Chapter 348 (1/2)

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As if that wasn’t enough, Yoo Chun Young shut the door with a bang.

Looking at the door closed right in front of my face, I murmured while being stupefied, “Eh??”

At that moment, someone blurted out behind the closed door while becoming short-tempered, ‘Why are you blocking my way?’ The person then stepped out of the classroom while opening the door. He was none other than Eun Jiho.

Showing a delightful expression, I approached him and said, “Hey, Eun Jiho! Nice timing. I mean, listen. Do you know what Yoo Chun Young just did to me…?” Adding words in excitement, I was soon in a daze when the door closed with a loud slam again.

Looking back and forth between the locked doors, I exclaimed, “Eh????” What were you guys doing right now?

Frankly speaking, I wasn’t trying to hide the fact from others that Yeo Dan oppa and I were actually pretending to date as to disguise his stalker… except for Ban Yeo Ryung. Why was I trying to avoid telling the truth only to Ban Yeo Ryung? That was because as long as it was about me, she had such a light mouth. To put it in a nutshell, she became out of control.

If someone asked her, ‘I heard your brother and Donnie are seeing each other. Is it true?’ she would shout out, ‘Bullsh*t! They are just faking!’ without a second thought. Both Yeo Dan oppa and I agreed to her taking that reaction. Thus, we decided to hide the truth, at least, from Yeo Ryung.

However, except for Yeo Ryung, we planned to reveal the truth to a few people who knew both of us at the same time. Wouldn’t we feel less burdened if there were, at least, one person who would be sharing our secret?

I had put the Four Heavenly Kings in the first place to reveal this secret. The four boys were all a man of few words, so I didn’t have to worry about our secret leaking out.

However, there was one thing that mattered; the Four Heavenly Kings were always staying beside Ban Yeo Ryung. If I confessed to them through a few text messages or by phone calls, saying, ‘The truth is this and that,’ Ban Yeo Ryung could be reading the message or listening to our phone call. It would be big trouble if that happened.

For that reason, I planned to meet the Four Heavenly Kings in person and tell them the truth face to face. But…

The last class had ended, at last. Waiting for our homeroom teacher to return and wrap up the day, I was looking down at my desk.

“What the heck is wrong with these guys?” I murmured in a daze.

Eun Jiho and Yoo Chun Young didn’t just avoid me before the music class. Today I had to take quite a lot of classes while moving to different classrooms, so I had many chances to bump into them during Biology class, PE class, and even lunchtime.

However, whenever I was in their sight, they were busy running away from me. Oh, come on, I wasn’t a patient with a deadly virus!

I even wondered if I looked bad today that they didn’t want to say hi to me, so I asked the kids around me several times about my appearance. Once Lee Mina replied, ‘No, you look fine as usual,’ I slammed my head onto the desk, shouting to myself, ‘Why? Why are you guys behaving that way to me?’

The moment when I was close to tears inwardly, Yoon Jung In, who flung the front door open, shook a big bag at us.

“Come get your phones back!” he shouted.

“Ah, yeah.”

“I was dying to get it back.”

It hasn’t been long since the second semester began and the teachers started to collect our phones, so many kids didn’t get used to this new rule yet. Resting my chin on my palm, I blankly watched the kids getting back their phones. Kim Hye Woo then dropped a phone in front of me.

“Here, I saw yours too.”

“Aw, that’s sweet of you,” replying with light heart, I quickly picked it up and opened my flip phone. Once I entered my inbox, I found it empty and turned on the light in my eyes.

If they left any kind of excuse, I was about to forgive them, but no one even said a thing. Gnashing my teeth, I called Eun Jiho right away. There was still some time left until the teacher to return to our classroom.

As if Eun Jiho also got his phone back just now, he picked up the phone within a single beep.

‘Geez, you’re gonna answer my call immediately like this!’ Thinking that way, I was about to feel better.

“Hello?”

“Hey.”

“Dude! Why were you acting like…?”

Eun Jiho, however, intervened in my words, which seldom happened, and began to only say what he wanted to. His following words dumbfounded me.

“Um, hearing your voice is really…”

“Really?” I repeated his word.

“Is really making me feel much better but…”