"Taehyung what are you doing here?" Jennie asked, surprised to see him at the same place.

"I was just hanging out with my friends. We had nothing to do after classes." Taehyung replied.

"Oh. Same here." Jennie said with a smile.

That's weird. How come we are at the same place? Is it a coincidence or did we overheard each other's plan?

They both got lost in their thoughts. Figuring out how they met unexpectedly.

"Taehyung-ah!" It was seokjin.

Taehyung and Jennie came out of their thoughts when they heard a yell.

"Finally he chose a pair of shoes for himself" Taehyung said looking at Seokjin who was approaching him.

"What?" Jennie asked not able to understand what he meant.

"Nothing. Gotta go." He replied hurriedly and left.

Jennie stood there, still not able to understand how they met. And why they always bump into each other? She wanted an answer to these.

"Unnie!" Lisa called out to her. Not getting any response, she moved to the counter and found her standing alone there.

"Unnie". Lisa called out again, softly this time.

But Jennie didn't even look back.

Lisa slightly annoyed, nudged her.

"Unnie!" Lisa almost shouted.

Jennie came back to her present. "Yes" she looked at lisa after flinching and sighed.

"What happened? I called you three times but why weren't you answering?" Lisa asked her, a hint of irritation in her voice.

"Uhh.. nothing." Jennie tried to brush it off.

Such a bad liar she is.

"Unnie. You can tell me. If not me, then you can tell jisoo unnie." Lisa said gently, keeping a hand on the latter's shoulder.

Jennie felt a bit lighter due to her kindness.

"Thanks Lisa but it's nothing to worry about. I just met someone by chance here. I stood there as he left in a hurry." Jennie explained casually but lisa sensed something was more to it.

Lisa nodded her head, not convinced by her words. But she decided not to bother her any more.

"Ok. Unnie let's go now." Lisa held her hand and they both started walking to the exit.

—

"Jennie? Who is she?" Namjoon asked after taehyung narrated the incident while walking back to their respective apartments.

"Well she is-

"Taehyung's classmate and benchment for this semester." Jimin replied cutting taehyung off.

He just stared at him.

"Oh. Tell us more about her." Hoseok said.

"I haven't talked much to her till now. Even if we do it's just about studies or us teasing each other about our grades." Taehyung said while kicking his feet.

"You can befriend her. Help her out at times, talk to her about other things rather than academics, support her in whatever she do." Seokjin suggested but taehyung seemed unbothered.

Taehyung didn't liked the idea.

"Not that. She is also good at studies and i want to secure her position." Taehyung said plainly.

Namjoon and seokjin turned their heads at him, making sure they didn't heard anything wrong.

"Taehyung. Why do you want to do that?" Namjoon asked with a slight anger in his voice.

Taehyung tried to explain but was cutt off by Seokjin.

"Right. That's not good. She is better in her own way and so are you. What do you want to prove?" Seokjin bursted out.

"Hyung. I don't want to prove anything. I just want myself to improve too. I scored really bad last semester." Taehyung explained.

Jungkook sighed hearing that. He is used to taehyung complaining about his grades and remarks.

"Really? How much?" Yoongi asked him.

Taehyung went silent.

"Come on say. We won't judge you. It is ok." Namjoon said.

"It was 94%". As soon as the words left his mouth, their were mixed reactions from the seniors.

Just one percent less? What's wrong with that?

I'm proud of you. I just scored 85% but still I'm messing around.

That's too much. I'm happy that I at least passed this one.

That's a brilliant score. I'm sure you topped the class. Well done.

—

"Ok bye guys. See you all tomorrow." Taehyung waved and as soon as he was about to open the door of his apartment, he felt a firm grasp holding him back.

Namjoon and seokjin held him and reminded.

"Remember taehyung. You study but for yourself not to outdo her and let her down." Namjoon was serious.

Taehyung closed his eyes and sighed.

"Hyung don't worry. Now let me go." Taehyung slipped from his grasp and went inside, locking the door behind him.

Namjoon and seokjin just stared at the door, thoughts roaming inside their minds before letting it go.

—

2:00 am.

Past midnight. Both taehyung and Jennie were awake. They lied down on their beds, staring at the ceiling while thinking about their unexpected meet up.

Jisoo-ya: Jendukie don't think much. Just sleep.

Jennie ignored the text.

"Jennie! It is just a coincidence. It happens at first. Don't think about that." Jennie said to herself, frustrated by the thoughts which kept her awake.

But it went in vain. Her mind couldn't stop thinking about the encounter.

—

Taehyung was in his room. Looking at the sky twinkling with stars. He was reminiscing about his past suddenly.

He remembered the girl. His classmate, when he was in high school. They were quite remote with each other at first but soon after moments of studying together, they became good friends.

After a year, they started appreciating each other's strength and weaknesses. This deepened their friendship. But taehyung knew he felt something more for her.

6:00 pm. Seoul.

The month of august. It was pouring with rain that day. Taehyung wanted to talk to his friend, the girl who stole his heart. He wanted to tell his true feelings to her.

"Taehyung make sure you don't phone anyone at this moment. The line might be dead." His mom said from the kitchen.

A frown appeared in his face. As he was just about to do that. Phone her and talk to her.

He waited for almost one hour. But it seemed it was gonna rain all day, he couldn't wait anymore. He went upstairs in his room and tried to ring her by his phone.

Ring.

Ring.

Ring.

He wanted that ringing to stop it right there. He started developing a small crush on her classmate.

Tired of the ringings, he threw his phone across the room which thankfully landed on his bed.

"Why isn't she picking up my phone?"

He gave up and decided to confess to her at school.

Next day:

"It's ok if you don't feel the same for me. We can stay as friends." Taehyung said, his voice filled with emotions.

"Yes taehyung but you know that feelings aren't forced. You feel that way for me, and I feel that way for someone else actually." She revealed.

Taehyung's heart were breaking into pieces. He never realised he was in a one sided love.

Back to present:

Taehyung smiled remembering that particular moment. Though he moved on from her and wished the best for her, he wanted to feel that moment again, with someone who truly loves him too.

His eyes welled up with tears without him even realising it.

"I want to know how it feels to be actually loved by someone. I want someone to be with me not just as a friend, but as a lover." He said with a sigh.

He drifted off to sleep, not remembering when.

—

10:00 am.

Taehyung and Jennie were sitting in their class. Listening to the lecture attentively, as it was an important one.

Jennie took down a few notes and highlighted the important ones.

"Jinsung nim told these would definitely come during exams. So please mark it as important." Jennie said to taehyung who just nodded.

Jennie again turned her attention to the lecturer.

"Ok gonna ask a few questions." He said while erasing the whiteboard which were filled with scribblings.

Taehyung and Jennie were all set for that.

The lecturer wrote a few questions on the board and asked the students to write the answers on their notebooks.

Jennie looked at the questions and understood it.

Taehyung already wrote the answer to the first question. He always kept pace.

Jennie was surprised, she wrote the first answer and moved on to the next one.

After a minute:

"Time's up! Tell me your answers one by one."

The students started answering, most of them but quite basic, while the others were in bookish language.

The lecturer then proposed taehyung and Jennie to speak up.

Jennie opened her notebook and started telling the answers.

However taehyung felt a bit off at her answer to the fourth question. He acknowledged that there was no logic in her answer.

"Sir." Taehyung raised his hand which made Jennie pause midway.

"Yes taehyung." He asked

"I think her answer is not correct as it's not defining the term. She has just written the examples." Taehyung explained to which the professor had to go through the topic once again.

Jennie, annoyed by the interruption turned towards taehyung.

"How come? Read the question again. It's asking for a simple explanation with examples. And look at the marking, it says 1 mark for explaining and 4 marks for examples." She protested, trying to keep her voice as low as possible.

"But for 1 mark, you have to write atleast two lines and you have not even explained it properly." Taehyung said ignoring her reason.

The lecturer placed his notes down. "Listen you both-

"Was it mentioned anywhere? No. Then how are you sure about it?" Jennie asked.

"It's simple, be logical. For 1 mark who writes just one line answer? You have to write atleast two lines." He explained, his voice raising.

"You both please stop arguing among yourselves." The lecturer said.

They stopped and looked at the classroom, some students looked in amusement at the chaos they were creating.

The lecturer gave them a serious look and they both mumbled an audible sorry.

The class ended after sometime. Jennie turned towards taehyung and said "what were you about to say? I would love to hear?"

"You want to argue more? I love people who engage in petty arguments." Taehyung said with a smirk.

Jennie took a deep breath to calm herself down.

"See. Come to the point and tell me where was i wrong." Jennie asked him, trying to sound as gentle as she can.

"You are a topper. You should know about where you should be sure with your answers." Taehyung advised.

"I'll take care. But now tell me what the was mistake." Jennie said.

"I already pointed them out." He said turning away.

Jennie held his shoulders making him look towards her.

"When?" She asked with a confused expression.

"When you started the unnecessary rubbish." He said with a smirk which was now irritating her.

"Me? You were the one who started." She defended herself.

Eventually Jennie lost her cool when taehyung pointed out her abilities and studying methods.

"That's enough taehyung. Just one mistake and you are doubting my studies. I'm not a topper just like this." She said, her voice trembling with a bit of anger.

"I said that in jest but you are taking it seriously." Taehyung said and stood up but Jennie made him sit again.

"No. Anyone can sense it from your tone that you were serious." Jennie ranted.

"JENNIE AND TAEHYUNG! JUST STOP IT!"

They were startled by the yell. They looked in front to see their strict professor, much to their shock.

"Come here"

"Sorry I was just-

"Come in front you both"

They knew it was over for both of them. While going, taehyung glared at Jennie as if blaming her for this.

"Detention for you two. Stay back after the class" the professor commanded.

Both having nothing to say, went back to their seats.

They glared at each other in between the lectures.

"It's because of you. Now I can't go to my apartment to revise today's lesson." Jennie said without looking at taehyung.

"We can study together today. Oh wait that's what we got today in detention." He smirked.

—

"Call him and ask him to come outside. Don't know what he's doing." Jimin said to jungkook. They both were waiting for taehyung. Half an hour passed but there was no sign of him.

"His phone is off." Jungkook said with a frown.

"Should we go and see?" Jimin suggested.

After a moment of thinking, they agreed and went to the corridor.

They peeped at the classroom through the window, surprised to see Jennie and taehyung engrossed in their books.

"What am I seeing? Jennie and taehyung." Jungkook whispered to jimin.

"I think they have got detention. Let's just go now. We will ask him at night. For now, phone the seniors and give them this news." Jimin said with excitement as if his friend was in love with her.

"Jimin you only like shipping people. Let's go now. It's late." Jungkook said quickly and went away from there with jimin following behind.