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"Kook, you already finished your other book?" Hoseok asked from across the table. Jungkook smiled shyly and pushed his circular glasses back up on his nose.

His appearance had reverted to the way it was a couple months ago. Although Jungkook still wore a little bit of makeup. He couldn't help but enjoy feeling at least a little pretty.

"Yeah, it was pretty short," he mumbled. In reality, he threw the book out because the main character was a cheerleader. YA tropes how dare you.

"Jungkookie just reads too fast," Yoongi began, wiping the sleep from his eyes, "he reads like 500 pages a day. I could never," he mumbled and yawned, putting his head back on the table.

Jungkook giggled and Jimin rolled his eyes at Yoongi, poking him in the side and calling him an old man.

"Valentine's day is coming up," Jin mumbled to Namjoon, trying his best to sound sexy but sounding more like he had a throat infection. Jungkook giggled when Namjoon shuddered.

Jungkook watched his friends laugh with each other about the upcoming holiday but felt a twinge of pain in his heart. He couldn't help but feel lonely.

"S-Sorry, Kooks," Jin mumbled, tousling Jungkook's hair. Jungkook shook his head and laughed at Jin, muttering something about how he didn't really mind.

"Ugh, I don't want to see Ms. Choi today," Hoseok began, laying flat on the cafeteria table, "She gave me a 42 on the last test."

"Hobi!" Jimin yelled, slapping the man's arm. "Please tell me you went to make it up," Namjoon said, putting his head in his hands. Hoseok giggled nervously and scratched his neck.

"Okay I did, but," Hoseok began and Jin even gave him a look. Jungkook sat back and giggled, remembering how everything had played out.

"But Ms. Choi is so mean," he whined, trying to shake off Jin and Namjoon's stern glares but failing miserably. Hoseok frowned and pulled out the re-take paper from his backpack.

"Hobi!" Jungkook giggled, trying not to laugh at the ridiculously low score on the test. Jin's eyes widened comically and Hoseok shrunk in on himself.

"Great, and you have her class next, don't you?" Yoongi teased, sitting up but still leaning back in his chair. Hoseok rolled his eyes at him and glanced at the clock on the wall.

"Kookie, Jimin, do you guys want to head over to the devil's class now?" Hoseok asked, shivering a little when he thought of the monstrosity that was Ms. Choi. Jimin laughed but nodded, collecting his things and heading out of the cafeteria with Jungkook and Hoseok in tow.

"Ms. Choi can suck my dick," Hoseok mumbled, staring at the slightly-crumpled test in his hands. Jimin rolled his eyes at Hoseok and Jungkook only laughed a little. He didn't completely despise the teacher. He just wished she'd change the seating chart.

"Damn, she's not even here yet," Jimin muttered, leaning against the wall beside the door to the classroom. Jungkook nodded and hugged his sketchbook to his chest, standing beside Jimin and Hoseok.

"Good, if she was I think I might commit sudoku," Hoseok said, a little too loudly because his face paled when he looked down the hallway and saw Ms. Choi headed in their direction.

"I'm glad you love chemistry, Mr. Jung. But this is biology, so please get it right," Ms. Choi retorted, grabbing her keys from her lanyard (which had little DNA designs on it) and unlocked the door to her classroom.

Jungkook covered his mouth with his hand, in hopes of hiding any of his treacherous laughter from Ms. Choi. Jimin did the same and Hoseok gulped, in genuine fear for his grade.

"I appreciate you coming early, Mr. Jung, but I'd rather you come late and pass your tests," Ms. Choi added. Jungkook and Jimin looked at each other and Jimin choked, trying not to laugh again. Hoseok waited until Ms. Choi turned around and rolled his eyes.

Jungkook walked to his seat and put his things down, making sure he had enough pages left in his biology notebook to draw. Jimin twirled around in the swivel chair beside him and Hoseok sulked from the front of the class.

Ms. Choi had moved Hoseok to the front, and only moved Hoseok, because he was "causing too many disruptions." Jungkook couldn't help but giggle a little when he heard.

"We shouldn't have gotten here so early," Jimin mumbled from beside Jungkook, "Hoseokie-hyung is already sulking." Jungkook turned and looked at Hoseok who had despair dripping from his face. He was seated in front of Ms. Choi, after all.

Not long after, other students began to slowly file into the class. Jungkook held his breath and watched, from his peripheral because he wasn't a dumbass, as Taehyung walked in and sat beside him.

This was his least favorite part of the day. He used to enjoy Ms. Choi's class, but having to sit next to Taehyung made him a little sad. He couldn't help but feel flooded by all of his memories with Taehyung whenever he saw him.

Jungkook definitely wasn't over him.

And he was pretty sure that all of his friends knew that. Jimin gave him a sad smile from beside him after he glanced at Taehyung, but put his attention back on Ms. Choi when she began her class.

Jungkook couldn't really focus on the word vomit coming from Ms. Choi and resorted to nonchalantly sketching in his notebook. Every now and then he glanced up at her to make it seem as if he was paying attention, but he wasn't even paying attention to his artwork.

He sighed after he glanced at the clock. There was still so much time left in the class and he was already immensely bored. He looked back down at his notebook to focus more on his artwork but then paused.

And then he blushed.

He hadn't been paying attention to what he was drawing, and suddenly an elaborate, and sadly very well drawn, image of Taehyung had appeared.

Jungkook's heart rate began to climb and he made the mistake of glancing up at Taehyung. That seemed to catch the boy's attention and Taehyung glanced down. Before Jungkook could cover up his embarrassing drawing.

Jungkook bit his lip and turned the page in his notebook, although he was too late. And then Taehyung scoffed.

What an asshole.

If only Jungkook didn't still have a crush on him.

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online classes are killing me
anddddd new book coming soon! (like real soon)