INSECURE.

three.

CHAPTER THREE

"PLEASE eat, who cares if he used your chapstick, just buy a new one."

jimin's head shook back and forth, the pout that forced away his pretty smile refusing to leave. his eyebrows were knit together in disgust, and most of all confusion.

"that's not the point, hyung." a whine escaped his lips, cheeks puffed out as he stared down at his untouched lunch. "why would he do that? he doesn't even know me." jimin's voice was brought down to a whisper, trying not to gain any unneeded attention. for all he knew, namjoon could be some kind of popular bad boy with a lot of fangirls who are ready to pounce on anyone who does so much as talk bad about their joonie oppa.

well, this isn't some cliche drama, so he doubts that would happen. but he needed to make an excuse for his own behavior.

"im not sure," mouth full of food, taehyung replied. "maybe you should ask him." a casual shrug accompanied the suggestion, but just the mere thought made jimin want to scream. he did not, under any circumstances, want to have another encounter with joonie. he was just a big flirt, and jimin didn't associate with big flirts.

"im not asking joonie." jimin's serious tone made the latter burst into laughter, ruining their peaceful conversation with mocking giggles. jimin was about to ask what was so funny, but taehyung wouldn't stop for enough seconds to allow jimin the speaking time. he was hitting the table, as if jimin just said the funniest joke to ever exist. it made jimin glare at the obnoxious elder, impatiently waiting for him to halt his rather rude actions.

soon, taehyung did stop, his long fingers dropping his spoon to wipe nonexistent tears from his eyes. weak from laughing, he tried to catch his breath and even his breathing so he could speak. and when he did, he only managed to say "you mean namjoon?" as if it was ridiculous for jimin to call him joonie. it was like taehyung was in his own world while joonieー namjoon had given him the name joonie.

"but he told me to call him joonie." the innocence in jimin's words made taehyung reach over and ruffle his hair, the displeased and offended boy having to resist the urge to snap his friends neck.

"you're cute." taehyung said, ignoring his statement and going back to eating. jimin, who had watched taehyung shove almost a fistful of food into his mouth immediately, noticed his aching stomach that was growling from lack of food. he ignored it, mostly because he wasn't done talking with taehyung.

jimin reached over and pulled the spoon out of taehyung's hand, holding it up threateningly. "explain, taehyung. you can't just call me cute and expect me to let the rest of it go." taehyung stared at the spoon, letting his eyes then trail up to jimin's pretty ones. he leaned back away from his food, uncapping a bottle of water and downing half of it before answering.

"there's nothing to explain, though." his statement sounded similar to a question, and jimin cocked his eyebrow, dropping the spoon onto taehyung's nearly empty tray of food. "it was just funny how you called him joonie. no one calls him that. at least not after that whole incident with his ex girlfriend."

"waitー how would you even know anything about his life? he said he just came to this school." students bustled around them, jimin picking up snippets of conversations about things that clouded ignorant teenagers minds'. he drowned them out, however, he wanted to hear what kind of excuse taehyung had.

"well, i didn't say anything before..." taehyung trailed off, picking at the buttons on his shirt. he looked up, his hands falling on his lap, one elbow extended and resting on the edge of the table. "but he lied. some people think namjoon is a pathological liar, that he lies just to keep his past hidden and does it in such an amazing way, that you would have thought that he was telling the truth. especially with you, how he somehow knew you were new without even asking. he's smarter than he looks."

taehyung sighed. "i know that he's knows that i've been here before, which confused me when he continued on with his act. i was forced to play along." taehyung stood up. "but anyways, i forgot that i had to meet with a teacher before class starts. i'll see you." taehyung grabbed his own lunch, shooting a quick glance jimin's way before gathering up his as well, heading the opposite way of jimin and throwing their lunches away. once he left the lunchroom, a frown replaced his nervous grin.

he let his head fall ungracefully on the table, landing on top of the schoolwork that he originally planned to catch up on during lunch. his entire lunch was uneventful, they only talked about namjoon. speaking of, jimin wondered if the whole pathological liar thing was just a rumor, or if he really lied about everything. does that mean when namjoon called me cute, he was lying? jimin thought, frown worsening as his self esteem levels dropped traumatically. back down to where they were beforeー zero.

"tae was right, you know." a voice from beside him made jimin's head jerk upwards, his arms wrapping around himself protectively. the horror on his face didn't subside once he saw who held the familiar voice.

"aw, why are you so surprised to see me, did you miss me that much?"

"u-um, im sorry but i have to leave." jimin jumped out of his seat, his leg getting stuck as he scrambled around to quickly grab all his things. he almost fell a couple times, keeping his gaze forward and not looking back even once. when he was outside of the lunchroom, he caught his breath, clutching his chest as he panted heavily.

he needed to find taehyung.

his feet carried him passed classroom after classroom, until he spotted taehyung in one of his. he was talking with mr kim, and jimin felt bad for rushing inside the door. taehyung appeared to be having a good time, mr kim having his own smile.

"excuse me for a moment," jimin said suddenly, making both males look at him as he dragged taehyung outside the room by his arm. taehyung was a outraged. because even if mr kim called taehyung into his classroom for nothing other than discussing his grades, he still was determined to flirt all that he could. mr kim seemed to enjoy himself and so did taehyung, so to say he was more than angry at his friend's antics was an understatement.

"jimin!" taehyung yelled once they were outside. "can't you see i'm busy, what's this all about?"

glancing around him for a second, jimin's eyebrows knit together in distress.

"jeongguk is here."

THREE | AUTHORS NOTE

i wonder what jeongguk did to make jimin freak out??? ;))