reason | sim jake

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a few days had passed, jaeyun switched his seat discreetly and the teacher didn't seem to question it.

she obviously understood that there was something going on and didn't want to have it lead to something worse.

jungwon, jieun and sunghoon were now all aware of the situation but kept quiet because they knew how both jaeyun and seoyun get when they're both in a heated argument, but this argument was by far the worst.

the group hasn't talked as a whole for a while.

jaeyun stepped inside the classroom, locking his sharp eyes with jieun and then jungwon before taking his seat on the other side of the classroom.

sunghoon took the opportunity to sit next to him, "can i sit here?" he asked like he was new and Jaeyun's lips curved a bit.

"why are you asking as if I'm going to bite you if you sat down, just sit." the male shook his head and sunghoon had a sheepish look on his face before taking a seat next to his best friend.

"everyone's been quiet, whatever fight you and seoyun picked, are you going to plan to resolve it? you haven't even raced since then, people are wondering where you are?"

"I don't want to street race anymore." jaeyun muttered lowly, and sunghoon's eyes widened.

jaeyun's been street racing for so long and he's so passionate about it that he's never expected him to quit.

"what, why? you love street racing you said you loved the thrill of it."

"I'm considering it, and i don't want anybody to question me about it." his eyes pierce into sunghoon's, and sunghoon emits a defeated sigh.

seoyun ambled into class, with her head low. She clutched onto her bag while she got up the little steps and sat next to jungwon.

after that sunghoon remained silent and so did Jaeyun, the classroom was tranquil after that.

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JUNGWON'S HOUSE

sunghoon had came over and everyone was sitting on the floor ready to plot. Jungwon's mother opened the door, "hmm where's jaeyun hee always here when you guys hang out?" she tilted her head curiously.

jungwon came up with a lie to keep her from asking too many questions if she found out about the fued with seoyun. "he's studying for his math test, he said if he has free time he'll make it over here."

his mom nods and closes the door, that leads to jieun, sunghoon and jungwon all staring at each other.

"I never seen such a bizarre problem, they secretly glance at each other during class but Jaeyun's keeps that sharp look and seoyun doesn't even try to look at him." jieun face palmed.

"did jaeyun tell you guys?" sunghoon cocked a brow, the two had a bewildered expression "tell us what?" they questioned in unison.

sunghoon inhaled deeply before he dropped the news, "I think jaeyun's dropping of street racing."

"and it's all to avoid seoyun, don't you get it sunghoon? he moved seats to avoid her, he knows she'd be at the circuit so he's dropping out from that too, either he's really upset or he knows if he keeps seeing her he won't be able to get over her."

"he's obviously upset but he's pushing her away because he won't be able to get over her, he's basically pulling a seoyun."

"pulling a seoyun??" sunghoon raised a brow, "seoyun has a tendency to push people away, and that's what he's doing." says jieun.

"I say we devise a plan." announced jungwon, "or else this group is going to crumble."

"we should tell her he's going back to Australia." sunghoon grinned and jieun hit his arm, "that's just evil."

"if we tell her he's going back to Australia, she's going to go feral and next thing you know she's going to go to say goodbye to him, the guilt's going to eat her up."

"but we shouldn't mess with her feelings like that, it's not right. Plus what if it doesn't go as planned, what if she goes to jaeyun and he totally shuts her out? she's never going to speak to us again." jieun shakes her head as refusal.

"we'll figure it out."

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