Strings of Fate

Chapter 19

*Yoongi's POV*

Yoongi stared at the board uninterestedly. The lecture the teacher was giving was boring beyond belief, and it was obvious the teacher didn't actually care to teach any of them. No one really liked this teacher, Mr. Adam, he was from overseas and he was not a good teacher. Mr. Adam made it clear he couldn't care less who passed and who failed, and on top of that his tests were stupid and required too much memorization of useless facts. As such none of the students really like him.

Even so, Yoongi wanted to go to a good college and earn a scholarship, so he'd worked hard to maintain a 95 or above all year, not just in Mr. Adam's class, but all his classes. But now...now he no longer cared. He didn't want to try hard anymore, there wasn't a point anyway. Yoongi wasn't going to go anywhere in life. He looked out the window and sighed as he observed the trees blowing in the wind. No one was outside since everyone was probably in class. Though Yoongi did catch sight of a few students heading away from campus, probably intent on skipping classes.

'Maybe I should skip to', Yoongi thought to himself as he closed his eyes. There were only a few minutes left until lunch. He'd been spending his lunchtime outside and avoiding all his friends. He knew it was rude of him to suddenly ditch his friends like that, but he really didn't feel like interacting with any of them. Every time he looked at one of them, especially Taehyung, he would feel guilty.

The bell rang and students began rushing out to head to the cafeteria. Most of them probably just wanted to be out of Mr. Adam's class Yoongi figured. Yoongi took his time putting away his things, and then he grabbed his backpack and walked out of the classroom. He was still debating whether he should just skip now or stick around for a bit more. What use would it be to stay anyway, he wondered to himself.

"Wait up hyung!" Yoongi heard Namjoon calling him. He paused and turned around to see Namjoon rushing towards him while trying clumsily to avoid other students. Yoongi waited patiently for the other, while silently smiling in his head at the sight of Namjoon weaving between the students. Namjoon was clumsy, so seeing him trying not to trip anyone or himself while hurrying towards him, amused Yoongi. Of course, he kept a blank face, but inside he was chuckling at Namjoon's attempts. It was obvious the younger was bumping into people by the number of times he had to yell "sorry" over his shoulder.

"Thanks for waiting for me, hyung" Namjoon said finally arriving in front of Yoongi. Yoongi just nodded, face still blank as he looked up at Namjoon.

"What do you want?" Yoongi asked.

"Oh, yea...wait...um...what was it I was gonna say...oh yea! I came up with new lyrics but I'm having trouble with some parts. I was wondering if you wanted to come over and help me figure it out? Hoseok is coming too, I'm kinda excited to see him rapping. He rapped to Tae, and Tae can't stop going on and on about his sick beats." Namjoon said.

"Oh...when?" Yoongi asked.

"Today after school," Namjoon answered looking hopeful.

"Hm...I'll see if I can stop by," Yoongi said, and immediately Namjoon's face fell, yet the younger still smiled and nodded.

"Alright...hope you can come, hyung...you aren't joining us for lunch again?" Namjoon questioned.

"No," Yoongi answered shaking his head and walking away with a quick wave. He really didn't like seeing any of his friends sad, especially when he knew he was the cause of it, but he really needed to avoid them. It was for their own good as well as his own. He went outside and into the woods. He headed towards the old school building and slipped inside, he went up the broken stairs to the room at the end. Once inside he noticed that the papers he'd thrown were gone.

"Did someone come here and take them?" He asked allowed to himself, his eyebrows furrowed. Then he let out an irritated sigh and shook his head deciding it didn't matter. He pulled out a sandwich which was all he was having for lunch and began eating while browsing the internet on his old phone that had a cracked screen.

Halfway finished with his food he got a text and upon seeing who it was from he quickly read it while hurrying to finish his food. Once he'd read the text, he was up on his feet and heading back outside. He shoved the last of his sandwich into his mouth and started heading towards the school's back gate which only had one guard. Said guard, often was found either asleep or reading a book during lunchtime, making it easy for students to sneak past him. The faculty in this school could be very dumb sometimes.

Lucky for Yoongi, this time the guard was asleep so he didn't even really need to sneak past him. He quickly walked through the school gate and headed towards the old train station, where he was going to meet up with the one who texted him. He arrived at the station in about twenty minutes after somewhat power walking to the place. The station was no longer in use as such it was abandoned. And like most places that had been abandoned for so long, it was covered in graffiti and looked worse for wear. The stone bricks had lost their illuminant red color now taking on a dull brown. The walls weren't as sturdy as they used to be and had even broken down in some places. Inside, you could see the rusted train tracks and old benches. Some of the benches had holes in them while others thankfully weren't so damaged from the years of wear and tear. But the cement flooring did have long cracks running through it.

Yoongi looked around and soon found who he was looking for. He walked up to her as she continued to spray paint the wall.

"Yoongi! Glad you made it!" Rima greeted him as soon as she noticed him.

"Hmm...so what did you need to see me for?" Yoongi asked taking a seat on the bench behind her. Rima went back to spray painting as she talked.

"Nothing really. But Gale is looking for you, I think he wants to finally start the first trial to see if your fit to join us...you ready?" Rima asked glancing back at Yoongi.

Yoongi shrugged looking at her with a blank expression before answering "I guess so. When does he want to see me?"

"Tonight. I'm supposed to take you to him." Rima answered.

"Ok...so why couldn't you tell me this over text?" Yoongi asked.

"Wanted to see you" She answered, turning back to him with a big smile.

"Well you saw me, now can I go?"

"Aw, you don't want to hang out for a bit?"

"Not particularly."

"Hmph, so mean. Well, I guess you can go then. I'll see you tonight at the usual place?"

"Yea," Yoongi answered and then got up slinging his backpack over his shoulder.

"Are you really still going to school? You know there's no point right?" She asked.

"I'll go until I feel like stopping." Yoongi simply answered and she shrugged going back to her artwork.

Yoongi left and decided since he'd already left school, he might as well ditch the rest of his classes as well. He opened his contacts list and dialed a number. After the second ring, the person answered.

"Hello?" The voice asked.

"Wanna hang out for a bit?" Yoongi asked.