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- Katya Pov -
Loud thumping footsteps getting closer behind you, trying to outrun them is becoming more and more hopeless, even worse, you trip right onto your face. Hands and knees scratched to the point of slight bleeding showing through all the filth and dust collected since you’ve found yourself here, you were running out of oxygen and your vision was getting worse by the second. Unable to get back up, the ground beneath you began to crumble, and you fell into the endless void, feeling your limbs being torn apart.
The abrupt sound of the alarm wakes you up, still dazed from the bizarre dream, you decide to look at the time. Its 5.30 in the morning, but with how dark it is, you’d assume it was still night. It was so peaceful, only hearing birds chirping outside, with a car passing by here and there heading off to work most likely, and the cat purring in between your legs. You were about to have another 30 minute nap, but while staring up at the ceiling, that for no particular reason had a picture of Josh Hutcherson from the Whistle meme stuck to it, remembered you wanted to fix your sleeping schedule for once, so instead you get up to do your small routine: showering, brushing your teeth, and preparing breakfast. After 30 minutes of showering, you grab your iPod that was laying on your mattress before heading downstairs, that way you can jam out to music without waking up your grandparents.
As you head nearer to the kitchen, you ponder on what it is that you would make for breakfast, deciding between pasta or some rice. You aren’t the best cook, something simple would be an easy routine to keep up with so you end up coming up with making egg fried rice with a plain old egg on the side. While waiting for the rice to cook in the rice cooker, you start preparing the eggs, humming along to music and bopping your head around. Once the rice was done, you mixed half of it with the beaten up eggs in a pan, moving the food around so it doesn’t get burnt. After a few minutes, everything was finished, but before eating you clean all the dishes that you’ve used so that you wouldn’t be lazy later. You tend to say you would do something later, but when later comes, you’ve already changed your mind, so now you have to be more disciplined with yourself, especially since you are starting uni today. Quickly after the doing the dishes, you feed the cat before heading back to your room to eat your food, looking through your iPod and which next song to listen to on repeat, landing on Гроза by Сова (author: I recommend lol, it’s really nice). While eating the rice, you decide to text your friends, who are also going to SEOULTECH Uni, on where about you should meet up that way all of you can head there together.
You: “oi dicks, where we meeting?? yk, so we can head together to uni((”
Nikita: “How are you up so early mate??”
You: “i asked a question first, don’t go off topic >:((”
Sylvestre: “The bus stop that’s near Nikita’s, one of the buses there heads in the direction of the uni, that’s where we’ve been meeting up.”
You: “aight :thumbs_up:”
Nikita: “Yeah but try not to be late this time Sy, got not excuse today since you’re up early too!”
Sylvestre: “Bug off dudeee.”
Nikita: “Hehehe love you too <3”
Sylvestre: “Love you more >:3”
You: “argh scram cunts, start getting ready(((”
Nikita: “You still haven’t answered on why you’re up so early!!”
You: “BAIIIIII see u two soon~”
With that done, you closed Discord and switched onto YouTube, and find a Minecraft video to watch while eating the rest of your rice and egg with one earphone in, still listening to the same song on the iPod, and the cat on your lap.
- Time skip -
You quickly do the rest of the dishes, before heading back to your room to get changed for class, feeling anxious, you decide to wear some comfort clothes today consisting of plain dark jeans and a light hoodie that’s slightly too big on you. Your hair, being very short, wasn’t budging to be styled, no matter how much you fought with it to make it look decent, so you’ve kept it messy, with slight hair spray on top to prevent it from getting worse while out and about.
A light knock on your door caused you to swiftly turn around.
“Come in!” You answered, louder than you originally meant to. Behind the door reveals to be your grandma, curiously looking at you to make sure you’re awake and ready.
“Oh you’re already awake, that’s wonderful~” your grandma chirped, “have you had some breakfast yet? If not, I can quickly prepare something for you before you go!”
“No need ba, got up early today so I made some myself.” you replied quickly, packing your bag with your laptop and some sketchbooks with pens and pencils. “Gotta go, see you and granps once I’m back!”
“Have a lovely first day in uni sweetie~” grandma called out, with grandpa responding the same as you headed out the front door. You decided to leave a bit early, so that you can explore the area around you and not be late for the bus. On your way there, you spot a few small cafes nearby, one of them even had a poster up saying they are currently hiring, you decide to note the number and email down for later as you were thinking about looking for a part time job anyway.
As you got closer, you spotted Nikita and Sylvestre already there chatting to each other. Quietly creeping behind them, you tried spooking them but failed.
“Took you a while!” Sylvestre complained sarcastically.
“Faster than you on a good day that’s for sure..” Nikita clapped back, scrunching his face, with Sylvestre quickly pecking his lips, giggling.
“If the bus is not here, than I’m not late, so shush Sylv.” you finally responded to his previous complaining, with him making a silly face at you too. The three of you continued to chat about deciding on what to do in Minecraft once you all are back home, with the bus shortly after arriving.
Inside the bus, it wasn’t as busy as you’d expected it to be so you decide to take the window seat near the front, with Nikita and Sylvestre sitting behind you. Your anxiety started to rise a bit, causing you to start listening to music on your iPod again, but with one earphone out in case your friends needed you for something. Most of the ride you made quick short responses anytime either of the two talked to you, doing breath work in between the silent moments, but near the end you decided to ask them if they could walk you to your class, to which they eagerly agreed.
The walk to class felt dreadful to say the least, but the two quietly cheered you on, with your hands tightly wrapped around the strap of your bag, you waved them a goodbye and agreed to meet the next time all of you have a break at the same time. As you entered, you decide to head towards the teacher to give a heads up that you are a new student here, who in turn greeted you with a warm smile, confirming your name, and telling you to take a seat at any empty seat available. Quietly thanking him and bowing your head slightly, you made your way to the second last seat next to the window on the left side of the room. The room itself was very simple and small that could fit around 25 or so students inside at once - though there were only 13 other students at the time of your entrance, the walls worn down with a few posters up about HTML and CSS giving a short explanation on what they are and tips alongside them. You’re already familiar with web programming so you quickly take out your laptop and a tiny notebook with a pen in case you find something interesting enough to note down or just doodle.
- Yoongi Pov -
Entering 15 minutes late, Yoongi continues to chat with his mates, Jin and Hoseok, who are in the same course as him, that being Web Programming. Suddenly Jin nudges him to look forward, where he notices you sitting at his desk already invested in your work after the teacher gave you all a task. For a short while, he stood there in a trance state curious as to who you are and how to start up a conversation with you.
“Yoongi.. dude we need to sit down, teach gave us a task on the board,” Hoseok tried snapping Yoongi out of his frozen self “come on dude.”
“Are we going to ask hi- uh her..? Wait what do you think their gender is?” Jin finally spoke.
“I’m not sure either, we’ll have to ask them at some point.” Quietly responded Hoseok, both of whom were about to head in your direction until Yoongi stopped them.
“Let’s find a different time to do that, you guys go look for a different seat” with that, Yoongi left both of them speechless and him made his way to sit next to you. As he sat down, he noticed you quickly looking at him followed by moving your stuff closer to you to make space for him.
“You’re new, what’s your name?” Yoongi asked you, quickly adding a friendly looking smile after noticing you getting slightly startled.
“K-Katya..” was the response. There was a moment of silence between the two of you as Yoongi though you’d speak more, asking what was his name, but you didn’t. Instead you faced back to your laptop and continued working.
“Nice to meet you, Katya, I’m Yoongi!” you nodded while giving him a quick look with a smile, Yoongi continued, “We’ll be desk buddies from now on, so don’t be too shy around me.” Once again, you gave a quick nod and went back to your screen.
Feeling eyes at the back of his head, Yoongi turns around to see Hoseok and Jin staring at him from across the room, probably wondering what you two were talking about. He promptly gave them a signal to focus back on their work instead, turning back to his own while rolling his eyes at their behaviour.
- Time skip -
After the class finished, everyone started heading towards the cafeteria for break, with you already out the door before Yoongi could ask you any more questions. Him and his friends decided to go ahead too, with Jin and Hoseok teasing Yoongi to get some answers out of him. As they entered the cafeteria, Yoongi noticed you again but this time you were with your friends joking around and laughing. “Pft.. so stupid...” he thought to himself as he continued to watch, a stupid gummy smile sneakily grew on his face. Jin and Hoseok share eye contact, giggling at the scene that is currently happening in front of them.
“Ya snap out of it, lovebird, let’s get something to eat already!” Jin complained while lightly smacking Yoongi behind the head, in turn making him look at Jin with slight confusion and annoyance.
“Hasn’t even been a day and you’ve already developed a crush on the new kid” Hoseok further teased Yoongi.
“Aish~ I’m not in love, let’s go or else you won’t hear the end of it” Yoongi grumpily replied, stomping off to get food, with the two following close by continuing to giggle.
- Katya Pov-
After meeting up with your friends in the cafeteria, the three of you spoke in Russian with English sometimes being added to the mix so that other students around you wouldn’t understand what any of you were saying. You and Nikita got in a friendly argument over Sprigatito and Piplup, deciding which one of them is the cuter Pokemon, with Sylvestre settling it by calling Piplup cuter because he looked a lot like Nikita.
“That’s just unfair though~” You complained like a little child, stomping your feet, “you two are dating each other, of course you’ll side with your boy toy!”
“Nuh uh, I won fair and square, Piplup is undoubtedly the cutest Pokemon!” Nikita retorted in response. Pretending to be angry, you pout causing the two to laugh, with you joining shortly after. You all decide to grab something quick to eat and head outside to sit on the grass while it’s still sunny. Nikita quietly ran up to you and smack the back of your head before running away, leaving you stumped for a few seconds, after which you ran after him calling out his name in annoyance and Sylvestre following you behind.
As you guys sat down and relaxed, you took a deep breath in and exhaled. It hasn’t even been half a day yet but you’re already exhausted socially and emotionally, especially with that dude starting up a conversation with you during class. It took a bit but eventually you snapped out of your thoughts and heard Sylvestre trying to get your attention.
“You alright there?” asked Sylvestre, slightly worried as you looked a bit sad while you were zoned out in your thoughts.
“No yeah I uh.. I was just thinking about stuff.” you replied with a quick small smile, he nodded.
“Ooh!” Nikita chirped in, “how was your first lesson today? Didn’t get too stressed did you?” There was a moment of silence as you’ve looked out into the field noticing birds chatting with their mates up on the trees and other students participating in football.
“Yeah it was alright, I uh ended up sitting with some dude who was somewhat talkative to me..” you finally responded.
“Really?” both of them leaned in closer wanting to hear more gossip, “what’s his name?”
“Uhm it uh began with a Y..” you looked up hoping it would help you to remember his name, “I think it was Yoongi… yeah.. yeah it was Yoongi.” The two looked at each other, visibly shocked, so you’ve asked them what’s up.
“Right~ so about him eheh..” Nikita finally spoke, “him and his gang are kind of known like heartthrobs in this campus, he also tends to be late to class often from what I heard.”
“Plus in these two weeks that the uni started, they’ve already got in trouble a bunch!” Sylvestre added, “them and another group of boys don’t get along very well, not sure why though, so just be careful when you’re around them.”
With that information, you just thought to yourself: “he didn’t seem that bad in class, he might’ve had his reasons to get into fights..” before you could continue staying in your own little world, Nikita nudged you on your arm, signalling his head towards the direction where a group of boys were. Turning around quicker than you wished, you saw the same bloke who sat with you in class and his friends chatting near a bench. You turned your head back after accidentality making eye contact with one of his friends, overwhelmed with how they are able to have a friend group consisting of 7 dudes while you’re still struggling with the three of you.
“OMG OMG OMG!” Nikita suddenly burst out and clapped his hands excitedly, making you and Sylvestre curious as to what he wanted to say, “we should like totallyyy play Minecraft with a BUNCH of horror mods installed like those YouTubers, you know what I mean?” Sylvestre agreed almost instantly, while you sarcastically moaned and rolled your eyes before you finally nodded your head. Not long after, it was time for the three of you to head back to class, with Nikita and Sylvestre taking you back first as you’re already forgot the way there.
As you’ve entered, you made your way to the desk in an instant so that way no time was wasted getting back to work, which this time involved conducting some secondary research on HTML and CSS, basic structures and examples as well as inspirations for your project. After 5 minutes since class started, Yoongi and his friends showed up, you gave a quick glance making eye contact with Yoongi before focusing back on to the screen, muttering to yourself in embarrassment trying to calm down, rubbing the side of your head from a slight migraine. As you were about to start typing again, you felt his presence next to you, whether or not he was staring at you was unclear since you kept your eyes glued onto your laptop, that is until he spoke.
“Hey, can you explain to me what we’re even supposed to be doing?” was the question, making you wonder if he even bothered to look at the board in front of the class or was just trying to find a reason to distract you.
“T-the board has the task w-written out..” you mumbled the response, “is there anything specific that you don’t understand?”
“Sorry, can you repeat that?” requested Yoongi, causing you to look slightly petrified at the idea of having to speak again to someone you barely know, but as you were about to do so, he spoke again, “Just kidding, yeah nah I just wanted to tease you a bit~”
Whacking your head against the table harder than you meant to, you groaned before lifting your head back up, a singular tear made its escape down your cheek, the whole scene causing Yoongi to try and hide his giggles.
“You alright?” Yoongi finally asked after calming down a bit, the smirk still not leaving his face.
“No.” and with that you ignored him for the rest of the lesson and even tried for the rest of the day.
- Time skip/ Yoongi Pov-
During lunch break, Yoongi and his friends hung out together, chatting about what they were working on and gossiping about what happened during their classes, though he only slightly paid attention as he was trying to take a nap before the class started again.
“Bro, you’re going to sleep your life away at this rate!” Jungkook complained, grabbing his arm and pushing it back and forth with Taehyung and Jimin copying the bunny, as well as trying to get him to stand up. Not budging, Yoongi was determined to have a nap even in this chaos, so he shut his eyes even tighter and pretended to snore, the three of them finally giving up and Jungkook pouting with his scrunched up eyebrows aggressively sitting back down on the bench. With that, Yoongi managed to get his 30 minutes of beauty sleep before the final lesson of the day.
Back in class, he tried to start up random conversations with you again, each attempt was returned with mostly silence, sometimes getting a hum sound out of you or the tiniest nod that shouldn’t even be considered a nod. Trying to do his own work, Yoongi only manages to get a quarter of it done before looking else where around the classroom, moving onto the window and then at you. With nothing more interesting to do, he decided to start poking you, starting with your arms, but after still not getting any response he started going after your cheeks which finally caused you to turn around with a done face. Placing his head into his palm with the elbow on the table, he continues to stare at you with a satisfied grin.
“Going to talk now, or are you still like a toddler?” chuckled Yoongi, but instead of giving him a reply, you started packing your bag, leaving him a little worried thinking he went too far, until he checked the time on his laptop and realised it was time to start heading home. Deciding not to annoy you, he packed his bag too. “Chat more tomorrow~” Yoongi patted you on the shoulder before heading out the door, already on the phone texting his younger brother, Namjoon, where he was at so they can start making it back home together.
- Katya Pov -
Back at your grandparents, you could smell your favourite soup being made in the kitchen, you haven’t had meatball soup in a long while so you decided to get a quick peak at what the progress is like at the moment. Grandma noticed your head peaking out the corner and gave you a warm welcoming smile.
“Go get changed, your favourite will be ready in a jiffy!” breaking the silence, “don’t forget to wash your hands.”
You quickly kicked off your shoes and dashed upstairs to get changed into something more comfortable, almost forgetting to wash your hands, but not wanting to upset grandma you did as you were told. Once you got downstairs, three bowls of soup were on the table with smietana being available in the middle which you really wanted and couldn’t stop staring at, so when grandma and grandpa came in noticing you glued onto smietana, they let out a light chuckle and past you the cup. Taken a bit back by the act, you gave them a smile before accepting it and putting a bit of the cream into the soup then putting it back in the middle for them as well. You finished the whole bowl unsurprisingly quickly as the soup was very delicious, you even wanted to have another portion but decided against it as you didn’t want to feel bloated at the end of it, instead, you thanked grandma and then washed the dishes, heading once again upstairs to chat with your mates on Discord.
You: “yoo, ready to start up the game???”
Sylvestre: “Yah, hold onnnnn I’m still setting up all the mods”
You: “send code asap >>:(”
Sylvestre: “Yh yh hold your horses lad”
Nikita: “Still waiting for my computer to turn on…”
Sylvestre: “Updates?”
Nikita: “Updates.”
You: “told u should’ve set up linux instead..”
Nikita: “Unlike you I play other games beside Minecraft ,’:/”
You: “bit mean… i also play other games too((”
Sylvestre: “Like what?? Cookie Clicker?”
You: “how did u… yk what, forget it >:( just send code u meanie”
Nikita: “Shocked you even have CurseForge set up to play..”
You: “im act gonna send a nuke to ur exact location in a sec”
Right after you send your message, Sylvestre finally shared the code to the modpack where the three of you finally played together in a server filled with a bunch of horror mods, trying to survive without running out of breath getting scared while laughing on voice call. None of you even noticed how fast the time flew until your alarm went off, which you’ve set up to remind yourself to go to sleep early, making all of you groan almost in unison. After a few fake cries, you’ve finally said goodnight to them and left the game, getting ready for shower, feeding the cat, and then off to eventual sleep after a few tosses and turns followed by overthinking and over analysing today’s day.
- Morning -
It was freezing, as if the whole of Antarctica got moved into your room, not wanting to get up you and instead wrapping yourself further in your blanket before reluctantly getting up and heading to the kitchen to make yourself some eggs. The dream continued, still as bizarre and exhausting as all other nights, the feeling of not being able to run as fast as you wished you could’ve, always on the brink of being caught by something bigger, something inevitable, still tripping over and unable to pick yourself up. Feeling your anxiety rise again, you try doing some breathing techniques and brain dumping into your notes app to calm yourself down. You had to prepare yourself for another day at uni.