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I was not having a good day.
Besides the scolding I got for getting late to school, I skipped my breakfast because I woke up late… Well, it was actually Kim Shin's fault for showing me just how beautiful the night lights were from the rooftop and having me trapped under that beautiful spell until late… okay, maybe it was my fault too…. Never mind that, the problem was that not only I was hungry, I was cold too, with shivers running down my body… even if I had my coat and my scarf on… and the classroom was full with people and the heating was on…
Please, don't let me get sick or Grim Reaper will start with some stupid jokes of his like "You're coming with me soon and I didn't have any trouble" and then laugh darkly, hoping we would laugh too, only for Kim Shin to send a knife flying towards him….
"Eun Tak! Ji Eun Tak!"
Someone was calling my name, but the energy to acknowledge such person was out of my reach. I really wanted to, because I knew I would get into trouble, but my head was too heavy, my nose was stuffy and my neck hurt from supporting my head.
"Are you sleeping in class?"
Oh, it's the teacher's voice… oops…
"No…" I hoped it would be enough, but no such luck, not in a day like this…
"Now, that you are awake go to the board and resolve the problem!"
Getting up? Walking? Writing?
I didn't have the energy for that…
But I tried to do it, I actually got out of my seat, walked four steps and then…
Total blackness…
I could hear voices, familiar… very familiar voices that made me cringe… oh god, what were they doing in here?
Oh right, sick, passing out…
The school probably tried to call the house that was no longer mine… I wonder how they reached those guys… did someone snoop on my phone?!
Oh no! The names connected with their numbers! Whoever saw them probably thinks I'm crazy or a psycho…
"Yes, we will take her home and make sure she rests and takes her medicine…"
"Do not worry, I'm used to poor health situations… it's in my line of work…"
"Oh, are you a doctor?"
"I work after them…"
"What?"
"Another time! Eun Tak needs to go home!"
Oh god, what are they saying? They are going to blow up all their secret identities away!
Line of work? Geez, Grim Reaper, thank you so much…
"Ji Eun Tak? Are you awake?" a kind voice that belonged to the nurse called and I rose from the infirmary bed, ready to take those two crazy guys away.
Kim Shin and Grim Reaper were standing outside the infirmary, talking with my homeroom teacher, which somehow was smiling at them… probably because they are so handsome… if only she knew who they really were…
"Oh! Deok Hwa!" I smiled at seeing the sanest person around me, waiting at some distance.
He waved at me and shook his head at his two "uncles" that were pestering my teacher.
"Kim Shin! Woo Bin!" I had to stop from laughing at calling Grim Reaper like that.
All of them turned to look at me and Kim Shin smiled happily at seeing me walking. Oh, my heart just skipped a beat! Stupid smile of his!
"Eun Tak!"
"Missing soul!"
"Can we go home now?" I asked, grabbing both of their arms and starting to drag them away from the observant eyes of my teacher.
"I want you at school tomorrow!" I could hear my teacher saying, but I spared her no second look.
I had a mission, taking those guys away before everyone in school knew I was the Goblin's Bride.
"You have to thank me, you know?" Deok Hwa said, from the backseat, where he was texting on his phone.
Noticing my confused expression, Deok Hwa quickly started his explanation.
"Your school tried to call your old house, but no one picked up, so your teacher searched on your phone for someone to call…"
"All the names were rather strange to her, according to her own thoughts…" Grim Reaper gave his input.
"Probably, my name was the only normal one… So, they called me, and then I called Uncle and all of us went there together… But, since I stood behind to answer a call, those two decided to peruse the school until they found your classroom…"
"NO!" I covered my face with my hands in embarrassment.
"Your colleagues were all very surprised…" Kim Shin commented.
"And their thoughts were rather rude…"
"Anyway, your teacher was asking who they were when Uncle was ready to say…"
"I'm her mister!" Kim Shin proclaimed proudly.
"But I stopped him!" Deok Hwa quickly told me, before I had some kind of heart attack.
"I got there before he could say anything and just said we were your cousins…"
"Cousins…" scoffed Kim Shin and I had to hit him in the shoulder, even if he was driving.
"Thank you, Deok Hwa! I can't even start to imagine what they would say…"
"But, Missing Soul, are you so tired of this grumpy Goblin that you want to make my job easier?" Grim Reaper asked and Kim Shin's hurt expression was enough to make me laugh.
"Actually it was his fault… I was cold last night and overslept and forgot my breakfast!" I explained quickly, but Deok Hwa's expression was enough for me to realize my mistake. "Nothing happened! We were watching the stars!"
"Cause of death: watching the stars." Grim Reaper commented and everyone looked at him. "It was a joke… no one laughed… I hate you all…"
I snickered under my breath, looking at the weird bunch we made. An heir, a Grim Reaper, a Goblin and his Bride…
"I love you!" I said to them and they looked at me like I was crazy.
"No one ever came to get me from school because I was sick…"
"Sad stories… She always has them for every situation…" Kim Shin commented under his breath and I smiled at him. He smiled back and I felt my heart flutter. This, here, with them, in this car, was my definition of happiness and I wouldn't trade it for anything.