SAV Chapter 36

Min-gyu hyung had caused trouble and received disciplinary action, preventing him from coming to school for a month. During that time, there must have been a point when his contact with Cha Eunseong was cut off. I thought it was the most appropriate answer for me to create, having been suddenly dragged into this novel one day.

 

“I got hurt riding a bike, so I don’t really feel like it anymore.”

 

“You got hurt? When?”

 

“When you were suspended.”

 

Min-gyu hyung glared at me with narrowed eyes. Since it was half true, I accepted his gaze with a confident expression.

 

“Were you badly hurt?”

 

He’s believing what I said.

 

With growing confidence, I gave a more natural answer than before.

 

“Just some scrapes?”

 

The guy who was roughly running his hands through his hair rolled his eyes again.

 

“But you don’t have a bike.”

 

I blinked for a moment before opening my mouth.

 

“I borrowed one from someone I knew for a bit.”

 

“Someone you knew? That’s why I told you not to just ride anything you pick up. You fucking… Ha…”

 

“Just someone I met on the way, I don’t remember.”

 

“You just said it was someone you knew?”

 

“I knew them for that one day. It’s not like we exchanged contacts or anything…”

 

“You fucking idiot, why did you ride some random bastard’s bike and end up rolling around? And if something like that happened, you should have told me right away. Why are you telling me now?”

 

Min-gyu hyung’s voice was full of irritation.

 

“I told you my phone was confiscated. Oh right, I was trying to tell you earlier but couldn’t – I got permission to use my phone again starting today, so take your phone back.”

 

Thinking this was my chance, I quickly pulled out Min-gyu hyung’s phone from my bag. Ever since possessing this body, all I’ve been doing is lying. I kept a nonchalant expression, but inside I felt self-loathing.

 

“Keep it.”

 

Min-gyu hyung ignored his phone and threw the helmet he was holding at me. Being the child of a family overflowing with money, the helmet was probably expensive too. Thinking that if I dropped it, my bank balance would drop with it, I carefully caught it with both arms.

 

Thud.

 

I safely caught the helmet, but dropped Min-gyu hyung’s phone again.

 

“…Would you like the phone to break? Why have you been dropping everything by category since earlier?”

 

“It didn’t break.”

 

I quickly picked up the fallen phone and put it in my bag.

 

“I’ll think of it as carrying a chick and step gently. Get on quickly.”

 

It seemed like this argument would only end if I rode the bike, so I reluctantly put on the helmet he handed me.

 

“Promise you won’t go over 20 km/h.”

 

“Are you riding a kickboard?”

 

“Then 30.”

 

“Even cats go over 40.”

 

“Then 45.”

 

“It’s close from here to your house, should we just walk?”

 

“Then 50. I can’t compromise any more than that.”

 

Min-gyu hyung, who had been glaring at me like he wanted to devour me, suddenly started laughing loudly. It wasn’t funny at all.

 

His softly curved eyes and wide-open mouth gave a completely different impression from when he was expressionless. The menacing wrinkles between his brows also disappeared.

 

When he laughed, he looked like an innocent child.

 

“Ha, fuck, are you crazy? You’re fucking cute, really.”

 

“Don’t call me cute.”

 

I said as I got on the back seat of the bike.

 

I gripped Min-gyu hyung’s clothes tightly with both hands. Then the guy holding the handlebars looked back with a displeased face.

 

“Want to fly off at a speed bump? Hold on tight, bastard.”

 

Startled by the mention of flying off, I tightly hugged his solid waist with both arms. Min-gyu hyung looked at me once through the side mirror, then immediately started the engine.

 

My arms around Min-gyu hyung’s waist tensed up.

 

As the bike picked up speed, my body pressed closer to him. The bike, gradually increasing speed, exceeded the 50km we had agreed on. I screamed at the top of my lungs asking why he wasn’t keeping his promise, but later became so terrified I couldn’t make a sound and buried my face in his back.

 

The speeding bike entered an alley.

 

As the speed slowed, I had the leisure to look around.

 

‘Huh? This place is…’

 

Just as the passing road felt quite familiar, I saw the back gate of Raon Jena High School. Well, where else would a high school student go at a time well past ten o’clock?

 

‘Even the son of a multi-billion asset family can’t help it when it comes to age. Cute. So cute.’

 

The bike stopped under an old tree next to Raon Jena’s back gate.

 

It was a place with such deep shadows that even if someone hid there, they wouldn’t be easily visible, so Min-gyu hyung seemed to usually hide his bike here.

 

“Get off.”

 

As soon as Min-gyu hyung turned around, I took off my helmet and hit his back with it.

 

“You said you’d step gently!”

 

Min-gyu hyung hurriedly covered my mouth with his hand and looked around.

 

“Are you crazy? Won’t you be quiet?”

 

I looked down displeasedly at the thick hand covering half my face.

 

Min-gyu hyung’s arrogance was annoying, and the cigarette smell from the hand covering my mouth was nauseating. So I harshly swatted away Min-gyu hyung’s hand.

 

“The cigarette smell is disgusting, so move it away.”

 

Then I jumped off the bike and looked around.

 

It was eerily quiet. There wasn’t a single student in sight, not even a stray cat.

 

Surely he’s not thinking of staying here until morning?

 

“No matter what, school is a bit much, isn’t it?”

 

I asked him half-doubtfully. When there was no answer, I looked back at Min-gyu hyung and asked again.

 

“Didn’t you hear me?”

 

Min-gyu hyung, who had been smelling his hand, clenched his fist and raised his eyebrows.

 

“I don’t want to go home and there’s nowhere that will take me, so where should I go?”

 

He said that seeing Gyubeom’s face made his insides twist and made him want to dry heave, so he wasn’t planning to go home for a while. The way he whined about not liking his older brother was like a kindergartener, not a high schooler. On one hand, I felt sorry for him, thinking he must be quite discriminated against at home because of his exceptionally outstanding older brother. Just a tiny bit though.

 

Separate from that, I was dead if I went home now. Thinking of the nagging and beating that would pour down made my flesh tremble. But I couldn’t just leave the kid alone and go. This is driving me crazy.

 

“Wait here.”

 

Min-gyu hyung jumped up onto the wall and sat on it, looking around. Then, as if he saw something he didn’t like, he briefly spat out a curse.

 

“Fuck, doesn’t that security guard ever sleep?”

 

Min-gyu hyung immediately jumped down from the wall and grabbed my wrist to drag me. When I resisted with an unwilling expression, he put me in a headlock again.

 

The place he dragged me to was the hole in the fence I had escaped through with Lee Gyuseong on the day I possessed this body. It was in a secluded corner, narrow and damp, creating a scary atmosphere. My legs were trembling with fear, but Min-gyu hyung seemed quite familiar with the path as his steps showed no hesitation.

 

“At least turn on your phone’s flashlight. I can’t see anything.”

 

“So you can brag to the security guard that I’m here?”

 

“I’m saying I can’t see.”

 

“I can see fine. So just shut up and follow me.”

 

“Ha shit, this is fucking scary.”

 

“If it’s this dark, you wouldn’t recognize a ghost even if one appeared.”

 

“Don’t talk about ghosts, you crazy bastard!”

 

“Don’t yell, you crazy bastard!”

 

Even while grumbling, I stuck close behind Min-gyu hyung who was walking ahead because I was scared. As I was walking cautiously while watching my surroundings, he suddenly reached his hand back. Wondering what this action was about, I stared down at the thick hand extended in front of me.

 

“What’s this?”

 

“Hold it.”

 

“No thanks.”

 

When I coldly swatted it away, there was no second offer. I briefly regretted it, thinking I should have held it without being prideful since I was so scared.

 

We safely escaped through the hole and passed through a narrow alley. I was too busy chasing after Min-gyu hyung walking ahead to even brush off the dust on my clothes.

 

Being someone who’s scared and doesn’t usually go to deserted places during dark hours, I never imagined I’d come to school at night.

 

It was truly unimaginable. I wanted to abandon Min-gyu hyung right away and run home. But in this vast, desolate school where anything could jump out from anywhere, it didn’t seem right to leave even a sturdy male student alone, so I endured with mental strength.

 

When I made eye contact with the founder’s statue standing on one side, I almost ran to the security guard…

 

Following him silently, we came to the baseball field behind the school.

 

It was an unfamiliar place since only the baseball team would come here.

 

“How far are we going? We’ll end up climbing a mountain at this rate.”

 

“We’re almost there, so stop whining.”

 

After saying that, he passed the baseball field and went into an even more desolate corner.

 

From here, there were hardly any streetlights, making it very difficult to distinguish the path, but Min-gyu hyung had no trouble. After passing through a trail and turning right, a small two-story building appeared.

 

There was a small light at the entrance, and below it, baseball-related equipment was scattered messily, so it seemed like a baseball team dormitory.

 

“Don’t tell me here?”

 

“Yeah.”

 

If it’s a dormitory, there must be someone on night duty. I don’t know why he’s doing this when we might get caught and kicked out if we sneak in. If that happens, I can’t really make Min-gyu hyung sleep on the street and would have no choice but to take him home.

 

“I don’t want to go home, and you said you won’t let me sleep over. Then, is there anywhere else for me to go besides here?”

 

“What if we get caught?”

 

“We won’t get caught.”

 

Min-gyu hyung confidently walked toward the building.

 

There was a door lock on the front door. The guy who deliciously ignored my questioning look about whether he knew the password pressed the door lock code without hesitation. Seeing that he even knew the password meant he had been coming and going regularly…

 

‘Don’t tell me this bastard was on the baseball team?’

 

Min-gyu hyung, who opened the door and stood there, nodded his head telling me to come in.

 

Getting caught and scolded by someone was scary, but being left outside was even scarier, so I quickly followed behind him.