You and I (vkook)

Chapter 7

'Cause you're a glimpse of bliss // A little taste of heaven

It has been exactly three days, eighteen hours, twenty seven minutes and forty one seconds since the last time Jeongguk saw Rectangular Smile. Not that he is counting or anything.

Jeongguk failed once again in asking that little cute customer his name, so after watching him from afar the whole Saturday morning - before he, his best friend and Yoongi left for lunch - he noticed how his smile was so oddly rectangular shaped.

He had a box smile and Jeongguk thought that was one of the cutest things he ever saw, so naturally he started to call him Rectangular Smile in his head.

The boy hadn't showed up on the café ever since that Saturday morning, when Jeongguk finally got catch of Yoongi's crush as Chim-Chim, Rectangular Smile roommate, when he eavesdropped their conversation. That was a good day for Jeongguk; he felt his unintended jealousy fly away from his shoulders.

Now - three days, eighteen hours, twenty eight minutes and nineteen seconds later - here he was, in his loft by himself skipping his morning classes to try to finish his stupid writing essay for English 101.

Jeongguk wanted to achieve more than just Korea with his writing once he actually became a writer so he was taking an English writing class. He had his English classes back to when he was in school and he wasn't so bad at it.

The thing is that, even as not bad as he is, Jeongguk wasn't as great as everyone else. His writing style, in both languages, is simple, plain simple. He doesn't use big words and he doesn't know what those big words his classmates' uses means.

Once he had to exchange essays with that kid Minjae from English 101 and he wrote shit like acquaintance and dexterity like what even that means? He described things like sheltered confines of his own distrustful mind and scavenging the crevices for verses and that made Jeongguk chuckle cause there's no way in hell crevices is a word - It is. It means opening or a crack. Who would have thought of that right?

Jeongguk thinks that is all bullshit, but he has spent too much time with Yoongi so now everything for him seems like bullshit. Jeongguk doesn't see anything wrong in saying a crack is just a crack and not a crevice, he doesn't care for big words and he doesn't aim to write like that, but he feels so inferior of everyone else sometimes it drives him insane.

He also doesn't think writing like that is bad nor that those writers are trying to show off but he just can't manage to be that eloquent when he's writing so he ends up tagging those things as bullshit. He gained that logic from Yoongi, just a reminder... Jeongguk wasn't this bitter before he met the bubblegum haired boy.

He just thinks is nice to put words together and create something with that. Simple or not.

He only doesn't like when he doesn't know the meaning of the words and ends up feeling really stupid because of that.

That's why he couldn't manage to write a single world for his stupid essay. He had just read some really good short story online and the author used so many big words Jeongguk's mind was hurting from the exercise of thinking too hard.

His work was a description exercise, they needed to think of a character and describe him in details. From looks to personality to his biggest dreams and aspirations and all Jeongguk has done so far was name his character Kwon Ji Yong because he is the biggest Big Bang fanboy on earth. At least he didn't go full on it and named his character G-Dragon.

Now you add all of these to the fact that the only thing on his mind seems to be the stupid Rectangular Smile boy and you get the picture as to why he needed to skip classes this morning. This essay was due to the morning after and Jeongguk could see the big round zero he would get from this. Maybe he can get some points if his teacher is secretly a huge Big Bang fan, but he doubts it.