Torn Between The Stars (Seventeen Fanfic)

Chapter 8: Avoidance

"She's stabbing her food again." Rina sighed as I aggressively pricked in my mushroom with my fork.

"Did something happen again?" I shook my head, although something did happen. "Perhaps something with Wonwoo?" Seolji sharply asked me, causing me to stab into the mushroom too harshly. It slipped off my plate and dropped onto the ground.

"My mushroom!" I cried out loud. It had become inedible and dirty from the dust on the floor.

"Aishh, what a waste." I complained while they just rolled their eyes at my exaggerated reaction.

"You're avoiding the question." Kyungmi noticed, the suspicion in her voice was evident.

"I'm not." I mumbled, dissatisfied.

"There's nothing going on between you two, right?" She continued.

"Tsch, of course not. He's just annoying the shit out of me lately."

"Really? Then that's good." She unexpectedly answered.

"Good?" What did she mean by that? "Don't tell me you're interested in him."

"So what if I am? He isn't that bad-looking." Kyungmi stated, as if it was the most common thing to talk about.

"I thought you hated him."

"I do and that's why it wouldn't harm to play with him a little. No one minds right?" She looked around, while the rest just nodded in approval. Her stare landed on me, waiting for my answer.

"Of course." I quickly replied, feeling the pressure rise.

Whatever happened to him, was none of my business anyway.

We continued eating and gossiping about unimportant things, as if our whole conversation hadn't happened.

All of sudden, someone dropped her fork on her plate. The clattering sound of it coming in contact with the plate, made our attention swift to her way. It was Seolji, who had stopped eating and was currently glaring at the two in front of her.

Kim Taehyung an Yoon Chorim.

"My appetite just disappeared." She said as she stood up from her spot. Leaving her half-eaten food with us, she walked away.

Chorim noticed her angered expression, and had a sly smile plastered on her face. Even though, it only lasted for one millisecond, the four of us had all seen it.

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Today, all I just wanted was to avoid Wonwoo for like the rest of my life. Then I would forget all these temporary feelings and be able to live my life.

I knew I didn't really like him, I was just attracted by his fame that I mistook this as romantic feelings. I probably was just infatuated by him.

Yet, I remembered that we still had to do this cleaning duty for like four days, meaning that even if I wanted to avoid him we would still meet.

I sighed. Stupid, stupid, I thought as I lightly hit my head.

"Let's just not go today." I murmured to myself.

It was his fault to begin with. He shouldn't have seduced me with food, my only weakness.

So, he could clean those dirty toilets just by himself.

I purposely walked in the other direction of where he presumably was moping the floor. However, someone tugged my shirt, causing me to let out a frustrated groan.

"Aren't you supposed to clean the toilets?" He smirked, immediately making me want to wipe that stupid smirk of his face.

"That's none of your business, Yoshi."

"It's Hoshi." He corrected me, while I just shrugged.

"Whatever, I don't care." I said as I walked in the opposite direction again.

But, he just didn't want to leave me alone and grabbed my wrist, pulling me to face him.

"You're not letting him do all the work alone, are you?" He shot me an accusing look, making me feel a bit pressured.

"I-I can't today. I have an appointment." I quickly made up.

"To where?" He rose an eyebrow, not fully trusting my excuse.

"A date."

"With whom?" It felt as if I was getting interrogated by him, and it was becoming annoying.

"Jungkook." I chose the first person that came up. I mentally facepalmed as I said his name. Stupid, why did I choose him. After last time, it didn't seem as if he wanted to see me again.

"Can I leave now?" I started to grow impatient and moved his hand off my wrist.

"Yeah." He hesitantly answered, not sure how to hold me back anymore.

Finally, he left me alone.

I walked around the corner, not sure where I was going. Right now, I would be cleaning the floor with Wonwoo but I wasn't. Now he was probably scrubbing the toilets, all alone. With that glum expression he always had on.

Aishh, I shouldn't think too much about him. I needed some distraction.

Since I told Hoshi that I was going to Jungkook, it wouldn't harm to actually go, right?

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SOONYOUNG'S P.O.V.

I saw her figure slowly disappear in the distance, making the anxiety grow inside me. She was going to that Jungkook guy. I had heard rather bad rumours about him. He was the type to play around with girls but also slept with them. I was worried that the same thing would happen to her.

Yet, I couldn't get myself to follow her and stop her from going because the same bad rumours about her circulated around the school. Maybe these all were just fake and spread by some jealous people. But, maybe they were not.

They called her a bully, someone with a nasty personality and a slut who slept with whomever she came across. If those rumours were true, I would have to distance myself from her. I, as an idol, could not afford to get my image ruined by some pretty girl that just happened to have grabbed my attention. The attention I gave her was just a form of a growing infatuation for her, nothing more and nothing less.

I was already on my way to the lockers. Glancing side ways, I noticed some girls staring at me. As I returned the look, they quickly turned their head, letting out an excited squeal. I sighed, sometimes it was pretty tiring to be an idol. They always looked at me as if I was some special species, they didn't consider me the same as them. Only she did, and that bothered me.

Standing in front of my locker, I packed my books ready to go back to the dorm. However, the nagging feeling didn't go away and kept bugging me. I looked at the exit of the school and knew I couldn't leave like that.

Without a thought, I ran towards one of the toilets where Wonwoo would probably be. Entering one of the rooms where the cleaning cart was in front of, I saw him with a bored expression wiping one of the mirrors. He saw me in the reflection panting heavily.

"Are you going to disturb the both of us again?" He said, slightly annoyed.

"Aeri isn't coming." I announced, instantly grabbing his attention.

How do you know? Did she tell you that? Were the questions I expected him to ask but instead he answered differently.

"Why are you telling me this?" He looked straight at me, trying to decipher what was going on in my mind.

"I don't know." If I was so worried, why didn't I check it out myself? "Ugh, forget it." I rushed out of the room, leaving him confused.

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