In My Dreams 🔞 || jjk + kth

Chapter Eight

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College days weren't brutal to Taehyung. They were actually fun in the start. Taehyung, as a second year student, looked back at his years in the college and had good memories if you forget the academic stress he was under constantly. He dated a bunch of people, had a boyfriend for a full 6 months which was the longest relationship he ever had until the final year of college came and they broke up. Went to parties, got blackout drank, went on road trips with friends and all.

Him being a social butterfly, people ran to him. With 'hey Taehyung' echoing the hallways as he passes through. His looks were most probably the main reason people were attracted to him, a face like his was hard to pass. Not only that, he was pretty intelligent too, so there would be many freshmen just running up to him and asking for help.

Taehyung was generous and made sure to help others out if he could. Though sometimes he would get tired of being called 'Taehyung sunbae-nim' the entire day. Sometimes he purposefully avoided them.

Just occasional friends you walk and sit next to in class with, hang out at lunch and maybe text here and there and that's about it. He didn't really have any close friends though. He had friends you have fun with but not friends you confide in. He didn't really have someone by his side who he would call his best friend, someone who he could tell his sorrows to, have a shoulder to cry on. Which is why Taehyung fell into very rushed relationships in college that barely lasted a month, all because he just needed someone to be there for him.

He was all alone in Seoul with his family back in Daegu. That's when Jeon Jeongguk entered through the college gates and changed his entire life from that moment on. He was a freshman, 2 years below him. The differences between him and Jeongguk were so large that if he were to count them on his fingers he would need another pair of hands.

The aura that surrounded Jeongguk was something he has never seen before. He was like those mysterious men you read in those romance books about. The chiseled jaw, the doe eyes that had stars in them, the cute button nose, his face was so attractive that had everyone swooning over him. That gorgeous face over his black attire, the piercings, the tattoos, it had Taehyung thinking if this man was fictional because how can someone like him be real.

It was obvious by the Rolex on his hands that cost their entire semester tuition that he wasn't from middle class families like most of them. The worst part was he didn't even try to flex his family background, never did he ever showed off the new models of cars he came in everyday or the latest phone in his hand. Maybe if he did then Taehyung could have hated him but instead he fell, he fell quite hard.

It would have been easier to hate him if Jeongguk wasn't the sweetest fucking guy he has ever met. They weren't friends right off the start. They shared some classes and didn't really speak with each other. Jeongguk was immediately one of the popular ones, he was like a bachelor on college grounds, Taehyung would see him in the tables he sits, sharing the same friend group yet still not talking. For some reason, Taehyung always wanted Jeongguk to make the first move.

Jeongguk had people after him all the time, he wanted Jeongguk to be the first one to approach him but it was quite hard because the latter wouldn't even spare him a glance but when he would, there would be something in his stare that would make both of them still for some seconds. There was something so intoxicating about Jeongguk that lured him in more and more. It was a bit embarrassing how much Taehyung wanted Jeongguk when they hadn't even talked once.

What's more embarrassing than that is how they talked for the first time. Taehyung was breaking up with his boyfriend when his boyfriend slapped him and Jeongguk entered the class room at the same time. Taehyung clicked his tongue, not wanting Jeongguk to see him right now. That's his crush who just saw him get slapped, his day couldn't have gotten worse.