Chapter 07

Taehee's POVBreak time came and there I was, sitting alone in the cafeteria in the far corner, eating my lunch. I was hoping Jimin would've joined me but unfortunately he was forcibly pulled away by my biggest bully Kang Hani.

I slowly chewed my bland food as I thought about how different today was compared to yesterday.

My desk was completely new, no one cursed at me and no one pushed me around at all.

I thought about some more things when suddenly the girl from yesterday plopped down in front of me with her lunch. She smiled sheepishly and began eating her food.

Probably another girl that wants Taehyung's number.

I poked my food with a fork and moved it around the plate. I sighed, pursued my lips and dropped the fork before standing up abruptly. The girl stopped eating and stared at me confused of my sudden actions.

"Um." She mumbled.

Not knowing what to say, I walked away while carrying the remaining leftovers of my sandwich. The girl stood up and followed me from behind. I held my phone tightly and turned in a corner to enter the hallway.

I sped up my pace and walked to my locker.

By the time I was at my locker I was breathing heavily and puffing. I looked behind my back and sighed in relief as she was not there.

I unlocked my locker and took out my books for the next class, science. Just as I was able to walk into the classroom there I noticed the girl from earlier was sitting next to my desk. I sighed and took my seat. The girl turned and smiled when she saw it was me.

"Hey Tae, where did you run off to during lunch?" She asked, as if we were close friends.

Ignoring her question, I plugged in my ear phones and played my music. I rested my head on the table whilst looking outside.

She took one of ear pieces out. I shot up and stared at her. "Hey-"

"Oh is this Ailee's Heaven?" She cut me off. I nodded slowly and shut my eyes in the process.

"It's my favourite song." She widened her eyes and clapped her hands together.

"It's mine too." She said happily.

"You're my only one wayojik neoreul wonhaenaega ni gyeote isseume gamsahaeYou're the only one babehimdeun sesang soge sarangeul alge haejunneo hanaro naneun haengbokhae..Heaven Heaven Heaven Heaven HeavenHeaven Heaven Heaven Heaven Heavenuri hamkkeramyeonwe will never cry never never cry"

I sung as I looked at her name tag. "Solbi-ssi are you new? You weren't here when I was attending school."

She tsked and wiggled her finger. "Come on let's be friends, I'll call you Tae and you can call me 'Sol'" she smiled, quoting the word Sol.

I reluctantly nodded by then shook my head, "It's a bad idea, you should just stay away" I warned her and looked at the door before turning back to her.

Solbi ran her fingers through her long hair and pouted, "why? You and I might be good friends." She said in a monotone voice. I cracked a laugh and fixed my glasses.

"We won't." I answered simply, shutting the whole conversation down.

I looked out the window, admiring the nice view. From here I could see the track field which was always amusing to watch.

The bell rang and everyone came tumbling in so they wouldn't be late. I watched the door and smiled immediately when Jimin walked into the room.

We locked gazes and sheepishly smiled at each other. He waved at me before taking his seat in the front. There it was again, the butterfly in my stomach and sweet sensation.

I waved back but put my hand back down when I realised Hani glaring at me. She mouthed the words 'don't touch my oppa'.

My legs trembled but I amazingly shook the feeling off.

I need to be strong.

And for the first time I looked straight back at her and mouthed the words.

'He's not your oppa'

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It was halfway through class and I was practically bored to death. We had been listening to the teacher ramble on about igneous rocks the whole time. A quarter of the class was already asleep, another quarter doodling in their books, another playing on their phones while everyone else were still miraculously listening.

Jimin was in a different class for period 6 and now I bored out of my mind. He apparently had korean history.

My phone buzzed and I looked down to it. Jimin had just sent me a message with no subject. Of course I got curious so I opened it.

[ You look so cute when you try to look angry or serious ;) ] I giggled which caught the teacher's attention.

The teacher was Mr Lee who was definitely the meanest teacher I've ever had and I knew this just ruined my whole day.

Mr Lee raised an eye and began walking towards me with his infamous frown plastered on his face. I cursed quietly to myself. All the girls except Solbi were laughing at me, whispering about how I was being stupid.

"Ms Kim is there something funny?" He asked in an angry tone, slamming his ruler against my desk. I flinched and looked up at him.

I shook my head nervously which only seem to make him angrier for some reason.

"Give me your phone." He demanded and extended his hand to retrieve my phone.

"No." I blurted out and immediately covered my mouth. The words had accidentally slipped out of my mouth. Everyone in the classroom widened their eyes, shocked at my reply.

By now Mr Lee's face was all red and tense, his body was shaking slightly and I could tell he was really mad. The worst scenario was going through my head right now and it didn't look pretty.

"Go outside and put your hands up until the lesson is over!" He ordered and pointed to the door.

Before I could argue or say anything to defend myself, he glared at me and breathed heavily. I secretly rolled my eyes and began walking outside.

"If she's getting punished then I should too." Solbi called out and stood up before linking arms with me and skipped out of the classroom.

She was walking too quickly so I kept stumbling. "Hey, slow down a bit." I pleaded.

By now I was tired and there was sweat forming on my forehead. We had practically been running for a good 20 minutes nonstop.

"Tae ah you're so slow." She complained, I rolled my eyes and followed her simultaneously.

"So what's with all the fuss today?" She asked as we finally made a stop in the library. "Taehyung is coming tomorrow with Jungkook." I said plainly, she simply smiled before pushing the doors of the libary.

"This is where I eat during lunch time because the girls in our class are really annoying." She laughed and sat down on the table. "The librarian is super nice too, he always writes me notes for the teacher saying I was helping him." Solbi continued, pointing to the young man placing the books back on the shelf in order.

I sighed and rolled my eyes as she laughed loudly.

She's a weird one.

_____________________________________It was now after school and while everyone was going home here I was cornered in the girl's bathroom by Kang Hani.

She had forcibly pushed me into the girl's bathroom by the ear. Her eyes filled with anger as she smirked.

"So your little remark about me and oppa today wasn't very nice. Shouldn't be all high and mighty because your friends with Oppa and the ugly sister of V oppa." Hani laughed bitterly as she stopped abruptly.

"What should I do to you? Beat you up? No dunk your head in the toilet?" She paused as her face became more twisted. "You were absolutely hilarious when I was threatening to push you down the stairs, perhaps I should do that again and maybe this time you'll leave forever."

I sighed and stood up so I was taller than her. She was pushed back and her smirk turned into an unhappy frown.

"Kang Hani, aren't you tired of being like this?" I retaliated.

"Are you insulting me?" She spat and glared at me.

I sighed and shrugged. Hani's eye twitched in annoyance and she was biting her lower lip so hard that it was beginning to bleed a little.

As I was about to walk away, she slammed my head against the tiled wall. It hurt like hell, my head throbbed and my vision was blurry. "Still strong?" She muttered happily as her laughter filled the room.

"Ow stop!" I cried as she dug her nails into my head.

She repeatedly slammed my head against the wall as she threw my glasses across the room, cracking the lens. Hani pulled my hand roughly and looked at me in disgust.

My vision was now hazy as she pushed my face to the floor and stepped on me repeatedly. She threw my bag on me which hurt a lot as it contained all my books in it. Hani licked her lower lip and pulled my hair as she continued stepping on me.

After a while she stopped and grabbed my collar, pulling my face closer to hers. I winced in pain as she began crushing my hand and piercing her nails into my skin.

"Yah Hani!" I screamed loudly.

She smirked, amused of my loud helpless screams.

She slapped me twice and let me drop on the floor. "Don't mess with me again Outcast." Hani kicked me once and glared before leaving the girl's bathroom.

The pain was slowly numbing but it still hurt a lot.

I touched my face and stared at my hand in horror as I noticed the red liquid on it. I widened my eyes and felt my heart sting.

I stood up but my legs were wobbly and my back ached. I stared at my reflection, a cut lip, sad frown and a lightly bruised eye.

It's been a while since I looked like this .....

_____________________________________I sat on the swing of the park and drew patterns into the bark.

I couldn't go home now with a face like this. They would just bombard me with questions or even worse Taehyung would probably go beat up Hani.

When I was younger I got bullied by an older boy and when I told Taehyung, he got up the next day and beat him up. I still remember what he said to me after he got out of the principal's office.

'I'll always have your back.'

I sighed loudly and kicked the bark on the ground.

My phone was now cracked since I had my phone in my pocket when Hani stepped on me. It still worked but barely, half of the screen was pitch black while the other half could barely been seen through the enormous cracks.

My phone rang but I couldn't see the caller ID so picked it up reluctantly.

'Hello?'

'Hey it's Hoseok, V just called me and asked where you were.'

I stayed silent.

'Taehee? Are you still there? Don't leave your Hope hanging.' He whined.

I can't allow Taehyung to fight another battle for me. He can't afford to get in trouble now that he's an idol.

'Can you tell him I'm fine. I'm just doing a school project at a classmate's house.' I lied and turned off the phone before he could reply or poke holes through my lie.

I swung higher on the sing and hummed a sad song.

The swing hit my bag resulting in my bag titling over and all the contents falling out of my bag. I groaned and got off the swing to put my stuff back into my bag. Today seemed it be getting worse by the second.

"Aish really?" I muttered to myself and frowned. I crouched down but moaned in pain as I felt my leg stinging. I looked at the dirty bandana tied around my wrist and gave out a sad moan.

The bark in front of me began moving around. I ignored it as I was guessing it was just a stranger or person cleaning the park.

"Taehee?" I looked up and widened my eyes as they stood there, not believing it was them. I averted my eyes away from theirs.

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"Taehyung."~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Author's Note

Sick was amazing.

That's all I have to say.

Yunachi ❤️