Altschmerz

Five

2020
8:03 am

"Park Jimin"

"Present!"

"Jung Jungkook."

"Present, ma'am."

"Lim Changkyun."

Silence.

"Lim Changkyun?" His teacher looked up to see him napping at the desk. He rolled her eyes behind his spectacles.

"LIM CHANGKYUN?!"

His loud tone jerked him awake, he jumped to his feet and bowed, "Anyeong, welcome to the store."

Everyone burst into laughter. It was too late to save the face by the time he realized he's not at work but in the class. His face turned red when he looked over at Yuri who was laughing too.

Mr. Seok Jin noticed this and cleared his throat, "Cut him some slack, everyone. Looks like he stayed up all night working." His teacher was understanding of his predicament.

Mr. Seok Jin has been their homeroom teacher for a while now. He was familiar with his students, their love triangles, who's dating who, girl's crush on him (because he's way too handsome), the beef between the boys, especially the backbenchers who were a bit of a bully.

12:10 pm

"Hey, come and sit with us." Chanyeol waved at Changkyun from his table. He was his friend from the other class.

The walk across the cafeteria was embarrassing. His classmates would get up from their seats and make fun of him.

"Anyeong, welcome to the store, dork."

"Such a klutz."

He could hear Yuri's laughter in the distance. Bet she was laughing at him.

Chankyun turned them a blind eye and rushed to Chanyeol.

"What was that all about, man?" Byun Baekhyun asked.

"Don't ask." Chankyun was too tired to deal with them.

"Whatever it was, you should have flipped a bird at them." Chen suggested.

Changkyun gave him a look.

"What? They deserve it."

Changkyun could still hear boys from his class making fun of him. He only sighed.

"Can we please go to the rooftop and finish our meal?"

3:30 pm

Chankyun was waiting for Kihyun at the subway after a long, humiliating day at school. He was jamming to some rock to block out the terrible memories from today when he noticed Yuri and her friend at the next bench. His first reaction was embarrassment so he quickly turned his face around and pulled up the hoodie over his head. That should make him invisible. Well, not invisible invisible but yeah, you get what the writer intended here.

Changkyun noticed she was fangirling over something with her friend. Curiosity got the best of him and he popped an earphone out to eavesdrop.

"...and I made so many international friends because of his live shows. Guess where my insta bff lives?" She was way too excited.

"Omg! the states? No wait, Dubai?" Her friend was equally enthusiastic about whatever they were discussing.

"Nope. France!" She squealed.

"Ugh! I heard they don't take showers for like years. They just use a very strong perfume."

"Whatevs. So, in his last magic trick, he levitated his cat and it was so hilarious. Ah, I just love him."