You've Become My Favorite Sin (2yeon / najeong)

Chapter 4

Room 117 was frankly the hardest classroom Jeongyeon ever had to locate. It was weirdly not in between rooms 116 and 118 and she already tried walking to the second floor wing in case she heard it wrong. Jeongyeon narrowed her eyes. Was this some room of requirement bullshit? Did she have to walk down this hallway three times thinking about Dahyun for the door to show up?

"Jeong?"

Jeongyeon whipped her head back and saw Dahyun standing on the other side of the hallway with an entertained grin. She was standing in front of a door with the letters "Room 117" very clearly marked on the plaque by the frame.

"Oh." Jeongyeon said.

"The odd numbered rooms are on this side. That's how every room in this school is structured. You... you know this, right?" Dahyun said, her voice a mix of amusement and serious concern. "Like, this hasn't changed."

"I know, I just... I had a moment." Jeongyeon muttered.

"Too many basketballs to the head?" Dahyun joked.

Jeongyeon chuckled, punching Dahyun lightly on the arm. "I'm beginning to feel like Nayeon's insults are rubbing off on you."

"Ouch, just kidding! Anyways, this is it." Dahyun pushed open the door, gesturing for Jeongyeon to go in.

The room was relatively big, with desks moved around to make one small circle in the center of the room. There were five kids sitting in chairs engaging in small talk. At the sound of the door shutting, the room went quiet. All five pairs of eyes were suddenly on the two girls.

"Hey! This is Jeongyeon, basketball team captain and the only girl on the football team, as I'm sure you've all heard of by now. She's not officially joining our club or anything but she's here because I asked her to come by and check it out. I trust her not to, you know..." Dahyun shrugs. "Be a dick or something."

The awkward silence that fills the room for a few seconds is enough to make Jeongyeon want to turn right around and walk out, but finally she sees welcoming smiles settle on the members' faces.

"Hi, sorry, we're being a little rude. We're not used to new members or guests, but welcome. My name's Amber, club president." The girl with short, blonde hair said, jumping up from her seat. "Welcome to the Queer Student Alliance!"

"I didn't know our school had a QSA." Jeongyeon said, taking a seat next to Dahyun in the circle.

"Not many people do." Dahyun shrugged. "It's pretty new and it's harder to get people to join clubs like this one when it's smaller."

"We're open to both queer and straight students, but nobody has really been biting." Amber said. "We haven't really put our name out there as a club yet because it's been difficult trying to get spaces in the club fairs."

"Students don't want to join because they're either straight kids who don't want to be seen as 'one of us' or closeted queer kids who don't want to be seen as 'one of us'. So it's been just us for the last year since we were founded." A boy with light brown hair in a bucket hat said. "The general club fund keeps us afloat for now, but just barely. So our goal this year is to get at least four new members. That'll bring us up to a nice ten members."

The other students in the room nod their heads.

"Although that number might need to be doubled for the club to stay around." Dahyun muttered under her breath for only Jeongyeon to hear.

"My name's Jimin by the way." The boy said, flashing Jeongyeon a grin. "I'm the club's VP."

"I'm Seulgi." The girl next to him said, shooting up to offer Jeongyeon a handshake. "Transferred here last year and found my people. The gays."