Then There's Us. [ Hyunsung ]

5

Jisung's POV

Just a few days ago, I heard the news of a new student transferring to our school. I wasn't one to listen to gossips but I heard from some students that the transfer guy was a bully that's why he transferred here. At first, I also believed in the stupid rumour because if not, why would he transfer in the middle of the semester?

Adapting to new environment is not that easy after all unless you're a social butterfly or good at studying.

However, you can hardly find someone who's both. I was ashamed that I believed the stupid rumour because as soon as the transfer student came, the rumour subsided. Those who dared to spread the rumour from last time shut their mouth. Just when I thought he was just another normal transfer student, he proved me wrong. I knew who he was. I remembered quite well that he went to the same middle school as me and had transfered because of a fight. He wasn't a delinquent.

I remembered very well that he was a good kid who always study. He did find fights here and there but that was because others bothered him. So, here I was wondering why the hell was he bothering me for? I had never even interacted with him. Whenever he fought in the past, I would just stare at him in disdain. I don't really like fights that's why.

I acted as if I didn't know him but he wouldn't leave me alone. He was sitting behind of me and I could feel his gaze, staring so intensely at me. I didn't want to turn around, afraid I will meet his gaze and be bothered by him.

I thought I would be able to go through this year peacefully but I was never able to be free from a hell like life. Although seeing Hyunjin's face gave me a little feeling of relieved it came with a lump of regret and discomfort. Why regret you wonder? Probably because I never say anything when he was caught in a fight that wasn't his fault when I always see what happened from the beggining to the end.

For days, he kept bothering me to the point I don't remember my own problem.

Slam!

Like always, during recess, I would slip away from the crowd. I would try to run as fast as I could before they can catch me but I was always one step to late. As soon as I walked out from the school building, I was held by my collar and was dragged to the field and all the way to the football team's changing room. Some times, I wondered why did I even try?

Once my back hit the locker in that room, I shut my eyes and hissed in pain.I opened my eyes and that's when I thought I really messed up.

"You dare to run away from us?" One of them said calmly unlike his real temper. "You think you can escape?" Of course,not but I still wanted to. I don't want to be part of this anymore. For three years...three years! They had been doing this to me for three years! Just why can't they leave me?

"Why are you doing this to me?" I asked while biting my lips, fighting against my own anger that was about to take me over. One of them laughed. "You ask why? Are you an idiot"

"Because you're a betrayer of a friend" friend? Right, we all used to be friends but I don't know about betraying. I didn't do anything to them. They were just idiots who couldn't accept that I was better than them. "Is that really what it is?" I asked, sounding bored when they suddenly laughed. "Of course not. We never consider you as one of us anyway"

"So, just quietly obey us or do you want to be with that transfer kid instead. So, is the rumour true? That he almost got send to a juvana?" I widened my eyes. Just how did the rumour escalated to that? "So, what? You want to make him your little friend too? So you could be a group of losers." my eyes started reddening before I punched Seojun's face. He talked too much. I just wanted to punch his face. His face was already broken to begin with...he didn't have anything to lose.

The other two just laughed at Seojun. "You got punched by a wimp" I stared at him in disgust before I walked out from the changing room. It had always been like that. The acting tough and me punching them in the end. Quite dumb.

"You think I would let you go?!" Seojun said as he stood up and directed the other two to chase me. "Get him, you stupid guy!" I shrugged. "You think I would stay still?"

I said before I ran away. I ran into the school building and ignored the other students as I ran in between them. I stopped running and blended with them. Once the other two ran passed me ,I turned my head to see who I had grabbed to save my sorry ass. "Chan hyung..." I said before I let go of him and smiled.

"Jisung" he said before I nodded and walked away. Well, that was kind of awkward. Chan used to be a close friend of mine. He had a cousin who was my friend and she asked Chan to take a good care of me and I treated him like my own brother. For some reason, he refused to talk to me for quite some time and I just let him be. Maybe he felt like I controlled him too much.

He probably didn't like me. "What was that about?" I head another voice and I recognize Hyunjin's voice. I turned around and met his gaze before I glared at him. I turned my head to the front and saw those two stupid guys being scolded by the PE teacher for running in the corridor.

I greeted the teacher as he stared pitifully at me. He must had still remember about the milk incident during PE. That reminded me, maybe I should pour milk on that kid's book to let him know that he should just leave me alone.