Fated | Enhypen x Fem! Reader

Chapter 3

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"And starting today I'll be assigning a partner assignment with your seatmate," the teacher says leaving me speechless. Did I hear that right?

I glance over to confirm what I just heard was right and see Jay already looking at me, who just gives me a shrug in return. No, no! Why him of all people? I know what I said earlier but that doesn't mean I trust his work ethic or reliability. Especially the reliability part.

"Does it have to be our seatmate?" A girl says with a scowl on her face turning towards the guy next to her and I felt pity for the dude. She just wants to partner with Jay because he's hot. I would know since I recognized her as one of the soulmate group's fangirls. I can't help but roll my eyes at the question knowing what the teacher's answer would be.

"For this assignment, yes," she says looking sternly at the girl, "You have to work with your seatmate."

Well, this should be interesting.

The teacher ended class soon after that once she explained the assignment. We had to work together to write something whether it be a poem, short story, or even song lyrics. But it had to pertain to the prompt of, "express how spring is the season of a new life, a sense of rebirth." Isn't that too...personal? But maybe it won't be too bad or it could end up being worse than it already is right now. Ugh, I hate it here.

"So when should we meet up?" I jumped hearing Jay's voice from behind me as I tried leaving the class as quickly as possible.

"How does right after school in the library work for you?" I ask looking down at my phone seeing my reminder of work after school, "although I can only meet for an hour."

"That's fine," he says, swinging his bag onto his shoulder, "it shouldn't take that long to do."

An awkward silence lingers in the air afterwards and I take that as my hint to leave, "see you then."

I don't think I've ever left a classroom faster in my life. But the thought of staying in that awkward atmosphere for another second haunted my mind. I glanced around trying to see if I could catch a glimpse of Ryujin or Kai since they promised to me that we would be able to eat lunch today and apparently somewhere special. Whatever that meant. I lean my back against the nearby wall close to the classroom. My eyes constantly scan the crowd to see if I could find them but sigh out quietly not seeing a single trace of them. I'm about to pull out my phone because they most likely texted something along the lines of 'be there in 5' or something but a nearby not so quiet whisper catches my attention.

"I heard she turned 16 today," a girl's voice says with a giggle, "yet nobody has seen a soulmark on her nor has her friends mentioned it. I think she's a void."

A sick feeling pulls in my gut at the statement, the grip on my phone tightening in irritation. But I'm not a void.

But the words got stuck in my mouth remembering my parents' words this morning. Even if every fiber of my body wished I could tell them right this instant. Nobody can know. They'd judge me either way, maybe this is better.

"Why don't you mind your own business," another voice snaps, causing both of them to gasp quietly and my eyes go wide seeing the person I least expected. What the hell is Jay doing?

I watch in pure astonishment at the situation happening yet he doesn't even spare a glance as he goes on his way. He walks right past me and the girls heading in the direction of the cafeteria. Yet the girls were quick to shut up at his words but not before throwing me a confused glance. I quickly looked away even as I felt their eyes linger on me before leaving. At least they stopped gossiping, for now. But why would Jay of all people do that? We aren't even friends.