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“Come on, get up! You’re gonna be late for class”
“Five minutes more mommy” Jimin got hit by a pillow taking him out of his sleeping state.
“You are 22 already, when will you stop calling me that when I wake you up” His best friend Taehyung groaned from above before leaving the room.
Jimin smiled like a child and screamed back to him “Never!”
He finally got out of bed and went to the bathroom, took a quick shower and headed to the kitchen where Tae was already having breakfast.
“So what’s your schedule for today?” Tae asked as he shoved a spoon full of cereals into his mouth. Jimin made a disgusted face at the sight, but his bff was just like that. “I have classes all morning and later I have to go to the lab to start my project.”
“Shit, already? I thought you had time till February” Taehyung replied surprised. Jimin just hummed in agreement, his tutor had told him to not worry at the beginning of the course, but few weeks later came to him with the news. “My tutor said I need to start now ‘cause some freaking scientist genius is going to do some research at the uni and apparently can help me”
“Didn’t know studying microscopic worms was THAT interesting really” said Tae with a smirk, Jimin hit him playfully cause he knew that deep down his friend cared about his studies and the fact that he could tell his final project involved parasites was the proof. Ok, he may not know what a C.elegans was, but he loved him nevertheless. “And what about you? Still trying to design the perfect chair?” Jimin laughed while asking, since he knew chairs were his best friend's little obsession. “I already finished my classes, just have to focus in the design of this new lamp my group have been working on” something changed in Taehyung’s eyes when he continued “you know how we work with different kinds of engineers….there is this cute programmer in the team...”
Jimin opened his eyes widely and screamed “I knew something was up with you! You never stay that long when doing group projects” Tae laughed, his cheeks turning a bit pink “Yeah, he’s a year younger and he’s so cute Chim, you should see him”
Jimin smiled happy to see his best friend so excited “Then you should ask him out, I’m sure he’ll say yes to a cutie like you”
Taehyung laughed and nodded “Yeah, I think I will when we submit it this week. I need to get going now, see you tonight Chim”. And with that Jimin was left alone, but with no time to lose he got his backpack and headed to campus.
“Hey Hobi, you won me this time. Hope it wasn’t hard to keep this seat free” Jimin said as he seated next to his classmate. Hoseok smiled and raising an eyebrow looked around them. “Jimin are you fucking serious? We’ve been the only ones to seat in first row for the last four years” Jimin displayed his eyesmile and cutely said “What do you expect from the eternal class president? I can’t just stop pretending I pay attention during classes, people need to keep believing we are some kind of ultrasmart boys”
Hoseok rolled his eyes and smiled, but he had to agree, every teacher made an exception for them if they needed it and the rest of the class thought they studied like crazy.
“I bet everyone would be shocked if they had seen their little class president last saturday getting wasted and dancing like you always end up”
Jimin faked a hurt expression and putting his hand over his heart said “I can not believe this onslaught, everyone loves my dancing and for your information I was not drunk, the ground lines kept moving” With that Hoseok laughed throwing his head back and Jimin smirked.
The professor entered the hall and with that the class begun.
“I hope the slides are enough to pass cause I’ve spent the whole time finishing that toxicology paper” Jimin sighed. “Same, I was looking for maths exercises for the kids I tutor. I really hope Mr. Brown didn’t see or he’ll think I’m an idiot”. Jimin laughed with his friend and they got to the cafeteria. “I am so not ready for the lab work today” Jimin said, Hoseok was preparing his project within the same field but didn’t have to start yet. “Don’t worry man, you’ll make it work and end up with flying colors as always.” Jimin muttered a thank you and they got their lunches.
After saying goodbye to Hobi, Jimin got ready to meet his tutor and get the information he needed to begin. Charlotte was already at the lab, four years of tutoring made them quite close even if she was still her professor. She was looking to some petri dishes through the microscope and didn’t notice Jimin until he was close. “Oh my! You scared me sweety”
“Hey Charlotte, how are the little ones growing?” She smiled widely, her love for biology and researching was endearing and one of the reasons why Jimin had decided to choose her as her project director. “They are looking really good, you did a nice work last week. Oh, remember the guy I told you about? He’ll be coming through the afternoon to see the installations and you can meet him then”
Jimin nodded and got to work, it’s not that he wasn’t excited to meet this researcher, but his mind had too many things going on with the classes and everything that he could not put more interest into that.
Around a couple of hours later, when he had finished preparing the material for following experiments someone entered the lab. It was not rare to have people getting in and out of the lab so he didn’t pay attention. Instead kept focusing on cleaning the extraction hood; he mentally cursed his short height, cause he couldn’t reach properly the upper area. Giving up, he threw the dirty papers to the absorbent contaminated bin and suddenly heard someone clearing his throat. Jimin turned around to face the most beautiful men he had ever seen. The man was around his height, dark hair and beautiful pale skin. The stranger was looking at him with a smirk plastered in his face and his arms crossed over his chest. Jimin became then really aware of his appearance, he was wearing the long ass lab coat, nitrile blue gloves and the stupid goggles he was obliged to wear over his own fucking glasses. His blond hair was a mess, cause that’s what spending 3 hours a day in a lab makes to you, and sure as hell he had the biggest eye bags in history. As if it wasn’t enough the gorgeous stranger was dressed up impeccably; with dark slacks, a white button up and expensive looking shoes.
“I believe you haven’t properly cleaned that hood. You can get contamination in the next investigator’s cultures if you’re not careful” the stranger had a raspy voice that made Jimin insides melt.
“I’m the only one that uses it, I’ll take the risk” Jimin replied trying to keep his voice steady. The other seemed about to say something but then Charlotte appeared and exclaimed:
“Oh my two boys already met, doctorate Min this is the student I was telling you about, he’s Park Jimin”
Jimin looked him in the eye and smiled a bit, the man hold his gaze and then smiled widely showing his gums “Nice to meet you, I’ll see you around Mr Park”
Jimin blinked in trance and when he came back to his senses the two had left him alone.