"I'm having the worst school year so far." Jaemin suddenly announces as he walks over to his friends who were having a conversation at Haechan's locker.

Ending their interaction, Haechan turns to Jaemin and raises a brow while Renjun was happily drinking his iced coffee that he thankfully had still gotten a few minutes ago.

"Go ahead and explain or rant your life out right now, Renjun's story is boring anyway."

"You seemed interested about what I-"

"Shh! Let Jaemin speak his soul out, Injun." Haechan shushes the eldest boy amongst them with his cheeks turning pink.

Rolling his eyes, Jaemin shrugs and adjusts the backpack strap on his shoulder before clearing his throat. "So basically, I have this art project going around good for two weeks and it's by pairs."

"Ooh! Art, I love art! What are you guys making?" Renjun asks, intrigued by just the small mention of one of his favorite subjects.

Meanwhile, Jaemin couldn't help but groan by just the thought of his project and this particular someone he was assigned with.

"We're making a journal. And I'm paired with Lee Jeno."

"oh shit."

"Hey, atleast you're not doing this alone, you're kinda shit with art." Haechan said with a teasing smile at the end, as if his words comforted Jaemin about the situation.

Renjun was only quiet, seemingly pondering in thought while the other two argued away until the bell rang. "See you guys at the gate," he said while shaking his iced coffee.

"Don't you have after school activities later that you've been assigned on?" Haechan sneers, getting on his friends' nerves for today.

Rolling his eyes, Renjun pushes his face away and huffs. "I'm only assigned on passing a few papers today. So don't ditch me." He said.

The tanned male mimicks him and snorts at the end, "look who's talking. You ditched Jaemin and I when we had our detention moments."

"So did you, idiot."

"I'm heading off, you bitches can stay here and argue until school ends." Jaemin mutters as he turns away to head off to his next class.

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"I'm seriously considering on just fuck it and drop out."

"What the hell happened now, imbécil?" Haechan said in a flat tone, making him seem bored with his friend's recent behavior when really- he's actually quite amused.

It's just hilarious to him to see 'low-key student Na Jaemin' act like a dramatic dumbass over something. Or someone.

"What the fuck did you just say?" Jaemin asks, really dumbfounded as he stares at Haechan's flat face while munching on his last pieces of chips.

Snorting, Renjun waves a lazy hand at him and glances at the tanned male beside him. "His seatmate knows Spanish and he called him a dumbass when he broke his pen and got ink on the poor boy's notebook." He explains.

Blinking, Jaemin shrugs it off and goes back to the main point on what he came to them for besides walking home together.

"If I can't drop out, then please help me ask the principal to change my schedules." He said almost desperate.

Glaring, Haechan munches loudly while still choosing to speak- which is kinda gross, "just tell us what happened, I have a shit ton of homework to do tonight and I don't have time for this."

"You do, because you actually care about this more since it's drama and wouldn't give a shit if you failed your classes. Stop pretending to be productive." Renjun scoffs at him.

Nudging him back, the tanned male swallowed his food and states. "If you can't be one, then pretend to be one."

Jaemin interrupts their bickering and exclaims loudly, "our project got extended!"

"Disculpe?"

"You heard what I said! And I'm not that bad with Spanish too, bitch." Jaemin huffs at his friend who only grins teasing at him.

"Now, how did that happen?" Renjun asks him while Haechan started cackling when he just realized what Jaemin had said.

Grunting, the blond haired boy reaches to pinch the bridge of his nose while he recalls what happened on his last class of the day.

"Apparently a few people complained that two weeks isn't enough time for a journal about your partner and getting to know them-"

"Well they're not wrong, make it romantic atleast. This is honestly a free date for you, Jaem. Ugh, how to be you, bro?" Haechan exaggerated a pout.

"We're talking about Lee Jeno here, Haechan." Jaemin emphasized with a flat look.

Widening his eyes, Haechan actually face palms for real this time. Not faking, not exaggerating, but deadass as a real reaction.

"Oh what the fuck- I feel bad now."

"How did you not realize that as soon as he said it?" Renjun snorts with a roll of his eyes, crossing his arms as he looks at their tanned male friend.

Clicking his tongue, Haechan glares at him. "Well you're not the only one who's sleep deprived, ass face." He hisses.

"Say that again, I dare you-"

"Guys! Not now," Jaemin groans in annoyance, cutting off his friends' bickering once again as he sighs. "This sucks, well it wouldn't be this bad if I wasn't paired up with Lee Jeno out of all people."

"Yeah, you had to be stuck with toxic ass-flirty boy." Renjun said, emphasizing his words with his teeth gritting tightly.

"What did the teacher say then? Like how long is this project going to last for?" Haechan asks, raising a brow while waiting for Jaemin's next words.

Biting the inside of his cheek, the blond haired boy responds with, "until the end of the school year."

"Bha! Good luck with that," Haechan ends up bursting into laughter while Renjun snickers.

"Not helping," Jaemin clicks his tongue at him before a voice spoke, butting in their conversation.

"Hey, Jaemin, right?" They turn around to see Jeno approaching them with Sehun, the latter's arm around his shoulder as Jeno smiles at them.

"You got his name right, now what do you want?" Renjun sassily said, resting his weight on one of his legs.

Jeno clears his throat when Sehun makes a move to approach the younger boy aggressively, he huffs in annoyance and stays beside Jeno instead.

"I'm just here to ask Jaemin about who's house does he want to do the project," the brunet boy said with a smile.

"Why do you want to do it in one of our houses when we can still do it somewhere else?" Jaemin crosses his arms.

Chuckling, Jeno glances at his boyfriend beside him and shrugs. "We don't want any distractions, right? Besides, someone might eavesdrop on us and stuff." He explains.

Pondering in thought, Jaemin sighs and decides to give in rather than continue a conversation with Lee Jeno.

He's too tired for this anyway and from the looks of it based from Sehun's glare while pecking Jeno's cheek, he wants to leave as soon as possible too.

"We can do it at your house." He replies which shocked his friends hearing his words.

"Alright," Jeno nods at him. "I guess we'll go ahead now, see you tomorrow." He smiles and waves at the trio.

They all watched Jeno and Sehun walk off first, the latter kept kissing the younger boy's face as they talked about something to entertain themselves.

Haechan closes his agape mouth from being shocked by what just happened and turns to the blond haired boy, pointing an accusing finger at him.

"Bitch, you better explain to us on why you chose his house instead of yours."