"You look cute in your school uniform." BamBam says to me as he leans over the counter and I grab an apple from the little bowl of fruits my mother has on the counter. I chuckle, "I don't." I tell him. "Oh shush, you do." I turn to him and lean my hip against the counter.

"What do you like about me anyways?" I ask. "I'm not a whole lot to look at and my laugh is all too squeaky." He grins as he taps his chin. "Everything." He finally says. I roll my eyes and shake my head. "There has to be one thing I do that annoys you." He claps his hands together and nods. "When you're with the coconut kid." I raise an eyebrow. "Oh stop."

"You know, he's a wimp." He tells me. "Oh yeah, sure. I don't think that.", "Do you think he'd ever get in a fight for you?" He asks me. "I don't see why he'd have to do that." I shrug. "What if someone is trying you?" I scrunch my nose. "Me?" I ask him. He rolls his eyes, "Yes you, you're cute." I shrug and take a huge bite of my apple. "Still don't see it." I say.

"I know, I don't see him fighting for you either.", "Ugh, Stop. That's not what I meant." I say. There's then a knock at the front door and I know who it is. I grab my school bag. "Oh my gosh, he walks you to school?" He asks. "Yes, he doesn't live that far away from me.", "Geeze, don't you get tired of seeing his face all of the time? He's like gum on your shoe."

"As a matter of fact, there's a face I'm already getting tired of seeing." I smirk at him as I walk over to the door and he looks up at the ceiling and lets out a breath. "Wow, and to think that you cared about me." He chuckles. "It's tuff love." I wink at him. "Have a good day at school.." He whispers as he leans against the wall.

"Good luck on your hunt on auditions." He just smiles at me. I open the door and Jungkook waits for me at the stairs of my porch. "Good morning." He smiles. "Good morning." I reply, returning the smile. He grabs a hold of my hand and we walk together to school. "How was BamBam after I left?" I laugh at the question.

"He tried to get me in trouble.", "What? Really? Wow." I let out a breath and look up at him. "And he sort of confessed that he likes me." I see him clinch his jaw, "I told you he likes you." He then looks at me. I take another bite of my apple and chew quickly before I answer. "Yeah, I just thought that after he told me years ago that he just wanted to stay friends, that he wouldn't like me after." I tell him.

"Times change, and feelings change. So who knows. Over time he probably started to like you. I wouldn't blame him." He smiles. I let out a breath and grin. "But I'm happy you're still talking to him, just because he told you he likes you doesn't mean you should stop talking to him.", "You're right." I nod. And I know he's thinking about how Jennie treated him after he told her he loved her.

"I mean, I don't see him any different. He's still my friend.", "That's good." He says. We cross the street and pass the ice cream shop. "Yeah, I feel like nothing has changed. We're good." I feel his fingers rub the back of my hand. "Though, It does get me mad that he acts all attitude when I'm with you both at the same time. Like. I get that he likes me, but he needs to stop."

"It's okay, he's just acting out a bit. I'm sure it's normal." I slowly begin to realize that this attitude from BamBam is going to be a normal thing for the next few days. "Can I have a bite of your apple?" He asks. I nod and hand him the apple. He takes a huge bite and hands it back to me.

I then finish up the Apple before we get on campus so I can throw it away. We walk onto school grounds and see Jimin and Chae approaching the school as well. Chae waves at me and I smile at her. "Bes friend!" She yells. She runs up to me and bangs into me, almost making me fall back. "You both look so cute walking onto campus holding hands." She says in my ear as she hugs me.

My face heats up. "Everyone is talking about you guys, you guys are the new IT couple." She winks at me as she stands up straight. "It couple?" I ask. She nods quickly and then gasps out of nowhere making me hop in surprise. "Oh, sorry." She laughs when she realizes she scared me. "It's okay." I chuckle.

"Aye, so this morning Jennie posted something that made a lot of people talk." I raise an eyebrow. "What'd she post?" I ask her. "Something about confused feelings and endings, now everyone got the idea that Taehyung broke up with her." I slowly nod, that means that she really does like Jungkook if her own boyfriend broke up with her.

But I don't know the story, so I'm not going to assume. "Everyone is talking about her too, but mostly about you two cause you guys are so so cute." I smile. "You think so?" I whisper. She nods quickly. "Yes Yes Yes. It's so cute. Please get married already."

I gasp and cover my face with the hand that isn't holding the apple. "Chaaaae, oh my gosh. That's not funny.", "Name your first child after me, that would be amazing." My eyes widen. "Oh my gosh, you don't actually think that we're capable of doing something like that, do you?" I ask her as my face heats up. "Um.. yes. Everyone is capable of doing the hanky. Jimin and I do it all the time." My eyes widen.

"You do?" I ask her. I then see Jimin and Jungkook start to head into the school and he gives me a glance as a signal. I slowly follow behind them. "It doesn't hurt?" I ask her. She taps her chin. "Ah.. the first time is uncomfortable. Then after it's pretty fun." I throw my apple away in a nearby trash can as we're not inside the school building. "Oh." Is all I can say as my face heats up.

"Oh come on Lalisa, you act like you never talk about this type of stuff.", "I don't." I chuckle nervously. "Well, no need to worry about that time approaching anytime soon. Jungkook seems like the type of guy to not want that." I blink a couple of times. "Not want that?" I ask. "Yeah, like.. he doesn't like you in a physical way. He likes you in a emotional way."

"Does it slowly turn to physical?" Chaeyoung smiles. "Ooooh, I see." She winks. "But will he?" I ask curiosity getting the best of me. "Probably, after a while boys just want to. And believe me, when they get their first time over with, they want it all the time.", "Oh." I blush. "Maybe you will too." She whispers and winks. "So, my friend BamBam came to town yesterday." She laughs at me, knowing very well that I'm changing the subject.

"Oh yeah? How was it? I don't know much about him." She says. "Well, he's my childhood friend. And he came here to Korea to go to auditions to become an idol. It's been one of his dreams since he was a little boy." I tell her. "Ah, I can already sense the jealousy." I nod. "Yeah, boys are like that too. Jimin even got jealous of my dog. And I was like, 'you're dumb. It's just a dog' but, he still gets jealous every once in a while."

She rolls her eyes making me laugh. "Yeah, they both sort of got jealous of each other.", "How funny." I nod, "And BamBam confessed to me.", "Oh dang Lice, two boys want you? That's like the Kdramas.", "I just don't understand." I whisper. "Lalisa, Shush. If I were a boy, I'd like you too." I blush. "Noooo. Why do boys like me?" I rub my face. "Um, cause you're cute as heck."

"Only cause I'm 'cute'?" I air quote. "Stop with the air quotes." She smacks my hands. "You have a really sweet personality too and a lot of boys like the innocent girls. Cause sometimes, they're not so innocent." She winks at me. At this moment, the bell rings. "Ah! Chae! Stop." I smack my burning hot cheeks. She chuckles and is soon under Jimin's arm and is walking away.

She wiggles her fingers as a goodbye and I wave back. "What was up with Chae? Telling you something that made you uncomfortable?" I hear Jungkook chuckle. "Yeah, girl things." I smile at him.

**

"Jungkook, I heard that Taehyung broke up with Jennie." Jimin says to me. "Why do you think that I care?" I ask him. He blinks a couple of times. "Because do you know what that means?" I just stare at him. "Jennie likes you." He says. "Okay?" I ask. "Now you have to stick like glue to Lalisa, I'm pretty sure Jennie has something rotten up her sleeve."

"No way." I shake my head. "Don't believe me? What about all the stuff that happened at the trip? Jennie was really mean to Lalisa." He has a point. "Yeah, but I don't really think she likes me though. Maybe she fell for some other guy." He rolls his eyes. "You have to listen to me now cause every time that you don't listen to me, I'm right." He has another point.

"Okay, what do I do?" I ask. "Well first, make sure that you keep an eye on Lalisa. If Jennie likes you, she'll want to do something to Lalisa." I blink a couple of times. "Mm, you think-", "Jungkook, don't even ask me if Jennie is capable of doing something like that. Cause she is." I close my lips together. I then see other students walking into the school and I pat Jimin's chest. "Let's go." I tell him.

I then look at Lalisa and she's already looking at me, then we all head inside. "Look, all I'm saying is that you two should just.. try not to stay too far away from each other." He grins, "I like you guys together." I grin back, "Me too." I confess to him. The bell then rings, "Aye, I'll see you at PE." He says.

"Okay." I tell him before he goes over and pulls Chae under his arm. I walk over Lalisa whose face is all pink and I see the way Chaeyoung walks away. "What's up with Chae? Telling you something that made you uncomfortable?" I ask her. "Yeah, girl things." She smiles at me. "Okay." Then I grab her hand and we walk to class together.

"So have you heard? We're apparently the new it couple since Jennie and Taehyung broke up." I tell her. "Chae told me." She chuckles. "Oh, is that what made you all blushy?" I ask her. "No, it was something else I'd rather not talk about." Her face then takes on a red color. "Oh.. okay." I say. I smile to myself as she looks forward and I stay looking at her.

My stomach fills with butterflies. I slowly let out a breath and look ahead as we finally enter class, with a smile on my face. We detach hands and go to our seats that are next to each other. We wait a few minutes and our teacher walks in. "Today we will be taking an exam to determine whether or not you would be eligible for the honors award."

Everyone in the class gasps and looks around worried. Everyone wants the honor awards, it really means that your parents raised smart children. Everyone wants this award. But only three people from each class can get it. Basically like a first, second and third place sort of thing. I want first place. I've been preparing for this. Much like everyone else so there's a possibility that I won't even get the award.

I look at Lalisa, "Are you ready?" I ask her. "Sort of, we'll just have to see." She grins. "If caught cheating, this will affect your ability to graduate." Mrs. Rey says. "Remember, only three of you can have this award." She says as she starts to pass out bubble sheets and the test booklet that seems to be around 100 pages or more. "If caught talking or even looking at each other, you will be guided out of the classroom by a discipline officer and will not have the ability to test for this award."

I let out a breath and ready myself to be handed a test. "When you get your test you may begin." I already hear people writing really fast with their pencils. Even people already turning the page of their booklet. "You got this Jungkook." I nod to myself and whisper. The booklet is then set in front of me and I stare down at the first question. It's math.

Dang it, I'm not the best in math. I grab a pencil from my backpack at start on my test.

**
• Few Hours Later •

"How do you think you did on the test?" I ask her as we sit at a table in the lunch building. Everyone gets a thirty minute break after testing. "I thought it was okay. A lot of the times I thought it was really easy. Other times I thought it was challenging. You?" I shrug. "I got stuck on a couple of the questions that I could have sworn we did in class. I don't think I'll get the award." She frowns. "Don't say that." I just look at her.

I clinch my jaw, "I've recently come to a decision." I tell her. "What's that?" I take a deep breath. "I'm applying for colleges out of Korea. Preferably in California." Her eyes widen. "What?" She asks. "Y-Yeah. I know, it's a big step and-", "I'm applying to out of state colleges too." My heart skips a beat. "Seriously?" I ask her. She nods.

I smile, "I want to go to study as a doctor.", "I want to go as a nurse." She smacks her chest. I stare at her, before I smile. "Crazy that we've never talked about this.", "Well, you brought it up." She chuckles. "Yeah.. and I'm happy I did." I whisper, leaning forward in the table and grabbing her hands. She looks at our hands then up into my eyes.

"We can apply to the same schools, so that we're not alone when we go out to California." I whisper to her. "You want to go? W-With me?" She asks me. "Of course, why not?" I answer her question with a question. She then breaks out in a smile and her thumbs lock around my fingers and her grip then tightens on mine.

"Okay." She says. "Okay." I whisper. "Okay then what?" She says quickly. I laugh. "Stop with that video." She smiles and then gets serious. "Jungkook, what if this doesn't work out and you realize that you don't even like me or want to-", "Woah woah woah, why don't you think this would work out?" I ask her.

Her jaw clinches, "Because of the Taehyung rumors?" I ask her. "Yes." She answers right away, "I don't care what happened between them, this is about us. I know we're going to work out." I nod at her. She then slowly grins, "You really think so?", "I know so." I reassure her. "Then I'm not so scared." She takes me by surprise.

"Scared?" I ask her. "I was scared that I would go alone and not know anyone, but it's way better now that I get to go with you." Her cheeks turn a bit pink. "Okay Students, now go to your next class. Good job on testing." I hear the teacher, "Oh, that means we go to PE." I tell her. She slightly grins, "Yeah.. PE." When whispers.

"Come on, I'll see you right after." I smile at her. "I know." I then start to think about what Jimin told me earlier. No, I'm sure that Jimin was overreacting. He doesn't really know what he's talking about. We stand up and I walk over to her side of the table as we walk out together.

**

He walks me out to the hallway. I then feel him kiss my head. I slowly smile, I look up at him. He smiles back before he slowly lets go of my hand before we have to part because the locker rooms are at different ends of the hallway. I slowly walk away and so does he. When I turn towards the locker room I instantly drop my smile.

I already know what's going to happen. And I'm not looking forward to it at all. And on cue "Woof woof woof!!", "Bark bark!" Is yelled at me as I walk into the locker room. I shut my teeth close together and proceed to my locker. I can't let them bother me anymore. "You're a little chihuahua!" I hear her voice, followed by laughing.

I just proceed with putting my stuff securely in my locker so that they can't do anything to it. I grab my clothes and quickly change before I lock everything away.

"Don't you dare ignore me." I feel a shove on my shoulder. I stop in place. I don't say anything. "Look at me DOG!" She yells right in my ear, showing me how close she is to me. "So first, you beat on me because of what happened with Jungkook. Then bully me more when I'm with him... and then.. even more because you don't have Taehyung." I look at her.

It goes quiet. Her nose wrinkles. "You think you know everything, don't you?" She asks me. "I don't think, I know." I whisper. "WHAT!? Say it louder so I can hear." She yells right in my face. "Nothing." I say. "Good! So why don't you get your mutt self out of here." She pops out her hip and crosses her arms over her chest.

The other two girls behind her begin to make the obnoxious dog sounds. I look at all of them and exit the locker room walk out to the back of the school where the field is. I feel so alone, everyone in the PE class don't talk to me because they either love Jennie and believe what she says about me, or they don't want to get bullied too.

But I'm okay with being a lone wolf. All I have to do is ignore everything that she does to me, until we graduate. So a few months more. I then feel a really hard shove and I fall forward, I hold my hands out and it slows down my fall. But I scrape my palms in the process.

I look up to see Jennie passing by me, not even looking at me as she flipped her hair off her shoulder. I quickly get up and clean off my hands. I already see little dots of blood growing in my skin. I let out a breath and close my hands and walk out with the rest of the girls that probably saw me get pushed.

This weeks sport is tennis, and I get teamed up with some girl I don't remember her name. But when I say hi to her, she didn't even acknowledge me. Unlucky for me, the first team of two we played was Jennie and her friend. Every time Jennie got a chance to hit the ball, she hit it right at me.

It's a good thing that I play softball and have good correlation, I was able to block myself with the racket. And it only got her really angry. And she'd hit the ball really hard too. She really wants to hurt me.

**
• Lunch •

I sit next to him, Chae and Jimin sit across from us. "So Lalisa, you start your job today?" Chae asks me. "Oh, yeah. I start today. I'm excited." Jungkook looks at me, "I thought you were supposed to start another day.", "They asked me to come in and try today cause someone quit or something like that. So I said okay." He nods.

"I'll have to go in then and order something." My face heats up. "You would?" I ask him. "Would you guys come too?" He asks Jimin and Chae. "I'm up for Ice cream today." Chae says looking at Jimin. "Okay." Jimin agrees. I slightly grin. Chae then looks at me with an expression, telling me she knows about PE. I then realize that she saw my scraped hands.

"It's okay." I mouth to her. She then looks really sad. I nod to her to reassure her that I'm okay. She just slowly looks away from me. I just look down at my food. She must be really disappointed in me. I'm sorry that I'm too scared to fight back to Jennie. I'm just here hoping that it will stop.

"Did you hear that Softball and baseball tryouts are today?" I hear Jungkook say to me. "Oh, I didn't know." I say. "Yeah, I'm nervous though." I grin and look up at him. "I'm sure you're going to make the team, that's obvious." I say to him. "You really think so?" I nod quickly. "I know so." He smiles and he goes back to the conversation he's having with Jimin. Apparently Jimin is going to try out too.

I just try my best to eat.

**

• Tryouts •

"Happy Tuesday, I'm your coach. Well, I will be your coach if you make the team." A woman with black leggings on and a tank top with a baseball cap on, says. "So we've got our pitchers, catchers, short stops and outfielders." She explains. "I need you all to go out to the position that you're trying out for." I instantly run up to the pitchers mount.

"Oh? You think you're ready to be pitcher?" She asks me as she pops out her hip. I stare at her with a confused face. "I want to see you pitch then." She says, she then nods to the assistant coach next to her who runs up to me and hands me a glove and a softball from the bin that she has under her arm.

She then runs over and hands a bigger mitt to the girl who it trying out for the catcher, two other girls stand on the side. I turn and there are three other girls who want to try out for the pitchers position, two of them already looking me up and down. They must have been on the team last year. Already judging me. I turn and ignore them. I stretch my right arm and roll my shoulder before I get into position.

I wait for the catcher to nod and squat down. I slowly inhale before I grip the ball and throw my hand into a half circle and exhale as I throw the ball straight down the middle into the catchers mitt. I stand up straight and look at the coach, she just stares at me. I wait for her to say something. She blinks a couple of times before she picks up a hand and gives me a signal with her finger.

The, 'come here' signal. I jog over to her. When I'm up to her she examines me. "Where you from?" She asks, "Thailand." I instantly say. "You played?", "Since I was little." She lightly chuckles and smiles. "What other positions do you play?" She asks, "All of them but I've never been a catcher." She nods, "Okay." Is all she says.

"Next girl." She exclaims. I'm about to go back out to the field but she stops me, "You're hitting." She says to me. I stare at her in disbelief. "Everyone who's waiting for a turn at a position just go to outfield." She says and the girls waiting to be pitcher and catcher run out to the field. Then I look at her again she hands me a bat.

Does this mean I'm on the team?

**

• First Day on the Job •

"Now, don't be discouraged if you can't work the cash register quickly, okay? Just take it easy, most people aren't in a rush and just want ice cream to relax. So don't sweat it. It's better to do it slow and correctly instead of fast and incorrectly." Mr. Min Yoongi says to me. "Okay. I think I got it." I nod.

As if on cue, Jungkook, Jimin and Chae walk into the ice cream shop. "We have your first customers." He smiles. "Hi, welcome to Sundae Cones." I greet them. "Hi, can we have three cones?" Jungkook instantly speaks up. "What size?" I ask. "All medium." He answers. "Waffle or regular?", "Regular is fine." I slip on latex gloves and grab a regular cone.

"One Vanilla." He says and I know it's for him. I fill the cone with some ice cream before I dig the scooper several times across the top of the ice cream. I gently press it on top of the cone. I hand it to Jungkook and he steps back, Chaeyoung then steps forward. "Black Cherry." She says quickly, like she's still bothered with me. I walk over to the ice cream container of the Black Cherry ice cream and try not to be too affected by it.

I build it the same way I did for Jungkook. When it's done I hand it to her. "Chocolate S'mores Please." Jimin says. I make his cone and hand it to him before I take off the gloves and walk over to the cash register. "Now, you're going to click on 'cones'." Mr. Min Yoongi tells me. Walking me through it.

I click on the 'cones' icon, "Now press the plus button until there is the number three." He tells me. I click the plus sign twice and it shows the number three. I look up at them, "Cash or credit?" I ask. "Cash." Jungkook smiles at me. I press the money icon and 'order complete' icon. It calculates the amount. "$8.37." I tell him.

He hands me a $10 bill and I put in the amount he gave me, "Keep the change." He says and they walk over to a table. I smile to myself and turn to my manager. "You did great Lalisa, I'll keep you here for another hour or so then you can go home." I smile wide at him, "Thank you Mr. Min Yoongi.", "Oh, just call me Yoongi." He smiles back at me, a gummy smile!

He might as well be a ice cream topping. He walks out to the back of the shop. I look over at the table and Jungkook just smiles at me. I look down and place the money in the cash register. I like this job, it's easy.

**

"She did really good, didn't she?" I ask them. They both nod, "Do you think you're going to make the team?" Jimin asks, changing the subject. "Mmm.. I sure hope so.", "I think you made it, the coach was pretty surprised to know that you've never played before." Jimin says. "Oh really?" I ask. He nods.

"He was especially surprised that you were a good pitcher." I smile, "I really hope that I make the team." I say. "For sure you did, I know you did." Jimin nods. I then look at Chaeyoung. "You're quiet." I tell her. She slowly looks at me. "Eh, It's nothing really." She whispers. Jimin then looks at her as he licks his ice cream, barely realizing that she's been quiet the whole time.

"What's wrong?" He asks. "It's nothing." She gets offensive. I blink a couple of times before I just mind my own business and have my ice cream. I then slowly look over at Lalisa, she looks so cute in her uniform. A pink polo shirt that had a white collar and a white round emblem on the front that said 'Sundae Cones' on it in cursive.

She wore a matching pink cap with her hair up in a ponytail. And a apron around her waist. With dark blue jeans and black shoes. She just sat there in a seat waiting for more people to come to the shop. And it's as if someone hears her plead, the whole baseball team walks in.

"Aye! Jungkook! Jimin! Great tryouts!", "Thanks!" Jimin and I reply to the boy who I'm guessing is the team captain. Jimin then looks at me, "Just incase you forgot, thats Choi Wooshik. He's been team captain all his years in high school. Because of how good he is." Jimin tells me. "Oh." I watch him as he walks up to the counter.

"Hey, we'd like 6 cones." He says, leaning into the counter. He tilts his head and stares at her face. "Regular or waffle?" She asks. "Are you new here?" He asks. She looks at him, all the boys are now looking at her face. Many nodding as they whispered amongst each other. I can't hear them, and I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

"Yes, It's my first day on the job.." She says. "Regular or waffle?" She asks again. She's trying not to get distracted from working. He smiles, "Lalisa's a cute name." He says. My jaw instantly hardens. She just stares at him waiting for him to answer her. "Regular." He finally says. She slips on some new gloves and grabs a cone.

He leans against the glass window that displayed the ice cream flavors, he grins and looks at her. "What flavor do you recommend?" He asks. She looks down at the flavors and then back up at him. "I don't know.." She whispers, her face turning very pink, matching her shirt. "You have a boyfriend?" He asks, making my heart race.

"Yes." She says. All the boys start laughing. "Oh yeah? Do I know him? What's his name? Does he go to our school?" He bombards her with all these questions. "He actually tried out for the baseball team." She tells him, he instantly turns around and looks at me. We lock eyes, he knows immediately that she's mine. He slowly inhaled and turned back to her, and he tells her the flavor that he wants.

The rest of the orders go by fast, they pay for the ice cream and they all leave without a word. I then look at Lalisa who is putting all the money gently in the cash register. I don't really have something to say, but I'm happy that Lalisa is loyal to me. Just like I'm loyal to her.

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