Streets [J.J.K]

6: Stressful

The stress has grown unbelievably suffocating.

Now Jeongguk realizes how much coaches stress on a day to day basis when it comes to navigating a whole team. There's a lot to consider for preparation; uniforms, buying a fucking net and materials for practices, thinking about how they would deal with transportation - there's a lot that just trails back to money.

Money that clearly this school or him alone doesn't have.

A fund raiser would've been so easy as a way to gain money for this team.

But the principal clearly doesn't want to risk that, more so believing it will either cause more of a chaos in the school or Jeongguk's team will be bullied for the rest of the year.

That's not even the worse part.

True to Jeongguk's theory, the two other boys - the complainers - didn't come to practice since the first day. Taehyung without a doubt did tag along, along with Hongjoong - which was definitely a reliever- and that kid who strayed a little back from them, who Jeongguk discovered his name to be Yuta.

But no one else came besides them.

Jeongguk did go to his friends for advice, Namjoon and Hoseok, about what he could do to recruit more people. They weren't of much help, main reason being is that they didn't believe kids from Jeongguk's school would even want to do that since they'll be too busy doing other illegal activities.

From that time that has passed since that conversation, Jeongguk didn't talk to them. He doesn't know why, but he got so offended and pissed off by their words that he just chose to avoid them for a while.

He has other things to put his attention on rather than friends who aren't supportive with his decisions.

And that is practicing and working with what he's got.

His parents aren't even helping with this because they think he'll probably do something else with that money.

So he's doing everything alone.

So far he did gain a bit of a reputation around the school for the football team, perhaps being teased here and there, but with a single glare he shuts them up completely. He's been trying to find that kid who was watching them practice the first day though, but it's like the kid disappeared within thin air because he couldn't fucking locate him anywhere in this school.

Even Taehyung helped out, but came to no luck.

Maybe the guy was just curious, but anyways, not like Jungkook could do something about it now.

"Jeon."

Jungkook startles in his seat, snapping his head to see Ms. Lee leaning over his desk, a pointed look on her face. He didn't even realize when that class already ended, being the only one left here.

Shit.

Quickly Jeongguk gathers his stuff but Ms. Lee presses a hand to his shoulder, "Woah, easy there," She states, "What's up with you? You've been dozing off all period."

He thought about it for a moment like really thought about it, relaxing a bit against the chair with a defeated frown. Still not saying anything, he just glances to the window.

"Is it the Football program?"

His doe eyes now flickers to her. Ms. Lee understood now. She slowly nods and sits on the desk beside his, "If it's too much for you then you don't have to continue-"

"I want to," Jungkook cuts in, letting out a shakily sigh that he's been holding in all day, "Football is my passion..... I want to continue doing it."

"Then what's the matter?"

Jungkook purses his lips, running his hand through his raven hair in frustration hair, "Teammates. I only have three people, four including myself. You need more players to make a team. We just barely got the boards approval, and a game is coming up in two weeks. I don't even have a coach!"

Ms. Lee frowns, eyeing him to the clear stress that's radiating around him. He is stressed. There's just so much he's handling at once, apart from homework and shit happening at home.

Running away sure sounds like an easy thing to do right now.

But a tap on his desk snaps his attention up from those thoughts, snapping his gaze to his teacher, who makeshifts a kind smile, "I don't know if this will be much help, but go to P.E. and see if you can find any potentials. There's actually someone who you could ask, may reject it but worth a try."

Jungkook perks an eyebrow, feeling this glimmer of hope brightening his doe eyes, "Who?"

Ms. Lee chuckles a little to Jeongguk's eagerness, "Okay ease there. I'll admit though, this guy is pretty intense. Has a twin, but the twin isn't as active as he is, but heard the two make one hell of a team together," She states, twitching a grin, "His name is Park Jimin."

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A/N:
And Jimin makes his entrance.

Get ready, it gets pretty intense haha

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