I blinked my eyes.

“Why is he here?”

It was a face I never expected to see.

Of all people, I never thought it would be him.

Seon Woo-jin frowned and waved his hands back and forth, apparently due to the dust in the PE storage room.

“You… How did you get here?”

Seon Woo-jin answered nonchalantly.

“Yoo Hee-na told me to come here.”

Huh?

That was a name I didn’t expect to hear.

‘Yoo Hee-na?’

I thought she hadn’t noticed me earlier.

‘But why didn’t she help me directly if she knew I was here?’

I had thought Yoo Hee-na was either unaware of my situation or didn’t care to help.

But from what Seon Woo-jin said, it seemed neither was the case.

Then why did she send Seon Woo-jin instead of coming herself?

Suddenly, Yoo Hee-na’s voice echoed in my head.

〈Then I’ll help you from now on!〉

Could it be?

A foreboding feeling washed over me.

‘She didn’t send him because of that, did she?’

Yoo Hee-na misunderstood that I liked Seon Woo-jin.

She said she wanted to help me as a fellow unrequited love comrade and that she would help us get together.

‘…….’

…It seems this was her ‘help.’

‘Should I be grateful or not?’

It’s a mixed feeling of gratitude but also not.

I sighed while looking blankly at Seon Woo-jin.

I felt sorry just looking at his face.

He had come back to school for me, even after leaving for the hospital on his day off.

If it were me, I would have sent someone else.

But Seon Woo-jin coming all this way for me shows he might actually be a decent guy. I should be nicer to him from now on.

But what about Yoo Hee-na?

‘…I guess I should thank her first.’

After all, she did try to help me, albeit in an overwhelming way.

‘I’ll have to talk about Seon Woo-jin later.’

If I keep letting this misunderstanding slide, something big might happen eventually. Honestly, just thinking about Yoo Hee-na makes me anxious. I never know what she might do next.

Anyway, that’s a problem for later.

‘Let’s just get out of here and talk.’

Having made up my mind, I stood up to leave.

“Ah!”

“What?”

“I’ve got a cramp in my leg.”

Seon Woo-jin looked at me as if to say, “You’ve got to be kidding me.”

“Can you help me up?”

“No, it’s okay. But…”

Just then, Seon Woo-jin carelessly let go of the door handle while trying to come over to me.

I quickly warned him.

“Hey, if you close that…”

Creak. Bang!

“…It won’t open from the inside.”

The PE storage room door shut completely.

“…….”

“…….”

And that’s how the two of us ended up trapped together.

“…Well, I’ll say thanks.”

I said gloomily.

“You came to rescue me, even though you were thoughtless. Thoughtless, but still.”

“You don’t seem very grateful.”

I ignored Seon Woo-jin’s comment and sighed heavily.

‘I can’t believe we’re trapped again.’

When Seon Woo-jin first opened the door, I never imagined it would end up like this.

The hope that had arisen only to be dashed made the feeling of despair twice as heavy. I sadly hugged my knees.

‘We’re not going to be stuck here with him until tomorrow, right?’

I could have asked the system for help if Seon Woo-jin wasn’t here, but with him present, I couldn’t do either. It might lead to weird suspicions.

‘At least it won’t be boring.’

I weighed in my mind whether the system or Seon Woo-jin would be a better conversation partner. Seon Woo-jin won by a small margin.

‘No, that’s not what’s important right now.’

Why am I here in the first place? I used to get along well with the other students in class. We weren’t close friends, but we weren’t bad enough to end up locked in a PE storage room.

…Is it all because of Ban Ha-min?

‘Once I get out of here, I really need to deal with Ban Ha-min.’
As I was silently fuming, Seon Woo-jin rummaged through his pockets and handed me something.

It was my cell phone.

“Wow, thanks!”

“Now you really look grateful.”

Ignoring his comment, I excitedly turned on the phone.

“Oh, what the…”

It’s not working?

The phone turned off mid-startup, possibly due to a drained battery.

I looked at Seon Woo-jin questioningly. He replied indifferently.

“How should I know?”

If Seon Woo-jin didn’t know, then the culprit could only be Ban Ha-min.

My resolve to deal with Ban Ha-min intensified.

“But how do we really get out of here?”

We were back to square one, just with two people trapped instead of one.

“Don’t you have a phone?”

Then Seon Woo-jin nonchalantly took out his phone.

Ah, I worried for nothing.

“Why didn’t you take it out sooner?”

Seon Woo-jin glanced at me and said.

“Just wanted to see your reaction.”

“…….”

I take back what I said about him being a decent guy.

Seon Woo-jin dialed a number and put the phone to his ear. After a few rings, the call connected.

Who did he call?

Hello?

The conversation echoed in the quiet PE storage room.

Seon Woo-jin got straight to the point.

“Sung Ji-chan, where are you?”

At school.

“Then come here for a sec. I’m trapped.”

Trapped? Where?

“In the PE storage room.”

Really? Get out yourself.

Heartless guy.