "As always, the lyrists did great and thankfully, the majorettes didn't mess up."
We all cheered and clapped, proud of ourselves. "The parade would be this Sunday. We'll meet up in the school grounds at 7:00 and the parade will start at 8:00. Is that all?" We all said 'yes'.
"Okay. You're dismissed." I sighed in relief and turned to where the instruments' room when I felt a hand on mine. I looked down and saw Nox holding my hand. "Jaeshin noonah." He said and looked somewhere.
I looked at the same direction he's looking and saw Jaehyun. My face suddenly went hot. My eyes widened when Nox pulled me towards him.
We stoppef in front of Jaehyun and I was still keeping my head held down. "Jaeshin noonah, look up." Nox told me. Ugh, I'm so close to strangling this kid. I slowly did and Jaehyun and I met eyes.
"What?" I asked. Why does he keep on asking for my attention? "Tell me the real reason why they squealed like that." I creased my eyebrows. "That was the truth. Nox and Yejin talked it out."
"She's right, Jaehyun hyung," Nox said, making me shocked. "Hyung, why are you like.. holding Jaeshin noonah hostage?" I almost snorted but thank God I held it.
"Nox, it's not like that." Nox let my hand go and hugged Jaehyun's leg. "Stop it, Jaehyun hyung." He smiled and ruffled the kids hair. "You can go now, Jaeshin noonah." I bowed. "Thank you."
When I raised my head back, Jaehyun smiled again.
Can he stop doing that?
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