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by -JAKISM

by -JAKISM

I groaned as soon as I reached the school gate the next morning. "I don't feel like going out tomorrow." I purposely bumped onto Jake who was quietly walking beside me. "It will pass without you knowing, don't worry. You might even have a great time there, you know?" "I doubt that, a lot." He just smiled away. "I still don't get why you're hating on Heeseung." "You won't get it. Like I told you, his presence just annoys me." "I suggest you talk to him more." "No thanks." "You're still talking to him." "Don't tell me you're planning to force me to talk to him." "All I heard was 'to'. Why did you run from Youngbin again?" "Heeseung was there...you're not thinking about leaving me and him alone in a room so that we can converse, are you?" He shook his head in disbelief. "I don't have a plan but I think I do now." "Ah~ Jaeyun~"

We met with Sunghoon before reaching the classroom. "Why so clingy today, Youngjae?" He eyed us weirdly. "This devil here is making an evil plan so that I can talk to Heeseung." I lightly smacked Jake's arm, resulting him to flinch a little. "Yea~h, I don't think it's good for Youngjae to talk to Heeseung." "What? What's the problem with Heeseung?" "Oh~ didn't expect to see Sunghoon in school today. Wait, he can't be absent only on Monday, this is a miracle!" "Calm your arse down, Jay Park." Sunghoon stepped on Jay's shoe. "Hey! This costs thousands of wons!" "I don't care because I know you have many other pair of shoes which costs "thousands of wons". Let's go in." "You'll have to clean it, or else-" "It's staying as it is, I ain't cleaning up someone's shoe, ew, no." Jake sighed as Jay continued to ramble on.

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"Huh? Sunghoon came to school on a Friday? That's unnatural." Sunoo tilted his head. "I know, right?" Jay butted in. "You! You better not ditch us tomorrow." Sunoo fiercely pointed at him. "Why would I? It's a weekend, I should be out with my friends on weekends." "Why am I not surprised?" Sunghoon chuckled and I cleared my throat. "Why should you be surprised?" Sunghoon snickered and bumped onto me, causing me to bump onto Jay, and stepping on his shoe. "Ah! Why is this happening to me?! Leave my previous shoes alone, please!" We laughed away as we continued to make our way to the cafeteria. "Oh, Sunghoon, can I invite some of my friends?" "Do you even have friends besides us- ow!" "I'm only hanging out with you guys more than my girl friends so that Youngbin won't have to worry about me having to answer if he's single all the time." "Dang, I get it. Sure, you can invite them too. But not more than two. They bother me too much." Jay cleared his throat, making Sunghoon roll his eyes.

"If Youngjae is inviting her friends, I'm going to invite mine too." Sunoo spoke and Sunghoon sighed in frustration. "They better not be-" "Don't worry, they're not a fan of yours." Sunoo said before he could finish his sentence. Sunghoon formed his lips into a thin line. "Guys, won't it be a bother for us if there are too many of us?" Jake spoke up, making me and Sunoo think hard. Sunoo shrugged after several seconds. "Well, Jungwon isn't interested in things like this and Riki isn't really the type to go out so, I guess...never mind about me inviting the others." I quietly looked down at the tray in front of me. Sunghoon hesitantly held my arm. "It won't be a problem if you bring one or two of your friends, don't think about it too much." Jake just nodded, staring at Sunghoon's hand which was on my arm. I gave them a small smile. "If you say so." Sunoo rolled his eyes and pulled away Sunghoon's hand from me. "That's my girlfriend, dumbass."

She squealed happily while the other girl stared at me, speechless. "You hear that? There's going to be Jay Park Sunghoon, O-M-G I'm so excited!" "You're not playing with us, are you?" "I'm not, I thought I would be too lonely if I was the only girl there, again." "Hey~ don't say that you're lonely when you have Sunoo." "And Jake." She wiggled her eyebrows and I would've punched her on the arm if I hadn't noticed she wasn't a boy like Sunghoon and the others. I sighed. "I understand that you mentioned Sunoo but why Jake?" "Because you two have been acting a little too normal lately?" She giggled, making me massage my eyes. "Hm, is that true though?" "No, nothing's going on between me and Jake. We just recently got into a big fight, resulting us to get to know each other better." "Then, I'll keep on shipping the two of you until you end up together."

"So is this your plan of setting me up with Sunghoon and setting her up with Jay?" "What- NO! Why would I set up the two of you- look, they're really not interested in girls so they would kill me if I set up some blind date for them. And you know I don't want to die on the hands of those two popular boys." They rolled their eyes in sync. "Ah~ okay whatever. Just come and join us tomorrow. See you later." I walked out from the classroom and met with the others. "I could hear them from outside." Jay folded his arms and eyed me with a mad expression. I sighed, frustrated. "That wasn't my fault, they just think too much. They just happen to have a crush on you and Sunghoon." "Yeah, don't worry about it too much, Jay. We'll just ignore their arses." "Okay but that's a bit too rude?" I said as I followed them behind.

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"Your sister needs to stop running away every time I show up." Heeseung looked at Youngbin. "Just talk to her and befriend her, she'll eventually stop." "I'm not that great at starting conversations, you know that." "Well, you're good at asking questions, you can ask her a question. Plus, you're hanging out along with her friends tomorrow, you'll have the chance to talk to her then, don't worry about it." "Nah~ she'll ignore me or hide from me if I reach up to her." Youngbin sighed and let out a small chuckle. "Why are you so bothered about it though?" "I just don't want anyone to hate or despise me." "Tell that to her. I'm sure she'll understand." Understand. Heeseung looked down at the ground.