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The clock seemed as if it slowed down in time, almost as if it wished for the school day to last longer than it already was. It was unbearable. The teacher blabbered on and on, becoming increasingly more boring by the second. Till set his head down on the desk and he bounced his leg up and down. When will this end?! He thought to himself. Till was just about to fall asleep in his arms until something light tapped against the back of head, he thought with was either the teacher about to scold him or Ivan simply being annoying to him again. He lifted his to see that neither was true. Instead, it was a tiny paper plane. He reached down to pick it up and read. He opened it up for it to read “The day’s almost over, you got this Till!” followed with a drawing of a thumbs up and the name Hyuna signed at the end of it. He looked up and saw Hyuna smiling and pulling a thumbs up, not too different from the one drawn on the paper plane.
Not too long later, the bell rang at last. Finally, time to get back home. This bloody uniform was killing him, or at least it felt like it was. The young man packed up all his things and left the classroom, tapping the top of the doorframe to show how cool and tall he was. The hallway was cluttered with students rushing to get out of this school, the amount of people talking was overbearing. All Till wanted was to catch up to at least one of his friends and have a bit of a chat before he gets home and lie in bed for the next hour. Despite exiting the classroom at the same time, Hyuna was nowhere to be found, at least it seemed like it. After bumping into some people and mistaking a random girl for her, Till finally caught up to Hyuna outside of the building.
Till paused in his tracks to take a break of fresh air, he was exhausted. After that he tapped Hyuna’s shoulder to gain her attention. “Oh! Sup Till!” She turned her head and soon her whole body towards him. “Heyo Hyuna, howaya?” He fixed up his posture and behaved as if he wasn’t completely tired out. “Eh, feeling alright, could be better, just a couple more days until Friday eh?” The young lady waved finger guns at him. All the two did was stare awkwardly after that. “Tough one man crowd…hm, well that’s alright! How have you been?” Hyuna nudged him playfully. “Feel like going home” He paused to yawn. “Think I’m gonna take a nap, then do more of that guitar practice that I’ve been meaning to do, you know?” Till played air guitar to drive the point forward. “Tight, alright let’s go.” She gestured him to follow.
They approached the edge of the sidewalk waiting for whoever to pick them up. Many fellow students passed by them, even shoving them out of the way, rude! The two just stood there for while, waiting, waiting so patiently, it was getting awkward. Hyuna lifted her arm the check the time on her watch, looking back up she saw a gray truck pulling up, it was probably a ford truck. Whatever, the type of care didn’t matter, what did however was who was in that car.
“Is that…is that who I think it is?” Hyuna muttered out as she subtly pointed at the driver. “Hm?” Till tilted his head in confusion on who could she possibly be referring to. “I think that might be Aran Ryan, the most infamous boxer in recent history…!” Till froze up as that name slipped out of her mouth. He switched his attention to the gray truck, which was now in front of the two, inside was that crazy irishman honking the car’s horn rapidly like his life depended on it. Hyuna mistook Till’s shock for confusion. “RIGHT you don’t really pay attention to sports stuff like boxing, so you see-“ Before she could begin her infodump Till shushed her. “YES, YES, I KNOW WHO ARAN RYAN IS. I SHOULD KNOW BECAUSE HE’S MY BLOODY COUSIN! HE’S HERE FOR ME!”
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No way, there’s just no way, that’s crazy! But…with how Irish Till just sounded now, it wasn’t impossible. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to some business to deal with” He grumbled as he walked away. Hyuna was completely and was left to watch the chaos that was about to ensue. Aran rolled his window down, sticking his arm just a tad bit out of the door. “AYE TILL! HOWS A GOING EH?” He cupped the hand that was out of the door around his mouth while keeping his other hand on the wheel. Till rolled his eyes as he stomped towards the truck. “BAH! Don’t give me that Aran! Aren’t you- oh I don’t know- BANNED from school zones?! Why are YOU here?!” Till shouted, he dropped the fake ‘normal’ accent for his actual voice, explains why he always sounded so strained. “I was never banned from school zones I don’t got a single clue where you got THAT from- WHATEVER! You getting in the car or not?!” Aran gestured to get in.
“NOT JUST YET! WHOSE BLOODY IDEA WAS IS?” Till’s face grew red from both rage and slight embarrassment.
“Pipe down pipsqueak! Look, yer ma’s going back to working full time at the hospital full time, and she didn’t like the idea of ye walking home all alone.” Before Aran could explain further, Till interrupted once more. “AND SHE DECIDED IT WAS BEST FOR YOU TO PICK ME UP? I WOULD’VE BEEN SAFER WALKIN’ HOME!” Aran flicked the toothpick that had been in his mouth the whole time directly towards Till’s forehead just to get the boy to shut his pie hole. “In yer mother’s defense, she wanted yer aunt to come take ye home instead, but she was also busy. So anyways you’re stuck wit’ me so get in! You’re holding up the line!” Aran cackled after that. Till grumbled, approaching the car and entering the passenger’s seat.
Hyuna stood in pure shock as the truck drove away. “Hah, you’re not the only one who just found that out recently…” Hyuna jumped at the sudden voice. She turned her head to find the source of this mysterious call, just to find it was Sua, oh and Mizi was there too. “Eep! Have you two been here the whole time?” Both Sua and Mizi nodded. “Haha…what was I saying again? Right! So Ivan already knows of this too, he found out when he visited Till’s house the other week, then he told me, then I told Mizi, I don’t think anyone else knows though” Sua rambled on, shrugging occasionally. Mizi giggled while also trying to remember what she was going to ask. “Oh, uh, Sua, Hyuna, question…who’s Aran Ryan? Some kind of celebrity I don’t know?” She scratched her head while keeping a confused but earnest smile. “Bingo! You’re right about him being a celebrity, Aran Ryan’s a boxer from my brother’s favorite boxing program.”
Mizi raised her eyebrows. “Hm! Till being related to a celebrity, that’s really cool!” Hyuna placed her hand on Mizi’s shoulder, like a parent about to give The Talk to their child. “Oh it’s not as cool as you think, this Aran Ryan guy’s a dirty cheater, in the game he plays of course, I think” She took her phone out of her shirt pocket and opened the notes app. “Read this, it’s a list of the amount of rule infractions this mad lad’s got.” Mizi pushed up her glasses as she leaned towards the phone, it can’t be that bad, right? She was proven wrong so quickly. The more she scrolled down the more horrified Mizi’s face was. When she finished reading she covered her mouth in shock. “How is this guy not banned?!” She grabbed her own hair and squeezed to get a bit of the stress out of her system. “Beats me!” Sua shrugged. “And you’re telling me Till’s RELATED to this crazy guy?” Hyuna put her phone back in her front pocket. “I guess so, that’s wild…”
The girls paused for a moment. “I think I dodged a bullet when I rejected Till, I don’t have to deal with THAT.” Mizi took her hand and placed it on her forehead. “I think there were other reasons one would say you dodged a bullet in rejecting him!” Sua teased, nudging her lover. “Yeah…” Hyuna chuckled a bit. She then looked around, noticing that most of the students were already gone, time flies fast huh? “I think we should get going, did you guys bring your bikes here?” The other girls nodded. “Nice! Let’s ride home then!”
As Hyuna took her bike off the rack, she paused to think.
I learned so much about Till today…