misunderstood || bts x red velvet

➣ Fifty Four

5 days later.

"I don't get it." Seulgi repeated for the millionth time. "I know I said not to tell me the answers to all the questions but maybe could you tell me just this one?"

Taehyung sighed and dropped his hand from his forehead to the table, the huge surface area of his palm creating a colossal slap sound on the wooden surface. Several people threw him sharp glares but the boy didn't notice and only turned to his oblivious friend.

"Seulgi I told you I'm not going to tell you the answers." The ravenette slumped in her seat and dropped her elbows onto the table and her head in her hands. Taehyung sighed, "You're a smart girl Seulgi. You can do this."

"I. Don't. Get it." Her phone vibrated in her jeans pocket and she pulled it out to see yet another text from Joy asking her to go out for lunch. Seulgi rolled her eyes and shoved the phone back in its place before focusing back on Taehyung.

"Do you wanna stop?" He asked tentatively, aware of the stress that was currently pounding through her veins.

"Yes." She blurted, melting onto the table in a mess of maths. Then she lifted her head again. "And no. Yes and no. I feel like I'm gonna explode but..."

"Mhmm?" Taehyung pressed.

"But I'm so dumb!" A wave of shush's and giggles erupted throughout the library and a red blush began creeping into Seulgi's cheeks before she flopped down again, to stressed to care about embarrassment. "Can you explain it to me again. Please."

Taehyung inhaled deeply and then, "no."

Seulgi snapped her head up and her brown knitted together in confusion and fury at the same time. "What? What do you mean no? Do you want me to fail? You promised you'd tutor me!"

"Can you shut up?" A student hissed from a nearby table and Seulgi spun around to send a glare to the boy with boxy glasses that she identified as Seungmin.

"Gi." Taehyung placed his hands on her limp arms and she turned to him again. "You're all burnt out. We've been sitting in here for 3 hours and believe me, you've gotten loads done, but you need to stop."

"I-" She sighed and melted into her hoodie puddle again. "Fine," She mumbled into her sleeves, "But we're coming back tomorrow."

"Giiiii~" Taehyung trailed quietly, patting her arm, afraid of what her reaction would be to his next question. "Why did you ask me? There are loads of way smarter people than me."

"You're one of the smartest people I know Tae." A person popped up into her mind and she quickly swatted the thought away but Taehyung already saw the glazed over, distant look in her eyes. She snapped out of her thoughts and saw Taehyung struggling to hide his smirk.

"Seulgi-"

"No." Her tone was as firm as she could get it but she could feel the unsure waver in there. "No." She said with a harsher edge.

"Why not? He's smarter than me." Taehyung tried putting his hands on her arms again but she just snatched them away and crossed them in front of her chest. He laughed and leaned back in his chair, his slightly tanned arms crossing behind his head of soft, ash grey hair.

"You know if you didn't want to help me you could've just told me." She pouted and began packing her books away.

"Seulgi," Taehyung sighed before letting out a soft laugh, "Of course I want to help you. I'll help you with anything, but, I'm just not the best at helping. There are people smarter than me that can help you recover what you've forgotten. I'm not saying it to make fun of you, I'm saying it to help you. If the person wasn't Jimin, I would send you to them."

"Whatever." She shrugged her backpack on and the two left the building imagining how relieved the students that were left in there were.

"Hey-"

"You know Tae," She began, a small smirk playing on her lips, "I think I know who can help me."

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Half an hour later, Jin opened his apartment door to a frazzled ravenette.

"Can I... help you?" Her bangs were frizzy and the rest of her hair was thrown up into a messy, messy bun.

"Is Namjoon home?" She asked with a small smile.

"Yeah." Jin stepped aside and let Seulgi walk in and as she slipped her slides off he screamed a very loud, "NAMJOON GET YOUR ASS OUT OF YOUR ROOM YOU HAVE A GUEST!"

Seconds later, the peach haired man stepped from the bedroom hallway and into the massive living room, a bookmarked paperback in his hand as well as a pair of boxy glasses resting on the bridge of his nose.

"Jin, how many times do I have to tell you, you don't have to scream that loud to get my attention." He then spied the young girl with a tattered backpack in the doorway. "Oh hey Seulgi, did you need me?"

"Yeah. Sorry for disturbing your weekend. Congrats on graduating." She smiled before stepping into the living room to sit on the smallest two-seater sofa.

"It's no problem really, and thanks. I'm missing that cobblestone building already." He sat down on the single armchair across from her and put his book down on the glass coffee table between them. "What do you need?"

"Well, I asked Taehyung to tutor me, and he was successful for the first three hours, but then he told me to stop because I'm 'all burnt out', so-"

"Stop." Seulgi froze, her lips open into an awkward 'o' at the surprise. "So Taehyung managed to tutor someone? Huh. I'm proud."

"Well yeah-"

"Also, if you're burnt out, then you should really stop. I can sense you're here to ask me for help, but you need to relax first. You're not going to be able to absorb the information and the tutoring would just be a waste of time." He sighed as her shoulders drooped. "Come back tomorrow morning. For now, just go and chill. Spend some time with Jimin."

Her heart stopped in her chest at the name.

Lately she'd been around Taehyung and the girls, and they were aware of her situation with memory, but the rest of the guys didn't know.

She swallowed down the shock and smiled.

"I'll go and chill. But I will be back." She picked her bag up once again and stood at the same time as Namjoon and the two headed to the front door together.

"When's your first exam?" He asked while unlocking the heavy front door.

"In two weeks. I'm taking them during the last week of school which sucks big time since everyone else is going to be spending that week not caring about anything the teacher says. I love the last week of school. But I have to do the stupid exams." She rolled her eyes just as Jin's head popped out from the kitchen archway.

"Going so soon?" He smiled. He was wearing that signature apron again.

"Yeah. Everyone's telling me to chill."

"Well then, go chill." Jin winked before slipping back into the kitchen.

"It sucks." She sighed and Namjoon smiled before placing a friendly hand on her shoulder.

"I'm sorry about the amnesia. But I'd choose that over..." He trailed off and dropped his hand to his side.

"Death? Yeah. Me too." Only a handful of people knew about the real extent of her amnesia, but most people knew that she had it and slightly less people knew that she'd forgotten a lot of the crucial things that were going to appear in the exams.

When she stepped out of the wealthy building, she spun to her right and joined the busy streets as she walked home.

Time to spend time with Jimin.