Chapter 25 One sure thing

"Ha... Fuck." Tae Yang was barely standing. Well, nevermind, he just got up again with a blank expression. 'He got up!? He looks totally fine?! I put my all into that punch!' The also beaten Joon-Woo was stunned. 'Crazy bastard! Is he even human?'

"Hey. Lemme ask you something." Joon-Woo put up his guard again. "What?" he asked with an angry face. "Why... Why in the world do you wanna drag me down so much?"

"What? You're the one who dug your own grave. You don't even get punished-" Before he could finish his sentence, Tae Yang smashed his face, making him fall to the ground. "Don't change the topic. I want to hear the reason. What in the world did you do that for?"

'He's back at it, damn it! He's got no shame at all'

Joon-Woo was grabbed by his shirt. Tae Yang began shouting at him "Why did you do that you bitch?!"

Now they were both yelling at each other. "Fuck! Then why'd you do what you did?! W were you thinking when I asked you for that favor?"

Joon-Woo halted.

'Wait... Something's not right. I forgot because I couldn't recognize Yuri... If Tae Yang Lee hit Yuri... Why would she like him? Why'd she approach him like she was meeting him for the first time?'

"ANSWER ME!" Tae Yang punched him in the face again - adding to the already existing wounds and bruises from their fight.

'I feel like I'm missing something.'

"Tell me. What kind of answer do you wanna hear?"

"I'm not gonna stop until you give me the answer I want!" - "What kind of answer do you want? How long are you going to stay angry?"

Tae Yang remained silent. He was in his head. 'This is weird. He's still not admitting to anything. I feel like I'm missing something. If he won't answer me after I've threatened him this much, then...' He thought of Young Yoon and his friends. 'Who benefitted the most from this situation? I can't be sure yet. I'll have to find out.'

He let go and tossed Joon-Woo to the ground, again, then left.

'What was that? He's just leaving?' Joon-Woo let out a heavy sigh. 'Well, whatever...'

"Haa, I thought he was going to kill me..." he said while he sat on the ground. 'I made it out alive.'

"Are you happy?" Yuri kneeled next to him. "Are you feeling better now after getting beat up?"

"Oh..." he let his head fall back and smiled wryly. "Yeah!" - "You idiot."

He thought about something for a second. "Yuri!"

"Yeah?"

"I wanna ask you something. I was worried about asking, but I think I should."

"Huh? What is it?" she was feeling uneasy, "Just say what's on your mind."

"Uh... Umm.. How did you.. Lose your weight?"

Silence. The only question a man should never ask the female gender.

When he noticed that she wouldn't respond he nervously uttered "It's just, this time.. I wanna try and work out proper- AHHH!" Yuri hit his shoulder palm first.

"Joon-Woo... You think now's the time to ask a question like that...? Is that important?"

'Wow... She's really strong.' He stared at her, coldly. 'She might have won against Tae Yang if I'd just let her earlier. I think I know the secret now. Yuri didn't lose weight - she compressed it! She's still strong!'

She then hit the top of his head. "Don't ask unnecessary questions like that." She smiled at him - angrily?

Walking up a bunch of stairs in the hallway he passed some guy covering his face with his hoodie while thinking about their fight earlier.

'Honestly, Tae Yang and I must both feel like we're misunderstanding something. But...'

'For us to go back...' They were standing on complete opposite sides. 'Too much time has passed. Too much has happened in the past few years. There's no chance we'll be friends again.'

"How long are you gonna sit there?"

'Still...'

"You can get up now", she reached out her hand for him to take it.

'I'm sure of one thing.'

"Okay! Thank you!"

He gladly took her hand and got up.

'Yuri is my friend.

Back to Tae Yang, the guy in the hoodie turned around and thought 'Huh? That bitch went to our school?' You could probably guess who it was - not Young Yoon, but Tae Won Kim. Even now he always weared hoodies. Not only has he aged to 17, he also was 6'2 now.

The next day, in class.

"Do you know why all the class reps are being called?",

"They're having a student council meeting",

"Why of a sudden? Did something happen?" Students were whispering as the Class Reps passed them in the hallway. "Someone got robbed. The disciplinary committee might get involved too. They're gonna meet to decide on the disciplinary action today."

Class Reps were the following people. Of course, Dae Hyun Lim from Class 1-3, Joon-Woo's class. You all know him. A rather unexpected candidate - Ha Min Park from Class 1-5 and last but not least, Goong Min Nam from Class 1-10, no one knows him. He's a broad, big guy with short black hair wearing glasses. His face was square shaped adding to his wide stature.

Chapter 25, end.