Popularity | Taejin ✔︎

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Jin's P.O.V

I would be lying if I said I didn't love Tae-hyung, but at the same time I would be lying if I said I did. His personality struck me the most, he took care of himself and the courage to be honest no matter the situation. People want to be him, want to be friends with him and only the lucky people will be by his hip till graduation. When I started liking Tae-hyung I liked how popular he was. Everyone in the halls recognized him even if they were new. All lower classmen know Tae-hyung in both primary and secondary school. Do I love/like him because he is someone I've wanted to be? I don't think so...I don't see him as an idol but at the same time I am jealous. He has many people that love him yet don't know the real him and sadly I am one of those people. I have known Tae-hyung before secondary school, I have been there with him since the beginning. The sad part about it all is that until now Tae-hyung didn't know I existed.

Tae-hyung is popular and has been popular since he moved here. Something about him sparked up the room and everyone had to know why. Other than me everyone wanted to be friends. I knew that there was no way I could be friends with him while there was so many people to compete with. During that time I found Ji-min and Hobi so it wasn't completely devastating. If you were new to the school you would know just by him walking alone that he is popular. The way he walks it's like he doesn't care about anything and that can drive people to be curious about him. He is also good looking so how can he not be popular? If you didn't know him you would be educated for sure about who he is. I have never been popular in my life unless it was that time in primary school where students only knew me because I could open a bag of chips with my toes. It was one of my weird talents and I still have that talent but it's not like I go around school opening bags of chips for kids with my feet.

Tae-hyung goes to parties almost every other week, drinking and breaking the law at least from what I see on his Instagram. I've seen videos of him drunk and God is he loud. Jung-kook will post photos of him and Yoon-gi late at night about to do graffiti on a random wall deep in the city. Tae-hyung is also known for vandalizing the biology lab with graffiti, Yoon-gi by his side. That day, Tae-hyung was suspended for a week which still has me surprised that he wasn't expelled. I didn't see his parents come in during that week to gather his things and apologize to the principle. He missed notes and exams I guess that was another reason why he failed so many classes. I missed him and dreaded each time I went into school while he was suspended. I was restless till I found out by Hobi and Ji-min that Tae-hyung was suspended.

He would have mathematics while I had english. I would sneak out of my classroom just to get a peek of Tae-hyung either sleeping or following along. He was mostly sleeping and listening to music. Yoon-gi in his class would draw on Tae-hyung's shirt. The pictures Yoon-gi would draw would be posted everywhere even the school website. They were funny but Tae-hyung would complain each time to Yoon-gi during lunch that he ruined yet another t-shirt. Yoon-gi once drew Tae-hyung's sleeping face on his uniform even his physical ed clothes. The teachers weren't really happy with that nut the people at school couldn't have enjoyed it more.

Whenever I saw Tae-hyung in public I would break down and hide somewhere. I barely see him in public because I'm always inside studying or I was writing love letters about him. Tae-hyung is always with Yoon-gi, Jung-kook and a couple of other boys that I don't know of. His gang and I don't think they have a name. It's probably cooler than my name I have for my group. Nobody messes with them. Bully one of them the others comes after you. That's what happened when I was a freshman. Tae-hyung, a sophomore had beat up two guys for pissing on Tae-hyung's gang online. No one knew who was saying such rude words about Tae-hyung till finally everyone found out and it was the word for a good month. Their faces were posted online on an anonymous account of their beaten up faces. Tae-hyung faced no consequences because they had no evidence that Tae-hyung was behind it all.