'Unnie, are you in school?' I get a text from Go-woon as I chill in the convenience store near the school.
'I can get there in two minutes, why?' I text back.
Go-woon-i: 'You're a black belt right?'
Me: 'Correct,'
Go-woon-i: 'Can you help me beat someone up please,'
Me: 'I'd love to!' Go-woon tells me where in the school she is and I quickly pack up and make my way into the school. I walk in and see Go-woon has two girls by the hair and I run up to them and pull two of them off her so she can deal with the main bully. "I know it was you!" She yells at her, Go-woon never told me why she wanted to beat these girls up but I just wanted to blow off some steam anyway. I grab the girls by the hair and pull them down.
"Ya, calm down," I say as they try to claw my face with their sharp nails, "My face is too pretty to be scarred," I moan.
"How dare you post that!" I hear Go-woon shout.
"Take it up with the one who actually posted it!" Hee-jung squeals as Go-woon pulls harder. I spin them around as Ju-young whizzes past me and joins Go-woon's fight.
"Didn't you tell me violence is never the answer?" He presses against the two trying to pull them apart. "Not even a flower should be used to hit people!" Hee-jung grabs Ju-young's hair and pulls him to the floor, his arms around Go-woon so she falls with him. I'm about to walk over to the other girl and punch her but a hand pulls me back by the collar.
"Ya, Choi Ha-eun, really?" Seo-jun mutters in my ear, "Aren't you supposed to be teaching the kids not to fight instead of joining in on their fights?"
"This is more fun," I pout and cross my arms as Seo-jun holds me back so I don't go and beat up the girl. The girl starts grabbing Go-woon's hair again and I try to run over to help but Seo-jun holds me in place.
"Ya, get your hands off her!" He shouts and all heads turn towards us, everyone makes exclamations of awe at Seo-jun. Seo-jun drags me over to Go-woon and I bend over and help her up, dusting off her skirt.
"Yes, it's Han Seo-jun!" Ju-young exclaims and pumps his fists in the air and I turn around and hit him over the head.
"Shut up," He salutes and bows. "Yes noona!"
"Who are you to butt in, oppa?" Go-woon looks at Seo-jun, all the kids look at each other once Go-woon says 'oppa'.
"What did you say to my sister?" Seo-jun glares at the scared looking girl.
"Han Seo-jun's Han Go-woon's brother?" One of the girls asks and they all look at each other in confusion, Go-woon blows her bangs out of her face in frustration.
"A crazy what?" He asks again, the girl puts her head down and tries walking away but Seo-jun grabs her arm and drags her back towards us and slams her against the wall next to us. "Ya, are you the webmaster of the online school community?" She nods slightly, not meeting his eyes, "You'll take the video down, right?" She nods again. Seo-jun releases her and Go-woon grabs his arm and starts dragging him out of the school, Ju-young and I look at each other and then shrug and follow the siblings.
We stood outside near the trash disposal. "Unbelievable, I told you to not make it known," Go-woon rolls her head on her neck. Ju-young and I cross our arms and nod along to Go-woon's words, all three of us teaming up on Seo-jun.
"Was I supposed to stand there and do nothing?" Seo-jun glares back.
"Yes!" I add and his glare shifts to me, "I really wanted to beat one of them up," I pout and Seo-jun rolls his eyes at me, I scoff, fake offended, and flip him off.
"Ya!" He covers Go-woon's eyes, "There are minors in the vicinity!" Go-woon flips him off and I laugh at his shocked expression. "Plus, I held back on those little brats," He swerved back to the main topic.
"You should've held back more," Ju-young adds and Seo-jun's glare darkens as it lands on the boy.
"By the way, why don't you want people to know I'm your brother?" Seo-jun ignores Ju-young. "Are you ashamed of me?"
"You're clueless," Ju-young nods.
"It'll be like middle school all over again!" Go-woon stomps her foot, "Girls will ask me to set them up with you—"
"Tell me who they are and I'll—" He raises his fist at Ju-young who was making faces at him and Ju-young stumbles back and puts his hands above his head.
"Forget it," Go-woon shakes her head, "Don't you ever set foot on the freshman floor again," Go-woon points her finger at him accusingly and starts walking away from us.
"Go-woon-ah!" Ju-young tries to follow.
"Fly!" She turns around and points at him, "Don't you dare follow me!"
"Why not?" Ju-young pouts, "I thought you were deeply worried about me," Go-woon raises her fist at him and turns around, he goes to follow but Seo-jun grabs him by his collar and pulls him right back towards us.
"Ya, ya!" He holds him up.
"Wh-why?" Ju-young stutters in fear.
"Are you still bothering her?" Ju-young avoids his eyes and looks at the floor, not answering his question, "Shall I teach you a lesson?" He pulls him closer and glares menacingly. I grab Seo-jun's arms and pull it off of Ju-young.
"Ya, calm down, the poor kids gonna piss his pants," I glared and Seo-jun just smirks at me and shakes his head.
Ju-young pouts like a toddler and stomps his feet, "Am I not even allowed to like her? Haven't you liked anyone before?" Seo-jun's eyes flicker to me but he just clears his throat and continues looking at Ju-young, "Do you think I can stop loving her just because you told me to?" He puts his hand on his heart and nods his head sincerely. "I have no control over my feelings!" Ju-young scoffs and walks away from Seo-jun, he stops a few feet away and turns again, bowing, "Bye, then," He says politely and runs in the other direction.
Seo-jun looks at me and I sit down on one of the bins near the door. "You done scolding him then?"
"Yup, you wanna go?" He looks at me and I nod, he offers me his hand and I slip my fingers into his palm and he pulls me up and towards him, I bump into him and he stumbles back and catches me around my waist, our faces too close for comfort. My cheeks turn crimson and I look down at our feet. A finger reaches under my chin and pulls my head back up to look into his eyes.
"You feeling shy?" He whispers playfully.
"Shut it," I whisper back, "I am not,"
"You're so pretty," He mutters and my breath hitches, he brings his face closer to mine and our lips almost meet but just as their about to a loud bang resonates from somewhere far away and we back apart quickly. Urg fuck you universe, why're you always cockblocking?
"You wanna get going?" I ask and he nods.
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"Jjoo!" I exclaim in excitement once she walks back into the classroom without makeup on, I run up to her and hug her tightly, "I missed you!"
"We video called for an hour yesterday," She laughs.
I pinch her cheek and smile, "I missed your in person self, video Jjoo isn't as awesome,"
"Ouch," She touched her heart and I hugged her tighter. We turned towards the class that was already looking at us with mixed expressions, there was terror, surprise, acceptance, literally every emotion in the book. Jjoo and I look at each other and we both smile simultaneously, Jjoo turns to the class with a big smile on her face and we walk to our seats together.
"Ju-kyung-ah, you here!" Si-hyun smiles and Jjoo nods.
"Are you okay?" Hyun-kyu asks and Jjoo nods again.
"Ju-kyung-ah, you're so cool," Man-sik gushes.
"I admire you so much," Jin-woong gives her a thumbs up. Soo-ah stares at her, stands up and runs out of the classroom. Jjoo stands up and looks at me to follow but I shake my head.
"You should talk to her on your own," She nods and runs out of the class after Soo-ah.
I walk out of the classroom after Jjoo texted me an 'SOS' message stating she was in the girls' washrooms, I walk to that hallway and see Su-ho and Jjoo facing each other smiling, no more SOS, I guess. They both turn and walk through the crowd of clapping students holding hands. I smiled contentedly, everything was even better than before.
I skipped back to class, drinking yogurt and gasped when I saw my desk. There's a big ass bouquet of lavender and lily of the valley on the table and a little note attached to it. Everyone was crowded around my desk, trying to decipher who it was from but I already knew. I walk up to the bouquet and see Si-hyun reading the note. "What does this mean?" Si-hyun hands it to me.
The note read, 'Step 3,' and I shake my head and laugh, "It's nothing,"
"Do you have a secret admirer?" Ji-young pokes my side and I shake my head.
"I'll be right back," I wave to them and run out of the class to find Seo-jun. I call him and he picks up on the first ring. "Idiot, where are you?"
"On the roof," I sigh and climb up the stairs and get to the roof which was just a floor above ours. "Ya! Han Seo-jun!" I yell and he turns around and smiles at me with his hands in his pockets. "That was you right?"
"What was?" He asks innocently and walks closer to me.
"Oh, I guess the flowers weren't from you then," I turn around, "They were probably from In-su then, I'll go thank him instead,"
"Ya," He grabs my wrist and pulls me against him, wrapping his arms around me in a trap, "What do I get as a thank you?" I lean back and smile.
"What do you mean?" I grin playfully, "I thought you didn't give me the flowers?"
"Who else knows your favourite flowers are lavender and lily of the valley?"
"Mm, In-su does,"
"Ya! Choi Ha-eun!" I laugh and shake my head.
"I'm kidding, I'm kidding," I pat his chest comfortingly, "Only you know, pinky promise," I back away from his hold and hold my pinky out, he hooks pinkies with mine.
"So, what do I get as a thank you?" I fake being in thought for a second before pulling him closer to me by our pinkies, standing on my tiptoes and planting my lips on his cheek.
"Thank you," I whisper and turn around and run down the concrete floors of the roof towards the door. I look back at the door to see Seo-jun snap out of his trance and start running after me.
"Ya! Stop right there!" He shouts after me and runs down the stairs, "Choi Ha-eun! When I catch you you're dead!" I ran out of the doors of the first floor and ran through the building, narrowly avoiding students as Seo-jun followed closely. My hand is grabbed and I curse in my head, Seo-jun pulls me into a dimly lit corridor and pushes me against a wall. "You really thought you could just pull a fast one on me?"
"You're quite slow," I shrug and laugh.
"Do it again,"
"What?" I tuck a strand of hair behind my ear.
"The thing you did,"
"What thing?"
"That thing!"
"What?" I looked up at him, "This thing?" I stand on my tiptoes and kiss his other cheek, blush rises up his face and his smile widens, he rests his forehead on my shoulder and hugs me, hiding his face.
"You're driving me crazy, Ha-eun-ah," He groans and I giggle and run my fingers through the ends of his hair where his hair meets his neck.
THANK U GUYS FOR TWELVE THOUSAND READS !!!!!!!!!!
boring chap but end part makes up for it heehee
qotc: whats ur fav flower
mine: lavender n lily of the valley
thanks for reading, see u guys next chapter, mwah
- lise