Pick • me! (The rebellious one) || VMin

6. Reduced

"I have to write an article and if I don't hand it in by midnight, I don't think I'll be able to pass this class."says Jungkook. Jimin huffs in annoyance.

"Is this the same one who tried to fail you on the exam?" Jungkook rolls his eyes. "Can I help you with something?"

"With a topic for a change. She didn't like anything I suggested and I'm on my last legs."

"Let's go to the talk instead." Jimin links his arm with Jungkook's. "And then you come up with a topic. It's a good way to think, isn't it?" he asks with a kind smile. Jungkook sighs, slightly defeated and nodding.

They both enter the auditorium when it's still half empty. They manage to get good seats. Jimin is very focused on reading what he needs for his test tomorrow. He's ready, it's more of a review than anything else. Jungkook knows Jimin's study patterns: rereading everything a day before to ensure maximum memorization.

They won't be doing fake trials yet, so he's safe from rehearsing those things. He's limited to written exams for now.

When the talk starts, they both focus on it. Jungkook has a hard time not looking back. He manages to detect Taehyung's scent. Unaware that they're in this room. He doesn't say anything to Jimin. To prevent him from starting to flirt or release more hormones than necessary. It would attract too much attention and this is not the place to interrupt. Not at all.

After a while, Jimin raises his hand and the speaker gives him the word.

"Do you think there's any chance of eradicating the marked stereotypes and the way they affect all social aspects?" Jimin rests his arms on the table, "I personally study law and the amount of cases where there are problems because of this is overwhelming. If an Omega is sexually active, there is no rape; if an Alpha was close to an Omega and it happened again, the Omega raped the Alpha: that Alpha wanted it to happen; if an Alpha doesn't want to be with Omegas, he is begging for Alphas to use him or for an Omega to come along and fix him" he explains, leaning forward. "Knowing all these individual patterns, do you think anything at the level of general consciousness will change?"

Jungkook looks up, finding Taehyung's face of absolute astonishment. It's clear that, like everyone else, Taehyung thinks Jimin is dumb, that he paid to be in college. He's an easy Omega, who never seems to study, who only thinks about grooming himself.

Contrary to being one of the best in his class and who got into the top five of the best results in his entrance exam.

"Honestly, we are barely able to accept that Omegas are worth more than just instinct-driven reproductive machines; we are barely able to accept that Alpha women are Alphas... What you ask for is taking a long time, but it will eventually come."

Jimin snorts, shoulders slumped. It depresses him.

Taehyung, for his part, returns to his notes, awkwardly jotting down the conclusion to that whole question and feeling somewhere between alluded to and depressed by the same thing. Somehow, he is invalidated in his thoughts, aspirations... it's very sad.

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"Oh! I didn't know you were there!" Taehyung adjusts his bag on his shoulder. Jimin smiling in front of him. "What did you think? Did you like it? Honestly, I liked that for the first time they didn't tell me I'm a "mother looking for puppies" for liking to have sex." Jimin comments excitedly.

"Does that happen often?" Taehyung asks surprised. Jimin shakes his head.

"Of course. No one can know about an Omega with a sex life without thinking: oh~ he's begging to be impregnated... I'll be honest: nothing scares me more than pregnancy" Jimin says with a scared face and a hand on his chest. Taehyung can't help laughing. "I like the way I look and I like the time I have. When I became a lawyer, I'll be able to handle myself, but with a puppy? I think I'd rather jump out of a window."