I Hate You, I Love You [Jimin X Jeongyeon] (ONHOLD)

Chapter Eleven

Jeongyeon's Point of View

It's five minutes left.

And the four is still missing. Yes. They're missing. Hoseok, Taehyung, Tzuyu and Momo. Where are those four?

"Jeongie. The teacher may be coming. Have you contacted them?" Mina whispered to me. I looked at my phone first then sighed.

"No. Momo's not answering." I answered.

27 missed calls for Momo.

21 missed calls for Tzuyu.

6 missed calls for Hoseok.

9 missed calls for Taehyung.

What are these four doing?!

"The teacher's here." Seokjin whispered to me as Prof. Ahn entered the room. Seokjin is my seatmate btw

Prof. Ahn was about to start the discussion when the door was slammed to the wall.

And the door revealed the four, exhausted.

"Sorry we're late, Prof. Ahn." Hoseok said, running for his breath.

"Let me see. 20 minutes late. What punishment should I give you four?" Prof. Ahn said as she was upset on the four. All of them just looked down, except for Taehyung.

"Argh, no, please, Tae." Seokjin mumbled. As I heard him, I looked at the rest of the boys.

They're all also looking down, seemed to be embarrassed.

"No punishment, Prof." Taehyung said as he steps forward. I sensed the boys mouthed ‘no’.

I leaned nearer to Seokjin. "Why are you being like that?" I whispered to him.

"Nah. Taehyung's the i-don't-want-to-lose-in-an-argument type of boy. When he knows he is right, he will really defend it whoever he's talking to." Seokjin answered. I looked again at him, and Hoseok holds his wrist now.

This is danger.

"What do you mean ‘no punishment’?" Prof. Ahn said as she frowned.

"We should not be punished since we are not so late. 20 minutes is still early, Prof. I will allow you to punish us if we are 30 minutes late and so on and so forth." Taehyung answered confidently. Oh no, this must be stopped.

"Wow, allow me? Mr. Kim, that's enough. Detention Room. Now." Prof. Ahn said calmly but you can sense that she's upset at what Taehyung is acting right now.

Well, the next scene is unexpected.

Jimin stood up, stopping Prof. Ahn from sending them to the Detention Room.

"My greatest apologies, Prof. Ahn, but Taehyung is right. I read it from the university's manual that if a student is late for 30 minutes or later, he or she should be punished. But if he or she is late for earlier than 30 minutes, then he or she should not be punished." Jimin said as he defended Taehyung and the rest.

"Fine then. All of you may come in. But I will list you as absent, including you, Mr. Park." Prof. Ahn said as she pointed each one of them, including Jimin.

No, this is not right.

"Professor..." I said as I stood up also. All of them looked at me, including Jimin which is shocked at what I did. "I'm sorry but it is not fair. The four are the only late ones but why include Jimin to the punishment?" I added as I pointed Jimin.

"Okay, I'll include you." Prof. Ahn answered as she took her attendance record then seemed to be listed something.

Me and Jimin looked at each other, who seemed to be understanding each other by just looking.

This is my first absent.

I sat down sadly, cannot focus on the discussion. I peeked at Taehyung, Hoseok, Tzuyu, Momo then at Jimin. The four are listening except for me and Jimin. Maybe we cannot accept our first absent just because we want to protect our friends.

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It's breaktime. It's been two subjects after Prof Ahn's but I'm still not in the mood to listen to any of the discussion.

"Jeong, come on. It's breaktime." Seokjin poked me. I looked at him then nodded.

I still cannot accept it that I had my first absent even though I'm present.

They all left except for Jimin. He approached me then sat beside me.

It's only me and him in our classroom. Silence reigns.

"So... First absent huh?" Jimin said as he broke the silence. I just nodded. "Argh, Yoo Jeongyeon, please be honest to me." He added as he made me face him. I looked at him blankly. "Are you mad at me? Like you're so cold everytime I talk to you, whenever you see me approaching you, you start to step away. You seem to be so close with the boys except for me! I'm getting jealous whenever you get along with the--"

"Jealous?" I asked him, confirming the word I heard. Why would he be jealous?

His face started to burn red then looked down. Cute.

"Hey, Park Jimin, be honest to me." I said as I imitated his voice. He slowly looked up to me, still blushing. "What's happening to you? Whenever I call your name, you hesitate and end up not answering me. We're roommates so we need to get along but how would I if everytime I call you, all you'll do is blush and look down?"

And yeah, he blushed again and looked down again. As always.

I sighed heavily for what he acted.

"Jimin, if you want us to get along, better change that habit of yours. Are you gay?"

He slowly looked up at me with eyes widened.

"W-what?! Me?! G-gay?!" Jimin shouted at me. I just smirked then nodded. "No! I'm not!" He added, cannot look straight at me.

"Then be a man, Jimin. You cannot just avoid me whenever I come close. Afraid of girls?" I said as I crossed my arms.

"No. Only you." He whispered, looking down again.

"Why?" I asked.

"Well, I'm just afraid that you'll also do to me what you did to Hoseok before." He answered. That'$ funny.

I chuckled. "Come on, Chim, I was a kid before. I am now grown-up so I am not dumb to stab you with a pencil. With a knife, yes."

"Jeong!" He shouted in fear.

"Just stop those looking down and blushing everytime I come. Trust me, we'll get along." I said then he nodded. I smiled at him. Then heard some applause coming from the door.

The girls and boys. Watching us from the start.

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