“Youngjae-ah…Youngjae-ah…Youngjae-ah…Youngjae-ah…Youngjae-ah…Youngj-“

     “Shut up!”

     “What’s wrong? Youngjae-ah…Youngjae-ah!”

     “Nothing is wrong! Jesus…now help me finish the translations,” I said as I let out a small, exasperated sigh.

     It was the due-day of our project and we were not finished with it yet. We just needed the last verse, and then we would finally be done. Except, Daehyun was making it really hard for us to finish because he wouldn’t stop pestering me about why I was being all grumpy. 

     After eavesdropping on my mother and father’s conversation, I seriously wanted to run away and simply forget about everything. When I had heard those words coming out of my mother’s mouth, I just couldn’t believe she only cared about “perfection” when it came to me. Sure, I didn’t like how she was treating me and my life, but I always thought maybe, just maybe, it was because she cared for me. I hated that she was doing that, but then after finding out it had nothing to do with caring or consideration, I didn’t even know what to think about my mother nor my father anymore. Even though my father wasn’t really part of it, the fact that he said I was perfect made me want to punch a wall. Both of my parents were just so stupid, and I just wanted to slap them or throw something at them! I wasn’t perfect! Most people my age would probably love that their parents would call them “perfect”, but I don’t. I hate that word so much, I wish I could obliterate it and make it disappear from me. I don’t want to be perfect and I don’t want to be called perfect. For all we know, I was like any other 17-year-old teenager out there in the world! There wasn’t anything special about me! Why couldn’t my parents understand that? Right…all they saw in their eyes was perfection. 

     “Youngjae-ah…Youngjae-ah…”

     “Will you please stop calling my name? I’m right next to you,” I said while continuing to write the last verse of the song. Daehyun stood there quietly as he looked at me. I didn’t like him staring at me, but at that moment, I was too busy trying to finish the translations. When I finally wrote the last word, I dropped the pen before sighing in relief and smiled proudly at Daehyun. He slapped my back really hard and began laughing. 

     “Yay! We finished!” I nodded in agreement while trying to rub my back, which was currently hurting at the moment. 

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     Since Daehyun and I were finishing up the project during lunch, I felt very nervous right when the bell rang because that meant English was next. It was rather possible we weren’t going to present today, but the fact that we could possibly present today sent shivers down my spine, and I did not like it one bit.

     As I sat quietly down on my seat, Daehyun patted my shoulders while trying to calm me down since my face looked somewhat nervous at the moment.

     “Don’t worry, Youngjae-ah! It will be as easy as pie once we’re up there!”

     “Daehyun, you don’t understand…I’m seriously nervous right now and I can’t stop being nervous!”

     “Take a deep breath.” Surprisingly, I did what he told me before realizing I was holding my breath. “Let it out, Youngjae-ah!” And I did exactly that, sighing heavily and slamming my face on my desk. I couldn’t believe I was freaking out over a small presentation that wouldn’t last more than two minutes! For one, my recitals were more longer and it was in front of a lot of people! Just how…? I was a weird person. “Youngjae-ah, calm down! It’s not like we’re going to be the first people to present,” Daehyun reassured as he smiled at me with his hands at the back of his head. I simply nodded before lifting my head and turned around to face Daehyun. 

     “How are you not nervous?”

     “Why would I? It’s only a presentation,” he replied to which I furrowed my eyebrows at him. 

     “I hate you.”

     “And I love you too,” he said before pursing his lips out and leaned over a little. 

     “Ew, you disgust me,” I said, pushing him away which led to him laughing so hard, some people began to stare. When the bell finally rung for the beginning of class, Mrs. Lim immediately walked inside the classroom with a huge smile plastered on her face. Once she set her papers down on her desk, she stood in front of us before explaining about out project that was due today. 

     “I don’t know if we’re going to go through all the presentations, but let’s get as many as we can! Now, who wants to go up first?” I looked around the class to notice that no one had raised their hands nor made any type of sound. “Okay, then…” I turned to the front once again and Mrs. Lim was analyzing all of us carefully before placing her eyes right at me. At that moment, my eyes widened and I couldn’t stop the weird, churning feeling that was starting up in my stomach. Mrs. Lim smiled happily at me before pointing her pretty hand at me and saying, “You’re up first, Youngjae-ah.” . . . I simply nodded my head before looking back at Daehyun who was too busy biting his bottom lip and playing with his hands. I wanted to jump off a cliff because I just couldn’t believe I had worked on this project with him. 

     “Daehyun,” I said to which he looked up, not noticing that the whole class, including Mrs. Lim, were looking at us to go up. 

     “What?”

     “We’re presenting first,” I replied, wanting to strangle him at the moment, but restraining myself from doing so. 

     “Really?”

     “Yes.”

     “Oh…” I soon got up before Daehyun followed as well, and we were now in front of the whole class, standing awkwardly next to each other with the translation paper in my hand.

     Mrs. Lim crossed her arms before telling us to begin our small presentation. Obviously, I wasn’t going to start so I nudged Daehyun’s arm with my elbow, and he looked at me questionably. I just glared at him before turning my head a little to the class, trying to tell him to start the presentation. It took him a while, but he soon got it because as soon as I looked at the translation paper, Daehyun began talking.

     “Wait, do we speak in English?” I rolled my eyes at his question, placing the paper on my face. Seriously, Daehyun was frustrating me already and we hadn’t even started. Mrs. Lim nodded her head before Daehyun nodded his head as well and began talking. “Uhh…we choose this song for us p-project. Uh…the song is B-b-bubble? Oh yeah! Yeah, yeah!”  What the hell was he saying? Ugh… “Yes…the song…Bubble…P-p-pop! Singer is by Hyuna!” Soon after, Daehyun looked over at me and I just stared at him nonchalantly. He began moving his eyes weirdly, and I just furrowed my eyebrows. “Your turn!” He somewhat whispered to me, which I then bit my bottom lip and looked down at the paper. 

     “This song…girl…umm…sh-she…don’t want boy…to…do…b-bad…” Oh God, my English as hell. I just wanted to crawl into a hole and live in it forever and ever. I took a glance at Daehyun, and I realized he wanted to laugh so badly from the way he was biting down on his upper lip and squinting his eyes. My view was interrupted by Mrs. Lim tilting her head to the side. 

     “What else is the song talking about? Try to explain more so the whole class can understand you guys,” she said, which made me want to set the whole classroom on fire. What the hell was I supposed to say? I basically said everything of what the song meant in that one failure sentence of mine!

     I my lips before looking at the translation paper and analyzing it. Then the idea hit me, and I had to admit, I would soon regret this. I folded the paper before putting it inside my pant pockets, and then looked at the whole class. 

     “Uhh…the song…we…a dance,” I tried to say, which got Mrs. Lim to widen her eyes before smiling at us. Daehyun simply stared at me while questioning me. I had hoped he understood what I was going to do at the moment and I wished he would do the same thing as well once I would show the whole class.

     As soon as I bit my bottom lip, I turned to the side and placed my hands near my . I looked down at the floor and slightly started to move my in a circular motion. As soon as I began doing that, some giggles were being heard from the class and I just wanted to die at that moment. I seriously couldn’t do this any longer so I simply stopped right away until I saw Daehyun doing the same thing except he was doing it more girlish. 

     “Bubble, bubble, pop! Pop!”

     At that moment, the whole class bursted out into a fit of laughter, and I took a glance at Mrs. Lim to notice she was laughing as well. 

     After Mrs. Lim had urged Daehyun to stop dancing, both of us went back to sit on our desks. At the touch of my bottom on the hard surface, I had blown out a huge sigh of relief. I would have to say the presentation hadn’t gone so bad in my opinion. To be honest, I had expected worse. Another duo went up right after, and I had to say, they did better than us because, for one, they had everything prepared on what to say. 

     “We did good!” Daehyun began to slap my back as if it was a drum and I grunted before turning around, glaring.

     “Yes, I know! Now, shut up,” I hissed, trying to whisper as low as I can. Daehyun lifted both of his hands up. I simply looked at them before hearing a small sigh from Daehyun. He grabbed both of my hands before lifting them up and slapping his hands onto mine. Oh, he wanted a high-five. Or high-ten since it was both of our hands?

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      At the sound of the final bell ringing, I quickly packed up all my stuff before heading out of the classroom, Daehyun following right after. As we were passing through the hallway, Baekhyun had popped out of one of the hallways and jumped onto Daehyun. 

     “Daehyun! I missed you~” 

     “Me too, Baekhyun hyung!”

     I bit down hard on my bottom lip and clenched my fists tightly. 

     “Guess what?”

     “What?”

     “Me and Youngjae presented in English class and our teacher liked it!”

     “Oh, I’m so proud of you, Daehyun-ah! Can I give you a gift?”

     “Yeah, sure!”

     Baekhyun then grabbed Daehyun’s hand before winking at me and walked away with him. I simply let out a small scoff before crossing my arms together and walked out of the school building. I couldn’t believe Baekhyun took Daehyun like that from me! Did he not notice at all that I was there looking at them? Of course he saw me! He freaking winked at me! But…what was he going to gift Daehyun? 

     When I was out of the school building, I waited for Yoona noona to pick me up and during that time, I kept thinking about the “gift” Baekhyun was going to give Daehyun. It’s not that I was bothered about the fact that he was giving Daehyun a gift when he knew I was also part of this project, but knowing that he, as in Baekhyun, was going to give a gift to Daehyun was irking me so much! I seriously wanted to know what it was so I texted Yoona noona not to pick me up before walking back to the school building and finding the two Hyuns. 

     It literally had taken me about 15 minutes to find the two idiots in an empty classroom. What I did’t expect was the scene of a Baekhyun acting all cute with Daehyun leaning on a desk. My left eye began to twitch uncontrollably and I harshly slammed the door, which got the two to turn their heads at me. At the sight of seeing me, Daehyun waved and smiled while Baekhyun pouted and mumbled words I couldn't hear. I simply glared at the two before crossing both of my arms.

     “What the hell are you doing?” I averted my eyes to Baekhyun. 

     “I’m showing Daehyun that I can be really cute,” Baekhyun said, cupping his cheeks. He then looked over at Daehyun before shutting his eyes together and pursing his lips. “Daehyunnie~I love you~” Daehyun only let out a laugh at the sight of Baekhyun being cute and I scoffed at him. Baekhyun was so not cute. He looked too old to be cute! He actually looked like a e rather than a little, cute kid! 

     “Well, you don’t look cute and you're not cute.”

     The two turned their heads once again to look at me and Baekhyun began to fake-cry. Are you kidding me? Crying wasn’t going to help! Ugh, Baekhyun was so stupid and I seriously disliked him a lot! Baekhyun wrapped his arms around Daehyun’s neck soon after and tried to sit on his legs. 

     “Daehyun! Youngjae is being mean! I didn’t even do anything to him!” 

     “Stop acting like a kid! For one, you’re the oldest here!” 

     “Shut up Youngjae! I might be the oldest, but I would say that I’m cuter than everyone else!”

     “No you’re not.”

     “Yes, I am!”

     “You look like a grandpa,” I said with gritted teeth. At that point, I wanted to push Baekhyun so he could fall on the floor and then he would begin crying, and then I would be smiling triumphantly. 

     “I don’t! I bet Daehyun thinks I’m cuter than you!”

     “Well, who gives a ?”

     “You do!” Baekhyun, by the time I noticed, was no longer hugging Daehyun and had his arms crossed while glaring at me. I placed my hands on my hips before scoffing at Baekhyun.

     “Oh, really? Well, how about I take some of my and shove it up your fuc—“

     “Alright, alright! Stop it, you guys!” Daehyun looked from Baekhyun to me before shaking his head in disbelief and rolling his eyes. “Does it even matter whose cuter or not? Like Youngjae said, no one gives a !” Daehyun looked over at Baekhyun before letting out a small sigh. “Baekhyun, you need to stop getting Youngjae mad.” Baekhyun pouted while I quietly cursed at him with my lips showing a smile. I was too busy doing my own thing, I hadn’t realized Daehyun turned around to look at me. He crossed his arms. He was pouting. “Youngjae-ah, you also need to stop saying mean things to Baekhyun.” 

     “Like I will,” I replied with a scoff and looked to the side. As if I would ever not say anything to that old man!

     “Come on, Youngjae-ah. Baekhyun said he was going to stop.”

     “Since when? I didn’t even hear him!”

     “Youngjae-ah.”

     “Ugh, I’ll try,” I said before whispering, “my .” 

     “What’d you say, Youngjae-ah?”

     “Nothing!”

     “Okay, then! How about we go eat something to celebrate?”

     “No, I’m going home,” I blurted out, walking out of the classroom and going down the hallway. No way in hell was I going to sit and eat with that stupid grandpa trying to be all cute and .

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