“ Which student sleeps away the whole day at school? ”
Hwang Hyunjin glared sharply at the teacher for a moment
He pulled the Korean textbook out of the desk drawer and set it on his desk
“ Well, well? You hadn’t even taken out your book “
All the students’ gazes turned in one direction
The students who had been whispering while sneaking looks at Hwang Hyunjin
at the sound of the teacher’s desk being tapped again and again
immediately turned their attention to the blackboard
When the break bell rang, the students gathered into groups
and started bringing up the rumor again
that the Korean teacher would be dragged off by Hwang Hyunjin’s dad, a mob boss,
or that their parents would come to school and tear everything apart, and so on
Just watching the students bring up such pointless stories
made Hwang Hyunjin seem pitiful for no reason
“ So? “
He stuck his face into the busy crowd of talkers
The students jumped in fright, clutching their chests
and immediately started complaining
“ Ah, jeez, you scared me. What? ”
“ Why are you so hell-bent on tearing Hyunjin apart?"
Did he even do anything to you guys? “
The students said, patting their startled chests
It’s believable, isn’t it,
unless his family is some huge chaebol clan
or mobsters, it makes no sense,
They’d seen Hwang Hyunjin getting in and out of a super-expensive Carnival
and they kept piling on these speculative stories endlesslythem
He looked down at them quietly, then spoke
“ Still, don’t go around saying things like that when you don’t even know for sure
How bad would it feel if the person involved heard it? ”
What I said wasn’t wrong, so
they didn’t really argue back eitherkept their mouths shut
and awkwardly prepared for the next class
After class ended
he put in his earphones and headed down the alley
While passing the middle of the alley, someone from behind yanked his bag hard
and just as he was about to lose his balance and fall backward
his head bumped against a broad chest with a soft thud
“ .. Come with me somewhere ”
A large hand wrapped around his slim wrist
“ Where are we going? ”
“ Just, I need someone to eat with ”
Without shaking off the hand or resisting
he followed where that hand led
He didn’t blindly trust Hwang Hyunjin
but he knew well enough that he wasn’t a bad person
so even though he could have refused
he went with him
After walking for a long while, they arrived at a familiar building
It was the company where he’d met Hwang Hyunjin’s father before
Because he’d been hurried along the whole way
he roughly wiped away a drop of hot sweat running down his cheek
with the back of his hand
