》Despite knowing you love someone else, my heart keeps beating for you《
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Omega college student Park Jimin has been pining over his alpha best friend, Jin, for quite some time. His heart crumbles when the alpha tells Jimin about his attractive cowor...
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A big thank you to Lucilia
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Jeongguk enters the university with a sullen expression on his face, his attitude anything but open. The soles of his black boots squeak on the freshly mopped and reflecting stone floor. Unhappy about entering this building, he snorts and tightens his grip on his backpack strip, which he slung over one shoulder. A bitter taste lingers in his mouth as he lets his gaze wander over the other students in the hallway.
He doesn't know many of them, but the familiar faces from his classes give him an uneasy feeling in his stomach. He hasn't been going to university long, but already being the focus of some was never his plan. Jeongguk is not the type of person who is comfortable with that. He would prefer to be left alone and not be constantly approached by others.
Sighing and shaking his head, he walks to his locker to take out the materials he needs for the next lesson. When he opens the locker door with a metallic creak, he instantly freezes. Anger literally runs through him, visible through his strengthened grip on the locker door. Unpleasant sweet smells hit him and finding Christmas sweets and heaps of letters where his materials should be but are buried makes him clench his teeth. It makes him feel downright sick.
Anger builds up inside him. Clearly, someone has broken into his locker and cracked his numerical code. Jeongguk doesn't understand how they did it. His lock is a combination of four numbers, all up to nine, including zero. 'What kind of asshole dared to do that? I didn't do anything wrong. Just to put unnecessary presents in my locker?'
There are also too many sweet and unfamiliar scents for Jeongguk to identify. The urge to slam the door and turn back home surges through his body, but he perseveres.
All at once, he moves forward and unceremoniously reaches into those heaps of letters. He growls discontentedly and, without giving it a second thought, runs to the bin that is not far away. In it, he lets all the unnecessary stuff disappear. Even the obnoxious sweets that make him scrunch his nose in disgust. His alpha is also anything but pleased and flattered by this. Fortunately, nothing was stolen.
It annoys him that someone was able to break in despite the combination and Jeongguk can't come up with anything that even begins to make sense of how they broke into his locker. Jeongguk makes a mental note to look for other methods to lock his locker and puts it on the list when he goes Christmas gift shopping today or tomorrow. Anger fades and gets replaced with anticipation for the Christmas holidays and seeing his parents.
It has been some time since he has seen them and he misses them immensely. He can hardly wait to go back to Busan and go to the beach. Seoul may be beautiful in itself, but he also misses that certain calmness and less hustle and bustle which is so common in big cities. After all the stress with the students, he deserves some time off and what better way to spend it than with his family?
