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jaehyun [one]

In the morning, you literally rolled yourself out of bed, barely sticking the landing on two feet. Well, more like one and a half feet. Somehow, despite your classes starting an hour later than Monday and Wednesday, and therefore requiring you to wake up an hour later, you were much more tired in the morning before your 9 a.m. classes. You went through your typical routine with Taeyong: wake up, make breakfast, eat breakfast on your coffee table, brush your teeth, get dressed, go to class. All with a Nekomata on your heels, either in his cat or true form.

Slipping your shoes on at the door, you gave him a farewell ear scratch, earning a pleased purr from the back of his cat throat. You then stood up straight and took off for your class. Tuesday and Thursday mornings you didn't get to see Jaemin or any of your friends in the quad. Jaemin's classes didn't start until ten then, Yuta was at his off-campus facility to work on his graduate research; Tuesdays Jaehyun was at his second job all day, and on Thursdays he was at his job for most of the day, not coming back on-campus to help teach until evening classes started up. For some godforsaken reason, the entire Literature department at your school decided to have their classes either at eight in the morning or six in the evening, no in between.

So you trekked onto campus by yourself and walked to your Calculus class by yourself and plopped down in your seat by yourself. Your seatmate was a kid who was asleep for half the class, and you couldn't blame her, it was boring.

Today was review for your test on Thursday: applications of integrals and derivatives. Oh joy. Your professor handed out the review packets, and reminded you of his office hours tomorrow for him to look over the review sheet and help you on any questions that you got wrong.

Next, you had a small break between classes, and you took that time to grab yourself a drink from the dining hall, something to help wake you up a bit more. Not that integrals and derivatives weren't absolutely invigorating, but your professor unfortunately had a very monotonous voice, one that frequently had you being lulled into Stage 1 of your sleep cycle. Those sweet, sweet Alpha and Theta waves were seductresses, truly.

After sipping on your drink and scrolling through social media, you then made your way to your Human Communications class. The entire class was a joke, but at least the professor gave fun in-class assignments, even if he didn't actually teach you all anything. You had an even bigger break between your second and third classes of the day, and you took the opportunity to try to work on your review packet for your Calculus test in the dining hall while you ate lunch. You wanted to get the packet done today so you could take advantage of the office hours tomorrow.

By the time you had to get going for your last class, you had about a sixth of the packet done. It was going to be a long day, you could already tell.

Abnormal Psychology was a breeze as per usual, but unlike your Human Communications class that was also a breeze, this one wasn't a waste of your money. You were actually learning, thank god. And it was interesting stuff that you were learning. When you left the lecture hall, you had a pep in your step. Until you remembered that you had that Calculus review packet to finish.

And so with a bit less pep in your step, you entered your apartment, toed your shoes off at the door, set your bag down on your coffee table, and went into your kitchen to make yourself a snack. Taeyong was right on your heels as soon as you stepped in the apartment, which you didn't necessarily mind. Normally, when he was clingy in his cat form, you found it endearing. And in his true form, it was... also usually endearing. When you turned around from pouring Goldfish into a cup, you nearly smacked right into him.

"Oh!" You narrowly avoided him, scooting around the man to leave your kitchen. He followed.

You settled on the floor in front of your coffee table and brought your review packet, calculator, and pencil back out of your bag. Barely through reading the longer word problem, you were interrupted by Taeyong.