ICE AND FIRE - CHAPTER 35&36
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💜AWAKENING THE DEMON IN HIM💜
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“And who are you?”The girl asked, staring at her from hair to toe.
“I’m his girlfriend…”She blurted out, flipping her short hair backwards with an finger.
“Girl… Girlfriend!!?”A-Yeong, ji-hoon and Yu-Jun screamed out in shock and that was when aerum realized what she’ve said.
“Holy aerum!! What have you just spilled out from your mouth huh?”She scolded herself inwardly.
“Aniyo!! Aniyo!! I mean I’m his girlfriend via I’m a close friend, we’ll are his girlfriend,you you and me!!!”She pointed at A-Yeong and Yu-Jun who nodded in affirmative, thou they’re confused.
What’s she suddenly saying and how is the three of them beom-seok girlfriend?
“Yes! Yes! We’re all your girlfriend. Right beom-seok?”A-Yeong smiled, covering up for aerum and beom-seok nodded reluctantly while ji-hoon couldn’t help but laugh secretly.
“You see?! I’m only being a worried friend cos you kept smiling with him! I ask again who are you!?”She asked more calmly and the girl scoffed.
“Acting like a protective girlfriend”She rolled eye and aerum folded her fist.
She felt like punching her really hard but she restrained herself,she don’t wanna ruin the fun for anything!
“I guess we’ll see again some other time. Enjoy with your friends”The girl winked and stood up, beom-seok nodded.
“Here is my card,call me whenever you need my help”She said,placing the card in his palm.
“Card?”Aerum half screamed, sending deadly glares to beom-seok.
He stood up immediately and gave the girl back her card,while looking at Aerum like she’s now the one controlling him.
“Not needed cos I won’t be in need of your help”He said.
“Oh wow!!”She muttered, looking at Aerum before collecting the card from beom-seok.
••••
“You..you guys bought all this?”Beom-seok stuttered in shock,looking at the different meals which was set on the table, they’re already seated.
“Of course!! And we’re going to buy more. You’re the one who brought this upon yourself”A-Yeong clicked tongue and Yu-Jun nodded.
“No! Am not complaining about the money,am just worried how you’ll plan to eat all that. Won’t you stomach explode?”He asked and the others began laughing.
“It’s not your stomach dude”Ji-hoon winked and they laughed again.
All through, Aerum was smiling happily while looking at Beom-seok occasionally.
There’s this good side of him anyways.she thought.
“I might die, exhaling the aroma of all this without dinging in”A-Yeong shook her head.
“I know right? Foodie”Aerum rolled eye.
A-Yeong scoffed and grabbed a chicken lap, before feeding on it hungrily.
Aerum was about taking a beef meat when she felt a hand on hers,she looked down to see beom-seok have already interlocked their fingers.
A-Yeong, Ji-hoon and Yu-Jun are sitting close,with Ji-hoon sitting at the middle and A-Yeong and Yu-Jun on his left and right respectively.
Beom-seok and aerum are sitting close too,which made it easy for him to interlock their fingers….he pushed their hand under the table so that the rest won’t see what’s happening.
Aerum tried pulling her hand off,but beom-seok held it more tighter,she looked at him and he winked instead.
“What are you doing?”She leaned and whispered to him.
“What does it look like I’m doing?”He whispered back with a smile.
“Just because I said I’m your girlfriend doesn’t give you the right to behave like we’re dating. You know I’ll never be the girlfriend to a ?ï?khead like you!”She whispered back with a dangerous smile and beom-seok nodded.
“Yeah! I know you’re not my girlfriend and I never said you’re”He whispered back while nodding his head and aerum glared at him.
“Then let it go”she warned sternly and beom-seok winked instead.
“Stop doing that”She scolded.
“Why? Are my charms working already? Awwn,is okay to crush”He said and Aerum almost screamed but she gritted angrily while beom-seok kept smiling,that smile that kept making her more angry.
Who the hell does he think he is? He looks just like an ape while winking, Aerum thought glaring at him.
“They might see us!”She leaned and whispered back when she saw he’s not ready to let go of her hand.
“We’re not committing crime,are we? And besides our hands is under the table,they won’t see it”he whispered back and just then, A-Yeong looked up to them with a mouthful.
“Why aren’t you two eating huh?”She asked with difficulty,her mouth was full.
“Huh?”Yu-Jun and ji-hoon looked up from their meal.
“We’re eating. Yes we’re, right aerum?”Beom-seok asked,and Aerum nodded nervously while trying to pull out her hand from his grip,but ended up hitting their hands on the table from underneath.
“What’s that sound huh?”A-Yeong asked and bent down to take a look, beom-seok immediately let go of Aerum’s hand before A-Yeong could bend already.
“Nothing is there!”She said, looking up and concentrating back on the meal.
Beom-seok pulled her hand again and interlocked their fingers,then began eating without sparing aerum a glance, behaving like nothing happened.
Aerum looked at their interlocked fingers and then at beom-seok before smiling slowly.
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<AN HOUR LATER~A NOODLE RESTAURANT>
Beom-seok looked at everyone in nothing but utmost confusion the moment they’ll entered the restaurant.
Is a restaurant where only noddles are being served.
All kinds of noddles,instant noddles mostly with dumplings.
He stood without making a move, A-Yeong was the first to seat then she turned back and waved at the rest to come over.
“You mean you guys are still going to eat noddles?”Beom-seok asked slowly after they’ve all settled down and they nodded.
“Good grief!!”He cussed unbelievably.
They just ate one hour ago and now they’re going to eat again? Are they some kind of zombies or what? Who eats senselessly like that? He huffed.
“I remember saying we’re going for sight seeing,so wassup with what you’ll are doing now? This isn’t sight seeing in anyway”he said,with a little bit of stutter.
“We’re touring Seoul,so what do you expect huh? Eating is part of it”Ji-hoon said and the others nodded.
“No! It’s not part of it”beom-seok half yelled and everyone turned to him.
“Guy’s! He’s angry? Let’s leave then”A-Yeong said dramatically and stood up.
“Yes let’s leave”The rest nodded and stood up.
“No!! No!! I didn’t mean it that way! Ah! Why are you’ll behaving like this? Just eat all you want today,am not stopping you”He pleaded, stopping them from leaving.
“Stop being a jerky ice okay!!”Aerum patted his shoulder and sat down while the others made a muffle sound, before sitting down too.
“Jerky ice?”Beom-seok scoffed and sat down too.
“Four plate of hot noddles please”Ji-hoon ordered.
“A bottle of soju”Beom-seok said.
They server arrived shortly and placed their order.
“Enjoy your meal”She bowed and left.
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<AN AMUSEMENT PARK~6PM>
It’s quite getting late already,so they decided to visit the amusement park last before leaving.
They did have much fun today and they won’t deny it,today is definitely one of their best moments in life.
Kids and their parents, single couples, Young and old,alot of people is seen in the amusement park doing a thing or the other.
“What are we going to do now? Let’s ride a rollercoaster!!”Beom-seok said and ji-hoon nodded but A-Yeong, Yu-Jun and Aerum shook their heads in disapproval.
“What’s wrong?”Beom-seok asked slowly.
“She’s afraid of height!!”A-Yeong said slowly while aerum nodded her head with a pouted lips.
“She’s…she’s.. afraid of heights?”Beom-seok asked shockingly and they nodded.
“This is strange! Is this just a coincidence or what?”He asked himself inwardly, looking at Aerum closely.
“Is anything the problem?”they asked, noticing his changed mood.
“Not at all”he shrugged,still looking at Aerum closely.
“Since you’re scared of heights,I won’t force you to ride the rollercoaster but we won’t stop others from riding,so what will happen is this…they should go ride while we watch them from here or better still find something else to do?”He asked and aerum thought for a moment.
“Let them go and enjoy their ride,we will stay here”aerum shrugged.
“Will you really be okay? Watching us alone”A-Yeong asked slowly and she nodded.
“Good then! Let’s go”the trio left, leaving beom-seok and Aerum behind.
“Mind grabbing a can of cold beer with me?”Beom-seok asked, pushing his two hands in his trouser pocket.
“I love the sound of that”she replied and they left to go buy the beer.
They came back after few minutes and sat down, looking around with a smile.
“The beer is really cool”aerum said, removing it from her mouth after having a little sip.
“I know right?”Beom-seok nodded and kept his can on the table before turning to aerum.
“What’s your best color?”He asked,placing his hand on his jaw while looking at her.
Aerum chuckled and kept her drink on the table before turning to him, making their eyes lock.
“I love pink and white! So they both are my best!”She shrugged and took her can of beer, before drinking from it.
Beom-seok nodded slowly,and took a little sip from his drink before keeping it back.
“Your best color is pink and white,best food is samgyeopsal,you love teddy bear and you’re afraid of heights!! Ah,I might go crazy at this rate!”Beom-seok ruffed his hair,as he thought about that.
“You okay?”Aerum asked him and he shook his head.
“Is there something bothering you?”She asked again.
“Yes,there is but it’s not about me but a friend from overseas”He began and aerum nodded slowly before drinking from her beer.
“So what about him?”Aerum asked.
“He once had a girlfriend whom he loves so much,then something happened and the girl died two years ago…”
“Gosh! That’s sad”aerum said, shaking her head before sipping from her drink again.
“Yes,it’s really sad and it was difficult for him to handle. Of recently he met another girl….”
“Thank goodness,he’s finally moving on?”Aerum asked.
“Let’s say kind of,but then something seems odd about the girl he met”he paused and stared closely at Aerum,to see her reaction.
“What’s odd about her?”She asked.
“There’s this similarity between them,like the new girl shares everything in common with the dead girlfriend!”He explained and aerum looked at him.
“That’s really odd like you said! Could it be a coincidence?”Aerum directed the question to beom-seok.
“That’s where I’m confused too”he said hitting his hand on the desk.
“Tell that your friend to find more about the new girl maybe he will find answers to what’s he’s looking for”Aerum suggested, finally gulping her whole drink.
“That sounds more like a deal. I’ll do tell him”he smiled and Aerum mirrored back the smile.
“Uhmm…if I may ask,when is your birthday?”He asked slowly.
“July”Aerum replied and beom-seok exhaled.
“That’s a relief! At least their birth month is different”He thought inwardly.
All these while they where discussing, someone was taking their picture, unknown to them.
The person left immediately A-Yeong and the rest began approaching.
“Hey guys we’re done”A-Yeong sat down tiredly.
“You sure made our day. Thumps up for you”Yu-Jun said and beom-seok smiled.
“Am glad I did”He replied.
“Let’s do this again some other time”Ji-hoon said and the rest nodded with a smile.
“Definitely!!”They’ll shouted with a smile.
“So we’re good to go right?”Beom-seok asked.
“Of course”They’ll chorused.
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<NEXT MORNING~GLITTERING HIGHSCHOOL>
Aerum entered inside the school premises but met with the h@??ful glare the students was giving her.
🗣️”That’s her!! The f-__-king slvt whose bent on getting beom-seok attention!”
🗣️”I’ll never root for her!”
🗣️”She thinks she can compete with the queen!”
🗣️”How pathetic!”
She arched her brows before scoffing inwardly.
“What’s up with that glare and comments?”She thought and continued walking,but the more she walked in, the more students she saw,glaring at her hatredly.
They began mumuring while pointing at her,she shook her head and continued walking.
The moment she stepped foot in the hallway,her eyes caught with her picture which was put on the wall,not just any picture but the picture from last night.
She turned to her right and there it was, another picture of her.
It was like that, throughout the hallway and some students where standing at the front of the picture,with a red marker writing h@??ful comments on the picture.
🗣️”We h@?? you!!”
🗣️”You’ll never be able to get him!!”
🗣️”Just go and die!!”
They wrote on the picture.
“No,what’s happening and how did they get the picture?”She asked, moving closer to another picture and that was when she saw what was boldly written on it.
*SLVTTY wh-_-re WHOSE BENT ON RIDING BEOM-SEOK, SIGHTED ON A FORCED DATE WITH HIM*
“Forced date? How? And it wasn’t I alone that went out with him so what the hell are this students sprouting?”She thought angrily and tore the picture off the wall before turning angrily to the students.
Immediately she turned,a raw egg from nowhere flew and hit her face, breaking into pieces…the whole content rolled down her face to her cloth,she clenched her fist tightly with a closed eye.
She wanted to launch an attack but another egg flew and hit her head,more eggs began flowing hitting her at different places,head,face,eye, lips,cloth,just name it.
It was too difficult for her to even attack back.
🗣️”Leave beom-seok for Seo-Jun! You’re too cheap for him!”One said and threw another egg at her.
🗣️”A dirty pig that’s what you’re!”Another said and threw more eggs at her.
🗣️”You see!! That’s where you belong! from the pit!!”
They laughed, while continuously throwing raw eggs at her, aerum was now already in tears and she was embarrassed like mad.
She couldn’t fight back too,not because she’s weak,but because it took her off guard…she turned only to meet them throwing the eggs at her,no chance for her to fight back.
She was now reeking from smell of raw eggs and her school uniform was a mess,her hair itself have been dishealved and she looks more like a lunatic now.
And to top it all,she was life on video and the video was going directly to the school blog which she is oblivious off.
A-Yeong and Yu-Jun who saw the video first ran to the hallway,only to halt abruptly on their steps the moment they saw the scene.
A floor was suddenly poured on her from the up but before it could land on her, someone covered her and the whole content poured on the person instead.
The person slowly looked up and locked eyes with aerum whose eye was wide already.
“Hope you’re not hurt?”He asked and aerum slowly nodded.
He turned slowly and the students gasped loudly, seeing who it was.
It was none other than beom-seok!!
“Who did this to her?”He asked,in a tone that showed authority mixed with anger.
Everywhere was as calm as a graveyard,with no slightest move or any response from anyone.
“I h@?? repeating myself!! Who the hell did this to her?”He asked more loudly this time,his voice echoing loudly in the hallway and the students shrieked out immediately.
They immediately pointed their finger at the stairs and beom-seok looked up to see Seo-Jun standing there.
So it was her?
“How dare you try to mess with her?”He asked, walking in a slow but dangerous step towards Seo-Jun.
His eyes was d@mn red in anger,his veins showing visibly through his skin and his fist was folded tightly,the floor which was poured on him made him look more dangerous and scarier.
He was boiling in rage,as he took the steps towards her, Seo-Jun began shaking in fear, knowing what was in for her.
She already knew right there,that she has woken the demon in him.
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TBC…