Bullies with benefits - Chaelisa (converted)

PART 18

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SM High. 

My eye-bags are heavy and dark as I walk through the hallways of SM High school. I haven't slept a wink last night because of my phone's insistent vibration and blinking with the same text every 5 minutes. Honestly how did Chaeyoung manage to stay up the whole night? And not just that—but text all night.

Did she like leave her phone on auto-pilot and keep repeating the same message until I reply? Because god, was I tempted to tell her to stop saying sorry. 

Stopping by my locker, I groan at the sketchy sounds of squeaky shoes echoing through the halls and the noises of mindless chatter. I lean forward and feel my body give up as I lean my forehead against the cool metal of my locker. I really want to sleep right now and I'm considering going to the clinic to fake a bad cold. But who am I kidding? I'm a terrible liar. 

The noise goes down and it reminds me that classes are about to start. I huff and frown, wondering where Jisoo is for our usual meet up but ignore it as I kick myself off the wall and clumsily walk to the direction of my first class—well drag my legs is more accurate if you ask me. 

"Are you okay?" 

My body stiffens at the sound of her voice coming from behind me, I nearly step on my own feet and fall down if I weren't already walking slow enough. I gulp and clear my throat, my brown orbs nervously looking around my surrounding so as to calm down my beating heart as I bite my inner cheek and walk faster, ignoring her completely. 

A scoff is being resonated to my ears.

"Aw, come on." She huffs and I hear her feet following close behind me. What day is it today? Oh right, Monday—we have the morning classes together, fuck. 

I almost stop walking because why is she talking to me in front of the student body when I realized mostly everyone disappeared to their respective rooms already.

"Can you stop walking? I know you're legs are long and whatever but slow down, I'm a grandma when it comes to walking." She whines and I roll my eyes when I imagine her pouting and crossing her arms at me. 

See? She hasn't changed. I turn a corner and grip my books tight to my chest as I curse at whoever principal we have in this school for making my locker far from my first Monday class.

"Ugh, okay—I'm sorry!" she yells, causing my feet to stop moving as I stay frozen but decide not to turn to her. 

I feel her exhale. "Well of course you know I'm sorry, I've been texting you about a million times." She hisses, causing me to frown deeply and huff. 

Still the same. 

So with that in check, I adjust my backpack and continue walking down the empty hallway, counting the time before class starts. I'm never a latecomer. 

"What? What did I say?" she asks, her voice getting near me. 

Chaeyoung is such a baby. 

I ignore her fully, trying to shut her out of my ears when I feel her grab my arm and spin me around, making my eyes bulge at the action. I almost pity her when I see how even darker and bigger her eye-bags were, it looked like she hadn't slept for a week. 

She notices me staring and frowns, tan hands coming up to shield her face from me. "I understand that I am not in my normal hot state right now so please don't judge me." She whispers, peeking at me through the holes of her fingers.