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Wolf Keum calmly smoked a cigarette as he walked to school. As much as he found the classes useless and boring, he needed to keep up with his education. He wasn't going to be a mere muscle head whose only strength was raw power. Besides, education was highly valued in South Korea.
"Aww, come on. We're just being nice and offering to show you around campus,"
"Yeah, you should be thanking us for being so kind,"
"L-L-Leave me a-alone..."
Wolf stopped in front of the gate, where two seniors were harassing a younger student, most likely a freshman. The victim was a boy with pale skin and wide, red eyes. His faded blue hair was slightly wavy and reached just past his ears. He wore a pair of glasses and the typical Ganghak High School Uniform.
The boy was shaking like a leaf and was obviously terrified.
Wolf didn't care about the bullying. It was something that occurred multiple times a day. Hell, Wolf himself was a bully. He wouldn't have paid any mind to these lowlives if they hadn't been blocking the damn gate! And apparently they hadn't realized the problem nor had they sensed Wolf's presence because they didn't bother to move.
Without a warning, Wolf kicked the nearest one in the side and harshly sent him to the ground. "You fuckers are in my way," Before school had even started, Wolf had beaten two no-name Ganghak students to a bloody pulp.
The boy stared at the unconscious teens and then glanced up at the purple haired boy. "Th—"
Wolf walked away without paying any attention to the boy. He despised people who were weak, and those that acted weak. He would've beaten the bullied boy too, but he knew the bell was going to ring in a few minutes and he still had to wash the blood from his hands.
'Rude,' The boy thought as he watched Wolf leave. 'I was just going to thank him. He could have just waited for one more second. I'll have to properly thank him later,'
The bell rang. The boy stood there, frozen. He silently watched as he saw other students rush into the school buildings.
Finally, the event processed into the boy's head. "FUCK! I'M LATE!" He followed after the other students. 'Crap, which classroom is mine!?' He stopped in the middle of the hallway to dig into his backpack. Thankfully, the flow of students was much thinner when the boy had joined so he didn't get trampled. 'Got it!' He skimmed through the paper. 'Now...all I have to do is find it,'
The boy located the campus map and frowned. "Oh come on! It's across the entire goddamn building!?" He let out a sigh and stretched his limbs. 'Looks like I'm sprinting to class!' He took a deep breath and bolted.
He quickly read the room number of each classroom as he sped past them and skidded to a stop once he reached his assigned classroom. He threw the door open. "Teacher, I..." He tensed up upon realizing that not only was the teacher's eyes on him, but the entire class had turned to see who had arrived late. "I...I'm...sorry...I...late...new..."
'Stop looking at me!' He averted his gaze to look at the floor. 'I don't like being stared at! Stop staring at me! Look away!'
"Ah, you must be the new student," The teacher looked down at his roster. "You're...Drake Na?"
"Y-Yes sir," He meekly nodded.
"Go sit at any empty seat,"
Drake looked up to scan the classroom. There were only two options: a seat next to the window and a seat next to the purple haired boy earlier. 'That's the boy that saved me. He must be nice since he beat up the bad people that wanted to hurt me. He must be a nice guy. I want to sit by him, but I don't want to be a bother. Plus, he probably enjoys the extra space,' He walked over to the window seat and sat down.
Wolf watched as Drake chose his seat. He didn't know why, but he was disappointed that the boy chose the window seat over the seat next to him. But then again, Wolf emitted a dangerous aura that caused people to avoid him, not that he cared about being avoided unless he was actively seeking someone out.
'Drake Na,' Wolf thought, not paying much mind to the teacher as the lecture began. Instead, his eyes were focused on Drake. People could have the same last names but not be related at all, such as Dean Kwan from Daehyeon and Kingsley Kwan from Yeo-Il, but for some reason the blue haired boy's last name really irked him. The last name reminded Wolf of that bastard he couldn't go against, his boss, Donald Na.
The boy's nervous behavior was nothing unusual. After all, he was in a completely new school and didn't know anyone. Also, his first interaction with students from this new school was bullying. Of course he'd be scared. If that wasn't scary enough, Wolf's mere presence was terrifying.
Wolf was an impulsive person. If anyone irritated him, he was quick to solve it with violence by beating them unconscious. That irritation could be anything from staring at him for three seconds or even just breathing too loud. He was a simple person. If he had a problem with something, he took care of the problem.
But his instincts didn't know what to do about the new boy. His instincts didn't tell him to beat him to a pulp like he normally did with other people, but at the same time he couldn't simply ignore this boy. He didn't know why, whoever the hell this boy was, he had Wolf Keum's attention.
There will be longer waits in between chapters for Hidden Gems compared to Romance 101 because all of the chapters won't really have anything to do with the canon timeline. Also, I have no prewritten chapters like I had with Romance 101.
I based Diamond-dressing-up-as-a-boy from the manhwa, Love in the Mask. Imagine Diamond, in the cover pic, with shorter, messier hair. That's basically how Diamond Na looks like as Drake Na.
This is actually the revised version of Hidden Gems since the original version was going to have shorter ~300 word chapters but updates two to three times a week. In the original version of this story, Ganghak was going to be a co-ed school but I decided with leaving it as an all-boys school.