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"The worst battle in life is
between you and what you feel"

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"Luni-ah are you joining us or not?" I heard Jisoo shout from the dining room.

"Coming" I picked up the rest of the kimbap from the kitchen and sat down to eat. Due to the lack of chairs left in our dining table, I had to end up sitting in between Taehyung and Hoseok.

It was a weekend and Jisoo insisted on calling some of our friends home. As I had lost contact with all my old ones and presently had no desire to indulge them back in my life so we turned out inviting Taehyung and her boyfriend while Hoseok decided to tag along with his brother.

"Here Luni, please pass the rest of it." Jisoo handed me the plate after serving her boyfriend and herself. I picked a piece of meat and placed gently in Taehyung's plate while slamming another one on Hoseok's.

Hoseok let out a scoff at the unconcealed favourism shown by her between the two men. He also noticed how nicely she behaved with everyone while the only thing which he can notice in her eyes for him was pure resentment. It was probably his previous actions with her that was to blame but something within him fell off when he realised that her iciness towards him was giving him no joy as he had anticipated earlier.

"Would you like to try this wrap?" Taehyung asked as he picked one up and stuffed it inside her mouth for her to chew happily before passing him a bright smile.

He watched as the girl picked up one kimbap and feed the other man who nodded happily indicating it was good. For a second, he felt a bit jealous of them happily sharing food and smiling at each other while he was feeling left out. He earlier felt happy thinking how Luna would be pissed by seeing him there but now he was regretting the idea of following Sang Ho unnecessarily.

She saw him eating silently at the table while everyone else was laughing and chatting. She somewhat felt bad for him as he was a guest too and no matter how strict, Hoseok was her teacher. This could be a little decency from her side.

"Here, try this." Hoseok was taken aback when he saw Luna placing a kimbap gently on his plate while passing him a small smile. He didn't expect her to be gentle with him. He picked up the kimbap and it was indeed very tasty as he smiled back at her.

It was the first time Luna saw him smile genuinely at her as she felt her heart about to burst out and millions of butterflies dancing in her stomach. What was this feeling? It was just a small smile, damn, what was he doing to her. She shook her head as she tried to fix in that she shouldn't feel this way for someone who was way out of her reach.

-

It has already been a month since I joined this university. More like one month since I entered this hell. And the devil himself made sure to exhaust me in every way possible, both mentally and physically.

Every second I felt a pair of eyes continuously gawking at me which made me more nervous and self-conscious than I already was. One small mistake and I would be called out and my favourite professor would start insulting me like there's no tomorrow. Even the others noticed how bad he treated me, but no one dared to open their mouth because nobody wanted to be his next victim.

However, Aeri - the girl who was trying to flirt with Hoseok on the first day also the most popular girl of our class with an artificial blonde hair and ridiculous amount of make-up caked on her face along with her whole squad seemed to enjoy me getting thrashed unnecessarily by Hoseok again and again. I gave her a glare for which she made a disgusted face. It was just a month since I joined here but I already hated them with all the fibre in my body.

"PARK LUNA-"

I heard someone shout from the other side of the rehearsal hall.
He didn't even have to shout twice since I very well knew whose voice it was and that now there was no escape for me. I turned around gloomily and walked towards the centre of the class.
Aeri and her group left whatever they were doing to enjoy the drama coming up.

"Did you choreograph on the Night Fever as I told you?" I got surprised since as far as I remember, he asked us to make a choreography on the Dancing Queen last day.

"No sir, you asked us to make one on a different song. How am I supposed to learn that if you never told us to?" I plucked up courage to talk back.

I heard him scoff at that.
"So what if I never told you to? It was in your syllabus; you're supposed to be ready with that anyways. Oh, if you wish to fail and repeat your first year in the college itself then you can go ahead and do it."

"Isn't it your job to tell us what to prepare and when than calling us randomly and asking us to show something we never knew we had in our syllabus? I really don't know what I have or had done against you to keep torturing and mistreating me again and again. If you have any sort of personal anger or revenge to complete, then at least don't vent it up in a place where I came to learn like the rest of the students."
I don't know where I mustered up the courage to voice out all the words I had been repressing inside me since the moment I stepped on this uni.

I heard a lot of people grasping from shock behind me.

Only then I realised what I had done.

I looked at Hoseok and saw his face turning red gradually like a bomb which was about to explode any moment. He took two deep breathes before slowly snarling "You think you can tell me what I should and what I shouldn't do?"

"No sir I meant....."

"GET OUT" the whole class flinched as his voice echoed in the hall. People had seen him cold and mean but no one has ever seen him this angry. Some of the students shivered at his rough tone.

I felt tears starting to well up in my eyes as I was scared of what the outcomes of this anger could take turn to.

"If you think you are so great and don't need my guidance to learn then leave my class and never come back. And if you feel like you need to lower down your self esteem then prepare all the ten songs that are in your syllabus perfectly without any mistakes by tomorrow and show me. If you fail to do so in time, then get ready to bid farewell to this university and any other in this town because I'll personally make sure you don't get admission in one. You only have tonight to decide what you want to do. Now get going before I change my mind and throw you out right now."

I hastily picked up my things before running out of the classroom, wiping the tears that has slipped out of my eyes.

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I was rushing home after I left the college campus because what I really wanted to do at that moment was bury my head in the pillow and scream. I don't know what I had done to him for to resent me so much.

I was on the last street turning to my apartment when I heard some footsteps behind me.

I let it pass at first thinking it might be some stray animal making sounds but later as I kept walking, the footsteps kept following me. I looked around and did not find a single soul on street.

At this point I was scared for my life. It could be some kidnappers or traffickers roaming around in the street. I ran as fast as my legs could carry me towards our house. I heard the same footsteps running behind me as there was no one else on the street. I didn't have time to look back and see their faces suddenly I bumped into a hard chest.

"Luna why are you running? Are you ok?"

I breathed out in relief as I found Taehyung looking at my face intensely.

"There were some strange people following me just now while I was returning home" as I whimpered in his hold.

"It's ok. I'm here. No one will harm you come let's go home first it's not safe here." He patted my back trying to soothe me.

I nodded once as he held onto my hand walking me towards home.

Taehyung saw how terrified the poor girl was.

Well what I feared has already started then, he thought.

A/N : Buckle up peeps, the real drama is opening.