“For your next class, I need you to do presentations regarding this topic that we learnt today. You’re not going to do this work alone, but in partners of two.”

The class was silent; waiting for the teacher to explain about this whole presentation things.

“Good news for you, I’m not going to choose your partner. You’re allowed to choose by your own,” Ms. Jo stated which left the students cheering in glee.

“Slow down, class. Don’t be too happy, I want you to do your very best on the presentations. If I’m not satisfied with your presentation, then you should get ready to be punished. Do you understand me?” Ms. Jo asked with raised eyebrow.

“Yes, teacher,” the students in the class chorused.

“Good. So, I’m going to see you in our next class, next week so you’d have 3 days to prepare for the presentation. Don’t complain about the short time and just do it. Make sure your work is going to be impressing or else, just wait for my special punishment. That’s it for today, thank you class,” Ms. Jo took her stuffs from the teacher’s table and walked out the class.

Once the teacher’s figure vanished from the door, students in the class immediately went noisy as most of them were searching for partners for the presentation. Some even ignored their best friends because they wanted to have best partners so their presentation wouldn’t be screwed and they could avoid themselves from being punished.

Hyesun looked at her two best friends; Mina and Naeun to see they already partnered up with each other. Her eyes went to the guy who had an uninterested face at the whole partners and presentation things and she snapped her fingers at him.

“So Mr. Top 30, do you want to be my partner for this presentation?” she proposed when he turned to look at her.

“You’ll regret it to have me as your partner,” L.Joe lazily answered.

“Oh really? But I think you won’t regret it to have me as your partner,” she threw back his answer.

L.Joe raised an amused eyebrow, “You might end up doing everything for the presentation,” he provoked.

“I don’t think that’s going to happen, Mr. Partner,” Hyesun furrowed an eyebrow back to him.

“How sure are you?”

“120 percent positive. Come on, just tell me you agree to be my partner and this conversation won’t be dragged uselessly like this,” the girl rolled her eyes.

“Since you want me that much, then I guess I should be saying yes, shouldn’t I?” L.Joe gave her a little smirk.

Hyesun scowled at the guy, “Excuse me, I just want you to be my partner for this project, I didn’t even say anything about wanting you, did I?”

“Alright then, Miss Partner. Fine, I’ll be your partner for the presentation. But don’t tell me I didn’t warn you, okay?” he still tried to provoke her.

But it seemed like it was no effect to the girl at all as Hyesun smiled, “You don’t need to worry about that. Maybe you should worry about yourself because things won’t go around your way,” she tilted her head at him in a challenging way. She believed he wouldn’t understand the hidden meaning of her words. We’ll do this my way, Lee Byunghun and you’re not getting away from this.

L.Joe chuckled at her confidence, “Now I’m scared. I guess we’ll have to see about that, huh? Well, I have a high expectation and anticipation so I hope you won’t let me down.”

“I’ll take care of that. So, since we have 3 days to prepare for the presentation, how about if we start today because I’m not sure if we can finish it right on time if we procrastinate,” Hyesun shrugged as she thought about the given time by the teacher.

“Too bad I have something else to do tonight so maybe we should postpone it to tomorrow,” L.Joe suggested to the girl. I won’t let you win that easily. Let’s see how much longer you can stand me.

Hyesun’s eyebrow furrowed, “You do? Mind to tell me what is that something else? I need to know if it’s more important than our given task.”

“Hanging out with my friends,” L.Joe answered in a casual way. He looked at Hyesun to see how her reaction would be like.

“Then, can I tag along?” Hyesun smiled; too cheerful to look genuine. If you think I’m going to give up, then you’re wrong.

“We always hangout at clubs so I’m not sure if you want to join me since from what I see, you’re not the type who loves clubbing or at least even comfortable about going to such places,” L.Joe said as he eyed her up and down with a shrug on his shoulders.

“It seems like you’re judging me hard, umm? For your information, I’m not some sort of miss goody-two-shoes who loves sticking home and becomes bored from being bored. So, can I tag along tonight?” she asked again.

“If you insist so...”

∞

That night, Hyesun had to lie to Kyungri saying that she wanted to hang out with the Infinite boys since they hadn’t meet in awhile. She was glad that Kyungri didn’t further the question as she just allowed her. Hyesun waited at the bus stop near Kyungri’s apartment for L.Joe to pick her up. At a distance, she could hear a loud vroom sound which she believed came from L.Joe’s bike.

She stood up as she straightened her clothes and hair. L.Joe’s bike stopped right in front of her in a split second. He motioned her to hop on as he passed her a helmet. The girl took the given helmet and wore it on her head before hopping on the bike.

“Just to warn you, you better hold onto me tight or else, I can’t be sure what’s going to happen to you,” L.Joe said as he glanced back for a second.

Hyesun rolled her eyes at his clarification. Just drive on whatever speed you want and I’m still going to make it alive because this is so my thing. Instead, she did what he told her as her arms s around his waist and put her head on his shoulder.

Her action made the lad gulp but L.Joe wouldn’t let the feeling inside his tummy betrayed him as he sped off to their destination. Around 30 minutes, they had already arrived at the underground club.

Hyesun casually hopped off the bike before taking off the helmet on her head. She gave the helmet to L.Joe with a smile, “Man, it feels so good. I hope there’s still some other time.”

L.Joe ignored her as he reached for the helmet as he himself hopped off his motorcycle and put both of the helmets on the motorbike. Before he could fix his hair, another hand had beaten him to it.

“Look at how messy your hair is, nonetheless, you still look handsome,” Hyesun said as she glanced at the boy once without forgetting to smile before she continued to fix his hair. She finished her touch and it seemed like she looked satisfied with her work, “All done. Should we go in right now?”

L.Joe, who nearly spaced out blinked his eyes once, “What? Oh, let’s go—”

“Look at who do we have here,” a deep voice was heard; stopping them.

“It’s L.Joe... with a girl, as in a real girl. Like whoa, he’s bringing a she—”

“Snap out of it, kid,” L.Joe immediately cut Ricky off as he lightly smacked the younger’s head.

“This is rather amusing,” Niel smirked at L.Joe who simply glared back at him.

Hyesun recognised the boys to be Teen Top except for the guy with deep voice. He’s probably the one who’s in college.

Changjo noticed Hyesun’s eyes on Cap so he took a moment to introduce him to her, “I believe he isn’t introduced yet to you so this is our leader, Cap. Cap, this is L.Joe’s new girl, Hyesun.”

“Who the hell are you calling as my girl? Hyesun is only a classmate, not more than that,” L.Joe clarified; seeing how Cap was eye-siding him.

“Presently a classmate, but we still have to question about what that status would be in the future,” Niel continued to tease.

Hyesun cleared at the atmosphere, “Seriously you guys are talking about me as if I’m not here.”

Cap smirked upon hearing that, “I like you already,” he pointed at Hyesun.

The pointed girl raised an amused eyebrow, “You do? That’s fast. How I wish I can get L.Joe to like me as fast as you do,” she playfully said as she glanced at the said boy.

“I think you made a progress already,” Ricky winked at Hyesun as he elbowed L.Joe who was next to him, only to be glared by the older boy.

“How long are you guys planning to chitchat here? Aren’t we going inside?” a voice that hadn’t spoken since earlier finally was heard. Apparently, it was Chunji’s.

“Right. Let’s get in and have fun!” Cap yelled as he slung his arm on Chunji’s shoulder which made the latter groaned.

Hyesun immediately went to L.Joe’s side and held his arm which made him stop, “What are you doing?” he asked.

“I just don’t want to get shocked when I get inside so I’m thinking that I might need you for some support so I don’t think it’s wrong to hold your hand, right?” she gave a cute smile at him.

“You’re the one who insists on following me so help yourself,” L.Joe replied as he pulled his hand away from the girl’s grip.

Hyesun snorted in annoyance, “Meanie stays meanie.”

Still, the lass was sticking close to L.Joe and the latter didn’t seem to be bothered with it as they made their way into the infamous underground club which had been high school students’ favourite hanging place.

Hyesun’s smile didn’t leave her face and she tried her best to look pleased in front of L.Joe who was glancing at her time to time but in a blink of eye, her expression turned numb. From the opposite direction, there came seven lads that Hyesun knew very well. It was none other than seven godly-looking Infinite. Lee Sungjong, I’m so going to kill you.

“Whoa, who do we have here? Right, a group of losers,” Cap sneered as he smirked to Sunggyu.

It made Sunggyu looked at the muscular lad with complete fury, “Who are you calling as losers? It’s someone like you who seem to fit the title well.”

“Oh really now? Last time I checked, the so-called great Infinite but actually isn’t that great at all lost to us, the almighty Teen Top,” Chunji cynically replied.

“Are you being arrogant now that you guys won over us in our recent battles? Then, maybe I should remind you who the one that kept winning back then. It’s us, Infinite—” Woohyun basically was clenching his jaw hard, especially when his words got cut off.

“You must mean, it was. It’s pathetic on how you tried to bring up about the days where we were still a new crew and you guys were already known as the big crew. But, it’s clear that the day where you would have to give the title as the best crew to us is coming closer as in very soon,” Niel chuckled as he swept his fingers across his chin, “Man, I can’t wait.”

“In your dream, kids. We won’t let that happens, at least not yet. Or maybe that would never happen at all. Infinite will remain as the best crew in town, if possible, even in the country,” Hoya determinedly said as his fist was clenched tightly. He loves to dream high and he knows it’s not possible to make it comes true.

That made Changjo and Ricky burst into laughter, “Oh my God, look who’s talking. Some guy from a crew which is going downhill said they would be the best dance crew in Korea like ew, delulu much?” Ricky snorted as he looked at Infinite with a scoffing face.

“Says someone who has been dreaming about being a world’s top dancer when he’s not even qualified for it, like ew, delulu much?” that moment when the diva-ness is being shown. Sungjong made a face as he rolled his eyes.

That’s how our Sungjong rolls, Hyesun tried hard not to laugh at Sungjong’s comeback to Ricky as she bit her lips to prevent it from doing something which would raise suspicions. Her eyes suddenly went to L and she noticed he was staring at her with an unreadable expression.

L didn’t get shocked when he was caught staring at Hyesun but instead, he continued to give her confusing looks. He hated it to see Hyesun was considered on Teen Top side at the moment. He loathed the view of Hyesun standing next to L.Joe as the back of their hands were brushing against each other. He felt like killing L.Joe whenever the younger stole glances on Hyesun. Even though L.Joe didn’t stare at Hyesun for a long time, he hated it more than anything.

“By the way, you got yourself a chick huh?” Sungyeol asked as his eyes scarily penetrated through Hyesun which made the girl gulp in uneasiness.

Realising the topic would get their attention on her, the girl tried to remain calm and her eyes unknowingly stared back at Sungyeol. From his expression, she knew he was mocking her. Guess I’ll have to settle this tomorrow.

In a split second, Hyesun could feel a warm hand lingered around her waist and when she looked at the male besides her whom she believed was the owner of that hand, he was also looking at her.

“She isn’t our chick. She’s my girlfriend,” L.Joe bravely emphasized the word ‘girlfriend’ as he stared at Hyesun.

Teen Top was shocked at the clarification but they hid the expression well yet Ricky couldn’t help but to gasp. While on the other side, Infinite felt sickened as ever to hear that from L.Joe; especially L.

It pissed L off that his fist formed a tight ball until his knuckles turned white. His eyes were staring sharply at L.Joe and at the moment, all he could think of was to drag Hyesun out from the place and most importantly, give L.Joe a punch on his face. That’s my girl you’re freaking holding, you freak.

“I bet she’s actually someone else’s girlfriend and you’re playing dirty to get her, right?” Sungyeol continued to shoot; which was partly targeted to Hyesun. While saying that, his eyes glanced at L and he knew exactly what the younger felt.

Changjo laughed at Sungyeol’s assumption, “Please, we aren’t that cheap and with our charms, we can get any girl we want effortlessly.”

“You’re so full of yourself, kid. Might want to tone it down,” Dongwoo half-smirked and half-chuckled.

“We aren’t boasting but we’re just saying the truth,” Chunji shrugged and raised his eyebrow.

Realising how thick the atmosphere was, Hyesun cleared and turned to L.Joe as she put her hand on his arm, “Can’t we go?” she whispered.

L.Joe nodded to her request, “Sure, I’m getting sick here talking to these losers.”

That’s my best friends you’re calling as losers, you freak! Hyesun mentally screamed in her mind.

“Excuse me, but we have no time for your nonsense and we just want to enjoy the night. We hope we won’t have to see your face soon because it’s sickening. Let’s go, guys,” L.Joe moved as he held Hyesun’s hand on his arm and the five other followed after.

While passing by, Teen Top gave some provocative signs to Infinite as the latter could only glare back. But, L was the only one who was in his own world. His eyes painfully stared at Hyesun’s hand on L.Joe’s arm as L.Joe was holding her hand. He didn’t even have the chance to do so.

Noticing L’s faraway look, Sungyeol quickly dragged L together with him, “Let’s go,” and Sungyeol couldn’t help but to also stare at the couples. Please stop it soon, Hyesun.

I'm sorry for the wait, there's nothing much I can do so I'm giving a longer chapter this time.