8TH ROSE: Shape Up

JIN HEE DIDN’T PREPARED HERSELF when Mi Yeon suddenly pushed her to the water and left her with a triumphant, evil smile on the latter’s face.
Jin Hee has an aquaphobia, a huge fear of large bodies of water since she was a kid and that’s one reason why she doesn’t know how to swim.
She kept on moving, floating herself out of the water to gasp for air. 
“H-Help, help me!” she tried to shout, hoping that someone might hear her. “Help me!!!”
She kept on moving and floating herself out of the water, perking her head to cough and gasped for air. But since she doesn’t know how to swim and exhaustion slowly crept in her system, she ended up sinking.
Min Seok, help me.
Somebody… somebody help me.
She didn’t noticed that someone jumped into the water and swam towards her.

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“I have to go,” Ah Young, Tae Yang and Ha Neul simultaneously raised their heads towards Baek Hyeon who’s now putting his black overcoat on his shoulders, showcasing his elegant façade.
“Another business meeting?” Ha Neul asked as he looked at his laptop, tapping on its thin keyboard
Tric let go a deep sigh. “Yeah.”
“We have class on Physics later. Aren’t you gonna attend it?” asked Ah Young, slightly poking her chin using the head of her fountain pen.
“I’ll just ditch it. Abeoji really wants me to attend that meeting. Our investors in Europe just arrived as of eleven. Just tell Madame I can’t attend the class today,” he responded and left the student council room. (*this is the formal form for “father”. Other forms are Abeonim (also formal) and Appa (informal))
“Okay,” that’s the last thing he heard before completely leaving the said room.

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He was walking few meters away from the swimming gym when his phone rang. When he saw the name on his phone’s screen, he couldn’t help but purse his lips into thin line.
His dad, he confirmed.
He let go a deep sigh before picking up the phonecall. “Ye, abeoji?” (*formal form of “yes”.)
“Where are you?” his dad asked with a serious tone.
He dislikes that tone.
And not just that tone, he also dislikes his dad being an authoritarian.
“School,” he answered in nonchalance. “Don’t worry, I’m on my way there.”
“Be sure you’ll be here on time. This meeting is so important for our company so don’t think about ditching it,” his father warned. 
“Don’t worry, Abeoji. I never missed any of your business meeting since I reached puberty,” he almost tasted the saltiness of his words. Eversince he was a kid, his father always, always calls him to attend and to listen to their company’s business meetings. It’s his training since he’s the only successor of his family’s huge empire of companies.
It took few seconds for his dad to answer. “Okay,” Mr. Baek responded. “By the way, bring the five folders that I gave you last night. It’s our agenda for today’s meeting. Don’t forget it. I don’t want everything to be in trouble and messed up. Do you understand?”
“Ye, abeoji,” Baek Hyeon muttered and hanged up the said call.
He, then, opened his attaché case and saw that the five folders containing the documents of today’s meeting that his father is talking about is not there.
“Aish. This is such a pain on the neck,” he muttered to himself. He heaved a sigh and decided to go back to the school council office where he has his personal locker (it’s actually a vault) under his table.
“H-Help!” he stopped on his tracks when he heard a weak holler just inside the swimming.
“Pool area?”
I might imagining things—“Help me!!!” he turned his head towards the swimming gym. He walked towards the glass door and peeked. He noticed the abnormal movement of the pool water but he didn’t make a move nor get himself in the said area but when he saw Jin Hee drowning, before he knew, he abruptly got inside the pool area and took off his overcoat. He hastily dove into the water and swam towards Jin Hee who’s now sinking underwater, losing her consciousness. 
He abruptly held her arm and pulled her towards him. He slightly tapped her cheek but she’s still unconscious. He wrapped her arms on his neck and held her waist before swimming up the water. Baek Hyeon managed to put her on the floor before pulling himself out the water.
“Nouveau riche,” he tapped Jin Hee’s pale cheek a couple of times, trying to wake her up. “Aish, yah! Yah, nouveau riche wake up!” but the girl is still unresponsive.
He took a deep breath and did the CPR, giving the girl’s chest some pressure when he noticed that the girl is not breathing anymore and her heartbeat is weak. He took a deep breath once again and executed the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
More pressure and more lips touched before Jin Hee coughed the water that stuck in and gasped for air as if her life depended on it.

Exactly, her life really depended on it.

​​​​Baek Hyeon sighed in relief as he helped her sit up, supporting her back to help her regulate her breathing. “Hey, nouveau riche, you okay?”
The latter’s weak, uncoordinated eyes settled on him. Her breathing is getting heavier as if she’s really, really tired.
“Y-You…” she muttered before losing her consciousness.
Baek Hyeon stared at her silently and sighed for the umpteenth time. He picked up his overcoat and wrapped it on her before carrying her in a bridal style and walked out from the pool area.

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Shock is an understatement to what the students in the hallway are feeling right now as they watched Baek Hyeon walking with a stern expression on his face while carrying the soaking wet and unconscious Song Jin Hee. They couldn’t help but chatter, murmur, tattle and whisper to each other like busy bees but not because of honey but because of the scene in front of them right now.
Because the great Yoon Baek Hyeon is with the transfer student… again.
Bet it’ll be a huge headline again in their underground website just like their first encounter.
Baek Hyeon is annoyed. It’s not really his intention to walk in the hallway because he really, really hate attention and not just that, he’s also soaking wet and cold but he doesn’t have a choice but to bring the unconscious girl to the student council office because of all the chances, the school doctor and the school nurse is not in the clinic as of this hour.
What the .
“Hey, there’s Baek Hyeon and… eh? He’s with nouveau riche? Why is he carrying nouveau riche?” Min Seok turned his gaze to what Jung Soo, one of his classmates, is pointing right now.
Min Seok frowned at the two’s direction. Why is Jin Hee with Baek Hyeon?
“I’ll talk to you later,” he tapped the former’s shoulder and f