Being the top student of your graduating class, tied with another student, that would mean that for our current class: I'm rather intelligent.
Maybe that doesn't cross over into people skills?
I watch as Mihi scrambles up and off the bed, gathering my clothes from the floor and tossing them to me before she gathers her own clothes, disappearing inside her bathroom behind the shut door.
The sound of the lock almost reverberates to my ears.
She...locked the bathroom?
I stare wide eyed at her bathroom door before scoffing to myself, dressing quick and quietly as I process the last hour.
Mihi was lonely. I came over to offer company. We talked... I talked. We kissed. We had sex. Great sex. And when we finished... she closed off?
Why?
There was something about the sex today that just felt different. If I think about the two other times we had sex, today was a lot less intense in terms of variety. But the intensity in it all felt oddly better.
But why did she close off the way she did when she said that was the best orgasm she's ever had?
"Maybe I'm not as smart as I thought," I mumble, walking back towards the window. I swing my legs over the sill, leaping towards my room and catching the frame of my window. Hissing at the dig of the metal track into my palm, I pull myself inside, glancing around my empty room. My door is still locked, still attached to the wall, so that's good.
Plopping down onto my bed, I reach to my side table, taking my phone when I notice the flashing light.
Dude! – Chim
Where were you last night? I was gonna tell you something! – Chim
Right. I don't need you to tell me what I'm sure you'll tell me about. I sigh thinking about last night. The way Mihi had her legs open for Jimin, the way his head buried between her thighs to tend to her sex.
Without a doubt, I was jealous.
But why? I don't know.
I click the chat bubble to reply to Jimin, inhaling deeply as I type out the words.
I was upstairs, sorry. What's up?
I send the text and Jimin's reply is instant.
I bet he already had it typed out, waiting to send.
I hooked up with Mihi last
night. Kinda. But the weird
thing is that she said she didn't
want to have sex, so I hooked up
with Yuna, and Mihi seemed
completely unbothered by that.
– Chim
Licking my lips, I swell in a bit of pride. She didn't want to have sex with Jimin, but immediately wanted to have sex with me? If that doesn't make the ego swell, nothing will.
Instead of replying to him, I deposit my phone onto the table again, sitting up to glance out the window. Mihi's window is closed, her curtains still open to allow me to see inside, see her laying on her bed dressed once more. I can't quite tell what she's doing, can't see much of anything as she's on her side, facing away from the window.
I wonder what she's thinking.
*
In all of my years of existing, I've never once understood the idea of inviting your neighbors over for dinner.
The twins are laughing at jokes that Mihi tells them, my eyes lingering as she laughs with them.
"What's worse than finding a worm in your apple?" Mihi asks, leaning slightly closer to my sister.
"What?"
"Finding half a worm in your apple."
The twins giggle uncontrollably, Mihi grinning as she takes a bite from her plate. I smile at the joke, shaking my head.
"Tae-Tae, why aren't you funny like Mihi-nuna?" Jeong-gyu questions, motioning his chopsticks towards the lady he references. "Does studying all the time make you dull?"
At his gibe, my mouth gapes open, everyone else around the table tittering quietly. I look to Mihi who has her mouth hidden behind her hand with her chopsticks, her face flushing pink as her eyes crinkle at the sides.
"Hey, why are you laughing like that?" I ask, eyes wide as I take in her appearance. She's...
Beautiful.
Why must she be beautiful while mocking me with my siblings?
"W-what are you talking about?" She clears her throat, a quiet laugh clearing before she straightens herself in her seat, eyes moving from me to her plate and then back up, almost as a reset. "I'm not laughing about anything. Well, not since I cracked my own jokes. Do you need pointers? Obviously Jeong-gyu should assist you considering the way he made everyone else laugh."
I click my tongue, my cheeks heating up as I look away momentarily before looking back to Mihi and then Jeong-gyu, narrowing my eyes at them. "I'll remember this."
"Soooo dramatic." Eon-jin remarks, making me sigh as everyone laughs quietly again.
My brother and sister have betrayed me today, the opening line of my journal entry.
I should start a journal, right?
As if I don't write or document enough in my every day life.
Turning to focus my attention to Mihi, I narrow my eyes at my current enemy.
Sleeping with the enemy.
"You have to leave." I blurt out in my most serious voice.
"Taehyung, that's rude."
I ignore my mother's comment, Mihi seeming to ignore it as well as her lips lift and spread into a smile I've never seen before.
"You'll have to carry me out of here, sir."
"He won't do any of that. No legs or arms when he's the butt of a joke."
I sigh heavily and lean back in my seat, a smile breaking free at Eon-jin's comment. "You guys make it so hard to love you."
"Isn't that the truth." Mom sighs from the end of the table, seated next to dad with Mihi's father sitting across from her. "So Mihi, your dad was just telling us that you only applied to one college and you got accepted! That's so exciting and rather risky, isn't it?"
I watch as Mihi drinks from her glass, swiping a drop of water from her lip as she turns her attention to my mother. "High risk, high reward, no?" She grins, tilting her head slightly. "If I would've applied to multiple colleges, got accepted anywhere else — everywhere else would've felt second-rate to my top choice. I live for the competitive acceptance. A five percent acceptance rate? Thirteen point seven early acceptance? Sign me up. Those odds obviously worked in my favor."
Did— Harvard?
I lean forward slightly, my mouth suddenly dry.
She applied for Harvard? That's my top choice school as well. I know the odds are low, that was the whole reason I went ahead and applied to other colleges globally and more local.
I haven't heard back from Harvard yet. I'd only sent in my application a week ago, so I'd rather not stress about it too much as of now.
"I told her to not chance all of her eggs in one basket, but luckily it worked out in her favor." I cut my eyes away from Mihi and toward her father, him shaking his head slightly. "I'm glad she's making a path for herself though."
My parents continue talking with Mihi's father, my mind drifting over the previous conversations.
"Taehyung."
I snap my attention back towards my parents, my father looking at me expectantly. "Sir?"
"Will you see who is at the door?"
I nod, standing from my seat before turning out of the dining room, stopping in front of the door as a knock breaks the momentary silence of my thoughts.
I open the door to see my best friend, standing there in all his glory, and my thoughts instantly drift back to Yoongi's house. His lips on Mihi, his hands touching her as he tastes what isn't his.
And how she denied him what she has repeatedly given to me.
"Your mom said I could crash dinner any time. Can I join you guys tonight?"
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A/N: this is kinda just a filler, not happy with this update but it had to happen. It's a little later than I planned on updating, sorry :(
Since today was a free day, I took my girls to visit my grandmother and mom—and I got my toddler a puppy. I've been running back and forth taking care of the puppy and trying to train it, tending to M and her teething-pain nursing, and trying to update haha
Next chapter, things will begin to progress some more. Stay tuned ❤️
Thank you guys for reading my trash 🥰 I appreciate you all!
Love,
Shay
February 23, 2022