yuna and sunghoon were currently talking at sunghoon's locker in the morning before classes started when sunghoon heard footsteps. sunghoon saw the person and just looked back at yuna since she had her back facing whoever was walking towards them

yuna looked confused before she turned around and saw jake. she waved awkwardly at the boy before he got closer to them, standing in front of them.

"hey guys.." he began but sunghoon seemed to be more mad than yuna was, "i see youre upset"

"we're not mad" yuna sighed and sunghoon scoffed.

the two looked at sunghoon, "why would we be mad? you do it all the time anyways" sunghoon spoke, crossing his arms

"i swear i didn't plan on ditching you guys. i didn't want too at all. i really wanted to hang out with you guys" jake tried convincing them, thinking of how he can make them—mostly sunghoon, forgive him, "..how about i treat you guys for hotpot this saturday?"

sunghoon and yuna looked at each other and then back at jake. sunghoon pointed his finger at jake, "don't leave again"

"i promise"

"then he forgives you" yuna smiled, pointing at the boy beside her and sunghoon rolled his eyes.

"you know...just because you like-" yuna dropped her textbook, quickly covering sunghoon's mouth with her hand

"when will you stop talking?" she whispered in his ear, leaning her forehead on his shoulder, embarrassed at the amount of times sunghoon has almost spilled the fact that she likes jake TO JAKE.

sunghoon just patted her back, signaling he will shut up. yuna took her hand off and bent down to pick up the textbook she previously dropped. she stood up straight, smiling at jake.

sunghoon looked back at jake, "you're lucky i won't be too mad since it was for school"

jake just chuckled and nodded before he quickly wrapped his arms around the two, "thank you guys"

"i hate how touchy you are" sunghoon complained but nonetheless hugged him back as did yuna

jake released from the two and sunghoon proceeded to close his locker, "so should we go to class?"

jake looked at the time on his phone then back at the two, "oh..actually i have a meeting right now"

sunghoon and yuna gave him a 'really?' look and he chuckled, shaking his head, "i'm kidding" he wrapped his arms around the two, "let's go"

♡

"we studied for 3 days..and we only got low C's.." yuna muttered to sunghoon as she looked at her test paper in her hand, "i hate this.."

"let's just be happy we didn't get an F or a D" sunghoon tried to comfort her as he patted her back

"i guess.." she dragged her sentence as she looked over at jake who was in the front of the classroom, talking to other students about their grades on their tests

jake was the only one in the class to get an 100 percent on the test. he only took regular literature and regular physics so he could have a class with his two best friends but they were simply just too easy for him.

the teachers recommended he switched to advanced placement for those two subjects but he always declined since he wanted to stay with his friends and also it was an easy A for him.

as students threw questions at jake about the test, he looked back at his friends and saw them not looking the happiest.

he stood up from his seat and excused himself from the crowd of students and walked over to the other side of the classroom to see his friends. he sat in front of the two, looking at them, "so..how'd you guys do?"

"like we always do" yuna sighed before crumbling her test paper in her hand and shoving it in her backpack.

she turned her body towards sunghoon, resting her head on his shoulder, "i'm just naturally stupid"

"you're not stupid yuna" sunghoon and jake spoke in unison

"and neither are you" jake said looking at sunghoon, "you guys both have potential to do good and get A's in school"

"no matter what we always end up with a bad grade" yuna sighed, taking her head off of sunghoon's shoulder, "i can study for two weeks and i'll get a bad grade and it's true! because i've done that before"

jake bit his lip, feeling bad for the two, "how about..i tutor you guys?"

"really?" yuna looked at him as her eyes suddenly lit up with joy

"i've told you guys that i'd help you if you ever needed it so i should help you guys" jake smiled upon seeing yuna's eyes, "also to make up for me not being able to hang out with you guys.."

yuna pushed her chair out, standing up and going towards jake side. she wrapped her arms around his neck, resting her head on top, "thank you so much!"

he chuckled, wrapping one arm around her waist, "of course"

"you guys look so cute together" sunghoon teased them and yuna just rolled her eyes. the two pulled away, jake keeping his arm around her waist, "but thanks jake. we really appreciate it"

"no problem. i promise to start making time for you guys as best as i can" jake told them

yuna just raised her hand to his head and ruffled his hair, "we know how much you're invested in school so don't worry about it. as long as we can see you then we'll be happy"

"just don't ditch out on us for tutoring or we'll really be mad" sunghoon told him, pointing a finger at him

"i promise..again" sunghoon nodded, leaning back in his chair with his arms crossed

sunghoon noticed jake's arm around yuna's waist still and he gave her a small smirk. yuna looked at him weird then looked down, finding his arm around her.

yuna was glad her cheeks don't turn red when she's embarrassed but her ears did turn red and she hated it.

she quickly covered her ears with her hair, hoping the boy beside her didn't notice it

jake's phone buzzed from his pocket and he took it out. he looked at the notification and mentally slapped himself

yuna read the notification and looked at jake, "want to reschedule the hotpot?"

jake was going to say sorry but he shook his head instead. he opened the text message and texted his friend back

"there" jake put his phone down looking at the two, "saturday is our day"