Ingenious | BTS PrivateSchool!au
Warnings: Bad language, violence, mental health issues, sex, alcohol
Snowflakes all around, like glistening gems falling from the sky, it would be a cosy Christmas for the students at Silver Creek; or at least the very few who had not been able to go home for the holidays.
Christmas had rolled around quicker than ever, exams being the main black hole of focus for the students. It felt, for those still left at school that the festive bug had not yet caught them.
Y/N, unfortunately, was one of the teenagers having to brave the cold weather in the dorm rooms accompanied by her close friend Sophie, a girl with money rooted in her blood. Like most of the pupils at Silver Creek Academy Sophie had brought her way in and often soured when teachers mentioned Y/N’s scholarship for outstanding intelligence and understanding in the art of languages.
24th December, Christmas Eve
“Y/N! Y/N! ONE DAY UNTIL CHRISTMAS! WAKE UP YOU BUTT”
“Ugh Sophie! Give me a break girl“
Ever since you arrived at Silver Creek a few years ago Sophie had made a point to wake the dormitory at the crack of dawn, regardless of the disapproving reactions she usually got.
“DID YOU KNOW THE BOYS FROM KNENNINGTON HOUSE ARE STILL HERE!?!? We’re not the only fifth years left!”
“Oh what Hobi’s friends?” You sat up straight to face the plump blonde girl sat on the end of my bed.
“yes those guys, but don’t touch they’re mine”
“So what’s the plan?” You asked, curious as to what ideas she had conjured up in true Sophie Sparks fashion and amused by her evident crushes on the boys.
She then explained how she had decided you would make your famous gingerbread cookies that you would then eat at dinner. Of course the lack of other students would make you visible to the Kennington boys who should come over for a delicious cookie. Ingenious really.
“and then she wanted to …”
“and there they are” Sophie interrupted whilst pointing at the boys walking in, laughing and smiling.
The Christmas spirit had clearly overtaken them in the form of ugly sweaters and cracker hats that fell as they moved. Sophie continued to stare at them as they sat down behind me.
“damn. Start munching bitch” she handed me a cookie and we continued to gossip about a certain girl in our dorm.
“HEY Y/N? Can I have one pretty please?”
You refocused from Sophie to Jung Hoseok; a bold and energetic boy that You had many classes with a few years ago, the class clown if you will. Thankfully you had remained close friends with him and his group throughout the past few years, much to Sophie’s dismay.
“Oh sure” You grinned at him and held out the biscuit tin.
“Hey! what about me?” Jimin, a dance major, appeared behind him.
“Be my guest” You say as they sat down.
It wasn’t long before the rest of their friends had sat down with us, chatting with us joyfully.
“Aren’t you the girl with the scholarship for languages and stuff?” Namjoon asked. Namjoon however, was the one not that I had never really spoken to before.
“oh wow, that’s really impressive. You’re in my English and Japanese class I think?”
“Thankyou, and mm yeah I think so, I’m usually too tired to take notice of the lesson let alone the people in there hahaha.”
“Well…you always impress me with your skills”
Sophie stood up sharply and stomped out of the dining room with a heavy sigh, mumbling rapidly under her breath.
“What’s going on with her?” Min Yoongi questioned.
“She always gets like that when someone mentions my scholarship.”
“oh what, because she’s rich and not intelligent like you?”
“Y/N, are you the only fifth year girl left?” Kim Seokjin raised his eyebrow and motioned towards you with half a cookie.
“yeah, just me, Soph and a few hyper first years downstairs, who I’m refusing to babysit by the way, they can stay up all night for as much as I’m bothered, But I guess Sophie won’t be staying tonight if this situation goes down how it usually does”
“oh right, well if you want some company I’m very happy to come and I’m sure the other boys will too. All the teachers have gone home now anyway, we won’t get caught”
“But what about the younger girls?”
“We’ll make sure they don’t say anything don’t worry ”
“Are you sure? You really don’t have to do this Jin”
“Oh shut up, I’m not letting any girl be alone on christmas eve”
“Oh ok then, thank you” You smiled and offered him another cookie which he gladly took.
“I’m going home” Sophie announced whilst picking up her designer suitcase and handbag.
“Ah so I gathered” You replied and sat on my bed.
“Y/N! Love Actually or Elf?” Hoseok burst through the wooden door with DVD cases in either hand.
“Bringing boys into the dormitory now are we?” Sophie tutted and push past Hoseok with her head held high.
“Damn” he remarked with raised brows.
“haha Love Actually, OF COURSE” replied and ran to the common room to join the rest of them.
By 10pm Y/N had fallen into a deep slumber against the arm of the well-loved sofa in the common room. The fires heat blazing against her skin and the unconscious caress of Kim Taehyung around her ankle in his still lap.
Only the sixth year boys were still awake, having a meaningful heart-to-heart about the past year. It had been one with lows, but also unbelievable highs that made each other and their families proud.
Kim Seokjin, Min Yoongi and Kim Namjoon have decided they would be going to university next year whilst Jung Hoseok had decided to go travelling and explore his roots in South Korea amongst other places.
They laughed and drank their eggnog in high spirits as their eyelids began to feel heavier and heavier and heavier.
25th December, Christmas Day
You woke up to the unpleasant yet somehow adorable squealing and screaming from the first years downstairs.
“Merry Christmas Y/N” Taehyung whispered as he watched you wake up.
“Merry Christmas” You smiled and gave him a friendly hug. Although he returned a soft squeeze he did so with a mournful expression.
“What’s wrong?” You asked.
“The kids just remind me of how the parents stop caring when you get to our age. They just send you away and pretend you don’t exist for five years”
“Yeah. None of us have been sent a Christmas gift from our families since we left Korea 5 or 6 years ago”
“Awh, nevermind, I haven’t got anything either haha”
He chuckled and sat up straight, moving my legs off his lap, walking over the other maroon sofa and waking up his friends.
“What do you call a man who claps at christmas?” Jin holds the small peice paper up.
“Santaapplause” he broke into hysterics making everyone else laugh with him.
Ring. Ring. Your phone sounded and everyone’s fun to stare at you.
“Answer it then. None of us get Christmas calls” Namjoon said with an undertone if jealousy.
You flip over your mobile and see who’s calling. Sophie Sparks.
“Merry Christmas!” She says overly seeetly and obviously insencire.
“Merry Christmas?” You question.
“Yeah, so my parents are, of course, disgusted by your behaviour yesterday and have contacted Mrs Hail to request you expelled. So honey, enjoy your Christmas but don’t forget that with grades like yours you’re bound to be gone in the next month”
She wasn’t wrong though; you had been falling behind in a couple of your classes due to your want of a better social life. It was worth it but now it was probably going to bite back. The only choice you had now was to succeed far beyond academic expectations so that the school had no choice but to keep you.
“Who was that?“ Jimin asked.
“Ah ok. I think the grinch is on TV, you guys wanna watch?”
The room echoed with sarcastic “woo”s and “hell yeah”s from the other boys, you watched as Jimin’s expression dropped and he turned to pout at you.
“I’ll watch it with you” you giggle and pat the seat next to you, preparing for his descent.
“Thankyou” he mumbled and put his arm around your shoulders.
“Ummm Y/N has boys in the common room!“ you heard a young voice say.
The first years had appeared by the stairwell sporting their new attire, including mainly onesies and deelyboppers.
“Oh my gosh, my mummy says boys only want one thing and that’s what’s in your pants” another fresh faced girl joins in.
“Girls either shut up or go back to your dorms” You say.
“Nuh-uh we’re going to tell Mrs Hail about this” The girl replies.
“Too bad she’s not here, now do as Y/N says and go back to your dorms before I inform someone more important than Mrs Hail about your non-compliance. You’d get in a lot of trouble believe me.“ Jin warned the group of girls. They scurried off without questioning the older boy.
“WoW they’ve really got it in for me today haven’t they, thanks Jin.“
He nodded politely and continued to make his coffee in the remarkably petite kitchen.
The rest of the day was full of merry banter for the teenagers at silver creek. Y/N had not once thought about Sophie’s threat as she had been much too occupied by the practical jokes and amusing conversations with the Kennington boys.
She had not even realised that snow had fallen and blessed her with a white Christmas until Jung Hoseok had taken her onto the balcony late that night after everyone had fallen asleep. It was no secret that Hoseok had a soft spot for Y/N; always chatting to her when she was sat alone and always succeeding in making her laugh or at least smile. She however never saw the other side to Jung Hoseok, always taking him as a cheerful and happy kind of man.
They sat there enclosed in the white fluffy blanket they found in the dormitory sipping their hot cocoas and discussing things like the future and the past, their friends and their wishes. She thinks that perhaps the last time they had spoken like this was years ago when they were barely 11 and 12. Of course, much had changed, he now wanted to be a professional dancer or performer, in the west end he said, and she wanted to be a writer or a teacher, she hadn’t decided yet. He reassured her that it’s only natural not to know at that age what you wanted to do for the rest of your life, always making sly jokes about the age gap of a year, painting himself as a much wiser man than he was.
“I must say it’s been a marvellous Christmas Y/N. I usually don’t enjoy it because it feels like I’m away from home, but this year I think I felt at home more with you and the guys than I used to with my own family”
No reply. Hoseok had been talking to himself for the past five minutes whilst Y/N had fallen asleep against him and the door behind them. Once again his half confession had been subsided by Y/N without her even realising. Christmas had drawn to a solemn close for Jung Hoseok.
It felt for him as though he was on top of a skyscraper only to be pushed off by the force of loneliness.
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