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Chapter 6

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Jin stood before the children and said "I hope you all are prepared for today's test that I mentioned on Friday" to which the children only nodded a yes. He smiled at them and turned back and started drawing lines on the board dividing it into 5 partitions just like Tae did. He wrote down names in grade order 'Rose', 'IU', 'Joonie', 'Suga' and 'j-hope' and assigned them problems to be solved as per their grade standards. He called the children to come forward and solve the problems.

Meanwhile he walked towards Kookie and told "Kookie, recite the alphabets and the words starting with them". Kookie started reciting "A for Apple...Night apple is poison apple...", Jin chuckled at this and nodded for him to continue "B for Ball, C for..." he mumbled "S-snake....". Jin calmly said "No Kookie, C for Cat, not snake. Now repeat after me, C for Cat". "Snake" Kookie shouted, Jin shook his head and corrected him again "Cat". Kookie with fear in his eyes screamed "No!! There's a snake behind you".

Jin immediately turned back at that. When he saw a snake really crawling inside the classroom from the open window, he screamed "Snake".

All the children heard his scream and started running around the classroom while screaming "Snake...snake...snake...".

Rose ran to her desk to get Mi-cha- the fish she caught in the lake on Friday behind the school. She then securely placed the jar on Jin's table.

j-hope screamed loudly "I hate snakeu..." lifted the wooden chair from his desk and gave it to Namjoon which within moments broke down to pieces.

Namjoon sadly looked down at the now broken chair and thought why does it always has to happen only by his hands.

Suga reached for a piece of the broken chair's leg to beat the snake for scaring his friends.

It was a complete chaos. Jin was confused whom and what to manage first.

He then held Suga from the back asking the children to calm down "Wait Suga, don't. Calm down everyone, not all snakes bite. Even if they do, not all are poisonous. I will take care of it, so calm down now" saying this Jin reached out for the wooden piece from Suga's hand and walked towards the window.

He slowly lifted the snake using the wooden piece, moved out of the classroom taking small and steady steps while balancing the snake on the piece of wood. Once he reached the railing, he let the snake slide down into the lake.

Dusting his hand, he came back in, lifted Kookie up and made him stand on the teacher's desk handing him over the wooden piece to hold and proudly spoke to the children "See, I told you that not all snakes bite" while flailing his hands.

He suddenly noticed 2 puncture marks on his left hand and started screaming "Ahhh, no!! The s-snake bit me..." and fell on the floor. "I am going to die...I am going to die...ahhh...help me...hold the hand tight" and started rolling on the floor crying. Rose immediately held her own hand tightly, Jin who saw this shouted dramatically "Not your hand, I meant my hand, hold my hand tight above the bite mark". Joonie immediately reached to hold Jin's hand.

Jin then looked at IU who stood next to his head and told "Don't let me fall asleep...hit me". IU slaps Jin without wasting a second, he gets shocked but gets out of it and started whining again.

"Ahh, please...please take me to the hospital" wailed Jin. Immediately Suga, Rose, j-hope and IU each held one of Jin's limbs up high trying to lift him off the floor and help him to the hospital.

Kookie silently stood on the table watching all this commotion. While looking at them, his eyes suddenly flickered to the blood drops on the ends of the 2 nails which was on the wooden piece he was holding.