Jackson's mouth dropped open. The one he'd been dared to befriend and stalk was right there. Mark Tuan, in the flesh. Jackson was stunned. Mark was a lot better looking in person - well compared to the low quality picture Yugyeom had showed him anyway.
"Sit" Mr Do's voice boomed, causing Mark to scurry quickly to his seat, a couple of rows behind Jackson. Well shit Jackson thought, I can't watch him from this seat.. that would be too obvious. Jackson's head was buzzing, trying to think of ways he could change where either of them were sitting so he could get a better view of the boy.
"Jackson?"
Shit
"Yes sir?" Jackson asked nervously, looking at the teacher who was staring back expectantly. He'd asked Jackson a question which he hadn't been listening to.
"Answer?"
"Um.. volcanoes?"
Mr Do shook his head, sighed and looked up at the rest of the class. "Anyone else?"
"Jaehyun?"
"I got 67,000"
"Correct.. Jackson - stay behind after class"
Jackson sighed and tried hard to listen to the rest of the lesson, but he couldn't stop thinking of the boy sitting a couple of rows behind him.
At the end of class, Jackson packed up quickly and waited by Mr Do's desk. He smiled at the students he knew walking past him and gave a high five to Jooheon as he walked past.
"Now," Mr Do started, "why- hold on. Mr Tuan, right? Why are you still in my classroom?" He asked, staring roundly at Mark who was still sitting in his seat with his head down. Silence. Jackson glanced at Mark then back to Mr Do. "Mark." Mr Do tried again, raising his voice a bit louder this time.
Jackson walked over to the boy, shaking his shoulder slightly. Mark, startled, looked up quickly and almost in shock as he looked up at the two confused faces in front of him.
A crease formed on Mr Do's forehead as he spoke, "You were sleeping.. in my class?"
Mark gulped and stuttered an answer, "I-I was- um I- I was just r-resting my eyes y-yeah" he said nervously, looking down at his fidgeting hands.
Mr Do sighed and brought his hand to his forehead, "Both of you- detention. For a week."
Jackson and Mark both sighed before leaving quickly before their teacher gave them more punishments ( wink )
Jackson turned to Mark as they left Mr Do's classroom. "So.. um, why haven't I seen you around before? You are in my year right? I don't think I even knew you existed."
Mark looked at Jackson with a confused expression. "You mustn't be too observant." He said simply before turning and walking away. Jackson raised his eyebrows and made his way to the canteen, where Yugyeom and Youngjae were waiting.
"What's up bitches?" Jackson said with a smirk as he sat down at their table. "Yugyeom has a crush on Bambam~" Youngjae said casually as he stared lovingly across the canteen, his eyes resting on Jaebum. Jackson made a mock face of disgust before laughing at Yugyeoms mock hurt face. "Really yugs? It's been like an hour," Jackson said with a small chuckle. "You're so gay." He said with a laugh before he felt a weak hit to his head. "AND WHATS WRONG WITH BEING GAY?" Jinyoung whisper yelled at Jackson before sitting beside him. "IM GAY YOU KNOW" Jinyoung continued, before sighing and opening his bag to get some crisps out (crisps=chips for u American peeps okok)
"You're all gay. I feel like I'm the only straight person left on this earth." Jackson said with a shake of his head. See, all of his friends were openly gay, and Jackson just wasn't sure of himself so for now he just said he was straight, it seemed simpler. He had felt attracted to both girls and boys before but had only ever actually dated girls so.. he just didn't know.
Jackson was so lost in his own thoughts he almost didn't hear the bell ring for his next class. The boys packed up their stuff and made their way to their next classes. Yugyeom had history which was near Jackson's ICT class, so they walked together. "You okay man? You seem a bit.. distant?" Yugyeom asked, the last part almost sounding like a question also. "Yeah I'm fine.. just wondering how to actually 'stalk' Mark.." Jackson lied, putting a smile on yugyeom's face almost instantly. "First off, you gotta find out what classes he has, whether that's asking him or asking someone else.. heck actually, you could ask reception."
Jackson gave yugyeom a what-are-you-talking-about-you-weirdo look before saying simply, "They won't tell me anything about him because it's confidential, duh." Yugyeom raised his eyebrows, "look, Jackie, you're chinese, the weird Male receptionist is chinese, use your china powers.. I'm sure you'll figure out something... haha gotta go-" Yugyeom said before dipping into his class.
"Great." Jackson muttered under his breath before making his way to his class. The class passed slowly, with the only interesting thing being Jaebum being told off for looking at dodgy websites on the school computers. Soon enough it was time for lunch, but Jackson didn't want to go straight to the canteen so he went to the bathroom first. Mark was washing his hands so jackson walked over and started washing his hands too. Mark gave Jackson a weird look before leaving the bathroom. "What kind of freak doesn't dry their hands after they wash them?" Jackson said to himself in the mirror before shaking his head. He could already tell this Mark guy was a strange one.
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Sorry this took so long to get up I've had exams and stuff.. whoopsies
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