Alchemy // DoJae

•part three•

Doyoung's POV

"Jung Jaehyun." He says dryly, his tone highly apathetic. The way he says it, it sounds like it's a duty for him to tell me his name, as if he's said it a thousand times already. "Yours?" He adds, sighing.

"Kim Doyoung." I answer.
We keep walking in silence for about 15 more minutes. It's weird. It's like he isn't there, but then again, he is. The silence isn't awkward anymore, it's actually very comfortable for my senses and I start flying back to my thoughts from earlier which immediately ruins my already grumpy mood even more.

Tomorrow when I meet Dahye it will be a total disaster. I won't be able to look her in the eye, I'm so fucking ashamed of myself. She deserves something so much better.
I knew it wasn't that great of an idea to go to a club.

"So, do you even know how to go back to your place?" Jaehyun ruins the moment, and good that he did - I might've had a panic attack if I had kept thinking about what happened.

"No, not really. I'll just use my phone to navigate back, I guess." I shrug.

"Oh." He raises his eyebrows. "Yea, that's an idea right there." He nods airily and looks away.

The streets aren't well lit, but the dim light coming from the few working lampposts is enough for me to distinguish grimaces and features on Jaehyun's face.

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It's the next day and I'm already inside the school. Haven't seen Dahye, I hope she's sick and can't make it to school or our date. I still have absolutely no idea what I'll do, I can't even look her in the eyes, let alone manage to have a great date with her.

As I'm walking to my classroom though, a hand comes out of the janitor's closet door and pulls me in. It's Winwin.
"Hey, jerk." He greets grumpily.

"I'm the jerk now? You're the one who pulled me in this room in the first place. What was that for?" I exclaim loudly and he smacks my head with a newspaper. "Ouch, where did you find that?" I rub the place he hit.

"We're in the janitor's closet, you moron, there's all sorts of junk in here. Keep quiet." He says angrily and takes a deep breath, trying to calm himself down. "You saw me and Yuta last night, didn't you?" He finally asks me, giving me a defeated look.

I gulp. "Yeah, yes, I did..." I say awkwardly and look to the side.

"Well I saw you all up in some other chick too, so keep your mouth shut or the whole school will know in a matter of days."

"I'm gonna tell Dahye about it." I mumble quickly, the guilt already overcoming my body.

His eyes widen. "What? No, you're not supposed to do that."

"I feel terrible, okay? I can't even look at her, hell, how am I supposed to act normally when I fucking cheated?!"

"Whoa, calm down, it's not a big deal. Everybody cheats at least once in their life." He shrugs it off.

"Yeah, you maybe, but I'm just not that type of person, you know?! I normally would never do such a thing!"

"But you did, so suck it up and be a man. Dahye won't ever know, unless you tell her. Just pretend it didn't happen and you'll forget about it so it won't be bothering you anymore."

"I don't want to, the guilt is eating me on the inside." I look down, pouting .

"Well then, maybe you shouldn't have made out with a random girl last night. Be a fucking man for once, not a wimp, and show that chick who's boss!" He shrugs then attempts to make me believe I can pull it off. "Also, don't tell anyone about me and Yuta being together, okay?"

"You're together?!? Oh my fu-,"

"Shut up, don't even dare thinking about it. Just forget last night in general. Okay?"
With that he exits. I wait a couple seconds and exit too, sighing. I immediately spot Dahye in the distance and, unfortunately, she does too. So she starts waving her hands to get my attention and makes her way towards me.

I gulp. Well then, that's the moment of truth. I should probably listen to Winwin, right, he must have a lot of... experience. When she's finally in front of me I just can't bring myself to properly greet her.

"Hi, sweetie, I have classes to attend to, yeah, see you around, byeseeyouaround." I say at once and run away to my locker, which is away from this corridor, thankfully. I also mentally slap myself for repeating 'see you around' twice.

I'm breathless from running and lean against the locker, sighing deeply. This is going to be a lot harder than I thought, fuck.

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I'm sitting in math class, bored out of my mind. Yeah, I'm paying attention, that's the reason I'm bored. I just can't let my grades get low, or else I'll be saying bye bye to college. I understand math very well, it just bores me to death. I see Jaehyun with the corner of my eye, sitting on the last desk to my left, next to the windows. Since I'm also sitting on the last row, just next to the wall, he's in my point of view.

Not paying attention as always.

Is he that airheaded or is he just a complete slack-off? I can't imagine not giving even a single fuck about the scores. Maybe I should ask him about that sometime. Although I doubt he'd want to talk about it, he's a very very very private person, as I've figured so far. If something as simple as saying your name annoys you - that must be it.

And so the bell rings and I realize, Dahye will be going to my locker. My next class is History, do I need to grab my stuff for that class?

I decide not to and just storm out, looking down and try to make my way to the classroom as quickly as possible. I just can't face her yet, I'm not ready.