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Jungkook clutched his backpack straps as soon as he entered the campus grounds, looking around as he absorbed the new surroundings. His heart pounding on his chest, feeling quite nervous within seconds of him entering the University. Everything felt too big, too loud, too unfamiliar.
He kept his head down as he walked towards his building, hoping that no one would notice the way his hands trembled every time someone walked faster beside him.
He soon found himself waiting in line at the elevator as his classroom was located on the 8th floor. he grumbled an annoyed “What the hell” under his breath, hoping yet again that no one would hear him complaining.
He looks around the people who are also waiting in line, internally cursing at himself for wearing his hoodie as it’s currently too hot and he’s already sweating his ass off. Great, just great. Jungkook thinks to himself.
As he waits for his turn to go inside the elevator, he turns to look at the line next to him. He notices someone, or a guy rather, who looks like he’s supposed to be on a magazine cover, cause what? He looks too handsome for his own good!
The said man he was staring at tilts his head to look over in Jungkook's direction, causing their eyes to meet before the man looked away nonchalantly.
Jungkook didn’t realize that the elevator was already at the ground floor, the operator looking at him confused as to why he wasn’t going inside. He hurriedly went in, looking flustered as he zoned out again. He had been doing that a lot these days, maybe he was just anxious with his new University, yeah, maybe.
Being inside an elevator full of people whom he doesn’t know proves to be harder than he thought, mostly because he was shoved to the back so that other people could squeeze themselves in more.
With Jungkook’s smaller height, he feels himself getting a little crushed as he tries to push the person’s bag in front of him away from his face.
Sighing to himself, he looked down at his feet, his hands fixing and patting his skirt as more people got out of the elevator at the 7th floor. Letting out a sigh, he somehow feels grateful that there are fewer people now.
“Thank you,” He said to the operator as he got off the elevator, walking over to the right side of the building.
He didn’t have any trouble at finding his classroom as it’s the first room, 804. Letting out a sigh to let out his nervousness, he twists the doorknob to let himself in, already seeing some people who he assumes to be his classmates, sitting down and staring at him as he closes the door behind him.
He bowed to them while he quickly made his way to a seat beside the window and put his stuff down in front of him. He let out the breath that he didn’t realize he was holding and looked over at the window, putting his cheek on his hand, tuning out the noise from his classmates as he distracted himself on his phone.
A few minutes later, another person entered the classroom, causing every person in the room to turn and look to see who the person would be. Jungkook looked up as well upon hearing the door shut, causing his eyes to widen a bit as he recognized the man, he was the gorgeous man he had seen earlier in line. Who would’ve known they’d be classmates? Not Jungkook, of course.
Jungkook averts his gaze elsewhere, like on his phone, once he realizes he was zoning out. Again. He shook his head lightly, only to stop himself to fix his styled hair. Yes, he likes to doll himself up, even if he was shy of most things, he wouldn’t shy away from making himself look presentable every chance he gets.
After he deems himself looking okay enough, he glances around the room only to find the good-looking man sitting just two rows away from him. Soon, the classroom was filled with students as the professor entered the room, causing all of them to stand up and greet the professor, who introduced himself as ‘Mr Lee’
“As you all know, today is the first day that students are back in class. That would mean that there’d be no lesson, as today is Orientation Day, you will meet some of your professors over the next few hours. Take my time in your class to get to know each other.” Mr Lee announces to the class before grabbing his stuff as he goes out of the room.
The silence that took over the whole room was soon replaced with people talking to each other in a rather loud way. Jungkook didn’t know people could be this loud until he stepped into this University.
He decided to pull his hoodie over his head and lay his head on his desk, closing his eyes, feeling sleepy, his lack of sleep from last night finally catching up to him.
He opened his eyes as soon as he felt someone tapping on his arm, raising his head to look at the person who tapped him, only to see a blonde-haired man smiling at him nicely. He hurried to fix himself, feeling embarrassed to be woken up.
“Uh, yeah?” Jungkook winces at himself for being awkward towards the blonde man, but he can’t help it. He doesn’t even know him.
“Hello! I”m Jimin, Sorry to interrupt your little nap ..” The blonde guy named Jimin trails off his words, now smiling awkwardly at him, seemingly expecting Jungkook to finish his sentence.
“It’s Jungkook.” He quickly gives a polite smile to Jimin in return. “And no, it’s alright, what do you need, Jimin?”
Jungkook could only hope his question doesn’t come out as rude, he just doesn’t have any idea why this person is speaking to him in the first place. He looks like an angel, though, Jungkook thinks to himself as he waits for the other’s response.
“Well, I’m just wondering since we sit next to each other, is it okay if we go to the cafeteria together?”
Jimin asked him, looking at Jungkook with a glint of hope in his eyes. Practically puppy eyes as Jungkook thinks to himself again.
“Oh,” he said rather quietly, contemplating whether or not he should accept Jimin’s offer.
After thinking for a few seconds, He didn’t waste another second as he nodded his head at the other, giving him a polite smile, “Sure, let’s go together.”
Jimin gave him a big smile that reached up to his eyes, causing it to disappear. Jungkook thinks he’s adorable, and he can see them being great friends.
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Walking with hesitant steps, Jungkook looked around as they headed towards the cafeteria. Yes, he’s with Jimin as he was dragged by the blonde-haired exclaiming that it’s better to go to the cafeteria while there aren’t that many students yet.
He's basically fidgeting as they make their way through some students in the hallway.
Occasionally, he would look down at his feet whenever Jimin stops to talk with some people, he supposes Jimin already knew a few students here he takes a mental note to ask the other about it later.
One thing Jungkook didn’t expect was to bump into a person who he thought was too tall, he looked up to mutter an apology, only to be shrugged off as the person quickly said, “It’s fine,” before walking away, headphones on his head and his hands in his pocket.
Jimin saw the whole interaction, and he gently nudged Jungkook to continue walking towards the cafeteria.
He gave a small smile and nodded his head at the older, he asked him how old he was earlier when he felt brave enough to start a conversation on his own. He was shocked to find out that Jimin is 21, a year older than him, as he had initially thought they were the same age.
Sitting down on the table they both chose, Jimin quickly said to Jungkook that he just needed to go to the bathroom quickly. He shrugged and muttered an Okay to the other before looking around the whole cafeteria, trying to find a stall that offered delicious food, as he was feeling quite hungry. He clicked his tongue at himself for not eating breakfast before going to school. Cut him some slack.
He was too nervous and didn’t want to be late on his first day. deciding to stand up once he finds a stall that he likes and walks towards it, telling the stallholder his order.
As he waits for his name to be called, he decides to go back to his table first, thinking that it’s gonna take a bit long for his order to be finished. Using his phone while he walked, Jungkook hadn't noticed the wet sign that indicated a janitor had mopped the floor.
he continued to walk, engrossed in his phone, when he felt someone grabbing his arm. Pulling him over to the side before he could say anything, startled and shocked, he looked at the hand that was grabbing him before finally looking up to see who it belonged to, to his shock. again. It was the same guy he bumped into.
“Watch where you’re going, you’re gonna ruin the Janitor’s work.” The gorgeous boy said to him before letting his arm go and stepping away from him.
Jungkook swore he had never been this embarrassed that he felt like hiding away, with a flustered face, he shoved his phone back into his pocket and walked to his table before sitting down.
Few minutes later, Jimin comes back from the bathroom only to see a very red Jungkook, The other decides to not ask him about it and continues their conversation from earlier with Jungkook telling him that he had already ordered something for the both of them, which made Jimin squeal and thank him promising to pay him later which of course, he denied.
He’s already fond of the other, and it’s his way of thanking him for offering to eat together, which he also assumes is the older’s way of asking to be friends. Out of curiosity, Jungkook mustered up the courage to ask the other about a certain man he kept bumping into.
“So uh, you know about the guy I bumped into earlier?”
Jimin looked at him, confused for a second before humming to him, “Oh? You mean Taehyung?” he says with a tilt in his head, looking at the other expectantly.
Jungkook rests his cheek on his hand with the new information. He thinks to himself, even his name is pretty. “Jungkook, hey– I said what about him?”
Snapping out of his thoughts, he smiled at Jimin awkwardly. “Nothing, just curious,” he says before hearing his name being called. Mumbling to the other, he stood up, going towards the stall.
Grabbing his order before going back to their table, as he walks, he notices the same guy with his friend at another table just a few meters away from them. He shakes his head as he feels a little ridiculous that his attention was already on someone.
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