Running away from the male lead

Chapter 2: Apologies after faceslapping

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“How come I didn’t know that you create jewellery designs and perfume scents and that you are investing in stocks, as your only friend don’t you think I should know?”, he says lounging on the couch in my room. It is a good thing that I changed the room scheme. It is now more light and airy with plants here and there and the table and everything is made of natural wood. 

“Don’t make it a big deal. As the second master you must have a lot of money.” he rolls his eyes.

“Right, my mom cares about me and loves me, but they are grooming my older brother for the business.”, I have met his parents they are the sweetest people. “ Also you know that I am not interested in the family business, I want to earn on my own, not depending on my family.”

I remove my hair tie and let my hair fall on my shoulders, and brush my hair to get rid of any tangles as I make a messy braid. 

“ So show me your designs.”, He glares at me.

I get and go to the cupboard where I stuffed the folder, hidden between the hangers. 

I pass the folder to him, as he browses his eyes widen. Looking at the notes written on the side, he sees the story behind every piece. 

“These are amazing, I mean I have no words. These are better than some of the ones that my mom buys. Wow!”

“ I plan on starting a company as soon as I finish high school, or sooner if I can.”, I look at him, he looks like he is in deep thought.

“Okay, as long as I am the Vice President. NO argument, I want to help. I have the skill and knowledge. We can draw up a plan together and we can do this.”, I look at his determination and frown. I never had a friend like this, he is so nice. I smile at him and hug him. He freezes in shock.

“Sure, ahh it is so nice to have a friend.”  The next few hours we plan when we are going to start everything. As soon as we earn a cumulative of 50 million, we will lock down a small studio. I already earned 5 million, when he learned that he looked at me in shock.

“You are awesome, don’t worry, we will succeed. When we hit the mark, we can tell my parents market from there. If my mom wears one of your pieces, it will be spread since she is a retired model. We continued talking and then he went home.

After that my brother came,” Sis, do you think you can help me with my homework?”

We sat down on the floor as I explained him the topic and correct his essay. We then had dinner and I was about to go to bed when I saw the book had a weird glow.

The book had a new note, ‘ You changed the storyline, your memory of the original story will be deleted and you will have no knowledge of the story at all. You are now the female lead, good luck.’ 

A few spaces underneath there was another one, ‘ The original Park Aera’s childhood memories will also be given to you, so you are now her. You will also remember your other life, you will have both.’

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The next day, I wake up with a headache similar to the one I had when I was transported to this weird world. I can feel my head rushing as memories of Park Aera flashed through my head as my own. My heart broke, she has always been mistreated just because she was a girl.

I walk to the closet and take out my uniform and as I put it on I check the black book, ‘all it says is that the original Park Aera’s memories are now yours.’

Shaking my head at the thoughts, I check my laptop before, going downstairs to see my parents and my brother sitting there waiting for me. I bow to apologise before I sit down.

“ Aera, we have a yearly gathering to attend tomorrow, we expect you to be on your before. Also, take care of your brother.”, I nod and reply with a small yes. Thinking back they always treat me as a babysitter. I mentally shrug, their indifference helps me, they won’t notice me and my activities.

After finishing I walk to the car when I feel a tug on my skirt. I look down to see Yesung, “ what do you want?”

“Bend down.”, he orders with a stiff voice giving me a wide smile.

I bend down to his height when he presses a kiss on my cheek and runs off before I can say anything. Leaving me in shock, he gets into his car to leave for school. 

“Young Miss, it is time for school.”, I look to see my driver smiling at me, “ Miss if you don’t close your mouth flies are going to enter.”

Abruptly closing my mouth I get in, as the driver lets out a small chuckle seeing my behaviour. 

Reaching school, I climbed out of the door, to see Jinyoung waiting for me, he was lightly jumping on his toes. “ Well, what has you so excited today?”, I ask him as We walk to class. 

“I don’t know I am just in a good mood. Let’s go to my house after school, my mom has been asking for you.”, I give him a small smile as I look at the stock prices on my phone seeing if anything is worth investing in. Suddenly I feel someone pull me to one side.

“i***t, you would have crashed into the wall.”, I still wasn’t paying attention to him.

As we continue walking at each turn he would guide me until we reached class. This was a daily occurrence, he acts as the driver guiding me to the class.

I sit in the front corner, as he sits next to me, I hear snickers.

“I bet she was scolded horribly by the teacher. She thinks that she is clever, everybody here knows that the only reason that she gets marks is that she has her parents.”

Jinyoung rolls his eyes and was about to turn to give them a piece of his mind when I stop him by kicking his shin. He glares at me, and I look at him. Then it hits him. He shuts up and looks front as people continue to talk about me and other random things.

Then Mr Choi walks in, keeping a bunch of books, which caught my eye, on the table. “Who is absent in class today?”

“Kim Miyoung.”, someone replies.

Then he gives the class an assignment to do in class, he comes to me and gives me the books. Understanding I take them and but the to one side and pick one from the top. These were all related to my area of interest.

As the class continues I go through the book will, briefly checking my phone. I used to check secretly but now I don’t. Someone caught me.

“Sir Aera is using her phone in class.”, a girl snickers and complains. Everybody stops their work and looks at me. The teachers just gives a small smile and tells them to pay attention to their work. The students looked shocked, expecting me to be scolding.

After some time the teacher gives me the sheet with the case study he gave the rest of the class, telling me to go through it and he will ask questions in five minutes.

“The teacher gave her only five minutes, he must want her to fail badly.”

I briefly go through the case study, underlining the main points.

Five minutes later the teacher tells us to stop reading, and answer the questions. There are were three questions, he picks three random to answer, which is unusual as he usually doesn’t force students. The three questions are three different levels, 1st one is easy and the second was moderately hard, whereas the third one is where there usually a discussion in class as no one could find the perfect answer.

“Eunae answer the question on the board.”

She gives her points and supports her answer, and sits down. The teacher points out her mistakes and explains everything. She is the one who usually bothers me, in class.

“Dongkyu answer the next question.”

 After an explanation, the students launch into a mini discussion. After a few more minutes the teacher nods.

“Now for the last question, Aera I want you to answer the last question.”

I read the question and just when I was about to start talking. Someone randomly says something, guessing from the voice I guess it Eunae.

“Sir, let her go. She doesn’t know anything, everybody here knows the truth.”

Mr Choi raises his hand telling her to stop talking and let me talk. As he nods, I start explaining the reason the business is unable to hit its yearly target and what they should do to earn more profits, what pricing strategies to use instead of the current method.

After I finish, I turn to everybody, “ Any questions, don’t you guys discuss the answer. What cat got your tongue? No questions? If you don’t have any, from next time stop spreading false information about me.”

“Well do you have any questions?”, Mr Choi asks. No one says anything. “ Well that is the end of class, please take a break before your next class.

As soon as Mr Choi left, everybody comes to me and apologises.

“Aera we are sorry, for what we said.”

“Yes, we never should have listened to Eunae, please forgives us.”

I just nod and turn back to my phone. “ Yes she forgives you, please go for your break.”, after they leave, Jinyoung burst out into laughter.

“That was satisfying, their face must be red from the slap you gave them. Come let’s go we are free next period.”

The rest of the day was normal, except nobody bothered me anymore.

After school, we had to go to his house as per his mom’s request, or she would eat our heads off.