Author's Note: So I had another story pop up. I don't know if you know the group BOYFRIEND or not, but I'm totally in love with two of them. Since I can't use the actual guys because we can't use real people, I made them characters in the Boys Over Flower universe like I do with all my favorite pop stars. So this is a supernatural story with F4.
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"Why is he always late?"
"Because is Goo Jun Pyo. He can do what he wishes."
Kwan Jeongmin made an annoyed noise and spun he straw around his glass once more. They were always waiting on Goo Jun Pyo. The leader of F4 and heir to Shinhwa Group thought the world revolved around him. He was late to everything he did, especially these meetings. He was very stuck up.
But the three men who were his best friends were the exact opposite. They were gentle and caring. They only lost their tempers when it actually mattered, unlike their friend and leader.
Jeongmin looked at Donghyun. The official leader of the younger group had his nose stuck in a book. He pushed his Harry Potter glasses up on his nose seconds before he ruffled his light, cotton candy pink hair. He was always reading something that none of the others would read.
There were six of them including Jeongmin and Donghyun. There was Cha Hyunseong, twins Hwang Youngmin and Kwangmin, and Lee Minwoo. They were the six underclass men that F4 had taken under their wings. They were all considered royalty now since they were hanging out with the four guys who taught in and ruled the school.
"Don't put much stock into it," Hyunseong said. He was the second oldest in the group an usually always backed up Donghyun. "I heard they were talking to the new teachers."
"Wasn't there a new English teacher this year?" Minwoo asked.
"There's two new ones and a new Spanish teacher," Donghyun supplied.
Jeongmin groaned at the thought of taking English again. He'd had it seven years in a row. Eight of you counted this year. He was already fluent in the language so why did he have to take another year of it?
The door opened and in spilled F4. The four men looked normal in their khakis and button up shirts but that was just a facade. They were the ones who picked the teachers and decided who stayed and who left in the student body. Luckily they didn't haze people anymore but it would escalate to that if they wished.
"You're late," Minwoo joked.
"We always run late thanks to him," Song Woo Bin joked as he pointed at Jun Pyo.
The heir to a construction company and a business ethics teacher, Woo Bin was considered rich and smart. He had made a deal with his dad that if he could work as a teacher until his father retired he would gladly take over the company. His father had agreed and they had settled amicably. Anyone who saw Woo Bin could tell he was the oldest member of F4.
"I'm rarely late," Jun Pyo complained.
He was the third oldest of F4 and the most well endowed. He had money and looks and was heir to the school and his family's company. Whatever he said went and no one wanted to be on his bad side.
"All right. We're all here so let's begin. There's not a lot to talk about other than we all know we're not supposed to use our powers unless absolutely necessary. Also behave for your teachers. Just because your technically F4 doesn't mean you can misbehave," Yoon Ji Hoo reminded. He was teaching medicine at the medical school and was the grandson of the late president of Korea.
"Also my friend is the new English teacher," So Yi Jeong said. He taught art and was a famed artist himself. After his tenure he was to inherit his father's gallery.
"Why did you hire two new teachers?" Donghyun asked. "Why were the others fired?"
"They weren't fired. They went back to high school level."
Lucky them. English on the college level was completely different. They had a lot more they had to master. By the time they graduated they were expected to be completely fluent. F4 and those around them had already mastered that sort were typically bored in class.
"Jeongmin," Yi Jeong said, forcing the other man to look up, "don't antagonize my friend. She's got a nasty temper. She will embarrass you in class if you attack her. I know how much you talk. Unless you want your butt handed to you, don't do it."
"You say that like I run people off," the man in question defended.
"What about Professor Uhn?" Kwangmin asked.
"Or Dr. Jang?" Hyunseong tossed in.
"Then there was Professor Hwang," Minwoo added.
"Okay. So three teachers have quit because I challenged them. They should have been ready," he finished.
"Baye isn't like that. She grew up in New Zealand with her Kiwi mother while her Korean father worked in Australia. She's very outspoken and excellent at what she does. She's not afraid of anything," Ji Hoo added.
"How do you know her?" Youngmin asked.
"She taught at a conference we attended a few months back. It took forever to convince her that she could be useful to us," Woo Bin said. "If you want to know how bad she is, she put Jun Pyo in his place and embarrassed him. She's a spitfire."
Jeongmin and Donghyun shared a look. They knew the four hadn't given them all the information, but they couldn't challenge them outright about it. They needed evidence before they could say anything.
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Baye sat in her office and stared at the front wall. How in the world had Yi Jeong gotten her to take the job here? It was her temper. She knew it was. He had caught her in a moment of anger and had gotten her to accept.
She wanted to kill him but she was in his territory and couldn't touch him.
"Maybe Ji Hoo will help me," she muttered then shook her head. "Nah. He would just help Yi Jeong make fun of me more. Well let's see whether or not I call you Oppa."
"Are you talking to yourself again?"
Baye looked up. "Hey, Woo Bin. I'm just thinking."
"Out loud obviously." She made a face at him. "Are you ready for your first class?"
"No."
"Too late."
He hauled her up and led her from her office. She really didn't want to go. Her focus had been on teenagers from middle school to high school. In no way did she think she would end up teaching college. She had hated college when she had gone. Why would she want to teach them now? She was going to be the meanest teacher they knew. The Korean standards were way higher than those in New Zealand or Australia where she had taught once before. They thought they were going to get away with murder but she had some bad news for them.
She felt like she was being led to a slaughter. She knew how kids in their twenties could act. She wasn't much older than twenty so she still remembered the days when she thought she knew better than her professors. Now as she saw herself in her kids, she realized how foolish she had been. Now she just wanted her kids to understand that it was okay for them not to know everything. If it meant being antagonistic to them, then so be it.
She heard their loud voices out in the hallway and itched to turn around. In fact she did, but Woo Bin was right behind her. He caught her by the shoulders and turned her around to push her forward. He knew that even though she dreaded going inside, she was going to go anyway. She just wanted to test his resolve for it as well. She fought the urge to kick him in the shins, but he was trained in martial arts and could easily avoid any frontward attacks. He was prepared for them. He had to be considering her temper.
Baye peeked around the sliding doors at the kids gathered for her lecture. What was she going to talk about? Half of them probably already knew English well enough to know when she was making fun of them. She tried not to make fun of her students but sometimes they got on her nerves and she did it to rile them. She was a college professor. She could get away with it better than she could at the high school level.
Woo Bin ruffled the mass of black curls beside him. Baye had been Yi Jeong's friend from Sweden. She had been on scholarship in Stockholm when she had met the man. They had become friends and had talked the entire time they had stayed in Sweden. When he had returned home, she had taken the same flight to Korea then had flown on the New Zealand.
They had had the hardest time getting her to agree to come to South Korea to teach. She had refused at first, but after enough harping she had finally agreed. She had argued with them about salary and where she should live, but they had finally won the upper hand with her. Now she was living with Ji Hoo and working for a little more than what a normal teacher would earn. She still hated them for it.
"Treat them like they're young Goo Jun Pyo's," he whispered before he shoved her into the room and slammed the door.
Baye turned around and growled at the door. Woo Bin smiled cheekily at her then disappeared. She swore he flounced down the hallway. She was going to kill him when she saw him again. Turning around, she took in her class. They were all the same in her eyes. The ones who came here on parents' money tried to get away with anything. They weren't going to get away with it with her. She wasn't there to coddle them. Then there were the ones who worked their butts off and slacked off. She had no pity for them. And the third one was the kids who had the scholarships and worked hard. Those were the ones she would help.
She sighed and walked to the front of the room and set her books down. This was going to be a long semester.
"All right! Settle down!"
Jeongmin heard the voice and turned in his seat to see who had called them. The new teacher was finally here. She didn't look intimidating in the least bit. She was barely taller than him, and she didn't look like she could handle the thirty of them in the room. She started taking roll, and various kids called out they were there.
"Kwan Jeongmin?"
Every head in the room turned to him, even Donghyun's whose name had been called along with the C's. He cut his eyes and shook his head. He was warning his friend not to utter anything other than here.
"Kwan Jeongmin?"
He looked down at the front of the room again. She had found him and was waiting his response. He made eye contact with her. Hers narrowed slightly, daring him to say something.
"I'm here," he said as he raised his hand.
She marked his name off the list and continued with the roll. He watched her until he was certain he had gotten under her skin. Obviously not many people were able to deal with her bold look, but he wasn't the type to back down. He was known as the sassiest member of F4's additions. He was also the group's jokester along with Minwoo.
"I'm sure you're concerned as to why your professor was changed at the last minute. It seems Professor Uhn decided to go back to teaching high school kids. I don't have to ask who was responsible because I have a feeling I already know." Her eyes pierced him. She already knew it was him. "My name is Dr. Baye Lee. I know normally you would say my surname last, but I was raised in New Zealand where my name is Romanized. I will answer to either Dr. Baye or Dr. Lee. Never refer to me in the familiar while in the classroom. I won't answer it and I will fail you for the day."
She was feisty. Jeongmin's interest was piqued instantly. He leaned forward and listened intently to the rest of the speech.
"You will be expected to read ten English books and write a five page report on all ten. If you can't do the math, that's fifty pages all together. Yes, you have to write it in English, and no, you cannot Romanize it. Any paper that is not turned in will be an automatic zero. If you miss two papers, you fail the class. The final in this class will be all inclusive. Everything you have learned is important. You will be tested on it. If you try to get a doctor's note saying you don't have to take any of my tests, you will be considered an idiot and you will fail. Missing a test is one thing. Making it up is something completely different. I will drop one grade, but you have to make the argument as to which grade it is."
She wasn't missing a thing. Jeongmin marveled at her incredible speech. It was laced by a thick Australian accent as she spoke in Korean. She was well versed in the language though it wasn't her mother tongue.
"Are there any questions?" she asked. A person raised her hand. "Yes?"
"How many languages do you speak?" she asked.
"I speak six: English, Korean, Japanese, Swedish, French and German. I can teach anywhere in the world but my friend conned me into working here."
"You seem like the type who would fight," Donghyun said in front of him.
"Oh, I did, but Yi Jeong is a very persistent little man." The class gasped and she hit her fist on the desk. "Hey, hey! Just because I didn't grow up here doesn't mean I don't know etiquette. Yi Jeong and I are the same age. We were born on the same day in the same year, but I'm older by twenty minutes. I can call him that, no matter his position."
She checked her watch. "Class is dismissed. I expect a full roster on Wednesday and you better be prepared. I'm not going to treat you as children."
Donghyun waited for him as Jeongmin descended the steps. He lowered his voice. "Did you see that when she looked dead at you? Did you see her eyes?"
Jeongmin nodded. "I did. That woman is one of the Wild Powers, but I wonder which one." They walked side by side down the steps so no one would hear them. "Do you think Yi Jeong hyung and Woo Bin hyung know?"
"They have to since they hired her, but I wonder if they know which one she is. There are only five born every five hundred years, and then they're nearly impossible to find. What are the odds that one fell right into Shinhwa?"
The young man understood. "You think they're protecting her?"
"Who else would have the power to protect a Wild Power within the school? Only F4 can do it. That must be the reason they brought her here. But we can't ask unless we know what she can do."
He hated that, but Jeongmin agreed. They needed to know what the woman could do. Wild Powers could only be accessed by extremely stressful situations. Most didn't know they were Wild Powers until it was too late. Those who did went into hiding for the rest of their lives. There had never been a case where a Wild Power procreated.
"What should we do?" he asked.
"We have to protect her. We have to make sure a child is born to her. The council demands it."
They looked back at the woman who was talking with other students. Whatever the reason their friends had brought her here for, they were obligated to protect her. But Jeongmin wasn't obligated to make it easy on her.