Su Ho was 19 years old. He attended an all boys school: Eunjang high school. He was the ‘top dog’ of the school. He was really good at fighting and knew martial arts, nobody fucked witj him because they knew he could kick their ass with no struggle. He often would stand up to people who were prone to bullying others, just to reinstate his intimidation factor to them. Su Ho wasn’t one of those arrogant or rude guys, he also wouldn’t go around just beating people up for the sake of it, he only ever fought anyone when it was to do with his friends. He always slept through class since he worked three different jobs: he delivers food Monday to Wednesday, he works as a waiter at a cafe Thursday and Friday and on weekends he works at a cinema.

Si Eun was the quiet type of guy. He was always studying, kept to himself and just tried to get by day by day. He always spoke in a sort of dull and distant voice, like he didn’t actually ever care. His days were boring, they consisted solely of studying because his father wanted him to get good grades and get into the best college, but his dad was never around, he was always busy so Si Eun was left by himself most of his days. At school, he didn’t have any friends, he just studied in class every day. Until some guys that didn’t like him decided to mess with him, they put a fentanyl strip onto his neck so he couldn’t complete the test because the fentanyl made him dizzy and drowsy. So when he found out his test result the next day, he lost it. He needed up stabbing a pen through one of the boy’s hand and breaking the others nose with the spine of a hardback textbook. This got him a lot of street credit at school, making him in the same ranks as Su Ho.

Su Ho and Si Eun ended up becoming friends, somehow. It was basically just a mutual friendship as the school class them as the same intimidation levels. They ended up getting into a lot of shit together and they hung out together a lot, even fought a bunch of dangerous gangsters and got them put into jail. They had a little group. There was Su Ho and Si Eun, Yeong-I. Beom-Seok used to be their friend too but he was convinced that Su Ho looked down on him and thought he was better than him, so he ended up blocking him on Instagram and blocked Su Ho’s number and started hanging out with a group of guys from their class who were always going out drinking and would vape in the school bathrooms. They all had a mutual disliking for Su Ho and that is how they led to cutting his brake wires on his motorcycle that he used for his part time job delivering food.

Su Ho limped into class late the next day, looking tired as always, but this time with a plastic boot over his fractured leg that had been the outcome of getting his brake wire cut. He glared at Beom Seok, having an idea that he did it. When the class started to empty out for lunch, Si Eun walked over to Su Ho’s desk at the back of the class and questioned Su Ho’s fractured leg.

“It’s nothing.”

Su Ho answered casually with a shrug of his shoulders. They had an unspoken agreement. When one said ‘it was nothing’ it meant ‘don’t ask’ and they never did ask.