the equation of love

Chapter 2

Cheonsa's pov

It was now Monday, and the weekend had gone too fast. Now I was stuck at my desk in the lecture hall, barely awake at 8:12 AM. Torture.

"So class, we will have a small collaboration with the business classes for this project" my professor smiled up at us and my eyes widened in fear. Business means class Bmu20c, and class Bmu20c means Jay. Bora slammed her head on her desk and Dambi let her jaw fall to the floor.

"Now here are the groups, you will be in pairs. No buts! This is how it is, you cannot change this or your partner" my professor said as he heard the whines form in the hall.

"Chilly you will probably commit unalive 'cause look at the screen" Dambi said as I just lazily looked at the screen. No. This could not be true. Is he fucking serious?

Hwangbo Cheonsa and Park Jongseong.

I. Want. To. Die.

"Oh thank god I'm with Soobin!" Dambi exclaimed and Bora and I stared at her in disbelief.

"But you like Heeseung, don't you?" Bora asked and Dambi flushed red.

"Yeah I do but I could never spend that much time with him without freaking out" she whispered and I just smiled. It was fun to watch my friend be infatuated with someone. Especially since she had never looked at anyone this way. Oh to be in love.

"To be honest, Nari is not too bad. I think her and I might get along" Bora said as I sat and regretted my life choices that somehow ended up in this. "By the way, any wiser about the tip you received from rich boy?"

I shook my head, honestly I couldn't be more unbothered by being so bothered by what he did the other day. Because that may be the only nice thing he has done for me.

"But maybe he's trying to not be a jerk?" Dambi said and I looked at her with my classic 'are you shitting me' face and she just threw her hands up in defense.

"We've been at each other's throats for god knows how long and you expect that he will just magically start being nice to me? No, not happening" I said as I turned back to the lecture while cursing HIM in my head. "What a total dick head" I mumbled.

Jay's pov

I'm panicking, she's my partner for this project. And we hate each other. This is straight out of a fucking book. And it will end in murder or some shit like that.

"Oooh mister business is in a group with his love" Sunghoon said beside me and I flipped him off while banging my head on the desk.

"Are you and Cheonsa a thing?" I blurted out once my mind wandered back to the café last Friday.

"What!? No way! I mean she's kind and generous and gorgeous, but no, we were never a thing. Why are you asking? Coming to terms with that crush you have on her?" He explained and I let out a breath I've been holding since it happened.

"It was just that her friends were teasing her and she didn't deny it and I grew worried that you had betrayed me. And I do not like her okay?" I said as Sunghoon snickered at me.

"Want her number?"

"Yes" I said and turned my full attention to him. He smiled and handed me his phone so that I could get her number. Now what's going on with me.

"That was fast" Heeseung laughed and I glared at him.

"It's for the project, obviously. And shouldn't you be crying because you're not in a pair with Dambi? I countered and his smile fell. Ha! Gotcha!

"I'm not in love with her" he said and me and Sunghoon let out loud sighs.

"Just keep on denying lover boy" we mused as Jake ran up to us almost looking as if he were going to cry.

"I'm not with Bora" he said as he pouted and wiped a non existent tear from his eye.

"You are disgustingly and horrendously down bad, you know that right?" Heeseung said and Jake stuck his tongue out at him.

"At least I'm not denying it" Jake said with so much sass and confidence it would have made Sunoo proud.

Heeseung was going to say something but stopped once the bell rang. He threw all his belongings in his bag and rushed to the basketball court.

"He's just as obsessed with basketball as he is with Dambi" I said and the boys laughed. Now I need to find the annoying rat and talk about the project with her.

Cheonsa's pov

I could hear him laughing with his friends down the hallway. How can somebody be s annoying to just listen to. Not even see them but just hearing them.

"Oi! Second placer!" He called out and a smirk formed on my face as I remembered that the new exam results were dropped. Oh this is going to be fun.

"About the project, please don't ruin it. And I got your number from Sunghoon so I'll text you when we are going to work on it. And I-"

"First of all, look at the exam results before calling me anything, secondly I won't ruin it. If there is anybody who would ruin the project it is you because you are the most disgraceful person I've ever met and thirdly, you could not just man up and ask me for my number and decided that your pathetic self would just ask your friend, whom by the way is ten times more likable than you are, for my number" I cut him of. His eyes grew wide and he turned his head to look at the scoreboard that was conveniently enough placed next to my locker. Sunghoon and Jake silently laughed at him while his ears grew red and he turned to me.

"It's just by one point"

"Still one point though, but the other thing about the whole working on the project bit. Yeah that sounds reasonable" I faked a smile at him and waved to Jake and Sunghoon before heading to my writing class.

No one's pov

Meanwhile Jay just stood there, humiliated. But somewhere in him he felt a weird fuzzy feeling. Not knowing what it was he tried to brush it of and turned in his heal. Walking straight to the next class with Sunghoon and Jake in tow, teasing him relentlessly for the events that happened just moments before.

"You are so in love you don't even know it" they laughed at him while he just kept sending them glares over his shoulder. He will never forget this.

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