After two more days of studying at the hospital, Haeun was finally discharged. Although the doctor had recommended for her to stay home for at least a week, she didn't... for obvious reasons.
As the girl walked toward the bus stop, humming along to the Twice song she had playing through her headphones, suddenly an arm was thrown around her shoulder. Not expecting it, she stumbled forward, the phone she had in her hand as well as the headphones falling down onto the concrete below.
"Oh, oops."
Haeun let out a deep sigh, fists curling in anger as she heard the familiar voice beside her. With a deadly gaze she turned, seeing him smiling innocently.
"I am going to kill you one day Jisung." She exclaimed through gritted teeth as she squatted down to pick her phone up.
"Sorry, sorry, I was just excited to see you! You don't know how lonely I've been without my bus buddy the last few days." He whined, and Haeun rolled her eyes.
"Oh no, you poor thing!" She exclaimed sarcastically, but scoffed right after as Jisung nodded with puppy eyes. "You're so annoying, did you know that?"
The boy flashed her a smile, but Haeun didn't focus on it too much as she heard the sound of the bus pulling up. Turning around, she confirmed that it was their, but as she tried walking toward it, a hand gripped her wrist.
"I don't wanna go on the bus today."
Haeun turned towards him, seeing that he was dead serious.
"The doctor said I shouldn't walk much. C'mon, let's get on before it leaves!" She exclaimed with an alarmed tone, trying to get out of his grip.
However, instead of getting on the bus, Haeun yelled out as her body was swiftly pulled up and thrown over JIsung's shoulder.
"WHAT THE HELL?!?!" She yelled out, smashing her fists into his back as he began walking away from the bus stop.
"What? You said you couldn't walk." Jisung exclaimed casually.
"Jisung, I have a skirt on!" Haeun pleaded. This caused Jisung's expression to instantly fall, and in a matter of a second he'd put her back down on the ground.
The girl turned to look toward the bus stop, but their bus was already driving away. Her cheeks were a tomato red color, and she covered her face with both hands.
"I seriously hate you, oh my god." She mumbled quietly as Jisung scratched the nape of his neck, clearly also embarassed.
"Don't you at least have shorts on or something?" He asked, clearly not very concerned with the bus dilemma.
"I do- but that doesn't give you an excuse to pick me up like that!" Haeun retorted, her voice slightly elavated.
"I'm sorry."
As she turned to face him, the anger seemed to have drained from her as she watched his behavior. Jisung's ears were dyed a bright shade of red, and he was biting down on his bottom lip. He looked like a small child that just committed a huge offence and felt extremely guilty for it.
Haeun couldn't stay mad at him because it was just an innocent mistake after all.
She sighed. "You owe me boba for this." She muttered grumpily, and Jisung jumped up with a smile.
"Yes- sure, yeah! I'll get you anything you want for that!" He exclaimed before grabbing her by the wrist. "Now let's go before we're late."
Haeun didn't object to being dragged along as they heaved through the crowds of people on the street. Despite that, there was an awkward silence between them, which Jisung was first to break.
"I'm really sorry though, Haeun. I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable, I-" He stopped, assessign his words. "I just... I don't have any girl friends, you know? All I have is the guys."
Haeun sighed. "I get it, so can we just forget about it? You're not the only one who's embarassed."
"Yup, got it ma'am."
"Ma'am?"
"Since I fucked up, I will be addressing you with respect for the rest of the day, ma'am." He said on formal language, and Haeun couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"What the hell?" She exclaimed through laughter, and Jisung smiled proudly.
As they got to a more secluded street Jisung removed his hand from her wrist respectfully.
"Oh, I forgot to mention." He looked over toward her. "Your fanclub has been crying for days that you haven't been coming to school, and you'll probably find a bunch of 'I hope you're better' gifts on your desk and in your locker."
Haeun frowned. "Wait, roll it back- fanclub?"
Jisung nodded before tilting his head in confusion. "Yeah, you know, the like 5 or so guys that follow you around during school and fawn over your every action?"
"Wha-" She couldn't even respond fully. "I never noticed?"
"Wow. Queen Bee behavior for real. How does it feel like being stuck up?"
"Hey, I'm not stuck up! If anything you are, considering you mention your fanclub every 5 minutes!"
"Me? Hell no, those girls are annoying as hell! I'd do anything to get rid of them!"
"That's not what you said last timn when you were bragging about them!"
"That's so not true!"
As they bickered, they quickly passed by by the boba shop where Jisung got them some drinks. Due to their conversations they quickly lost track of time, by the time that they arrived to the school gates, they were 5 minutes late for the first bell. Haeun and Jisung both swallowed hard as they spotted the gym teacher leering at them with a smirk on his face.
"Who do we have here? It's Park Jisung and Lee Haeun. Both late, again. This time I'm not letting you go." He declared, and both the teens looked at each other with regretful eyes.
5 minutes later, they were both on school grounds. Jisung was in a plank whilst Haeun was on her knees with her arms straight up in the air. The gym teacher was standing in front of them and a couple of other students that were being punished for being late, a stick in his hand.
His phone buzzed which urged him to take it out, and Haeun took that as an opportunity to look toward Jisung at her side. He was panting, with sweat already dripping down his forehead.
'Damn'
Haeun couldn't help but think, but quickly shook the thought off.
"Tired already I see?" She teased in a whisper.
"Not at all." Jisung retorted whilst taking a deep breath, his muscles clenching even harder.
Haeun giggled at his misery, however when the teacher wasn't looking she secretly took out a tissue from her blazer pocket and quickly wiped the side of Jisung's face. He looked to her with surprise, but nodded with gratitude.
About 10 mintues later they were finally let go, and Jisung groaned loudly.
"That was absolute hell." He whined as they walked towards the doors of the school.
"It wasn't that bad, c'mon." Haeun nudged him, and he rolled his eyes.
"I literally had to maintain a plank for 15 minutes whilst you just had to put your hands in the air, how is that fair??"
Haeun simply shrugged with a joyful smirk on her face. As they entered the school, Jisung leaned into her ear.
"You remember the plan, right?" He whispered quietly, and Haeun nodded.
Jisung then stopped in his tracks, allowing her to go ahead and enter before him.
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After first period, Haeun could finally go up to her locker, and as she opened it she found at least 15 letters and small gift boxed stuffed into it. With shock, she looked at one of the notes which read:
I hope you get better soon, Haeun! I'm going to kill whoever did this to you! xx
'Jisung was right.'
Haeun thought in disbelief.
Just then, she felt a chin on her shoulder, the owner of which she quickly recognized by his voice.
"Wow, you have fanboys!" Minhyuck exclaimed in schock as he grabbed the letter from her hand and backed away to read it properly. "This is so cringe, oh my god."
"Shut up, as if you were ever that nice to me." Haeun snatched the letter from him and shoved it back in her locker. As she did so, she managed to make eye contact with Seulbi, who smirked in her direction before walking away for the break.
"Guys?" Haeun asked, which grabbed the attention of all her friends. She then motioned them to come closer before whispering, "plan Seulbi is in action."
All of her friends nodded, still slightly confused as they followed her outside into the school courtyard. There Haeun spotted Jisung and Jaemin on one of the benches, whilst Seulbi and her group were walking over to Donghyuck and Jeno. The rest of the guys were nowhere in sight.
"Baby~~" Seulbi exclaimed whilst running up to Donghyuck. He took her in for a tight and looked down at her adoringly.
"How was your holiday, honey?" He asked whilst caressing her hair.
"It was great! But... I have to tell you something." She bit her lip whilst looking down. "Could we go somewhere more private?"
"More private?" Donghyuck faked his confusion. "We don't have much more time for the break. Just say it here."
"I-" She exclaimed, looking over to her friends for help. Suddenly, there were tears in her eyes. "I don't want to do it in front of everyone."
"It's okay Seulbi, I'll tell him what that bastard did to you." One of Seulbi's friends put her hand on her shoulder before stepping up towards Donghyuck.
"The day before her holiday, Jisung's family came over to her house, and Seulbi got really drunk and he forced her into having sex! That bastard even recorded a sex tape!" She half-yelled angrily as Seulbi burst out into sobs.
Donghyuck's mouth fell agape, and he acted surprisingly well. His eyes immediately went to Jisung, who sat at a bench with Jaemin, pretending not to be listening to the commotion. Jeno also did his part of pretending that he tried to stop Donghyuck but to no avail as the latter began making his way towards the benches.
"Park Jisung!" He yelled out dramatically as he stomped over, then grabbed the younger boy by the collar.
This caused the attention of the entire court yard to shift on them, as people gasped in confusion. Many already knew what had happened thanks to Seulbi's goons spreading a rumor, and they watched as the scene unfolded. Seulbi simply stood there, with her hands over her mouth in shock.
"You piece of fucking shit." Donghyuck hissed out. "I'm going to fucking kill you."
But as he raised an arm to dispose a punch right into Jisung's cheek, Seulbi's loud and slightly distorted voice sounded somewhere from the crowd.
"I've planned this out perfectly, and there's nothing money can't solve. She'll never figure out that it's fake. The video I mean."
'You're truly amazing, Seulbi.'
'Thank you, but I already knew that. And you know I can't let some bitch just do me like that. And since Donghyuck didn't do shit about it, I took things into my own hands.'
'Jesus, when are you going to finally drop him? He gives me a bad vibe.'
'He does, and he's totally boring to hang out with. But he's hot! Besides, don't worry. I'll drop him soon enough, but I'd like to toy around with him a little more, you know. He's just... too much fun.'
Wow Seulbi, you're truly-"
As Seulbi's hands fell and her mouth opened in shock, she watched as Haeun came out from the croud with a smirk on her face.
"All of this to just get back at me? Pathetic." She announced, and the entire student population began whispering.
"What, so Seulbi just faked being raped for revenge? Is she serious?"
"What the hell, you can go to jail for something like that!"
"Seriously, Jisung should press charges against that sick bitch."
"I feel so bad for Jisung, he didn't deserve that imo."
"For Jisung? I feel worse for Donghyuck! Did you hear what she said?!"
"She got one of the finest guys in the school just to toy him? I'm going to knock her up, I swear."
"Omg, did you forget what they did?"
"That doesn't matter right now! Seulbi is a total bitch is what matters!"
Seulbi was looking around, feeling more and more inferior with each comment.
"T-that... that's fake!" She pleaded, trying to defend herself, but could only whimper as Donghyuck walked back to her.
"So that's what you see me as, huh? Boring, but hot? And you've been playing me this whole time?!" He hissed toward her, and Seulbi's pupils shook in fear.
"Baby, I-"
"Don't fucking call me that, we're over." He spat out. "But that's besides the point. Go apologize to Jisung right fucking now."
Seulbi's eyes looked past Donghyuck and at Jisung, who was currently staring at their conversation with Haeun at his side. Seeing her made Seulbi angry, and she looked back at Donghyuck with hateful eyes.
"Whatever, asshole." She rolled her eyes sassily, but no one could miss the fear and panic in her step as she walked away with her two goons following her.
"Wow, she was finally put in her place." Jaemin awed as he watched Donghyuck and Jisung high five.
"You guys are so good at acting!" Haeun squealed proudly. "I still feel the adrenaline from the performance."
"Me too! I should become an actor someday. I'm handsome after all." Jisung flipped his non-existed long hair.
"Shut up." Everyone exclaimed simultaneously.