Hope | Yoonseok

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"I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself."

Stephen King

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Jungkook was doodling in his sketchbook, he had a free hour so he just decided to go and sit peacefully in the library. "Hi." Jungkook looked up from his paper, a cute boy standing at his table. "Hi?" The boy noticed Jungkook's weirded out look. "Oh I'm sorry! I just couldn't help but notice that you were drawing Titans. Did you watch the anime?" Jungkook threw his pen down and leaned back in his chair.

"You know it's not very polite to look at people's sketchbooks right?" The boy looked mortified, his face quickly turning red. "Oh my god I am so sorry, I didn't mean to-" Jungkook had an amused smile playing on his face. "It's okay... for now. But yeah, I did watch attack on titans." The small boy beamed, taking a seat across from Jungkook. "What season are you on?"

"3, you?"

"Same!" The boy stook out his hand. "I'm Myung." Jungkook grabbed his hand, his hand was nearly twice the size of Myung's. "Jungkook."

"Oh so you're Jungkook-" Myung muttered, making Jungkook rise his brow up. "Excuse me?" Myung looked taken aback. "Oh, I just heard your name get mentioned a lot." He tried playing it off, but Myung's words had caught Jungkook's attention. "What did they say?"

"N-nothing important." Jungkook leaned in closer to the stuttering boy. "What did they say Myung?"

"T-that your boyfriend ch- cheated on you-u behind your b-b-back." Jungkook's eyes darkened. "With?"

"Uhm..." Myung fumbled with his fingers. Jungkook faked a nice smile. "Just tell me Myungie." Myung bit his lip before speaking up. "Mr. Chin." Jungkook slammed his laptop shut, getting shushed by the librarian. "What?" Jungkook whisper shouted, in complete disbelief. "P-please don't hurt me." Jungkook had a sour smile on his face, ripping out the paper he had been drawing on. "Thanks for telling me." He stuffed all his stuff back in his backpack and stormed out of the room.

Myung sat frightened on his chair, drawing pressed against his chest. He looked behind him and Jungkook was no longer there. Myung lifted the drawing away from his chest, looking at it with sparkling eyes.

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"Here are a few clean clothes in case Yihwa has an... oopsie." Seokjin took the bag over from Mr. Chin with a disgusted face. "She is mostly good during the day, don't worry." Seokjin's lip twitched, not very convinced. "If you say so."

"I only have a meeting, it should take 3 hours tops. She'll be just fine playing in the park."

"Hmmm say that when she is eating dirt and bugs." Mr. Chin laughed, lifting the stoller out of the back of his car. "That's why you're there." Mr. Chin looked weirdly at Seokjin's face. "Is there something on my face?"

"...Funny you mentioned bugs." Seokjin's eyes widened, shooting into full panic mode. "Get it off! Get it off!" Mr. Chin reached out, grabbing the thing off Seokjin's face while laughing. "Look at you, panicking over this." Seokjin looked at it, pure disgust plastered on his face. "It's so fucking big."

"Please tell me there isn't a trail of slime on my face."

"No don't worry. Or do you want one?" Mr. Chin lifted the bug closer to Seokjin again. "Don't you dare. People can't see me like that" He hissed angrily, making the teacher laugh again. In his anger Seokjin had dropped his snacks, he sighed and gave the teacher a glare before crouching down to pick it up.

"What the fuck?" Mr. Chin looked over at the voice before Seokjin turned around himself. "Jungkook? What are you doing here? This is the teacher's parking lot." Jungkook's eyes were dark, Seokjin stood back up. "I can ask you the same thing, sucking off a teacher here. Don't you have any shame?" Seokjin nearly choked on air, eyes bugging out of his skull.

"Uhm, young man I can assure you that he did no-"

"Shut the fuck up pedophile! You think you can get away with it because he's 18 now!? He's still your student!"

"Jungkook what the fuck are you on about?" Seokjin had finally recovered, looking weirdly at him. "I've heard the rumors! Don't act innocent!" Jungkook's voice slightly broke. "What rumors!?"

"That you cheated on me! With him! You found something in that old man that I didn't have huh!? That's why you broke up with me!? So you could have him!?" Jungkook snapped, anger filling his once innocent doe eyes. "I never fucking cheated on you! And with a teacher!? What do you take me for!?" Seokjin yelled back, anger taking over. Jungkook crossed his arms in defense. "Then what the fuck is this huh?"

"I'm babysitting his CHILD." Seokjin dramatically pointed towards his bag and the stroller behind him. Jungkook stepped closer to the two. "Don't you play with me." He said, there was a lot of hurt behind his eyes. "I'm not playing with you. I would NEVER be interested in a teacher and Mr. Chin is straight for fucks sake!" Mr. Chin cleared his throat. "Can confirm. Very straight. He's the babysitter of my daughter." Jungkook looked confused. "Why the fuck would you ask a student?"

"They're affordable, and Seokjin is quite entertaining to his peers so I thought he could get along with Yihwa as well."

"Then.... Then why did you break up with me?" Seokjin dropped his hands to his side. "So you can be happy! I was holding you back!" Jungkook softly shook his head. "No... No you weren't."

"I hate to interrupt this but I need go get to my meeting." Seokjin snapped back to reality. "Yeah of course. I'm so sorry you had to listen to that." Mr. Chin opened the door to his car, lifting Yihwa in her stroller. "Just hope she didn't hear any of that." He booped her nose with a smile. "Bye princess."

"Bye daddy!" She smiled, waving him goodbye. Seokjin took the stroller in his hands, giving Jungkook one pained look before walking off.