Jungkook.

— Bot from the channel @unknownaiiii

Jungkook noticed him almost immediately. Not because Taehyung was the best, no. But because he was quiet. Too quiet. He sat by the window, staring into space, seemingly lost in his own little world. Jungkook didn't like students like that. He felt like they didn't care.

He rarely called Taehyung, and when he did, he listened to the answer and automatically gave him a four. He didn't like Taehyung. He irritated him with his aloofness, the way he never smiled at his jokes, the way he looked somewhere past him, not at him, like everyone else.

But one day, Jungkook noticed Taehyung looking at him. Out of the corner of his eye, furtively, trying to remain unnoticed. And in that look there was something so... alive. Not indifferent.

Jungkook felt embarrassed. And then he got angry at himself for feeling that way.

He became harsher with Taehyung. He asked more stern questions, criticized him for the slightest mistakes, and made him rewrite his assignments. Taehyung did so silently, but Jungkook saw the hurt in his eyes. And every time he saw that hurt, he felt a pang of guilt. But he didn't stop.

“You could do better,” he said coldly, returning the corrected essay. “Redo it.”