Stalemate // BTS JIKOOK

Chapter 4 - Invitation

The math, science, and language arts teacher all came one after another but I couldn't focus on anything other than Jungkook and what he said. My thoughts kept drifting off and one teacher had even called me out for "daydreaming", something that never happened in my time as the top of the class and the class president. 

Tae Tae looked at me with a worried expression after the class was dismissed for lunch.

"Are you okay, Jiminnie?" he asked, standing next to my desk. "It isn't like you to forget what page we're on and make simple mistakes like this." 

"Yeah," Hobi said, turning around and sitting in his chair backwards. "Is something bothering you? You must be really stressed out like you said."

Jungkook stood up, scraping the chair against the floor in a squeak and catching my attention. I stared at him for the longest time and he did the same as Hobi looked back and forth between us.

"Yah, are you guys having a staring contest or what?" he said, laughing nervously. "Scary~"

"Yeah~" Tae Tae said, agreeing and putting his arm around Hobi. "By the way, do you want to have lunch with us Kookie?" 

I looked at him in disbelief. He can't be serious... 

But he was.

"Kookie?" Jungkook questioned, raising an eyebrow. 

"Yup! From now on you're Kookie," Tae Tae announced with a smile.

"But shouldn't we ask the other guys first if he can come with us?" I suggested, trying to find a reason to not have Jungkook join us.

I didn't know what could happen with him around.

"Ay~ it'll be fine. Kookie's new so we should show him around. I'm sure they'll like him," he replied positively. "Let's go!"

He pulled me up and I followed reluctantly as Jungkook slowly went after us. I looked back, meeting his eyes and then looking away. 

I just couldn't figure out what he was thinking...

"Oi Kookie, hurry up! The lines are going to get long if we keep dawdling," Hobi yelled, already accustomed to Jungkook's newly formed nickname. He traveled back towards him, walking with him up to us. 

Tae Tae and Hobi chattered away with Jungkook but I couldn't find any words to say or ask. I was afraid of what he would say instead.

"But why did you transfer Kookie?" Hobi asked. 

This was a question I wanted to hear answered.

"...I didn't transfer from another school, I just enrolled into here late. There was something on my mind so I didn't enroll right away but I came here to resolve it," he said, surprisingly answering in a serious manner.