A Wish Upon a Star | Yeonbin ✓

XLII

As soon as Soobin had entered the second class, a few students had noticed that he'd come alone and had started jeering at him, directly calling him names and making up stupid assumptions about how either he was blackmailing Yeonjun or was paying Yeonjun for their friendship. Soobin had lashed out, shouting, "Shut up! Just shut up! All you guys can do is talk! Just shut up for once!"

As soon as Soobin had shouted, Yoonho had got up from his seat and sauntered over to him, shorter than Soobin but exuding much more power and confidence in every stride.

"Why should we shut up? It's the truth after all," Yoonho calmly said with a snide smirk.

When Soobin didn't say anything but only stood there rooted to the floor with his gaze no longer as sure, Yoonho continued, "All we can do is talk, eh?" Yoonho took a step forward towards Soobin, Soobin unknowingly took a step back, slowly getting intimidated.

"Do you really think so? All we can do is talk?"

When Soobin didn't answer and instead just lowered his gaze to the floor, Yoonho brought a hand to the taller's face, roughly holding it and forcing Soobin look at him.

"Do you want to see what else we can do?"

The class had started cheering now, loudly chattering about the scene and taking out their phones to record the unfolding story.

"Well, do you want to see what else we can do?" Yoonho pressed, now sounding much more impatient and cold, though the smirk on his face was still as apparent.

"Bu-Buzz off, Yoonho. Yeo-Yeonjun hates you a-anyway," Soobin tried to slap Yoonho's hand away but it stayed firm and the grip only grew tighter after Soobin's words.

As Yoonho swung his arm to punch Soobin's face, a hand grabbed and stopped him before he could. It was Kai.

"Don't you dare touch him, you bastard," Kai cursed at Yoonho, looking scary and intimidating in contrast to his usual bubbly personality.

Yoonho gave a mere glance to Kai and shook him off, making the younger stumble to the floor.

When Kai fell, Soobin's anxiety was replaced by guilt and anger, he swung his fist and hit Yoonho on the cheek, though only landing a feeble punch.

"You little-" Yoonho cursed at Soobin and gave a frighteningly strong punch in retaliation, making Soobin hit the ground with his hands clutching his now bruised face.

Yoonho laughed, "Shouldn't've tried to hit me, Choi Soobin. Yeonjun will have a tougher time trying to be nice to you with a bruised face," Yoonho walked off, leaving Soobin on the floor.

Kai quickly got up after seeing Soobin fall and went to help the older up. Soobin shrugged Kai off and got up on his own, covering his hurt cheek with his hands as he went to sit in the corner seat at the back of the class, as everyone else laughed. Someone threw an unscrewed bottle of soda at Soobin's head which ended up spilling all over the boy, the class roared with laughter.

"CAN YOU ALL JUST QUIT IT?!?!" Kai shouted as he burst into tears.

The class held their breath as their cameras now switched their aims from Soobin to Kai.

"CAN'T YOU GUYS JUST LET SOOBIN-HYUNG LIVE?!?! WHAT THE HELL IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT THAT STUPID STUPID CHOI YEONJUN ANYWAY?!?!"

Right then, Yeonjun, Beomgyu and Taehyun entered the class.

"Kai, what happened? Are you alright?"