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“We're fucking screwed”
“Language kiddo!”
“We are the same age!”
“But you're 6 months younger than me! That's a whole half year!”
Sunoo and Jungwon were bickering in front of the announcements board. Freshman fall midterms were over and the results were out. The college counselor notified them a week prior that if they failed one subject their sports grant would not be renewed for the next year. Sunoo was rewarded with an arts grant due to his amazingly beautiful voice and incredible control of his instrument at his young age and Jungwon was a master at Taekwondo, the perfect picture of hard work and self-discipline.
“But hyung.. I cannot change colleges.. or drop out! My momma would kill me..” Sunoo as clingy as he was hugged the older boy so hard he was struggling to breathe. Jungwon's insides melted at the cute action of his best friend. They were in a new environment and both were adapting to it in their ways. Sunoo relied on his best friend for support due to his extreme shyness in new environments and Jungwon stuck to what he knew best, rules and patterns.
“We still have a semester left, Sunoo. We will find a way to make it work”. The oldest of the two patted gently the head of the big baby that was curled into a ball on his chest. The latter then realized where they were currently standing. In the school halls, where everyone could see him being extremely affectionate with his best friend and acting childishly. He quickly reverted to his RBF character and dusted inexistent particles off his freshly ironed shirt to cope with the embarrassment and clear his thoughts.
“I don't know hyung... I failed because I suck at math, in my whole life I have never passed a chem exam. I don't see how we can change that in such little time..” They were both intensely staring at the results hoping that if they waited a little bit more and dug holes in the paper from fixing their gaze too intently, those scores would become a pass and they could go be happy and not extremely depressed for what was left of the year.
“I get it.. you know how many times I have tried to study English to overcome my weakness but to no use.. It seems like my brain doesn't want to understand how English works”. They were alone in the hallways for a while since the results had been out since morning but they both waited until the end of the day to look at them, dreading the obvious results. Time passed and they stood still in the same position, hoping to receive some kind of divine intervention to help them solve their situation.
Sunoo's eyes were starting to get crossed from looking at the same 0 all the time so he unconsciously looked a little farther to the right and saw an ad on the board. “Buddy Program” it read. “Find a peer to help you out with your weakest subject”. The younger one slowly signaled to his friend to read the notice, he was scared that maybe he was seeing things and his brain just created that illusion to ease the anxiety that was bubbling in his chest since they saw the results. He turned his gaze to Jungwon and saw how the older was contemplating what he had just read.
“Maybe we'll get us killed. But we're as good as dead now so...”