Bomi POV

     SungJong follows me into my room and closes the door.

     “Now that you have food in your stomach, maybe you won’t sound like a crazy person. What exactly happened to make you run so hard that you hurt yourself so badly?”

     “Okay, what I’m about to say makes me look crazy, but I’m telling the truth. You know I’m not the type to make this up.” I say. He nods his head and motions for me to continue.

     I tell him about what I saw in the room and how it was watching me. He shudders and rubs his arms.

     “Are you serious?!” he asks trying not to imagine it.

     “Very!” I say and he shudders again. “I’ve tried to tell Myungsoo that it’s haunted and he thought I was lying.”

     “Why would you tell him anyways? That guy might as well be a ghost too.” he says. This time I decide not to defend him.

     “What should we do about it?” I ask.

     “About what?”

     “The ghost!”

     “What are talking about? Just leave it!”

     “How can I? It stared right at me! I feel like it pegged me as a target to terror!”

     “What do you suggest then?” he asks.

     “I don’t know but I’m tired of looking like a nut. Other people need to see it too.” We sat there in silence and then slowly we both start to smile.

     “Courage test!” we both say at the same time.

     “Okay! Tomorrow talk to your friends and get them to come. I’ll do the same.”

     “Okay!” he says in approval. We give each other a high five. “We should do it tomorrow since it’s a Friday.” He says.

     “Oh I like you’re thinking!” I say and give him another high five.

     “Wait, what about your leg? Should we wait until next week?”

     “No I’ll be okay once I sleep. And I really don’t want to go another week with that ghost alone!” I say and shiver. I was hoping somehow the ghost would be scared away if a lot of people saw it. But that’s just my wishful thinking.

      My knee hurts even worse today! I think it’s because I am soar too. Either way tonight is not going to be easy. If we need to run I’m screwed! I’m hoping my fear will drive me like it did yesterday.

      I wrap my knee with a medical sloth and hope that will be enough.

     Sungjong and I were walking to school, well… more like limping but I tried to hide it so Sungjong wouldn’t worry.

     “Is you knee okay today?” he asks looking at it.

     “Neh!” I lie. He nods his head and looks ahead.

     “Who are you getting to go?”

     “Eunji, Chorong and Sungyeol. I think they would go. What about you?”

     “There are at least three girls that I know for sure will go.” Sungjong is pretty popular among the girls. And right now there are three girls that actively try to win him over.

      I smirk. “Namjoo?” I ask and smile.

      “God, you always try to get us together.” He says and sighs.

      “What’s wrong with her? Compared to the other ones, Namjoo is the only one that I think actually likes you for you. Which, in case you didn’t know, is pretty amazing.” He scoffs and rolls his eyes.

      “If you like her so much than you date her!” he yells and walks a head of me.

      “Yah!” I yell after him. What’s wrong with him?

     I enter the classroom and limp my way to my seat.

     “Are you okay?” Sungyeol asks with a concerned expression. Chorong and Eunji look at my bandaged knee.

     “Yeah, I just slipped on the snow yesterday, but it’s okay it barely hurts.” I lie again. I feel like I’m going to have to lie a lot today.

     Myungsoo walks into the class. I watch him as he goes to his seat. I wonder if he is still mad.

     I sigh and tell Eunji, Chorong, and Sungyeol about tonight and they agree to go. Actually Chorong was hesitating but as soon and Sungyeol said he was going she instantly agreed to go. She really has a one track mind when it comes to him.

     “Should we ask others to come?” Eunji asks. I look towards Myungsoo hoping he was looking at me so I could drag him in but he was still ignoring my existence. Just then the door opens. Sunggyu and his friends walk in. He walks over to me with a smile.

     “Yoon Bomi! My beautiful flower!” I look at him in disgust. Everyone else has the combination of shock, confusion and disgust on their faces.

      I kick him in the shin and give him a dirty look.

     “Ack!” he yelps in pain.

     “Yah! What did I tell you yesterday?” I say in a threatening tone.

     “Bomi what is going on?” Chorong asks while Sunggyu is rolling on the ground rubbing his shin.

     “He’s crazy, just ignore him.” I glance at Myungsoo and he was still not looking over. Why am i even looking at him anyways?

     “Yah! Why did you kick me?” he asks finally calming down.

     “Well, I thought I told you yesterday not to mess with me, but you obviously didn’t understand.”

     “What were you guys talking about anyways?” he asks while standing up.

     “None of your…” i start to say and Eunji interupts me.

     “A courage test!” Eunji yells. I whip my head around and look at her. She glances at Dongwoo. What she wants to make this a date?

     “Ohhh! Sounds interesting! I’m in!” Dongwoo yells and jumps in excitement. Eunji smiles.

     “Me too!” Sunggyu yells. Awesome… just what I wanted….

     “What’s the courage test about?” Woohyun asks.

      I sigh and explain it to them.

     “So are you guys still in?” Everyone agrees.  I look at Sunggyu whose face seems to be frozen. “And you?” I ask.

     “Oh? N-neh.” He stutters. Hmpf! Maybe this is a good idea to have them come. I would love to see him scared senseless!

     Later at lunch I started to think about Myungsoo. For some reason I really wanted him to go. I want to prove to him that I’m not paranoid. Actually I thought about him and what those girls were saying the whole time I was cleaning yesterday. When I think about it he really never does confront people when rumors go around, but he did for this one. It’s hard to believe but maybe he really was defending me. And if that’s the case I owe him an apology.

     I get up and tell them I had something to do and leave the cafeteria. I know he will most likely reject it and say no to coming but I want to try.

     I head towards the roof because that’s where he always goes. I open the door and see him lying down. I take a deep breath and limp over to him.

     “Myungsoo.” I say cautiously. He doesn’t respond. I sigh. “Look, I’m sorry for yesterday. I didn’t mean to bring up all of that. I just, never thought that you would defend me. And I know you will probably say no but I want you to come tonight. I want to prove to you that I’m not paranoid.” Myungsoo sighs and sits up and looks at me.

*doo-geun*

     “I don’t know how you got the crazy idea in your head that I was defending you, or that you think I would care if you’re paranoid or not. Because I don’t care.” He says and gets up and leaves.

*doo-geun*

      I put my hand over my chest.

      “Why is my heart is beating fast again?… it kind of hurts this time though.”

     I slowly walk back to class. Climbing those stairs !

     I sigh. I knew he wasn’t defending me. Those girls were just mistaken.

     “Why is the school so stuffy today?” I say and sigh again.

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