Don't Fall In Love With Me

Chapter 2

"Baekhyun," the teacher called out. Baekhyun didn't respond and the teacher continued to stare at him impatiently. I slowly shifted my eyes towards Baekhyun and he was staring down at his desk, completely unaware of the situation. "Baekhyun," the teacher repeated, with a firmer tone. I inwardly sighed, realizing that I had to step in. I took a deep breath and timidly tapped his shoulder. He turned his head and looked at me with a blank face. I pointed to the teacher with my eyes as he slowly turned his head towards the front of the class. The teacher pointed to his ears and Baekhyun's cheeks flushed a deep shade of red as he quickly yanked his ear buds out of his ears. "Don't let me catch you again. Anyways, sit tight for now while I go make copies of your syllabuses," the teacher said as he grabbed a paper and walked out of the room.

As soon as he was out the room, the class began to speak amongst each other. Even Ahyoung was talking to her lab partner. It seemed Baekhyun and I were the only ones with our mouth shut in the entire class. I tapped my fingers against my desk feeling jittery. Starting a simple conversation was a lot harder than it looked. "So, uh, do you like chemistry?" I fixed my eyes on him and waited for an answer, but he stared straight ahead of him. His earphones were out so it wasn't like he couldn't hear me. I felt heat rise to my face. Too afraid to repeat my question, I looked away from him, disheartened, and propped my chin onto my hand. Was my question too stupid? Of course he liked chemistry. Why else would he have been in that class?

I sighed as the teacher walked back in with a stack of freshly copied papers. He passed them all out and said, "I hope you don't mind who you're all sitting next to because they'll be your lab partner for the rest of the year." How ironic.

Class seemed to drag by as Mr. Cho went on and on about safety rules and the importance of being punctual. It didn't help that I was sitting next to someone that probably didn't enjoy my presence, which didn't make any sense because I've never actually talked to him before. I had a feeling that chemistry was gradually going to lose its ranking as my favorite subject. 

Eventually the bell rang and I was finally free from that torture chamber. Calculus, my next and final class of the day, was all the way on the other side of the school from where my chemistry class and everyone decided to walk extra slow and crowd the hallways so I barely made it inside as the bell rang. "Late on the first day," Mr. Shim said from the white board. "Find a seat, please." I glanced at every row in the class and the only open seat was right in front of Baekhyun. I mentally groaned as I dragged my feet to the open desk. The entire class, which happened to be mostly boys and two girls this time, stared at me as I made my way over. "I hope you all don't mind where you're sitting." No. No. No. Please, no. "Because these are your permanent seats for the rest of the semester." I sank into my seat and couldn't help but feel lasers shooting into the back of my head. I'd never had more than one class with Baekhyun and now I was in three. And to top it off, I was sitting next to him in two of them. I would have been ecstatic if I didn't get vibes that Baekhyun hated me. 

"You don't know that," Luhan said with a reassuring voice. The 7 of us were all walking back home and I had just told them about my last two periods. 
 

"Why do you even care? I thought you said that you didn't like him," Tao said, mocking me. 

"I don't like him. I'm just so curious about who he is..." 

"Well, he hates you, so no need to be curious anymore," Lay said blatantly. I stopped in my tracks and gawked at him as the entire group walked ahead. 

Kris noticed my absence and lingered behind. “It’s only the first day of school,” he said, trying to give me some sort of comfort. 

I let out a sigh and started walking again. “Yes, I know. It’s just, well, you know, it’s-“