Senior high was an age of sensitive , especially for teenagers surrounded by couplings all around. They weren't the awkward adolescents anymore but they were far from the maturity the university students possessed. For these 17, 18 year olds, no one was spared from crushes.
Once it was revealed however, no one can avoid the horrible fate of being the latest sensational gossip.
In Form 3 (3)'s Science class, news of Taehyung and Jennie spread at an incredible speed. It became the latest topic on everyone's lips and was brought up repeatedly in idle time.
At first, many expressed doubts that the smart, athletic, handsome Taehyung who usually wanted nothing to do with the female gender would be involved with Jennie who was so much a wallflower that people had trouble coming up with her name.
But with eyewitness accounts of what had happened on the baseball field, the past interactions they had where he treated her with special care seemed to line up. All the times he had seemed irritated by her presence previously were now seen as the consequence of a lovers' tiff.
Despite the rumour mill churning and all the underground gossiping raging around them, the two protagonists seemed unmoved by the flurry.
Taehyung went about his daily schedule as per usual, focusing only on what he wanted to do when he felt like doing it. If anyone mentioned it, he would shoot a sharp look of mind-your-own-business.
Similarly, the usual low-key Jennie was indifferent to all the rumours that reached her ears. Neither of them did anything to address the swirling talk and they also did not speak to each other from that incident forth.
Finally, Jungkook couldn't contain it any further. One day when no one was around he cornered Taehyung before asking hesitantly
"Hey, everyone says you have a thing for that 'little miss', It's not true right?"
"What 'little miss'? Don't spout nonsense."
"Hey, are you defending her! Ah Zheng, you couldn't really have fallen for her could you?"
"So what if I did! She doesn't even feel the same way about me." Taehyung replied melancholically.
Jungkook studied Taehyung's low-spirited expression carefully and after deciding that he was neither joking nor being sarcastic.
"Ah Tae, this isn't all because of that silly sanitary pad incident right? You and her, it's just ..."
"Don't be ridiculous. You're the one hung up on that. What about me and her? Oh yes ..."
Taehyung suddenly recalled and looked at Jungkook in and asked "That day, why was she looking at you?"
"Oh my God, how the hell should I know? I've never even spoken to her all my life, not even a word.
Not everyone has .. such unique taste as you do. But since you mention it, it must be that she thinks I'm better-looking than you."
"Pffft" Taehyung rolled his eyes at the narcissistic fellow and was about to walk away with a can't-be-bothered with-you expression on his face.
Jungkook added deviously "Poor Haeun. Knowing that you've fallen for Jennie, how devastated she must be."
Taehyung turned back and warned "Don't stir nonsense."
"You can ignore Haeun, but what about Park Teacher? You can't ignore his opinion.
Everyone's talking about you and Jennie. It's not possible that he hasn't heard yet."
This observation was true though. Mr.Park was their form teacher and he wasn't particularly old and had only been teaching for five years after graduating with a teaching degree. He mostly left the disciplining to their Biology teacher.
