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Sunbi huffed as she walked into the room of her first lecture. When she had attempted for Seoul National University, she logically knew it would have some arrogant snotty rich kids, but she had grossly underestimated just how many of them would be there. Or maybe it was just her horrible luck that she kept running into them, because the past six people she had attempted to socialize with had shown their character in the first few sentences alone.
Sunbi was officially done with socializing.
She sighed and plopped her books and bag on one of the seats near the back of the hall, sitting down and subtly trying to glance at the guy on her right. She was way too early and the lecture hall only had a few other kids, so it wasn't like there was much people watching to do to pass the time.
The guy was either cold as hell (cold as ice? Was hell even hot?) or had an impressive bitch face, because damn did he look like he could stare into your soul. His features were pretty soft if she was honest, all nice curves and gentle slopes that would make anyone who wanted to shoot for a delicate aesthetic jealous.
"Something on my face?"
"Eh?" She started out of her daze, surprised at both being suddenly addressed and at the deep ass voice.
"You were looking in this direction, so I assumed–"
"Ah no, your face is fine! You just looked scary."
Moon Sunbi, first year med student, and a professional at having a lack of filter.
"Wh– scary!?" The dude lightly touched his cheeks, as if trying to feel what part was scary. "Me?"
"You looked pretty intense," She nodded, bringing her forefingers to her eyebrows to make them seem to have an angry downward slant. "Like this."
"If it's any assurance, I didn't know my face was doing the thing. Kim Taehyung, by the way," he added after a pause.
"Moon Sunbi, here's hoping we get along." Maybe there was something worth it in this socializing thing after all. "Unless you wanna talk about how much you scored in high school or how much your parents spent on educating you. Then I'm out."
"Don't worry then, you can stay," he said solemnly before cracking a wide smile, and Sunbi smiled back.
Hyeim yelped when she felt herself suddenly collide with someone's chest. She had lost track of time while working on her assignment that morning, and now she was late for class. Not only would her professor murder her for being late, he'd also kill her a second time for handing in what is probably a mediocre essay af best.
"I'm sorry! I should have–" The words died in her throat as her gaze travelled upwards to see who exactly she had bumped into.
Nevermind about her professor, she was clearly going to die even before she reached class. Out of literally anyone in the department of medicine, why did she have to run into the infamous Kim Taehyung of all people? That man was scary, and was widely rumored to be the ice prince on campus.
"It's okay," he replied back in a honey like voice ( Hyeim had expected it to colder, judging by the extremely cliche nickname ). "You seemed to be in a hurry."
"Ah, I'm actually late for Professor Lee's class. You know, department of ethics? I'll be going now!" Maybe, if she made a mad dash for it, she'll avoid her imminent doom.
"Wait."
Nevermind then.
She froze, turning back slowly to face him once again. "Y-yes?"
"Give me those books."
"Eh?" Some kind of ransom? A fine as punishment? She had to hand over her suuuuper expensive textbooks?
"They look heavy, you'll be able to run faster with someone else carrying them. Ah, if you want to. No forcing."
"Uh."
She looked at his expectant face, and although she was reluctant to hand them over– and it was generally wise to be wary of all men– she was late for class and she could always scream for help. It was broad daylight and they were in the middle of campus after all, surely he wouldn't try something.
( Right? )
She deposited all four books into his hand, stifling a laugh when he buckled a little under the sudden weight.
"These are heavy," He grinned.
"You don't say?" She smiled back, then breaking into a run for professor's Lee class. It really was easier to do when you were not holding books that weighed as much as an elephant, but she felt really bad for Kim, watching him struggling to catch his breath outside the door. A door that held the sign that class for cancelled.
Seriously? The one day she was too busy the check her email?
"That," he panted, leaning on the wall, "was harder than a marathon."
"Are you free in the evening Kim-ssi? I could treat you to something as a thank you." Hyeim really, really hoped she didn't just sign up to be murdered by a gang. The other's eyes lit up, and maybe she was just being too fearful.
"You don't really need to."
"Please, I insist!"
"My last class ends at seven, I'm free after that."
"Okay," Hyeim agreed. "I'll meet you the fountain on campus?"
"The one with the weird cherub like thing?"
"The one with the weird cherub like thing."
"Did you bring your gang?" Hyeim blurts out when she sees Taehyung approach with two other people. Yep. Okay. She officially signed her death warrant right now. They're definitely going to take her to a dark alley and brutally murdered her. She could already imagine the headlines. Dumb college student stabbed to death. Student with absolutely no sense killed in an alleyway–
"My what?" Taehyung asked, looking surprised.
"Oh my god, you're gonna kill me aren't you? For bumping into you? And making you carry all those books?"
Gang member one placed both of her hands on Hyeim's shoulder. She was distractingly pretty. Hyeim kind of wouldn't mind being killed by this girl cause whoa.
"Yep, we're here to kill you," gorgeous lady said, looking straight into her eyes.
"Please water my plants after I'm gone," Hyeim whispered back.
"This," gang member two drawled, "is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen."
"Nonsense," gorgeous lady said, removing her hands (sad) and turning to look at the guy. He was even taller than Taehyung, and was quite nice to look at with fluffy brown hair and what were definitely blue contact lenses. What was with this group and their looks? "You saw Taehyung trip and fall face first into pizza, it can't be funnier than that."
"Ridiculous, Sunbi, ridiculous. As in moronic. Stupid–"
"Okay, we're done," gang leader, aka pizza boy, aka Kim Taehyung, interrupted, a blush on his cheeks. "Hyeim-ssi, I have no idea why you think I'm going to murder you, but that's definitely not it. And these idiots decided to tag along to the dinner, so here they are I guess."
"Minhyuk," blue eyes said. "And that's Sunbi."
"Oh gorgeous lady!" Hyeim nodded, before realizing what she had said. Can she like, dissolve right on the spot? Maybe make an attempt to be one with the fountain? Be a weird cherub?
"A girl with taste," gorgeous lady– Sunbi squealed, delighted. "Nice to see someone appreciates treasures around here."
"Can we just...go?" Taehyung asked.
"Is this a joke?" Hyeim stared, methodically shoving the pasta into her mouth. "You're telling me that's where the rumors started?"
Taehyung nodded with a rue smile.
"It's practically a running joke between us med students, the fact that one of our sweetest is feared so much," Sunbi informed, laughter clear in her voice. She has discovered that Minhyuk didn't talk much, but even he cracked a grin. She took a moment to take in the fact that the dumb rumors of scary, ice prince, probably in a gang and most likely the leader had started just because the poor boy had gotten horribly lost in the beginning, had wandered into the business students campus looking for the location of his morning class. The tiredness of adjusting to college life, the tediousness of waking up so early for that one class, and the exhaustion of walking around campus so much looking for said class had gave him a bitch face and bad temper to rival anything that day.
"Well, your face doesn't help with that," She mused. He shot her a confused look, and she hastily clarified. "You're way too handsome! Pretty people are intimidating! And you have the smooth super villain deep voice on top of that!"
Minhyuk snorted, "Forget super villain, this dumbass's voice is too relaxing. It puts me sleep."
"Maybe it's because you stay up all night to binge watch anime." Sunbi mock whispered. She got a mild punch for her efforts.
Hyeim laughed along with the rest of them, feeling warm. This was nice, better than returning to her room with a roommate who either was passed out somewhere, drunk as hell, or had someone over and forced her to sleep on the common room sofa.
She smiled at Sunbi, who motioned her to raise her glass so it could be refilled.
This was nice.
Ginam was nursing a cup of coffee and mentally calculating how late he'd be to his next class if he decided get get run over by a truck when a soft voice broke his chain of thought.
"Um, excuse me?"
He looked down at cute brown (grey?) eyes staring at him, pretty thick lips set in a semi pout. God, his day just became 10x better. All hail.
"Yes?"
"Can you point me towards the medical building?" Brown eyes fidgeted. "I was told I had to pass through the business campus to get there but," he huffed a laugh, "Which direction? I'm supposed to find a fountain with a cherub statue."
Ah, the legendary cherub fountain, prime meeting spot for the students just because the thing is so ugly that it's unforgettable. "You see that brick building?" He pointed. "Go that way, and turn when you see a corner and you'll land in the central square with the fountain."
Pretty eyes visibly brightened. "Thank you!"
Shit man, this guy was so cute Ginam could practically see sparkles coming from his body. You know what, fuck his class. All they were doing is discussing some project that he'd end up making alone anyway since his partner was a whole bitch and a half.
"Lemme just walk you there," he said, and pretty eyes looked surprised but smiled all the same.
"Thank you," he repeated as they began walking, and Ginam took a moment to grin smugly at the few students that were looking his way, no doubt thinking to make a pass at pretty eyes. Speaking of which…
"I'm Ginam. Business major, third year. And you are?"
"Park Jimin, nice to meet you hyung!" Oh, so this was a baby first year, huh? "I actually go to K-Arts, but my boyfriend goes here and I am here to meet him. We're going to get lunch and maybe spend the day together." Jimin smiled, no doubt thinking about his date. Pity he was taken, he was rather cute.
Ginam hummed. "That's nice. He's a first year?"
"Yup! His name is Taehyung!"
Hold on a second. Ginam didn't bother much with whatever the firsties were up to, but he didn't live under a rock. Medical first year Taehyung was pretty famous, if not for his supposedly scary ice prince nature ( Ginam wouldn't know, he had never actually seen the dude ) then for his ridiculously good looks. There was a popular conspiracy theory going on about the dude being actually cgi or something, which was honestly, what the fuck?
"Kim Taehyung?" He asked just to be sure.
Jimin nodded. "You know him?"
"Not personally, but kid's a popular guy."
"Right? Taehyungie has always been really charming," Jimin sounded so proud, Ginam had to smile. It kind of reminded him of a small puppy.
They walked in silence after that, Ginam depositing the little guy to the fountain. "There you go. You babies have fun."
"Not a baby," Jimin mumbled petulantly, making him sound even more like a baby. Ginam would have replied, but he was distracted by a guy who was looking straight in their direction. Must be Taehyung. Kid definitely had the model face to match the descriptions.
"Jimin!"
"Tae!"
The both of them ran to each other and hugged tightly like it was some kind of a reunion scene in a movie instead of like 1 pm, hot as fuck, on campus of a hotshot college with a really ugly fountain.
( It was kind of sweet. )
He blinked, realizing Jimin had tugged over his boyfriend towards him. "And this is Ginam hyung," the shorter was saying, "he helped me when I was lost!"
Taehyung grinned ( it was boxy? Somehow? ), thanking him enthusiastically. Seriously, where the fuck did the whole cold hearted cgi robot thing rumors came from? Man, freshmen came up with the weirdest shit. To be honest, he had a suspicion that it was just some dumb thing that the med students came up with, because none of them had batted an eye at the overdramatic hug. He wouldn't be surprised if they had fanned the flames, little trolling shits, all of them.
"Yeah kid, it's all cool," he waved the thanks away. "I'll be going now." Maybe he could catch the last half of the class, or maybe he'd just go back home and start on the project. He wondered if his asshole partner had left any messages about it.
minhyuk
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news sure spreads quick
look at their absolute devastation on realizing youre taken
sunbi
Should I be concerned that you're taking videos of random people?
minhyuk
you aint my mother
even if you type like one
sunbi
The fuck you said
taehyung
G U Y S
minhyuk
ah the man himself
watch the video bro
taehyung
??
oh okay found it
gimme a sec
sunbi
Gotta say this is highkey hilarious, good job
Also babe I see you reading these
taehyung
did you really take a video of people in the library lamenting that I'm taken
hyeim
dont call me out like that @sunbi
and tbh its their fault for being so loud in the library
minhyuk
it's free real estate
taehyung
did that one girl actually literally physically say "I wished I was the one to melt the cold and tough exterior of his"
did her friend seriously reply "yeah it's so romantic"
????? what wrong with people
minhyuk
too much trashy romance
sunbi
you DEVOUR trashy romance animes
minhyuk
@hyeim COME COLLECT YOUR WOMAN