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SECOND YEAR╰┈➤ 44. Start with a bang

Birthday - JP Cooper

Jungkook

My innocent mind and young soul couldn't have fathomed the rollercoaster ride that awaited me when I left home a year ago to come here, but as I walked in through the iron-clad and familiar gates of Uni a year later, I was smarter and stronger.

It was winter again, but unlike my first day at Uni when we had sun, today was rather dreary. The flock of students was dragging their luggage. Whenever a naive sophomore crossed my path and referred to me as 'sir,' my head boggled.

Yes. I passed sophomore year with flying colors. Yes, I was now a second-year student. And, yes, I also became the youngest person on the dancing committee.

There wasn't a day when I didn't text Jimin and Taehyung Hyung during our holidays. They were in Korea for the entirety of the time. I traveled with family to Dubai, Australia, and even Paris. Not that I wanted to, but my Appa had business needs, and he thought to make a nice and long family holiday out of it.

I had too much time to sit back, energize, rethink, and restrategize about my situation. My strategy this year was simple. I needed Jimin to realize that he wasn't bound to his sexuality like a rule. When it rains, look for rainbows, and when it's dark, look for stars kind of a thing.

The entire world looked at him and glimpsed him as he wanted us, but I didn't know what I saw in him that had me convinced that I in his life was a possibility. Call me delusional or intuitive. They were things one felt, not saw.

If anyone asked me what made me so convinced, I wouldn't be able to explain those things. I saw a streak in Jimin that made me believe that I could succeed. I wasn't completely delusional, so I was giving my assumption a probability of being way out of the park, but I was going to see through the end.

Although I had a new motivation this year, I wouldn't say that the last year was in vain either. Jimin let me into his circle of trust when he was always selective, and earning something so real from him when I knew he didn't offer it easily was also a big win.

But where was the man of the hour?

I glided my gaze through the foggy atmosphere. Most of the students were inside because of the cold, so maybe he was too.

I went to the reception to pick up the room key card before dragging my bags to my new dorm for the second-year students.

Just as I entered through the door, I looked around the new space. It was definitely more spacious, not as big as Jimin's dorm, but better than my last room.

Before leaving for the holidays after exams, Ulrich and I cleared out our old room. Ulrich was the one to arrive early the last time, so this time, I had the chance to pick the side I wanted.

Not unpacking yet, I rushed out and headed to the common storage room where people stored the things they needed for the next year and couldn't take them back home. It was situated on the ground floor, so on my way over, my legs took me to my old dorm.

I wanted to see the space one more time for some reason. Knowing that the dorm would be locked, I still couldn't resist walking up to my old room's door and twisting the knob.

It clicked open.

The happiness I felt was beyond reason.

I stepped inside the empty room with which my memories were associated. No one could guess that I fell in love right there, lying on the small bed and dreaming about the most beautiful man I'd ever seen. Ulrich and I became such good friends in this very room. When I thought about all the nights we waited for each other to have dinner together, or study, or even when I dragged that goof to sneak into senior's dorm and parties, a big smile crossed my face.