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Jimin opened the door to his dorm, took off his shoes and dropped his bag to the floor. Only after he had cracked his stiff neck he heard the voices coming from the living room.
‘Oh shit ’Taehyung had company.
He slowly entered the room and found his best friend laughing to something a cute boy had said. Both were seating on the couch each on either side but leaning to the other.
“Hey there” Jimin said to make himself present since none of them had noticed his entrance.
“Chiiiiim” Taehyung exclaimed happily and jumped from the couch he was sitting with the stranger “You came earlier than I thought”
“In fact I’m late, lab took longer than I expected” Jimin commented with a grin in his face and an arched eyebrow.
“Oh” His friend’s face was starting to turn a bit red as well as the other’s boy and Jimin was living for it “I didn’t realize time was going by so fast”
“Oh shit, it really is late” the boy said looking at his phone “I should get going Tae” he stood up and took his bag. When he was about to exit he turned around and asked shyly “Text me?”
“Of course Kookie” Taehyung replied with a dreamy face, and the boy left.
Jimin couldn’t hide his smirk any longer “Sooo….Kookie? Is that cutie the lil boy you’ve been thirsting after?”
“Oh come one Chim it’s not like that!”
Seeing his always so confident best friend like this was a sacred pleasure for Jimin and he was going to enjoy it till it lasted.
“He’s just so cute you know? I just wanna squish his little cheeks”
“I really hope you’re talking about his face cause he looked like an overgrown highschooler”
“I’m gonna kill you Park Jimin”
Jimin escaped his friend’s fist by inches and run to his room laughing.
“You’ll have to tell me all the details later, but now I really need a hot shower to relax”
“Yeah you do that before I throw my ‘Lord of the Rings’ dagger to you”
Later both best friends were having dinner on the small isle of their kitchen.
“I guess you finished that project already?” Jimin asked his hair still wet from the shower.
“Yeah, the moment we submitted it I asked him if he wanted to play some games” Taehyung answered with a soft smile on his face “Jungkook is just as nerdy as me”
“I’m so happy for you Tae, at least one of us is not gonna die alone”
Rolling his eyes Taehyung replied “don’t be so dramatic, you’ll find someone. You’re just too busy right now.”
“I guess you’re right, and if I thought I had no time now it’s gonna be a nightmare with the beginning of the project next weeks” his friend tapped him on the back in a comforting way and started cleaning up the plates.
“But good news is I’ve found Mr Min’s name and I’m gonna do some good stalking. Wanna help?”
“I’m offended you need to ask”
“And that’s all for today” Mr Min said in his low voice “If you have any questions you can send me an email later or ask tomorrow. I know now seems like a lot to take in but the moment you get to it it’ll be easy”
“I really hope so Mr Min, or else my head will explode” Jimin took his nitrile gloves off and threw them to the ‘contaminated absorbents’ bin.
The older man laughed a bit and commented “I know that feeling, but you’re quite smart. You’ll be fine. I expect you here at 9 sharp tomorrow” and with that he left the laboratory.
Jimin approached to his locker to take his bag and went to class. Hoseok was already waiting for him by the door and his face screamed gossip.
“Soooo…how did your first day with mister gorgeous go?”
Jimin laughed softly and rolled his eyes “He’s just like any other teacher Hobi”
“Oh come on” he was whispering now since the old Legislation professor had entered the classroom “at least tell me there has been some kind of contact...skinship!”
“We are wearing gloves the whole time how you expect there to be any kind of skinship?!”
“Dunno, it was reasonable in my mind”
“I swear to God you’re incredible”
“I know” Hoseok replied with a wink and the class begun.
“Shit almost forgot it!” Hoseok exclaimed when they were leaving the campus, Jimin looked at him with a questioning face “tomorrow is the day we’re participating on that trial”
“Please tell me you’re actually joking” His voice came out whining.
“Sorry my friend”
“Jesus Lord and Saviour give me patience”
“Morning Mr Park, ready to start working?” Mr Min asked him and Jimin could only think how effortlessly good he looked when himself was feeling like a dead corpse. So instead of replying with an actual answer he just nodded and put his gloves and goggles.
“That’s it, now you take the juglone and hope to have catched enough worms to keep the experiment going”
Jimin replied with a hum and continued to pipette the transparent liquids over the petri plates. When he considered they were cleaned enough he looked at them through the binocular loupe, but the little fucking worms were still there mocking him.
“Fucking fuck” he muttered under his breath “could you little creatures help at least?”
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath to try calm himself.
“Hey Park, don’t be so hard on yourself, it wasn’t that bad for your first time”
Jimin opened his eyes to look at Min Gorgeous Yoongi and bit his tongue to avoid getting a worst image than the one he was picturing right that moment.
“You look specially stressed today Mr Park” the elder commented “you’re usually all smiles and good words”
“Well I can’t help it, it’s already 11 in the morning, I woke 4 hours ago and I still haven’t had my first daily coffee….I don’t function good without coffee”
“If you needed to take a break for that you should’ve just said it” Mr Min said amused “coffee is a gift from the heavens and nobody should be deprived from it”
“Oh that’s the thing” Jimin was starting to feel heated “I would have preferred to arrive late here than missing my precious Colombian coffee cup with just the right amount of soya milk to mask the bitter and enjoy the real taste of coffee” Mr Min seemed about to say something but Jimin continued his rant “But no, of course I had to sing myself up for some stupid clinical trial about how the consumption of caffeine can affect you blood pressure and you cannot intake any damned coffee before the measures are being taken. And of fucking course my appointment had to be after a whole morning of doing experiments and I don’t even know if I’ll be able to eat since later I have three classes straight and also …”
“Park, slow down”
“…so many assignments still to finish but the end of semester party committee wants to gather within the week at god knows what time they'll propose...”
“PARK!”
Jimin blinked startled when the older man raised his voice, only then did he notice where he was and to whom he had been ranting
“Oh god Mr Min, I’m sorry”
“Park stop, you seriously need to relax a bit” the scientist was looking at him with apologetic eyes and when he squeezed his shoulder did Jimin notice the older man was touching him and all his stupid mind could think was ‘Oh shit, could this count as skinship?’