007:Truth Hurts

“Said I’m fine but it wasn’t true,I don’t wanna keep secrets just to keep you”
-Cruel Summer by Taylor Swift

Third Person's P.O.V.:

"Yah Pres,its not my fault!"Nayeon jokes as she slides the door of their classroom open as Namra smiles a bit as she shakes her head at Nayeon.

"It is!Who even mix 4 kinds of coffee then drinks it?"Kang Seul retorts as she follows the two inside the classroom with a super confused Suhyeok behind her,when Kang Seul was pulled aside by her friends.

"Yah did just Namra smiled at Nayeon?"Wujin asked meanwhile Gyeongsu pulls Kang Seul.

"Did Nayeon just became nice?!--is your cousin okay?is it the end of the world?!"Gyeongsu exclaim with wide eyes making Kang Seul laugh as she backs away from the group.

"Yes Namra knows how to smile and Nayeon is nice okay?You just really don't know her"Kang Seul explains as she pushed the boys away to walk towards her seat as the boys then turn their attention to Suhyeok who shrugged.

"I don't know too,Kang Seul and Nayeon ran away from me yesterday then suddenly now the two are close"Suhyeok explained

"Yah what if that's not Nayeon and Kang Seul" Daesu whispered as his friends looks at him with confused eyes.

"What do you mean?"Joonhyeong asked

"Maybe they got replaced by aliens!"Daesu exclaims as Wujin hits him in the back of his head making Daesu squel in pain as he rubs it with his hand.

"Aish I thought you really had an answer" Gyeongsu complained when the door of their classroom opens revealing their science teacher Lee Byeong Chan and his presence shuts everyone up as the students scattered around to go back to their seats.

Mr.Lee then greeted the class with no energy at all before be started writing their lesson on the board which some of the students copied and some didn't pay attention as they just talked with their friends.

Kang Seul then took a look at Namra's notebook since she can't understand the scribble writing of their teacher on the board when a breeze of wind enters their classroom's open window giving her a whiff of foul smell as Kang Seul grimaced.

Looking around she sees Nayeon doing the same before looking at their teacher as Kang Seul shudders realizing the smell of death came from her teacher.

~~~

"Yah I'm telling you,Cheongsan have so much chemistry with you"Kang Seul jokes as she walks beside Suhyeok who's carrying a trash bag along with Cheongsan and Gyeongsu.

"They do!"Gyeongsu agrees as Cheongsan and Suhyeok shook their head at the two.

"Just look,stand beside eachother"Kang Seul ordered the two as they gave up and stand beside eachother as Gyeongsu and Kang Seul stood next to eachother infront of them while observing the two.

"Yeah I can see it"Gyeongsu nodded glancing at Kang Seul

"Right?,like this would be a perfect BL story,a tall handsome heartrob of the school with a small cute determined boy"Kang Seul explains as Suhyeok smiles flustered while Cheongsan whose standing beside him was looking at Kang Seul with wide eyes.

"You think I'm handsome?"

"I'm not small!"

"Now kiss so we could picture it better" Gyeongsu demanded but Cheongsan only glares at him before raising his arm to hit Gyeongsu who ran away laughing while Cheongsan ran after him.

"I'll go stop Cheongsan before he kills Gyeongsu" Suhyeok excuses himself running after the two before he turns around to face Kang Seul again.

"Wait by the field,I'll get your backpack so you don't have to go up the stairs"Suhyeok added as Kang Seul nodded before ushering him away.

"Go save your prince!"Kang Seul jokes as Suhyeok nodded before running away again,calling out for Cheongsan and Gyeongsu.

After they left Kang Seul lets out a cough as she unintentionally inhales the cigarette smoke the teachers are smoking near the trash bin as she then looks up hearing a smack only to see Daesu inhaling it and Wujin smacking him as he pulls Daesu in and closed the window making Kang Seul chuckle as she walks away towards the field.

Gyeongsu and Cheongsan then finally arrive at the field where their backpacks are now hanging on their backs so Kang Seul rans up to them just in time to hear Gyeongsu speak.

"So the restaurant moved huh?,what about a grand opening?"Gyeongsu asked

"Wah your restaurant moved?"Kang Seul asked as the two jumps not realizing she was there.

"Yes but we're not doing a grand opening" Cheongsan explains just as Suhyeok arrives carrying both his and Kang Seul's backpack on each hand.

"What are they arguing about now?"Suhyeok asked as Kang Seul gets her bag from him as they watch the two walk a couple feet infront of them while still arguing.

"Cheongsan said their restaurant was not doing an opening but Gyeongsu said he heard they will" Kang Seul as Suhyeok lets out an 'o' face as they catch up with the two who are now talking to Isak and Onjo.

"You're going,right?"Onjo asked Gyeongsu who nodded before hitting Cheongsan on the arm.

"Going where?"Kang Seul asked trying to catch up to the conversation as Onjo looks at her before waving shyly.

"At Cheongsan's restaurant"Gyeongsu answered Kang Seul's question

"You're going too?"Cheongsan asked Isak who nodded

"Your mom specifically told Onjo to bring friends"

"You two should go with us too so we can have a triple date"Gyeongsu exclaims looking at Suhyeok and Kang Seul as Onjo and Isak looks at him like he said the most ridiculous thing in the world.

Kang Seul then looks towards the gates of the school where she can see her car waiting for her there with their driver and she just knows where its taking her today,chemotherapy.

Contemplating on whether she should go or not since if she didn't go today her mom will know about it but she also remember her parents telling her that they won't let her feel like she's missing moments in her life so skipping one chemo won't hurt--right?

"Sure,Suhyeok and I are going"Kang Seul spoke up as Gyeongsu cheered

"We are?"Suhyeok asked as Kang Seul nodded

"But lets go that way so we can avoid my driver" Kang Seul say as her friends agreed and they all went to the under construction building and circled their way there so Kang Seul's driver wouldn't see them.

"Yah are you sure we should go?didn't you say you need to go somewhere today?"Suhyeok asked as Kang Seul shushes him as they get nearer Cheongsan's restaurant.

"Its okay,its not that important anyway"Kang Seul replied and like in snyc her phone inside her pocket rang making her get it to see that its her brother calling her but she declined the call before putting it back on her pocket.

"Yohoo here we are!"Gyeongsu cheered as they arrived at the restaurant and Cheongsan was the first one to enter the store.

Kang Seul then watch as Cheongsan's mom greet everyone as she wait for her turn and she finally did get it as Cheongsan's look at her with wide eyes.

"Kang Seul!You're back!"Cheongsan's mom cheers as she hugs Kang Seul tightly to the point that she needs to be pulled away by Cheongsan who noticed that Kang Seul was having a hard time to breathe.

"I missed you!,Cheongsan didn't even tell me you were back!"Cheongsan's mom complains as Kang Seul softly chuckles while Cheongsan frowns as he sits down.

"I just forgot!"Cheongsan retorted as his mom looks at him before ushering Kang Seul and Suhyeok to sit down on their own chairs.

"Aish--but here are the new chicken recipes I made so don't be shy and tell me what you think" Cheongsan's mom says as she placed three plates fulls of chicken infront of the group as they cheer and thank her.

"Its so good,the best!"Gyeongsu cheers as everyone agrees with him exceot Onjo who was still chewing.

"How about you Onjo?"Cheongsan's mom asked

"Its salty"Onjo answered so Cheongsan's mom excused herself to talk to her husband leaving the kids alone.

"Stop eating if its salty"Cheongsan spoke uo as he filled Onjo's glass with coca cola while Gyeongsu lends his to be filled but Cheongsan emptied out the bottle for Onjo.

Gyeongsu then lend his glass to Suhyeok but like Cheongsan,Suhyeok emptied out the coca cola bottle on Kang Seul's glass which made Gyeongsu give both men with a confused offended face that Kang Seul noticed as she chuckles softly.

Time has then passed but Kang Seul's phone kept ringing,from her mom,then her dad,then her brother and it just repeats in a circle so she decided to turn off her phone to focus on her friends.

"Oh did you hear?that the science teacher smells like a rotting corpse?"Isak spoke up

"Oh,Nayeon spread that rumor right?" Cheongsan replied while being weary of what he's saying because no matter how horrible he sees Nayeon,she is still Kang Seul's cousin.

"Its true tho,Nayeon said he smelled like a corpse, specially earlier"Onjo explains

"How does she know what a corpse smells like?"Suhyeok asked a bit weary of what they're saying

"Its true,Mr.Lee does smell like a rotting corpse"Kang Seul spoke up as the others then now focused on her.

"And how do you know that?"Gyeongsu asked

"I've been to the morgue of our hospital before" Kang Seul reasoned

"Yah,do you hang out there so much to the point that you're familiar to the smell?" Suhyeok asked playfully portraying a horrified face as Kang Seul jokingly nodded.

"Well I do appreciate the dead's company more than yours so"Kang Seul answered shrugging as her friends laughed at her joke.

"See!So it has to be a rotting corpse right?" Onjo stated as Kang Seul confirms her hunch

"But still,I feel bad for Mr.Lee"Kang Seul added as Onjo nodded

"They said he was a genius"Isak spoke up

"Lots of geniuses go crazy"Onjo replied to her bestfriend

"Well atleast you don't have to worry about going crazy"Cheongsan stated as the others laughed leaving Onjo glaring at Cheongsan before kicking him in the shin under the table making him his while the others laughed harder.

The laughter then died when they heard the bell above the restaurant's door rang making everyone look at the door as Kang Seul's eyes widen.

"Eomma?"Kang Seul muttered standing up in shock as Kang Min looks at her with a knowing stare but her exterior looks calm.

"Kang Min!What are you doing here?,do you want to sit down and eat?"Cheongsan's mom greeted her as the others stood up bowing a bit as they greeted Kang Min.

"I'm sorry but next time,Kang Seul and I need to go somewhere urgent and we don't want to be late"Kang Min smiled as Cheongsan's mom nodded profusely.

"Oh okay,well don't forget to visit me next time!" Cheongsan's mom joked as Kang Min then talked to her briefly as Kang Seul grabs her backpack from her chair beside Suhyeok.

"You're going already?"Suhyeok asked as Kang Seul nodded smiling meekly.

"I'll see you guys tomorrow"Kang Seul bid her goodbye as she followed her mom out or the restaurant right to their car.

"How'd you find me?"Kang Seul asked as she entered the backseat along with her mom as she sees her dad on the driver's seat while Yohan is on the passenger seat.

"We traced your phone"Kang Min answered as Kang Seul lets out an offended face.

"Oh so you're tracking every move I make now?" Kang Seul exclaims

"Well we had to didn't we?,our Kang Seul wasn't answering her calls and missed her chemo of course we would try to track where you are!"Kang Min reasoned

"For the record,we tracked Suhyeok's phone cause I know you would be with him"Yohan spoke up from the front as his mother glares at him making the boy shut up as his father laughed at him.

"Yojun do you think this is a laughing matter?" Kang Min spoke up as Yojun looks at his wife with wide eyes before he made a motion where he zips his mouth shut.

"And you,what do you think you did?"Kang Min asked Kang Seul

"For the record I was just trying to live my normal life"Kang Seul reasoned

"While trying to shorten it?"Kang Min sassed

"Eomma,its just one chemo,its not a big deal,I'm gonna be fine"Kang Seul replied trying to calm her mom,but who was she to reason against a literal doctor.

"No you can't miss one cause it will break the cycle and now we need to inform your doctor and seek advice for a further course of treatment."Kang Min explains and Kang Seul was about to retort but her mom didn't let her.

"Kang Seul don't try to fight me,you're in the wrong,we'll go home tonight but visit your doctor tomorrow before school"Kang Min firmly says

"Yes don't try to fight your mother,she never loses, well only to me atleast"Yojun jokes as Kang Min slaps him on the arm from the backseat making him yelp saying sorry.

~~~

"Yah Kang Seul there's this guy whose feet stinks and wears no socks on the door"Yohan yelled as he opens the door further letting Suhyeok in as he playfully punched Yohan on the arm that started a punching game.

"Oh look its my son-in-law!"Kang Min spoke up as she walks out of the door now in her scrubs since she's going to the hospital already when her husband Yo-jun follows after her with wide eyes.

"Son-in-law?!"Yojun exclaims as he looks at Suhyeok who bowed,greeting the two when Kang Seul finally arrives rushing from her room to the door.

“Oh Suhyeok you’re already here,good now hold this for me will ya?”Kang Seul says walking up to them giving Suhyeok a stack of plastic container and bento boxes  before she started walking.

“Woah,is she feeding the whole school?” Suhyeok asked Yohan who shrugged before pushing him away.

"We'll wait for you in the car okay?,don't take too long you'll see each other at school anyway"Kang Min pats her daughter's shoulder before she grabs her husband Yojun and drags him to the car where their driver is waiting.

“You won’t go with us to school?”Suhyeok asked as he watches the driver climb down the car waiting for her.

“No,I just need to do something with my parents so I'll be abit late,just excuse me to Ms.Park okay?" Kang Seul says as Suhyeok nodded confuse on why Yohan isn't coming with them then?

"You didn't get into trouble because of yesterday right?,because your mom looked pretty mad yesterday"Suhyeok asked as Kang Seul shook her head smiling

"No--just take care of the food or I will murder you" Kang Seul warns him.

“Yah I know you love me so much but you don’t have to put effort like this”Suhyeok teases regarding the stack of food he is holding right now.

“They’re not for you they’re for our friends” Kang Seul playfully rolled her eyes at him before she pulls a necktie from her bag and ties it around her neck fixing her uniform because she lost track of time cooking as she waves him off as she walks up to the car.

“What is this even for?”Suhyeok asked as Kang Seul's driver opened the door as she climb in the car.

"Well I got them in trouble right?,maybe food can make up for it"Kang Seul shruggs as the driver closes the door and Suhyeok nodded before Yohan nudges him making Suhyeok's eyes widen as he almost drop the bento boxes and tupperwares

"Yah do you want Kang Seul to kill me!" Suhyeok complains as Yohan only laughed and the two started their way to the school.

Meanwhile Kang Seul sat beside her mother as she fiddles with her fingers which bothered Kang Min so she took her daughter's hand on hers making Kang Seul look up and Kang Min adjust herself to face her daughter.

"Kase na,you shouldn't worry anymore.Eomma and Appa will do anything for you to live a normal life and for you to bypass these challenges"Kang Min whispers as she caress her daughter's hand which gave so much comfort to Kang Seul it made her smile.

"Yah are you two having a moment back there while I sat here infront?"Yojun complains since their driver isn't really a talkative person he can converse with.

"Yes we are!"Kang Min says as Yojun frowns

"You don't love me anymore"Yojun fake cries making Kang Seul laugh at her parent's antics.

"I do,I just love my daughter more"Kang Min says hugging Kang Seul even laying her head on her daughter's shoulder as Yojun playfully rolled his eyes at the two when they finally arrive at the hospital.

Meanwhile back to Kang Seul's best friend Suhyeok and her brother Yohan the two was walking beside each other when someone caught Yohan's eye making him hit Suhyeok on the arm a few times to catch his attention.

"Suhyeok na,I'll leave you here okay?,I just need to talk to someone"Yohan says not even looking at Suhyeok before he ran away making Suhyeok confuse as he looks up to see Yohan running up to Namra making Suhyeok shake his head smiling at his bestfriend's antics as he continued walking to school.

And when Suhyeok was about to continue on his journey to his building Suhyeok's eyes caught someone and when he squints abit he sees that its Myeonghwan's group leading Eun-ji and another boy to the under construction building.

Knowing its Kang Seul's friend Suhyeok couldn't just turn a blind eye to what he saw,so adjusting the tupperwares on his arms he turn to the corner to follow Myeonghwan's group.

~~~

"The driver is waiting for you outside,you should go now,I'm sorry I can't walk you there since I have patients to take care"Kang Min say as she bid goodbye to her daughter.

"Its okay eomma,I'll see you later this afternoon,I promise I won't bail on chemo again"Kang Seul promised as Kang Min smiled nodding as she  placed a kiss on her daughter's froehead before waving her off.

Kang Seul then walks in to the elevator before clicking the ground floor button as she stood there alone,when finally the elevator door dings signaling that she can get out now as she did when suddenly she heard a group of doctors and nurses rolling in a hospital bed.

This occurence isn't uncommon for Kang Seul anymore since she grew up watching these people do this most her life but what shook Kang Seul was the person they just strolled in was wearing the same uniform as her school as she then caught a glimpse of the person's face and gasped as she sees that its Hyeonju.

"Kang Seul what are you still doing here?go to school"Dr.Cha,Kang Seul's doctor appears beside her making Kang Seul jump as she glanced at the doctor.

"Dr.Cha--that's my classmate"Kang Seul says pointing at Hyeonju who was still unconcious.

"What?--I mean,you should really go,I'll make sure she'll be okay"Dr.Cha says waving Kang Seul off as the girl nodded jogging her way out of the hospital to her car where her driver is waiting.

Then after a few minutes of driving,Kang Seul arrived at her school's gate when she saw Heesu who was walking out of the gate making her frantically tell her driver to stop the car.

Climbing out of her car to the empty drive way Heesu's eyes widens as she sees Kang Seul ran up to her.

"Heesu are you okay?"Kang Seul asked as Heesu looks at her with teary eyed.

"Kang Seul what should I do"Heesu cries clutching her stomach from her hoodie.

"Lets take you to the hospital,get in the car"Kang Seul says as she pulls Heesu that way but Heesu stops.

"No I can't--"

"Heesu I can't just leave you here looking like this,you need help--let me help"Kang Seul says as Heesu looked reluctant but nodded anyway as Kang Seul made her enter the car.

"But you should go,I can handle myself"Heesu stops Kang Seul.

"What?,no--We'll take you to my mom,she's a doctor,she'll help you,we'll drive you there" Kang Seul explains as Heesu nodded

"Yes and thank you but you should go back inside,I don't want to burden you further"Heesu insisted as Kang Seul looks at her for a moment before nodding knowing Heesu wouldn't follow her orders if she didn't follow hers.

So turning to her driver,Kang Seul explains what he should do,before glancing back at Heesu.

"Call me"Kang Seul reminds her as Heesu nodded and Kang Seul watches as the car drives away and she,again,jogs her way from the school's gate to the main building where she then hears the lunch bell rang as soon as she reach the building notifying that she missed half of the school hours.

"Yah Kang Seul!Where have you been!" Someone spoke up as Kang Seul turns around to see Gyeongsu running towards her while the others was behind him.

"What the hell happened here while I'm gone,I saw Hyeonju at the hospital"Kang Seul retorted as Gyeongsu pulls her towards the cafeteria while the others followed behind them.

"Omo,its so bizzare,Hyeonju enters our classroom all bloodied up claiming Mr.Lee locked her up and injected her with something"Daesu explains

"For real?!"Kang Seul exclaimed as the boys nodded

"Then she tried to bite people,even almost bit Onjo"Cheongsan added

"Is she okay?"Kang Seul asked as Cheongsan nods

"Wait--why are you in the hospital?"Suhyeok asked as Kang Seul's eyes widens a bit

"Nothing,just helped my mom with something" Kang Seul answered as Suhyeok nodded looking at her suspiciously when Kang Seul noticed he was holding the bento boxes she made him bring but one was missing.

"Also Suhyeok lost one bento box after he fought Myeonghwan's group before school"Wujin answered the question on Kang Seul's mind as she glares at Suhyeok.

"You really can't wait to fight them later?"Kang Seul asked while glaring at Suhyeok as Suhyeok raised his hands in defense after he placed the bento boxes in the table they got.

"I was just helping your friend Eunji from getting bullied!"Suhyeok reasoned as Kang Seul sighs

"Nevermind,lets just eat"Kang Seul says

"Wah,I definitely missed your cooking Kang Seul" Daesu gushed as he munched on the lunch Kang Seul made for them.

"So Kang Seul,what did you do at america anyway?"Gyeongsu asked

"Uhhh I was studying there for a program"Kang Seul answered while Suhyeok was looking at her with an unexplainable look.

"That's weird,aren't schools off during that time in america?"Joonhyeong asked out of curiousity as Kang Seul cursed inside her mind.

"Uhhh well I was studying something about my parents business,not about plain schooling" Kang Seul reasoned as the other nodded taking in her explanation without question when Suhyeok suddenly stands up walking away.

"Ah,where is he going?"Gyeongsu asked before calling out to Suhyeok who didn't look back and just walks out of the cafeteria.

"I'm not that hungry,I'll meet you guys back at the classroom"Kang Seul announced standing up as she then follows Suhyeok leaving her friends alone.

"Suhyeok!--are you okay?"Kang Seul ran up to him as he faced her with a disbelief look on his face.

"Kang Seul do you think we're stupid?"Suhyeok asked

"What do you mean?"

"Kang Seul eversince you've been back you've been so secretive and your stories doesn't line up and its making me feel stupid"Suhyeok pours out his emotions as Kang Seul took a step back.

"Suhyeok,I didn't mean to make you feel that way,its just I can't tell you what it is--"Kang Seul tried to explain

"But we used to tell eachother everything" Suhyeok retorted as Kang Seul was about to speak again but Suhyeok sighs shaking his head.

"Lets just talk later"Suhyeok says walking away making Kang Seul sigh as she turns around planning to go back to the cafeteria when she heard a crash and sees bloodied people biting others making her eyes wide as she then out of instinct,calls out for Suhyeok.

"Suhyeok!"

Word Count:4200
Date Published:09/15/2022

!NOTE!

I could have published this last night but I fell asleep while editing it like T-T,but this isn't really my favorite chapter to write,doesn't sit right with me.

So yeah,finally the zombies have arrived huh?