Book 2 : BTS 👀, Skz🥰, Ateez✨

University Story 1.1 (Stray Kids,Ateez)

"So are we going to eat together at lunch?" Lena murmurs as I keep taking notes.

"Probably not." I whisper staring at the teacher "I want to eat something quickly and work right away."

"Too much work will ruin you. I wanted to go back to my place and take a nap anyway." She grins as the professor announces the end of the lecture.

It's my fifth year in University. I'm currently a master student in her second year. The name is Melody Wilson. Master studies are really time-consuming and hard. I feel like I'll collapse anytime soon, but it's my last year before trying for a PhD thesis. I've had a lot of propositions and to meet up the expectations of my family and my professors, I had to do great.

However, even if I had to, I could assure you that I had great difficulties. Everyone had expectations through the roof and I had no idea how to meet them. I was a slow learned, needing to repeat things over and over again before finally memorizing them. An ordeal I had been dealing with since middle school.

"See you." Lena patted my shoulder.

"You're not eating with us?" Adam put a hand on my shoulder.

I shook my head.

"I have work."

"I'll bring you something to eat before the next class." He smiled.

That smile could be misunderstood by more than one person. Out of all the people in my class, Adam was the most positive one and always curious about everything. Weirdly his positive attitude and sometimes overwhelming curiosity was not liked by the others except Lena and I. I had my eyes on him since he came into our class last year and yet...this feeling had been shaken more than once. The line between friendship, hatred and love was very thin. Thinner than I had imagined.

"There's no need, Adam. Don't worry about it." I whispered turning away as he kept smiling.

"It always makes me happy to give you something." He adds "You sure?"

"Positive. Adam."

Double edged sentence and double edged words. Always so kind and full of attention for any kind of information about me. Yet, he had made the point that we were nothing but friends. Friends that hung out all the time with each other and who talked about personal life a lot. Friends. That was it.

"See you then." He tightened his grip on my shoulder for a second and left.

Finally, I could breathe probably. I liked the attention and the care. Always. It was always profoundly attractive for me when men took care of me. It might sound cliché, but I always thought that it was nice to have someone that would love me and take care of me. Not as a friend, but as a lover. However, that was more complicated than I thought.

"I'm just dead tired." I whispered to myself as I checked on all of the work I still needed to do. I was mad at myself for having so much things to do still and yet I didn't stop working. Doing one task after the other, but not efficiently enough apparently. Or maybe the amount of information was just too much despite my natural slowness.

After a solid hour of efficient work, I decided against continuing to work and decided to take a small nap before our next class that happened in exactly 40 minutes.

IN and Seungmin stepped inside what they thought was an empty classroom. The slow breathing of someone made them stop laughing as they saw someone asleep on one of the table in the second row.

"What's wrong?" Lee Know asked tilting his head from behind them.

"A girl from our class is asleep." IN said as he stepped closer. It was Melody. She had papers scattered all around her in a very organized manner. She was always working and thus it wasn't really strange that she was tired. Her headphone on her head were one of her characteristic accessory. She always wore them when she came to class.