Yona's knuckles ached as she gripped her pencil tightly. Slowly she wrote down her answer to the last problem on her test. How are these problems anywhere near similar to the work we studied? She thought looking at her answers uncertainly.
"Time is up! Pencils down." the teacher called out as some students groaned in response.
The teacher walked down each row taking papers. Yona continued to stare at her answers trying to decided if even one of them was right. Her thoughts were broken as the teacher took her paper along with the rest in her pile.
"What am I going to do if I fail?" Yona groaned as she dropped her head against the desk.
"Cheer up Yona, you able finish all of them in time, right?" Sakura, her friend asked standing over desk.
"Yeah, but that doesn't mean anything. I could still get them all wrong." Yona replied looking at Sakura.
"But you passed your last test, right?"
"Barely I got a 65 and dad wasn't too pleased by that. If I don't pass this test there's no way he will let me go to this year's party." Yona complained grabbing her bag.
"Aw come on Yona, you need to cheer up. Want to go eat some lunch at our usual place?" Sakura ask, smiling hopefully.
"Sure I guess, it's not like I have anything better to do."
"Great! I'll meet you there then." Sakura said excitedly, and then left her desk.
Holding her bag she left her classroom. Walking outside from the corner of her eye she saw Soo-Won talking with his usual group. Seeing him, she smiled hopefully, but he didn't notice her. Feeling discourage, she sighed.
For the past month they had been growing apart. He no longer visited her during lunch or was in any of her classes. The only times they did talk anymore was on the rare occasions they ran into each. But that didn't happen often, because of their busy schedules. She missed the times they had been close.
Walking past him, his eyes met hers. Smiling she waved at him, but his eyes quickly left hers and continued talking as though he never saw her. Her smile slowly left her face as she watch him ignoring her. She quickly turns around and left the school, clutching her bag.
Why is it as though we never even knew each other? She thought sadly. Maybe I should try texting him sometime.
"Excuse me, your Yona right?" A man asked, standing in front of her path, stopping her. He had two other large men who were dressed the same as him, in black suits, and were all wearing sunglasses. Except for the man who was talking to her. His eyes glinted in the sun.
"Er yes, how did you know-" But no sooner had she spoken those words, she was punched roughly in the gut. She fell onto sidewalk scraping her knees.
Gasping for breath she held her stomach. They slowly surrounded her. They held no weapons, but she knew they were still just as dangerous.
"What do you want?" She asked shakily
But her question was greeted with a heavy kick by her back. She screamed as she received kicked in the gut, that almost took her breath away. At the sound of her scream, they responded by attacking harder.
I have to get out of here, she thought. Taking advantage of the brief moment they were not attacking, as quickly as she could, pulled herself up. Her knee stung with pain, and she felt dizzy standing up. Ignoring her pains she ran, but just as she took a step away from them, her hair was abruptly pulled. Stopping her at her tracks.
"You're not going anywhere." The first man said in her ear, pulling her hair roughly.
Squinting her eyes open, her cries suddenly ceased as she saw Soo-Won. He stood by the edge of the sidewalk, and looked shocked at the situation she was in.
"Soo-Won you have to get out of here!" Yona yelled trying to warn him.
"Yona You-" Soo-Won said, but was never able to finish as he was painfully punched in the face, by one of the men dressed in black.
He fell to his knees and gasped with pain. Clutching his face he tried to cover his head to protect himself.
"Soo-Won!" Yona cried, desperately trying to pull herself from the mans grasp.
She was slap painfully across the face, and her hair was pulled roughly in response. Tears rushed down her face, but her eyes her focused on Soo-Won. She watched as he was strike down.
"Stop," she whimpered.
She pulled her arms out towards Soo-Won as if she was trying to reach him. Her eyes widen as she saw him be kicked in the gut, making him gasp for air
"Leave him alone!" She screamed, thrashing her head and grabbing her own hair that was being pulled.
"The less you fight back, the sooner we'll be done." The man growled, and slammed his fist against her face, making her fall to the ground.
Her vision clouded, and her entire body felt as though it was on fire. No, you can't faint now, not while Soo-Won is being attacked. She told herself. You have to do something.
Slowly she turned her face told Soo-Won trying to see him. Her pain faded as she saw him being once more punched in the gut, making him cough blood.
At this rate you'll both be killed, she fearfully resized.
"I said stop it!" She screamed, anger filling her at the sight she saw.
Her thoughts were filled with desiring to hurt the men who dared to try and hurt Soo-Won. She wanted them to feel the pain she felt. She wanted them to experience it.
In her clouded vision and anger, she saw small blue threads in midair. Things seemed to move in slow motion as the thread's glistened. The were in all different directions and seemed to be floating. Blindly she grabbed on one pulling it.
Suddenly screams filled her ears from the men. She was shocked to see them on there knees. They were clutching their arms, and legs. Smoke was rising from them, and fire started to form on their clothes.
As her anger was slowly replaced with shock, the fire slowly started to fade. After a few minutes it was completely gone, leaving them and badly burned.
The threads were gone, as though they had never even existed. Everything was eerily quiet as she stared bewildered at the scene before her. Did I just set those men on fire? She thought to herself as she recalled the threads she pulled on.
"Yona," Soo-Won said, now standing up on, in disbelief.
He looked at her with shock, and fear. He knows what I did. He saw me do it. She realized feeling shame wash over her. What I just did was anything but normal.
"Soo-Won I can-" Yona said standing up but stopped speaking to him as she saw his reaction.
He flinched as she said his name and took a step back, away from her. Strangely she felt tears fall down her face, as she saw how he looked at her.
I'm a freak. I can't stay here. She thought. She turned away from him and ran. Each step she took pain fired through her. Her sides ached, and burned. One of her wrist was at an odd angle, indicating that it was broken. But despite all this she still ran.
Tears blurred her vision along with the dizziness she felt. Suddenly her foot struck a large crack on the sidewalk, making her fall. Her face slammed on the ground sending pain throughout her body.
I'm not going to make it, she thought as darkness swept her vision. At least I was able to save Soo-Won. She closed her eyes, she let darkness cover her.
"Get her inside the car. She isn't in good condition."
Squinting her eyes open she was blinded by the light. She could barely see the outline of a person who hovered above her. The person was holding her wrist, which was no longer in its odd angle. Bandages were wrapped around it.
"Just make she doesn't wake up" A voiced said, but she could barely comprehend it.
She felt herself being carried, but she hardly noticed. I need to get home. I promised dad that I would be at home on time. She thought as she closed her eyes.
"We'll make sure to have her well secured. She won't even know what happened.
Then darkness covered her once more.