The Law of Webnovels -
Chapter 368
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Yeo Ryung and I uttered at the same time, "Strange."
"Then it's a date."
I quickly lifted my head. What did she just say?
With wide-open eyes, Yeo Ryung continued, "It's the first-ever rainy day since you guys have been together, so he's asking you for a date."
Wondering for a moment, I replied, "Come on, why would he want to have a date in this kind of weather?"
"But in TV dramas, couples run together in the rain with their clothes above their heads, don't they?"
'Geez, that's literally a TV drama scene; besides, why would you take off your clothes and cover your head with it when you have an umbrella?' I was then bewildered at what Yeo Ryung blurted out afterward.
"Ah, anyway, I'm leaving ahead then."
"Eh?"
"I want to disturb you guys, but I don't want to either!"
'What does that even mean?' I thought. Inside Yeo Ryung's head, there might be a battle between her wanting to interrupt our date as usual, and her not wanting to see us together.
While I was out of my mind, Ban Yeo Ryung shouted, 'Bye!' sonorously and dashed to the front door. She was even holding the two umbrellas she borrowed from her followers, one for her and the other for me.
That was when I shouted desperately, "Hold on! Wait, Yeo Ryung!"
"Why?" she asked while stepping backward for a moment on her way out.
I said in a severe tone, "After thinking about it, I guess this isn't from Yeo Dan oppa."
"Excuse me?"
"Why would Yeo Dan oppa reach out only to me instead of you? That doesn't make sense." Once I dropped that remark, a possibility flashed through my head.
Actually, wouldn't this be from the stalker? They must have stolen Yeo Dan oppa's phone and sent me the message! If that person deleted the text from the outgoing messages and put Yeo Dan oppa's phone back into his backpack, oppa would never know his stalker had sent it to me! And that stalker would come to this empty school to see me...
Yikes! I trembled at the savage sequences flowing through my thoughts. Was the person, who locked me up in the PE storage room, really Yeo Dan oppa's stalker instead of Ban Hwee Hyul's rival? With those thoughts in my mind, I soon raised my head at Ban Yeo Ryung's apathetic response.
"Why doesn't it make sense? You and oppa are in a relationship, aren't you?"
Um, so that's... I wondered for a second. Should I reveal the truth of our relationship now? No, if I did that, keeping it a secret would really be useless.
Besides, now that I had come to think of it, this might be a chance to see the face of oppa's stalker. The reason why oppa and I had this fake relationship... If I identified who the stalker was this time, wouldn't oppa be able to settle things?
While I was lost in thought for quite a long time, Yeo Ryung slowly tilted her head.
"What's wrong? What's going on?"
"Ah, nothing..." I waved my hand in the air, then I rubbed my chin and asked her, "Would you lend me an umbrella?"
Ban Yeo Ryung didn't ask why. Handing out one of the umbrellas she had in her hand, Yeo Ryung asked, 'Is that all?' and left the classroom again.
Hmm, so she really hated seeing me with Yeo Dan oppa. Did she think it was enough for us to see each other on our way to school? Rambling those thoughts in my head, I looked at the door she used to leave just now.
I was finally left alone in the empty classroom. The only thing beside me was an umbrella. Holding it firmly, I swung it in the air. SWOOSH! It sounded quite threatening. Like demonstrating my fencing skills, I moved some more before putting the umbrella down.
"I'll deal with whoever comes," I murmured then thought for a moment, 'Had this novel's genre changed?' Perching on the desk, I said to myself again, "Well, none of the people here had a consistent genre anyway..."
I soon laughed loudly while feeling dumbfounded. It seemed like I had grown up a lot after going through so many things. It would be a tense situation to confront my (fake) boyfriend's stalker, but how could I behave so chill while swinging an umbrella in the air now?
Thinking that way, I poked the floor with the tip of the umbrella. Suddenly, a transparent plastic name tag on the handle came into view. Pulling it close to my eyes, I soon furrowed my forehead. Without any names, there was only a phone number written on it, which looked strangely familiar.
"Does it belong to someone I know?" Murmuring that way, I took out my phone and entered the number without a second thought. Before I had even put in two digits, a name popped on the screen, which made me exclaim in a low voice, "Ah..."
[Eun Jiho]
I put my phone back into my pocket and opened the umbrella after staying stone-cold for a second. It was pure black, which resembled Eun Jiho's obsessively clean and neat freak personality.
Swinging the umbrella with one hand, I murmured in a low voice, "If he was about to lend me this thing, he should not have behaved that way..."
It was like being kissed and stabbed at the same time. How could he talk so mean one time and lend me his umbrella on another? What the heck was he doing? I shook my head. 'No, Eun Jiho didn't lend me this thing. He just let Ban Yeo Ryung use it, and she just handed it to me. That's it.'
However, wasn't it possible that the clever Eun Jiho already planned on giving this umbrella to me when he handed it to Ban Yeo Ryung? I soon shook my head again after wondering about it for a second.
'Ah, I don't know,' I uttered and touched my forehead. 'I must return this to him, but what should I say to him again? Did he lend me this umbrella on purpose to find him, or was this just a coincidence he had already expected?'
If it weren't intentional, I would have been thankful; however, if he planned this, that was a little despicable. He could have told me something in person or, at least, sent me a text message. That was when I muttered those things in my head.
The school was deadly quiet since all students, who endured Sports Day in the morning and classes in the afternoon, stormed out of the building like a bull in a china shop once classes ended.
Inside the quiet space, the sound of someone climbing up the stairs from across the hallway pierced through the heavy silence. Shrinking my shoulders with fear, I grabbed the umbrella tightly and murmured, 'I thought I've become quite fearless, but this is still so scary.' Amid the situation, I felt a little funny that Eun Jiho's umbrella was my only weapon. I had been cursing him until just now!
Wondering how hilarious I was, I let out a giggle, but once the footstep halted in front of the door, I stiffened. The door opened with a sliding noise.
As soon as the person stepping in through the door came into my sight, I became bewildered for a moment. When he entered, a bolt of thunder struck the skies. Throwing a glance at the hallway window behind him, I quickly switched my gaze onto the person in perplexity.
"Yeo Dan oppa?"
The person who stepped inside through the open door, was, none other than, Yeo Dan oppa.
I squinted my eyes. Based on the suspicious typo in oppa's text and the fact that I was the only one who received it, I thought Yeo Dan did not send that text. The only person I could think of who could steal his phone and send it was his stalker. That was what I had in mind until now.
I stared at Yeo Dan oppa's face as he inched towards me. The rain poured right when Yeo Ryung and I entered the school, so Yeo Dan oppa, who was probably still on his way to school at that time, might have been troubled.
As if he was proving my assumption, Yeo Dan oppa was wearing purple workout clothes with three stripes running on a column from his shoulder down the sleeves. He must have changed into that outfit after getting wet in the rain; other than that, he looked the same.
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