Her Bullies

Their next talking encounter happened at P.E, whom she happened to be in the same class as Jonghyun and they were to play dodgeball. now, the downsides of begin the smartest girl in the grade, and deemed to be the nicest by most boys was that girls were bound to be jealous especially when they, themselves are deemed to be a by the same boys that call her nice. most of the girls in her grade just happened to be quite y… and more just loved to bully her. not only because they felt pleasures on doing so and felt some great satisfaction from putting stumbling blocks on her path to success and her what seemed to be unchangeable nice disposition…. but because she never retaliated, and she didn't have any connections which would make them reconsider their actions.

this bullying has been going on for a year. and one boy did come to her defence one, or two times but this was usually done by the popular, good looking, sociable boy that respected girls and this would make the girls even more jealous and would become even worse to her--it was like putting fuel into the fire that was already burning. and the girl's sort of made it like it was their life mission--and when it's a mission, you don't stop until you achieve what you set out to do. and this was to crush her. however, though, Seohyun had showed slightly less motivation in tasks… this wasn't enough for them.

"oh no…" Seohyun yelled as she ran away form the ball that kept aiming at he direction, actually, the many balls, all thrown to her by the opposing side, which happened to be all girls. and all prettier than her and defiantly all with IQ's less than hers. the boys, inevitably noticing it, merely snickered and continued their game. however, when the ball, eventually hit Seohyun, and unluckily right in the face.

the whistle blew and the coach walked to her direction in endeavours to console the wounded girl. Seohyun looked up to see the girls and to her disgust, they were highfiving each other, with not a smile on their face, but a, 'yea… okay let's continue, that's nothing, it happens, again, don't change' sort of look. the boys around however, had a more sympathetic side, even though it was quite ironic. some were laughing, especially peter, who was laughing so loud that it made other boys laugh and then hit him for making them do that at such a serious situation. "you're laughing like a retard!" one of them said and pushed him and peter in response pushed him back. 

"don't push me."

"don't laugh!" said fred, one of the nicer boys belonging to the group that i had recently labelled as the popular, respectful to all girls, sociable ones who she couldn't even dream or think of herself being friends with.

"WHO THREW THE BALL AT HER?!" yelled the coach to the opposite side. the opposite side, was silent and looked at her as though they had nothing to do with it.

"all of them." one of the boys next to the coach fake coughed.

"all of them." said one of the boys out loud, his hand on his stomach, and looking at them with a very geunine expression. 

"BUT WHO SPECIFICALLY THREW THIS AT HER FACE?!"

peter started laughing again and the coach looked at him quickly and sternly, whom she happened to be a big beefy woman and said to him. "OH STUP UP!"

peters laughs than became softer however, his face looked ridiculous--scrunched up from trying not to laugh and his body shaking. "your such a retard." said the boy who had said that he laughed like a retard. 

"don't push me." peter said. 

"huh?" the boy replied.

"THE GIRL--STAND FORWARD IMMEDIATELY."

and a girl stood forward. her name was anna, one of the main girls who bullied her. 

"come over here!" the coach yelled and she did as she was told. she walked over to her. 

"what?" she said looking at the coach, and directly at Seohyun, whom the fact that her face showed no regrets, no sympathy made her blood boil… 

"LOOOK AT WHAT YOU DID!!!!!!!!!" the woman yelled and anna looked at her, and by her face you knew that she was shocked. you knew that she was intimidated. even Seohyun, who had a mini heart attack. "LOOK AT HER FACE!"

the girl looked at her face, and then looked away and said softly. "so ugly."

and the girls behind fake coughed immediately.

Seohyun's face was burning, she could feel it. it felt like the after feeling of being spanked hard by your mother on your arm… how it just stung really badly, and that's how it felt on her face. however, she was not aware of what she looked like.

"ALL THE GIRLS! APOLOGISE TO HER NOW!!!!" yelled the coach. the girls made no reaction. "DON'T JUST STAND THERE COME HERE AND APOLOGISE TO HER FACE TO FACE." 

the boy's felt this was the most awkwardest situation ever, but it was quite amusing considering the girl who got hit was a loser in their opinion. slowly, the girls walked towards her until they were surrounding her. Jonghyun scarcely watched from the wall he was leaning on… as he knew there was nothing he could do… 

the girls whom were all around her said, at the same time, sort of mumbling, rambling, dragging the words out… 'SORRYRYYYYYYY…" but after one girl said it, the sorry still continued like it was some sort of game to them, like it wasn't serious.

"SAY IT PROPERLY!!" the coach yelled. "1, 2, 3!"

"SORRY." they all said at the same time.

and one of the girls, who was behind her, suddenly looked at her head, then down to her back… and then to her legs, and then up again to her back. for some reason, she had the urge to pull her shirt up… just for the sake of embarrassing her. she felt angry how because of Seohyun who hadn't done anything wrong she was forced to apologise to her. she felt like she had snitched.

she nudged the friend on the left of her. her friend turned to where she felt the nudge then looked to her friend. "what?" she said.

she looked her directly in the eyes and then looked at her back, and then flipped her head up.

her friend made no response for a moment, trying to get what she was talking about… but after she didn't, she looked at her, put her hands in gestulation which resembled a 'what' way. 

her friend hit her head, and then she looked around her, and then looked back at her with a smirk.

"what?" her friend said this time provokingly. 

in response, her friend hit her head and then grabbed Seohyuns shirt. 

"what do you think you are doing?" her friend whispered eagerly, her eyes wide and luckily for them, the coach didn't hear them or Seohyun for the coach was screaming too loud, deliberately done to ensure that her lecture remained stuck to their brains and they couldn't ignore it.  however, some of the girls around did notice… and looked at the girls hand on Seohyuns jumper but just smirked instead, and became excited judging by their facial expressions.

all of them then moved back.

she quickly but a hand to her lips, to symbolise her friend to keep shut. then she flipped her shirt up and put it over her head then ran to the back and Seohyun screamed, and all the girls began noticed and began to laugh.

Seohyun, to surprised and shocked, screamed in horror, she didn't know what to do but began wailing her hands up and down in the air.

"ooooooo…" said all the boys their eyes widened… and Jonghyun just had his eyes widened in horror. however… as she began turning herself in circles… Jonghyun's eyes widened even more in horror after noticing the scars on her back, which looked exactly the same as the last time he had seen them--the day she was attacked and he took her to his house. it hasn't healed much… he said.

"she's so stupid." the girls all laughed and kept chanting.

"put your shirt down!" said some of the boys. "just put your hand on your head and pull it down… but not forward! backwards!"

"she's going nuts!" some of them yelled.

"youtube…" said one of the boys, holding his phone up to eye view, recording Seohyun going crazy. 

"i could never imagine her going this crazy…" said some of the nice quiet girls. "she's always so quiet in class and does all her work."

"aww poor girl." said the other half of the nice girls in tat quiet nice group.

the coach then put her hand on the top of her head where the shirt was and hastily pulled it down her back. 

Seohyun, looked around her, everyone was laughing, her eyes began to water, and there, she ran away from there the gymnasium, not needing to push anyone away as they moved away for her. when she reached the doors of the gymnasium she pushed the doors open and ran to her usual eating area, under the trees in the oval near the basketball court.

Jonghyun only stared after her with a countenance of pity and not because the medicine wasn't working, but because he could feel her emotions almost, he knew that this experience that had just occurred would be traumatic for her, as she was such a nice, shy girl and didn't feel or ever think about this coming--at all.