Fox

"My name is Jay. I like Taekwondo and manga." Jay said shyly as he sat back down. He had bowl cut and a very small build, like a scrawny kid.

Ha-Eun looked out of the window, staring at Jaenueng's empty seat. Her mind is completely empty.

"My name is Cleo and I play the piano." Cleo sat back down.

"My name is uh..." The girl from before stood up, she was wearing her home clothes. She looked down on her shirt and wiped away the stains on it. "My names Petra." She just sat back down.

Ha-Eun just stares out of the window, bored out of her mind. She's tapping on the table, but her fingers hurt. They hurt, a lot.

"What about you?" Ms Keene points at Ha-Eun who is daydreaming.

Ha-Eun snaps back to reality and looks at everyone else looking at her. "Ahem." She clears her throat and stands up. "My name is Ha-Eun, but you can call me Jenny. I used to play the piano." Ha-Eun sits back down.

"What happened?" Mr Lee butts in.

Ha-Eun is reluctant to answer. "My hands just hurt." Ha-Eun smiles.

xxxxx

"Are we there yet?" Ha-Eun is in the passenger suit of a car, she's dressed in a suit and using her phone.

'where r u? its gonna start in 4 mins!" Byeol texts her

'im gon be late 4 a bit. but ill make it in time. trust.' Ha-Eun sends to Byeol with an emoji of fingers crossed.

"Just a bit more." Her father is at the wheel. He's also dressed nicely in a suit. They're driving on the side of a mountain. "Where the hell even is this concert?"

"It's like this special concert thing I've been practicing for like months. It's for like a charity." Ha-Eun has a bag filled with her scores.

"What's the song?" Her father asks Ha-Eun.

"Uhm..." Ha-Eun rumages through her bag and pulls out an old and worn piece of paper. "Clair De Lune."

"That sounds, cool." Her father obviously doesn't know the song.

"Oh, around here." The road splits into two, one into the forest and one continuing through the mountains. Ha-Eun points at the road with the mountains.

"Are you sure we're going the right way?" Her father pulls out his phone and opens up his GPS. "Oh, we are, we're just 2 kilometers away..." While he's too engrossed in his phone, he had his foot on the accelerator.

"DAD!" Ha-Eun shakes her father's chair.

"What?" Her father turns around.

"THERE'S A FOX!" Ha-Eun points at the road ahead. There's an orange fox resting in the middle of the road.

"SHIT!" Her father tries to step on the brakes but they were travelling at 120mph.

BANG!

xxxxx

"Ha-Eun, wake up." Chloe shakes Ha-Eun. "Class ended."

"Huh?" Ha-Eun wakes up. Her sight is blurry and foggy. She's laying sideways on the ground. There's a massive fire in front of her.

"Ha-Eun!" Chloe shakes Ha-Eun even more violently.

"HUH?!" Ha-Eun wakes up violently, falling out of her seat and hitting the back of her head on Jeanueng's seat. "Agh!" She groans in pain.

"Are you okay?" Chloe kneels down and checks on Ha-Eun, she's burning up. "Do you have a fever?"

Ha-Eun looks at Chloe, she feels lethargic and she's sweating. Chloe places her hand on Ha-Eun's forehead, it's burning hot. "You're sick!"

"No, I'm not." Ha-Eun grabs Chloe's hand and removes it from her forehead. "I'm just... hungry..." She's breathing heavily.

"Are you okay, Ha-Eun?" Jeaneung hears Ha-Eun voice panting and breathing heavily. He enters through the back door of the class, he's holding his bag and a sandwich.

"She's burning up!" Chloe yells Jeaneung. Jeaneung drops all his stuff and immediately comes to Ha-Eun. Ha-Eun's vision is slowly becoming more blurry. Jaeneung places his hand on Ha-Eun's forehead. "We've got to bring her to the sick bay!" He wraps his arms under Ha-Eun's neck and underneath her thigh, lifting her up. "Where's the sick bay?"

Chloe is surprised at Jeaneung, he's carrying her so effortlessly. "Where is it?" Jaeneung raises his voice. He's not shouting at Chloe, he's looking somewhere else.

"It's on the first floor! Next to the principal's office!" Chloe panics and shouts back at Jaeneung.

"Thanks." Jaeneung says quietly back to Chloe as he runs out of the room, Ha-Eun in his arms.

"Dad?" Ha-Eun looks up, there's a male figure above her. It seems like he's looking down on her. It's hot, she feels the warmth of something.

"I'll get you to the sick bay!" Jaeneung rushes down the stairs and runs across the hallway, running past a crowd of students playing basketball in the basketball field. The sun shines onto Ha-Eun's eyes, she opens them.

"Jae...neung?" Ha-Eun opens her eye slightly, it's Jaeneung carrying her. "He's... carrying... me?"

"Where's the principal office?" Jaeneung comes to a screeching halt, he asks someone in front of him.

"Just down the hall, is she okay?" It's an elderly woman.

"Thanks." Jaeneung ignores the woman and continues running, making a sharp turn into the sick bay.

"Is anyone there?" Jaeneung taps his foot, alerting anybody in the sick bay.

"Oh dear!" A nurse comes rushing towards Jaeneung. "Is she okay?"

"She's got a really high fever, 37.9 degrees celsius." Jaeneung runs towards one of the beds, he let's her down.

"What's going on?" Ha-Eun looks around the room, Jaeneung is talking to the nurse. She can't make out what their saying, all she hears is the sound of tires screeching and branches breaking. Jaeneung bows and walks out of room. "Don't leave!" Ha-Eun musters all of her strength and mutters two words. Jaeneung looks back.

The nurse looks at Jaeneung. Jaeneung nods his head but he continues walking away, getting out of Ha-Eun's sight. "Dad..." Flashes of bright red and blood flash through Ha-Eun's head.

"Don't worry, you'll be alright." The nurse reassures Ha-Eun.

"Don't worry, you'll be alright." Ha-Eun's father says to Ha-Eun, peaking into her room. "I know you'll do well in that performance, especially since you've practised so hard!" He smiles and gives a thumbs up as he closes the door behind him.

"Get out Dad! I haven't gotten ready yet!" Ha-Eun clicks her tongue as she puts on her suit's vest.

"I believe in you!" Ha-Eun's dad says sneakily across the hallway, Ha-Eun barely able to make out what he said.

"I believe in you!" The nurse says as she applies a cold pack to Ha-Eun's forehead.

The image of her dad laying emotionless on the ground is the only thing Ha-Eun can think of.