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CHAPTER 3: CAN'T YOU SEE ME?

It was already our lunch time, same day. As usual, we went to the cafeteria and fell in line for food.

Our high school is a big private one. I only know a few people from my batch, mostly they're from my section, then my club members, the others left are those popular ones - like the ones from the dance club, choir and even athletes.

"Hey sis!" I heard my brother's voice from a distance so I looked back and saw Jin waving at me.

"As if I can't see him among the crowd." I told my friends, "He's towering over the others."

"I can't wait to be in 12th grade." Jimin looked at Jin in awe. "I want to be as tall as your brother."

"Too bad that's not happening." Jennie commented in a sing-song voice, her hands clasped behind her as she swayed.

Jimin snarled at Jennie. "Did I mention that I hate you, Jennie Kim?"

"Oh yes, countless times already." Jennie smiled at him cutely.

I rolled my eyes at them before looking at Taehyung. "It's our first detention later. What do you think they do there?" I asked, worried.

Taehyung suppressed a smile. "We're just going to stay in one room and 'reflect' on what we did wrong," he said, using air quotes as he said the word "reflect".

"How did you know that?"

"Jungkook." Taehyung answered with a half-shrug.

After we ordered, the four of us went to where Jin was waiting for us. He was already done eating but he was still there, talking to his best friend, Min Yoongi. Yoongi is Jin's best friend - he also met him during our first year of moving in this town. They're both in their 12th grade and are currently troubled with reviewing for their college entrance exams.

"Hey bro." I greeted Jin, then smiled at Yoongi. "Hi, oppa."

Jin cringed. "Jisoo, stop calling him oppa. It's weird."

I laughed. Whenever I see Jin with Yoongi, I always call his best friend "Oppa" just to see his reaction - he just hates it when I try to act flirty with his friend. It's a good thing Yoongi doesn't mind me calling him Oppa; he just smiles at me shyly and continues what he's doing before I call him that.

"So, how's the story going, Taehyung?" Yoongi asked Tae.

Yoongi's talking about our story for our next theatre play. He's the Musical director together with my brother, Namjoon, and Hoseok, who sometimes joins the dance club when their club adviser wants him to - yep, he's that versatile. Taehyung's the playwright and artistic director, assisted by Jungkook - a 9th grader famous for his cute baby face yet is troublesome sometimes, but most of all, he's an athlete, he excels in any; badminton, volleyball, basketball - you name it.

"I'm still talking about it with Jungkook. We're close to finishing it." Taehyung answered.

"We should start recruiting by next two week," Jin, the drama club's president, reminded us. "There's a lot to prepare for a theatre play, you know,. December is going to be pretty hectic too because of exams."

"Yeah, my sister's been pestering me about it. She badly wants to start already." Jimin said, placing a spoonful of rice in his mouth.

Jennie sipped her iced tea and faced Jimin. "I'll talk to Rosie about it."

"Mom's asking for you to visit us too. She said she missed her other daughter." Jimin fake gagged, earning a smack from Jennie.

"It still amazes how the woman who accompanied Jennie here was Jimin's mother." Taehyung chuckled then faced me, "I told you befriending Jimin was good."