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To say that Jungwon's life had turned upside down, was an understatement. It was almost as if he suddenly became a walking plague. Everybody and I mean every single person in the school, avoided him. They never walked the path he walked on, they never took his name out of their mouth, they never looked at him. Never. Even when you know he is walking in front of you, they would never take their eyes off the floor to even glance at his back. 

It wasn't just students. Even teachers did not look at him. They never scolded him, they never looked at him, he was free to leave the class whenever he wanted without permission, he was free to choose his own partner for the experiments, which was only one, he was allowed to do everything that he wanted without permission. 

One time, he woke up late after pulling an all-nighter to finish his chemistry homework and came late to school. He was sure that he would get in trouble, but he never did. The teacher never looked at him and just told him to sit back in his seat if he wanted to. They continued the lesson as if he never came late and didn't get detention. Nobody really checked his homework either, even when he put so much effort into it. He got straight A's without a red mark of correction on his paper. 

They wouldn't even check his papers correctly! He himself would catch his blunder mistakes on the paper and inform the teacher, but the A+ on his sheet never changed. It was almost as if, the teacher would read his name and straight away right an A+ on the side and put it away with the corrected ones.  

Nobody talked to him. Even when he tried to make little conversations with them, they would never make eye contact with him and they would never reply back. This made him feel so lonely, like an outcast. Whenever he would go to buy himself lunch in the cafeteria, all the students would leave their spots in the line and the entire hall would be dead silent. No one ever dared to even glance away from their now pretty and interesting food which was just a simple burger with ham. (a/n: ew.) 

Everyone, the principal included, avoided him like he was a walking plague. A disease that would kill them if they made any sort of contact with him. He was so frustrated that he isolated himself from everyone even in his family. He never went to school with his dad, he walked alone, he never went to visit his mother's grave, he never talked to Jake either. 

After a week of this drama, he was starting to feel a burning sensation in his soul that slowly consumed him whole and made him want to use his skills to hurt someone. He never felt like this before. So when he saw the man who was responsible for this all, beating a fellow kid with black hair, he immediately saw red. His balled fist had a mind of their own as they painfully connected with the taller's cheeks. 

Ni-Ki never jerked his head to the side even after he was punched even though he had burning hell in his eyes which melted like ice as soon as they made contact with the fiery red ones that portrayed pure rage aimed towards him. Something he wasn't familiar with. 

"Bullying people will never get you what you want, Mr. Nishimura," Jungwon said in a cold voice. He never glanced at the beaten-up kid behind him as he stared at the brown eyes of the man who made his life a living hell. 

He briefly glanced at the boy before he looked back at the man, who is currently the main source of his misery. "Why did you beat him?" he asked straightforwardly. No beating around the bush. 

"It's none of your concern, pretty boy. Don't you have some Einstien shits to do?" Ni-Ki scoffed as he snapped at the boy he claimed as his. "Answer the question asked with an affirmative reason, Nishimura, an answer that ends in a fucking full stop." Jungwon snapped back. 

Soon enough Ni-Ki's eyes set ablaze to the hell his eyes held. Eyes aflame they both looked down on each other, clearly trying to intimidate the other. "He needs to be put in his place. He seems to have forgotten what I announced last time." 

"That's not a proper answer," Jungwon said. "I just told you the answer you wanted, pretty boy. Now go back and do your scientist shits in that godforsaken fossil lab." Ni-Ki sighed, annoyed. "So you are telling me that you beat a poor kid because he didn't listen to you?" Jungwon asked, bewildered. 

He never met someone like him in his entire life. And the fact that the entire school treated him like a plague right after the announcement was made told him that this would be the first and his last. He was pretty sure that he would be locked up in a room forever like rapunzel. 

"Yes," Ni-Ki replied hella irritated. 

"You're hopeless." Jungwon sighed out. He turned around and slowly helped the other kid up. "Do you think you can walk? The infirmary is right around the corner." he gently asked the boy. His soft and gentle tone completely contradicted the rage he felt towards the blonde standing a few feet from him. 

He glared at the said boy when he heard him scoff. "Pathetic." He spat. "Maybe it's you who is pathetic here considering the dumb reason you beat him up for. I call it a pathetic insecurity Nishimura Riki. No wonder you have it." Jungwon spat back mumbling the last sentence so that no one but the boy and Ni-Ki would hear him. 

That twisted something inside Ni-Ki so deep that he could actually feel his heart clenching. Like someone was putting pressure on it with a rock trying to crush it. And just like that, he stormed off. Why? because he really was insecure about people seeing him in this state. 

Jungwon of course didn't miss the emotion that passed Ni-Ki's eyes before he stormed off. 

Fear. That's what he saw. 

He made a mental note to go and make up for his stupidity.

Jungwon took the injured boy to the infirmary and stayed there until the nurse treated his wounds. He might as well use the privilege he miraculously got now. When the nurse was done he walked in to look at the boy. 

"Hey, does it still hurt?" Jungwon gently asked. 

"Yeah. It does," he replied. Tone accusing. "Your boyfriend is way too strong for his appearance." 

Jungwon was taken aback. NISHIMURA RIKI WAS NOT HIS FUCKING BOYFRIEND!

"Uh... he's not my boyfriend..." Jungwon awkwardly shuffled around in his place as he attempted to smile at the boy. 

"Oh? I'm sorry for assuming it then. I was just asking around for my friend when he just came and started beating me." 

"Your friend? Why would he beat you for asking your friend's name?" Jungwon asked confused as hell. 

"Well, maybe because my friend just so happens to be sheep fucking garden?" He spat.

Jungwon widened his eyes at the familiar nickname as he screamed. 

"Sunoo Hyung?!" 

"Yes, wonie bear, it's me Sunoo."

"Oh my god! I'm so sorry Hyung! Fuck-"

Jungwon rambles feeling bad that his friend got beaten up for just asking where he was. 

"Do I really look that bad that even you, my childhood friend from diapers was unable to recognize me?" 

"Uh.... kind of?"

Sunoo huffed. 

"Hey Hyung, can I come to meet you later? I need to go somewhere." Jungwon mumbled, eyes trained on the rooftop that was visible from the infirmary window. 

Sunoo glanced back at the window and turned back to his friend. He nodded as he said," Sure, take your time."

Jungwon mindlessly nodded. Eyes still trained on the window. He turned and walked away. 

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Ni-Ki shakily reached for the pack of cigarettes in his pocket as soon as he reached the rooftop of his faculty. He immediately reached for one and lit it. Taking a long drag from the stick he hastily finished the one in his hands. 

As soon as he reached for another, a hand stopped him. He recognized those hands too well. "Leave me alone." he snapped. 

"Two is the maximum number you can drag from Ni-Ki. This is your fourth one." Sunghoon firmly stated. After all, it was his duty to look after the younger. 

Ni-Ki scoffed. "Fuck off. You're not my dad." He snatched his hand away and took another cigarette out. 

He lit it up while Sunghoon sighed. "I'll be in class," he mumbled as he walked away. Unlike Ni-Ki who was busy fiddling with his pack of nicotine, the calm and collected Sunghoon definitely noticed the boy who was walking towards their faculty building.

Yang Jungwon. 

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When Jungwon reached the fifth floor of the faculty building, There was a crowd of people standing spectators to a fight. Now, he was not one to engage in such things but something in him told him to check it out. 

His gut was right.

There stood none other than Nishimura Riki punching a boy against the lockers of the boy's locker room. Again. 

He sighed tiredly as he pushed through people who were hooting who all quieted as soon as they saw him. They cleared the way for him as they definitely didn't want to be the next one up against the lockers. 

"Nishimura Riki!" he raised his voice to get his attention. Ni-Ki's fist stopped three centimeters away from the boy's face as he looked at his boy standing in the middle of the crowd. 

"Did you just scream my name in front of everyone, pretty boy?" Ni-Ki asked instead. somewhat giddy.  

Jungwon rolled his eyes as he looked at him. 

"Stop beating everyone you meet Ni-Ki. Leave them alone. We need to talk."

Ni-Ki pretty much ignored every word except the last one. Talk. His pretty boy wanted to talk to him. 

"Fine." Ni-Ki huffed as he dropped the bloodied boy on the floor and walked towards his baby boy. 

"I'm all ears for you pretty boy," Ni-Ki said, voice lower than it is supposed to be.

He drank up every second of the way that his cheeks flushed because of him. 

"N-Not here..." Jungwon mumbled. Flustered with the sudden proximity. 

Ni-Ki smiled at his cute stutter as he grabbed his wrist and pulled him towards the rooftop. 

Jungwon followed behind with a flustered face trusting him to not murder him in the janitor's closet.

You would be surprised to know the places people might get murdered on. You need to read the Laws Of Justice to know that.

He felt a sense of relief when they landed on the rooftop. 

"So, what do you want to talk about?" Ni-Ki asked when they reached his favorite spot on the rooftop that overlooked the entire school. 

"Uh... about that, the guy you beat earlier... he's actually my childhood friend, Sunoo Hyung."

The blonde blankly stared at his boy as he processed his words. 

"What?" he asked, face unchanging. 

"I have known Sunoo Hyung from ever since I could remember. I just wanted you to know so that, you wouldn't beat him again. He actually enrolled today and he is my only friend right now. Nobody talks to me ever since you announced that may I mention, without my consent or acceptance. They all avoid me like a plague and I was really lonely. I guess it just turned into anger as the days passed by and what I said to you, was totally really bad of me. I wanted to apologize to you for it."

Ni-Ki listened to him as he watched him talk. A small smile took over his face as he took the shorter's hands in his own. 

"It's okay."

"What?"

"It's okay. I tend to get possessive over the things I claim so I did what was right by me. I'm sorry for what you had to go through. If you feel lonely you can hang out with me. I'll come to get you during breaks. As, for the claim, it is true I did that without your consent and I'm sorry for that too. But you're mine Jungwon, whether you reject me or accept me. You already belong to me. And I do not share the things that I claim." Ni-Ki stated. 

"I am not a thing." Jungwon frowned. "I am a person of my own Ni-Ki. You can't just claim a person like that."

"But you're already mine. And you still have 21 days to accept it."

"No Ni-Ki. It's not me who needs the time. It's you who needs it. I can't accept you if I don't know you. It's you who has 21 days to show and prove to me that you deserve to claim me as yours."

"But you already know me," he argued.

"No, I don't know you. I only know your name. You need to prove to me Ni-Ki, prove to me that you deserve my time and love."

Ni-Ki felt like he was getting challenged. Which he kind of was. 

"Prove to me Nishimura, and then I will show you how much love you claimed from me."

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THIS WAS THE WORST THING EVER!!! I MISTAKENLY DELETED THE PART INSTEAD OF PUBLISHING AND I HAD TO RETRIEVE IT AGAIN! THANK GOD I WRITE A COPY OF THE CHAPTERS I WRITE! 

ALSO, I HAD TO ADD A FEW THINGS BECAUSE of THE 'Sunoo Hyung?!' CLIFFHANGER SEEMED OFF. 

Now, the Last update is on 30th November then no updates until January. STAY TUNED.

BYE YANNIES!! LEAVE LOTS OF HEARTS FOR ME!!!

-Liyana⋇-