song of the chapter: hold me tight - bts 

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My hands grip the backpack straps as I walk towards the entrance of the campus. It's a beautiful day, but I'm not in the right mind at all. Let's just say that I couldn't sleep last night after Bree left.

Checking the time, I take out my phone. Yup, I'm late to class. But before I can continue my way to the classroom, I bump into someone.

I let out a yelp before my butt collides with the tiled floors.

"Sorry!" a masculine voice is heard and I feel how he kneels at my level.

I have my head down as I try to find my phone. It fell somewhere, but I lost all my focus due to the fall.

"My phone." I say the first thing that comes to my mind.

I hear his chuckle, which makes me glare up at him. He stops and gets serious, offering me his pale hand. I  finally look at him and I don't recognize him. He must be new.

I stand up abruptly, slightly startling him.

"I should go." I tell him as I begin walking again.

He steps aside, letting me go.

A silence fills the halls, but it's all gone once the same boy from before speaks. He jogs up to me, "You dropped your ID card."

I turn around and see him holding my card.

"Thank you..." I trail, not knowing his name.

His gummy smile startles me, "Yoongi, Min Yoongi."

I smile at him before speaking, "Thank you, Yoongi."

He nods before going somewhere else.

After my encounter with Yoongi, I jog up to the classroom. Slightly opening the door, I find the classroom fairly empty with the exception of a few students and the professor.

He's here. I remember that we take the same classes today.

"Miss Kim, your late." Professor Hoon says as I nod and go up to the stairs, to find an empty space.

Jungkook waves at me. I look somewhere else. I'm not capable of pretending. So I do what I'm best at: I ignore him.

I'm not sitting with him. I can't.

At the very top of the auditorium, I find an empty row of chairs. Silently I make my way to the row and take my place.

After I sat down that's when the class resumed.

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Today I've been doing one thing, apart from taking classes. I've been avoiding bumping into Jungkook which only meant that I also had to not spend time with Jimin, Taehyung and Hana; since he always spends time with us when he's in campus.

"Dae!" I feel an arm around my shoulders and instantly jump.

I turn around after I let out a scream, seeing a smirking Taehyung.

I huff, "I hate you."

"No, I'm pretty sure that you love me." He jokes as we continue our walk to the classroom.

I slightly smile at him who walks beside me. He stops his walk and turns to me. His hand grips lightly my wrist before pulling me into an empty classroom.

He closes the door and stands before me.

"Okay. What's wrong?" He asks, his hands on his waist.

I furrow my eyebrows, "What?" I ask.

"You've been spaced out basically the whole day," he reasons, "and you're avoiding Jungkook. Why?"

"Tae-"

"Did something happen?" he inquires.

I sigh, "I shouldn't–"

His hands are placed on my shoulders and he makes me sit down.

"Dae, you know you can tell me everything." He reminds me.

I nod.

I trust him.

My heart thumps agains my chest. Guilt takes over me. Every heartbeat blares in my system, making me hear one astounding beat at a time. I feel like I'm about to burst. That's exactly what I do. Sobs take over me. I hug Taehyung and he returns the hug, tighter than ever.

"It's okay, it's going to be okay. Please just stop crying, I can't bear seeing you cry–"

"Just hold me tight, please Tae." I whisper and he tightens his grip on me, drowning out my sobs into his shoulder.

We hug for a few minutes, as I compose myself. Both of us sit down with our hands intertwined. I sigh, looking in front of me, dazed.

"Last night, Bree left her phone and I saw one of her text messages," I begin, "she's talking to another guy, and you can tell that there's more than talking involved between them." I say, turning towards him.

Taehyung nods, his jaw clenching, "So you're saying that she's cheating on Jungkook."

"Yes, from what I read from the texts between her and the guy." I let out.

The boy beside me looks at me, he's about to speak before the door flies open. We both jump.

Please don't be Jungkook. Please don't be Jungko—

"Oh, sorry—hey." Yoongi says as he comes into the auditorium.

Taehyung screams before running towards him. It appears as if he knows him.

"Yoongi hyung!" He exclaims.

Yoongi is startled by Taehyung's hug and stumbles back.

"You two know each other?" I ask them.

They stop hugging and Tae speaks up first.

He smiles, curling his arm around Yoongi's, "We grew up together in Daegu."