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Nerd (Jaehyun x you, taeyong)

Hello, this was the Jaehyun story I told you about. The story that made me glued on typing and finishing it. I am not done yet, but I want to make it into 2 parts because it's long enough already.

I caught the flu and I feel so sick, but I'll get better soon and try to write the second part (ending)

characters : bff! nerd! taeyong, badboy! Jaehyun cameo of Haechan and Mark as your brothers

tw : smoking, alcohol, bad boy behaviour, misunderstanding, ranking and school system, student worker

happy reading (?)

There he is again, one leg supporting his weight while the other one is making a nice shoe print on the white wall. The light breeze of Fall wind makes him warm himself with a bar of cigarettes. He stomps on his cigarette bud, his Burgundy hair flips nicely when his slender fingers run through them. He exhales the last breath of smoke from his pink lips and picks up his bag from the floor. With only one arm, he slings the bag over his shoulder and begins taking slow long strides into his class despite the chaos other students make upon hearing the ring of the bell. He puts on his number one smile and splits the crowded hallway into two, as if he is Moses who just split the Red Sea.

“Bro, you better run if you still want to sit in the class,” a tall man taps his shoulder and jogs to the class at the end of the hallway. His smile doesn’t falter, his dimple is still proudly on display when he makes his grand entrance just to stand face to face with the killer teacher but his eyes fall gracefully on one table. A special table he remembers by heart, the table on the front row, right next to the big window. It’s not the table that he likes, but the girl sitting on that desk. The girl in her half braided natural curly hair, who just sits without sparing a glance on his super bad-boy entrance. Only by doing this late entrance can he take a full minute of looking at her from afar.

“Jung Jaehyun, how many times do I need to tell you. Fix your uniform, tidy your hair and do not be late.” The old teacher scrunches at the school’s bad boy.

“Father said it’s okay to be late as long as I attend the class.” He pulls out his special card, the excuse of being the son of one of the biggest donature in this school.

The whole class only scoffs but no one dares look into his eyes. Mess with Jaehyun, and you are a dead meat.

“Final warning, go sit quick. See the principal after school-”

“but,” Jaehyun cuts him

“No buts. You have been late three times in a week for my class. You should try to be more punctual.”

Jaehyun’s eyes not for once left the girl who brings a tingle in his stomach. His heart almost bursts into pieces when he sees a slight reaction she gives.

“He sure could run away from detention since he is a rich kid,” you write it down on a paper and pass it to your best friend who is sitting with a straight back next to you.

Your best friend, the president of the class, the kid who aces all his tests including gym and the kid who has his hair styled according to the school’s rule but still looks okay, Lee Taeyong. The boy who grew up next to you, who knows all your secrets and stories. He opens the paper from you and only smirks.

Jaehyun notices the smirk you exchange with the boring class president. He balls his fist and tosses his eyes to the teacher in front of him. “Can I sit?” His voice is cold. Somewhat touchy upon realizing once again Lee Taeyong, the boring student, is the only one to make you smile or smirk or react!

Jaehyun takes the seat on the last row, somewhat unlucky today that he doesn’t get to sit in his favorite chair because it was removed. Now all he can see is Taeyong’s side profile and he couldn’t see you from his view at all.

Jaehyun leans back on his chair. His eyebrows furrow when his hand scribbles notes on a piece of chewing gum paper he found in his pocket using the pencil he found in the desk.

His eyes did not move away from Taeyong. He has to admit, for a straight A student, Taeyong is not ugly. In fact, he has a strong jaw, and if he styles his hair and throws away his round glasses he will be sure to be the prince of the school. Jaehyun doesn’t understand what you like from guys like Taeyong.

He slaps himself internally, how can he know you like Taeyong? But everytime he sees you, express yourself and be free only when Taeyong is around.

He makes a mental note on the features only Taeyong does. The young man grimaces at his own list, seriously can’t you just look at him once?

The bell rings and Jaehyun slowly packs his stuff. This is the hardest part when you don’t have much to pack. His eyes keep looking at you, who is chatting to Taeyong about something and laughing cutely. His knuckle turns white, he wants to be the one laughing together with you. The second you and Taeyong step out of the desk, Jaehyun quickly makes a beeline to exit the door only to be stopped by the teacher.

“Stay. I will escort you to the principal's office by myself, Jaehyun.” The teacher calls him over and Jaehyun feels humiliated. He rolls his eyes but a part of his heart is screaming happily when he catches you snickering at the teacher’s remark. One thing that annoys him is that it looks like you and Taeyong were laughing about him.

“Is it going to be long? I need to do something important today.” Jaehyun pleads to the teacher, but to no avail he has to say goodbye to his afternoon basketball game because the second he steps into the office, he faces all five teachers who he had been late to their classes this week.

Taeyong was cracking a joke to you when you arrived at the small cafe near your house. He always accompanies you to this place you spent most of your time after school.

“Remember to take enough rest. Midterms are coming!” Taeyong picks a chair in the corner of the room. You make your way to the kitchen and change, only to appear in an apron and a name tag. The smell of freshly roasted coffee beans has become your friend. Yes, you work in a small coffee shop, who only has the same customers coming in everyday, since people choose to add extra cents to get the green mermaid cup.

Your long shift starts now, a six hour shift a day for five days brings you enough money to cover some house needs expenses. You’re thankful that you have a scholarship that lets you go to school for free. On weekends, you finish up your homeworks and prepare for quizzes. With the clock striking five times, your shift started.

Jaehyun sits in the detention room, his pockets empty. All his cigarettes and lighter are confiscated. He was thrown into the quiet room just facing the window and given a pen and paper to write down his reflection. His mind wanders along again to the time when he sees how you always cast a lot of attention to Taeyong. He shudders, should he change his style to look like Taeyong to get your attention? Using the pen, he tries to push his hair down and make them look school-ish. He ends up shaking and messing his hair back. Frustrated, he puts his head in his hands, looks down and notices how untidy his uniform is. Tomorrow he will try tugging them in and maybe skip the styling gel. He has made it clear, he needs to play his game before you become Taeyong’s and he is too late.

---

The next day, the whole school is filled with whispers and murmurs. The first person you look for is Taeyong. SOmething must have happened and you did not have the gossip yet. So, after tugging your best friend's super neat spotless uniform your eyes enlarged in surprise when you heard the news.

“Jaehyun is dressing up tidy and has his hair down today. And for once, he doesn’t make a ruckus on entering the school, he doesn’t smell like alcohol and rumor has it he must have received a super bad detention yesterday so that he becomes a totally new person today.” You nod and reply to Taeyong, “Good for him. I just can’t stand looking at his untidy shirt. I will be surprised if suddenly he asks you to teach him materials.” the two of you exchange looks and crack into a big laugh.

“That won’t happen. If that happens, I will treat you to sushi.” you joke around and slap the locker close before taking steps into your first lecture of the day.

“What in the world?! You must be cheating!” you drop the spoon on your lunch tray upon hearing the news from Taeyong.

Taeyong shakes his head mortified, “No. I swear, it’s not about the sushi deal. He went to me alone and said nicely that he wanted to ask my help for tutoring him with statistics.”

You pick up your spoon again but rather than spooning foods into your mouth, you only poke around the meatballs in your plate.

“Something is not right.” you shake your head slowly in horror.

Taeyong is eating his lunch happily, “What? Isn’t it cool our class can finally hold the reputation of having all students passing with great scores? I am one step closer to making our class the best class of the year!”

Jaehyun was not kidding when he asked Taeyong to teach him statistics. Taeyong called you that night after your tiring shift and told you how smart Jaehyun actually is.

You scoff “You sound like you had a great time with him.”

“He is smart! He is an unpolished diamond. Gosh, if he changed earlier, he would already be ranked second now.”

You gasp offended at his remarks “Excuse me, I am second place. I am not giving up my spot to Jaehyun.”

Taeyong only smirks and giggles before giving you a side friendly hug “Kidding princess, don’t sulk!”

You pinch his cheek “Princess? Who is that? I’m (y/n). Ugh and also there is something fishy about Jaehyun, please be careful but if you can do me a favor…” you make a mysterious linger that is enough to make Tae so curious

“Tell me what you want.” your best friend already knows that tone.

You click your tongue “If you win the bet, we will eat sushi.. But then.. Find the real reason he is suddenly being this nerdy.”

Taeyong shakes his head and continues eating “You have a side eye on him changing to be a better person? I just think he wants to be better and nice, which is good.”

You shrug your shoulders. “There’s just something fishy, I can smell it.”

Jaehyun keeps his eyes focused on your back. He doesn’t have the courage to sit directly in the direction to see your face. No, you will notice that he is spying on you and you will think he is a creep and shoo him away. That is the last thing Jaehyun ever wanted.

“Jaehyun, there is a big party in Lucas’ house, you won’t want to miss it.” his best friend, Johnny comes with a cup of cold coffee and joins Jaehyun who only sips on his Banana milk calmly. Although the dents in the straw show how nervous he is just seeing you laughing and playing around with Taeyong.

“Ew by the way, what happened to your hair?” Johnny suddenly pauses from chattering about girls and basketball when he sees Jaehyun’s unstyled hair.

Jaehyun shrugs his shoulders “Running late today and didn’t have a gel.”

A stifled laughter can be heard and a snort from Johnny as he slaps Jaehyun’s back “Bro you gotta be kidding.”

But Jaehyun’s simple shake of head makes him gulp and tries to ask something else “Okay, you were late, who was the lucky girl?” Johnny wriggles his eyebrows but Jaehyun just sighs “No one. I didn’t sleep with anyone okay.”

His tall best friend laughs and expects to see Jaehyun cracks into a laughter too for pranking him, but the brown-haired boy didn’t laugh so Johnny stops. “Wait. Fuck. You were serious? Gosh you could’ve told me and you can borrow my hair gel. Come, let’s fix that hair.” Johnny almost stands up but Jaehyun holds his hand back. “No need. I want it to be like this.”

His Chicago man just sighs “Okay, but let my hand go please. Let’s blow some smoke before chemistry class.”

Jaehyun grits his teeth, he knows Taeyong doesn’t smoke. Judging from the smoke-free smell on his uniform, Jaehyun knows you prefer guys who don’t smoke. But his head is heavy and he needs his nicotine.

His eyes travel back at you, who is already leaving the canteen and Jaehyun finally stands up from his chair, places his hands into his pockets and Johnny almost spits out his drink.

“Who made Jaehyun tugs his uniform inside? What bet did he lose?” was all Johnny can think of

Jaehyun was right, his head feels better after the nicotine. He should admit being the center of attention for dressing up tidy and not styling his hair felt like walking through a hall of shame. But he should do this for you, if Taeyong can have a great lunch with you every day for being a good role model, Jaehyun can be like him too.

“Okay, so do you wanna carpool or come alone?” his other friend, who just joined to blow some cigarettes, asks with his Japanese accent.

Jaehyun throws the stick on the ground, steps on it and squishes it to put out the fire “I am not coming. I got tutoring from Taeyong tonight.”

Yuta, the Japanese guy, chokes a little and coughs “Whoah which teacher dares to do that to you?”

Jaehyun raises his brow, “Can’t I just study and be good? Why does it always have to be punished?”

Yuta and Johnny just shake their heads and pat his back “Well, your life is your choice but if you need us, you know where we will be. Go enjoy your time with that goodie-good boy.”

Just like that, Jaehyun smiles and leaves them because he doesn’t want to be late.

One week has passed, and the teachers are amazed with Jaehyun’s super attitude. He still at some time got caught cheating, or loitering around the hall during classes, smoking, and sometimes still late in the morning. But his uniform is always tidy, his hair no longer needs to be cut by the disciplinary teacher, and his grades are slowly rising. Though some teachers think he is cheating, most of them can swear they put Jaehyun on the front seat and keep their eyes fixed on him.

“I got a 75! Taeyong, you need to teach me more!!” Jaehyun shows off his Math test, a score that is still red in the report card, but one week of lessons with Taeyong and he is already getting improvement is great.

“Whooah, easy. You are taking advantage of me.” Taeyong smiles weakly.

Jaehyun slaps his forehead “Right, how can I forget to ask how much is your hourly cost?”

You, who were sitting next to Taeyong overheard this and burst out laughing “If Taeyong did not come up with a price, ask me. I’d be more than happy to receive the hourly pay you give to Taeyong for teaching you stuff.”

Jaehyun feels his ears turn red but he tries to calm down. This is the very first time you talk to him.

“I am (y/n),” you reach out your hand. Jaehyun quickly takes it and shakes your hand “Jae-”

You cut him “We all know you. I just thought that we were in the same class but I never properly introduced myself. But now that you are close to Taeyong, I guess I have to start to know you. Don’t steal Taeyong okay? I have no other friends.” you giggle and pull a tongue out. Jaehyun is still shocked from all of this and he groggily nods his head “Don’t worry.”

You pack your bag and all, “See you in the cafe Tae!” you wave to Taeyong who was still looking after Jaehyun’s paper.

“Cafe?” Jaehyun asks, well how come he never knows you own a cafe.

“Ah right, I promised to see her work. Last week I did not come at all since I stayed behind to teach you this.” Taeyong shakes the test paper.

“So, we will study in the cafe today? In (y/n)’s cafe?” His voice sounds too hopeful and too eager. Taeyong’s face shows a little bit of frown but he only shrugs his shoulders “Not her cafe, she works there and she makes the best coffee. Come, you might not know the place because I think you’re more of the green mermaid coffee guy.” Taeyong just snickers and walks a few steps in front of Jaehyun.

“Wait for me.” Jaehyun’s voice sounded too happy. Never did he think that studying with Taeyong can be another reason he can observe you from afar.

The young man used to be on the top ten of his class ranking. He used to win a lot of singing and piano contests. He joined his mother on volunteers and charities until she fell sick and had to leave young Jae Hyun to the hand of his hard working materialistic father. His father teaches him trades and money. He became obsessed with playing with his money, losing big or winning on some good day. That money doesn’t go to charity but goes straight to his pocket. Once his father becomes busy taking working trips, he makes parties in his house. Buying drinks and shoes. He becomes a mess without a mother figure and a hard working dad. Jaehyun seeks comfort from his fortune, from girls, but no one... no one has made him feel like he has his motherly figure until he met you. He saw you helping the other students study, how you helped the new students make themselves get used to the school during the orientation. He admires how you always seem to bring a home cooked meal that sometimes you share with Taeyong or other classmates. For once, he feels like his mother is here again with him. He orders himself a cup of moccachino and when you deliver the cup filled with a heart latte art, Jaehyun knows this will be his go-to order, no matter how bad his stomach will protest the next morning.

It has been two weeks of more shifts for you in the coffee shop, since you need to cover up for a sick worker. Taeyong and Jaehyun always come by to do homework and review for their test materials. Taeyong picks a chair next to your cashier place so that you can listen to what he is reviewing and Jaehyun can steal small glances at you.

“Can you please please please cover up for me this one time?” your coworker suddenly receives an emergency call and you need to take over the shop.

You almost protest, saying that you need to study for a big test, but seeing her panic state, you cannot say no. So, for the rest of the day, you were handling the cashier and drinks with just one other worker.

“I’m going home. I will fake your homework this one time since you need to review for the quiz.” Taeyong says when he packs his bag to go home.

You smile and give him a quick hair ruffle. “Thank you so much! You’re my lifesaver. Just make some mistakes, it's okay in case they think I cheated you.”

Taeyong just laughs and teases about going to mess up your paper and you come back with a snarky remark. Finally the closure becomes less crowded as Taeyong and some other people leave.

You glance at the clock, it’s almost 10 and Jaehyun is still trying to finish his homework on the same desk.

“Hey, are you stuck? Looks like you’ve been in the same number for ten minutes.” You suddenly appear next to Jaehyun, on your quick break, since there are two other workers now.

“Oh,” Jaehyun turns red. “Yes, I am a bit stuck here, but I will try to find it in the book.” he runs his pencil through his hair. You sit next to him to see the question and Jaehyun can smell a whiff of your strawberry shampoo.

“You are correct up to this part, then you need to do this.” you take over his pencil and scribble some equations on his paper. He scans it and seems like he understands it “Ah right! Thank you so much. Sorry to bother you.”

You shake your head “No worries, also you haven’t eaten dinner, do you want any sandwiches? We sadly only have those.”

“No worries, the cakes I ate earlier were filling enough. When are you going home?”

You check the clock “30 more minutes.”

“And where is your house?” he suddenly realized this sounds wrong “I mean is it far?”

You chuckle “Chill , it’s only a 15 minutes walk. You can go home if you want.”

“Oh, well it’s quite late, if you dont mind can I walk you home? You know you’re Taeyong's friend and I know Taeyong wouldn’t appreciate it if I let you walk alone.”

You feel your cheeks burn, The Jaehyun is offering to walk you home? HECK YES.

“Ah, yes Taeyong used to do that.” you stand up and get ready to work for the last 30 minutes.

Jaehyun feels his heart break a little, right? Taeyong of course does that.

“Okay then I will wait for you since you didn't say no.”

He waits outside of the cafe, holding to one of his backpack straps. Foot making random line on the ground. His phone shows the fun his friends are having, he can feel his hand tremble upon seeing the post of smokes. He has to admit his nicotine and alcohol addiction side effect is killing him. He feels his bag, almost reaching out for one last box he hid in his bag but he stops when you appear next to him. You lock the door and shudder “Oh it’s cold!”

Jaehyun scans you and notice the lack of jacket.

He quickly takes off his and shyly hands it to you “You can wear this. I don’t want you sick for the test tomorrow.” He rubs his neck when you gratefully wear it over your body.

“Thank you.” with that the two of you start walking back home.

The silence of the night was comfortable enough for both of you to reach your small home.

You look at your feet when you arrive, noticing the living room is still bright which means your family are still awake.

“We’re here. If you are not in a rush, please come inside.” you take off your shoes and before Jaehyun could reject your offer, your mother shows up and invites him in.

Any friend of (y/n) is allowed in the house, that is the motto you grew up with.

Jaehyun happily takes off his shoes and enters the small but warm house. Upon entering he can see the kitchen and the living room, it is indeed small but it has three bedrooms. He’s glad to see you have your own room and your brothers have their own.

“Who are you?” your youngest brother, Haechan, questions when you already return to the table in your pants. The school uniform needs to be hung for tomorrow.

“Sorry we only have tea, she never tells me if she has guest!” your mother apologizes after pouring Jaehyun a cup of matcha.

Jaehyun smiles “Don’t worry, I am only here because I walked (y/n) back. Thank you for this, I know all of you are tired too so I will not stay here for too long.”

“Oh, before I forgot,” you stand up, go to your room, and come back with a brown paper bag.

Your two younger brothers have stars in their eyes “Donuts!!” Haechan and Mark both happily snatch the pack from you.

Jaehyun only observes everything, how you tell them to share because there is only two piece and Jaehyun is here.

“We should share,” you take the donut back.

Haechan pouts “But there is two. One for me, one for Mark.”

You clear your throat and raise a brow “What about our guest?”

Haechan wants to protest but Jaehyun just laughs “I’m good, really. Thank you, but your brother should eat it.”

Mark grabs his fork and cuts the donut into two, “No, in this house we share what we have. Sorry about Haechan being a brat.” Mark pushes the other half of the donut to Jaehyun.

You smile at Mark, ruffling his hair “Please have it Jaehyun, sorry we couldn’t give you a whole donut. Next time maybe.” you grin and Jaehyun feels like jumping now. “Next time…” keeps repeating in his head.

He thanks the brothers and eat the donut, despite the regular taste of the donut, he feels it super delicious because it is shared.

After he finishes the tea and your brother have to sleep, you send Jaehyun to the porch and say goodbye.

“Good luck on the test tomorrow.” you wave at Jaehyun, hiding a yawn. You’re super tired, maybe you can just review in the morning.

Jaehyun waves back and walks away, one block away from your home and he hails a cab.

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You end up sleeping after showering, too tired from the shift and you sleep through your morning alarm to study. All you do is wake up, shower, pack your lunch and quickly run to your class.

You arrive to the school, bending to take a breather on the gate and you feel a hard slap on your back.

“Ready for test?” Taeyong chuckles when you glare at him.

You shake your head “I slept last night instead of studying.. Too tired. I just hope it’s not too hard.”

Taeyong nods and smiles “You’ll do great, don't worry about that.”

You smile “Yeah, I’ll be second!”

The two of you high five and walk to the class.

--

“I did not get second!” you scream when you see your result and upon searching your name from the bottom, you found your name in the sixth place.

Taeyong was celebrating his first rank streak while standing next to you who is still stunned by the rapid drop of your rank.

“This must be a mistake!” You run through the top five ranks and there you see Jaehyun’s name on the second rank. Second. Jaehyun.

Your fist balled and you punched the paper, “I hate this.” you run away and hide in the restroom.

Was that all a plan? Walking you home, talking to your brother for a while, holding you back from studying, while he studies so hard he could get second!

But you cannot blame him for everything. You hide in one of the stalls and cry. He only tried his best, he got lucky while you forgot to study.

You are born perfectionist, small things like this make you so upset and mad.

You did not show up until the last class, which of course makes you earn detention.

You are called to the office, they ask you why you did not show up in classes and upon your explanation they kind of forgive you for this one, but they still send you out with a white envelope.

You gulp, knowing what this is supposed to be. It has the school stamp on it, and by the way it is addressed to your mother, you know this is something about your scholarship.

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Jaehyun comes home with great news, he jumps rank to second and he got a new scholarship offer. The deal is if he can keep the performance for two more tests, he would be offered a scholarship. Jaehyun knows Taeyong is a scholarship student, so that must also give him a plus point right? (Y/n) would like someone who receives a scholarship, he smiles as he drops his body on the bed. On the table of his room, there is a big box of his favorite donut shop. He will go visit your home to give your brother some donuts tonight.

What he doesn’t think is, you won’t like a person who snatched your scholarship away.

To be continued..

“I told you he was fishy,” you scoffed at Taeyong, who cannot believe the letter he holds in his hand.

“They take your scholarship away just because you ranked 6?” he scratches his head.

You nod “The promise was top 5, once I go below that,” you wave the paper.

Taeyong sighs “If I knew this was his plan, I wouldn’t help him too much.”

You laugh ironically “I mean, if Jaehyun did not study I would still make it to the top five! The seventh rank got two points below me, the fifth got one above me! If Jaehyun just stays in his rank, I am save Tae!” you laugh and wipe your tears.

“Fuck my life. Now I gotta pay the school’s tuition for this month 70% more.” you pick out your phone.

“That means extra fifteen hours of work per week, how can I manage this while maintaining a top 10.” you lean on Taeyong’s expensive soft bed.

Taeyong rubs your knees “I told you, I can always help.”

You shake your head “Not that way, I don’t want to owe someone money. I’d rather have our friendship long lasting than borrow you money and risk everything we have.”

Taeyong squeezes your shoulder “Do you want me to stop teaching him?”

You shake your head “He wants to change, and that is good. I will just work harder and find out his true intention.”

Taeyong nods “I am here for you. Sorry if it turns out this way. I did not know he could be this bad.”

Jaehyun steps back from the door, no he was not eavesdropping at first. Well, he went to your home to send the donut. Giving it to Haechan and Mark who were the only one at home, saying it’s a treat because he scored nice. The two brothers were so happy and gave away your location which is Taeyong’s house.

Jaehyun knew Taeyong’s house from studying there once, so he made his way there. When he arrives in the big house, the assistant tells him that Taeyong is in the room with Y/N. He was so delighted to see you, maybe this is the start of something new. Maybe she will be interested in him for being more and more like Taeyong.

He stops his knuckle from knocking when he hears some discussion loud enough to be heard from the door.

Jaehyun pauses, something about his heart tells him that showing up might be a bad idea since he was not invited nor close enough to burst inside.

His smile fades out when he hears the problem, your scholarship, his score and now Jaehyun feels like he wants to cry.

No, he has no intention of pushing you off the rank. It was a totally wrong idea.

He crosses his fingers upon hearing Taeyong’s reply but his heart shatters when Taeyong also thinks that Jaehyun was doing this evil thing on purpose.

Jaehyun ponders, he can either go inside, clarify it and maybe talk to them about his true intentions, or he can run away.

Jaehyun chooses the second one, because running away is the easiest thing to do when you are not ready for consequences.

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