Seventeen Family

|| Twenty Two ||

Jihoon's POV

   In my last class, Soonyoung sat behind me. I got so nervous wanting to look back.

"Good afternoon, class." The teacher said at the end of the class. "Now I know it's only the second week of school, but I'm going to assign a project."

Everyone sighed and complained.

"But because it's so early in the school year for this, I'll be easy on you and I'll even let you choose your own partners." The teacher announced and the atmosphere in the room lightened. "Pick up a rubric here before you leave."

"Let's be partners." Seokmin said.

"Sure." I replied.

The bell rang and I everyone went to get a rubric from the teachers desk before leaving the classroom. Once I got a copy for myself the teacher stopped me and Seokmin.

"I know you guys probably wanted to work together." He said. "But I'd really prefer it if you would work with someone else besides your own brother."

"Oh. Okay." I agreed.

"Thank you." The teacher added before we left the classroom.

"Oh well." Seokmin shrugged. "We can find other partners."

"Yeah." I replied. "You can go to the front with the others and wait for mom and dad to come pick us up. I have to go to my locker."

"K" he smiled and made his way to the front of the school.

I went to my locker and put my textbooks away. I needed to find my pencil case then I realized it was on the top shelf in my locker.

"Great." I murmured to myself.

I went on my tip toes and reached for it. Then I tried climbing but I failed. I was still reaching for it when someone else grabbed my pencil case and handed it to me.

I blushed and looked away.

"Uh, thanks." I croaked.

"No problem." He giggled. I stared up at him and studied his features. His the way his eyes almost disappeared when he smiled, his brown hair hanging perfectly over his forehead, and the fact that he was quite a bit taller than me.

I snapped out of my daze.

"T-Thanks. I couldn't reach it." I blushed.

"I know, I saw." He smiled. "I was wondering if you wanted to be partners for that project."

"Partners? P-Project? What project?" I babbled, mentally face palming myself because I sounded dumb.

"The one in fourth period. You know?"

"Oh yeah. Whoops."

"I just thought since we have all our classes together, it would be easier to manage our time to work together." He explained.

My heart kind of sank. He only wanted to be my partner because of that. Not because he wanted to hang out with me.

"Of course. Sounds good." I prattled.