Chapter 2- The Wrongly Graded Letter

That kick kept on replaying through Oh Ha Ni head for the rest of the day.

Her kick hadn't even been a bit light.

Baek Soon Jo had stumbled and losing his balance, crashed into his friend, ending up in a very suggestive position ( which did done nothing to curb the rumours that he was gay ).

It was the first time Oh Ha Ni or rather, anyone had seen Baek Soon Joo in a humane manner.

After that embarrassing incident Oh Ha Ni was trying her best to find a hole to die in.

Her friends tried their best to confort her.

" At least he knows you exist now", Min Ah said cheerfully.

" Yeah, he knows me as the girl who kicked him and caused the gay rumours to spread like wildfire", Oh Ha Ni said before groaning deeper into her desk.

Maybe if she stayed there long enough, she could become a part of the desk.

Being a desk was so easy. No stupid crushes, no school work and most definitely no ability to kick anyone.

Well it could always fall on someone, resulting in much more pain than a kick would cause.

So being a desk was off her future career list, so was Mrs. Baek Seun Jo for that matter.

" Maybe you should apologize to him", Joo Ri suggested.

" I wonder if I can even face him", Oh Ha Ni said dejectedly.

" Oh please!", Joon Gu exclaimed happily,"Oh Ha Ni dosen't need to do that, Geniuses like him need to understand what it feels like to be on the ground more often".

Oh Ha Ni glared at her friend. Ever since the news about the kick had spread ( a day ago ), there had been stares, whispers, insults shadowing her and trash in her locker.

The only people who seemed happy with her were the BL (Boy Love) fans.

She had been high fived in the corridor many a time due to them.

The only other person who was delighted with the news was her friend/rival/classmate Joon Gu.

And everytime he expressed his delight, Oh Ha Ni ended up breaking the closest thing to her out of irritation.

Oh damn, that was the last of my pencils, Oh Ha Ni thought dejectedly as Joon Gu turned his chair to face them.

The reason it irked Oh Ha Ni was because she knew, she just knew that her friend was gay or bisexual, she wasn't sure yet.

She knew one thing for sure though, Joon Gu most definitely harboured a colossal crush on Baek Seung Jo.

It was obvious from the distressed look that flashed on his face the moment she simply mentioned him. The way his eyes zeroed on Baek Seung Joo when the genius simply entered the room.

Now Oh Ha Ni was a admittedly, a closet BL follower, had it been anyone but Baek Seung Jo ( who she feared was most definitely gay, not even bisexual ), she would have shipped them to the stars.

But it was Baek Seung Jo and there was no way she was going to allow for that romance to happen ( how many ever fanfics about them she had shame written ).

" You guys are right", Oh Ha Ni declared," I should apologize".

She flushed," But I don't know if I can face him, isn't there another way?"

Min Ah and Joo Ri brainstormed for a while as Joon Gu looked a bit offended at being ignored.

" Oh, how about you send him an email or text apologizing", Joo Ri suggested.

" That's great and all, but I don't think that Ha Ni has Mr. Geniuse's number", Joon Gu said, desperately trying to prevent any further contact that his beloved Ha Ni would have with that jerk.

" Oh wait!", Min Ah exclaimed as she lugged a copy of the 'Itazura na Kiss' manga out of her backpack," How about we follow the manga and use a letter instead?"

Oh Ha Ni wrinkled her nose," I'm not sure guys, I mean wasn't that published in the 1990s, that's like a century ago".

" Okay so no one's going to explain how we just casually broke the fourth wall", Joon Gu mentioned in the backround.

" Well", Joo Ri tried," At least you can put your letter writing skills to use now, it always seemed like such a useless thing to learn during the classes".

" Well I guess it's better than nothing ", Oh Ha Ni said as she took a notebook out of her bag while Joon Gu decided that he had at least tried to stop this and went to his other friends to sulk.

" Lets see", Oh Ha Ni said as she gripped one of Joo Ri's pencils, "Informal letter format, first the name of your building-",

" Umm, Oh Ha Ni", Min Ah said softly," I don't think you need to write your adress or anything, you're just going to stuff it in his locker right?"

Oh Ha Ni wondered where her brain cells had gone for a vacation and whether she could join them.

Sighing, she was about to start ovet when the bell rang, signalling the end of the lunch break.

Great more of her brain cells were going to go sunbathing and get themselves fried in Maths.

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The next day Oh Ha Ni came to school early with two extra sheets of paper in her hand.

One, contained the apology note meant for Baek Seung Joo.

The second, contained the new chapter of ' Genius meets Paradise' that she was going to post after the BL club edited it for her.

As the title of the fic suggested, the main character was based of Baek Seung Jo and his love interest was based of Joon Gu.

Humming under her breath, Oh Ha Ni quickly put the apology note in Baek Seung Jo's locker and went over to the BL club with her new chapter.

" Good morning", Yeun Ah said cheerily from her place near the laptop.

" Good morning", Oh Ha Ni smiled back as she handed Yeun Ah the new chapter.

" Ah the new chapter, isn't this the scene where those two", Yeun Ah paused for dramatic effect ," Finally confess and kiss".

Oh Ha Ni nodded and looked around, noting the absence of the other three members.

" Hey, where are the others?" Oh Ha Ni asked.

" I'm the only one who comes so early", Yeun Ah said as she cleaned her spectacles," Those three come around the same time as you usually do".

Oh Ha Ni decided to wait while she sat on one of the chairs. The BL club was a nice retreat from the stares and whispers she was recieving recently.

All the members were from different classes, Yeun Ah for example, was from the 'B' division, but she wasn't marks oriented like the majority of the school.

Oh Ha Ni wasn't exactly a club member, she visited once or twice a week to give rough drafts of her chapters.

There were more of acqaintances than friends. None the less, it was a nice place to come and escape for some time.

" Umm, Ha Ni?" Yeun Ah asked in confusion as she handed her the sheet of paper back," Why is there an apology note here instead of some yaoi makeout session.

" Yah, Oh Ha Ni what are you doing?" Yeun Ah screamed as she saw the girl in question look outside the window blankly.

" Contemplating whether I should jump out of the window or drown in that duck pond below".

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When Oh Ha Ni saw Baek Seung Jo enter the cafeteria she ducked under the coffee table.

Min Ah and Joo Ri, who only had a vague idea of the current situation ( Oh Ha Ni's BL fan tendencies were a secret from everyone ) were not exactly sure of what to do except exchange glances with each other.

Peeking out of the coffee table and seeing that the coast was clear, Oh Ha Ni let out a sigh of relief and thumped back on the couch.

Her friends, on the other hand, thought that it was a sigh of sadness and decided to yell out her name for Baek Seung Jo to hear.

" Guys stop, what do you think you're doing", Oh Ha Ni hissed as she subtly began to slide under the table.

" You're Oh Ha Ni", Baek Seung Jo said in a clipped tone.

" Nope ", Oh Ha Ni said from under the coffee table," I'm just a plastic table, not even rosewood or maghony, there's nothing to see here".

Her friends pushed her back up onto the sofa when they saw Baek Seung Jo heading towards their directions.

Oh Ha Ni pleaded God to be merciful.

A ring of people ( mostly girls ) was beginning to form around them as Baek Seung Jo handed her the letter.

" For me?" Oh Ha Ni asked shakily as she pointed a trembling finger at herself.

On seeing Baek Seung Jo give a small nod she took the alarmingly familiar piece of paper.

Gulping a bit she opened the folded paper.

She had been ready to yelp a sorry and probably bow too when she saw a huge C plus on her beautiful and lovely fic.

As the sheet of paper was ripped out of her hand by the Sk*nk, Oh Ha Ni's expression hardened.

A C plus, a freaking C plus, this thing was amazing, it had 1000 plus reviews and sure, it had spelling mistakes and hadn't been edited by the BL club yet, but it deserved at least a B.

Seeing Seun Jo's smirking face made Oh Ha Ni want to give that Vending Machine a good hearth kick.

In the background Oh Ha Ni could hear Joon Gu racing down the stairs and Sk*nk reading out the start of her chapter.

She was going to salvage that situation without resorting to violence, because really if they got caught, she would be the one who got punished in this gradist school.

She ripped the sheet out of the Sk*nk's hands, albeit not completely, just the part that tore off. That girl had a strong grip.

Still, she managed to get the part which had the grade written on it and most of the rest. The Sk*nk as people say, got the shorter end of the page i.e just the margin.

She shoved the page in from of Baek Seung Jo's face," So how many marks did you make this out of", Oh Ha Ni asked sweetly.

The genius looked confused for a second ," 100 marks obviously, it's according to our school".

Smiling despite how scared she felt that this was all going to blow up in her face, Oh Ha Ni continued," Well then that means that this essay should be 55 to 59 marks".

She took a deep breath before continuing ," Counting all mu spelling mistakes, one meaning that a mark is cancelled, I'll still just be losing 12 marks, now if you take context, which only counts for 40 marks, even if you utterly despised it, the most a kid has ever lost is 20 marks, and then there's grammar and sentence consruction, which isn't lacking a bit, so even if you were being strict that would be 5 marks lost".

Oh Ha Ni paused once more, looking at the shocked expressions of the people around her, save for her three friends who smiled back at her.

Sure Oh Ha Ni was academically stupid, but that didn't mean she wanted to fail, asking her teacher how to study the bare minimum helped her just pass and get an idea about the grading system.

Geniuses like Baek Seung Jo who got full marks by simply touching the text book, didn't need useless knowledge like that.

Smirking she looked back at her now ex crush's blank face " And that would be...", Oh Ha Ni waited for Baek Seung Joo to answer, partially to make him admit his mistake and partially because she wasn't able to do the mental maths herself.

" 63 marks ", Baek Seung said after a while, shock laced with his tone.

" That's a B, it's all according to the school system...Mr. Genius", Oh Ha Ni said before turning around and leaving, tripping a bit along the way

AN: I updated...finally. There were multiple scenarios that I couldn't choose over for this chapter but I finally made a choice.

As you can see, I've made Oh Ha Ni street smart and made Joon Gu's character a little less lovestruck and stalkerish.

One of the major changed here is the presence of the BL club in Oh Ha Ni's life, I hope you liked my OC Yeun Ah, she isn't going to be soo involved in the series but she'll play a part.

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