.
Kim Hye Hill said again, “I can spend a day to help you find where he would be during lunchtime, so tell me if you want to search for him. But you…”
“Huh?”
Narrowing her eyes, Kim Hye Hill spoke as if she was scolding me, “For some reason, you are always looking for kids who have some story to tell.”
“Oh…”
“Ban Hwee Hyul and Yi Ruda… Do you have some radars or something?” she uttered.
Ahaha… I laughed awkwardly again for quite a while. What could I do when those kids appear while putting invisible signs on their foreheads saying, ‘I’m the main character of a web novel.’
Kim Hye Hill uttered, “Don’t you know that you’re gonna get stressed out when you’re involved in a weird situation again? You’re like digging your own grave!”
“I seem to be aware of it, Miss Kim Hye Hill,” I replied.
“Are you gonna be cautious or not?”
“I’ll be as careful as possible, madam.”
Though she and I had the same height, Kim Hye Hill pressed and disheveled my hair then went inside the toilet. Watching that sight, I soon stepped into the toilet beside hers to change my clothes.
Hanging my blouse onto the hook on the door, I murmured to myself, ‘Now I come to think of it, thankfully, things happened outside the school during the break when Yi Ruda’s situation occurred. Thus, our classmates weren’t involved in those things. However, if something was taking place around Ban Hwee Hyul, things would be different. The main stage would likely be our school, particularly, our classroom.’
Even though I was concerned about and taking care of Ban Hwee Hyul in the first place, would there be something that would change? I tiled my head. Nothing seemed to exist for that change. As I had once thought about in the past, the person whom I should be worried about was me.
Shoving my head into the white t-shirt, I kept on murmuring in my thoughts, ‘Let’s not overstep my bounds and just move on.’ Although I was trying to do something, those who would be handling the situation would be the Kim twins, Lee Mina, Yoon Jung In, and Shin Suh Hyun. Thus, I shouldn’t have too many irons in the fire if I couldn’t be responsible for them.
Wearing my pants and lastly putting on the hoodie for my gym clothes, I opened the door and stepped outside the toilet.
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Still, I was searching for Ban Hwee Hyul, as usual, in the snack bar. However, he wasn’t in my sight. A few of the bully-like kids I saw in my class were gathered in the corner as if they were conspiring against things. Before I got to have eye contact with them, I quickly went outside.
Shoving my hands into my pockets, I uttered, “I really hate this overall atmosphere. Wish it’s cleaned up as soon as possible.”
“Exactly,” agreed Kim Hye Hill.
Taking a bite of the corndog, we began to slowly walk around the schoolyard. When it was about our second lap, the bell rang and a bunch of kids poured out to the schoolyard. Stepping toward them to take a closer look, it was our class as I had expected.
When all the kids in our class seemed to have come out to the schoolyard, Yoon Jung In shouted with a clap.
“Line up to warm up!”
It was Yoon Jung In’s duty as the class president; however, the uncooperative bastards just looked at each other also this time and didn’t try to line up properly.
Yoon Jung In, however, didn’t even reveal any look of anger at all. As if he had anticipated their reactions, Yoon Jung In sighed shortly and just left those bastards aside then began to line up the class only with us.
We started warming up our bodies while following Yoon Jung In’s moves in front of us. Then at the moment, I heard some whispers from the front and the back.
“Eh, I guess we aren’t the only class using the schoolyard this time. What class are they? Aren’t they sophomores too?”
“Holy cow, that’s Class 2-7! Ban Yeo Ryung’s class!”
Stretching my body forward, I suddenly raised my head and found out that it was really Class 2-7. Ban Yeo Ryung, who was folding her hands behind her back indifferently, looked in this direction then waved her hand in the air with a brightened face.
Another quarrel took place from the front and back.
“Dude, she was waving her hand at me, right?”
“Are you kidding me, loser? She did it to me. Get a life bro!”
“You wanna bet?”
Nah, both of you guys were wrong. It was for me. Before moving onto the next move, I raised my hand stealthily. Ban Yeo Ryung lifted her hand to cover her mouth then reacted enthusiastically.
“Oh my God, she waved back at me!!” she cried.
Um, Ban Yeo Ryung, we saw the other night and also today in the morning, but why were you reacting like an idol fan? As soon as we shared those moments, I perceived some stinging glances toward me.
‘Come on, I won’t be treated as an outcast just because of something like this?’ I wondered and felt a little nervous.
I glanced around both sides of Ban Yeo Ryung. The Four Heavenly Kings were indeed beside her since they were all in the same class. As if they saw Ban Yeo Ryung greeting me just in time, the four boys directed their eyes in this direction, so I tried to say hi to them. However, the next move was lowering our bodies and putting our hands on the ground on all occasions.
Since my body wasn’t that flexible, I tried to stretch my hand as much as possible, but not even my fingertip reached the ground.
‘I’m really concerned about myself if I grew older,’ I deeply sighed. As soon as I straightened my waist, Yoo Chun Young and Eun Jiho sharing a conversation came into view.
What were they talking about? The moment I furrowed my eyebrows in anxiety, Eun Jiho’s loud voice pierced through my ears.
“Hey! Ham Donnie!”
It was me who told him that he could act as he knew me well. However, I didn’t know that he would act that close to me when all our classmates were gathered in the same place. Thus, I coughed for a second.
I mean, not only us but also many other kids were having conversations with folks in Class 2-7 while warming up their bodies. Even Kwon Eun Hyung and Yoon Jung In were talking to each other.
Lately, I heard from Yi Ruda about the status of the Four Heavenly Kings in school. Thus, I wasn’t, even more, delighted with Eun Jiho’s interest in me this way.
Just as I expected, all eyes were on me as I glanced around.
Gosh, I revealed a look of sorrow, but it seemed to be too late to pretend like I didn’t know Eun Jiho. Following Yoon Jung In’s next warm-up move, I shouted, “Why?!”
As soon as I reacted that way, a response returned, which made me clear my throat again with another cough.
“Yoo Chun Young is concerned that if you’re still a zero in flexibility!!” yelled Eun Jiho.
I replied, “Why are you saying those things so LOUDLY?!!!”
Just in time, the warming up session ended. I dashed toward Class 2-7 and kicked Eun Jiho in his shin. Then I shouted, “Why are speaking those things out so LOUDLY!!!!”
‘Gosh, so embarrassed!’ Shouting those things, I attacked him between times. However, none of my violent attempts were successful. Eun Jiho even avoided all my offensive actions while putting his hands in his jersey pockets, which looked not that cool.
‘Is he a master of martial arts or what!’ My shoulders moved up and down while I panted hardly.
Meanwhile, Eun Jiho pointed at Yoo Chun Young and asked, “Dude, why are you only doing this to me? It was Yoo Chun Young who first pointed that out.”
“I see. That being said, come here, Yoo Chun Young,” I uttered.
Yoo Chun Young, who was just watching us vacantly with his hands shoved in his pockets, turned to look in this direction. His eyes were surprisingly blue that I flinched my shoulders, but I soon bent my steps to approach him.
Rolling my eyes shortly, I looked elsewhere then interrogated him with a small voice.
“Hey, that was when we were seniors in middle school. Until when are you gonna remember that, huh…?”
However, Yoo Chun Young just listened to my words quietly, which seemed useless that I lowered my voice that way. Slightly furrowing his eyebrows, Yoo Chun Young spoke in a severe voice.
“You’re right, but your level of flexibility was minus twenty, which was too impressive to…”
I shouted, “Dude, your voice! Lower it!”
“Oh…”
Yoo Chun Young closed his mouth, but his words were already spread out clearly.
I heard kids whispering, “Jesus, her flexibility level is twenty…”
“No, he said it was minus.”
“Minus?!”
I showed a sad face again. Why would I have to leave a deep first impression on our neighboring class with such a thing? Sinking my head on my chest, I stretched out my arm lethargically toward Yoo Chun Young and tapped his arm and stomach.
Yoo Chun Young said, “Sorry.”
“If your sorry, get those muscles out of your tummy…” I replied.
Yoo Chun Young then showed a curious expression.
