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Jungkook sat still on his seat, staring up at the grinning headmaster with a pair of horror stricken eyes.

"G-gay-est?" He repeated, hoping he heard it wrong. Maybe the old man said something else, maybe he was hearing things but he quickly paled when he saw the man nod at his query with utmost conviction.

"Gayest." Mr. Bang confirmed, before the corner of his eyes caught a figure looming behind his translucent office door.

"Taehyung? How long have you been standing there?" The head master asked, flicking his gaze towards the door with furrowed brows and shaking Jeongguk out of his temporary paralytic condition.

The latter twisted on his seat, eyes falling onto the partial figure of a lean boy with pronounced brown hair and an attractive but expressionless face, peeking into the office.

Their gazes met momentarily and Jeongguk couldn't contain his blush.

How much had he heard?

The said boy didn't respond to the headmaster's question and kept looking at him blankly.

"Want to come inside?" the old man offered and the boy stepped in with his hands stuffed lazily into the pockets of his hoodie.

"Do you want something?",He asked again, shifting his gaze to Jungkook and then to his older student.

"You forgot." , The boy, Taehyung, replied, lips turning into a thin line. "You asked for me. I skipped football for it."

Jeongguk looked over at the boy with widened eyes, the surprisingly deep voice coiling his insides.

Interesting.

"Oh! Yes yes! How silly of me. I'm sorry kids I tend to be very forgetful these days," Mr. Bang laughed apologetically, flailing his hands in the air dramatically, "I asked for you Taehyung to help your new dongsaeng here to adjust to the camp. Show him around our humble campus will you? and don't forget to hand him the routine and his bunk number."

The old man extended a few papers to the older boy which the latter took begrudgingly, muttering a few incoherent words under his breath, which sounded very much like curses for being stuck helping the new kid around campus.

Taehyung threw a wary glance at the younger and walked out of the office without wasting another word, followed by jeongguk who roze to his feet, gave a quick bow to the old man and stumbled after him.

By the time the younger made it out of the door, Taehyung was already half way across the long ancient looking corridor that led to the outside of the admin building.

"Hyung!" Jeongguk shouted running after the male who was marching away nonchalantly. The older stopped in his tracks at the nickname.

Taehyung turned around on the balls of his feet , passing a cold glare to the panting boy who had just reached him.

"I almost lost you--"

"Don't call me hyung." The older cut him off sharply and turned back around, continuing his march.

Jeongguk looked on, his own brows furrowing at the rude behaviour thrown at him. Maybe he'd heard it all and was a homophobic too.The ravenette shrugged pulling on the straps of his backpack and ran after him again.

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The campus of the training camp was mostly barren. Huge unkempt fields littered with several wood patches and a couple of buildings that included the hostel, the institute and the teacher's dorms and storage houses surrounded by huge wired fences.

The duo reached a huge hall like room on the first floor of the hostel building, standing at the far side of the campus.

Jungkook took in his surroundings.

The hall was divided into ten sections , one after another and each one separated by a ply wall and an common through point, somewhat similar to a train compartment.

Each section had a bunk bed, a closet and a study table on the other side. The entire building had several such dorms numbered alphabetically.





It was a fairly well designed dormitory that didn't completely intrude an individual's privacy, but the only problem for Jungkook was that it was spatially jam packed and unkempt by its residents.

As Taehyung led Jeongguk all the way through the litter of crushed soda cans, tissues , cigarette stubs and other wet and dry garbage strewn all over the common corridor, the latter couldn't contain his grimace.

Jeongguk was a neat guy who absolutely detested grimy situations. Even back at home his elder sister called him a maniac for trying to scrub the floor every alternative day.

Taehyung tactfully kicked a random torn book out of their way and under someone's bunk as they finally reached Jeongguk's aisle, at the very end of that dorm.

Jeongguk sighed, finally getting to see his abode for god knows how many years to come. It's a known fact that the rules in this type of training camp were different.

Once you come here you can't really leave until you've proven yourself in some way. And that happens only if you pass all the annual term examinations, which was next to impossible.

It requires one to score atleast an A in all subjects plus physical endurance tests for the military. Half of the students hardly made it out, left behind to rot in such dire conditions for several years on end while some simply choose to stay back but that's another thing.

Jeongguk keenly inspected his aisle , trying to assess his bunk mate's tidyness through the crumpled up sheets on the lower bed and the messy closet they were supposed to be sharing.

A while had passed in complete silence with the younger's eyes flitting around, when he felt a strong piercing gaze burning the side of his face.

He looked up to see Taehyung eyeing him intently, the latter's eyes scrutinizing his face and then settling at the book he was clutching.

Jeongguk shuffled between his feet, getting uncomfortable and cleared his throat, dragging the older's critical gaze back to his flushed face.

"Don't look at me like that." , Jeongguk tried to warn but his voice wavered slightly as he set his backpack on the top bed of the bunk.

Taehyung didn't budge from his staring.

"Or what nerd?" , He questioned instead , in a low growly voice that had shivers forming in Jungkook's back. Taehyung saw his reaction and smirked slightly, tilting his body and leaning against the bunk bed.

Interesting.

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A/n: how many of you have been to a hostel before?

7_is_superior this question is NOT directed to you! 🤪🤣