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12 | Needy

Music Companion : needy by Ariana Grande

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"Love is a drug?"

"Yep." I couldn't help but smile, "An overdose of love could harm you, an addiction will kill you. You've heard all this all throughout your life and yet...you wanna try it for your own self, taste it for your own self. Wanna see just how much of a drug it can be, just how addictive it would be. When you don't have it, you desperately want to taste it and once you get it, it's impossible to let go...that concludes that love is definitely a drug. Ideal, limitless, and... addicting."

The whole class was in a tranced hush as I completed, watching the amused face of Miss Rose as she smiled with her lips stretched wide, a proud inkling attached to it. "Miss Y/n... are you in love?"

"Yes." my words came out earlier than I could comprehend with the rational side of my brain, the handsome face of my math teacher popping in my head instantaneously as I now stuttered to find myself an answer.

"With myself... I am in love with myself!"

What a save...

"Excellent!" Miss Rosa remarked jauntily, "You sound exactly like my brother. You guys would definitely click."

I returned my best smile as I sat down shakily, cue the English teacher explaining the poem 'What is love?' in the most certified way possible, only accentuating my definition of the endearment for the one and only man in every way possible.

The loud ringing of the bell that indicated the lesson being over caused the calmness of my heart to suddenly disrupt, beginning to unfasten its slack restrains and stretch out, doubling its pace as my throat abruptly ran dry, my breath fastening just a tad bit as I inhaled the very familiar scent of a very familiar person, flashbacks of intense intimacy messing with my clouded head and letting the roseate rush up to the apples of my cheeks.

I blinked surprised as the door opened with a bang, revealing Mr. Jeon's tall and robust figure as he entered the classroom with his long alluring legs, keeping his books on the table and turning toward the board curtly, already beginning to write.

"Page number 245, Calculus. Quick."

Nonetheless to say, everyone including me was bewildered by the sudden change of air as Daniel attempted to converse it out, mistaking to joke and mess with the nerves of the older man. "Damn, Mr. Jeon. Might as well turn on the heater with that outfit." he cackled, referring to the sweater on Mr. Jeon.

Only silence followed as no one dared to speak a word, only the alarming tone of Mr. Jeon resounding in the classroom. "Out."

Daniel's eyes widened, words of hesitation coming out unsure. "Si-"

"I said out, Kang Daniel!"

Goosebumps rose on my skin upon hearing the furious deep voice of Mr. Jeon, heart stopping but still somehow relating this scary attitude to me. Too frightened to argue, Daniel walked in slow guilty steps keeping his low as he exited the room.

Seulgi came closer to me but whispered in a hushed voice. "Damn, did his dog die or something?"

I didn't dare speak but nodded in silence, gulping down but hurrying to note whatever was being written on the blackboard despite the thick cloudiness of my head, only the loud drumming of my heart discernible to me.

"Or maybe he broke up with his girlfriend-"

"Seulgi." the breaking of the tip of the chalk made me sit up straighter, the ominous tone of Mr. Jeon making me undeniably apprehensive and anxious as if he was a time tickling bomb that would explode if you did even one thing wrong.