Butterfly || Kim Taehyung

15

Sayu:
You studying?

You:
Lol, no. 

I don't even know what's going on anymore.

Sayu:
I miss the time when maths used to have actual numbers

Wait, why the hell are there exclamation marks in here? The hell are these numbers so excited for?! Making us fail?

You:
Girl

Remember factorials? We studied that in school before. How the hell did you pass all these years?!

Sayu:
I didn't. We both failed in maths in the first internal exams, remember? 

You:
Omg, yeah. That's how we became frnds. We met at the counseling, remember that?

Sayu:
Yeah, the woman kept asking us why we failed. Like, lady, we just hate maths so maths hates us. Nothing else, lol. 

You:
We're going to fail again tomorrow.

Sayu:
If we don't keep our phones down, obviously. 

You:
Duuuude, I literally have no idea wtf is going on in my notebook. 

I don't know whether I skipped some steps but all I did was rationalize and I got the answer???

Is that supposed to happen? I have a feeling it's not supposed to be this simple.

Sayu:
Idk. Wanna come over?

You:
Group study?

Sayu:
Yeah. Bring food.

You:
Ok.

At Sayuri's home. 

After munching on french fries and ranting about K-drama for a solid hour, both of you finally settled to study. But your phone dinged with a message. 

Tae:
Maths is trying to kill me

Save me, baby

🏃💨

You:
I can't. It's after me too. 

🏃‍♀️💨

Tae:
It looks so easy in class

You:
Ikr? The professor just cancels a few terms, applies some kind of rule named after a mathematician and magic. 🧙‍♂️

We get the answer. 

But wtf is this shit I'm seeing now?

😵

Tae:
My notes are all drunk, I swear

I can't understand my own handwriting 🧐

You:
Me neither. Shortstack literally flies across the blackboard. 

Tae:
Yeah

One second he's on the left and the next second he's on the right side of the board and about to rub off what he just started explaining

You:
When he gets excited in class...

Tae:
He doesn't even complete his sentences and it sounds like he's reciting Jabberwocky* in reverse

You:
You know Jabberwocky?

I want to reread Through the Looking Glass again, but I don't have time. 

Tae:
Let's bunk classes one day

You:
And?

Tae:
We'll go to the library, borrow the book and go to the garden

You can read to me and I'll fall asleep on your lap

And you can give me tiny kisses to wake me up when it's time for class

You:
Stop daydreaming.  

You're gonna make me cry that it will never happen.  😭

Tae:
It will 

I'm so close to finding you already

See you in class, baby

You smacked your forehead for having given away the fact that you both were in the same class. Mr. Sangwook, aka, shortstack only taught second years and there weren't much courses with maths so it narrowed his options greatly. It would only be a matter of time before he found out who you were. Sayuri shook her head as she watched you despair over the fact that your anonymity would come to an end soon. 

But what if you let him find you?

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A/N: The lecture halls they usually show in movies is only used for seminars or meetings. At least in my college.

So the college in the story would be similar, but the rules would be way more lenient. When you imagine their classes, it would be similar to a classroom in school with fifty or so students. 

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*Jabberwocky is a poem from Through the Looking Glass, the sequel of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

Here's the first stanza:

'Twas brillig and the slithy toves,
 Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: 
All mimsy were the borogroves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.