"Yeah, it's the first lecture so people are gonna wanna come to class-" Taehyung laughed. "But a lot of them are just like you. Second class and half the cohort probably won't even bother showing up."
"Please-" Jimin rolled his eyes. "I may not show up for the lecture, but I'll probably still show up for your sake. This is one of the only few times we'll be able to take a class together. You know, our modules don't overlap much."
"Let's see if you can still say the same thing in two weeks time, Mr Math-hater," Taehyung scoffed as he flipped open his notebook and wrote down his name on the first page. "No, let me correct myself- I give it one week, and you'll be out of here."
Jimin sneered. "No, I won't."
"Bet you will," Taehyung said with a shrug. "Dare to make a bet with me?"
"Sure-" Jimin challenged him. "I bet you I'll be here for every single lecture until the end of the semester."
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"Oh, really?" Taehyung laughed mockingly as he put down his pen and glanced at Jimin. "It's a deal then. What is at stake though? A whole year's worth of lunch?"
"Wait, dude-" Jimin was no longer looking at Taehyung. Instead, his eyes widened and jaws dropped in surprise as he pointed at something behind Taehyung. "Look over there-"
"You know I'm not falling for that trick, Park Jimin-" Taehyung grinned. "You're regretting it now that the stakes are high, aren't you?"
"No, Kim Taehyung-" Jimin was whispering at this point. And he looked dead serious. "I'm serious. Look behind you."
Taehyung frowned as he turned around, expecting to see nothing, as part of Jimin's ploy to make a quick dash towards the door. But when he turned around, he locked eyes with the person sitting next to him. She was familiar-looking - a familiar-looking girl whom he had just seen a few minutes ago.
Taehyung recognised her at once. His eyes widened as he pointed at her. "Oh-"
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"Oh!" The girl recognised him at once too, as a huge smile formed at her lips. "It's you again! The guy I bumped into earlier."
"I was the one who bumped into you-" Taehyung corrected with a smile. "You're in this class?"
"Yeah, well..." the girl replied with a small smile as she took out her books and placed it on the table. "I was rushing back after my art class to get my stuff for this class earlier, that's why I bumped into you."
"Oh?" Taehyung's eyes widened in surprise. "You take art classes?"
"I'm an art major-" the girl said with a shy smile. "Taking calc as an elective. You? A math student?"
"Oh, that's cool," Taehyung said with a breathy laugh. "No, I'm actually studying architecture - calc is one of my core mods. It's rare for someone from the arts stream wanna take up calc as an elective though. You must be really good at math."
"No-" the girl admitted with a sheepish grin. "I wanna be though, and that's why I'm here."
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Taehyung raised his eyebrows. Once again, this girl had surprised him. Usually, in university, most people would choose to take up modules they were good at, since their GPA was at stake. But this girl, had once again, proven herself to be different. She had admitted that she wasn't good at calculus, but still took it up to become better at it. That, to Taehyung, was brave... and impressive.
"Hey, I'm really sorry to be interrupting this adorable conversation going on over here-" Jimin peeked his head over Taehyung's shoulder, so that he could get a better glimpse of the girl sitting next to him. "Hi, I believe we have met before."
"Oh, hi!" The girl let out an adorable chuckle that rang in Taehyung's ears. "Yeah, we have. You were there when I bumped into him earlier, weren't you."
"Mmhmm-" Jimin flashed her a charming smile, before reaching out a hand. "Hi, I'm Park Jimin. People call me Jimin, but you can call me ton-"
Taehyung slammed his hand across Jimin's mouth before he could complete his cringey pick-up line he used on every single girl he had ever met. He shoved him to one side and let out a loud laugh to camouflage his apparent embarrassment.
"Sorry about that-" Taehyung said, as he used his body to hide Jimin from the girl's view. "He didn't have enough sleep last night."
"No, I had enough sleep-" Jimin flailed his arms, trying to get Taehyung out of his way. "Hey, I haven't gotten her name yet!"
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"That's okay-" the girl said with a smile, ignoring Jimin completely and focusing her eyes only on Taehyung. "Hi, my name's Jisoo, Kim Jisoo."
"Oh, Kim Jisoo?" Taehyung smiled. "That's a nice name. My name's-"
"Taehyung-" Jisoo completed his sentence for him. "Kim Taehyung."
"Wait-" Taehyung's eyes widened in surprise. "How did you know that?"
Smiling knowingly, Jisoo lifted a finger and pointed it at Taehyung's notebook, where his name and number was scribbled down in black ink. "There it is - your name... Kim Taehyung."
