rumours | taekook

chapter 4 | fainting

why is everyone still staring at me? it's been a few weeks since that stupid fall... why the fuck are they still bothered?

jungkook walked through the halls, each step making those whispers louder. students snickered and grimaced at him, but somehow still all sharing the same emotion. he felt like a fish out of water, lonely and only having a few friends. kook wished he was back at his old school. there was little to no drama, whereas this place had seemed to have put the entire beauty community together. drama over here, drama over there, apologies... holy shit!

apparently the latest rumour besides jk is about sana. it was an article on their school gossip website and it was titled "is sana gay? a real look into it."

maybe they won't notice me in class. i'll just walk in quietly.

"ah! mr. jeon, please come in and sit down!" his teacher said.

the entire class turned their heads, and jungkook mentally facepalmed.

"yes mrs. lee."

he dragged himself to the back of the class, sitting next to jimin.

"kook! look at this." jimin pulled out his phone, going on to the school gossip site. the article was titled, "breaking news: jeon jungkook dating kim taehyung."

"WHAT?"

"jeon jungkook, please quiet down, especially when i am talking. i will not ask again."

the entire class laughed at jungkook, even jimin. the laughs became so loud, crowding him and pushing him into a dark corner as he started to feel more and more out of place.

"class! just because i shout at mr. jeon for making noise, doesn't mean i've let you off the hook. should i laugh at wendy for her wannabe outfit? no. next time i hear you all laughing at a student for a mistake, i'll be laughing at you for being a fool. now, let's get on with the lesson. i don't want to be around you imbeciles anyways," she shouted, muttering the last part as she turned to the white board.

the class dragged on until finally, it was break. jungkook was way too stressed and embarrassed to deal with drama, so he decided to ask jimin if they could leave. "hey park! we have an hour, do you want to go to the café downtown? it's a five minute walk, by the way."

"sure!" jimin answered, packing his school bag and taking it with him. as they walked to the café, people started whispering again. but this time, it was people not even from their school. "hey kid!" some guy sitting out side a restaurant shouted, "you've got a note taped to your bag!"

what? i don't even see anything?

"no kook, i think he means your school bag. not your computer bag."

jungkook took his bag off his back, turning it around. "read it to me!"

"okay jimin. it says 'kim taehyung's little whore!' i- u-um- i-" jimin froze. jungkook started to breathe quickly as he turned red.

i hate this place. let me go back to my fucking old school!

"w-what?" jimin stuttered, trying to understand if this was a joke or not. before jungkook could get in a word, a familiar voice interrupted him.

"oh, hey! look who it is! it's me, jeongyeon, y'know... the one who you met at the boba place? yeah. so-"

"i- i'm sorry jeongyeon, i can't t-talk to y-you right-t now-"

i hope she understands that i'm not trying to be rude...

jeongyeon looked into her purse, as she laughed. "hah! let me look for my phone quickly... and i know that taehyung's coming around the corner but no need to be so shy!" she finally found her phone and looked up, only to see jungkook on the floor, passed out.

"oh my god!" jeongyeon and jimin said in sync. wheein knew the right thing to do, as she dialled 911 without saying a word to jimin.

"do i really need a manicure? do i really need a manicure? what kind of question is that? of course!" taehyung blared, all up in jisoo's face.

"hey! is that jimin? why is jeongyeon with him? and what the hell are they doing on the floor?" he asked, visibly confused.

jisoo pointed down towards the left side of jimin. "uh- um- jungkook is lying down on the floor."

he pushed his bag into jisoo's hands as he went to go see what was happening. jisoo trailed after him, wanting to see as well.

jimin started getting really pissed that the ambulance wasn't there yet.

"what happened to jungkook, park? it looks like he fainted."

"i don't know v, maybe he got chased by dinosaurs and eaten, or maybe he fainted. the world will never know!"

"geez park, just asking."

jimin apologised and told taehyung that he had called the ambulance 20 minutes ago, but they still hadn't arrived. a woman sitting outside the café had offered to take him to the hospital, but they declined. jeongyeon was busy giving jungkook drops of water, while he kept drifting in and out of consciousness.

"why did jungkook even faint anyway?" taehyung asked, as jeongyeon also agreed to his question. "well, he, um, didn't have a lot to eat today. so yeah. i think he um- only had a pack of chips?" jimin replied, trying to lie on behalf of jungkook's sake. "that's not very good, i hope he's going to start eating more." she said.

"yeah, i do too..."

finally, the ambulance arrived and took jungkook to the hospital. jimin told the three others to go back to school, because jungkook probably wouldn't wake up for a while, but taehyung protested to stay with him. when jimin asked him why, taehyung said that he needed a hot and healthy "boyfriend" so that it doesn't look like he's dating a loner.

jimin laughed so hard that he almost fell over. "i-i'm sorry!" he coughed, trying to stop laughing. "you're just such a big liar!" jimin propped himself up on a chair in jungkook's room.

"what? i totally am not!" taehyung stomped, wishing that he had jisoo to expose a secret of jimin's. "but v, that's not even a reason! you don't have to be here to watch him heal!" just as taehyung was about to protest again, a doctor walked in.

"hi there! my name is ahn myeoni, and i will be your doctor today," doctor ahn introduced herself, flipping through her clipboard. "ah! he must be jeon jungkook. and you two are?"

"kim taehyung."

"park jimin."

"arighty, nice to meet you two. i just need to get something, i'll be back now."

a short but beautiful woman walked in. jimin's jaw dropped.

"head nurse wheein. your relation to this patient is?"

"i'm his best friend!" jimin said, turning to taehyung and waiting for an answer. jimin hoped that taehyung would just say he was a friend.

"i'm... i'm his boyfriend."

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okay but i was thinking about this today. math questions that follow up from another one are ALWAYS like this:

if jimin sings, the goat jumps off the mountain. this is why i'm ariana grande's 'god is a woman.' does jackson wang?

also, don't forget to vote and comment!

sincerely, A.