The bell rings, indicating the end of their second last exam. Taehyung sighs and takes a sip from his strawberry milkshake while sitting at a corner table in the cafeteria. He had finished his exam twenty minutes before the due time so he just submitted his answer script and went out of the classroom. His seat is next to Jungkook because they are supposed to sit alphabetically and he did not want to stay near his roommate for a while. He is still very sad and mad at Jungkook.

Soon the cafeteria starts filling up with students. Some of them seem happy about their exam while some of them are whining how they made a silly mistake that could cause them loss of marks. Most students do not care much though. They are just happy that only one exam is left. You know, it's the typical scenario of a university after an exam gets over.

"Hey, fag!" Taehyung's ears perk up in attention when he hears that word. He doesn't need to know who they are addressing to because people who pick on him call him that.

He slowly turns around, his eyes full of fear. He sees a boy standing behind him and a girl in front of him. It was the boy who called him fag.

"W-What do you want?" Taehyung asks, trying to appear courageous. The girl takes a seat in front of him and smiles sweetly but Taehyung knows she's being far from sweet right now.

"Nothing much. I just heard you're the one Jungkook is doing the English project with. I just want you to tell him that you will no longer be his partner." The girl says, playing with her hair.

"And why do you think I would do that?" Taehyung asks, crossing his arms across his chest. He doesn't like these kind of people but he has been treated so bad that he lost his voice to stand up against them.

But right now Jungkook is present in the cafeteria with Jimin and Hoseok and he does not want to appear as someone weak who cannot stand up for himself in front of them. Not specially after what happened between them.

"Oh, you suddenly got a voice to speak. Nice." The girl smirks. By now, more than half of the people in the cafeteria have turned in their direction. It seems like they've been craving drama since they could not get anything during the exams.

"Look, I don't want to have an argument with you so just... leave me alone." Taehyung says. The girls stares at him for a few seconds and then stands up.

"Sure." She says and looks at her friend who has been standing behind Taehyung. "Suho, what's the time?"

The guy named Suho flips his hand to look at his wristwatch resulting in the hot coffee he had been holding to fall on Taehyung's hair. This was a planed and intentional move. A painful scream leaves Taehyung's mouth and a unanimous gasp is heard in the cafeteria.

The hot, sticky liquid trails down from Taehyung's blue hair, to his face down towards his chest. His whole body is burning. He eyes are filled with tears. He sees the girl smirk and hears Suho laugh which is followed by the sound of laughter of a few more people.

Taehyung looks at the guy who did all this and loses his temper. He starts laughing like a maniac and people stare at him in confusion.

"Hahaha, so funny, isn't it? A person's pain and suffering is funny to you. I guess I'm the only dumb one here who does not realise what is supposed to be funny and when I'm supposed to be laughing."

"Shut the hell up, bitch. Don't cry for sympathy here. I did tell you what I wanted. If you agreed with me, you wouldn't be like this right now." The girl shrugs and turns around to leave.

Jungkook, who has been standing at a distance, observing what's going on, wants to do nothing but smack Suho hard and take Taehyung away from this place because he can see how sad and out of place the blue haired boy feels.

"You sure you can categorise yourself as a human? Or are you an animal... abusing people like that?" Taehyung asks, tilting his head. Everyone looks at him, surprised. They have never seen Taehyung talk back like that. Where did he get this kind of confidence from?

Jungkook feels proud of him while the girl fumes in anger. "DID YOU JUST CALL ME AN ANIMAL?"

"I guess I did but now that I think of it, animals are also very empathetic. So you're clearly not an animal too. You're a... maybe an alien?" Taehyung's tone is clearly mocking. He mentally praises himself for this. He is happy he's able to stand for himself.

But that happiness does not last long as a harsh slap lands on his face. "Stay in your limits, you fag." The girl shouts. Taehyung looks at her, shocked. But he is not really surprised. It was about time they start using fists and foot because they don't have a proper argument to defend themselves.

"Just remember who you are, Kim Taehyung. Just because you're not alone in a project for one fucking time does not mean you won't ever be alone. You are meant to be alone. Have you ever thought why no one ever talks to you? Tell him why, Suho." The girl says.

"There's nothing much to say. The answer is simple. This fag is a fucking burden on earth. I'm sure no one, not even Jungkook would care to attend your funeral when you die. So just stop bothering to live." Suho says. Taehyung gasps.

He never knew people hated him so much. He knew not many people liked him but the hatred these people are showing towards him is way too much.

His legs start feeling weak, as if he would just fall down. To save himself from further embarrassment, he decides to leave the cafeteria as soon as possible but Suho grips his shirt and turns him around. Taehyung cannot fight them anymore.

Tears start rolling down his cheeks and he starts sobbing. "Pl-Please let me g-go." Taehyung cries and tries to get out of Suho's grip. He remembers how badly he was beat up by people at Mekong just a few days ago and he doesn't want to end up like that. His body is shaking badly. He looks at Suho and the girl with pleading eyes when he sees no one is going to come for his rescue.

"Y-You can d-do the project with J-Jungkook. I'll d-do it al-alone. N-Now please l-let me go." Taehyung says. He grabs Suho's hand and makes him drop his collar before running away while crying.

The girl smiles, a proud look appears on her face while some other people laugh as soon as the blue haired boy disappears. Many students get back to their phones, probably getting ready to post the video they just took.

Jungkook looks at the girl who walks over to him. She places her hand on Jungkook's shoulder and bends down, showing her cleavage. Jungkook, Jimin and Hoseok, all the three of them get disgusted at the sight.

"I'm gonna check on Taehyung. I might puke looking at those fake balloons." Hoseok says before leaving. The smile from the girl's face washes away when she hears Hoseok.

Jungkook turns towards her and says, "Look, I don't know what makes you think you can do that to Taehyung and make him give up on me as his partner. It's not for you to decide. I will do the project with whoever the fuck I want and I'm pretty much clear I don't want to do it with a fucking plastic like you." Jungkook says and gets up.

"And I'm not hitting you just because you're a girl. But if I see you pulling shit on Taehyung again, I'll personally make your life a living hell." Jungkook says in a dangerously low voice, making shivers run down the girls body.

He then walks up to Suho and says, "And dude, you're just her boy toy. If you have even a little bit of self respect, then mind your own fucking business instead of following her damn orders." Jungkook says and walks out of the cafeteria.

No one says a thing or even laughs when they see Jungkook, the university's most popular boy, defending an outcast, Kim Taehyung.

Jimin hurriedly gets up from his seat and jogs towards Jungkook. He has never seen Jungkook react like this. His best friend doesn't really care about what's going on in the university but seeing him defend Taehyung, Jimin knows that there's something more. Maybe it's because they are roommates?

"Kook, do you want me to contact Yoongi hyung and tell him to take the videos down?" Jimin suggests. Jungkook smiles at the idea.

"Yes, please. Tell him to make it vanish, as if it never even happened."

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Hey lovelies! Please tell me who is your favourite character in the book so far. A lot is still left in the book so I would like to know now and compare it later when I ask you again. So tell me who do you like the most? Taehyung, Jungkook or someone else and why?

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