in another life | yang jungwon ✔️

0.5 | work place

the bell rung meaning that it was the end of the day. the teacher bid the classroom goodbye before leaving.

quickly everyone packed their things up and began leaving or staying in their seats to do self-studying. ayame would want to self-study but she has to get to her job which she was dreading.

"ayame" someone called out for her. she looked behind and saw her brother entering the classroom. she smiled at him as he neared her and stood beside her, "let's go home"

"i have a shift remember" she responded, chuckling a little

"oh! right! well then, i'm walking with you" riki offered

she shook her head, denying his request, "you are going straight home okay? i will be fine taking the bus"

"but i-" someone tapped on riki's shoulder causing him to jump from the touch. ayame immediately placed her arm in front of riki, placing him behind her. ayame looked at the person who tapped riki and saw it was one of her classmates

"what do you need?" ayame asked the girl

"i was hoping to talk to riki-"

"it's niki" riki corrected her, cutting her off, "don't call me riki"

"come on, all your friends-"

"you're not my friend so just call me niki" he cut her off again rather harshly making her roll her eyes

"you guys are so alike it's weird" she responded, crossing her arms across her chest

"what do you need?" ayame ignored her question and repeated the same question

"like i said i wanted to talk to ri-" she cut herself off, gritting her teeth and correcting herself, "niki"

"why do you need to talk to him?"

"gosh can you stop being so overprotective of him? he's his own person and he's a year younger only. you act like he's your child" she scoffed, annoyed of the way ayame was acting

ayame didn't respond and instead looked at riki, "do you want to talk to her?" he shook his head. ayame looked back at the girl, "he doesn't want to talk so leave"

"you're so-"

"park yerim" someone spoke the girl's name. she turned around and saw jungwon called out for her, "please leave them alone. ayame's brother stated he doesn't want to talk so let's not make them uncomfortable"

riki raised an eyebrow at the boy, confused on who he was. he had never seen him before.

"do you know him ayame?" riki whispered to the girl but she stayed silent. ayame looked at the clock on the wall, seeing the time.

"you know-" ayame cut yerim off

"if we're done here. we need to get going" ayame grabbed her bag before grabbing riki's wrist and dragging him out of the classroom so the two can leave peacefully.

"who was that?" riki asked again, referring to jungwon

"just a new student to the class. no one important" she responded and he just nodded, "wait" she stopped, "where's the box of sweets that mrs.anh gave us?"

"didn't you put it in your locker?" he responded and she sighed, realizing she had to go back,"i'll go get it. wait for me at the entrance"

before ayame could say anything, riki ran off to the classroom; he didn't want ayame to deal with that girl again.

luckily when riki went back to the classroom, that girl was gone but a few other students were there; including the boy who interrupted yerim.