2 Minus 1 | joshua✓ ( School Series )

T H R E E

J O S H U A ' S  P O V

"The farewell party is coming up, are you excited?" Seungcheol asks.

"I'm not mentally ready yet." Myeong-ho answered.

"I'm ready! Really ready!" Seokmin exclaimed.

"Same here with Seokmin!" Soonyoung exclaimed too.

"Your energy is too high, maybe when the farewell party comes you won't have any more energy." Jihoon says.

I laughed at what he said, the energy of the two was too high. So sometimes we get infected, we will be thankful because there is energetic in us. We went back to our classrooms because the bell rang, when I got to the classroom I went in right away.

Soon our teacher arrived, and while he was lecturing, the class was very noisy. Our teacher got angry and quizzed for a long time, I got bored with my classmates. The fault of one, the fault of all. When the quiz ended, Mina and I were the only ones with high scores, so the teacher immediately scolded my classmates.

"If you just make noise, make sure that your scores in this subject will be high." Mr. Lee says.

"Whoever is quiet, those are the ones who will score high." He added.

"Class dismissed, we have a quiz tomorrow.  What are the questions I gave today, that will still be the question for our quiz tomorrow." he said.

He left the classroom, and my classmates immediately looked at us. They glaring at us, it's not our fault that we scored high.

"You are too ignorant."

"Are you two teacher's pet?"

I stood up and faced their glares at us, I wouldn't miss it because they were overreacting.

"It’s not our fault if we score high."  I said and they went silent.

"Who started making noise? Aren't you? Why are you blaming us?" I asks them.

Bad trip, I sat down because my head hurts when I even hit them. We just study hard so our scores are high, but they still blame us and we didn't start making noise. Two more subjects entered, and after that I immediately left the classroom and went to the dance studio. When I saw that they were gone, I just went to the music room, there was no one there so I just stayed there first.

I entered the music room, I sat in one of the vacant seats. When I sat down I took my phone out of the bag, I wandered around Instagram first. I can't post anything on Instagram so I just put my phone back in the bag, I can't do anything here in the music room but I'll just stay here first. I was about to rest when suddenly the bell rang, I immediately left the music room and went back to the classroom. When I arrived I immediately went in and sat down, fortunately I was not late for class.

N A O M I ' S   P O V

I no longer do cutting classes, because she has already transferred to another school. I had no friends again, I was walking down the hallway when I saw Joshua enter the music room. I immediately hid so that he could not see me, I peeked to see if he was still outside but when I saw there was nothing left I came out of my hiding place.

I went to the music room and peeked out the window at what Joshua was doing inside, I knew his voice was beautiful but I didn't see him singing or playing instruments. I stopped peeking and just went to the rooftop, no one was there because everyone was busy.

When I got to the rooftop I was out of breath, still forcing myself to like Seungcheol. I know it's wrong, I would have accepted but there is a side to me that I haven't accepted yet. Then my problem with my mother added, I knew that Mom wasn't carrying Seungcheol's Dad's child. She just really wants the money, but she sympathizes with me.

It has to end, I hope someone can hear the conversations between Mom and her boyfriend. Unfortunately for Seungcheol's mother, I was just forced to nod when Mom asked me. But I know this is not the time to apologize, even before I graduate I can do something with Seungcheol, the last thing I will do. 

When the bell rang I immediately left the rooftop and went back to the classroom, the teacher would walk quickly when they had a subject in our section. When I arrived with a teacher, I was late for class again.

J O S H U A ' S  P O V

"Where's Cheol?" Seungcheol's girlfriend asks us.

"He is not here, and he doesn't come until now." Jeonghan answered.

"Let's find him." I said.

They both nodded, we went out of the dance studio and looked for Seungcheol. We had toured almost the whole school but still nothing, when I figured out where else to go I told them right away. We immediately went to the garden, so when we got to the garden even though we were far away we could see who Seungcheol was with.

It was as if I was stuck in my position, unable to move my legs. When I saw Seungcheol's girlfriend advancing in the garden we followed her, and she immediately slapped Naomi.

"You think you're not doing well?  Tsk, did I tell you enough to make you conscious?" She asks Naomi.

"Are you that desperate?!" She shouted.

"With so much you can flirt, why Choi Seungcheol?!" She shouted in a frustrating tone.

Naomi just stared at her, and she looked at me too. Her eyes were emotionless, I averted my gaze. I can't, I'm hurting. When I'm hurt, does it mean I love her?

"You know how hard it is to overthink?!  You know how hard it is to be jealous every time you see your loved one with someone else?!" She shouted again.

"Yes! I know how painful it is! I love Seungcheol! But he doesn’t see all the things I do to him to make him love me back!" This time she shouted back at her.

I was even more hurt because of what she said, all this time? It's just like she's playing with me especially my feelings for her, I can't do it. I saw her smirking, and turned to Seungcheol.  Seungcheol turned his back on all of us, I know he doesn't like what's happening now. I know he can’t afford to hurt his girlfriend because he loves her so much.

"Something happened to Seungcheol and me." She said.

We were surprised by what she said, especially me. Seungcheol and his girlfriend were even more surprised by what Naomi said, I can’t believe it. Is she really that desperate?

"I won't do that!  What are you, your mother? Accusing anyone just to ruin someone else’s relationship? You are really desperate! I will never fall in love with you Naomi!" Seungcheol shouted at her.

I just looked at her, I can't believe it but my heart is already hurt by what she is doing.  I just hope I didn't like her or even get to know her, if this were the only thing that would happen to me, I would have just avoided her.

"You're such a slut, Naomi!"

Seungcheol's girlfriend turned to me, I really couldn't do anything to get Naomi out of here and even talk to her.

"How can you date a girl like her, Shua?!  You see her flirting with Seungcheol but you still like her!" She shouted at me.

I no longer knew what happened next, I no longer knew what I was thinking. I was just looking at her, I really couldn’t move. But I just said something to her, which hurt me even more.

"How can I like someone like you, Naomi?" I asks her.

I left the garden and went back to the dance studio, I felt like they were all looking at me. As if I were deaf not hearing what they were saying, I grabbed my bag and left the dance studio. I can no longer bear what I feel, it is so painful.