the gifts / bae jinyoung

5

Chapter 5

I decided to put the box back inside the locker and locked it.

I walked into the class, straight towards the first desk in our class and asked, "Do you know about the marshmallows?"

"Huh? What marshmallows?" he was looking so confused. "So it's not you, then." I bit my lower lip and walked to my own seat.

That guy earlier was Na Jaemin. The reason why I asked him is because he used to have a crush on me when we were in middle school. I did reject him, but it was just a puppy love or whatever it is so it doesn't really matter anymore.

But if it's not him then, who?

"Why were you talking to him?" I heard a voice coming from the seat beside me.

Bae Jinyoung The Great decided to talk to me again, huh?

"Just stuff, you know." I replied with a sigh.

"Oh, actually I-" Baejin started, but before he could finish his sentence, the teacher came in with a bunch of papers.

"Okay, class! Put everything except your calculator and pencil case aside. We're gonna do a pop quiz."

"But, sir! We didn't get to study anything!" said a guy with a thick glasses.

"That's the point of pop quiz, silly!" Mr. Lee said and took some of the papers from his desk. "Alright, pass these papers to your friends. You only have 45 minutes to answer all the questions. And, you can start now."

The whole class was a chaos. Some people were whining, some shouting, and some were passing the papers.

As soon as I got the paper, I wrote down my name and class and proceeded to the first question. Alright, even the first question needs a calculator.

I began to search for my calculator everywhere but I could not find it. I sighed and let my head fall onto the desk.

"What's wrong?" Baejin asked. Since when did he become so concerned, eh?

"I forgot my calculator! I'm doomed!" I sighed again in frustration.

"You can have mine!" he took out his calculator from his bag and handed it to me without looking at my face.

"Huh? What about you?" I asked. He bit his lower lip before looking up to me, shaking his head. "I'm fine. I don't really need it."

Is this guy serious???

"No, but really. You need-" I said but was cut off. "I don't! Hurry up and take it! You only have 30 minutes left!" he raised his voice and put the calculator on my desk.

Geez. I decided to take the calculator and continued on with the quiz.

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After marking the papers by ourselves, I let out a small laugh when I looked at my score.

40%. As expected.

"For those who got below 70%, you better do something about it because tomorrow, we'll be doing the same thing. But, with different questions." the teacher said and the whole class groaned.

I peeked to look at Baejin's score.

84%! How the heck. He didn't even use the calculator!

I was still shocked until I felt someone tapping my shoulder. I looked up to find Bae Jinyoung looking at me, with a worried expression.

"Are you alright? What did you get?" he asked and tried to look at my papers but i snatched it and shoved it under my desk.

No way in hell I'm gonna let him look at my marks.

"Not good. I mean, bad. Like, really bad." I said and hid my face with my palms.

"What are you gonna do about tomorrow?" he asked again.

Why is he still talking to me????

"I don't know, okay? I think I'm just gonna do the quiz over and over again. I don't really care anymore." I sighed.

"You know... I could... help. If you want."

I could not believe what I just heard and the only thing that got out from my mouth was, "Huh?"

"You know, like, private tutoring?" he raised an eyebrow. "Just until you get to 70%!" he added.

Well yeah, of course.

A tutor wouldn't hurt, right?

"Deal." I said and smiled.

He just gave me a nod and went back to his work.

...Okay, he's still the same old Jinyoung.

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just a filler, i guess?? by the way, the girl in the picture is clc's eunbin. feel free to imagine her as choi minkyung.