{Main Mission 5: Mend Your Friendship. Ask Jugyeong to hang out and do something tomorrow on your day off from school before work. Then actually go. Reward +5 CSE +5 INT +5 FAT.}
"DPHM, you trying to make me grow a pair?" I ask it in my mind.
{Do you want to put the bandage on your relationship as friends? Or do you want to rift? Tell me.}
"Bandage."
{Exactly. Now do it. This is like the easiest main mission ever. Easier than your next one I have in store for you XD. That one is gonna be INSANELY difficult. This is the freest points ever}
"Fine."
{Attaboy}
"Hey Jugyeong. Remember when you wanted to go to the arcade on Saturday, wanna go tomorrow?" I ask her. This was hard and required a lot more humbling on my part. It was an easy mission on face value. But emotionally this was hard.
She looked at me with a large smile and said, "Sure, why not?"
Dowoon has gaming work to do on off days, he starts tonight and until like 3 pm tomorrow he'll be doing that and will probably sleep. Suho's photoshoot is tomorrow morning and I gotta work tomorrow night.
"What time?" Jugyeong asked me.
"Is 9 am fine? I got an 8 hour work day tomorrow." I reply.
"Sure."
Meanwhile Dowoon texts Suho...
"These lovebirds are going on a date XDDDDDD."
"Knowing how dense Hyun and Jugyeong are. They probably just see it as friends hanging out XD." Suho replies.
"They definitely will! pfffffft."
"How much you wanna bet that they still don't realize they like each other?"
"Loser buys an entire pizza for the other."
"From Ferrari's."
"Wouldn't have it any other way."
"We have a deal."
"I call a year." (Suho)
"I say 6 months." (Dowoon)
"Either way it'll take a miracle"
"Definitely."
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Lunch ends and we go to class. I have KLA next. Very cringe class. I don't really care about it at all. I already know Korean, enough English to get by, and Italian, if necessary I can just go to Italy or Switzerland or something if I want a change of scenery. I don't care about learning about the Korean of the North ugh.
Then I have my elective, which is Business and Stocks. I just sit there to be honest. I've tried trading stocks but I lost money and got salty. I just do the tests.
I dip school.
While waiting for the light to turn green, Jun comes out of nowhere and pushes me onto the road.
Thankfully, the auto in that lane was unsurprisingly, ANOTHER LORRY.
I was somehow able to dodge it with my skill.
Then I wing strike him in the eye. I'm done with his bull.
"YOU TRIED TO KILL ME! IN FRONT OF EVERYONE!" I yell.
Jun was caught by surprise.
I go to wing strike him again, but man just grabs me like it's nothing and punches my head.
"Piggies need to know their place. This is a warning, if you try any of that crap again, you're really dead." Jun says then slams my head on the ground.
Kids around me were recording.
"Yo Hyun! I didn't think you had it in you!" some random guy said.
"Psh, you got balls fatboy." some other dude said.
"That was nuts! No one stands up to Jun!" a girl said.
In the distance, Jugyeong saw what happened. Normally, she has Taekwondo practice or something, but today, I guess it was cancelled because I see her.
"Hyun are you okayyyyy?" Jugyeong says while coming up to me with Suho and Dowoon behind her.
"A bloody nose is better than dying hehehe." I reply.
"Your head too." Suho mentioned.
They took me to Nurse Jin.
"Jun again? When will that boy learn." Nurse Jin says.
"Never as long as Korea has the stupidest juvenile laws ever. I don't even think he'll go to juvy since I hit back." I say.
"You hit back?"
"He tried to kill me."
"That's nothing new."
"But in front of everyone."
"That's new."
After I get an ice pack on and cotton balls in my nose, and a bandage on my head. I walk home. Suho decided to walk me home since he lives nearby.
"Dang bro, you snapped!" he said.
"I'm done with his bull. Starting yesterday, I've been taking Dae Zhae Kuaun classes."
"Dang! The African Muay Thai Jiu-Jitsu baby thingy?"
"Something like that."
"Bro! You're all over Instargraf! Look!"
"This happened 10 minutes ago!"
The description on the post said, "Fat kid in our school snaps after bully tries to kill him in front of whole school. Elbows him in the eye. #fatguy #chadmove #Korea #fight #elbow #bully #school #life"
It had like 10000 likes already. A lot of the comments were positive too which made me happy.
One of which was from Coach Yoo-ji funnily enough. She said, "He's my student in my Dae Zhae Kuaun class. Good for him! Come to the gym on 6543 E Kyeum-do lane if you wanna learn too Mondays and Thursdays at 5:30 pm~."
A bunch of other positive comments were there. Some people criticized me for even thinking about hitting Jun. But the thing was, it was instinctive. I didn't care about the criticism. I was just happy about the overall positivity, and most importantly, being alive. Most people didn't really look my way and thought of me as "the fat kid that hangs with Jugyeong, Suho, and Dowoon." Now they see me as the sigma male I know I am.
{You're still a beta male. Nothing will change that libtard}
"Can't I think that for at least half a second?" I ask DPHM in my head.
{No}
"Fine."
Suho finishes walking me home. I only work 4 hours today so I try my best to get washed up and all that so I can go to work in an hour. I have to do dishwasher duty today UGH. Why can't I exclusively be a waiter dad? I love tips. Whatever.
I make it to work with a bandage on my head and nose.
"Man you look beat up today. Good thing you work the dishwashers today." My dad said. He didn't ask why, he knows I get bullied. He just stopped getting surprised.
"I still hate dishwasher duty." I reply.
"You only do it once a week."
"I don't get tips and it's so boring being back here on our 2nd deadest day."
"At least it's an easy job."
"And boring as hell."
{~Have fun~}
"I hate you." I say to DPHM in my head.
I wash dishes. Since it's just operate the dishwasher and throw out the trash I was bored. It was so bad that I cleaned the kitchen and the bathroom. It was just immensely boring. I even practice my elbow strikes during work because I was so bored, like 2 plates came every 20 minutes.
After work I go home and pick out my clothes for tomorrow.
Then I hear a ding!
"Yo." I text back. I didn't check who it was. It's Jugyeong.
"Hey. Hru?" she replies.
"Bored, head's throbbing. Nothing too uncanny, it's not Ms. Stupendous bad."
"That's good at least."
"Hru? How was practice?"
"Pain and suffering. Maybe death and agony too. I'm training kicking a 300 pound duffel bag to train for my eventual death fighting Alita."
"You could just kick me. /s"
"That's a little masochistic /s."
"Have you watched that new anime "Empress of Glass""
"Oh the one about the girl that makes those companies right?"
"Yeah."
"Not yet."
"Me neither, was wondering if you've seen it."
We talk for like an hour about other random stuff.
"Night friend. Love you /s /s" Jugyeong says.
"Night Jugyeong." I reply.
"HE DIDN'T NOTICE THE DOUBLE NEGATIVE! THE HELL! I LITERALLY TOLD HIM I LOVE HIM! HE DIDN'T NOTICE, WHAT'S WRONG WITH HIM? IS HE DENSE?" Jugyeong said in her mind.
"I was gonna get dolled up too tomorrow. Hmph. Nevermind then. I'll just dress however. He makes me sick. But I do love him. Man what's wrong with me? Ugh whatever. We're going on a friend date tomorrow. It shouldn't be too bad." Jugyeong said in her head.