18 : Provocation
Third Person's P.O.V :-
Tension.
The only thing that one could feel at that moment in that faithful classroom was pure tension.
After that uncalled for and excruciatingly awkward reunion at the locker room area, Yoongi had silently walked away while Jungkook had glared at the beautiful blonde boy from across the hallway before dragging Jimin away by the wrist. Lisa had been the only one who remained in the hallway while she stared at Taehyung with heart eyes, mesmerised by his perfect alluring face.
All the students had started whispering among themselves as they discussed the visible rift between the new transfer student and the most popular students of the university.
Taehyung had tried to ignore the gossiping students around him and focused on giving a pleasing smile to Lisa, who stood rooted in her spot, almost drooling over him. A few moments later, Yoongi had returned to retrieve the fourth member of their little friend circle, who was a little hard to drag away since she was busy fangirling over Taehyung and refused to look away.
Taehyung had stood there, watching all of it go down. The charming smile never leaving his kissable lips while he observed Min Yoongi carrying back a struggling Lalisa Manoban away.
The smile had slipped off of his lips just as they were out of his sights, he remembered thinking if he played his cards right, he might just be able to prevent Min Yoongi from confessing that day.
Back in the classroom, the door slid open and the teacher came in, instructing everyone to settle back in their seats.
Jungkook was sitting beside Yoongi who sat beside Jimin in the front row while Lisa sat right behind Jimin in the second row.
Taehyung found that seating arrangement strange since he was sure Jimin sat in the back of the classroom the previous day, maybe it was Jungkook or Yoongi's idea to sit in the front to avoid interacting with him as much as possible.
Just as Taehyung was busy glaring holes in the back of Yoongi and Jungkook's backs while cursing them for being a hindrance to his plan, Lisa had slightly turned her head and shyly waved at him.
Taehyung instantly took that chance and waved back with a smile and gestured for her to come sit beside him, at the vacant seat on his right.
Lisa gasped out at the offer and mouthed if he was serious to which Taehyung just nodded and patted the desk beside him, inviting her.
Lisa grinned in her seat in excitement and turned back to face the professor,"Teacher!" She yelled out raising her hand to grab the attention of the lecturer.
"Yes, Ms. Manoban?" The teacher asked out, pausing in the middle of her session.
"Teacher, I'm feeling a bit faint and suffocated in this seat, can I go sit in the back of the classroom? There's a lot of windows there" Lisa asked out while her three childhood friends turned to look back at her in question.
The teacher eyed the empty seat beside Taehyung and then the multiple windows that surrounded that corner and nodded in agreement,"Yes, you may go, but if you disturb the class by chatting with others, you'll get detention" The teacher instructed strictly.
Lisa perked up at the positive response and stood up, gathering her stuff,"Yes, Teacher!" She spoke aloud in glee and at once ran to the back of the classroom to sit beside Taehyung.
"Hi" Lisa whispered out with a quivering breath, unable to believe that the new gorgeous transfer student had asked her to sit beside him.
"Hey" Taehyung smirked back at her, as he leaned back on his seat and winked.
Lisa felt like her heart had been hit with a cupid's arrow.
Throughout the entire class, Jimin found himself unable to focus on the lecture, he kept on glancing back while telling himself he was only looking back for Lisa but each time he turned, he found them being more and more intimate.
It started with sharing pens, then it had evoled to playing sword fighting with the said pens, on the third glance they were playing thumb wrestling, fourth look, Taehyung was leaning over to whisper something in Lisa's ear and making her laugh, on fifth try, Jimin caught them having a deep conversation while they both looked at each other with pleasant smiles.
Jimin felt his heart burn up everytime he glanced back. He turn back each time and grumble under his breath. Both Yoongi and Jungkook noticed that behavior from the corners of their eyes but none of them said anything.
Jimin frowned in his seat while he glared down at his notebook, his notes unfinished while he wondered why he was that bothered by it. They were just talking and smiling yet Jimin found it unbearable.
He told himself he was behaving that way because he knew Taehyung wasn't a good guy and if Lisa fell for him, she'd definitely get her heart broken, he was just looking out for her. Yes, definitely, there was no other reason.
It was definitely not because he was jealous that Taehyung behaved like a top grade asshole with a huge stick up his ass yesterday when Jimin was alone with him and now he behaved like the ideal love interest portrayed in kdramas in front of Lisa.
That was definitely not the case.
"Are you alright?" Yoongi asked out in concern as he looked at Jimin with knitted brows, gaining the other's attention.
"Huh?" Jimin asked as he looked up at Yoongi, broken out of his daze.
Yoongi looked at his clueless face and then down at his notebook,"You've been stabbing your notebook with your pen for the past five minutes, are you alright?" He asked again, this time providing more context.
Jimin looked down to see that he was in fact, brutally poking holes in his pages and blushed,"I um, yeah, yeah! I'm fine, don't worry, it's nothing" He dismissed Yoongi's concerns with a forced sheepish smile and went back to taking notes as if nothing happened.
When Yoongi was busy conversing with Jimin about his potential homicide episode, Jungkook had looked back momentarily and caught Taehyung giggling in the back of the class along with Lisa while he held her hand in his own and drew doodles on her palm.
Taehyung felt the eyes on him and looked up to see Jungkook glaring at him from the other side of the room. He smirked in response and gave him a flying kiss, making Lisa chortle at his antiques.
"Oppa! What are you doing?" Lisa asked as she lightly hit Taehyung's arms while the other just smirked, seeing Jungkook snap his head back around in anger.
"Nothing, he just looked like he needed a little love, that's all" Taehyung spelt out playfully while Lisa just giggled, shaking her head in disbelief.
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"And that was it for today, students." The teacher spoke aloud, gathering her stuff and walking out of the class as the bell rang indicating the end of that day's lectures.
Now that the classes were over, Jimin could finally talk to Jungkook, he knew something was up between him and Taehyung, going by the way he had glared at the new transfer student in the locker room area.
Jungkook wasn't the type of person who would start hating on someone without any reason nor was he ever protective of him or Lisa, it made no sense to Jimin as to why Jungkook would dislike Taehyung.
Something must have happened between them and Jimin felt the sudden need to find out everything.
"Jungkoo-" Jimin tried to call his name but before he could even finish Jungkook had stood up from his seat and left the classroom in a rush without another word.
"Jimin"
Jimin turned to see Yoongi standing before him with a serious expression on his face, his bag was hanging off from one of his shoulders while he waited for Jimin's response.
"Yoongi hyung...?" Jimin asked out in confusion as he stood up from his seat and waited for him to continue, it looked like it was very important, Jimin felt his nerves acting up in anticipation.
"I have something to tell you" He said, his face conveying just how serious he was.
Jimin frowned not understanding what emergency happened for Yoongi to become that serious and Jungkook to leave in such a rush,"Yes?" He answered, still waiting to hear it.
"I-" Yoongi began but he was brutally cut off by a loud shriek that echoed through the classroom and perhaps even the whole entire building.
"OH MY GOD!!!!" Lisa squealed out.
Both Jimin and Yoongi turned their heads towards the back of the class in alarm only to find Lisa looking at Taehyung with heart eyes while he was caressing her cheek.
"Really?!" She asked him excitedly, unable to control her happiness.
Taehyung smiled and nodded,"Yes, I really like how talented you are and how tough you naturally look, there's this powerful aura about you that just exudes confidence, it's very rare, seriously, some people go to extreme lengths to possess what you naturally have" Taehyung said and took a sneaky little peek at Jimin from the corner of his eyes and smirked slightly before turning his attention back to Lisa.
"They change their hair style, change how they dress themselves, change how they talk, they try to become a whole different person overnight, never secure within their own skin, my heart goes out to them, nothing but sympathy, though you're so different, you have it all, I really like you" He whispered while gazing into Lisa's wide eyes as he took her hand in his own and kissed it, sending the poor girl on an intergalactic time travel.
Taehyung smirked as he observed Lisa standing there, stunned to her core, almost like a statue. He playfully waved his hand in front of her eyes as if to bring her back on earth but it was too late, her soul had already evaporated.
He laughed at the peculiar behavior and turned his head towards the front of the class to look at Jimin, who was glaring back at him like he was dead meat.
Taehyung smirked at him and retreated his hand away from Lisa,"Well, I'll be going then sweetie~" He whispered smoothly while ruffling Lisa's hair, who still stood frozen on her spot and walked towards the exit of the class in a smug manner.
Jimin watched him leave with a gritted jaw. To put the cheery on top, Taehyung mouthed something to him on his way out.
'Come fight me outside, pipsqueak'
Yoongi sighed in his place at the clear and obvious provocation, wondering who'd even fall for that childish jab.
He knew one thing for sure, it was that whoever that new transfer student was, he was bad news and it would in their best interests to stay away from him.
Regardless he tried to forget about the new guy and turned to Jimin to continue his words.
"So Jimin as I was saying I-" He tried to say but this time Jimin raised a hand stopping him midway.
"No Hyung." He brooded out which he glared at the door through which Taehyung just left.
Yoongi rose one brow at that,"What?" He asked, unable to believe that his friend just fell for that.
"Whatever it is, tell me tomorrow....for now, I have some unfinished business to take care of......"
With those words hanging in the air, Jimin picked up his bag and was at once out of the classroom, running after the boy who just provoked him.
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