Chapter 04: Group Project

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Author's POV

It has been weeks since the introduction of them in their classes. They are currently in history class and a lot of students are sleeping since the class is very boring. But then the teacher suddenly slams his hand on the teacher's table causing a lot of people waking up from their dreams and a lot of people flinching.

"Okay since a lot of you isn't even listening to me. How about I give you guys a group project about our topics and you will do researching, report and present them in front of the whole class." The teacher said to the class obviously mad.

A lot of students in the class whined as they didn't want to do it but now they all don't have a choice. After all if they just didn't sleep on his class then maybe he wouldn't have gotten mad and gave them a group project.

"I'll be the ones grouping you so stop whining as if you guys are much cleverer than me." The teacher said to the class as he looked at them with a glare.

"That's fine with me as long as I can get to be in the same group as the honors or maybe Ryujin then it's a sure A on my grade." A student said out loud making everybody looks at the person and the person just shrugged it off.

Chaeryeong and Ryujin then looked at each other with problematic faces on their faces. The teacher suddenly slams his hand on the table to get the attention of the students once again.

"Okay now I'm going to divide in groups of 4 and no I won't be grouping honors with the dumb ones because that also means you'll just ride on them to get high scores. Instead all the honors will be in a group." The teacher said to the students and then after that started to call out the names of the people in a group.

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Five groups already have been called out but neither Ryujin nor Chaeryeong has been called out yet. Same with Beomgyu and Taehyun as they have high grades in their previous school they might be considered as well to be an honor student.

A lot of people who are low standards are getting called and not a lot of honors have been called out yet.

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A couple of minutes already passed and the teacher is already announcing the tenth group already. Some of the honors were already called out but four particular students still haven't been called out.

"Okay for the tenth group we have Ryujin," The teacher said starting the group and announced the group in front of the class. A lot of whispering can be heard inside the room. Ryujin didn't mind them anymore and was just thankful enough that she was already called out.

Ryujin then started writing down notes on her history notebook on her desk. The teacher then continues to announce the people who will be in the same group as Ryujin for their group project in history.

"Chaeryeong, Taehyun and Beomgyu the four of them will be forming group number ten." The teacher said as he announced the group and then started to call out the group number eleven.

The four teens on the other hand was just staring at each other. Because of the groupings it was a really odd one for them. Because out of all the honors that were still not yet mentioned why did it have to be the four of them? Why not just put the other three in another group where there wouldn't have any conflicts at all.

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By the time that the teacher was done announcing all the groupings he looks around and claps his hands together. "Class time to meet up with your group mates." The teacher said to the class as the students then stood up and made way to each other's groups.

Ryujin was still having difficulty to accept the fact that she was in a group with Taehyun. But Ryujin can still endure that she can still endure both being with Chaeryeong and Taehyun. But with Beomgyu that was beyond to endure for Ryujin.

Well it was the same with Beomgyu it was way too much to endure it all in him. So instead of keeping it all in Beomgyu glared at Ryujin which she quickly noticed and returned back the favor.

It was the start of something new for them and yet here they are looking like two children fighting over a piece of candy. They both look like a fight is about to start between the two of them.

"Okay that's it! I now declare this we shall forever be frenemies." Beomgyu said to Ryujn announcing that they are now "frenemies".

"Wait what's "frenemies" to be exact?" Ryujin said to Beomgyu asking him.

"Frenemies is equivalent to friends and enemies." Beomgyu said to Ryujin as he explains the whole concept of "frenemies".

"Yeah I get that you person of dumbness. What I don't get is why are we labeled 'frenemies'? When you can just label the both of us as 'enemies'?" Ryujin said to Beomgyu asking him.

"Well for one we literally have a group project that we should do as a group. Two here I thought that were actually smart but you aren't since we have to work on our project together which means we have to talk to one another. Three if we did not talk to one another we will never finish this group project." Beomgyu said to Ryujin as he explains it much more further to her.

Meanwhile Beomgyu and Ryujin were fighting Chaeryeong and Taehyun were just watching the two fight over some idiotic nonsense. Then Chaeryeong and Taehyun looked at each other before looking at the other two once again.

"This will be a long project." Both Chaeryeong and Taehyun said to each other as they both sigh at the same time.

"Okay time for the draw lots please choose a member of your group to do the draw lots for your group." The teacher said to the class and as soon as he said that members from every group started to walk towards him.

"Umm... Taehyun can you go do the draw lots for our group? I think somebody needs to stay here to keep an eye on these two." Chaeryeong said to Taehyun as she looks at the other two people beside her who was having a staring contest with one another.

"Okay then I'll do the draw lots. Hopefully we don't get any bad topic or maybe a hard topic." Taehyun said to his group members.

Ryujin then smirked at him. "Oh so you aren't like what I thought you are. You're scared of getting low grades are you? Well let me tell you in this school if you get a bad topic or a hard one. The teachers will be giving you extra points for it making your grades have higher grades than it should've been." Ryujin said to Taehyun while crossing her arms on her chest and glared at him.

"Really? I didn't think that it works that way?" Taehyun said to Ryujin while looking at her.

"Well after all this isn't your previous school so I guess you don't know that so I'm sorry for calling you names." Ryujin said to Taehyun as she apologized afterwards.

"Anyway you should really be going to pick now I'm pretty sure were one of the last groups to pick from the can of topics." Ryujin said to Taehyun as she gestures him to go away.

Taehyun then rolled his eyes and walked away from the scene. Chaeryeong then released a sigh as she looked at the pair in front of her fighting. Beomgyu was just looking at Ryujin well more like glaring at her and the same was with her.

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After a couple of minutes Taehyun then returned with a frown on his face. This made the other three look at him with tilted faces. Taehyun then just looked at them then gave the piece of parchment paper to Chaeryeong for her to look at it.

Chaeryeong then took a look at the piece of parchment paper and then looked at it with a questionable facial expression. Chaeryeong then look at Taehyun and he just shrugged his shoulders.

"Okay so our topic will be all about "The Ancient Love Story"? Anybody knows what this topic is all about?" Chaeryeong said to the group asking if they know anything about the topic.

"Nope haven't heard it before." Beomgyu said to Chaeryeong as he sighs.

"I swear I already heard that topic somewhere I just don't know where..." Ryujin said to Chaeryeong while looking down on the ground thinking.

"How about you Taehyun do you know anything about the topic?" Chaeryeong said to Taehyun while looking at him.

Taehyun just shook his head for his answer as Chaeryeong sighs and just looks at the piece of paper on her hand. "Well this is one tough topic for us. Just please try to actually work with one another instead of killing each other." Chaeryeong said to the other three people as she looks down on the ground.

Everybody in the group just nodded their heads as a agreement.