pull to talk | yoonseok

01. Hamster

Another day for Yoongi.

He woke up to the sound of his nom nom nom alarm.

It was 6AM and he needed to prepare for his everyday 7AM classes.

He went straight to the bathroom before eating then brushing his teeth—just like his routine. He checked his study table to see if he'll forget anything he might need for school.

It was his allowance. The boy forgot to ask for his allowance for the next day because he snatched his test paper last night and cried himself to sleep without realizing he forgot to get something important.

He walked up to his mother to ask for allowance and thankfully, she didn't mention about what happened last night. It didn't look like she knew about what happened.

"Go home early, okay?" he got confused with this reminder.

"I always go home early and I have nothing else to do in that school..."

"I know, I'm just reminding you just in case you forgot you can't stay in school doing whatever."

He left his house and walked his way to school because it was nine blocks away.

He checked the time on his watch. It's 6:45AM.

Just enough time for him to walk to school without getting late. He entered the school gate.

The school guard got greeted with a gummy smile and a "Good morning~" from Yoongi.

The school guard was considered as a friend to Yoongi since the guard was friendly enough to give each other high-fives and tell short humorous jokes. They would always greet each other 'good morning' or 'goodbye' whenever they would pass by each other at the gate.

The guard's name was Erin, and he knew how a good kid Yoongi was. One time, it was Erin's birthday but no one knew because she was the guard. Yoongi being the caring and thoughtful kid, gave her small gifts since he was too young after all to save from his small allowance.

He gave her a hamster stuffed toy and banana milk. A card was attached to the hamster saying "Happy birthday! Thank you for keeping us safe <3 This hamster will be the one that will keep you safe!"

He entered his classroom like the usual and placed his bag on his seat.

"Hey, Yoongi." a girl called his attention.

"Yes?"

"Another day to greet your girlfriend, huh?" she snickered that lead some to do the same.

"W-What are you talking about..." he went closer to his bag and held the strap in nervousness.

"Oh, come on. You and your guard girlfriend. Everyone saw you give those gifts to the guard. You probably have some gifts for her right now!" she teased as she pointed at his bag.

"Stop it! She's not my girlfriend!" he gripped tighter on his bag's strap.

"Let's see what you got for her today!" she ran towards his bag and tried opening it.

"Hey! Stop it!" he wore his bag and ran to the door to leave.

Little did he know that the janitor was mopping the floor in front of his classroom's door. He slipped on the wet floor and tripped over the mop. Everyone in his classroom saw what happened including some students in the hall.

"Hey kid, are you alright?" the janitor asked immediately and tried helping him get up.

In embarrassment, Yoongi got up on his own quickly and dashed to the music room to cry.

He curled up at the corner holding his bag to his chest and cried on it.

Why are they like this?

I didn't do anything to them!

Why am I their target?

What's so funny about giving gifts to the guard?

Thoughts flooded his mind once again that remind him of what happened last night.

It was not long enough when the bell rang. He would be too embarrassed to go back to his classroom after what happened. He stayed in the music room until the music teacher found him hiding there.

"Yoongi?"

"M-Mr. Kim!" he bolted up and wiped his tears.

"Oh no, son, it's okay. I told everyone including you to call me Mr. Jin remember?" Mr. Jin kneeled down to reach Yoongi's height and held him on his upper arms.

Yoongi was looking down to hide the tears that were flowing down on his cheeks and kept wiping them even it was obvious that he was crying.

"I-I'm sorry! I didn't mean to s-skip classes!" Yoongi tried explaining between his sobs.

"I know son, but that's not important right now. Why are you crying?"

He didn't respond.

"Where you embarrassed?"

He slowly nodded to the question.

"You can tell me what happened, son. I won't make fun of you." Mr. Jin stood up and sat on the piano seat. He patted the space beside him so Yoongi could sit beside him.

"Now tell me what happened so I can understand you better. Don't worry, you're not in trouble." He assured.

"W-Well...For Erin-noona's birthday, I gave her a hamster stuffed toy and banana milk."

"Why that's very sweet of you. Erin? As in the school guard?"

"Mhm." he nodded.

"I'm surprised that a student knows her birthday."

"I was the only student that greets her and talks to her. Until earlier, a girl in my class teased me about Erin-noona's birthday and said that she was my girlfriend."

"Did you fight back?" Jin asked anticipating a 'yes' from the boy. "Just kidding, what happened next?"

"She tried taking my bag to look for other gifts. I ran outside and slipped and tripped because the janitor was there. Then I ran all the way here and cried."

"I see why now." Jin patted Yoongi's back to comfort him. "Come with me to the faculty."

The boy sat frozen, staring at Jin. He couldn't believe what happened after everything Jin told him.

"Kid, you're not in trouble. Remember? My desk is a separate room since my spot gets noisy because I'm a music teacher. Let's do something about this in my office." Jin smiled at him.

Yoongi was relieved with this. Jin put his hand on Yoongi's back to lead him to his office.

"Sit on the seat there and then let's start."

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