Singularity | Vrene

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"Student can dismissed. Meet all of you in our next class." Mr Park said.

The students started to pick up their stuffs, some of them talked about where they want to have lunch, while the others ran out from the class.

But Joohyun was excluded. She continued writing her notes in the book, focusing as if the people around her didn't existed.

Once she finished it, she stood up and started to clean her table calmly.

Just like her usual routine, she walked to her locker alone, at the time when most students have already arrived at home. She put a few of her stuffs there. Checking if there is anything left behind, she froze for a second.

"Wait, where is it?" She mumbled, slipping her hands into her pocket carelessly.

"Are you searching for this?"

She turned to her right, only to see the same brown haired guy from this morning. He showed her name card, raising an eyebrow.

"How did you have it?" She asked.

"It slipped out from your pocket in the library when you fell. I wanted to give it to you, but you ran away." He explained.

She tried to take the card from his hand, but he quickly dodged away. She frowned, trying to grab it again, but failed. "And why don't you give me that back?"

"I can give you, but in a condition." He smiled, surprisingly not in a teasing way.

"What, and why do I need to obey you? That is my name card after all." She said in protest.

He shrugged, pouting his lips slightly. "Since you left this carelessly, and it is in my hand now."

He then walked closer to her before grabbing her wrist gently, bringing her with him. "Come on. I won't harm you."

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"Make sure to apply this ointment on your wounds and cuts every night until you could see the change." The nurse reminded.

Joohyun nodded, smiling at the older. They bid a thank you before getting out from the clinic.

"Feel better?" Taehyung asked, elbowed her slightly.

She turned to him. "Now give me my card. You've promised."

"Since when did I promise? I don't remember making any promise." He said. "By the way, you still have to follow me."

Joohyun gritted her teeth, feeling annoyed. "Are you just playing with me right now? I'm not that easy."

"I'm not playing with feelings for your information, Bae Joohyun." He said, before pulling her wrist once again.

She opened her mouth, but closed it right away. Her mind flashed the way he called her just now, and she suddenly felt unfamiliar tension in her stomach.

The next thing she knew, they're in a restaurant, and her stomach is growling. At the end, she made an assumption that the feeling she had earlier was affected by her hunger.

"Why did you bring me here?" She asked.

"You are surely have too many question, bae. Stop asking already." He said.

"Who told you that you can call me bae?" She asked, flustered.

"Question again." He shook his head. "Look, I want you to eat. You're so tiny that you can fell down even if a normal guy bump on you like in the library. And your wrist is like a bone, and I felt like I was holding a dead people when I grabbed your wrist."

She was taken aback for a moment, suddenly feeling his cares towards her.

She misses that kind of feeling, to be honest.

His orders arrived at their table, and she almost gulp at the sight.

He placed a plate of steak in front of her, handed a fork and a knife to her which she accepted gladly.

He looked at her for a while, before taking off her cap, and she almost yell at him. "Take this off, it is distracting me."

"And why does it distracts you? It is me who wore it." She said, but just let him put the cap on the side.

"I want to see your beautiful face clearly." He said, before putting a slice of steak in his mouth.

She blushed, but quickly shrugged it away. "You're such a flirt." She murmured.

"Are you sure I can eat this?" She asked unsurely, but her hand started cutting the steak.

He just smiled, and she took that as a yes. She started eating, and Taehyung just can't help feeling happier when she enjoyed the food.

She ate as if she didn't have any food for a month, and it just makes him more curious about her.

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"Why don't you let me pay for my food? You're also treating me for the medicine before." She complained. "Why did you being so nice with me?"

"Is it wrong to be nice with a friend?" He asked, turning around out of a sudden.

Her face bumped on his chest, making her stumbled for a second. "Since when did I become your friend?" She murmured, slightly dazed as his scent hit her nose.

"Can't I?"

"Anyway, return my card." She said.

But why does her inner self hope that he will not return it, at least for now?

"Fine." He said, taking out the card from his pocket, before handing it to her.

She looked at it for a second, hesitated. She took it, sighing unknowingly. "T-thank you."

"Take care of yourself. Since you don't want to be my friend, then I guess we will act like nothing happened after this. But for sure, I do this because I want to do this. Not because I want something in exchange or what. So, yeah, bye." He said.

"By the way, I'm Kim Taehyung, 21 years old, Business major student." He introduced himself, smiling warmly. "Just in case you need me later."

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