Mr Arrogant || kth. » book 1

Chapter 3

"Lee Hyejin," the principal called.
"Nae," I responded softly.
"Kim Taehyung."
"What," He responded.

The principal sighed and told us to sit down.

"May I know what's going on?" The principal asked.

Taehyung pointed at me and I pointed back at him. "He put the fake lizard in my bag," I spoke.

"She threw it back at me."
"You started first, who told you to put that lizard in my bag?"
"Shut up it was your fault, you didn't listen to me!"

We were at each other's throats, I stood up and shouted at him, he did the same.

"GUYS STOP!" Ms Gil shouted. But we couldn't hear her because we were busy quarrelling.

"Do you expect me to let you copy my-"

I was cut off because he covered my mouth. Then he glanced over at Ms Gil whom had furrowed eyebrows, staring at us.

"Have you guys have no respect?!" She finally got to spoke. "Clean the school toilets after school. No leaving until you're done! You get me?!"

"But Ms Gil-"
"NO BUTS. GET OUT NOW," She shouted.

Taehyung opened the door. He stomped out of the office and slammed the door behind him, rudely.

I awkwardly turned to Ms Gil and the Principal. "Joesonghabnida," I politely apologised and slowly took steps away to leave. In the corner of my eye, I could see both Ms Gil and the principal shaking their heads.

I left the office and ran after Taehyung.

"YAH!" I shouted. He turned around.

"What."

"Youu..." I gasped for breath, "You're really..."

"You've got really low stamina," he said.

"Yaaaah! You! I have to wash the toilets because of you! You know how disgusting the toilets are? Uggghh," I whined, close to tears.

"Tch, weak," He slightly chuckled and turned back to walk to class. "I don't care," he said with his back facing me.

I rolled my eyes and frowned.

Then I realised, he was walking really slowly. "Why are you walking like that. My grandmother can walk faster than you."

"Your grandmother's dead."

"NO SHE'S NOT!" I smacked his arm. "My grandmother is still living in her own town. I will visit her someday."

He chuckled, meanly. "If you say so."

He said, "I'm not gonna walk fast. It's Science lesson and I haven't done my research either. Mrs Jin's naggy and she will give me a lecture about not doing the research and jotting some notes and stuff, so I'll wander around the school now."

"We have to do a research? On what?" I asked.

"Wow, you're worse than me."

Since I haven't done any research for Science lesson, well, I didn't know I had to do so, I too decided to walk around the school. Honestly, I myself don't know why I chose to walk with him. I just did.

We went down to the art room, it was awkward, nobody was at the art room level, it was quiet and we didn't talk at all. Then, by the art room, we saw a grand piano.

I ran to it and sat down.

"You know how to play this?" He raised his eyebrow and leaned against the piano.

"Yeah," I said and laid my fingers down on the keys.

I played a piece that I used to master. I closed my eyes and I still played smoothly. Even with my eyes closed, I could sense which keys to play.

I could tell he was pretty impressed by me - his face had a blank expression and his mouth was open.

"Close your trap or a fly will enter," I said after I was done playing.

I caught him staring at me. He turned his gaze away and became expressionless. "Let's go," He said.

"To where?" I asked and covered the piano keys as I stood up to follow him.

He didn't spoke and I became curious about where he was heading to.

We came to a store room, far away from the classes. It was on the same level, the 3rd level, and it was more deserted.

"This," He said, "is my secret hideout."

"O...kay..." I awkwardly responded and walked inside. The storeroom was filled with boxes and mess. There were also empty bottles and a few cigarettes laying around. I saw papers laying around, vandalism on the walls, and I believe he did it. It was a junk space. But it was pretty warm, a perfect place to stay in during this cold weather.

"When I first came to this school, I had nobody," he suddenly spoke. "I found this place, and I stayed here, everyday during break. Until I found Jimin and Jungkook. Now sometimes they come over to this place to smoke too."

"You smoke?" I gasped.

He smirked and took out a stick of cigarette out of his pocket and brought it to his mouth. He was about to light up the other end of the stick when i hit his hand and both the cigarette and lighter fell to the floor.

"Not now, I can't stand the smell of smoke," I said and folded my arms.

"So why are you telling me all this?" I asked.

"I don't know, I just felt like it," He responded.

He suddenly came close to me and whispered in his deep voice, "It's a secret between us, don't tell anyone."

He let out his pinky finger and waited for me to lock it.

I felt rather weird. We always fought, but I guess he ate the wrong medicine. I slowly brought my pinky finger and locked it with his, and automatically smiled. He too smiled, I saw it for the first time.

I mean he always smiles, but it was always out of evilness, smirking.

This time, I saw him smiling, he looked pure, innocent, like a little boy.

I let go of his pinky finger and sat on a pile of boxes.

"You can come here whenever you want to, and vent your anger, sadness, sorrow, whatever," He said, not seemingly to be the Taehyung I knew.

The school bell rang and we both went out of the storeroom.

We were walking and I couldn't stop thinking of what just happened when suddenly he stopped and turned to me.

"What?" I said.
"What? You want to watch me pee?" He replied. I realised we were walking near the boys' washroom.

I quickly turned away and hastened my steps back to class.

Ugh embarassing.