Today, Ten had to wake up earlier than any other day in his schedule. He was too sluggish and almost fell asleep while he was taking a bath, despite the water being cold. He had to bring a coffee to drink on his way to the university. The only thing he likes that he does every early morning was a morning walk.

Nothing beats a good exercise every morning.

Ten took sips on his coffee and felt like he feels better. Surely, he'll still take a nap when he arrives at the classroom. He looked at the time on his phone and still have time to charge up.

He arrived at the entrance of the university, seeing a lot of students going in in time. He rubbed his hair and tried fixing it after, his ears going down from the action. Then, he saw Taeyong by the gates.

Ten gasped and ran towards his best friend, "Taeyongie--"

"What happened yesterday?"

The hybrid stopped and furrowed his eyebrows, "What?"

Taeyong crossed his arms, "You and Johnny...?"

"Oh...that? Who--Who told you?"

The other hybrid blinked twice and cleared his throat with his hands going into his pockets, "That's...unnecessary."

Ten hummed, "Yuta?"

"No--Anyway, it doesn't matter who said it! You'll seriously and physically get into a fight if you keep this up, Ten. I'm telling you."

Ten pulled Taeyong in and started walking towards their departments, "I'm defending myself, and Yangyang."

"Yangyang? Who's Yangyang?" Taeyong asked.

"Someone who talked to me in class. You'll meet him some other day, for sure."

"So, it started because of him?"

Ten shrugged, "I just saw that Johnny guy was pushing him against the lockers. So I had to do something."

"You're a hero now?" Taeyong uttered.

"I'm just putting that man in place. It's fine if he does that to me, not to you."

Taeyong chuckled, "Aw, sweet," he said sarcastically, "But you need to stop it."

Ten rolled his eyes playfully. Taeyong had to walk the other route because they were needed at the track and field so Ten was left walking towards his department. He took the stairs and had to walk up to the third floor for the arts room.

He was fairly good with painting and sketching so he was quite excited to do something today. He slides the door open and saw a few students were inside already. Ten made his way to the seat at the back and place his bag on the table. He searched his beanie inside and wore it.

"Hey, Ten."

Ten looked beside him and saw Yangyang sitting beside him, wearing a smile.

"Oh, we have the same schedule?" Ten asked.

Yangyang laughed, "I am your classmate for the record. You just sit and nap at the back too much that you don't know your classmates."

The hybrid chuckled, "Sorry about that. Cat problems."

"I can see that."

"Wait, did Johnny do something to you again?" Ten asked, squinting his eyes at his friend.

The boy shook his head, "No. After what you did, he'll probably stay away, I guess..."

"I don't know him but I'll make sure he won't."

"Man, I hate engineering," Jaehyun uttered, upset.

"You're doing great, though," Sicheng said, trying to cheer his friend up.

"Atleast you're not with someone you hate," Johnny commented, taking a sip on his iced coffee.

Jaehyun chuckled and teasingly smiled at his friend, "That hybrid again? You keep blabbering about him. There's no day, this week, that you didn't bring him up and relate him to everything we've been talking about."

The man gave them a bored death glare, "Shut up."

"Ten's nice," Yuta said.

"Maybe if you aren't the one who got coffee thrown at you, then he's nice."

Johnny is a second-year arts major student. He failed that subject because he just doesn't get the geometry things, although he passed the rest. He isn't the kind of student who just passes, though. Johnny's a smart man, his ego and pride are somewhat at an unusual level. His temper is also in the way.

Generally, his childhood has a great factor to who and what he is today.

"Instead hating on him, you should try and make friends with him," Yuta said.

"You know why I don't like hybrids," Johnny uttered. Saying it like it was the hundredth time that he said it to them.

"Time to be open-minded, my friend," Jaehyun said, "Anyway, are you all coming later? It's booze night."

Yuta nodded and hugged Sicheng, who was seated beside him, "Me and Cheng will come."

"Where will the party be at? It's my turn to buy the booze," Johnny asked.

"At Lucas'"

"Alright. I'll just meet you guys there. See you later!"

Johnny stood up from his seat and just walked away from their table. His mind started getting flashbacks and it wasn't the best thing right now. Though it happened way back, he was still in question why life is too cruel for him.

His parents are divorced because of his father cheating with a hybrid and very abusive. His mother could've deserved better but she was too ill that she couldn't even fight back. Johnny has great hatred towards his father and started hating on hybrids when they were the reason why his family is broken, also why his mother's gone.

Johnny was abandoned but he tried his best to keep himself above water. He tried studying with his aunt helping him. He got bullied severely by hybrids as well. There was no day he didn't get beaten up until Johnny decided to fight back.

Starting from high school, Johnny hated every hybrid and started blindly verbally, sometimes physically, expressing his hate to them.

"Fuck!"

Johnny cursed and threw his bag. He suddenly wanted to punch his old hag's face. Instead, he was about to punch the wall but stopped.

"Hey, don't do that to your bag."

The man looked beside and saw the person he least wanted to see.

"Not your problem," Johnny uttered.

Ten looked at the man, his ears going down at how he is being curious right now, "Anything happened?"

The man furrowed his eyebrows, "It's none of your business."

Then Johnny picked up his bag and strode his way to where his department is. Ten followed him by eyes, wondering what happened to him. But shook his head.

You're crazy if you're concerned about him, Ten.

A/N: i hope things are going smoothly

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