ᵐᵒᵒᵈʸ ᵒʳᵃⁿᵍᵉ﹙ kim jungwoo.﹚

next.

he remembered the day after.

never in kim jungwoo's life has he ever felt the embarrassment of walking into the front doors of his high school and never once has he ever taken the walk of shame down the hallways and into his homeroom, but right about now he could cross all that out on his bucket list in equal amount of shame and embarrassment.

it was unusual for jungwoo to be the center of talk when it wasn't about how he'd either gave the lunch ladies a batch of cookies he cooked the night before or about how lucas dragged him into doing something almost as stupid and puerile as lucas himself. and even then, none of the students had given him a look of disgust because they all knew he was the type of person that wouldn't do anything too bad or even hurt anybody.

it was different this time - very, very different and jungwoo knew it. not even the lunch ladies made eye contact with him, instead giving icy looks directed at his back when he turned around. he had to pretend not to notice that they forgot to give him his extra milk carton.

this is all stupid hayoon's fault, jungwoo thought bitterly, if doing a good deed and trying to make someone's life easier gets me to be the pervert of the school, then i'm never doing this shit again.

jungwoo shook his head in anger at hayoon's attempt (that completely succeeded) to make him seem less than what everyone saw him as. after his mishap in the girl's bathroom the day before with joy, hayoon had walked in (mid-one-sided-hug?) and had completely lost her head.

at first, she just stared in shock: jungwoo couldnt decide if it was for the fact that there was a boy in the girl's bathroom, if it was because he was hugging joy, or if joy's presence in general set her off wrong. jungwoo decided that choice a through choice c was the best option.

but, the moment hayoon realized her position, she unzipped her bag calmly and completely went haywire with some crumpled up pad stuffed in the first pocket. jungwoo wanted to ignore the entire fact that joy's hypothesis from prier was actually happening, but it had to have been too much of a coincidence. or the fact that he was being beaten to death and discomfort with a feminine product.

joy had just chuckled, patted his shoulders that were shaking and jolting from trying to dodge the girl's attacks and hits, before walking off after drying her hands. jungwoo was in complete shock and disbelief.

i just helped that asshole, or at least tried to, and she just fucking leaves me here to fend for myself against this oompla loompa - that bastard.

it only took him about 10 minutes to calm hayoon down and to finally convince her to put down the pad, explaining to her what actually happened. even after an explanation, hayoon still didnt believe him, or maybe she did and was just another asshole as well, and told the school he was trying to get in both her's and joy's pants.

"this entire school is filled with assholes," jungwoo mumbles, plopping down with his trey on a vacant picnic table in courtyard. he looked around, trying to spot lucas in the small crowd around him, but only met with multiple girls looking at him in disgust. some even going as far as calling him a pervert and giving him the finger. jungwoo just rolled his eyes and gave it back.

there goes the years i spent building up my innocent reputation.

lucas came running and shoving through everyone, making his way to jungwoo's table, just five minutes later. he ignored all the hard stares and mumbles of distaste, sitting next to jungwoo and holding out a hand - a high five.

"dude, mad respect for trying to get with not one, but two girls at the same time. i knew you were a horn dog deep down; just took you long enough to realize. and, damn, confidence is key, especially having enough to walk straight into the girl's bathroom like that," lucas hollered, hand still raised. he had absolute no shame for making this situation worse than what it was.

jungwoo groaned and dropped his head into his hands. why was lucas the most annoying person in the world?

"i am not giving you a high five for this, yukhei."

lucas lowered his hand and smacked him on the shoulder. "first of all, don't call me that. second of all, take this very bad oopsies and make it into a, um, i dont know, yepsies?" lucas paused and jungwoo rolled his eyes. "whatever, just be glad it's not all that bad."

jungwoo's eyes almost popped out of their sockets as he stared at lucas in disbelief.

"this is the biggest thing that has happened to me since fourth grade when i shit myself in the classroom when someone brought their lizard to school. i think this is a very big deal, yukhei."

all lucas did was laugh and nodded to jungwoo's food, wanting permission to eat it. he grabbed it anyway, not even waiting for confirmation and stuffed the sandwich in his mouth.

jungwoo got up and grabbed his packpack, swinging it over his shoulder.

"im heading to class. see you later, i guess. or not."

walking to his next period was absolute hell. hayoon managed to make the football team give jungwoo pats on the back and thumbs up. he got respect out of supposedly being a pervert and "harassing" girls in the bathroom.

that's so fucked up.

this was all fucked up and jungwoo swore the next time he saw hayoon he'd punch her in the nose and then make her have surgery on it again.

he didn't prepare to see joy instead of hayoon on his way to class. jungwoo thanked the god's above for giving him a chance to properly apologize to her after everything that happened. even if none of this was his fault, he couldn't help but think otherwise.

"oh, uh, hi, joy. i just wanted to say im so sorry for being nosy yesterday and i know i should have left you alone, but i guess i was just trying to be a good person and make someone a little happy. and i know it wasn't my place to do so, but, um, im sorry, " jungwoo paused his rambling to catch his breath a little, "so, just- do you accept my apology?"

"all im hearing is that you wanted good karma, so you tried to make me feel better, and then when it didn't work out, you tried to make it seem like you actually cared."

jungwoo's head shot up at this, no longer interested in his hands.

"wha- no, are you stup- where did you get any of that? im apologizing for dragging you into this stupid situation. are you serious?" jungwoo was furious at her response. she clearly didn't hear anything he said if she came to that conclusion.

joy scoffed and hiked her backpack higher up on her shoulder.

"fuck off before i tell everyone that what hayoon said was true and you were forcing me to do things."

and then she walked off.

jungwoo tried not to cry, but it was hard when it felt like the entire school was against him when he had done nothing wrong in the first place. so he let a tear slip before scrambling to class and wiping his face.

this school is most definitely filled with absolute assholes and oompa loompas.

━ a/n: wow, most words i've ever
written and they were all absolute crap. sorry for this disappointment, but i needed to update this story very badly. love you all !!