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CHAPTER FOURTEEN : irritating

"fuck off."

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— mei pov.
- 3rd person.

a big timeskip is that we're currently 2 weeks in the future from the hanmeihao dinner and hao and mei have non stop been arguing for the past deadly weeks.

it was a pain in the ass for everyone else since it was over the most stupidest, fatiguing and time wasting things you could ever think of.

unfortunately, the person being affected the most was hanbin. having to hear two of your favourite people continuously argue over a fucking school rank was really irritating.

in zhanghao's case, it's understandable why he's mad, but riling up a girl with anger issues definitely wasn't the smartest idea coming from a so-called 'genius'.

however, it was definitely not just hanbin that it was affecting.

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mei's slaves
10+ members

jaemin:
mei SHUT THE FUCK UP

renjun:
what's happening now

jaemin:
she's complaining so loud i can
hear her from the other side of
the fucking lecture hall

jeno:
LMAO WHAT ABOUT NOW

yangyang:
hao obviously

ricky:
bye of course it is

haknyeon:
what are they arguing about this time!

haknyeon:
who's first rank????😧😧😧

jaemin:
she's complaining he's breathing
too loud LMFAO

renjun:
isn't this the 2nd time this week

chenle:
leave him alone he's a singer

jaemin:
SHE'S LITERALLY SO LMFAODI

jaemin:
the professor is out of the room rn

ricky:
why is ur professor never there

jaemin:
Idk but rn he's gone because he had
to get the headmaster to approve
something

donghyuck:
why the fuck are you texting during
fucking dance theory

jaemin:
cause prof isn't in the room bimbo

xiaojun:
imagine being in dance theory

donghyuck:
music theory w xiaojun rn🔥

jaemin:
*sent attachment*

jaemin:
why does she glare at him like that

jeno:
it's cause she's in love with him

in love with who

renjun:
the guy you despise

which one

xiaojun:
the one... you are lowk obsessed with

i'm not obsessed with any boy unless
it's huang renjun

renjun:
love you xx

jaemin:
what happened to your bff hao

HE'S SO FUCKING ANNOYING HE
DOESN'T STOP BREATHING LIKE

ricky:
bro doesn't even breathe loud what
are you talking about

i know but he's still breathing it pisses
me off i hope he breaks his neck

jeno:
didn't you tell us you wanted him
to break your neck like 2 weeks ago

NO WHAT

yangyang:
you said it when you were drunk
i found a video

Why didn't you tell me about this!

yangyang:
BC I FOUND IT LIKE TODAY

ricky:
jokes on all of you i remember
absolutely everything x

yangyang:
and you decide not to tell us absolutely
everything that happened x

ricky:
one day x

ricky:
mei was telling us abt her juicy kiss
with a very nice guy!

bro he hasn't contacted me in ages
i wanna meet him again even tho i
have no fucking idea who he is

chenle:
someone find the guy mei made out
with plz

ricky:
oh so u guys fr don't remember...

yangyang:
WDYM

jeno:
DID WE FIND OUT WHO

jeno:
IS IT YOU

WHY THE COCK WOULD I MAKE OUT
WITH A GUY FOUR YEARS YOUNGER
THAN ME YOU ABSOLUTE MUGS

haknyeon:
Things happen!

ricky:
it's not me omfg

ricky:
idk who it is

UGH i thought you found out

ricky:
umm no sorry x

jaemin:
BYE MEI CAN YOU STOPFNSLSNS

I hate Zhang Hao.
i hope he actually kisses me until i have
nothing in my lungs forever

renjun:
Bitch omfg

jeno:
LMFAOOOO

donghyuck:
girl really said never back down
never what

i'm joking

yangyang:
girl's a liar

xiaojun:
THE GIRLS A LIARR

haknyeon:
THE GIRLS A LIARRR💯💯

I hate you guys

jaemin:
can u stop giving me heart eyes
like i know i'm hot but like

i literally glanced at you

jaemin:
you literally want me so bad

renjun:
did you guys switch bodies or
something wtf

donghyuck:
Love square

WHAT

haknyeon:
LMFAOOOOO

chenle:
LOVE SQUARE

chenle:
who tf is in the love triangle

ricky:
mei hanbin and hao

WHY IS HANBIN THERE

xiaojun:
cause ur cute together x

renjun:
he's not wrong

ricky:
you know yujin made ship names

renjun:
ofc he did

What

ricky:
hanmei and zhangmei

OH
why them two though like

chenle:
idk everyone thinks them two
both like you

renjun:
i'd understand hanbin but hao is
so untrue LMFAO

ricky:
reallll he doesn't like mei

U GUYS R SILLY LOLLLL

haknyeon:
girl is in denial

chenle:
real

donghyuck:
If you think we're silly move back
with your Women

jaemin:
stupid Woman

renjun:
WHAT THE FUCK

i may Not have rights BUT i'm literally
first in the uni🔥🔥🔥🔥kys🔥🔥🔥

ricky:
pls Like no one cares

xiaojun:
hao does

yangyang:
he cares so much he wanna be
with mei x

BYE I'M SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE HATING
HIM RN CAN WE NOT.

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currently as of now, mei was sat down at breakfast with her parents, having a conversation about how her first month and a bit is going.

"we're so proud of you getting first, mei." her mother grins, impressed with mei rapidly reaching the top after under a month. "you really are our gifted child, do you want us to get you anything as a gift?"

mei shakes her head with a small smile. "i don't need anything, thank you. i guess i'm really that smart, huh?" she chuckles.

"you're our little genius. renjun's family is also really proud of him." her father says, mei nodding along. "they planned him a trip to china for business in a month or two. do you want to go with them?"

"it's the same time as the fashion event we're attending though, if you still want to go to that." her mother adds. mei was a HUGE fan of anything related to fashion, if she wasn't an aspiring musician, fashion designer or model would definitely be her plan.

mei thinks as she plays with her spoon, "no, i'll be fine. i still want to go to the event. do you know anyone else who's going since renjun isn't?"

her mother nods. "do you know our neighbour, quanrui? i think you call him ricky." mei nods. "yeah, his mother's clothing brand is being sponsored there as well as ours, so he'll be there." well it was a good thing mei was kind of friends with ricky.

spending the last two weeks only talking to renjun's friendgroup and hanbin almost made her forget she even was friends with that group. she's only been close with gyuvin and ricky who she considers her younger brothers.

"perfect then. if you want, you can invite someone else to come with you. most special guests have extra tickets anyway, you can invite one of the girls." her mother says. "though i do suggest only one person."

the first person that came to her mind was ningning. "i'll ask ningning about it." she says.

both of her parents nod and quickly order the servants to take their breakfast away. "anyways, how's your school friendships? i've heard good things about your behaviour." her mother asks, making mei gulp.

"i think it's fine. i'm close with all of renjun's friends and hanbin's friends. that's about it though. i have no plans to be friends with anyone else." she mutters the last part.

her father grins. "i'm glad we had to cut the medication off, you seem so happier these days, but also really quiet."

mei shrugs. "just focused on school, i guess." she shrugs. "i can't stand hao though." she scoffs, making her parents frown.

"are things not good with the zhanghao guy? you haven't talked about him in a long time. you used to always mention him." her mother asks, noticing her daughter's sudden change of attitude.

the girl shrugs with a deep sigh. "he's too focused on studying, we don't talk." she says, which was true. but she obviously had to hide the fact she got her number blocked over a simple rank.

"is he doing well? is he nice to you?" her father asks, causing her mother to nod along.

mei nods. "well yeah he's really good compared to me, and he's alright i guess."

her parents share a look. "you're doing well too right? mentally too?" her father asks. "if not, we can always get your therapist–"

"i don't need it." she refuses instantly. "i'm fine, it's nothing i'm worried about. i'm just there to 'fix my behaviour' aren't i?" she laughs dryly.

"mei. we don't want you to be stressed–"

"i'm not stressed. i'm literally fine. nothing's bothering me." she spits.

her parents both sigh but give her a sweet smile. "remember you can always tell us okay? if anything bothers you, renjun or us should be the first to tell." her mother says in a calm voice. "whatever it is, we'll sort it out."

mei nods. "yeah i will, thanks." she stands up. "i'm going to school now, bye." she fake smiles before tapping yuta's shoulder.

yuta nods and the two soon walk out to their garage, since he obviously had to drive her to campus. but how come mei is suddenly so moody all of the time? it was only a matter of being a joined rank with a guy.

both of her parents sigh. "do you think she knows about hao's situation?" her mother whispers, watching mei and yuta leave.

her father shakes his head. "well she did say they don't talk.." he sighs. "i'm sure she doesn't, but if they end up becoming close, i'm sure he would open up."

"what if mei doesn't open up?" her mother asks in worry. "should we ask the headmaster to do something so they can talk?"

he shakes his head. "not yet, it's only been a month. she's been staying in her room ever since that ranking. i'm not sure what's going through her head but it's probably about him."

spoiler: he's right.

she sighs. "i'm sure it is. i'm worried now, i blame this all on youngjae. that silly fucking–"

"honey let's not!" he chuckles. "i'm 100% out of this mei will get a good outcome besides good grades. for example, a boyfri–"

"enough!" her mother laughs. "you may be rooting for hao but i'm 100% hanbin is perfect."

he rolls his eyes. "he's sweet but a girl like her needs someone who she's easily obsessed with, just like how you used to be obsessed with me."

"gross." her mother scoffs. "even hanbin's parents agree with hanbin."

her father shakes her head. "i will pay for hao's tuition fees if he and mei end up being a thing. if it's hanbin, i'll buy him a car. and if it's non of them, then i give up."

she laughs, hitting her husband's arm. "you're very passionate about mei's love life, aren't you?"

he shrugs. "youngjae was not it, she liked him so bad we couldn't even sue his family. that's how much we care about her happiness."

she nods in agreement. "yeah, i hope youngjae gets what he deserves."

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— mei pov.
- 3rd person.

she was late, very late for music and it so happened to be the time where everyone was doing classes on the other side of the campus. who else would be there to distract her than her ex boyfriend.

"fuck off." she deadpans, looking blankly at a laughing youngjae. "move, youngjae." she now glares at him as he didn't move from the doors to the music hall.

"mad about your partner leaving you?" he leans against the door with crossed arms and a smug smirk plastered on his face. "you're quite late."

"move." she retorts. "i skipped the first part of the lecture on purpose. why are you even here?"

the smirk never leaves his face. "you've been skipping lectures a lot, scared to see me?"

"bold of you to assume i'd still skip lectures because of you." she scoffs. "can't you just leave me alone? you with your weird villain arc is pissing me off."

"oh. no can do, mei." he chuckles. "it's fun seeing what you're up to."

"if you don't fuck off i'm seriously going to tell my parents, remember what power they have over you and your family." she says. this was something she's never said. she's never used her parent's power against someone until now. (nepo baby tingz x)

youngjae sighs, getting up and walking towards her. "nepotism back at it again, never gets old."

"you speak like you want to be a villain in a shitty tv show, fucking move. i want to play without being in a bad mood."

he leans forwards at her. "play what? people's feelings? it seems like you've been–"

"can you get out of the fucking way?" a recognisable voice cuts him off. "you're blocking the door, dumbass."

the two turn to face hao who was glaring at both of them. youngjae only laughs in response, "you're here to save your friend?"

"no. you're in front of the door, fucking move." hao says in a really irritated tone. "you're blocking students from getting in their lecture, there could be a sanction for that."

he scoffs. "it's a door, you could've asked politely. both of you." but to both of the boy's surprise, he was shoved aside from mei's force as she pushes him.

she scoffs. "wasting my fucking time." she walks in, hao glaring at the guy and following behind her.

"what time do you call this? you're both our top students. why are you late?" their music professor sighs in disappointment.

"it was youngjae." the two said at the same time. "he blocked the door." they say again, looking at each other with a glare.

the professor sighs. "you know we aren't strict with things like this, but half an hour late is really unacceptable for a lecture in your best major."

mei shrugs. "my bad."

the professor frowns. "my bad? you're only going to say 'my bad'?" he ridicules.

mei looks up at him with a bored expression. "sorry?" she questions.

"you two are staying at campus to clean the instruments and this room. i can invite youngjae later too." he says, already fed up. the worst thing about their music professor is that he has no patience.

mei rolls her eyes. "don't you think that's just stupid? cleaning over being half an hour late? this isn't high school."

hao coughs, reverting the professor's attention back to him. "how long are we staying?"

mei looks at hao in annoyance. "you're just going to allow that?"

"well your last lecture ends at 3pm, you can stay until four." the professor says. "no arguing, mei. go to your studio now."

mei crosses her arms and follows hao towards their studio, which she hasn't even step foot in in ages. solely just because hao was there. in music practical lessons, she was at the back sleeping, or on the piano.

hao takes the key out and unlocks the door, surprisingly not slamming it in her face and keeping it open. "are you coming in or what?"

mei stares at him but clears her throat before avoiding eye contact and walking in. as she quickly makes her way to the sofa, she notices the  appearance of the studio change a little.

it was more cuter and felt way comfortable than it did before. considering this was basically his studio now, everything was probably done by him.

it was awkward. really fucking awkward.

"how can you just accept that professor giving us a stupid ass high school punishment?" she asks, watching him sit on the chair in front of the desk.

hao ignores her gaze. "he never changes his mind you know that already. better to accept it than fight back all the time."

mei scoffs. "fucking hell i'd rather not clean the instruments, don't they have cleaners here?"

"it's literally cleaning, have you never fucking cleaned an instrument before?" he scoffs back.

"i have people to do it for me." she shrugs.

"of course you fucking do." he sighs, logging into the computer. mei noticed her account was still there with her silly hao profile picture.

she rolls her eyes. "what? you make it out to be like i'm not supposed to have privileges."

hao sneers. "it's not like that, you just sound like you're showing it off to everyone. it's really annoying."

"okay well i don't know what you want me to do, lie?" she crosses her legs on the sofa. "that's literally impossible for me."

"well just shut up. lie if you want, no one wants to hear it." he shrugs, typing away at whatever the fuck he was doing.

she found the way he's been acting really irritating. like why the fuck does he always need to mention she's got money when she rarely does herself?

"whatever." she huffs, opening up her phone to see a few notifications from hanbin, who nei has still gotten really close to.

[ 3 notifications from imessage!]

1) : 9+ messages from 'mei's slaves'
2) : bin🔥🔥🔥🚮: wyd? :) text me when you're done, i want to take you out!
3) : junjun<3: girl i swear to god hanbin keeps fucking looking for you
4) : jaehyunlee: how are you??

mei chuckles at the few messages and replies to hanbin's messages. he had asked her to go on a walk with him to 'talk' later. but she did have to tell him about the silly punishment she got with hao and youngjae(?).

now she had to be awkwardly sat in a room with someone who dislikes her for an hour and a half. her luck was fucking great but at least she got to see hanbin after!!

"how many weeks until the next monthly eval?" she asks, comfortably sat down.

hao's gaze still stays on the computer screen, "two weeks. don't even bother studying if you think you're so smart."

"i didn't even say anything but okay." she stares at the screen.

he hums. "i can't predict what bullshit's going to come out of you next."

"oh shut up, you're full of bullshit. you want to clean instruments, weirdo."

"doing shit like this makes the professors like you better, if you really want to keep your rank stay quiet . you deadass argued with the professor."

"i didn't even argue with him?" she chuckles dryly. "i just found it absurd."

"now you have that dickhead with us, fucking idiot. i can't believe we're on the same rank." he complains.

"well if you told me that beforehand i would've been somewhat nice, then i would. and it was youngjae's fault for being in the way not mine." she says dryly.

hao notices the emotion from her voice slowly draining. "ok. shut up now. i want to work on this." he says, putting on some headphones.

mei didn't care and went on her phone, not worrying about anything else or the exams. she hated it here.

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the trio that all hate each other were now sat in the music room with instrument cleaning supplies shoved in their hands. the three groan as the professor leaves the room. "if you don't finish by four, you're coming onto campus early to do it tomorrow."

mei sighs. "ok." she begins to walk away to the piano, taking the cleaning equipment out and rolling her eyes. fucking stupid.

she had airpods in anyway. 'poison' by brent faiyaz blasting through her ears. music was the solution to any problem in her life, besides alcohol.

the other two were wherever the hell they decided to go, as mei didn't care about any of them. but she kept wiping the keys as she hummed along.

it was all going well until she heard a faint shout, basically forcing her to look up. if she could hear a shout that easily, something was wrong.

youngjae and hao were faintly shouting at each other, but as she didn't care, she carried on cleaning as normal.

mei was just thinking about everything about being stuck in an all boys' school for another eleven months. was she even going to be able to survive?

she hated the fact she struggled to make new friends, since they were all boys who are nerdy and either have no life or is a big man whore. no in between.

she's been in contact with hyunjae recently, but she knows there's nothing romantic as he was just a really nice friend, and three years older was a bit scary too,

from what she's heard, hao hasn't even tried to text him. he was just probably doing it to try make mei jealous of how easy he can get numbers.

did she care that he was just giving his number to the same person she did? maybe. but is she ever going to admit that? no.

the girl wasn't even in the mood to try date. if anything, she'd rather not date at all. she may seem the dating type, but from what we know, she thinks no one will like her for her personality. it was always looks or money.

she's had a couple of pick up lines sent to her from boys here, but she was never interested since her mind was just thinking about beating hao.

she has no fucking idea how she's going to beat hao when he's way smarter than her and they're likely to always get first together.

but this is where the problem of comparison comes in, she hated being compared to other people. it was her least favourite thing ever. and now she's here to beat someone, the thoughts engulf her at night.

was she really all that smart? or is she just a rich bitchy gifted child?

the sound of a scream caught her out of her overthinking sessions as her head shoots up towards youngjae looking pissed off at hao.

from what it looks like they've been arguing for the past minute she was overthinking. "get your top student ass off of me." youngjae scoffs.

"i didn't fucking touch you, calm down." hao retorts. "i just went in front of you."

"just fuck off you fucking nerd." youngjae clicks his teeth, cleaning a guitar quite aggressively.

"can you shut up?" mei says from the back, taking her airpod out to make sure her voice volume was enough for them to hear.

the two boys look up at her with a dead stare. "literally no one fucking asked you to get involved, shut up mei." hao scoffs.

"oh my days you're both ruining my mood, just clean. this is your fault in the first place, youngjae." she sighs, walking down.

youngjae crosses his arms. "weren't you the one complaining earlier?"

"yeah, i don't want to fucking be here with you two. but at least keep your mouths shut. it's fucking irritating me."

hao scoffs. "if you didn't decide to be a bitch to the professor he might've let us off."

"you were late too?? and that wasn't even my fault. why the fuck were you late anyway?" she asks, looking up at his cold eyes.

"i was late because i was looking for you." he says, mei's lips parting in shock for a split second.

"ew what, you want to look for this whore?" youngjae laughs, though it obviously wasn't funny.

mei threatens a slap, making the guy flinch. "don't even start." she closes her eyes. "i'm not scared to hurt you."

"oh here comes big old bitchy mei again." youngjae laughs. "i bet you hao doesn't even know how violent you are. don't you know mei has–"

"i don't care about mei enough to care about that." hao shrugs. "she's still bitchy, so i don't know what you're talking about."

mei adjusts her claw clip and places the cleaning equipment down. "you're as bitchy as me. you're fucking duplicitous. acting all fake around me."

hao snorts. "i'm not going to be nice to someone i don't fucking like."

"that's such a fucking lie." youngjae says, causing hao to glare at him.

"i tried to be nice in my first weeks." she shrugged. "but you decided to be a cunt to me and all of a sudden i fucking hate you."

"likewise." hao look away. "you weren't even nice, your ego's always pissed me off."

"you and hanbin seem all bestfriend-y too, that's cute isn't it?" youngjae mocks. "playing with people's feelings?"

"she does play with feelings but you can't even talk." hao turns to youngjae. "didn't you like treat her like shit or something?"

youngjae laughs. "more like she treated me like shit, she always got mad at me for everything. talk about crazy ex girlfriend."

mei looks at him in disbelief. "so you just want to lie now? no shame?"

"imagine being that sad." hao looks at her. "but you are someone to get mad at everyone for everything. you got mad at me yesterday for fucking breathing."

"that's because it's fucking annoying!" she argues. "you piss me off everytime i see you."

youngjae looks at her with a mocking face. "everyone and everything pissed you off, i wouldn't be surprised if you've argued with a professor properly."

"only in my old university." she says. "this one id okay, but everyone here is pissing me off. especially you two."

"that's just because you're fucking scared you won't beat me, always copying my notes and everything." hao says.

"what's more annoying is you're the fucking top students. first punishment must really suck." youngjae giggles.

the door opens, revealing their professor. "how far are you?" he shouts.

"quite far!" both hao and mei say at the same time (again) as they all back up and go to another spot to clean.

"good, i'll be checking these tonight." he says before walking out.

"i wish my maids and cleaners were here." mei complains.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP." the two boys yell.

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this is such a boring filler sorry. i was too lazy to make a full argument because i'm exhausted ijbol

in my i hate school era my writing just gets worse gradually omfg. i need to sleep istg + ignore any mistakes i'm about to fall asleep ty <3