Empty (Punch sequel)

Part 8

Sighing, Minyoung nodded and smiled at Jimin. "I know you will. It's not something huge. Just the same as always."

"Do you still have those nightmares?" Jimin asked, worried. When Minyoung still was in the hospital she used to get awful nightmares, making her wake up shaking and sweating heavily.

"A little..." She smiled and nudged Jimin when she saw the worried all over his face and his eyes. "Hey, don't worry."

"But I'm worried though." Jimin frowned, reaching for her, but stopped when someone called for her. His hands dropped by his side again and he rolled his eyes.

"Minyoung!! Minyoung!!"

Minyoung turned at the familiar voice calling her. She smiled and waved at Bambam who was approaching from a few meters away. He was running, wearing sports clothes instead of his school uniform.

He stopped in front of Minyoung. His hair was wet from sweating, sticking to his face. It seemed like he had been running for a while now. Minyoung was surprised when she saw him like this, she thought the boy was too weak to even run.

"Wow, you live here?" He asked, putting his hands on his slim waist, breathing hard.

"Yeah." She smiled with a nod, before looking up and down at him. "Aren't you going to school?"

"Later." He winked.

"I didn't know you like running"

"Well, you don't know anything about me yet." Minyoung chuckled, nodding. Bambam's gaze switched from her to Jimin who was standing behind her annoyed. "Ah! Hello."

"Hello to you too." Jimin said, putting an arm over Minyoung's shoulder, before looking at her with a sly smile. "I see. All your friends are boys, huh?"

"Not really." Bambam answered for her, which made Jimin raise an eyebrow at him.

Bambam cleared his throat, running a hand through his wet hair. "She is a friend with Jina..." Bambam said. "My childhood friend, so we are all friends."

Are we? Minyoung wondered, inwardly. She felt a slight of happiness that Bambam considered her as a friend.

"Then I will keep going." Bambam said, getting ready to run again. He found the atmosphere getting too awkward for him to keep up with. "See you in school, Minyoung." He waved at her before sprinting off.

"Isn't he cute?" Minyoung said with a chuckle. "And an idiot. I thought he was completely crazy. But it's his personality."

Despite the fact that Minyoung was talking about another boy, Jimin smiled, liking how her eyes smiled when she was smiling. He was glad that Minyoung got to make friends in her new school that could make her happy.

He wanted to only see her smile.

When she looked at him, he frowned immediately, trying to show that he was annoyed with what had just happened. Minyoung chuckled, shaking her head. She caught his smile anyway, there was no need for pretending right now.

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Walking into the school, Minyoung watched the other kids playing around, as there were still ten minutes till the classes started. Some of the kids were playing football in the playground, which was prepared for football playing with two goals, large area and suitable ground. Some were just chatting with each other, and some were playing around, joking, hitting, reading, and studying. Some even waited in their class, she could see them from the windows

She knew none of the kids, considering that she was new, but she could recognize some of her classmates. The atmosphere was new to her. She had no memory of being at school before and she only knew about school through, watching school drama on TV. So Minyoung's steps were curious and cautioned, astonished.

Minyoung yelped when someone poked her head from behind her, giving her a slight push that made her head tilting downward. Frowning, she looked up, ready to snap at whoever did that. But she froze when she saw him, smiling at her as he started to walk before her.

Minyoung felt her heart skipped a beat. She seriously liked the way he smiled.

Jogging toward him, she breathed from her nose and tried to look angry. "What was that?"

"You looked like a lost kid." Jungkook chuckled, ignoring her question.

"I'm just not familiar with this." Minyoung didn't realize what she said until it was spilled out of her mouth. She looked nervously at Jungkook afraid that he would ask what she meant. But he didn't really give her a comment. As if she didn't say something abnormal.

Pouting, Minyoung tied her hair up in a bun, fixing her hair. "Try and do that again."

"And if I did, what would you?" Jungkook looked at her with a smirk, challenging and she rolled her eyes.

"Do you think just because you are a boxer and can fight I will be scared of you?" Minyoung snorted.

Jungkook smiled wildly, sensing the familiarity in the way she talked. In the way she looked at him and the way she looked as if she could do anything alone. That was Minyoung whom he knew and loved. Minyoung gave him a weird look and raised an eyebrow at him, he was grinning so much.

"What is that?" Minyoung asked.

"Nothing." Jungkook shook his head, still grinning. But he looked away from her.

"No, seriously. What is that?"

"I have some mental illness. Deal with it."

"Aren't you going to answer me probably? You looked like a freak a minute ago."

"I like it." Jungkook said, looking back at her.

"What?"

Minyoung froze and felt her heart stop for a second when he said. "Being friend with you. I like it." He smiled and ruffled her hair that she just had fixed, making her groan, before walking ahead for her inside the school building.

She was frustrated.

Her cheeks were bright red and she thought she had gone crazy.

Her heart wouldn't stop beating so fast.