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-JINHAE-
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"W-what are you d-doing...?" I shivered as his hands brushed against the back of my neck when I turned around.

"Um.. I noticed the um trouble you were in so.. I decided to put a hair tie on you.." He scratches the back of his neck as he looked away with a flustered face.

"Oh uh..okay.. thanks?" I furrowed my eyebrows, "Why the hell do you have a hair tie on you even if you're a guy?" I whispered as low as I could.

But seems like he has good hearing.

"I uh keep it on me whenever I go incase of emergencies?" He shrugged. "Oh by the way, I'm Hoseok!" He introduced himself with one of the brightest smiles I could ever see.

"Hoseok? From the dance classes I use to take before? the hope guy who I always see dancing streetdances among alleyways?" I tilted my head, kind of figuring out why his face is so unfamiliarly familiar.

"Then you must be the mint person." He grins.

"Hey! How- where'd you get that from?!"

He reaches out to the pockets of my hoodie that was tied across my waist. He smiles as he read the label that was poorly written on a quite old masking tape out loud.

"Jinhae's Mints," He cheekily laughs "It's the same as it used to be before!"

"Wait- YOU WERE THAT GUY WHO STOLE MY MINTS BEFORE?!"

=×FLASHBACK×=

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-3RD-
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"Where's my mints..?" The fifteen years old girl asked herself as she shuffles through her duffle bag, searching for the small rectangular box she always carries with her all the time.

While the girl was in dismay, a sneeky seventeen old boy was listening to her troubles behind a locker with the familiar rectangular case the girl has been moping around for.

As the girl let out a frustrating sigh, the boy looked at the label using the light that emmit through the small gap between the lockers. Reading the label that was freshly written in grey sharpie on what looks like a new masking tape, the yellowish tint lightly visible.

Jinhae's Mints

Hoseok lightly chuckled to himself as he imagined the short-tempered girl gstting so annoyed and frustrated once she finds her mints.

"I'll go check my locker..." Jinhae sighs, annoyance evidence in her sigh.

The boy quickly shuffles inside the locker he was stuck in as he realized he was done for.

"Fuck- fuck- fuck-" He non-stop swore under his breathe as he moves in the such small space he was stuck it, bot forgetting to swiftly slip the pack of mints in his back pocket.

"SHIT" Hoseok fell from the locker and onto the floor.

The black-haired girl was truly surprised by the person hidden in her locker.

"Why are you in here? H-hoseok?" She struggled in saying his name, considering he IS older than her. "HOW THE HELL DID YOU EVEN FIT IN THERE" The girl exclaimed. "WAIT- DID YOU STEAL MY PRECIOUS MINTS?!"

Hoseok had troubles getting up, because who the hell wouldn't have numb legs for staying a cramped space in such a long period of time? Anyways-

"Um, I'll just.. uh.." The black-haired idiot snickered before using all the energy he has, pushing himself up the floor as he ran across the locker room, (Well more like limp to me,) using the lockers as support to not fall since- IT FEELS LIKE NEEDLES-

"HEY!-" The girl catched up to him, (well I mean-who wouldn't?)  on his back causing him to fall on the floor. "-Gotcha." Jinhae smirked before going through all his pockets to check if he was really the one who stole her 'precious mints'.

As she goes through the last pocket- a.k.a the back pocket, she smirks as she felt the familiar texture of her beloved mint case. She brought it out before standing up. "Hey, hope- don't you ever do that again or else it's gonna be something worse." She warned him. "And leave- please." She also added before massaging her forehead

"Hope?? Then you should be mint."

"JUST LEAVE-"

=×FLASHBACK END×=

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-JINHAE-
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"Practicallyyyy," He takes a deep breathe, "Yes." He gradually takes a few steps backward before smiling cheekily and stuffing the case of mints in his back pockets- AGAIN.

I growled before running after him. "COME BACK" He looked back, "Never!" 

As we run around the practice room, a certain someone was watching behind the darkness with jealous eyes.

Tired from running, I stopped to catch my breathe. Holding onto my knees, I furrowed my eyebrows as my breathe hitched from the heavy breathing. But hell, I'm determined as heck so this tiredness won't affect this bodeyyyy. It's not like he's not human, he'll get tired soon, I'm better than him.

I looked up to see Hoseok looking at me from the other side of the room.

He smirked at me as I saw that he didn't looked tired at all. WHAT THE HELL MAN. I'm here looking like a fish gasping for water while you're standing over there with only a single drop of sweat? HAH- DAFUQ.

Okay- I said I could take this right? I take that back, pretend I didn't say anything. I dropped flat-out on the floor, not really able to take down Hope and his abilities.

"Heh. Tired already?" He walked next to me before crouching to my level. "Yeah.." I managed to breathe out.

"Just..give...me my mints-" I said before I start coughing out. I quickly sat up and covered my mouth. "Give- it to me." I removed the other hand on my mouth and held it open, as if I'm asking for something- and I am.

"Why would I?" He plays around. "Just give it." I coughed out more. I scowled as I felt the familiar pain in my head. I quickly transfer my hands onto my head, trying to lessen the pain.

"Jin..hae? Are you okay?" He drops his foolish era and turned it into a serious one.

"Please give.. the cas- ARGH!" The pain worsten.

Hoseok quickly reaches to his back pockets and grabbed the case I was chasing around for.

Giving it to me, I quickly snatched it from him before snapping it open and spilling it's contents onto the floor. Using my free hand to search the odd one from the mints, still having the other hand on my head.

Finding the familiar blue tablet,  grab it before shoving it to my mouth and swallowing it whole. After a few seconds of intense silence, the pain fades away while I also fade away from my senses.

"Room 721..."

"JINHAE NO-"

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Jinhae's Information Corner

Hello! This is Jinhae from the other side of the 4th Wall. Basically not in this book. So if you are confused, I'll give you this info on why Jinhae had that breakdown of some sort. If you know why, then leave. Not my fault you'll be confused. Anyways- When Jinhae gets too exhausted, she coughs out for around 30 seconds. If she doesn't swallow the blue tablet she had a while ago, her symptoms will worsten and she will have a very painful head ache. Even if she swallows the tablet when she had the head ache, it will stick around for a while even if she wakes up. By meaning of 'wakes up', she will faint and wake up in approximately... 5 hours! So uh.. yeah.. that's it! I'll see you next time in.. Jinhae's Information Corner.

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That's it kids.