Happy pancake (The fourth pancake) 5/5

“Come out,” I said, using Sky’s method of dragging her out the crowd. Finally, I turned around to talk to her when we had gotten out.
“What do you think you’re doing?” I yelled, not only so that she could hear, but also so that she could see I was angry.
“What?”
“What do you think you’re doing?” I yelled once again, before realising that the music and screams were too loud. I dragged her outside the hall before talking to her once again.
“Ah! Ah! My arm, it hurts!” she yelped, after being let go.
“What did you think you were doing in there?” I asked, hoping for a good enough answer that would explain why she had lied to me.
“Well, I-”
“-And what practise? What kind of practise is looking at someone else boxing?”
“Raina, please don’t be angry, look-”
“Hannie! Wake up from your dreams! He’s one of those guys! He won’t ever like you whole- heartedly. Trust me, haven’t you learnt from all those other guys you’ve dated?”
“Raina, I’m sorry! But he seems to be sincere.”
"Sincere about what? With you? You haven't even been out with him!"
"Trust me on this one...ok?"
“Alright, alright,” I finally came to agree. The only way to cross a river was to get over it.

Just then, I saw Sky through the window in the door. He gestured at me with his fingers, telling me to come over.
“Hannie, I’ll talk to you later, I need to go and do something first,”
“Ok,” she said, as she opened the door to find sky standing there. Hannie turned around to face me.
“I think he wants to talk to you,” she mouthed through the window.
“I know,” I mouthed back, before waving.
I waited for Sky to come out. He approached me with one hand in his pocket, and the other hand lying downwards to his body.
“You…how are you going to repay me?” was the first words that fell out of his mouth.
“Repay? Repay what?”
“Me…for helping you today,”
“What? No one said that you had to help me.” I asked, confused.
“Do you really think that I just help people? Get in the real world.There's no such thing as a free lunch in this world.”
“But…But you didn’t tell me that before!”
“Yes I did.”
“When?”
I began to rewind back to the time he told me that he knew where Hannie was. That liar.
“You didn’t!” I tried to argue through…though he had the same expression on his face which clearly meant that it hadn’t.
“Meet me at the front reception tomorrow after class.”
“Why?”
“You better not be late,”
“Why don’t I just not turn up ?”
“If you don’t, you’re going to regret it.”
“Why should I meet you?”
“I want you to do something for me.”
“You want me to help you with something?”
“I don’t want help from anybody. I just want you to do something for me.” He said stubbornly, “Don’t you forget,”
And with that, he walked off whilst whistling and swinging his keys in the air.
‘If he wanted help, he could’ve just said so.’

Happy pancake (The fourth pancake) 4/5

“What? I’m not in the mood, okay?” I said, before pushing Sky to the side. Normally, my friends would describe me as an ‘outgoing’ person, but I could turn so moody after a few disappointing situations.

“Wait!” He managed to yell to get my attention just before I was out of his sight, though he hadn’t even turned around to face me, “I know where they are,”
‘What was he talking about?’

I carried on walking, thinking he was talking to someone else. Besides, how would he know where Hannie was? She’s my best friend, and I don’t even know where she had gone. Just then, I felt someone grab my arm.
“Wow…seriously, you really are dumb,”
“What are you doing?”
“I said I know where she is,”
“Get off my arm,”
“Are you not going to ask me where she is?”
“Why would I trust you on that?”
“Look here, I’m telling you I know where she is, isn’t that what you want?”
I smiled in disgust. Who was he to get my trust?
“Fine, if you know, then where is she?”
Suddenly, he began to walk briskly down the corridor which lead to another flight of stairs, whilst tugging my arm. He ran down these stairs, which descended to the P.E department.
“Ow! Ow!” I cried, hoping he would let go of my wrist, but the more I cried, the more he seemed to ignore me.

“Aren’t you going to let go?!”
“Shut up! You’re going to give me a headache!”
Before I knew it, we had reached the corridor which led to the main sports hall. In that room, only tournaments took place after class. And like it sounded one was on at the moment. Loud music pounded through the doors to the rhythm of our footsteps- well more like his since mine was all over the place from being dragged. He pushed the door open with his other hand, and threw me in with the other.
I grabbed my wrist, feeling the pressure from his hand burn into my flesh. I wanted to beat him up, seriously…if only Hannie was here. Then, I saw her. The screaming and cheering made me look up, and that was when I saw her. She stood just below the stage, cheering someone on stage- and that person to me looked like someone I knew. Suddenly I realised.
“That…that guy standing on stage there,” I pointed at him to Sky, “isn’t he your friend,”
“So what? I thought we were here to find your friend, not hook up with people.”
“That wasn’t what I meant!” I responded, though there was absolutely no use talking to someone who wouldn’t listen.

I had to get a closer look. But there was one problem. A huge crowd of crazy fans, especially girls, stood around the stage, blocking my entrance to get to Hannie. I tried screaming above the music to be heard, but I could just not get Hannie’s attention. I sighed, there was only one way.
I began to make my way through the crowd, occasionally nearly being knocked over to my death. I was swayed side to side as I pushed my way through, as well as being yelled at by some girls who said I was “being in the way”. Finally, I managed to get close enough to the front to reach Hannie’s arm. I reached out and grabbed her hard. She turned around, before jumping from the shock of seeing me.
“Raina…what are you doing here?”

Happy pancake (The fourth pancake) 3/5

But all I could think of now was that Hannie was up to something- something she wouldn’t even tell me about…and she tells me everything! Suddenly, she stopped to talk to someone- someone who I did not recognise.

‘Probably an acquaintance,’

I stopped dead there, before slowly shifting to the side where I could lean and not be seen. Tilting my head sideways, I tried to identify the face of the person, but before I could even grab a glance, Hannie turned around. Immediately I ducked, hoping she hadn’t noticed. The crowd of footballers who I was hiding behind looked at me as if I were some kind of creep. I darted a glare at them, hoping that they would quit staring.

‘Please please don’t notice, don’t come this way…’

I looked around, wondering if I should get up and see if they were still talking. But my instincts kept me from doing it and instead, I spent a few minutes waiting. Feeling bored, I looked around at the marble floor that I was kneeling on. Someone must’ve polished it recently because it was so shiny that I could see my own reflection in it. I looked at my watch- it seemed a length of time that would be appropriate for Hannie to have stopped looking around. However-the next thing I saw was something that I immediately regretted once I saw. Sky- out of all people was looking right down at me, a few inches away from my face. I began to wonder how long he had been there for, since I had been looking at the floor all this time.
“Ah finally, I have gotten your attention,” he said, before smirking like he normally does.

“What the hell are you doing?” I said, hoping that he would retreat immediately. However, he didn’t move a single muscle whilst looking right at me. He was so close I could feel his breath tingling on my cold cheeks which soon became warm. My body began to feel sweaty- did someone turn on the heaters?
I gulped, “Hey, if you aren’t going to back off, you’ll have to deal with the consequences…”
“What consequences?” he said, as he began to examine my face. I began to feel uneasy- was there something wrong with me for him to be looking at me so intently? I began to wonder if I had accidently stuck the note (which I had tried to pass to Hannie earlier today) on my forehead. I reached up, stroking the skin under my fringe- but nothing.
“This,” I said, before pushing him so he fell to the ground. It was so easy to make someone who was kneeling fall over. I quickly ran whilst I had the chance.
‘That was close,’

However, as I looked up, Hannie had gone and it was all because of that stupid jerk. Now there was no way that I could find her…damn him…damn him. I sighed, before turning back to head to the directions of the door. So close, and yet so far away.

“Ow!” I shouted, as my head compressed against a hard object. Thinking it must’ve been the exit door, my hand stretched to the left where the button which opened the doors must be. However, nothing was there. Feeling confused, I finally decided to look up.
“Huh?!” I said, before jumping. Suddenly, my mind flashed back to when I was 9 and watching Scooby Doo jump onto Shaggy whenever he saw a monster. I really wish I was Scooby Doo right at that time.
“Did you think you could just get away like that?” He said, before I realised that Sky was supposed to be that door. Seriously, why on earth was someone like him attending our school?

Happy pancake (The fourth pancake) 2/5

"Class, please concentrate, I know that this is the first lesson in the morning and it's hard. I know- I've done it all before. I was a child before- and we’ve all got to learn-but you've got to concentrate. Lots of kids in this world don't have the opportunities that you have, and it would be great if you value the things that you are able to be in hold of,"

As he carried on going on with his lecture, he was too busy to notice what we were doing. I whispered to get my neighbour's attention.
"What?"
"Pass it on!"
"Oh, is that what you were saying earlier? I thought this was a note for me or something. Because you know Valentine’s Day is coming up-"
"Just pass it on!"
"Ok, ok," he muffled, quickly sliding it onto the edge of Hannie's desk, though she didn't even notice. She rested her head on her arms, looking across the room at someone. I turned to face the direction which she was looking at- though I really shouldn't have. There, sat the guy made her words jumble when she was asked a question. The guy who made her hands shake, even when the bus driver just asked for her ticket. I sighed, she was in love, and she definitely was.

How can she fall for a guy like that? - I mean seriously…but at least it wasn’t some Gay man like it was last time… But I guess he was kind of cute…

***

"Hannie, wait, you walking home?" I said, after grabbing her arm because she was rushing, and it would've been unlikely that she would've heard me.
"Oh, Raina, you're here?"
"Yeah- like I always am...waiting for you,"
"Oh, is that so?" she replied. She really did not make a single sense to me at all...
"Yeah, so...are you walking?"
"Erm...no, you go ahead, I'm going to do some practise," she said, smiling whilst biting her bottom lip. She was up to something. I knew it.
"Oh, ok, well, I'll see you tomorrow then," I smiled at her patiently.
"Yeah, see you tomorrow," she said, though it looked like she just repeated what I said. Curiosity filled my mind- I had to see what she was up to. I took my phone from my jacket.

I fumbled at the keypad before eventually getting through to Mike.
"Hello?" I heard Mike's voice speak.
"Mike, it's me. I can't make it today-"
"Why is something up?"
"Yeah, you go ahead- I'll speak to you tomorrow,"
"Hey-"
I hung up the phone before I lost sign of Hannie. Just as I put my phone away, I saw her turn into a corner.
'Right, let's see what you're up to,'

I began to follow her up towards the flight of stairs that led down to the P.E department. Crowds of muddy football players stood around at the corridors, as I made my way through the gaps, occasionally knocking into someone. ‘Sorry’ was all I had time to say- though I would’ve probably said the same even if I did have a lot of time.

Happy pancake (The fourth pancake) 1/5

“You promised your mum that you would get 5 new experienced workers within 2 weeks?! Are you crazy?”
“No,” I said, as I walked to the next isle of books.
“How on earth are you going to do that?” Questioned Hannie, realising that she had caused a scene and even now, the librarian began to stare at her. She awkwardly looked away, picking up a random book from the shelf.

“Well, I’ll give it a shot anyway- it’s the last chance to save Sunny Pancake,” I whispered, before putting a book back between two other ones.
“Wow- you really have gone crazy haven’t you? Is it that guy- what was his name- sk- ski- sky…sky! That’s the one. Wow, he really can be quite cruel to girls can’t he? Did he do anything to you? Are you hurt anywhere?” she asked, placing a hand on my forehead as if to see if I had a fever.
“What is this?” I said whilst looking at her concerned expression. I grabbed her arm and pulled it away from my forehead.

“How am I crazy? You’re the one who still won’t tell your best friend who you’ve been with for the past couple of weeks!”
“Ok, ok. I was wrong, ok?”
“Does that mean you’re going to tell me?”
“No- do you think I’m stupid?”
“Hey!”

***

"What's up with her?" Yen whispered across the table. I turned to look at Hannie, who stared into space, unaware that the teacher had asked her a question.

"Hannie...Miss Yoon?"
"Eh?" She answered quickly, shocked, after realising that she was in class.

"What is the answer to this equation?"
"Equation? Oh...um…I’m not sure…78%?"

"Wrong!" he shouted, slamming a ruler onto the desk frighteningly as he said it, making the whole class jump.

"The answer is 0.051- it's not even supposed to be a percentage. I've given you the easier question and yet you still haven't managed to tell me the correct answer. Now, what does this tell me Miss Yoon?"
"I'm sorry sir,"
" ‘Sorry’ isn’t good enough, 'I will try my hardest next time' is the correct answer to that,"
"Yes, I will try my hardest next time,"

Our maths professor shook his head with disbelief, but he carried on with the lesson. I began to write on a piece of paper, carefully ripping around the edges so it didn't make a loud noise. I passed the note to the person on the left, mouthing to them to pass it to Hannie. He looked confused, holding the piece of paper like I'd just given him a toilet roll.

"Pass it on to Hannie," I mouthed with big gestures. I spotted sir turn his attention to us in the corner of my eye; I turned back to face the front. He looked at the class suspiciously like we were planning a surprise for him.