"Any progress?"

"Negative" yoongi says through his coms from his room which is filled with different types of computer screens.

A sigh leaves namjoon's mouth after he hears the word from yoongi. Namjoon massages his forehead with his fingers as he ponders upon something and says, "Turn to space". The older raises his brows before asking namjoon if he's sure about his decision. "There's no harm in trying," namjoon replies.

These masterminds have done whatever they could to locate the source of attacks on their country. Amongst the hustle, they never stopped searching for Taehyung. Now, it was time to scan the space for earth has shown no sign of their existence.

I enter my class half asleep with dark circles underneath my eyes. Let's see how many classes can I attend this time. I glance at jungkook's empty seat before sitting on my own. Let's see how many classes can he attend. There's some serious shit going on with him and some robots so I doubt he's gonna attend any lecture. 

Utilising the time left for our class to start, I turn around to admire my only real-life crush. He's writing something in his notebook, so diligent of him to do that early in the morning. All I can think about when I enter a class is sleep but he's sincerely working; he's got a bright future ahead. His beautiful eyes suddenly leave the notebook and shifts to his right and then wow, what a smile! Curious about the appearance of his smile, I look to his right and immediately regret leaving the exquisite view.

"Hey babe" Jisung says with a wink at which the girl, who just sat next to him, blushes. They have a short sweet lovey-dovey moment before Jisung notices me and says, "good morning y/n". I suddenly hear a crack which I assume is the sound of my heart breaking into tiny fragments. I am just y/n. She's his babe. Guess I gotta go back to being Itachi Uchiha's girlfriend.

I 'good morning' him back and turn back to my seat in grief. I knew he wasn't gonna stay single for long but I didn't know he'd be committed this soon. He looked so happy when he saw her. I wonder if he would have been that way with me. Suddenly the whole class stands up to greet the teacher. I shake off these thoughts from my brain as I do the same and take my seat. 'They're breathing freely coz of me,' I scoff before erasing all the nasty feelings from my heart. If I'm gonna die saving my country, I might as well stay single forever.

BANG

The door slams open. Jungkook dashes through it and stops midway when he realises he's already inside. "May I come in?" He says awkwardly and purses his lips. He's in a neat and tidy school uniform with hair nicely combed to a side... is that a forehead? He surely took his time to get ready for school. What's the special occasion? "You're late Mr Jeon" the home room teacher says at which jungkook bows and mumbles an apology. His face has no particular expression as he takes his seat and takes out his iPad from his bag like a normal high school student. I bet a hundred bucks he doesn't use it to take down notes in class but uses it for his researches and other scientist stuff. The guy next to jungkook tries to peep at his work but fails when jungkook presses the power button and gives him 'the look'.

Jungkook sighs and looks around the classroom. Before he could catch me scrutinising him, I go back to pretending like I'm arranging notes on my iPad. My curious self tries to steal a glance from the periphery of my eyes but ends up having the most awkward two-second eye contact of my life. What even?

First period begins when Ms Benjamin, our math teacher, enters the class. I get a little anxious when I look around and notice a notebook on every table. Ms Benjamin invites the class rep and tells her those three magical words, "collect the homework", more like a spell for me to lose my mind. I turn back to Jisung who has the same notebook he was writing this morning, ready on his table. I attend a class and this is how I get my reward?

"I request all of you to stand." She orders when she receives the homework from class rep. "You're allowed to sit once I call out your name," she says looking at us while her specs slip down her nose.

I wish we could submit E-homeworks in math as well. I could have just CtrlC and CtrlV-ed it and transferred it to Ms Benjamin. But that's the exact reason why they don't allow us to use technology for homework.

She squints her eyes at the three of us who are standing, Kim Woojin, Jeon Jungkook and me. "I need a valid reason" she articulates.

Woojin simply said he forgot and got a last warning from Ms Benjamin as it was his first time, Jungkook bailed coz he's new and, according to him, knows nothing BUT I, I got detention. "This isn't the first time you forgot ms L/N," she stated.

But I gotta save the world.

"Excuse me" The voice gains everyone's attention. "Yes, jungkook" Ms Benjamin politely replies with a smile. "Can I stay back after school to study the topics I have missed?" He asks with innocence in his voice. My eyebrows knit together as I look at him in suspicion. What's on his mind? "Oh dear, I would love to help you but I've got a meeting to attend. You can stay back tomorrow" she says worryingly. "Y/n can help me" jungkook suggests at which I raise my brows. The teacher happily allows him to stay back and commands me to help him with math after class as if he isn't a twenty year old scientist who should be tutoring me not vice versa.

The moment Ms Benjamin leave the class, my watch displays the red screen. I excuse myself to go to the washroom by taking permission from the next teacher. I change into my suit in ladies washroom as it's the only place without cameras and jump out of the window. "Gwangju, eight feet," V informs as I fly away from the school.

Meanwhile, jungkook tries to do his job in class but the constant stares from his classmates doesn't allow him to do so. Whenever he opens his iPad, the attractive blue screen which contrasts the students notes app, gains his peers attention hence restricting him from completing his research. He came to school with a purpose of finding a lead for his investigation and for that he needs to have some trustworthy people in school. So the first thing he did, when he came to school this morning, was make friends. He traveled the whole school sharing his identity with a few students from each class. This way he'll be able to gain information about anomalies if there are any in future. There's one more thing he needs to do for which he needs some time alone in school which seemed impossible until I got detention.

I come back to Seoul after dealing with the heavy ass eight feet tall robot. I land on the tree next to my school's building and peep through the leaves to see if the coast's clear. I fly back to the same cubicle I had escaped from earlier after making sure there's no one around. I get out of my suit getting back into my uniform and set my messy hair. I finally open the cubicle which was engaged for almost two hours. I'm glad there isn't a queue waiting for washroom or these girls would have judged me as the girl-with-lose-motions. I decide to wait in washroom for the recess bell so I could enter my class without embarrassing myself.

Surprisingly I attended the second half without running away from school. Now it was time for me to go to another prison. I'm gonna get in serious trouble if a situation came up during detention.

"You have been assigned to this room to compensate for your mistake" says a computerised voice as I step inside the detention room. "Kindly turn towards the camera and say your name."

I look up at one of the cctv cameras and announce my name so they could click my picture and enter my name in their records. My parents aren't gonna like this if they ever receive my report card.

I take the last seat of the first row and put my head down. After a minute, Jungkook enters the room with Ms Benjamin. When a student is accompanied by a teacher in the detention room, their name is not added in the detention records coz this proves that they're here for a different purpose. Jungkook bows and mutters a thanks to her. She smiles at him before leaving the room.

He looks around the room then finally settles down on the last row's last seat which is right below the cctv camera. "You're suppose to help me with math" he says when he notices my unbothered form sleeping on the bench. I look at him and scoff. "Funny" I say.

"What's so funny?" He asks with genuine incredulity on his face.

I look at him with furrowed brows for some seconds before asking, "what's the plan?"

"The plan is you come here and teach me the stuff I missed" he states.

Boi wot?

I give him a quizzical look before picking up my bag and actually moving towards his seat coz his face seems like he's cooking something up in his brain. The closer I get, the more familiar he seems and when I look into his eyes, I feel a strange kind of cosiness, I feel content. I force myself to look away before I get too comfortable and lose my sanity.

He motions his hand to the seat next to him for me to sit. He takes out his iPad and types stuff on it before sliding it to me.

"Take out-

He cuts off my attempt to read out the sentence loudly with a fake cough and widens his eyes at me. He shakes his head slightly, a sign to not say the thing I was about to say. 'Take out your math book and pretend like you're teaching me', was typed on his iPad.

"So, we're gonna start with inverse trigonometric functions" I say whilst placing my math book in front of him. I speak random shit about inverse trigonometry like a maniac for some minutes while he does some intense typing on his iPad. After a minute he slides it back to me with 'do you know this room's number?' written on it. I type 304 and slide it back to him. He gives me a look when I try to peep at his work and shifts his eyes to the book telling me to continue blabbering. He's acting like we're being watched.

"Sine inverse sixty is half-

"Root three by two"

"Huh?"

"Sine inverse sixty is root three by two" he mutters. I curse myself in my head before saying the correct sentence out loud. I feel my cheeks heat up due to embarrassment.

"HA!" Jungkook exclaims making me flinch at his sudden outburst.

"What the fuck" I say as I put a hand on my chest. He has a satisfied smile on his face as he looks at his iPad.

"Uh nothing, you can go back to your seat now." He speaks before swiping a finger through his iPad, emitting a holographic screen out of it which hovers in front of him. "What did you do?" I ask as he seem to work without any restrictions even though there are two cctv cameras in this room. I sigh when he doesn't respond but concentrates on his work. Something clicks in my head which causes me to look at the cctv cameras. I notice the absence of red light, which used to indicate that camera's turned on. I gasp when I notice exactly what I expected I would.

"Did you hack the cameras?" I ask in bewilderment. He didn't reply but his smirk answered for him. He touches the hologram in front of him with his two fingers and turns to his left dragging the screen and placing it right in front of my face. He swipes his iPad's screen again to emit another screen and places it to his right. He carries out the same action to place the third screen in front of his face. The three holograms hover around him as he types and clicks on them. I blink a few times at the predicament. Must say, it's an impressive way to shut people out.

When he taps on the screen right in front of my face, I feel like he's about to poke me with his finger coz he almost poked my nose trying to click a holographic button.

"Are you planning to hack all the cctv cameras of the school now?" I ask when I notice my classroom on the screen in front of me.

"Yeah" he states without tearing his eyes away from the screens. "I'm not gonna switch them off so your school wouldn't know."

And in some minutes I could see many classes displayed in front of my face. The school was supposed to have the most securely encrypted cameras but they are being hacked right in front of my eyes. Safety doesn't exist in this world anymore.

"That's a crime. Just saying" I speak knowing that he knows about it more than I do.

"And two self destructing robots in a school is what? A mistake?" He replies whilst tapping the screens. I don't know what he has in his mind but I can trust him on this if Namjoon does and I know he'll find a solution to tackle this problem.

Beep. My watch turns read.

Shit.

I can't use the doors so I choose the only option I have.

"Since the cameras are no longer working, thanks to you," I speak as I climb on the window sill next to the seat in front of this one. "I can now go out for a walk," I add before opening the window. Jungkook's eyes finally leave the screens and land on me. "I'll be back before Ms Benjamin" I inform him before jumping out of the window and landing on grass coz we're on the ground floor. He nods and carries on with his work while I hide myself behind the wall next to the window. I change into my suite and fly directly towards the sky so he doesn't catch my reflection.

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