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Chapter 2 - Day 1: Part 2

As i held the door knob i felt this eerie feeling, perhaps this whole process reminded me of that day,

September 30, Year 2006; clock: 08:01

Hello everyone, due to certain reasons one of our students is attending the class 2 weeks late, now let's introduce ourselves, Jiyeon, start by telling the class your name and age;

The class was awestruck due to the girl's otherworldly looks, until a pool of water could be seen right under Jiyeon, what broke the silence was a girl's laughter, even at that young age the girl had learned to laugh in such a sinister way, ever since Jiyeon would cover herself and never talk to anyone unless it was inevitable.

September 15, Year 2016; clock: 07:51

Pattt, — Hey excuse me, you're blocking the door, move. As Jiyeon suddenly snapped back to reality, she turned around to look to see who was the one who suddenly hit her shoulder, it was a tall, slim girl who was chewing a gum, she appeared to dye her hair to blonde, she looked beautiful, tho had an annoyed expression on her face. Next to him was a male who was tall… perhaps even tall enough to be a model, he looked like one too, after analyzing the people she moved aside without saying a word and after they got inside the class she went in as well.

**Ding ding ding**

The bell was heard shortly after they got inside, Jiyeon, as usual went to the farthest table from the door, and the window side, and sat there. Finally after a minute of which felt like an eternity to Jiyeon the teacher arrived and introduced herself.

— Hello, students, my name is Seo-yeon Kim. I'm your homeroom teacher. I teach korean. As you know this school is designed for special students who excel academically, you are expected to continue to excel as 3 fails in 1 year would get you expelled, additionally you also learn subjects such as IT and psychology alongside the common subjects, hope to see all of you next year.

While in the back row Jiyeon was thinking how scary the teacher's demeanor was especially when saying the last bit of her speech.

After her introduction the teacher asked everyone else to introduce themselves, the process went smooth, all Jihyeon had to say was her name and that it was nice to meet them, tho in her head she had already went thru countless albeit meaningless scenes as to what could happen. Soon after the bell rang again, and the next teacher came, the process repeated itself, Jiyeon was sure that she wasn't the only one feeling like this was deja vu, she wondered whether all the teachers would repeat the same process or perhaps it was just scripted, anyhow it was lunch break, 1 hour, she had 1 hour to finally spend time where there was bo one else but herself,

— Perhaps this time i should just take the roof, or sports stadium also sounds good,

Thinking of the girl earlier she thought it would be better to take the stadium today as she thought the girl might smoke, she wasn't being prejudiced, just that she couldn't help but notice the smell of smoke on her earlier.

So off she went to the stadium..

~ 5 minutes later; 55 mins left till the next class

Finally she arrived at the stadium.

— The school is bigger than i thought, let's go in and sit underneath the seats for in case somebody enters they won't see me.

If anyone were to see her, they would absolutely think that she was crazy, but in truth she was just afraid..

She took her lunch out and began eating, it was zoodles with shredded village chicken meat+seaweed cooked in olive oil. She took a good 15 mins to finish her meal and as she was about to get up to leave she heard a scream she froze like that day, the intensity of the scream felt really familiar, it sounded in despair, subconsciously she froze but consciously she knew that this couldn't possibly be her mother as the sound was that of a male's. Yet it still triggered painful memories.

— Pull yourself together, Jiyeon, and stay here then after they are gone, leave or perhaps I should call the police, perhaps i should take a look? No no no, what if they see me and i have to talk to them? Better to hide here till they leav-

A crying interrupted Jiyeon's train of thoughts.

— WHY?! WHY?! WHY?! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME? WHAT HAVE I EVER DONE TO YOU?

A really intense and loud voice spoke, it was a boy of medium height who appeared to be bruised heavily and was bleeding through his nose and left side of his head

— Pfft- hahahahahaHAHAhaha, can you hear him guys ? He is asking why are we doing this, pff- do you not already know the answer? I mean it's obvious, but since I'm having a good day, I'll answer.

Jiyeon seemed to calm down since it seemed that they couldn't see her from where they were standing, so she decided to take a peek from the left side of the seat. This was a very unusual act for her as normally she would never meddle into others' businesses. Tho lately she also thought especially during the last few years that she was getting dumber, but she believed that it was due to the teenage hormones, and so she couldn't help but give into her curiosity.

There were 3 guys and 1 guy who was on his knees and seemed to be beaten till black and blue

— Perhaps I should call the police, but what if they notice me? Should i just take a photo , wait.. isn't there cameras around here? Anyways I'll just take a photo then send to the police

~( Had I known that this would be the worst decision of my life)~

~ 30mins later

After the sound from the boy stopped they went away, Jiyeon got out of her hiding place and saw a boy lying on the ground appeared to be unconscious, she panicked, tho it could not be seen, her expression underneath her guise was indifferent as she had learned to not express what she felt

— OMG OMG OMG, what if he is dead? They hit him really hard OMG, call the ambulance!!

With her shaky hands she took out her phone from her pocket and asked siri to call the ambulance, then went out to go to her classroom, she was still in shock, as when she was studying in a public school she had never seen bullying to such an extent, and here, this place was supposed to be a private school and was supposed to have better conditions?

— Perhaps I should just drop out, its a good choice? Come on Jiyeon, it's in fact a brilliant decision, i wont see anyone for the rest of my life its better that way.

As the thoughts were racing in her head she again arrived to the classroom where she felt that eerie feeling, and suddenly halted, a terrible thought appeared in her head,

— What if we're in the same classroom?