Serendipity 2 JHope and Jimin

Part 3

Jimin

"Right Jimin you're next"

My dance teacher pointed to the scales in front of her, and I took a deep breath before hopping on, I had worked really hard this week, I had hardly eaten a thing, and I'd exercised so much more than usual, so I was hoping to see some results.

"You've lost two kilos. Right next"

"Two kilos? That cant be right? Are you sure?"

"Next"

"Do it again check it again?"

"NEXT!" she yelled out frowning at me

I climbed off the scales and went to get showered and changed. I was so disappointed in myself that I had a bitter taste in my mouth, and I just wanted to go home and hide in my room. What did I have to do to lose some weight? What the hell was it going to take? I walked home slowly, dragging my feet, I was in no hurry to get home and have to push my dinner around my plate under my mother's scrutiny, or get yet another lecture about my grades from my father.It started to rain on the way home, and of course I had no umbrella, so I was soaked before I was even half way. As soon as I got in the door my brother started

"What happened to you?"

"It's raining idiot, what do you think happened?"

"Dunno, thought you might have got wet crying in the toilets at school again"

I swiped him over the head with my backpack and walked past him and up the stairs. It had been only one time, and I had just had a really bad day, and couldn't hold the tears in, but of course Sehun and his friends would have to have been the ones to come in and see me like that. It was all over the school in less than a day. I sat on my bed and thought about Sehun, I had no idea why he hated me so much, we used to be best friends. We met on our first day of school when we were five, and our friendship had continued until our first day of high school. Over the holidays we hadn't seen a lot of each other which was unusual, and when I had tried to see him he always made excuses. Then as soon as school started back, he ignored me totally and started hanging out with a bunch of losers, who did nothing but bully other kids. I had tried to ask him what I had done wrong, but he just told me to piss off and walked away. Still ignoring me was better that what he did now, the bullying, the teasing, and pushing around, hurt more that I cared to admit even to myself sometimes.

"Dinner Jimin"

I heard my mum call from downstairs. I sighed and got up, I changed my wet shirt before going down, it would only give my dad another reason to lecture me about not carrying an umbrella. I ran my fingers through my messy hair and went down, knowing I was facing trying not to eat under my mother's scrutiny for yet another evening.

JHope

When I woke the next morning, I felt a sliver of excitement in my stomach, but I couldn't figure out what it was I was excited about. I had very little to be excited about. Just the same boring humdrum existence every day. I showered and dressed, downed three more painkillers, and went into the kitchen for breakfast. Jiwoon was already in there with Yuna. They were at the kitchen table drinking coffee and whispering together.

"You're going to be late again Hoesok" my sister told me

"Nobody cares anyway Jiwoon, you know that. I could not turn up at all for the entire year, and they would still pass me with A's just to crawl up father's butt. "

"Not really the point though is it? "

"Good Morning Hoesok" Yuna greeted me

I gave her quick casual hey and poured my coffee. I sat down with them at the table and slowly sipped my drink. I was still running over the steps I kept messing up yesterday, when my sister interrupted my thoughts

"You better come straight him after school this afternoon too, mother and father should be back by then"

Now I remembered and realised that the excited feeling was because my parents were coming home today. I hadn't seen them in about two months, and I couldn't wait for them to get back. Jiwoon said my mother had mentioned my birthday, which was only a couple of weeks away, so maybe she had remembered just this once. Maybe she had cut back on the cocktails on this trip.

The three of us left for school together, the girls chatting together the whole time, and me lost in my thoughts again. I was trailing behind them slightly, and couldn't help but notice the way Yuna's hair shone in the sunshine, or how her hips swayed as she walked. She was very pretty, I bet her hair smelt great, I had never noticed before how long it was, reaching almost to her lower back. Stop it Hoesok. I gave myself a mental slap. You can't think about Yuna like that, she's Jiwoon's friend. What was wrong with me today? I needed to shake myself a little and get back into 'cool guy gives a shit about nothing' persona.' If my friends at school could read my mind right now, that image would be blown out of the water. Excited to see my parents, wondering about how a girl's hair smelt, they'd laugh themselves silly.

"Bye Hoesok" Yuna was leaving us to head to her own school

"Whatever" I waved my hand vaguely in her direction but didn't look up

"You don't have to hide it from me you know" Jiwoon said as we continued walking

"Hide what? "

"You like Yuna right?"

"PPPSSSHH No!...... Are you crazy?....... No way!"

"If you say so, but I thought I should tell you that she has a huge thing for some guy at her school "

"Why would I care" I sneered at my sister

"Whatever you say dear brother" she said rolling her eyes at me "Oh I almost forgot, and pulled her bag forward and started rummaging around in it. "Here it is. I saw this in town the other day and thought you might like it" and she handed a flyer for the dance competition.

"Yeah, I saw it the other day, why would I want that"

"I thought you might like to enter"

"No way its lame"

She sighed and put the flyer back in her bag. I could feel the pills kicking in as we neared the school gates, and I could see my friends standing around waiting for me. The drugs made me feel great, my friends not so much. As soon as I was near enough they ran up and greeted me slapping me on the back and generally making a lot of noise. I could see them all eyeing up my sister too, and felt like punching a couple of them when they made smart remarks to her.

"Don't forget come straight home after school" Jiwoon said before turning to go to her first class.

"Stop nagging I know all right"

My friends smiled at that, and we all went off to our lockers to get our books and things for our first class. I put my bag in my locker, grabbed the books I needed, and was about to lock it up when I remembered to get out my painkillers. My knee barely hurt at all today, but you never knew, and I didn't want to get go without them like I had yesterday.

"Yo Hoesok lets go" Youngjin called to me

"Right behind you dude"

I followed behind him to class, and couldn't help but notice that his hips swung when he walked just like Yuna's, and his hair was shiny too. I gave myself another mental slap, that's two before the first class. And I gave myself an extra one because Youngjin was a guy, and my best friend. What was happening to me? I sometimes had trouble keeping up my act at school, especially if I was tired or something, but I had a feeling today was going to be extra difficult to maintain. I sighed as I entered the classroom and took my seat ready for another boring class to begin.