“Oppa! Please wait!” I called out as I tried to get my things in order as fast I could.

“Geez, why are you taking so long again?”

“That’s because she brings so many things to class, mostly useless things”

“YAH! YOU TWO!” I shouted from my desk as I stomped on the floor in annoyance, pouting at them both, they just replied smiling at me upon seeing me throwing a tantrum. As though seeing me losing my temper was a sight they liked, who knows, maybe they actually did, that cheeky jerk, especially him. Well he wasn’t normally a jerk, just when he got on my nerves.

“What do you even have in there?” Jonghyun turned to look at me with a smirk pasted on his face. I closed my bag and picked it up, walking up to him with a threatening look on my face. Before he knew it, I stomped on his foot and went face to face with him as he looked at me, his face showing pain due to my recent attack.

“Do you want to find out?” I said as I started lifting my bag in an attempt to hit him and just when I was about to accomplish it, I was stopped by a hand on mine, “Oppa! Let go!” Minhyuk wrapped his arms around my shoulders to stop me from moving.

“Stop being so violent towards Jonghyun”

“He’s had it coming for weeks!” I yelled as I fought to free myself from him.

Jonghyun though seemed to find things funny, he leaned in and then proceeded to glare at me to my surprise, he wasn’t mad though since that wasn’t his ‘’real’’ glare, “Geez, I can’t even joke around with you, you’re totally insane” he commented, I gasped and looked to the side to see if Minhyuk would step up for me and say something to Jonghyun. However, when I heard him giggling behind me, he hid his face on my shoulder as he tried to prevent himself from laughing it out loud. I got even more frustrated.

“Say that again!” I shouted at Jonghyun. His only reply, however, was his typical smirk, one he was known for at our school, one that made all the girls swoon over him. What was so special about Jonghyun though? True he was handsome, intelligent, he was into sports, he was the best athlete at our school; he was part of the judo club, his smile was to die for… wait, I was going off topic again at that moment, instead of listing his flaws I was listing good things about him. What was so special about Jonghyun anyway? Other than everything I’ve listed, there was nothing more to it. Oh, and he liked to bother the crap out of me like there was no tomorrow, silly thing was, us three were supposed to be best friends. Guess that’s what best friends are for.

“You want to die, don’t you Lee Jonghyun?” he shrugged his shoulders and acted like he didn’t care though, as usual.

“YAH!”

“Ugh so noisy, ah my head”

“You are so dead!” I yelled at him, he took this as a signal, a signal that we knew what always happened when we were in this type of situation was about to happen. He started running along the hallway, knowing I would immediately chase after him.

“Come back here, Lee Jonghyun!” I said as I freed myself from Minhyuk, who was startled by my sudden burst of energy.

“Hey wait you two come back here!” Minhyuk shouted from behind us both trying to catch up, this always happened at least once a week and he had to put up with us both being childish, well more like Jonghyun was the one being childish and bothering me.  Jonghyun stopped running when he reached the staircase, he looked back at me and at Minhyuk and casually stood by it, not minding that I was some meters from getting to him. I was stopped however by Minhyuk who locked me in his arms yet again, not minding my protesting while I tried to free myself. I was pretty loud at that moment, luckily everyone had already left or else they would think that I was crazy, not like they didn’t anyway.

“Let go of me! There’s this jerk I have to kill!” I shouted, probably hurting his ears, but he didn’t mind, Minhyuk never said anything when he heard me going hysterical, I never understood if he was too nice to say my shouting bothered him or if he actually found it amusing to see me in that state, just like Jonghyun did.

“No way will I let you kill Jonghyun!” Minhyuk answered as he fought to get me to calm down and stay quiet, I wouldn’t though, I tried moving my arms and jumping but he wouldn’t let go. He had efficiently locked me in his arms while I stubbornly tried to get away from him. I didn’t want to hit him, I actually never hit him, it was Jonghyun the one I was always hitting for one reason or another.

“Oppa! Let go!” I exclaimed exasperated since the guy I wanted to beat up was in front of me and I could nothing but to stare from the spot I was ‘’being held captive’’ by my best friend.

“It’s ok Minhyuk, do remember I’m a Judo player, what could a girl do to me?”

“You overconfident jerk!” I shrieked and finally freed myself from Minhyuk’s arms with all the energy I had left in me,I ran up to Jonghyun just to mercilessly start hitting him with my bag full of books and other useless stuff like Jonghyun had mentioned before. Useless stuff he used, like my spare rulers, my spare pens and whatnot. In between the hits, he managed to grab my wrist, my eyes opened wide at his reflex and with his other hand he locked my wrist and just like that, he stopped me from hitting him, my bag falling to the floor and I, being stopped from moving.

“Let go, Lee Jonghyun, you two know I don’t like this kind of things” He knew I was referring to him locking my wrists in his hand and Minhyuk stopping me from moving, if there was anything I couldn’t stand was being standing still, and much less wrist grabs and all those drama like actions.

“And let myself be beaten by you? No way” he said and added a wink to his words. I had reached my limit when he did that.

“Cheeky jerk!” I yelled and just when I was about to stomp on his foot again, he took one step back without looking where he was stepping on.

“Jonghyun, look out!” Minhyuk said just as Jonghyun  lost balance at the edge of the stairs, he still had my hands in his when he did and when he fell off the stairs he brought me down the stairs with him instead of letting me go before falling. We ended up crashing in the middle of the stairs, a loud sound following the fall. I closed my eyes tight due to the impact, feeling a little dazed due to the hit, my knees hurt, sad thing they were going to turn purple after this, I was just hoping they weren’t bleeding, I didn’t even want to look.

“Ouch” I moaned as I placed my hands on the wall and tried sitting up however there was something softer instead of the harsh wall.

“What a fall…” Jonghyun’s voice sounded unbelievably close for some reason.

“It’s your fault Jonghyun!”I exclaimed as I opened my eyes, and as soon as I took in the sight I had before me I started blinking several times. Jonghyun’s face was very close to mine and he had wrapped his arms around me to protect me from getting any more hurt than I already was. My hands were on his shoulders and I had fallen over him when we fell off.

“You alright?” He asked as he took my hands in his and started examining them, checking to see if they were alright, he then placed his hands on my shoulders, checking if there were any bruises. Silly Jonghyun, bruises appear after a little while, not immediately. He still didn’t move an inch away and when he looked up into my eyes he asked again, “Are you alright?” fixing my bangs as he spoke. I couldn’t answer though, not with him being so close to me, not with his brown eyes staring into mine from so close. I blinked a lot of times, I couldn’t even answer him, I didn’t have the words to answer him. Yes I’m alright? No it hurts? I wasn’t even sure whether it hurt or not any longer and I wasn’t sure why I was feeling like this just because he was that close at the moment.

“Something wrong?” he casually inquired, his eyes a little concerned upon seeing me not answering him.

“N-No…” I stuttered as I tried looking elsewhere, somewhere where his eyes wouldn’t be looking at me, somewhere where his face wasn’t so close to mine.

“Are you ok then? I’m not-- that hurt a lot” he said as he smiled, I couldn’t understand how he was able to smile in this situation, my arms and my legs hurt due to the hit, I had finally started feeling pain after the shock. If I were him, I wouldn’t be able to smile so easily and carelessly.

“I..”

“Guys are you ok?” Minhyuk asked as he rushed down the stairs and hastily kneeled in front of us with our bags in his hands, I quickly jumped away from Jonghyun and tried standing up.

“I’m ok…” I said but in reality I couldn’t even stand on my feet, all I wanted to do was go back home and lie down on my bed, and well not to even look at my knees.

“Omo, that must have hurt” Minhyuk said as he pointed at my leg, I looked down and saw that my leg and my knees were bruised and I hadn’t noticed before but there was blood in them, I panicked. I disliked the sight of blood, just then I noticed something that made me blush different shades of red.

“Yah! Where are you looking at, Kang Minhyuk?!” I yelled as I took a step back noticeably embarrassed.

“Eh?” Minhyuk asked clueless, “Oh…I swear it’s not what you think—I …”

“It’s your fault for standing up, you could have remained sitting on the floor until it stopped hurting” Jonghyun mentioned as he looked in my direction, mocking me as always.

“You are dead!” I was about to kick him but stopped due to a sudden pain on my knee, “Ouch it hurts, it’s all your fault!” Minhyuk quickly got on his feet and helped me remain still but my knees were shaking due to the pain and it was difficult to remain standing. I felt frustrated; I didn’t really like it when I hurt myself, especially since I liked being active.

“Are you alright?” he asked, concerned.

“No…” I moaned, annoyed at myself for even chasing Jonghyun towards the stairs. However I then realized that maybe he was hurt too but wasn’t being as annoying as me about it, especially since he had taken the worst part of the hit.

“You won’t be able to go home by bike like this…”

“I’ll take her on my bike, after all it was my fault” Jonghyun mentioned as he finally stood up and cleaned the dust from his clothes.

I looked curiously at him, wondering if he had forgotten, “Jonghyun, don’t you have to meet with the guys from the what’s-its-name club?” I casually asked, trying to hide the pain. He looked surprised when he heard me mention that, “You forgot, didn’t you?”

“Ugh, true, well I trust you and Minhyuk will arrive home safely, I’ll be back later then”

“Yeah well, see you around at home, you live in front of my house anyway” I said. Besides being my friends, those two were my neighbors, it was crazy, Minhyuk’s house was next to mine and Jonghyun’s in front of mine, so we were always together, we went to school together and return from school together.

“Alright, see you guys later” he ran down the stairs towards the place his club had activities at, I couldn’t understand how he was able to run when I could barely stand on my feet, guess he was just that cool, either that or his bones were made of something that wasn’t human. I sighed and smiled though.

“He’s crazy…” I said under my breath.

“Very much so, that was quite a fall” Minhyuk said as he glanced towards the direction Jonghyun had run off to, “Here” he said as he offered his hand to me to help me walk down the stairs. I took his hand and when we were about to arrive at the first floor my knees felt weak, making me lose balance, Minhyuk quickly noticed this and placed his hand on my waist to help me recover, his other hand on my shoulder to make me stand straight.

“You can’t even walk!” I looked down to the floor in embarrassment.

“I’m always being a burden towards you, Minhyuk-oppa”

“Like that matters at this moment!” he shouted back, my eyes opened wide at the sudden change of tone, but I could feel he was worried and that made me feel horrible, I didn’t like to worry him, I had worried him for years and this time again I did something careless causing him to worry for me yet another time. I bit my lips and sighed. I was always a bother to him.

He turned around suddenly, “Get on”

“What?! No of course I won’t!”

“Get on, we won’t go by bike today, for one you can’t ride and two, I can’t ride knowing you might fall again” he explained.

“I’m not that clumsy!” I replied, he however didn’t seem to listen to me.

“Don’t make this hard and get on” I thought about it for a moment and the pain on my knee was coming back, so I gave in, plus I knew Minhyuk wouldn’t take no for an answer.

“Alright…” hesitation filled my voice and I was glad he wasn’t looking at me to see how ashamed I was at this situation, he kneeled so I could get on his back, giving me a smile to tell me it was ok to do so. I wrapped my arms around his shoulders and closed my eyes.

“Ready, set…go!” He stood up and when I opened my eyes I saw that I was some meters above from the floor, I held tight onto him. I was slightly scared since I had never got on anyone’s back and this was a first to me.

“Don’t you dare drop me! Or our friendship is over!” I threatened.

“No way that will happen” he said before laughing as he started walking with me on his back, it felt awkward at first, but after a few minutes I got used to it. I rested my head on his shoulder and held tight to him as he walked in direction to our houses, getting odd glances from some of the students that were still around the area.

“Thank you…” I said burying