Muted chatterbox | Ni-Ki (Nishimura Riki) ff

03 | I like you

"I like you." Riki said to me as my face turned red.

"HAHHAAHA JUST KIDDING~ we just recently got close again." He playfully pushed my shoulder.

I put my hand on my chest and aggressively typed on my phone.

"YOU SCARED ME YOU DUMB FU-" and before I could finish the sentence, he pulled my phone away from me.

"NUH UH. You used to play tricks like this to me all the time. It's only fair that it's MY turn." He hummed while smiling.

I smacked his forehead and snatched my phone back out of his hand and typed, "YEA BUT I NEVER GAVE YOU HEART ATTACKS."

And with that, we walked over to our chemistry class, the final period, until I heard a ton of commotion.

"Ugh! I can't believe that bitch did that just because she thinks she's prettier than all of us now." The girl in the front of the 5 person friend group said.

"Yea. Dumbass Kim Hana REALLY thought she could do something." The girl to the left said.

"I swear. That whore just embarrassed me in front of the whole school AND she's now trying to steal Kyungmin Oppa from me. Like, girl. Go with you DAniEL or whatever his name is." The girl in the front said again whilst the rest of them nodded their heads like a bunch of pigeons.

Daniel hm? He seems to be popular with the ladies these days. Wait, isn't Kim Hana the friend he knew from middle school till now? WAIT, WHAT?

Anyways, we wait in front of the classroom and entered it as soon as our teacher was there and let us in.

"We're doing a chemistry practical today! Find a partner and come to me once you've found one. I'm not giving you the stuff you need for the practical until you find a partner." Mr Jung said.

"Dammit." I thought, "If only K, Lisa, or Sunoo were in my class. Stupid Sunoo had to be absent. Dumb kid." I walked over to Riki and gestured for him and me to work as a pair since I had no one else.

Riki walked over to Mr Jung, lining up behind everyone else for the materials needed. Once it got to his turn, he told the teacher that I was his partner and got the materials. He then started to walk over to our bench when

"OH SHIT!" He yelled.

He slipped and dropped the whole tray of items including 2 beakers, 3 measuring cylinders, 2 pipettes, a jar of 70 % acetone, and a shit ton of styrofoam pieces. The floor- The floor is wet with acetone. My eyes are practically burning. The floor is also full of glass. That's a plus, isn't it?

I grabbed a nearby dustpan and broom to clean up the glass pieces whilst Riki, who luckily didn't have any glass cut him, grabbed a mop to mop up all the action that was all over the floor. Mr Jung just stood there in shame. He wasn't angry, nor was he disappointed. He just looked like he was in embarrassment and shame.

Once we finished cleaning, Riki asked if we could do the practical.

"Look at the time and ask me again." Mr Jung replied with his hand over his face, facepalming.

It was 3:00. We didn't really have enough time to do the experiment AND clean up the set-up.

"Join another group you two." He said, still keeping his hand over his face.

We walked over to another group.

"Nicholas, EJ!" Riki called out, "Can we join you two?"

They looked at us with disappointment.

"Pretty please? Please please please~"

"Fine." Nicholas said as EJ made eye contact with him, signalling the 'WHY?' look, "You better not mess up our practical tho."