Stay Close To Me
~1
In the music room, Jungkook sat on the piano stool while looking at the music score.
This was the music for his solo piano performance at the school’s arts festival one week later.
Since starting high school, Jungkook’s everyday piano practices were greatly reduced.
Because of the recent school transfer and the new environment, he was not able to touch the piano for almost a month. The music that he had previously been able to play with both eyes closed now felt unfamiliar.
Jeon Jungkook
*Reviewed the score again*
Jeon Jungkook
*Laying the book flat on the music stand, he prepared to play the piano*
At this time, a pleasantly deep voice flew to his ears:
~
“Our school’s Fourth Culture and Arts Festival begins today. Culture forges our school’s spirit, arts…”
Jeon Jungkook
*Couldn’t resist glancing at where the voice came from*
In the front of the music room, a male and a female student stood on a platform.
The female student was called Wang Yao, the neighbouring class’ class president. Beautiful, gentle, and eloquent, she was chosen to become the arts festival’s female presenter.
Standing next to her was the male presenter, Jungkook’s archnemesis, Kim Taehyung.
No, to be clear, Jungkook one-sidedly decided to make Taehyung his archnemesis.
Kim Taehyung himself seemed to not know about this……
Jeon Jungkook
*Secretly stared at Kim Taehyung*
He wondered what Taehyung, that second-year high school student, ate in order to grow to 184cm tall. Yet unlike the usual lanky bamboo pole-like physique, Taehyung’s body was well proportioned with decent amount of muscles.
With his pleasingly handsome face, and due to his physique looking extremely dazzling while wearing the school uniform, he was publicly known as the most attractive boy in school.
Jeon Jungkook
(You can still grow more at 17 years old. Some people grow earlier while some people are late bloomers)
Jeon Jungkook
(Wait until we’re 20 years old and let’s see who’s taller!)
*175cm Jungkook thought angrily as he absent-mindedly started to play the piano score in front of him*
Jungkook transferred to the boarding school a month ago, during the start of his second year.
This came about because his father was sent to work at the company’s branch in Europe, leaving Jungkook without anybody taking care of him. His mother wanted to stay at the old house.
The teachers and the quality of education in that city clearly could not compare to the ones in Jungkook’s current school.
As a result, Father Jeon put his foot down, determined to send off the pampered-since-childhood-young-master Jeon Jungkook to the boarding school.
In the beginning, Jungkook didn’t take changing schools seriously. He even thought that going to a boarding school would be a fresh new experience.
He imagined that living alone without parents must feel like heaven. However, he quickly realized that he was wrong.
Because his roommate was Kim Taehyung.
~2
Kim Taehyung – the overall-pretty-good guy – had a handsome face, was good at sports, was multi-talented, and had a rich family.
If not for his personality that was rather cold to strangers, you can say that he was perfect.
The thing that made Jungkook most bitter was the 4x400m relay race that he participated in.
He carelessly fell down while running. Although he immediately got up and tried his best to run while enduring the pain, he was still surpassed by some people.
However, when he passed the baton to Kim Taehyung, Taehyung unexpectedly caught up to three people in one breath.
Nobody blamed Jungkook after the race was over.
Two enthusiastic girls even approached him for the first time, giving him water and medicine and helping him treat his wounds.
But seeing everyone treat Kim Taehyung like a hero made Jungkook feel like he was compared to and found lacking.......
Jeon Jungkook
(Since elementary school, the person who was always the most popular in school sports competitions was me, ah!)
——In short, he felt all kinds of annoyed.
Jeon Jungkook
*Bit his lips, absent-mindedly playing the piano and making a mistake*
The bell rang, signifying the end of the class. Jungkook anxiously stopped playing the piano.
This was the afternoon’s last self-study class.
To prepare for the arts festival, the teachers gave lots of support to the two presenters and to Jungkook, who needed to practice the piano.
Every afternoon during the last self-study class, they came to the music room to practice.
Jungkook played the piano while Taehyung and Wang Yao practiced the actors’ lines, neither party bothering one another.
As the piano melody stopped, Wang Yao’s clear and charming voice could be heard:
Wang Yao
“Taehyung, are you going to go to the canteen?”
Kim Taehyung
*Indifferent* “I will go later.”
Jungkook didn’t think that Taehyung really wanted to go later.
It must be because he just didn’t want to go together with Wang Yao.
According to his(Jk's) observation, Taehyung seemed to be completely immune to beautiful girls.
When Jungkook was barely transferred to the school for a week, he was relaxing near the doorway when a beautiful girl from another class suddenly ran towards him and shyly gave him a lovely-looking envelope.
Jungkook was ecstatic; he thought that as a result of his endless charm, somebody already wrote a love letter to him despite only transferring in several days ago.
He felt very proud of himself and smiled, asking a question that he already knew the answer for:
Jeon Jungkook
“Who is this for?”
Unimportant
*Spoke with a red face*
“I’m sorry to trouble you, but please give this to Kim Taehyung. Thank you.”
Jungkook who waited for the girl to answer with “you”:
~3
At his previous school, Jungkook was also at the level of “most handsome boy at school”.
He was not tall and he was quite slim, but he was very handsome. With his delicate facial features, he could simply be described as “beautiful”.
When he was little, he was always mistaken as a little girl.
Beautiful young boys like him were usually considered very popular at school.
But compared to Kim Taehyung, the handsome and masculine Adonis, Jungkook really was a bit lacking. At least for boyfriend material, girls still prefer Taehyung’s type a lot more.
Jeon Jungkook
*Jungkook was full of anger. Grabbing the letter, he returned to the class and threw it at Kim Taehyung*
He then went back to his seat.
Both people’s seats were only separated by an aisle, so Jungkook clearly saw Taehyung’s indifferent look while casually throwing the love letter in his desk.
Jungkook couldn’t hold it in anymore and he was not done dealing with him, blurting out:
Jeon Jungkook
“Are you just going to put it there?”
Kim Taehyung
*Glanced at him, asking*
“Should I throw it on the floor?”
Jeon Jungkook
“No, what I meant is you didn’t look at it at all?”
Kim Taehyung
*Raised his eyebrows, looking at Jungkook’s face and asking*
“The one from the girl?”
Jeon Jungkook
“Right, the very pretty one.”
At that time, Jungkook didn’t think anything of it.
But afterwards it somehow felt weird when he thought about it again.
However, his relationship with Kim Taehyung had been gradually getting worse, to the point of not speaking with each other.
Asking about this kind of thing is out of question, so Jungkook could only keep his doubts to himself.
In the music room, the rejected Wang Yao felt a little unsatisfied.
She remained in the classroom, asking a question in Jungkook’s direction:
Wang Yao
“That’s right, did you guys hear the story about this music room?”
Kim Taehyung
*Coldly kept his head down, turning the script’s page and not making a sound*
The atmosphere was a little awkward. Jungkook quickly responded:
Jeon Jungkook
“What story?”
Wang Yao
“It is said that a person died in this music room. At night, if you stay here, maybe you can see something you shouldn’t see.”
Kim Taehyung
*Laughed, head still looking down at his book*
“Since ancient times, there are 108 billion people who have died on earth, people have died pretty much everywhere.”
Jeon Jungkook
*Turned his head*
Jeon Jungkook
*Facing away from Kim Taehyung, he gave Taehyung a huge eyeroll*
(Will it kill you to not act like a pretentious prick?)
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