Hanahaki Strings • seventeen jihancheol

Chapter 14: Eavesdropping

"Argh, why the fuck do I need to wake up this early," Baekho whined while scratching his head out of annoyance.

"Shut up, will you? It is already annoying as it is, don't add up to it," Seungcheol groggily said as he shot a glare at Baekho who returned the glare.

Jisoo sighed as he pulled Seungcheol's jacket and shake his head. Seungcheol just nodded.

It was just five in the morning yet they're all making their way towards the lobby of the hotel where the headmaster told them to gather.

They were all sleepy and tired. Their supposed dinner which turned to be a mini-pool party ended up at midnight. Everyone was just happily eating and conversing with their own group of friends not until they heard the splash on the pool. It turned out to be a group of female students had played around and pushed each other and ended up falling on the pool. That's when the others decided to push each other too and it became a pool party.

Now, they're all groaning in frustration as they sat down on the lobby. Some were lying down on the tiled floor while some were on the couch.

Just when Jisoo's group reached the lobby, the headmaster came and behind him were the teachers who all looked fresh. It made the students groan even more.

"Good morning my dear students! Did you have fun last night?" The headmaster asked teasingly with a grin in his lips.

The students answered simultaneously, creating an unexplainable words and noises. They were complaining about waking up so early and not having the chance to clean up first.

The headmaster chuckled but he eventually asked the students to quiet down, "Hey, why are you all complaining? It was all your choice to stay up until midnight. All I said was 'dinner'." The headmaster said.

Once again, the students whined.

"Alright, alright. Enough of the complaints," the elder said. The students wanted to complain more, thinking that they might change the headmaster's mind but upon seeing the elder's expression was firm, they decided to just shut up.

"Okay. The reason why we'll conduct the first activity this early is because we'll have another later at night. After the morning activities, we'll let you rest for the whole afternoon and proceed to our evening activities. That will be the everyday's process for the entire trip. Do you understand it?"

"Yes, headmaster!"

"For our first activity this morning, we'll be playing... relay race!"

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"Okay, team C acquired fifty points for winning the dodge ball, team E got twenty-five points for placing second and team H got ten points for placing third," the headmaster announced as he placed the sticker on the board where the points given were plastered.

Out of all the teams, Jisoo's team was in second place. Jun and Minghao's team were placed fourth.

"Since we finished all our morning activities for today, we'll let you spend the rest of the afternoon just like what I said earlier. Do whatever and wherever you want just as long as you tell your teachers about it. You may go back to your respective rooms and change."

The other students quickly ran back inside the hotel. They played a total of three games this morning and were extremely tired and hungry despite of having their breakfast earlier after the first game.

Jisoo yawned. He's not that tired since he lost the games immediately and became a spectator only. He's just sleepy since he also slept late.

He shrieked in surprise when someone suddenly rested an arm on his shoulder. When he turned, he saw Jeonghan laughing at his reaction and beside him was Seungcheol .