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IX

Updated/Published On:
5th August 2019
05/08/2019

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"Namjoon!"

Namjoon snapped out of his trance and looked up from his lunch box (which he was staring at for the past ten minutes), to find his friends staring at him in concern. He attempted a very unconvincing smile.

"What's wrong? You haven't eaten anything," Jin said disapprovingly. "Your sandwich is cold and you haven't said anything; even when Jungkook said that he is going to drop out of highschool and become a porn star."

Namjoon's eyes bulged at the last part and his face whipped to Jungkook, who seemed to have found his lunch suddenly very interesting. Namjoon's face was contorted into disbelief, amusement and confusion at the same time.

"Er, what?" Namjoon suddenly felt out of place. Jin placed (read: slammed) his spoon beside his lunchbox and looked up at Namjoon with fierce eyes.

"Namjoon-ah, you are going to tell us what's happened and why you are acting so weird," Jin said sharply. When Namjoon tried to deny it, he continues, "And don't you dare deny it. I have five other witnesses who aren't scared to justify my statement."

It looked like the other five were currently too busy being scared of Jin, to be scared to justify against him, mused Namjoon. He cleared his throat.

"I'm sorry, hyung, about that," Namjoon said crisply. Yoongi groaned.

"Okay, are you going to tell us why you have been moping almost the whole lunch time?" Yoongi bluntly stated.

"Hyung, I haven't been 'moping'," Namjoon claimed quickly. "I'm just, thinking hard."

"About what?" Hoseok asked him. "Ever since that game of truth and dare we played, you've acted... different."

Namjoon sighed. His friends didn't know anything. Even about his crush. So he told them. Starting from the girl he liked, to the girl over the phone.

"Woah," Jimin said, shocked, the first to break the silence that followed Namjoon's confession.

"Woah alright," Taehyung and Jungkook agreed.

"I think you're starting to like that phone girl," interjected Jin. "Star, is that what she said?"

Namjoon nodded in afirmation, before groaning and hiding his face in his hands.

"I tried not to, but, Star, she is just, just unique. Precious," Namjoon said from behind his hands. "I don't want to lose her, but I don't want to love her either."

"We don't choose who we love, Namjoon-ah," Hoseok said with a sad smile, which Namjoon knew was because he was emphasizing with him.

"It's just, she is the first girl to actually show some interest in me," Namjoon tried to be clear. "It's hard; it's conflicting. Complicated. I mean, it's just a small crush as of now, but I don't want to get over her either."

Yoongi grimaced at the words and Jin shook his head, sighing.

"I'm sorry, I didn't want to burden you all with-" Namjoon tried to speak but the boys stopped him.

"You are not burdening us, hyung!"

"Yeah, it's not a problem!"

"I am just unhappy that you didn't share this with us sooner."

"Yeah," a chorus of agreement sounded at Jin's statement. Namjoon blushed, embarassed by it all.

"C'mon, Lover Boy," Hoseok teased him, slinging his arm around Namjoon's shoulder. "We'll help you with Star, and she'll help you with your other girl. And at the end of it, you will have both options, and then it's a matter of your choice."

"I don't want to lead both of them on, only to break one's heart!" Namjoon exclaimed. Hoseok nodded.

The bell rang, announcing the end of lunch. The seven boys, packed up their lunch boxes and talked as they walked to their classes, unknowing of the two girls who were looking at them from afar.

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