Dont Forget Me|| Park Jimin

~24~

Once we were off the school premises I turned towards the direction of my house only to be stopped by Hoseok's hand holding on my arm.

"Hey you didn't think that we'd just go our separate ways did you?"

"Well yeah kind of" I say shrugging. "You can let go of my arm you know" I say shaking my arm.

"Oh yeah" he says letting go of my arm and wiping his hands on his pants.

"So then what do you want us to do?" I ask raising my eyebrows.

"Well it's someone's birthday soon, and your going to help me find a gift for her" he says smiling broadly.

"Um... Dude I don't know you, like at all. I've only ever seen you in class reading or working "

His expression falls slightly at my statement before he adjusts his glasses and begins to talk.

" Well if you help me then you'd know me and it wouldn't be a problem would it?" He say raising an eyebrow. "Just come on" he says softly "Please" he adds in a tone that's just above a whisper.

"Fine" I say with a sigh.

"Thanks!" He says clapping his hands.

"But I'm calling the police if you try anything! And I don't think that I'm going to be much help since I don't know the person." I say as we make our way to mall.

We walk in awkward silence for a few minutes before he breaks it by speaking.

"You do actually know the person" he says while rubbing the back of his neck.

"Oh really? Who is it?" I ask fiddling with the straps on my bag.

"It's um... It's Soorae" he says looking down at his feet.

"Oh really?"

"Yeah, and I really want to get her something great, maybe just maybe , then she'll stop pushing me away" he says before sighing and looking up the sky wistfully.

"Okay I know it may seem stupid or whatever, but I really really really like her. I know that I may not be the best looking guy in school, heck I'm not even close and I'm seen as nerd or whatever because I wear glasses and my dad's the algebra teacher but its not my fault that I have bad eyesight and have no friends!" He says beginning to raise his voice as his frustration with himself grows and his fists begin to ball up at his side's.

He takes a deep breath to calm himself down and let's his hands run through his hair before continuing.

"You know something? When you first came here I thought that you would be different, I thought that you wouldn't buy into whatever the 'ringers' were selling but you did and then after I saw you with Raya and Soorae on your first day here, I knew that there was no saving you" he casually says slightly hurting my feelings.

"Then after that I kinda hated you, because Soorae actually paid attention to you. Before you came she never talked to anyone, no matter how hard I tried she just wouldn't. Then you come along and she's all chatty" he says scoffing a little at the end and looking down at his feet expressionless.

"Um... Hoseok?"

"Yeah" he mumbles.

"I'm sorry but... Why are you telling me all this?"

"I don't know actually, but it felt good to get that off my shoulders. I'm sure this is going to be a huge shock for you but I don't really have anyone to talk to" he says rolling his eyes at his own sarcasm.

I laugh lightly.

"Well I'm glad that you've expressed how much you hate me" I say before laughing a little more.

"I don't hate you, I'm just mad at myself for thinking that I could actually make a friend" he says shrugging making me feel a little bad for him.

"Well that doesn't mean that we can't be in the future" I say trying make both of us feel a little better.

"Yeah I guess it doesn't"

"Oh quick question, what is a ringer exactly?" I ask.

"Huh?"

"Well you said that you hoped that I wouldn't buy into whatever the ringers were selling. So who or what is it?"

"Oh, that's just a nickname I came up with for the assholes that sit in the middle ring" he says shrugging.

"Oh, that's actually pretty clever" I say before laughing and he joins me.

"They're not all bad though" I say after I finish laughing.

"You're only saying that because they're nice to you"

"Really? Did you really just say that they're nice to me?" I say laughing in disbelief.

"That Namjoon guy put me in the hospital!"

"Oh yeah I saw that" Hoseok says laughing.

"Wait you were there?" I ask because I honestly cannot remember seeing him at that party and I just didn't think that he'd be into that kinda scene.

"Yeah, well Jennie's my cousin so I just kind of crash her parties whenever I feel like it because I know that she can't kick me out or anything"

Well I've never met Jennie , but from what I hear she seems to be popular, probably a ringer.

"Oh please don't tell me that you're going to act like my best friend now just so you can get close to her?" He says with distaste.

"What? No! That's not what I was thinking at all!" I say gesturing with my hands that that's not what I thinking about.

"Oh okay, just don't tell anyone that she's my cousin, I'm not that desperate for company" he says chuckling.

"Oh look there's the mall" he says pointing towards the large building in the distance and picking up his pace.

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Oh my word I literally just wrote an entire chapter of just them walking 😂😂
I'll try and get my ideas across in less words so that the story can actually get somewhere in the future!!😂😂

Well bye❤