Chapter: 11

Nari walked to school alone. She crossed the road and reached the school. She walked through the campus and entered the building in which her class was. The class was, as usual, filled with students playing around and talking. She quietly walked in and sat in her seat, deciding to study in her free time. But as she took her book out, someone sat in the seat beside her. She looked at the guy, who was just smiling and going through the pages of his book.

"What are you doing here?" she asked.

"Me?" Ye Jun asked and looked around.

She rolled her eyes and sighed. Shaking her head, she went back to study.

"No, just-" He scratched his ear.

"I am just curious about something." 

She doesn't reply again. Ye Jun sighed and shifted a little towards her in his seat.

Popping his head towards her, he asked, "How do you plan to fight against Eunji?" 

She paused for a second and again indulged herself in the book. 

"Tch! Stop studying right now. No one does that!" 

He closed her book abruptly and earned a glare. Looking at her glaring, he scoffed. 

"Why aren't you sitting there?" She pointed at his previous seat.

"This is Shim Jang's seat!" 

"But..." He said and his eyes travelled on Shim Jang who quietly walked towards Ye Jun's seat.

"We exchanged!" He brightly replied.

She controlled her anger and took in deep breaths, clenching her fists.

"I just want to help you. Because no one knows Eunji better than me here. Only I know what his parents are like." 

Hearing his comment on Eunji's parents, she looked up at him, frowning.

"What do you mean?" 

He shrugged and settled in his seat as their homeroom teacher entered.

They all stood up and greeted him, but Nari's eyes never left Ye Jun. She wondered what he really meant. The teacher started to teach and Ye Jun didn't seem to be in the mood of answering her. Ye Jun, who was sincerely listening to the teacher, looked down as a paper ball landed on his book. He looked at the back and on his way to look ahead, he looked at Nari. She asked him to open it, mouthing her words. He silently looked at the paper ball on his book and opened it.

'What do you mean, how are Eunji's parents? Are they scary?' Ye Jun scoffed, but soon suppressed it. 

Though she acted so tough, she was still a high schooler. It amazed him how curious she was and wanted to talk to him for the first time. He wrote something on the other side of the paper and threw it in her way.

'Stay in the class during lunch break.' 

She looked at him after reading it, but he didn't seem to pay attention to her. Inside her mind, she cursed him a lot. She wanted to talk, but he ignored her. Pouting, she opened her book and started to pay attention to the class. As her attention diverted from Ye Jun he looked at her from the corner of his eyes and scoffed again.

Her every action piqued his interest more than anything in the world. 

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Soon the bell rang and all the students rushed towards the exit of the class. Nari kept sitting, Aera was absent and so, she had no one to tag along with. Though she had many friends in the class, Aera was someone she felt most attached to, she asked with her the most. She packed her back and zipped a chain. As she turned around Ye Jun was missing.

"Ah! Where did he go?" she said and stood up.

She asked some students which were left in the class but they all were clueless as well. She sighed and sat in her seat. She waited for him the whole break, her eyes lingered on the door. She wondered when he would come, but he didn't. 

"AISH!" she exclaimed angrily and stood up when her eyes looked outside the window. She tiptoed from her position and  saw a tall guy running out of the building. 

"Why is he so rushed?" She mumbled.

"Tch! I am hungry," she said, feeling extremely weak. All her energy drained and she didn't dare to get angry at him who left her alone.

She drank water from her bottle and waited for him patiently, thinking he might come. The bell rang again, students started to fill the class. Nari's eyes lingered on the door waiting for Ye Jun to show up. But he didn't come. Instead, the teacher came in and started to teach. 

Nari frowned, her eyes stuck on the door and back at his seat. 

'Where did he go?' she wondered.

The classes ended and the bell rang once again. Students started to leave but Nari didn't move. Ye Jun's bag was still on his seat, but he didn't show up. 

'Where could he possibly be?' She wondered.

Tired of waiting she packed her bag and went out along with his bag in her hands. As she walked out of the class the homeroom teacher approached her.

"You can go home today, the library can be done tomorrow."

"Yes." She bowed down as she spoke.

"And also, is this Ye Jun's bag?" He asked, pointing at it.

Nari nodded.

"Oh! Give it to me and go home. I'll hand it over to him later."

"Okay." She said and walked out.

Her mind lingered on Park Ye Jun. Where did he vanish? She kept wondering on her way back home. Suddenly that day, she started to feel lonely walking alone home. It had been only three days since Ye Jun walked her home though she hated it. But today she especially missed it. His face smiling whenever she looked at him, kept popping up in her mind.

Feeling low she lazily walked inside her home. Ate her dinner and laid down on her bed.

"Where did you go, Park Ye Jun?" 

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While Nari was fast asleep, Ye Jun was sitting on a hospital bench. Waiting for the doctor to come out and give him a report. His heart was crazily beating ever since he was called from school to the hospital. His fingers interlocked lying on his knees as he tapped his foot while sitting outside the doctor's cabin.

Waiting for a while the doctor came out and he stood up.

"What happened to him?" He asked, his eyes worried and his brows frowning.

"I guess he has been taking too much stress these days. He suffered from high blood pressure and then a heart attack."