The Universe Makes Mistakes Sometimes - Replay

Dark Closets and Detentions

Jungwoo's head was throbbing. Every word that came out of Ten's mouth was like a sledge hammer to his brain, ricocheting through his skull.

"So I'm thinking I can rent out those strobe lights Johnny used at his last party? And maybe I can get a big banner of your face printed? This is your 'Welcome back to Consciousness!' party, after all!"

Ten just didn't stop.

Don't get him wrong, Jungwoo was grateful and all that Ten cared about him and wanted to throw a party for him, but just for one second, could he just SHUT UP?

"...and I just have to make sure the party will be better than any of Johnny's. Like, I get that he's cute, and has pretty lips, and great arms, and oh my God his thighs-"

"Just for one second will you shut up?!" Jungwoo finally snapped, his voice ringing out in the white science lab. He looked around unsteadily, seeing everyone looking back at him in surprise.

Jungwoo had never snapped like that before...but honestly, could you blame him?

Damn you, Shit-aphon Leechaiya-fucking-pornkul.

"Kim Jungwoo," Mrs Culler, Jungwoo's science professor, said apologetically, "I get that you've had...injuries, but please. Do not interrupt my lessons."

Jungwoo sighed and nodded and he moon-faced woman.

Now look what you've done, Ten.

And for five, wonderful, blissful, heavenly minutes, there was silence in the classroom, except from the soft voice of Mrs Culler.

It was strange...hearing her voice was oddly soothing...it was like a voice he'd heard before. But Jungwoo couldn't quite put his finger on it. It was a voice that stirred up something strange inside him...something that seemed old, much older than Jungwoo himself. What was it...

"Okay, okay, back to Johnny. Like, I'm kinda hoping we could hook up at the party, I'm pretty sure he's into me, ha ha, of course he's into me, who wouldn't be into me, dude, have you seen my body-"

Once again, Chittaphon was making Jungwoo's head throb. And he'd been so close to remembering that voice...

"FOR GOD-DAMNED SAKE, TEN, I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT WHO YOU WANT TO BANG!" Jungwoo yelled.

Gasps erupted throughout the lab, accompanied by wide eyes and whispers.

'So uncharacteristic of him...'

'Do you think the accident affected his personality...?'

'And he used to be such a soft bean...'

"Kim Jungwoo! I let you off once, but I can't let you off a second time! Especially after using such vulgar language! Detention, Mr Kim, tonight after school!"

Jungwoo sighed.

He rarely got detention...and never for disrupting class...usually just for skipping gym with Ten.

Speaking of Ten...

Fuck you.

~~~

Yukhei's cheeks were flushed.

The girl pressed beside him began to slip her pearly-white buttons into the holes of her blouse, hiding her chest from his view once again. She wrapped her skirt around her waist, tightening it before rolling it up to her thighs.

Yukhei pressed a hand to his sweat-slicked forehead.

Damn. That was hot.

There was just something about making out in the janitor's closet that just added a little something to the experience.

"Hmm...maybe we should do this again sometime," the girl said, intentionally making her voice higher to seem appealing to Yukhei.

Honestly, Yukhei thought she sounded ridiculous. He didn't get why some guys wanted their girls to sound like prepubescent screaming chicken...

Weird.

Yes, the experience had been great, Yukhei had to admit. But there just weren't any feelings involved...not that feelings were ever involved.

But Yukhei just didn't feel any sexual attraction to her.

She wasn't his type.

Maybe it was how her hair was short like a guy's, or how she just kept giggling all the time like a broken Build A Bear stuffed animal, or maybe it was the fact that it seemed as if she'd never met a tissue in her life...that or she had chronic booger problems.

It was really only the thrill of the janitor's closet that had pushed Yukhei into making out with her. The tight space, the dark lighting, those sexual broomsticks, and the fact that they could get caught at any moment...

Speaking of getting caught...

"Mr Wong, Miss Slate! What do you think you are doing?!"

Yukhei and Veruca Slate looked at one another, and then back at the middle-aged balding principal.

The principal looked between them, at Yukhei's mussed-up hair, at Veruca's half-buttoned shirt, at their swollen lips...he didn't need an answer from them.

"Get back to your lessons at once!"

"Actually, history was cancelled today...the teacher was sick," Veruca said in that ridiculously fake Barbie voice of hers.

"That does not allow you to engage in such activities! That will be detention for both of you after school! And lines, every day for the next to weeks. I'll expect every lot on my desk by eight in the morning."

"Eight AM?!" Yukhei gasped, "Sir but that's-"

"Before school hours? You should've thought about that before you decided to make out during school hours. And in the building no less! Now out of the closet, out!"

~~~

Brian looked out of the door of the science lab, watching as a tall male figure and smaller female figure were pushed along by a large, balding man - their principal.

By the looks of it, they'd been doing some...not-so-innocent things, and had gotten caught.

Definitely detention.

Brian looked a few rows behind him at the pale figure of Kim Jungwoo slumped on his desk.

So they both got detention? Interesting...

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I'm so sorry I haven't updated in a while! Thank you so much for getting the first book to 5k!!!!! I love you all so much ❤️❤️

Who remembers what went down in the storage closet/janitor's closet previously???

Also, Yukhei just came out of the closet 😏😏

Brian isn't a creep, he swears.