thirteen

"Yo!" Euiwoong says, quite literally sliding in front of us. We all look up at him, "Mijoo, my girl, how are you?" He holds his hand up for a high-five
"Good." I meet his hand, which makes an impressively loud smacking sound, and he spies my other hand with the bandages
"What the, the, the heck?" He hesitates for a second trying to find the right word, one that won't result in him being pelted over the head, looking at me, "What happened to you?" Everyone looks at Euiwoong, somewhat confused by his question. Shouldn't he know? "What? I'm just asking what happened."
"You should know." Woojin says; raising his eyebrows, much like what the rest of us are doing
"I wasn't here yesterday." If Woojin could raise his eyebrows higher, they'd probably come off his face
"Um, you were." Daehwi points out,
"Well, okay, I saw that she got injured." Euiwoong begins "I saw all the blood and the dirt, but I went home during second period because I was sick remember? So I don't actually know what happened." Daehwi sighs and quickly explains what happened. "Do I need to go punch them?" Euiwoong quickly turns to me, a concerned look plastered onto his face
"We discussed yesterday that punching them, isn't a good idea." I reply, shaking my head at him, his pulls a face and then sits down.

At the current second I haven't touched my food, I'm actually waiting for someone to come up and knock me out or ask me to run some stupid errand. Jinyoung taps my arm,
"Why aren't you eating?" He whispers, "Is it because you might have to get up and do something?" I turn my head away from him and sigh "It is isn't it?" I turn back and nod,
"Yeah, collect stuff for you guys, maybe get insulted or punched. Take your pick it happens every lunch time." Jinyoung bites his lip.
"Just eat for now, okay, none of that will happen."
"What's going on?" Daehwi asks from across the table, he quickly assesses the situation and pouts "We can move." He earns himself several looks from the others "What? I'm sorry I'm not as attached to this place as some of you guys are." Haknyeon snorts
"Are you kidding?" Daehwi shakes his head "You think we're attached to this place?" Daehwi nods slowly and Haknyeon bursts into loud, somewhat obnoxious laughter, almost falling off his chair except for the fact that both Jihoon and Guanlin managed to react fast enough to catch him
"What are you guys talking about?" Guanlin inquires, he looks as though he didn't quite understand exactly what th conversation is about
"Daehwi suggested that we move where we have lunch so that Mijoo won't have to go and get stuff for us, she'll be in less danger that way as well." Hyungseob says, trying to explain to him what's going on. Luckily, he appears to understand.
"That's okay, as long as Mijoo is safe that's fine." He says slowly and quietly "There's a spot near the gym that's usually empty. We can sit there and see how long it lasts, maybe?" He looks at all of us for some kind of approval, most of us shrug and nod. Truthfully, I don't think anyone cares exactly where we go.
"Okay, but I bet you Daehwi's going to forget by tomorrow and sit here still." Jihoon says, Daehwi goes to hit him but Jihoon raises his eyebrows "Don't say it like you won't."
"I won't though, I'm the one that suggested we move - why would I forget?"
"Because you're Daehwi." Euiwoong says, matter of factly. Daehwi sinks further into his chair, stuffs half of his sandwich into his mouth and begins sulking, I stare at Woojin until he rolls his eyes and begins comforting him.

Just when I thought things were getting peaceful; I'm actually enjoying my food, finally. I feel something hit the back of my head, several of us turn to look. "What was that?" Haknyeon asks, standing up to try and get a better look
"Better question," Jihoon says whilst picking up the offending object "what's this?" He examines it and rolls his eyes, ditching it into the nearest bin.
"What is it?" Daehwi questions, finally perking up to see what's happening.
"Someone wanting Mijoo to do something for them, something rather indecent." We all look at him and he sighs "Are you trying to tell me that her normal letter collecting job isn't indecent?"
"Well, no, you're just a really bad liar." Hyungseob says and Guanlin nods from right next to him "See, even Guanlin agrees."
"I just figured none of you would want Mijoo to get hurt." He sighs,
"But it's also better if she at least knows what's happening, the rest of us? Even better." Woojin points out "Actually, if Mijoo doesn't know that's pretty good."
"Then what am I suppose to do?" Jihoon raises his eyebrows at Woojin, who thinks about it for a moment
"Jinyoung, it's almost time for class. Why don't you take Mijoo to class, and Jihoon you can tell the rest of us." Jinyoung looks at little uneasy, as do I. "I'll tell you later, Jinyoung. Don't be too concerned, okay? We've probably got this." Jinyoung nods and stands up, pulling on my arm to tell me to stand up too.

Swinging my bag onto my back; we both begin to walk to our next class, the walk is practically silent and the hallways seem longer today. Except that might just be because half of our route is cut off by barriers, rather than the extremely heavy feeling I'm getting. We pass by a group of girls who all glare at me and snicker before talking amongst themselves - probably about me. I open my mouth to say something, although I'm not really sure what I want to say right now - but Jinyoung beats me to it
"You'll be fine, Mijoo. Like Woojin said, they've got it under control. You don't have to be worried about anything bad happening to you." Jinyoung ruffles my hair, but this time I'm not as convinced. Jinyoung didn't sound very sure about what he's telling me.
"And what if I'm not?" I ask, readjusting my hair, Jinyoung shrugs and mumbles;
"At this point I'm starting to really not know."

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