tolerating you.

003

Jennie had never felt more betrayed in her entire life. This was worse than the time Jisoo gave Taehyung the extra concert ticket she won instead of inviting Jennie back in the seventh grade. It was worse than when Jisoo sided with him on the always present argument of Jennie's hair color (it's not black, it's dark brown!). It was even worse than getting no presents for her eighteenth birthday because her parents spent all their money on buying her no-good little sister a car she barely deserved.

Jisoo thought Jennie was lying to her. She thought she was trying to break her and her boyfriend up because she was jealous of them. How could she think Jennie would ever do that? Jennie would rather like to think it was easier to believe that Jin was a cheating jerk than it was to believe that she was a lying slut.

I guess I was wrong, she thought.

Jennie had no one to talk to at school. Jisoo wouldn't come near her. She was mad, Jennie could tell.

Jin had told everyone that Jennie came onto him at the party last week, so the whole school hated her. The only person whose opinion of her hadn't changed was Taehyung, and she sure as hell didn't wanted to hang out with him. She got enough of his sass at his house and at the lunch table, where she was forced to sit across from him every day. He already despised her, anyway.

Jennie ate lunch in her car. Not because she couldn't stand the mean looks every girl in the cafeteria was giving her, but because she hated seeing that satisfied smirk on Jin's face as he cuddled Jisoo at their usual table.

The day went by slowly, terribly, until it was finally sixth period. Jennie's last class was science, and Jin was her lab partner. Oh, shit.

She had completely forgotten about this predicament until she walked into class and saw him standing by her seat. Horror struck, she almost turned around and left school, but the teacher (who had found her skipping class before) caught her eye and gave her a stern look. She was trapped.

"What's up, Jennie?" Jin said to her in that cocky voice of his once she sat down.

"You are such an asshole," Jennie spat without even giving him a glance. "I'll convince Jisoo eventually, just you wait."

"Sure you will," he laughed.

Jennie tried her hardest to ignore him for the rest of the class period. It was a little difficult, seeing as they were doing a lab and they had to work together, but she managed. Jin actually did most of the work while she just stood there brooding and wrote down their results. Believe it or not, he was a smart kid - probably the only person that rivaled Taehyung. He just didn't flaunt it like someone else she knew.

Jennie knew for a fact that Jin was competing in the regional science fair that was coming up. She'd been over at the Kims' once when Taehyung was working on his energy-converter-whatchamajig, and Jisoo had mentioned that her boyfriend was participating, as well. It wasn't a surprise, really - since Jin had moved to our school, he had proven to be second best in their class.

Jennie had commented on how dorky Taehyung looked doing complex math equations with his thick rimmed glasses and unruly hair, and he'd told her that she wouldn't be the one laughing when he won first prize - a full ride scholarship to the state university.

At the time, Jennie was hoping that Jin would win, just so she could rub it in her enemy's face. Given recent events, however, she could honestly say for the first time that she was rooting for Taehyung. It was a weird feeling.

"You know," Jin suddenly said from across the lab table. "This is really all your fault."

Jennie glared. "My fault? How so?"

He shrugged. "If you had just taken me up on my offer that night, then Jisoo and everyone else never would've had to know."

Jennie gawked and looked around the room. Wasn't anyone hearing this? Why was nobody hearing this?

"You didn't have to feed those lies to the entire school," she spat.

"What, you thought you could reject me and get away with it? That's not how things work in my world. When I don't get what I want, I make the life of whoever's to blame a living hell."

"You are pure evil," Jennie said in disbelief. Alright, she knew this guy was bad, but not that bad! Jeez, what an ego!

Jin smirked in satisfaction. "That's right, baby." She felt a surge of anger burst through her.

"You know what?" Jennie raised her voice. His smirk fell. "You may be winning now, Kim Seokjin, but not for long - what goes up has got to fall."