Let’s talk

"Hey, come with us for a minute. We're gonna talk"

As soon as the teacher left the classroom after the school bell rang signaling the start of lunchtime, Soojin and two other girls - Sunmi and Yuji - approached me while I was still sitting by my desk.

Just from the way she spoke and how three of them surrounded my desk, I could feel this wasn't going to be pretty.

So this moment has finally come.

It was clear from the first day of school here as Jenn that Soojin didn't like me. Over the past two weeks or so, I also became able to sense that Soojin had hots for Hechan. It wasn't like I needed a girl's 'sixth sense' to notice this. It was so plain and obvious to see now that it just made me question 'How could I be so dense before and not realize it?'.

Putting these things together, it was only natural that Soojin would sooner or later try to confront and intimidate me at some point. If I faltered here, the best possible scenario was that I get beaten up or something to that effect and it ends there. The worst possible, and the more likely scenario was that this would become the start of a long-suffering for the rest of the year where I'd get constantly bullied by them. They probably wouldn't push it as far as they did with me before, but I knew someone like Soojin would love to have Jenn under her feet.

Having thought about this scenario in advance and actually facing the situation in real life is quite different though. Although I was mentally prepared, I could feel my heart thumping and my resolve weakening. In short, I was getting intimidated, just as these bitches wanted me to be.

"We can talk here though? So what do you wanna talk about?"

I asked innocuously and that rubbed them the wrong way.

"Don't play dumb. We are gonna teach you a thing or two about how things work here. You are getting too full of yourself"

"You expect me to just follow you after hearing that?"

"You will come with us whether you want to or not"

Just as Soojin said this, Yuji, who was standing behind me, grabbed my shirt's collar and yanked it back, which choked me a little.

Then my - Jenn's - body reacted by itself. I quickly reached out to the back of my neck, grabbed Yuji's hand, and pressed it back towards her elbow pretty hard which must have hurt her wrist and she let go of my collar. Without any pause, I got up from my seat and turned in one smooth motion while still holding onto Yuji's hand. Now her body was under my control like a rag doll and before Soojin or Sunmi could even react, Yuji was moaning in pain as her face was pressed onto my desk while I pinned her down with my elbow - still holding my grip on her hand to keep it twisted.

"Ok. Let's talk", I said to Soojin while looking her straight in the eyes.

"You bitch!"

Sunmi launched herself towards me but all I could feel was this strange calmness. Before, as my previous self, I would have been horrified by the incoming attack and just balled up myself as quickly as I could. But this time, all that popped up in my mind was "Is she stupid?" as I easily sid

estepped and stuck my leg out to trip Sunmi, which made her fall to the ground like an axed tree.

"So what are we going to talk about?"

Soojin had a furious look on her face and her eyes were burning, but she did not move rashly.

"Please go ahead and teach me a thing or two now. Is this how things work here?"

All eyes in the class were on us and now it was now Soojin who was put in an embarrassing position. They came trying to intimidate me but one was still pressed face down against my desk and another one was moaning on the ground, while their 'leader' was just standing there not being able to do anything.

"Jenn! Let go!"

Ajin came rushing to the scene and put herself between me and Soojin. I was actually glad she did that because, to be honest, I wasn't quite sure what to do next after making such a scene and taunting Soojin.

I followed Ajin's order and let go of Yuji's hand, and both Yuji and Sunmi got up and whimpered their way back to Soojin.

"Jenn, this is unacceptable. What are you doing to your classmates?!"

Huh, Ajin's scolding me?

But after she said this she turned to face me, which meant that only I could see her face as Soojin was behind her. Ajin gave me a quick wink and continued.

"If you do anything like this again, I have no option but to report you to the disciplinary committee"

Ah-, okay. Thanks, Ajin. This was probably the wisest way to end the situation here for now.

"I'm sorry"

That diffused the tense atmosphere and Soojin and her gang just walked off without saying a word, and Ajin followed them from behind too. She was probably just gonna talk some crap to appease them for now. I guessed it was good that way. 

Now that this mini fracas was over, I was coming back to my senses and felt weak in my knees as if I could just collapse there. The adrenalin rush subsided and I was feeling uneasy and worried. It was almost like I switched off from Jenn-mode and got back to my usual self.

I need to get out of here and calm down a bit - that was all I could think of for the moment so I left the classroom and went out to get some fresh air.