"Also,  I think it would benefit you both if you were to spend some time outside of class to do the work, so that you use your class time efficiently" she smiled at us. I smiled back, not wanting to look rude. I nodded my head slightly, signifying that I was about to leave.

As I left, I noticed the corridors were fairly empty, probably because we had break, meaning everyone met up for 15 minutes before they had to go back to class. I decided to go and find J-hope or Teagan and see if either had a free period next, it was only a few weeks into the school year,  so I couldn't remember if they did or didn't. Although if they didn't, I wouldn't mind.

Namjoon: 'How's your lip? Come by the gym after school,  you need to collect your payment x'

I smiled down at the text. I would be lying if I said I didn't have a thing for him, even if it was only small. But it was more than I'd ever had for anyone else. I just was never one to crush on people,  and when I did,  it took ages for me to actually like someone, or I wouldn't notice until it was too late.

I could hear footsteps behind me,  most likely Jimin. I just decided to continue walking forward and ignore him behind me. If he wanted to talk about the tutoring or whatever this was that had been decided, he could do it another time, preferably not today.

Me: 'Apart from the occasional bleeding  it's fine. I'll come by as soon as I can x'

I put my phone back into my pocket and placed my hands into the my hoodie before continuing to walk. I remembered that I had p.e after lunch, so turned a different direction down the corridor towards where my locker was. I could see V and Jin stood nearby, talking to eachother. I assume Jimin was walking towards them.

My locker had to be one of the ones that were at the bottom, meaning I always had to awkwardly squat down in front of it. Jin and V both stopped talking and just stared at me.

"What are you doing?" Jimin asked from behind me, I ignored him and moved down towards my locker. I'm not going to lie, I felt very awkward having them three watch me the whole time.

"What does it look like I'm doing?" I retaliated and rolled my eyes. I pulled out my keys and began to open the locker, only to find that it was empty. I let out a groan and slammed the locker door shut before standing back up.

"Damn, what did the locker ever do to you?" I heard V laugh. I rolled my eyes,  something that I seem to do a lot around them and moved away from them.

"See you in P.E!" Jimin shouted to me as I walked back through the corridors, I just ignored him and carried on forward.

Something about Jimin just irritated me and stressed me out. The thought that I am going to have to spend more time with him gave me anxiety. Not only during class,  but outside of it too thanks to Teagan and Jungkook. I'm not blaming them, well I am, but I like Jungkook.

Teagan: 'Me and Jungkook are going to go get some food for lunch during third period, if you want to come if you've got time let me know :) x'

See, that was what I liked about her,  she always tried to include me as much as she could. Even if I didn't always accept, she tried.

Me: 'It's fine,  thank you for the invite,  but I'll do some work during my free period. Turns out miss humphreys wants me to tutor someone from now on... X'

I knew she'd love that I have to work with Jimin from now on,  so would
J-hope. They were all for things like this,  plus it would divert Teagan from talking about me and Namjoon,  which slightly done my head in.

Teagan: 'WHO? WHO? WHO? I'm trying to figure out who's in your class and needs your help x'

Me: 'I'll talk to you about it when I see you later. Also,  do you have a spare kit? I can't find mine and I can't risk not having it again. Enjoy your romantic shopping ;) x'

Teagan: 'You better tell me! I'm still going to try and guess until then. Yeah,  I'll pick it up before I meet you for lunch and will give it to you then x'

I placed my phone back into my pocket as I heard the bell sound for period 3 to start. I ran towards the girls toilets so I could get away before the crowds formed. I hated crowds, I hated everything about them. All the pushing and knocking made everything close in on me and stop me from remembering how to breathe. Once I was inside the crowd,  everything started to go down hill,  everything fell.

I rushed into the toilets and started breathing in and out deeply. No one was inside them, but even if they were, they'd usually be a bunch of younger students gossiping inside them. But would leave as soon as they saw me coming in.

I didn't exactly have the friendliest look, well to certain people I didn't. Spending most of my time silent,  just watching or listening to music probably didn't scream 'be my friend', but that was just how I am. My choice of clothing for school wasn't necessarily ideal either,  but I was comfortable in it and I liked it. Teagan and J-hope liked Me for who I was,  and as long as I had them,  that's all that really mattered to me.

J-hope would most likely be practicing his dancing during his free period, so I didn't see any point in asking going to find him. It gave me a chance to relax and take a step away from the day. To regain energy from the night before events.

That was one of the things I disliked about no one knowing. I seemed like a grumpy and harsh person all the time,  not because I was. But because I was tired, achy, sore and just wanting a little break. I loved what I did,so I didn't necessarily mind that, if it meant I could do well and excel.

Once I calmed down and knew that most people would be in their classes,  and there wouldn't be crowds in the hallways,  I left the toilets. Everything was a lot calmer and freeing,  walking past the classes,  I could hear the light mumbles of students asking teachers for help, answering questions or arguing.

I walked over to the staircase that I had spend most of my first year in the sixth form under, during my free periods. It wasn't a small or tight area, it was quite spacious, enough space to fit a few people under here. But no one came here.

I don't know when the rumour started, but as long as I could remember there had been a rumour that these stairs were haunted. I had never believed it, so whenever I wanted to skip class I hid down here. Like I said before, no one came here. Only the odd student who was curious or had been dared to. But they were never expecting to see me hiding under the stairs,  so they became even more scared and would run away. Maybe I was reinforcing the rumour? If I was,  I'm not complaining. It meant that I had time to myself.

I kneeled down and moved myself under the stairs  taking off my hoodie and placing it on the floor for me to lay my head on. I took my phone out and put my earphones in and set my alarm for an hours time. I had made a sleeping play list on my phone for these situations. I laid my head down onto my hoodie and closed my eyes in hope to have a good nap.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

The alarm rang in my ears,  once again for the second time this day,  alerting me that lunch was about to start. It meant I had time to get my stuff ready for lunch and leave towards the canteen before everyone else left their classrooms and did the same thing.

I quickly wrapped my hoodie around my waist, and threw my rucksack onto my back before setting off the go back up the stairs. I had a rolling stones t-shirt on, showing the bright red lips on it.

I ran up the stairs, trying to get up onto the ground floor and head towards the canteen. It wasn't too far away from here, just a couple of corridors,  but that was a pretty easy walk. Also, I was likely to pass by
J-hope since the dance studios were nearby.

During my walk I noticed Teagan and Jungkook walking infront,  heading towards the canteen together. They walked hand in hand and I could hear them laughing to eachother and smiling. They were pretty much the definition of relationship goals, even if they were fairly new together. Although they were still in the honey moon phase, I didn't think they would suddenly go down hill.

"Lexi!" I heard J-hope shout from behind me, I turned around to see him running towards me with a bright smile across his face. He wrapped an arm around my shoulder and pulled me in slightly.

"How's your day been?" he asked brightly, I'm guessing he'd had a good day so far. But to be fair, most days were good days for him.

"Different" I said and pierced my lips together and let out a slight laugh as I looked at him.

"Why what's happened?" J-hope asked and looked at me suspiciously,  still smiling brightly though.

"Guess who's been asked to tutor Park Jimin and have him tutor me too?" I said, causing J-hope to almost scream and jump up and down as we walked towards the canteen still. I can imagine he was beyond loving this,  especially since he knew how I felt about him.

"Oh, karma has seriously got you back" he laughed and I rolled my eyes as I laughed with him. He was right to be fair, but I don't think Jimin exactly wanted to be paired with me either.

We walked into the canteen just as the bell sounded and headed towards where Jungkook and Teagan sat. They smiled up to us as we walked towards them. They'd obviously gone out and bought food for us all.

"What's the feast for?" I laughed and sat opposite Teagan and J-hope sat next to me. We looked like we were on a double date or something. To be fair, people had mistakened me and J-hope being together more than once.

"I just thought I should be nice to you guys" she said and kicked me lightly under the table,  passing a note to me.

*It's for your win last night ;)*

I'm not even surprised,  she did this for my last win. Although, she actually took me out for a meal that time, even though I insisted that I take her out.

"Well it's very nice of you" I replied and winked at her with a smile. I smiled to Jungkook too,  since he most likely put money towards this too.

"Have you told Lexi about your news?" J-hope laughed, eager to take the mick even more than before.

"He knows and I don't? You better tell me right now" she shouted giddily,  just excited to know who it was that I had mentioned before. I laughed first before telling her.

"Well--" I was about to explain to them who it was until I was interupted.

"Study buddy!" I heard Jimin shout from behind me, startling us all. I watched as Teagan looked behind me, where I assume Jimin was,  and back towards me. Her mouth was wide as she connected the two and burst out laughing instantly.

I turned around to see Jimin, Jin and V staring at me. I turned back around and looked at Teagan who was laughing in front of me.

"Oh come on, you should atleast pretend to smile when you see me. Most people do" he said and winked at me as he sat down beside me and the others sat on the other side.

"Stop winding her up, if you want to do well in chemistry you're going to need her" Jin said and looked at Jimin, raising his eyebrow slightly.

"Thank you Jin" I said and smiled brightly to him, before glaring back at Jimin who just produced a fake smile at me. To be fair, Jin seemed genuinely nice and friendly. Well,  I didn't know him all that well, but he seemed polite and friendly enough.

"I was just joking" Jimin defended and started eating his sandwich.

"I don't think she's in the mood for joking" V nudged Jimin and said quietly.

"She is, she's just tired" Teagan intervened, trying to stop any scene from brewing.

Namjoom: 'Also,  I'm taking you out for a meal afterwards,  to celebrate properly xx'

The text broke my attention away from the on going conversations. I felt all eyes on me as I smiled down at my phone. I looked at and saw Teagans eyebrow raised as she looked at me.

"Is it that guy from the class?" J-hope asked, in an attempt to cover up where he actually was from, causing everyone to look at me even more confused.

"The language class right?" Jungkook asked, Teagan had clearly filled him in on the lie.

"Oh yeah, it's nothing, don't worry" I responded and put down my phone. Teagan was still looking at me cheekily with her eyebrows raised.

"I doubt Lexi would have a boyfriend,  she's too closed off for any of that" Jimin commented. I would be lying if that comment didn't irritate me more than I would like to admit.

"No, you're right I don't" I replied,  causing Jimin to have a smug look appear on his face. I could tell Teagan and J-hope were watching me intensely, making sure I didn't become too angry.

"But he did just inform me that he's taking me out to dinner after we meet later, so I don't think I'm doing too badly" I replied and produced a fake smile at him.

Teagan looked at me with a bright smile, she'd been waiting for something like this to happen for a while. Jin and V started laughing over how my comment had come back to whack Jimin in the face. Jimin just looked irritated by the comment.

"Now if you'll excuse me, I have better things to do that sit here with someone that feels the need to try and put me down, even though I've been asked to help you to pass the class" I replied and began to stand up from my seat. I felt bad, I wanted to stay and sit with my friends. But if I am going to be spoken to like that, I am going to leave. I was too tired to deal with it today.

"You need me to help you with the maths" he called back to me.

"I'm still top of the class without the maths" I shouted back and left the canteen once again.