Chapter 347

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"Who are you?"

"Hold on, I know who he is."

Someone whispered in a low voice, 'Isn't he the boy who just returned from abroad? His name was Yi Ruda or something...' Indeed, Yi Ruda also seemed to be as famous as the Four Heavenly Kings in other grades.

Once they learned about his identity, the girls' expressions changed. Laughing confidently, they leaned on the back door and uttered, "Ah, so there comes the owner of the last empty seat, huh? That means Ham Donnie is here now."

"Ham Donnie?"

Yi Ruda immediately showed an aggressive look on his face when my name slipped out from their mouths. However, his ferocious look seemed to have derived from him hearing my name itself rather than him understanding the situation.

I touched my aching temple while wondering, 'Did I do something wrong to Ruda lately? The look on his face seems like... I've become his enemy... Let's think about what I have done wrong ASAP since Ruda is a terrifying kid...' While I murmured those words to myself, one of the seniors flung a question to Ruda.

"Ah, cool. Why don't you bring her to us? Which one is Ham Donnie here?"

Ruda removed the bloodthirsty look from his eyes and flaunted a soft grin as if he was about to emit some floral scent. His change of expression was truly admirable.

"Why are you looking for Donnie?"

They might have thought that their conversation was going well based on Ruda's bright smile. The girls also replied with a grin, "Oh, we have something to tell her about the person she's dating right now..."

I closed my eyes tight upon hearing their response and breathed a deep sigh.

'I knew it... It really was about Yeo Dan oppa. 'Even though we saw each other to get rid of his stalker, I must endure the situation to stay with him.' I tried to get up from my seat this time with that thought in mind.

Ruda's cold voice flew over me and pierced through my ears. I blinked swiftly.

"Even we are trying to restrain our impatience; we have much to say to her, too... WHAT do you guys want from her?"

A moment of silence swept the space. One of the seniors then tossed a question as if she could hardly believe the situation while rubbing her ear.

"... What did you just say?"

"So many of us want to speak with her, but we're holding ourselves back. If you want to join the queue, go all the way at the end of the line. Nah, don't even think about it. You guys have no right to do that."

"W... hat is he talking about right now?"

"I feel like sh*t right now, so stop messing with me anymore."

Ruda dropped those remarks while narrowing his gorgeous blue eyes. I gasped only in my thoughts. That was the first time I had seen Ruda talking that way to other people except for Jooin or Lucas. By the way...

Did he just say he had things to speak further with me? I unfolded the thoughts I had earlier. 'If I did something wrong to him, I must bring it up soon. It will decide my fate...'

Meanwhile, Ruda, who was scowling at the senior girls one after another, turned his mouth up slightly to resemble the hint of a smile.

"See what happens if I hear you guys behave this way in front of our class again."

"You... how dare you speak like that to your seniors!?"

"There's nothing I'm afraid of right now."

'Then, were you afraid of something before?' I wondered from the bottom of my heart. A noise then reached my ears; it came from across the hallway. As if he had a conference or other meetings, our teacher, who was running a little late to class, was finally returning to the classroom.

"Hey, it's class time. What are you guys doing here in the hallway?"

Once they heard the teacher's angry voice, the girls quickly fled while biting their lips. Watching them receding from the sight, Ruda slowly walked into the classroom and sat on his seat. I stared blankly at his back, but once he turned his head to look in my direction, our eyes met.

Ruda asked me with a warmhearted face as if nothing had happened, "Why?"

"Uh..."

Before I tossed a suitable question, Ruda turned his head to the front and suddenly banged his head on the desk.

'... What the...?' I flinched my hand in surprise. As if slamming his head on his desk once wasn't enough, Ruda began to bang his head continuously, which made me break out in a cold sweat.

Since Kim Hye Woo sat right beside Ruda, I thought he would stop him, but he didn't. Instead, Kim Hye Woo put his neck pillow, which he often used during the class, on Ruda's desk and spoke in a sweet voice.

"Bang as much as you can. They say it will hurt because you're young."

"Well said."

Once I'd learned his true gender, Ruda's voice started sounding like that of a boy. Replying that way with a masculine tone, Ruda began to bang his head on the desk again. I was so lost while gazing at the mystery before me.

In front of the classroom, the teacher proceeded with the class as usual. I murmured, 'Today is really a weird day...'

They said, 'Once we start dating someone, the world would start looking different;' however, the world started to seem foreign in my eyes because of a different reason somehow.

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Yoon Jung In returned to the classroom after an hour. Amid the kids asking him what had happened, Yoon Jung In brushed the barrage of questions aside, replying, "Fall Sports Day."

The kids grumbled immediately, "Argh, I knew it!"

"Our schoolyard is too wide to do a long-distance race. Those who participate in that game would have to run their butts off."

"No individual race, huh? It must not happen!"

Clapping his hand to draw their attention, Yoon Jung In uttered, "Hey, hey, hey! Calm down, folks! We're going to receive your opinions about any game ideas for the sports day during the Saturday class meeting. Have that in mind."

The sports day in our school had a unique system; unlike other schools, which usually began from choosing the people who would participate in the fixed games or events, ours started with a brainstorming session about what sports games we would like to have. Once the final game was chosen from those ideas, we had to arrange the equipment required for that game, which took way longer to prepare for the sports day compared to other schools.

However, I heard that the event was more entertaining than we expected. Last year, the entire audience broke into loud and uncontrolled laughter during the sports day since kids brought up so many mind-shattering ideas.

I lifted my pencil and scratched my head with it. I wasn't good at brainstorming these things, so I would have to plan something that would make it less challenging for students to enjoy the day.

Once Yoon Jung In delivered the message and left to his seat, the kids took their textbooks out of their drawers and got up from their seats. Watching that sight, I quickly pulled myself together and took my book out too. Now that I had come to think about it, our next subject was music class.

As Kim Hye Hill and Lee Mina came toward me while holding their textbooks in their hands, we all bent our steps to the music room.

The place was right beside Class 1-1, and we were Class 1-8, so when we walked across the hallway straight, we often encountered one or two people we knew. We had the most greetings while walking past by Class 1-7, which was our next-door neighbors, and it gradually decreased as we walked away from our classroom. The farther the classrooms were, the less intimate we became with kids in other classes.

However, unexpectedly, when we were walking past Class 1-1, a lot of kids would start greeting them. We had no choice but to be intimate with the students in that class since we went through the courage test together before.

As if we had never fought against each other, the kids soon befriended each other. It finally made me realize that we really were high school students. That was when I gently smiled at the heartwarming sight.

I had eye contact with Yoo Chun Young, who opened the front door and was stepping out of the classroom. Having a chocolate milk straw between his lips, he soon opened his eyes wide in shock when I came into his view.

'Ah, it's good that you're here. I had something to ask you,' with that thought in mind, I turned to look beside me and spoke to Kim Hye Hill and Lee Mina.

"Let me stop by at Class 1-1 for a second."

"Okay, we'll save a seat for you," replied Lee Mina nonchalantly.

Letting her leave ahead of me, I quickly walked toward Yoo Chun Young. However, something utterly unexpected happened. He definitely saw me, but with a moment of him hardening his expression, Yoo Chun Young went back to his classroom while taking backward steps as if someone had pressed a rewind button on him.