Chapter 72: Chapter 72
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I hesitated for a second then smiled at Ban Yeo Ryung. It had been a while since I last did so.
I said, “I’d like to hear it, so tell .”
“No…”
“I’m not here to be with you only on your happy days.”
At that troubled night, I had so untold words inside which I did not speak in fear of acting childish. I did not want Ban Yeo Ryung to go through the sa situation.
She opened her eyes wider and suddenly wrapped her arms around my neck. Then she yelled out loud while almost hanging herself on .
“I don’t want you to have a boyfriend!”
“…?”
What the heck is this groundbreaking bullshit she’s spitting?
As I frowned my brows while my neck remained wrapped around Ban Yeo Ryung’s arms, she scread again while looking at .
“If you have a boyfriend, you wouldn’t hang out often with us anymore and… um, you wouldn’t text back often too!”
“I never went out with anyone yet, so how would you know that I would do any of that?”
“Whatever.”
“Dude, aren’t you treating like a bitch? Do you think I’d run away from you guys if I have a boyfriend?”
When I asked her back, that was when Ban Yeo Ryung ca back to her usual smiling face and walked right beside . Her face was blushing red under the glow of the setting sun.
She said, “I don’t know, but anyway, no hair-dyed guys.”
Her words might refer to Yi Ruda, which felt like total nonsense. While I tried to ask her thoughts about the hair and eye colors of the Four Heavenly Kings, soone stepped toward from behind and grabbed my arm.
Before I could look back in surprise, Ban Yeo Ryung had already spoken with a dumbfounded voice.
“Eun Jiho, are you acting like a ghost or what? Why are you sneaking in silence like that?”
“Hey, Ban Yeo Ryung, shut up and follow . Let’s go to the backdoor.”
“Eh? Why?”
Eun Jiho ignored her question and pulled us promptly, which seed as if he said that sothing was at the entrance, and we should not know about it. It made realize sothing. I said to Eun Jiho what I had in mind.
“Oh, I see. Is it because you’re giving a ride?”
“We will share a ride, but it’s not what you think! What a carefree creature you are.”
“Then what?”
Ban Yeo Ryung asked again in response to Eun Jiho’s remark. When we arrived at a black car in front of the backdoor that was within a few minutes away from where we once stood, Eun Jiho opened the car door and pointed the backseats. Kids around us were throwing their glance towards us in curiosity, but he did not care about their gaze.
I could see that he was urging us to get in as soon as possible, so as we took our seats, Eun Jiho followed behind, slamming the door. He then spoke while looking at the driver’s seat.
“Please go to Sung Sam apartnt.”
“Yes, young master.”
Young master…? It was not my first ti to share a ride with him, but the title, young master, seed quite brand new. As I stared at Eun Jiho, Ban Yeo Ryung murmured from the side.
“I thought Eun Jiho was the one driving since he was acting so aggressively.”
“What?”
“I an, in the movies, when escaping from sowhere, they’d say ‘get in’ and turn the handle powerfully to reverse the car, right?”
Yeo Ryung looked at with that remark, which made burst out laughing after shrugging at a loss of words. Eun Jiho muttered in a flurry.
“How on earth can I lose to this idiot?”
“You lose?”
As I asked, Eun Jiho replied while frowning his brows.
“Huh? Oh, yeah, I lost again. It was all because of two questions. Ban Yeo Ryung sure is good.”
“Shut up. You guys are both assholes.”
“Yeah, yeah.”
As if my words did not make him upset at all, Eun Jiho shrunk up his shoulders and suddenly showed an enlightened expression on his face.
Oh, I still did not hear the reason why he dragged us to this car yet. When I looked at him in wonder, Eun Jiho spoke with a serious face.
“Hey, Ban Yeo Ryun, you better watch out.”
“Why?”
“Rember Hwang Siwoo? That bastard and his minions were all over the entrance. Eun Hyung and Yoo Chun Young texted about it. Woo Jooin also saw the text, and he seed to have left the school safely.”
“Text? Not by a call?”
“It was noisy out there for us to speak through the phone.”
Eun Jiho then showed us his phone. Eun Hyung wrote his ssage in a less-organized fashion, which was unusual; however, what he wanted to say was roughly readable.
Sent by: Scary Kwon Eun Hyung
Donnnot let YeoRYung and Donnie to theee entrance
While reading the ssage, I stumbled upon sothing.
“Dude, but why is he called Scary Kwon Eun Hyung in your contacts?”
“There’s sothing you don’t know about that guy, but that’s not the point. Oh, also, don’t worry about Kwon Eun Hyung and Yoo Chun Young, even though you guys wouldn’t worry about them, anyway.”
“No, I won’t.”
I replied while sitting straight on the car seat. Kwon Eun Hyung was a man with the strength of a hundred warriors. I checked out Woo Jooin’s ssage next, which was almost the sa as what Eun Hyung sent. Ban Yeo Ryung asked in wonder from the side.
“So, what is he going to do? He’s picking a fight with Chun Young and Eun Hyung, which seems that he’s targeting soone among us.”
“That’s the problem. We’re not sure if he’s upset because you refused him or if he wants to give us a hard ti because we acted cocky that day. Be careful anyway since we have no idea if he’s looking after you, us, or all of us. Ham Donnie, you should…”
Eun Jiho slurred the end of his sentence while looking at . , what? As I shrugged nonchalantly, Eun Jiho heaved a deep sigh.
“Be careful, too. You behaved out of sight the most, but who knows what will happen. It would be better to go back ho separately with Ban Yeo Ryung.”
“Okay.”
“Are you listening to ?”
No, to be honest, I wasn’t. All I could think about was that these kids could even shoot a spy film in school if they so desired. I just nodded, saying nothing out loud. However, as if he read my mind, Eun Jiho hit my forehead once.
What the… I raised my head imdiately. Eun Jiho’s eyes were, however, unexpectedly looked very much stern. He stared at with his jet-black eyes before speaking in a voice mixed with a sigh.
“Just be careful. Please, I beg you.”
“Oh, alright.”
“Good.”
He then swept his platinum blond hair back while looking out the window as if he felt embarrassed. All we could see over the tinted black window were gray sceneries, but he looked outside the whole ti on our way back ho even though he couldn’t see anything.
I smiled silently while looking at his back. Maybe Yi Ruda could be right about what she said. I ca to think that maybe I could be the one and only irreplaceable person to these guys.
When I turned back after bidding farewell to Eun Jiho in a brightly smiling face, Ban Yeo Ryung grumbled from behind.
“Donnie.”
“Huh?”
“I thought about it but no blonds and no silver hairs either.”
“…”
That silver-haired dude was yours, not mine. I gazed at her with cold-hearted eyes then strode into my house and shut the door. Tomorrow was Saturday, so why should I be worried?
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Things happened just as I expected at ho. Although our parents were close with Ban Yeo Ryung’s parents, my next-door neighbors, there was usually a competitive spirit existing between them. Especially, regarding the mock exam, a cruelly objective evaluation system of educational backgrounds, their competitive spirit beca more obvious.
What happened to yesterday then? I’d tell everyone that things happened just as I expected. They blasted till my soul lted. It did not an that they beat with a golf club or a cane; however, they showed their fury through verbal nagging.
A cold silence lood around the dinner table. While I nibbled the food with a spoon, I was dying to ask soone to remove my widely opened report card from the table. I could barely swallow the food over my throat.
My mom had a courtesy grin on her face, but she remained speechless. My dad enjoyed the food as usual but soon threw a glance at the report card on the table then turned his head with a mutter.
“Geez, what should I do with this bonehead…”
I beca so upset that I just ate rice with no side dishes. My dad’s mutter beca more abundant using different words. “Bonehead”, “idiot”, “moron”, “what is wrong with her”, et cetera, et cetera…
I, however, did not think I did terribly at it.
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