english teacher - Kim Taehyung

part five

you might call me teacher's pet, but i just can't take him off my eyes.

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When I walked into first period in the morning, I was determined to get detention. I know it sounded stupid, but, I was getting desperate. For what, I have literally no idea. But I guess I was just following my gut in some stupid way.

Mr Shin was my math teacher. He was fine for the most part since he at least taught and wasn't too boring. But all I knew was that he did not take crap from students messing around. 

Should be easy enough.

I took my seat, taking my homework and a pencil out. As Mr Shin started the class and went over the homework, I was having trouble thinking of what to do to disrupt the class. I was never a troublemaker and didn't have friends that were, so this was getting a bit hard. After thinking about it for too long, the bell rang, signalling the end of class. Surprised, I quickly packed up and left the class. Most of my day went like that.

Second period Jimin kept me occupied the whole time. Third period there was a sub who didn't know what they were doing. Fourth, I finally got the courage to do something, but I quickly chickened out before I could even do anything. Fifth period Jimin kept me busy again. 

Sixth period finally came by, giving me this one last class to get a pink detention slip. The only reason I didn't want to get a slip from Mr Kim was because I was really just too scared. But some part of me also didn't want to disappoint him further with him having to witness me getting the slip.

Sixth period was with my social studies teacher. Her name was Ms So. She was hitting her 70's and barely did anything in her class since she was nearly blind and only talked about how her husband left her 40 years ago. I honestly didn't know how she still had a job here.

As I thought about what to do during our "work time" which was really just time for us to talk while Ms So did whatever, Ms So left the class saying she had to go to the bathroom. My eyes travelled the room, seeing if there was anything I could maybe break. And then I saw it. The pink slips sitting right there on her desk.

One thing I knew about Ms So was that she pre-signs the detention slips to make it easier for her to give out. That meant I could easily get the slip without actually getting in trouble. Genius!

I looked around again, seeing that no one was really paying attention to anything but their own conversations. Walking as naturally as I could, I went to her desk and snagged the pink slips. I walked back to my desk and stuffed them into my bag. I would fill it out with some bullsh*t excuse later.

Being my paranoid self, I looked around again and saw no one looking my way. Slowly, a toothy smile was plastered onto my face thinking about how I had just gotten my ticket to extra time with Mr Kim.

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The weekend had gone by finally and it was Monday. It was time to put my plan to use now.

As I walked into Mr Kim's class, I felt a bit giddy. I was a bit more smiley than usual and I guess Mr Kim picked up on that. When he saw me enter, he raised his brow at me. I just shook my head at him and took my seat.

The class went on, as usual, that day. I could feel the one pink slip I had taken from the stack in my backpack in my pocket, waiting to be used. I had used a pretty normal excuse on the slip for why I got it, just a simple "disrupted the class too many times". It was believable enough for most students, but Mr Kim did know I had only Jimin as a friend. But then again, Mr Kim can't exactly go against another teacher without someone calling favouritism. Not that I'm saying I'm Mr Kim's favourite of course.