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sooji took a step closer to their table, clearly eager to be in the presence of someone as handsome as taehyung.

"i'm sooji, let's be friends oppa!" she said in a high pitch nasally baby voice, while holding out her hand for him to shake.

taehyung stared at it for a few seconds before turning to aera. "rara, do you smell something funny? it's like a really pungent floral smell and it's burning my nose." aera desperately needed to laugh.

rara? only taehyung would come up with such a nickname! taetae sounded much better in her opinion. but the most hilarious thing would be how he ignored sooji and dissed her at the same time.

aera sneaked a glance at sooji and immediately clamped her mouth shut as laughter threatened to escape. the poor girl still had her hand out and was busy gaping at taehyung, confused by his behaviour.

she heard some of her friends cough, trying to disguise their laughter, but suga didn't care at just laughed right at sooji.

with that infamous glint in his eye, taehyung cupped her face and frowned. "my poor rara, did you close your mouth cos the air smells so bad? here," he gently maneuvered her face into his shirt. "i wear gucci, i must smell better." he did, and aera was so couldn't help but chuckle so she just buried herself closer, trying to muffle the sound of her chuckling.

she felt his arms wrap around her, before he said,"soomi? or sooli? could you leave? the smell came when you arrived... maybe you put cheap perfume instead of deodorant?"

"o-oh..." sooji pitifully replied, and finally walking away.

not even ten seconds later, the whole table burst out laughing. taehyung removed his arms from around her and pushed her away lightly.

"wah, i'm such a good actor, you are so lucky to have me rara ah!" he teased, emphasising on his new nickname for her.

she huffed. "what kind of name is rara?! tch. 짜증나."

"heol. what a drama queen." he muttered and aera hit him lightly.

"fine! then should i call you taetae or hyunghyung!"

"you can call me oppa!" taehyung joked.

"omg you've lost it. that won't even happen in your dreams. jinjja." exclaimed a shocked aera.

"ya! your joke was too harsh rara. you should be nicer t-" taehyung said in mock hurt but was interrupted by namjoon.

"are you guys dating or not?"

taehyung answered a casual yes but aera remained silent. should she tell her friends? while she had known jungkook for practically her whole life, she had only befriended the rest of them last year. but they were still close.

while she mostly didn't mind, a smaller part of her urged her to continue with her lie. if they found out, they would definitely tease her for still being a 모대솔로. why not just not say anything and let them come to their own conclusions?

a familiar poke to the side jolted her out of her thoughts. she glanced up to see everyone looking at her expectantly.

"my rara ya, we're dating right!" taehyung asked, trying to help her out.

she pursed her lips teasingly and replied, "only cause you begged taetae!" flashing him a grin.

a small lie won't hurt anyone, right?

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frankly speaking, aera found taehyung tolerable, and it seemed like they had got off on the wrong foot that night.

however, he was still an enigma to her. she couldn't quite classify him. at first she thought he was a bad boy, he was rude, easily brushed people off, and didn't even bother helping her when they bumped into each other. he was cocky, and seemed as of he always got what he wanted.

but she saw how he treated other people. he was mostly impassive but polite and he didn't curse often or threaten people and fight...

so what was he?

a jerk, she decided. a jerky spoiled brat.

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after school, aera ran into taehyung another three times. they shared a lot of classes, and for the sake of appearances, or rather to annoy aera, taehyung had opted to sit with her when given the choice.

and aera soon became used to the glares she received from jealous girls, as well as taehyung's aggravating presence.

at first, he just teased her, calling her "rara" and trying to get her attention. when she eventually stopped responding, he began poking her and lightly tugging on her hair. and then he had the audacity to draw a dog on her hand! aera was so used to ignoring him so she didn't bother looking until he was done with his masterpiece. and when she did, she was triggered.

and taehyung even smiled coyly and said, "this is what you get when you ignore me, jagiya!!" she wanted to punch him but she knew she couldn't as it would blow their cover.

so now that school was finally over, aera couldn't wait to walk home with jungkook, until she realised, that taehyung would be following them too.

진짜 짜증나.

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짜증나 (ja-jeung-na) : annoying
진짜 (jin-jja) : really