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A story about a girl that finally finds the will to live after years of being tormented by her ruthless past, just to have it reach to her once more, coming back with the same intensity of cruelty and terror and once again erasing her just bui...
° ° ° . . . I'm not surprised, I sympathise, I can't deny your appetite. . .
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CHAPTER 16 -----
Just like nothing had happened less than seven hours before, I had to get up and go to the hell hole called school. What's worse I really wasn't sure how to act towards Renjun and Jeno too after finding out they knew about me and the gang. I didn't have any help from Haechan either since he stayed in Japan for a few more days.
The classroom was full with chatter just like always when I entered. People didn't care if anyone's sleepy and too tired to listen to their bullshit. When I entered I didn't even glance if Jeno and Renjun had arrived, Jaemin hadn't I knew, he was always late. Maybe it was a dumb decision to run away from your problems, but I wasn't in a mood to act like nothing had happened and talk cheerfully, ignoring the fact that they might as well threaten me with something like Jaemin did.
I walked to the other end of the classroom where a group of girls were gathered up. I rarely hanged out with them, but I needed someone else's company and they seemed to be my way out. I neared the ravenette girl which I knew was sitting alone during the classes although at the moment she was surrounded by few more girls.
"Can I sit here, Yeji? I'm kind of not in the mood to hang out with boys today." I asked, but sat down on the chair next to her before I got an answer. The black hood was still on my head I never removed it since I put the hoodie on and I didn't plan to remove it either until the teacher tells me.
"Sure, Soji. I sit alone anyway." Yeji smiled widely and I sighed mouthing a low "Thanks..." immediately joining the girls' conversation, just so I don't think of the fact that I couldn't ignore the boys for long. If not Jeno and Renjun, I knew once Jaemin comes to school I wouldn't be able to run away from him, so I tried to mentally prepare for a talk with him until he came.
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For my surprise once Jaemin came to school he didn't come to talk to me right away. Maybe because I wasn't alone, but why would he care? He knew that I wouldn't let him join the gang, why hadn't he still exposed me to everyone?
I pushed the thoughts aside, walking to my locker after spending the break with girl company for a day instead of Jisung, Chenle, Jaemin, Jeno and Renjun. Taking a break from boys was even more peaceful and enjoyable than I thought it would be. For a while I didn't have Jisung teasing me, Chenle laughing at me, Jaemin flirting with me or either threatening me or trying to rape me, and for Renjun and Jeno I didn't have a reason not to like them around except that they now knew everything Jaemin knew.
I opened my locker to take the books I would need for the next few classes, the maths book, literature and history- nothing I actually loved. But the books weren't important when something else in my locker caught my eye. Two papers folded into cute little letters with pink ribbon tied around them, a single tiny heart sticker in the middle of each which made them look even cuter.
