BXBX NOVEL Chapter 130 - 130: No Bias
Kim Eunji closed her eyes and focused her attention on calming herself.
She would easily lose her breath when running. She didn\'t know why though.
"I\'m fine." She said when she was able to control her breathing back.
She\'s not that weak you know to not be able to endure such punishment. She had experienced extreme punishments before.
Her mistake was she didn\'t do any stretching or her pre-rituals when she ran earlier.
"However, your speed was beyond my expectation. I believe you\'re more suitable to join the track \'n field team if you wanted to." The PE Teacher told her.
"You just have to work on your stamina. Doing cardio exercise more often would be advisable." He added which earned a small smile from Kim Eunji. This PE Teacher was really not that bad than he wanted to be. Or else he would not compliment her at least.
"Alright everyone, let\'s start!" He urges them to gather around in a certain spot of the gym.
"Those who don\'t know me I am Mao Qing Yuan or Coach Mao for short. I am the currently the appointed coach of our university volleyball team." He shortly introduced himself.
"Who among you here knew how to play the game?" He started asking them.
Many students were familiar of the rules as they have been on training camps on their early years during summer. In fact, their high school department had their high school volleyball team and were number one on the high school volleyball program. But college volleyball would always be different.
Therefore, majority raised their hands.
"Good. I won\'t bother in discussing the history of the sport. You can search it up as a homework and we\'ll have a quick quiz next meeting. For now, let\'s discuss and at the same time demonstrate the basics which are passing, serving, blocking, setting, digging and spiking." He started.
"Those who knew and are familiar with these skills, please fall in line. Those who aren\'t do line up on the opposite side." He added.
Sooner, the students lined up according to the two criteria given.
Kim Eunji lined up on the second line.
She knew the basic of the volleyball as she had read about it in the past but she really haven\'t played one in the past.
"Okay." He said as he looked at the number of students falling in line. As expected, there were more students who lined up on the second criteria. Their reason, though they were familiar with the sports, they haven\'t played with it.
Then the lesson started. The students who knew those skills were tasked to teach those who couldn\'t.
Kim Eunji decided to sit on the bench and watched her classmates play.
"Miss Kim." Coach Mao approached her.
"I\'m sorry if I was so harsh on you earlier." He sincerely said.
"It\'s okay Coach Mao. You are only doing your job as a teacher. Like showing your authority to gain respect. It just so happen that you have to show that at my expense, which I really didn\'t mind at all." Kim Eunji expressed her opinion about what happened earlier.
"As much as possible I like to be treated normally. No bias treatment just because of my husband. Though he\'s overprotective towards me, don\'t worry. I got your back Coach. You already gained my respect." Kim Eunji added which earned a huge relief from Coach Mao.
"Good. Then, I won\'t be biased towards you." Coach Mao said.
"Please don\'t give me any bias treatment. I would really feel terrible if that would happen." Kim Eunji said as she stood up and joined them.
Kim Eunji decided to try the blocking skill.
One of her classmates volunteered to be her hitter and she had to block that. Standing a height of 176 cm, she\'s not short and is qualified to be a player.
Her classmates hit the ball and now, Kim Eunji had to block that.
Just as the ball was about to cross the net, Kim Eunji jumped as high as she could and the ball touched her finger tip.
Not bad for a beginner like her. That was what they thought.
However, Kim Eunji inwardly cursed herself. Her jump was a little late making her miss the ball.
The student who did the spike earlier showed a provoking smile towards her.
"One more time." Kim Eunji told no one but Coach Mao knew what she wanted to do.
"Coach, if we\'ll let student Kim to do another try, we might not be able to make everyone to finish the task." One student complained.
"Okay. One more time." Coach Mao didn\'t listen to them but instead agreed to Kim Eunji\'s request.
He wanted to see something. Though her jump was a bit awkward and off, she managed to reach the ball a bit making it to change its direction.
"Again!" The student tossed the ball and then the other student hit the ball. Kim Eunji jumped when she saw that it was a few inches from the net.
She stretched her arms and arched it a bit going towards the opponent\'s side.
When the ball hit her palm, the ball was not able to cross on the other side as it was heavily blocked by Kim Eunji making it fell back on the other side.
"Woah!"
"Amazing!"
"She was able to block Qiqi\'s spike."
Lu Qiqi was their school\'s super rookie candidate. She was very good when she was still in high school and a mere beginner was able to block her famous spike just now. That was worthy of their respect.
Satisfied by what she had done, Kim Eunji turn around and left inside the court as she moved on the next station which was digging.
Keeping the ball alive inside your court was very difficult if the first ball was very bad. The setter would be having a difficulty passing the ball to her spiker if the first ball was very bad. Of course, except if the setter was very talented and could still have excellent sets despite a very bad first ball.
"Is she for real?" The students were still in shock.
They hadn\'t fully recovered from that shock.
"Oh, she\'s going for digging now."
Everyone tried their turns in digging the ball being hit by Coach Mao. Then it was Kim Eunji\'s turn.
Kim Eunji positioned her self as she got ready to receive the ball.
She spread her legs and do a squatting position on the air with her arms stretched out and hands held together as she prepared to receive the ball.
Coach Mao spiked the ball and it landed on her arms.
Surprisingly, the ball bounced forward and hit Coach Mao on the face.
Kim Eunji silently apologized to him. Thankfully, the latter didn\'t hold any grudge against her.
The whole PE period went just like that.
Lu Qiqi also volunteered to do the spiking for Kim Eunji and the other students to receive and dig.
But to her dismay, Kim Eunji received her balls very well. And her ego was touched by it. She\'s starting to hate Kim Eunji now.
After they were done practicing those skills, the students were catching their breath and were heavily sweating. Kim Eunji was no exception. However instead of complaining because of exhaustion, she was smiling. She had fun. So much fun.
Now, is she going to play volleyball? Her answer would be a no for now.
"Miss Kim, wait!" Coach Mao called her out when their class dismissed.
Kim Eunji halted on her steps and turned around to greet him.
"Yes Coach?" She inquired.
"Miss Kim, do you want to join the try out? It would be on Friday." Coach Mao didn\'t beat around the bush.
"Oho! Coach, I thought you said earlier that I am more suitable in track n\' field. You know, I ran crazily earlier." Kim Eunji told him making Coach Mao\'s face to twitch.
"No! Hahahhaha! I was just kidding earlier. You have a great potential in volleyball. I would really be happy to see you this Friday\'s try out." He tried to explain hoping that he could persuade her to join the try out.
"I\'m sorry Coach but...as much as I wanted to, my schedule is already fully loaded. I\'m afraid I won\'t have time for practice if ever I got accepted in the try out." Kim Eunji declined him frankly.
She was already busy academically. If she\'s going to add another one on her plate, she\'s afraid she might suffer from indigestion.
"Oh, it\'s a pity." Coach Mao really find it pitiful if Kim Eunji won\'t join. Her talent would be turned into waste if that was the case.
"Don\'t worry Coach, I\'d still show full support on the team even if I\'m not one of the members." She reassured him.
"Okay. But if ever you\'d change your mind, you\'re more welcome to join the try out this Friday." Coach Mao didn\'t want to give up. On the other hand, Kim Eunji decided to be silent. She had already expressed her stand. There\'s no point saying it again.
"Alright. I have to go now or else I\'d be late on my next class. I don\'t like to receive another punishment for being late." Kim Eunji commented which earned a chuckle from him.
The students were busy changing into their fresh clothes when Kim Eunji entered.
She walked into her locker and opened it to get her clothes, a clean towel and her one time bath essentials.
After getting everything that she wanted, she took off her sweaty PE T-shirt uniform and placed it inside another bag leaving her only with a sports bra and her sweat pants.
When she was done, she closed her locker back and sat on the bench as she waited patiently for her turn to shower.
Kim Eunji sighed when she realized that everyone became quiet from the moment she entered up until at the moment.
"You may continue your discussions you know. Just don\'t mind me." Kim Eunji told them. She hated it when she was being treated like she was a villain.
"We\'re sorry Miss Kim."
"EJ. Call me EJ or Eunji. Miss Kim is quite formal. I don\'t like it." Kim Eunji told them as she wanted to be approachable and less intimidating.
"Okay EJ." They automatically said.
"M-- EJ, how did you do that?" Since Kim Eunji initiated their talk, her classmates had the courage to talk to her.
"How did I do what?" Kim Eunji innocently asked.
"That jump. That run and your strength when you block Qiqi\'s spike earlier. Did you play volleyball before? What you did was not that of a novice\'s moves at all."
"Oh...it takes years of physical conditioning for me to do what I just did earlier. And to answer your question, I haven\'t played volleyball. What I did is to rely on science and my good conditioning." She simply answered their question.
"Oh. Then you\'re amazingly talented to say the least. Do you plan to join the team? I\'ve heard that there would be a try-out this Friday. I wanted to give it a try and I am hoping to see you there as well." They were hopeful to see Kim Eunji there and hoping to be a team with her.
"I\'m sorry to disappoint you sweetheart but I won\'t be there. I\'m busy with academics honestly." Kim Eunji told them.
"Oh, it\'s a shame." Just like Coach Mao, they felt that it was a pity that Kim Eunji\'s potential would be forever hidden from the world.
They were sure that a lot of students would admire her more if she would show her skills in volleyball.
And they also understood Kim Eunji\'s situation. She was after all not a simple and normal student just like what she wanted to be.
"But, I would still be there to support you guys in every game." She wanted to cheer them up.
"But playing with you inside the court would be different." She said.
They wanted to convince Kim Eunji to change her mind but the door on the cubicle unlocked and Kim Eunji used that opportunity to take her turn to shower.
"Oops! I guess I have to shower now. I still have class half an hour from now." Kim Eunji told her.
Fifteen minuets later, Kim Eunji got out of the locker room with a refreshed look.
She was wearing her oversized blue sweater tucked in under her baggy jeans. She decided to wear her eye glasses this time for the rest of the afternoon. She also made her hair into a messy ponytail making her cute and very attractive at the same time.
Kim Eunji brought her gym bag along with her together with her school bag on her next class because if she would go back to their room, she would surely be late.
When she was near her classroom, one of her classmates informed her that the class was suspended to give time for the students to prepare for Friday\'s event.
So, she decided to go to the villa first to drop her gym bag.
She was hoping to see Nathan inside their room when she entered. But to her surprise, he was not there.
"Where did he go?" She mumbled.