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Summer break quickly passed and it became September.
Jimin arrived at his college and received his campus map and room key from the new student registration center.
A very passionate upperclassman persisted in showing him the way to the dorms, saving him the trouble of searching for it himself.
The campus was bustling with activity, full of new students moving in.
Now that they're free from the chains of the , these 18-19 year old youngsters were brimming with energy, looking here and there as if discovering a whole new world for the first time.
"Hehe, our journalism department this year really struck gold, having two super hot guys enters at once......" the upperclassman leading the way excitedly exclaimed.
"Eh?" Jimin was puzzled. Two? Was he one of them?
"The other guy came right before you did," she explained. "A little taller than you, but wow, those looks, totally off the charts! Some of the welcoming committee even fainted and are still out of it even now!"
Jimin laughed at this upperclassman's exaggerated descriptions.
"You're also very handsome, and if you had come before that guy, they probably would have fainted for you instead," she sighed with regret. "In short, you chose a terrible time to arrive. Everyone had just received such a deathly blow, and their eye for beauty was still broken."
Hearing her words, Jimin couldn't help but grow curious about just how handsome that guy was.
He's gay, so obviously, he had an interest in other hot guys. This kind of interest was similar to how a straight guy, upon hearing about a beautiful woman, wanted to go and take a look.
"However," she turned her head slightly to glance at him and giggled, "I'm not really a fan of his type. I prefer someone with your 'style' a lot more."
Hearing these words, rather than feeling self-conscious, Jimin thought that this upperclassman was really interesting. Pointing to himself, he asked, "What kind of 'style' am I?"
She frankly replied, "The pure, fresh, and natural type."
Jimin almost did a spit take... "Then, what about that guy?"
Without hesitation, she said, "The coquettish and flirty, player type!"
"Pftt......" Jimin couldn't hold back his laughter. "Co, coquettish and flirty?"
He honestly could not imagine such adjectives describing a guy......coquettish? Hmm, if it's like that, then it's not a type he liked either.
"It's his eyes!" his upperclassman made flashing motions with her hands. "They spat out temptation! Like pzzz—!" She gestured towards Jimin some more, trying her hardest to portray that person's charisma. "Eye seduction! You get it, right?"
Jimin's lips twitched. He really felt that some kind of light did shoot out of her eyes just then......
She escorted him to the dorm's front door, and in end, walked away smirking after she obtained Jimin's Whatsapp info.
Jimin had felt it wasn't proper to refuse. Now that he's here, he'll have to socialize.
He was assigned to building 18's room 412, and he went up the stairs to look for it. When he arrived, the door was slightly ajar, and he could hear laughter coming from inside.
"...Wow, such a small bed, can you even fit? Wouldn't your foot hit the other guy's head if you lied down? Holy shit, if you can last here for a whole month, I, Jungkook, will change my last name to yours!"
"Fuck you! Who the hell wants to share a last name with you, you psycho!" came an angry yet laughing voice, deep and with a pleasant timbre.
"Wanna bet? Whoever loses is a wiener!"
"Bet your effing sister......"
Following that was another round of laughter.
Jimin pushed open the door and entered.
The talking and laughter instantly came to a stop.
Both guys inside the room simultaneously looked towards Jimin, and Jimin also looked at......one of the two.
......Tae......
......Taehyung......
...... ! ! ! ! ......
"Hey, your new roommate's here," the guy next to Taehyung recovered first and elbowed his friend in reminder. "Hurry up and say hi."
Taehyung stared in a daze, came back to his senses, and then burst into a smile as he greeted Jimin with, "Hi."
"I'm," the other guy pointed between himself and Taehyung as he flashed his white teeth, "his friend, Jungkook, who doesn't actually go here."
Jimin had absolutely no idea how to respond. Seeing Taehyung standing in front of him, and within arm's reach... He was close to losing his shit ok!
His new schoolmate?
His new roommate?
That co, coquettish and flirty guy?
. . . . . .
The person he's thought of for so many years, the person he could only see via IG and whatsapp, has, just like this, materialized before him. Rather than feeling like a gift falling into his lap, Jimin felt more like someone had just smashed his face with a metal discus.
His brain was entirely blank as a million "holy funk's'' raced past, and then...looking at Taehyung with an utterly tranquil expression, he simple said, "Oh."
Subsequently, he numbly stuffed his luggage in an empty wardrobe, turned around, and left.
Jungkook foolishly stared in the direction Jimin disappeared to and sighed, "Man, your roommate's so cool. All he said was an 'Oh' you know!"
Taehyung: "......"
That's right, how many years had it been since he last experienced this kind of reaction when meeting someone for the first time? You could even say that he's never experienced something like this before.
"Though, he's really cold and aloof," Jungkook rubbed his chin as he continued to add more jabs. "It can't be that upon seeing your good looks, he felt the natural hatred of a handsome man towards his competition?"
Taehyung kicked him. "Shut it wills you? Scram already!"
Jungkook: "Owe, the great me had gotten up at the asscrack of dawn just to accompany you here today you know! Heartless asshole!"
After running out, Jimin didn't what to do, but he did know that if he continued staying in that room, he wouldn't have been able to hold back from screaming "AHHH", and then spontaneously combusting.
During his last year of high school, while studying late into the night, Jimin had fantasized before about possibility of meeting Taehyung if they both made it to F University. Just a single look from the distance would have been great.
But never in a million years did he expect that Taehyung would not only come to F University, but also enter the same journalism department he did, and on top of that......become his roommate!
In the past, a single look at the other's photo could turn him on, and starting from today, he'd be seeing the real deal on a daily basis, and even hear the other's voice......
AHHH! FUCK!!
Were the heavens favoring him or toying with him!?
Jimin squatted down while clutching his head, taking deep breath after deep breath, struggling to recover from this shock of a lifetime.
After wandering around the campus for an hour, Jimin finally calmed down a bit and accepted the fact that he's now roommates with Taehyung.
What else could he do?
If the heavens wanted him to die, he had nowhere to hide.
Just accept your fate, Jimin.
Jimin acquired his bedding from dorm's management office when he passed by and returned to room 412. This time, the door was closed and he couldn't hear any noises inside. Carefully, he opened the door, and discovering that no one else was there, let out a long sigh of relief.
He completely overlooked it earlier, but near the entrance on the wall, there was chart showing which beds each person was assigned to.
At F University, undergrads were placed in 4-person rooms that had loft beds with a table below, a bathroom/shower, plus a small balcony.
Taehyung was assigned to bed #1, the one on the right near the bathroom door, and Jimin was bed #3, on the same side but near the balcony.
The placement was symmetrical with their wardrobes on either side on their desks next to each other.
Jimin roughly measured the size of the desk with his arms. Just one meter. This meant that he and Taehyung would be sitting really close when they both studied in the room.
The loft beds were also connected together and even shared the same ladder.
......Now this was awkward. They'd have to fight over a single ladder when getting in and out of bed.
Jimin couldn't understand. Taehyung was a rich young master, so why was he living in a dorm like this?
He spread out his bedding as fast as he could, and when he glanced over at Taehyung bed, saw that it was just an empty mattress.
Thinking of how he'd be able to watch Taehyung fall asleep and wake up every day from now on, Jimin couldn't help but clutch his head again and plop down on the bed he just made......
Click. The door opened and with it, came Taehyung voice. "Eh? You're back."
Jimin sat up in a rush, and while trying to suppress his wildly beating heart, emotionlessly climbed down to the ground.
"That, I just sent my friend back," Taehyung explained without prompting. He held up the plastic bag in his hand and asked, "Bought some drinks. Want one?"
Saying so, he fished a bottle out and handed it to Jimin of his own accord.
Jimin couldn't not receive it, thus softly murmured, "Thanks."
Taehyung smiled, and as if relieved, leaned against his desk, opened his own bottle, and started drinking.
Hearing those gulping sounds, Jimin glanced at the other and saw a beautiful, exposed throat, an Adam's apple that bobbed with each swallow, a single arm resting lightly against the table with slender, elegant, slightly curved fingers, and next was a pair of long, straight legs, legs that went on for miles......
With this one look, Jimin. Got Hard.
He immediately turned around to rummage through his luggage, not daring to look at Taehyung again!
"It's so hot today." Taehyung had drunk half his bottle in one goes, then casually asked, "Are you also a local?"
Jimin's numb and barely working brain weakly received this signal, and after 3 whole seconds, finally returned Taehyung question with an, "......Mm."
Taehyung: "......"
Jimin: "......" Too awkward!
Right at this moment, a spiel of "Here, it's here" came from outside the door and soon, a group of people crowded inside.
Taehyung and Jimin were frozen in place, staring dumbstruck at these strangers.
They looked like a family. There was a middle-aged couple, a spirited and hearty grandpa in his 70s, and the person leading them was a young man wearing a t-shirt.
Their previous awkwardness was replaced by this new awkwardness, and Jimin felt it was an improvement.
The middle-aged woman was the first to react and enthusiastically walked forward to greet, "Are you two also living here? This is my son, chi ki-Bum!"
The young man flushed red and impatiently complained, "Ma, don't use my nickname in front of my roommates!"
The woman quickly corrected herself, "My son Lee Ki-Bum. Haha, you'll be classmates from now on—"
The guy called Lee KiBum interrupted, "Ma, I can introduce myself!"
Jimin really wanted to laugh. Lee KiBum? Bum chici bum ? There were actually people who gave their son a name like this?
Taehyung directly laughed out loud, but his smile was very natural and he even warmly reached out to shake hands with Lee Ki-Bum. "Hello and welcome. I'm Kim Taehyung..." He turned to look at Jimin before asking, "Hey, what's your name?"
Hearing this familiar question once more, Jimin suddenly felt his mind flash back to that summer day the year he graduated elementary school, to that day he went to the TV station in middle school......
The same person, the same question.
Looking into Taehyung's eyes, he stated in a clear voice, "I'm Park Jimin."
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[A small interlude]
Taehyung, enthusiastically: "Hi~"
Jimin, coldly: "Oh."
Taehyung: "......" I've never been treated with this kind of attitude before! Congratulations on successfully attracting my attention!
Jimin: "......" You...stay further away from me, I'm allergic. (=_=)
[[Ahh, and they've met~ Omg MC, I can't believe that's all that took for you to get hard. Good luck these four years lmao.]]
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