just kidding! - s. jake

term two, week one

"And he said that we should be taking shit more seriously– uh hello? We have been?"

Jungwon had been on a tangent about his Chemisty teacher "giving his only good senior class truck loads of shit" and how it's "so fucking obvious that he doesn't have a lot of good things happen to him in life". Heeseung and Valencia sat wordlessly on the other side of the metal table, leaning on top of their binders and nodded along to their friend's rant. The weather had just only started to cool down, meaning that there was a light, cool breeze that would sweep through every once in a while and the metal bench the group sat on actually felt somewhat cold. Though, Australia being Australia, a heat wave was forecasted to hit from Wednesday. It's currently Monday. Lunch had only just begun fifteen minutes ago, but both Heeseung and Valencia knew it was going to be a long forty-five minutes when Jungwon had suddenly slammed his Chemistry worksheets, overflowing binder and laptop onto the table with a huff.

"He's literally so mean to us, like we're doing the fuck-ing-most on Education Perfect." Jungwon claps in between the syllables of his words, as if to ensure that his point and his exasperation are clearly conveyed. "Our class is carrying the entire Chem cohort and he still thinks that we're bums? Oh fuck off !"

"Maybe he just wants to make sure youse don't start to– I don't know– fail," offered Heeseung, although he did half mean that as a joke.

Valencia hummed in agreement, "Yeah Jungwon, the man's probably paranoid,"

Jungwon widened his eyes in disbelief then rolled them, "With what? Sir should be kissing our feet and worshipping the ground we walk on, not be such a cun–"

"–Hey guys!"

The three heads turned upwards as a handsome face grinned down at them.

"Oh, hey Sunghoon."

Sunghoon slid into the spot next to Jungwon, who had actually stopped ranting and had his full attention onto their newly-arrived friend. A semi-large bag ("Guys, respect the drip," Sunghoon said when the rest of them had poked fun at the lunch bag's appearance– it did in fact look like a garbage bag) was plopped onto the table and Sunghoon had began taking out his lunch. Being a star athlete, Sunghoon always had a filling lunch that his Korean mother insisted on packing for him everyday. On this particular day, he had kimbap and a pesto chicken sandwich made by his white step-father, Chris.

"That looks so carb-y," Valencia spoke, feeling her mouth slightly water, "please give me some,"

"Uh no," replied Sunghoon, his somewhat mellow voice having a hint of humour as he took off the lids of his containers. His eyes scanned the table as he ate a slice of kimbap, noticing the lack of food despite it being lunch time; Sunghoon gave a curious grunt. Heeseung caught on and told him that the three had planned to eat at Guzman y Gomez after school. Sunghoon hummed in response.

Jungwon began whining, saying that his story wasn't finished yet, but Valencia told him to create a Twitter thread about it during their last period and that she promised to retweet it. Luckily, Jungwon had complied and had changed the topic of the conversation to something that didn't consist of berating a secondary school teacher: the latest gossip surrounding Jake Sim. Both Valencia and Heeseung groaned, not really feeling to talk about their peer, but Sunghoon being the asshole the group knew him to be, egged Jungwon to continue.

"Ooft, bitch spill."

"Alright so," Jungwon began, hands splayed out onto the metal table, "turns out our dude has been asked out by one of the girls over at St Catherine's,"

Valencia's eyebrows perked upwards, "No way, did he say no? Please tell me he said yes, I mean that brainiac little fucker ought to say yes, that school is known to have the hottest girls out of the entire diocese,"