I was confronted by these girls, a whole swarm of them. Min Joon was staring at me with wide eyes in the middle of the herd, and I avoided his gaze. Honestly, I was terrified. I should've left while I could, or ran the whole way to the bus stop and get the hell away from here. It was another memory, a flashback of the previous years. Another encounter with the type of people I despised the most. 

   The girls glared at me menacingly, and some even growled. I had the urge to laugh, to walk up to them and ask them, 'what was the matter?'. I swear, I think I'm going crazy. I felt the panic build up, thousands of thoughts running through my head. My mother's face popped into my head, an image of her worried expression filling my every thought. I suddenly had a surge of strength to look up, and come up with a smart remark to whatever they were thinking. I looked at the ones at the front in the eye, and they all smirked at me. When my eyes moved to Min Joon, I saw him smile reassuringly, which I found bewildering. One of the girls, who I was guessing was the head of the group, walked forward slowly, stopping a few steps in front of me. I backed up instinctively, it suddenly dawning on me why they had picked this time to surround me. No one of BTS was accompanying me, or there at the moment. Eun Ji was also nowhere in sight. For the first time, since the moment I had stepped onto the grounds of Eliston Academy, I was alone. I let my guard down, I became weaker than I ever was, and I had no idea of how to protect myself anymore.  All this time, I had believed that I was becoming stronger, but in reality, I wasn't. And now, it was all crashing down on me, everything that I had built up at my time here. 

   No, not again. I was not going to allow these pathetic girls stare me down or beat me up with their words. I wasn't going to let my guard down because of a boy, like I did with Min Joon. It was going to change, starting now. I came here to focus on my studies, to provide a good future for my mother. I wasn't going to give up all my hard work for anyone here. I appreciated everything that my new friends did for me, but it wasn't going to change my perspective. 

      "What do you want?" I asked loudly with a confident smirk on my face. My sudden boost of energy had made me more confident than ever, and I was going to confront them with a proud expression on my face, head held high. The girls laughed, as if that question was the funniest thing they've ever heard. 

      The leader of the pack walked forward even more with a smug look on her face, "You know what we want you to do." I scrunched up my nose, confused. What did they want? The girl rolled her eyes, "I didn't think you were this dense, considering that you came on a scholarship. We want you to stay away from the Bangtan Boys. I don't know what they really see in you, but it definitely wasn't your looks that lured them in." She laughed, which I frowned to. What was wrong with me being friends with them?

      I hated not knowing what was going on, but I gathered up my confidence and spoke up, "You're all pathetic, running after them and circling them like annoying flies. You can’t tell me what to do." 

   "You bit-", the leader lunged forward. She was probably planning to hit me, but her friends held her back. They whispered things hesitantly in her ear, and she pushed them off. Her face was bright red. I briefly scanned my eyes through the crowd, memorizing the faces of all the girls. I saw Min Joon staring at me with a grin. Instead of commenting on it, I glared at him. 

   Before I knew it, he was in front of me. He looked at me, daring me to utter another word. He then proceeded to grab my hand, and turned to face the crowd of girls. 

      "I didn't want to reveal this before, but Soo Min is my girlfriend. So please stop harassing her." He paused, and I widened my eyes at him, shocked. The girls were suddenly whining. I guess he was really popular with them. I took my hand out of his quickly, wiping my palms on my pants. His hands still fit perfectly into mine, just like in middle school. I quickly shook the thought out of my head, reminding myself of what he di