In my whole life I never expected to do something as rebellious as what I was doing at the moment. It just never came to me that there would come a day where I actually wanted to be rebellious. I always thought that breaking the rules, whether it be school or parents, would leave a type of scar on me forever. I didn’t want that scar so I never intended to break the rules in anything. But in the current time I was in at the moment, I hadn’t realized that I, Yoo Youngjae, was forming a scar. Just the thought that I was breaking a rule was fascinating me because, well, this was the first time. 

     — A few hours ago —

     It was another boring day at school and I was currently standing in front of my locker, listening to Kyungsoo’s obnoxious rants about Jongin.

     “—and get this Youngjae-ah, he freaking slapped my ! He slapped my , Youngjae-ah! Can you believe that? That mother ing son of a actually had the nerve to slap my ! You don’t know how much I wanted to strangle him and throw him out the window!” I was finally able to open my locker before putting my books inside and taking the ones I was going to use in the next class. “—I seriously wish I had never met Jongin! You know why? Because he is a creepy, , son of a—“

     “Female dog,” I interrupted before shutting my locker with a loud pang! I turned around to look at Kyungsoo and placed my hands on his shoulders. Kyungsoo’s big eyes were staring at me, almost as if he were staring into my soul. I put on an exhausted smile for him to see that I would always be here for him, but at the same time that he was seriously getting on my nerves with his Jongin rants.

     “Female dog, okay?” Kyungsoo simply nodded his head and I took my hands off from his shoulders. There was still a few minutes left until the bell would ring so Kyungsoo and I decided we were going to walk around in circles in the empty hallways. Sometimes, though, we would find some of those couples devouring each other’s faces as if they couldn’t get enough. It would get very annoying, to be honest.

     “What’s with your face?” I turned my head to Kyungsoo’s side and furrowed my eyebrows. Kyungsoo noticed my confused gaze and furrowed his eyebrows as well. “You look so grumpy, it scares me,” he said. I lifted my backpack up a little and fixed my grasping of my books. I then swallowed my saliva which I didn’t even know I had piled up in my mouth. “I heard from Baekhyun that you guys got into a fight.” I didn’t expect Kyungsoo to find out, but then again, Baekhyun was his friend. 

     Just thinking about that day was irking me and I didn’t want to remember it. After that day, Baekhyun and I never spoke again and I rarely had hung out with Kyungsoo since Baekhyun would surely be there. 

     “He started it,” I said, looking no where in particular. We decided we were going to halt our walking adventure. We stood in the middle of the hallway with Kyungsoo raising a curious eyebrow while crossing his arms.

     “What’d he do?” 

     “He was saying bull,” I replied to which Kyungsoo tilted his head to the side.

     “Explain more,” he said, “I don’t understand.” I rolled my eyes nonchalantly before letting out an exasperated sigh.

     “He was saying he was so cute and acting like a freaking kid with Daehyun. It was so annoying, I wanted to throw something at him.” I looked at Kyungsoo and furrowed my eyebrows at his smirking face. It looked very creepy and I wanted to take it out of his face. Kyungsoo then began to move his body side-to-side. “Why are you doing that?”

     Ignoring my question, Kyungsoo let out a heavy sigh.

     “You’re so delusional, Youngjae-ah.” What was that supposed to mean? Me, delusional? Excuse me, I knew pretty well what was going on in life. 

     “How am I delusional?”

     “You just are,” he said while shaking his head. “You don’t see what everyone else can obviously see.”

     What everyone else can see? What was it that everyone could see, but me? I obviously could see what everyone saw, thank you very much. 

     “And what exactly is that?”

     “Well,” Kyungsoo started, placing his index finger on his lips. “the word begins with the letter ‘D’ and ends with an ’N’.” 

     “I don’t understand,” I said, shaking my head slowly. 

     “Ugh,” Kyungsoo slapped his forehead before rolling his eyes in annoyance. He then lifted his arms up as if they were pieces of noodles flying everywhere. “Daehyun! Daehyun! Daehyun! Daehyun! Youngjae-ah, I’m talking about Daehyun!”

     “How does Daehyun connect to me being delusional?”

     “It’s either you’re really stupid when it comes to these type of stuff or you’re just simply making a fool out of me!” 

     “How am I making a fool out of you?”

     “Just stop with these questions!”

     “O…kay.”

     At that moment, the bell had rung and the two of us bid our good-byes before parting away and walking to our first period. 

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     I was glad when the bell had finally rung for lunch because I didn’t want to stay any longer in my class. Somehow, I wasn’t in the mood to go to school and when I stood in front of the entrance gates, I cursed at them while glaring. I had even done that in front of my first period class even though I actually liked being in that class. 

     My face didn’t even help at all with how it looked. My eyes had dark circles under them and I looked like I was going to posses someone from the way I was staring at the things. Even my skin felt dry despite the fact that I washed it right after I had woken up. All in all, I felt as though I could fall on the floor, and roll around until I would get tired and fall asleep. 

     When I entered the cafeteria, I raised my lazy eyes to find the one table me and my friends always went to. That’s when I remembered Baekhyun would most likely be there. So I simply stood there as if I was a zombie, watching that one table for anyone to go and sit and when I saw Kyungsoo with Jongin, I was a little shocked, but relieved that Baekhyun wasn’t there…yet. I quickly sped walked over to the table, and when I got there, I sat across from a bewildered Kyungsoo and a smiling Jongin. 

     “Hey, guys,” I greeted while looking around in case Baekhyun would come. 

     “Youngjae-ah…are you okay?”

     “Yeah, sure,” I replied, not really listening to what Kyungsoo (or was it Jongin?) talking. 

     “Yah, Youngjae-ah!”

     “Yeah, sure.”

     “Want to have ?”

     “Yeah, sure,” I said before stopping my search for Baekhyun and shaking my head. I looked at a smirking Kyungsoo and a confused Jongin who was looking at Kyungsoo. “Wait, no. No! No, I didn’t hear correctly.” Kyungsoo rolled his eyes at me before crossing his arms.

     “What are you even doing?”

     “I’m seeing if Baekhyun will be coming or not.”

     “And why?” I looked at him in confusion mixed with disbelief—because, why was he asking me so many damn questions when I had to keep my eyes open for the grandpa!— while shaking my head.

     “So I can leave before he even gets here.” 

     “Okay, first of all, if you were just going to come here, only to leave right after, then you’re stupid,” he spat to which I grabbed a napkin and threw it at him. I poked at my chin, showing Kyungsoo to check if he had any saliva sliding down his chin. He felt his chin and when he said he didn’t have any saliva, I nodded my head before going back to my search on Baekhyun. 

     “Hey, guys!”

     Aw, !

     “Hey, Youngjae-ah, Baekhyun’s here,” Kyungsoo exclaimed before letting out a small giggle. I turned around to see Baekhyun staring at me in confusion and glared at Kyungsoo.

     “No, I know that!”

     And with that, I jumped out of my seat before waving my hand at Jongin and sticking my tongue out at Kyungsoo. I ignored Baekhyun’s shouting of my name and continued speed walking out of the cafeteria into the hallways. When I reached the middle part of the hallway, I stopped to catch some breath. I wasn’t an athletic person, to be exact. I clutched onto my jacket before walking over to the row of lockers and slid down on them. I sat there with one leg propped up as an area to rest my cheek on. Gosh, I think I had health issues because I was rather tired from that speed walk. I guess since I actually jumped out of my seat at the cafeteria, most of my energy had been used up on that. Looking at nothing in particular, my eyes began to slowly feel heavier. I was seriously out of it at the moment; I could care less if anyone saw me. Right when I was completely entering dreamland, I spotted a dark figure, far from me, but still visible, walking to what it seemed, the front doors of the school building? Usually, during school hours, the front doors to the building were kept locked since there would always be delinquents wanting to ditch all the time. 

     I slowly stood up from my sitting position before taking in a deep breath and quietly walked over to the mysterious person. I hoped they wouldn’t hear my footsteps or else I would surely get beaten up for ruining their obvious plan of ditching school. Not that I really cared if they ditched since I didn’t know them in the first place. 

     I hid behind a huge wall that separated the bathrooms from the front doors. 

     The guy was now literally a few feet away from me, and I seriously felt as though I was in those action movies where the spy had to try to strangle the enemy before they could explode the building or something. But, obviously I wasn’t going to do that (I can’t even defend myself for crying out loud!) and I continued analyzing the mysterious guy’s moves. His back view was facing me so I could spot his hair color which was black! I couldn’t really see anything beyond that so I didn’t know what exactly the guy was doing in front of the doors. However, I was able to hear a type of sound where the door was being unlocked. That’s it! This guy was most likely trying to pick the lock to the door in order to escape! I felt proud of myself for being able to solve the case. 

     “,” I heard the guy hiss and I couldn’t help, but question his voice because it seriously sounded like someones I knew. He continued mumbling curse words, and I kept trying to figure out whose voice was that. “Stupid piece of !” And that’s when it hit me. 

     I widened my eyes at the realization of the owner’s voice before stomping my feet over to the guy. He instantly heard me and turned around, only to gasp before smiling.

     “Hey, Youngjae-ah!”

     I scoffed at Daehyun before shaking my head in disbelief.

     “What the hell are you doing?”

     He turned to glance at the door before looking back at me. He chuckled.

     “Trying to open the door.” 

     “And why the hell are you doing that?”

     I sounded as though I was his mother, oh my God.

     “Because I was planning on ditching my last two classes,” he replied casually before grabbing my hand and placing something small in it. I analyzed it, only to realize it was a big paper clip. “Youngjae-ah, can you unlock it for me?” I looked at the pleading Daehyun and scoffed before slamming the paper clip back into his hand.

     “No! This is so stupid, Daehyun!”

     “C’mon! Hey,” Daehyun said before tilting his head to the side, “at least I’m not asking you to ditch with me. So can you help me?”

     “No!”

     “Why?” He began to stomp his feet in a childish way. I simply wanted to roll my eyes at him.

     “Because I would be helping you ditch!”

     “Youngjae-ah!”

     “No! Just forget about all of this and go back to the cafeteria or wherever you came from! You could be, you know, playing with something or talking with Baekhyun or something! But, you decided to come here and pick the lock to the ing front door of the school building? Ugh, how stupid could you get, Daehyun?”

     “I know,” he mumbled before turning around with his head low. I scoffed.

     “Damn right,” I said before starting to walk back and forth. “Daehyun, you could be doing something more productive. You know, you could be thinking about what you want to do after we graduate. I know it’s probably something you never want to talk about during the time since we’re still in high school, but at this point, you are seriously on the verge of collapsing.” At that moment, I felt as though I was walking way too deep into the privacy of Jung Daehyun. “And why? Because you keep doing this. Ditching. You could be doing so much more than simply doing this. And I’m sorry if I’m saying too much, but at this point, I can’t stand the fact that you keep do—“

     “I got it!” I stopped walking and saw Daehyun jumping up and down at the open door in front of us. He ing opened it. 

     Which means he didn’t even listen to what I saying. 

     I bet he didn’t even give a about what I saying. 

     Daehyun let out a sigh and smiled proudly at me as if what he just did was something to be happy over. I shook my head in disbelief.

     “Well that’s ing great! Let’s all shout and tell everyone to take ing pictures of this moment! Because, obviously, we can’t ing forget it!” I literally had yelled and Daehyun stared at me with bewilderment. He took a few steps closer to me and placed his hand on my shoulder. “What?”

     “Are you okay?”

     “Yeah, I’m ing okay,” I yelled out to which Daehyun tried to “shhsh” me. “What? We can’t yell? Why not?” I took off his hand from my shoulder and began jumping up and down while yelling out stupid things. “I want to yell! I want to ing yell and let the whole school know that Yoo Youngjae is ing in front of the school building’s front door and that it is ing open! What’s wrong with that?”

     “Um, the fact that we could get caught since we’re still here!” Daehyun then let out a small laugh to which I furrowed my eyebrows. 

     “Why are you laughing?”

     “‘Yoo Youngjae is ing in front of the school building’s front door’.”

     “Oh, grow up! Wait, you can’t because look at what you've done!” I pointed at the open door. Daehyun simply shrugged his shoulders before grabbing my hand and dragging me out of the building. “Let go! I don’t want to go!” Curse my weakness because I seriously couldn't get out of the tight grasp of Daehyun’s hand on my hand. We were right in between the door when a loud, deep voice came from inside the building.

     “Yah! What are you two doing?”

     It was one of the supervisors and probably the one who roamed around the hallways. Ugh, I’m so stupid for yelling! 

     “Oh, nothing Sir!” Daehyun let go of me and I simply smiled at the supervisor before stepping back inside. He analyzed me before shaking his head in disbelief and walked toward me. I didn’t know why, but at that exact moment, I was hit with this sudden urge to…run. Was it because I was scared? Did I really want to get sent to the dean’s office and have them tell my mom? I widened my eyes as the supervisor reached out to grab my wrist, but I quickly grabbed onto Daehyun’s arm. We ran out of the building as if our lives were depending on it. The supervisor’s voice kept shouting, but Daehyun and I didn’t care. We were too busy trying to leave the school. 

     I was beginning to get really tired to the point where I had to stop for a few seconds, but Daehyun patted my back and told me we had to continue or else the security guards along with some teachers would catch up on us. And so I heaved in a load of air before letting it out. We continued running until Daehyun stopped in front of the school’s front gates. How were we going to jump over that?

     “Here, place your foot on my hands,” Daehyun ordered and I looked down to see he was kneeling on one with his hands looking as if he were holding water. Then I looked back at the school building. From afar, small people were running towards us and I widened my eyes. “Stop looking at them and place your foot on my hands!”

     “Daehyun…I’m scared,” I admitted. I didn’t know if I could carry on with this. Maybe it was a better idea if I had gone with the supervisor and this could have all been forgotten. But I was stupid, and had decided to run away.

     “Don’t be scared, Youngjae-ah. Let me tell you, once we jump over these gates, I’ll treat you to rice cakes, okay?” Like that was going to help at all. “Just put your foot on my hands, okay? And I promise you we’ll make it, okay?” He looked up with squinted eyes since the sun was brightly facing him, and somehow, at that moment, I believed what he said. I nodded, placing my hands on his shoulders before placing my right foot on his hands. “Okay, from here, I’m going to lift you and you’re going to have to use some of your energy to get yourself over.” I nodded in comprehension and, soon enough, Daehyun lifted me up to which I grabbed onto the top of the gates. I thought Daehyun was going to let go of my feet, but he still was holding them, and I let out a sigh of relief. I used up the last bit of energy I had and pushed myself up before moving my legs onto the other side of the gate and successfully jumped off. I smiled and looked at Daehyun who was clapping his hands. I then looked in back to realize the guards and teachers were really close; you could easily spot the supervisor who had caught us. I looked back at Daehyun.

     “Are you going to be able to climb over?” He simply smirked.

     “Of course! I’ve done this so many times, Youngjae-ah!” And with that, he climbed onto the gates like a monkey, pulling himself up and throwing his legs over and completing it with a jump. By that time, the adults were shouting for us to come back, but we were already running far away from them while laughing.

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Hey guys! Okay, so I admit I had writers block throughout this week, but it went away today! Hopefully, I don't get it for the time being bcuz I seriously owe you guys a whole month of chapters! Anyway, chapter 14 will be a continuation of this chpt so don't worry! I'll probably be uploading it tomorrow since it is 1:35AM in the night here and I'm tired! Let's see...what else...OH! I guess those random chapters end here...? Lolz Idk tbh! OTL Anyway, thank you for waiting patiently and I hope you guys look forward to the future chapters! Speaking of that, I really enjoyed writing this chapter! It was so fun writing the ditching scene! XD Lolz thank you once again! Bye-bye! ^^