I'm fine (Min Yoongi ff)

Chapter sixteen

"Hi" he smiled at Ani, sitting down on the chair next to her.

"Here sits Yooji" Ani growled, and he froze in the air.

"I thought I was sitting on math with you" he ventured.

"But today I'm sitting with Yooji" she repeated without looking at him.

Probably he was happy too soon that she came to school. He noticed dark bags under her eyes and drooping cheeks.

"Everything's okay?" he asked carefully.

"Yes"

"Is it about yesterday? If…"

"I don't want to talk about it" Ani was irritated, scaring him with her death stares "And here sits Yooji"

Yoongi blinked his eyes, then moved away from the bench and silently sat on the seat behind her. Ani's harsh words surprised him a bit, and although he tried not to show it, her attitude hurt him. Yesterday everything was so perfect. Apparently that wasn't going to last long.

Ani was very fickle. Depending on what her mood was, she could react to certain situations as if she were several different people.

He knew her as a fearful girl. Eyes wide, hands trembling, and panic painted on her face when a boy got too close. She squealed and screamed when she felt threatened. Overall, she seemed vulnerable and lost. As if the world was too big and too scary for a little person like her.

However, when she was in a better mood, she changed beyond recognition. Her pale cheeks turned into color and her lips stretched into a smile. She was still a bit shy, but talked a lot. Certainly more than on a daily basis.

But there were days like today when something was clearly wrong with Ani. Yoongi suspected that today was about yesterday's situation with Chanyeol. She looked as if she was about to jump off the bridge - hunched over, with bags under her eyes and drooping eyelids. Plus she was becoming rude. Most of the time she didn't say anything at all, and when she opened her mouth, some malicious comment came out of them. On such days, Ani literally had "Leave me alone" written all over her face.

As Yoongi felt responsible for her, for the whole situation and the bad mood that caught her today, of course he did not leave her alone. Instead, he sat down next to her during the pause, saying something for 10 long minutes while she stared at him from under her eyes, not saying a word. He did the same during the following breaks, although he stopped speaking when he noticed that Ani clearly did not intend to participate in these conversations. He just sat next to her as she stared blankly at the space in front of her and wondered what was going on in that pretty head of hers. What is he thinking about? Was that about him?

During one of the breaks, Ani took out a notebook and began to copy her geography homework. Curious Yoongi leaned over to her and looked over her shoulder, and when his jaw touched Ani's shoulder, she flinched and moved away, staring at him with wide eyes.

Yoongi tried to keep his face straight, but he couldn't stop the grimace that appeared after her reaction. They were going back to the same thing again? He thought that after yesterday evening, when he was holding her hand and hugging her, something had changed. Her reaction made him feel a painful tightness in his chest.

"You were supposed to ask" Ani spoke in a voice cold as ice.

"Sorry" he cleared his throat, trying not to show how much it hurt him "I just wanted to see what you were doing"

Ani wordlessly twisted the notebook toward him so he could see, then went back to typing. Yoongi felt a bit rejected. As if Ani didn't want him here. He didn't understand why the girl had to be so unpleasant, and even more he didn't understand why it moved him so much.