Not So Different, Are We?

2~Junhong

Junhong opened his eyes to the sound of his alarm, and only that sound. It had become pretty strange for him to wake up in his own bed to almost complete silence since it rarely ever happened because of his parents' constant arguing and shouting in the morning. His parents had gone out of town for a few days, leaving him the house to himself, and he was pretty upset that today was the last day of this month's trip, but still glad he wouldn't be home as they were arriving back home. It wasn't like he didn't like his parents, he did. He loved them very much, they just got into arguments over stupid things all the time.

He sat up and stretched, turning off his alarm and standing up. He got dressed, got his things and walked out to the living room, where he sat his things down and went to the kitchen to make something, his brain making the ultimate decision that he wanted some cereal. He poured himself a bowl and sat down at the counter to eat, setting his phone down on the counter as well. His phone screen lit up and the touch screen device began ringing as his friend Jongup's contact photo showed up. He picked up the phone, answering with a garbled "hello?" Followed by more crunching from his cereal.

"Well, at least now I know you're actually up." Junhong heard a chuckle from the other line. "You want a ride? You're obviously not catching the bus and we're running late."

Junhong shoved another spoonful of cereal into his mouth, this time to deliberately bother Jongup (he knew it was working from the annoyed groan coming from him). "Sure, when are you guys leaving?" *crunch crunch*

Jongup could barely understand what the hell Junhong was saying but managed to find the question somewhere in that garbled nonsense. The crunching annoyed him too, as it was extremely loud and obnoxious over the phone. "About five minutes or so."

"Alright. I'll *crunch crunch* see you there. Just let me know when you get here. Bye." He hung up the phone and set it down again, finishing his cereal after a couple minutes, washing the bowl and moving to the couch to sit down.

After a few minutes, Junhong heard the knock on his door and got up to open it. Jongup peeked inside the house behind Junhong. "Your parents aren't home yet?"

Junhong shook his head and grabbed his things before following Jongup out the door and to his car. "They're coming back a little later today." the two got into the car, and Junhong greeted Jongup's parents as they drove the two teens the short distance to the school.

They got out of the car and walked inside the school, greeting their normal group of friends before hurrying to their lockers because they had gotten there two minutes before the final bell for class to start rung.

Now it was Junhong's turn to stumble into class right as the bell rang, literally tripping over his own feet and nearly falling if he didn't have good balance from being a dancer.

"You alright there Junhong..? One of the students asked him, an amused smile on her face.

"Yes, I'm fine. Long legs." He muttered back. The whole class started chuckling at him; not a rude chuckle, like a genuine laugh because the response was quite humorous to them. A certain pink-haired boy was even covering his mouth to suppress a small chuckle he wanted to let out.

"Please take your seat, Junhong," the teacher said, a smile on her face as well.

Junhong made his way to his seat, smiling and whispering a quick "good morning" to his tablemates as he sat down.

Taehyung and Jungkook responded with simple "hello"s and Jihoon waved at him silently, his eyes crinkling up to show a friendly expression since he was still covering his mouth.

Class started and they were instructed to do group work, to make a poster explaining one element of literature they'd learned about through the last week, and present the next day in class. They all agreed Jihoon wouldn't have to be one of the people to present since he was new, so they all agreed to have him and Junhong do all the writing, and the other two present. They decided to get to work, and they did just that.