Chapter 348

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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 with a stupefied face, "Eh??"

At that moment, someone blurted out behind the closed door with an angered tone, 'Why are you blocking my way?' The person then stepped out of the classroom, 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 these guys doing?

Frankly speaking, I wasn't trying to hide the fact that Yeo Dan oppa and I were pretending to date as a disguise from his stalker... except for Ban Yeo Ryung. Why was I hiding it away from Ban Yeo Ryung? That was because when it came to matters concerning me, she would start having a light mouth. To put it in a nutshell, she would begin to be uncontrollable.

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 that she would react that way. 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. Wouldn't we feel less burdened if there were, at least, one person who would share our secret?

I prioritized the Four Heavenly Kings as the people I chose to reveal this secret. The four boys were all men 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 always stayed beside Ban Yeo Ryung. If I revealed the secret to them through text messages or phone calls while saying, 'The truth is this and that,' Ban Yeo Ryung might be there to read the news or listen to our phone call. It would be troublesome if that happened.

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

The last class had ended, at last. Waiting for our homeroom teacher to return and wrap up the day, I looked 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 lessons while moving to different classrooms, so I had many chances to bump into them during Biology class, PE class, and even during lunchtime.

However, whenever I was in their sight, they would flee away from me. Oh, come on, I wasn't contaminated with a deadly virus!

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

When I was almost in tears, 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 hadn't been long since the second semester began, which was when our teachers started to collect our phones, so many kids weren't used to this new rule yet. Resting my chin on my palm, I blankly watched the kids taking their phones back. Kim Hye Woo then dropped a phone in front of me.

"Here, I saw yours too."

"Aw, that's sweet of you," replying with a light heart, I quickly picked it up and opened my flip phone. Once I entered my inbox, I found it blank as I flashed the monitor.

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

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

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

"Hello?"

"Hey."

"Dude! Why were you acting like...?"

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

"Um, hearing your voice is really..."

"Really?" I repeated his word.

"Is really making me feel much better, but..."

Eun Jiho's voice sounded weaker than when he had a severe cold in the past. Besides, did he just say he was feeling much better?

"So?" I tossed a question in bewilderment.

"It's intolerable."

"WHAT?"

And that was the end of our conversation. The call suddenly ended. I was sitting on my seat absent-mindedly for quite a while with my phone beside my ear. Taking it away from me, I heaved a deep sigh.

I muttered while dropping my gaze at the phone screen, 'What was he doing? How could we have a conversation when he only says what he wants and hangs up? Eun Jiho, where did you throw out all the lessons you've learned from your business administration training?'

Pressing my temples firmly, I called someone else. It was Yoo Chun Young. Humming quietly to the familiar music of the ringing tone, a voice soon came over the phone.

"Uh-huh."

'He's also responding, at least, to my call.' With that thought in mind, I spoke in an angry voice on purpose.

"Hey, Yoo Chun Young..."

However, before I tried to drop the next words, he cut me off, saying, "Ah, hold on."

Excuse me? I didn't say anything yet, did I? Did their teacher return to their classroom? Being fl.u.s.tered at his response, I asked, "What?"

"Try not to call my name."

"Huh?"

"Ha..."

The call then ended again out of the blue, just like when I had a phone call earlier with Eun Jiho. Without any signs or warnings, I was left alone with a disconnecting beep. Sitting blankly with my phone next to my ear again, I burst out yelling, at last.

"Argh, are you kidding me!? What the hell is wrong with you guys!?" I raised my hand and disheveled my hair.

Was avoiding me all day not enough? How could you guys answer the phone this way? While I roared in anger, the kids sitting around me tapped my desk and asked, 'What's going on?' Shaking my head at them, I immediately entered Jooin's number. He quickly picked up the phone too.

"Hello?" As soon as I answered sulkily for no reason at all, his response returned.

"Mama! I'm so glad to hear your voice."

"Jooin..."

Suddenly, I was moved to tears. If someone asked me why I was reacting so emotionally since we weren't living apart in different cities and were even going to the same school, I didn't have much to say. However, it had been a while since I received such a friendly response from someone.

After three phone calls, I was able to bring up the reason I had called them at last. Lowering my voice, I flung a question.

"Jooin, when would you have time? I have something to talk to you about. It won't take long."

However, his reaction was somewhat strange. His returning voice sounded as if he was in an awkward situation.

"Ah, mama... that is..."

"Huh?"

"These bastards... if they wouldn't see your face, they might as well do it by themselves."

"What are you talking about...?"

For some reason, even this phone call was about to go off the track. Wondering for a moment, I carefully asked, "What you're trying to say... does it involve Yoo Chun Young and Eun Jiho?"

"Uh... yeah..."

"Ah, come on, if they're next to you, please ask them, why... for what reason are they ignoring me?"

"That's... um... before entering high school, you also asked us to ignore you without telling us the reason. The boys are telling me that now we're even."

His response made my mouth shut.