Hello Tutorial • liskook.

Chapter 8

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All the time, the professor spoke in English and Lisa tried her best to translate some sentences to Jungkook in a discreet way, in order to not disturb the class and get exposed again. But damn, she was now really concerned about him.

"So, you really need this extra credit?" she tested the waters while both were gathering their things, voices raising around them since the class just ended.

Jungkook nodded and tilted his head a little bit to get some strands of his long curly bangs out of his face. It looked so soft and healthy, she just could wish.

Going back to the point, she bit her lower lip looking at him with worried eyes but she was feeling embarrassed to offer her help to him. Maybe she would offend him for being to bold.

He hung his backpack on his shoulder and arched a brow at seeing her still in the middle of putting a notebook inside her own backpack. Lisa reacted quickly and nervously gathered all her things, and she really got surprised to find out he waited for her in the corner of the table.

Her heart went crazy and she smiled wide, but she looked down to hide her excitement. She was acting like a fool and she couldn't notice it.

"So, they're dating now?" Lisa listened a whisper, the gossip type of whisper.

"Such a shame," another girl whispered.

They really looked like dating? She felt excited about it but the dark cloud of reality floated above her head once more, it was uncomfortable to be directly related with someone you're not interested to and less if she is the best friend of your crush...

(a/n: did i just shade myself????)

"Sorry," Jungkook then said to her once they reached the doors, Lisa raised her head confused and found him with his gaze fixed on his feet. He looked embarrassed. "They talk a lot about me and...," he scratched his nape and looked to his side, as if he couldn't face her. Lisa frowned, why was he so uncomfortable? "It's okay if you don't want to be with me to avoid those type of comments, you know," he shrugged shyly.

"What?" Lisa had thought it was something else, she didn't know what but for sure she didn't expect that, so she laughed. "What are you saying? You're super cool, Jungkook, I think it's cool to be with you," she maybe said too much but those were her honest thoughts and Lisa couldn't keep them inside, she was like that and that was the reason of why she was such a problem from her mom.

Jungkook smiled to her, covering one ear for some reason and shaking his head softly, and Lisa felt like she just won the most important race, the golden medal was his smile. And yes, she really was that flirty.

But she didn't have to flirt, no.

He. likes. Chaeyoung.

She panicked and stutter, oh damn, what should she do? Oh gosh, oh gosh.

"BECAUSE we are friends now" she punched his arm playfully like she used to do with most of her male friends... and it ended up being kinda slash VERY awkward.

Uh, cringy. Why it sounded so damn cringy?

"You accepted my Facebook friends request and there's no return from that, my friend," Lisa tried to be funny and laughed at her own joke, just to be less cringy but she wasn't getting it as you could see very clearly.

At least Jungkook chuckled at that and finally looked at her, his gaze was so warm that it heated the blood running through her body.

"But seriously, it's okay, I have been through that," Lisa shrugged, going to the serious side this time because she felt like she needed to share some of her experience, and she tugged a lock of hair behind her ear. Jungkook tilted his head with curiosity, she realized it was one of his habits, and she took it as a hint to keep talking. "You know, because I'm a foreigner and from Thailand specially, people talked a lot and it was... uncomfortable but I grew used. You don't have another option to get used to it, right?" and it was more than just talking about the low-key bullying she suffered in her freshman year obviously. She really had to get used to him.