Chapter 38

                                    

                                          

                            

                                
                            
                              
                                  
                              
                              
                                
                                  
                                  
                                
                              
                             
                            
                            
                          
                          

After about half an hour I had found the rest of the boys and after evening arrived I went home. 
Luckily my father had already been asleep and I could go to bed in peace. 
Now, the next day, I was walking to my first class and as I was about to enter someone grabbed my elbow slightly to make me stop. 
I looked over and saw Joshua smiling at me "Hey?" I said with a small frown as it surprised me that he was here. 
"Hey. You weren't here yesterday. We had a lesson." Joshua reminded me that I missed my tutoring. 
"Oh shit. I forgot about that, I'm sorry. I spent the day with the boys." I told him. 
"Ah, I understand." Joshua said a bit wary and he looked around as if he was expecting someone to jump on him any second. 
"Are you okay?" I asked and he stopped looking around to look down at me. 
"Yeah, sorry. I just don't want trouble with Ateez." 
"Oh, right. About that," I started to act a bit excited as I went to tell him about the compromise "Ateez is okay with us hanging out as long as one of the is with us." 
"That's cool, I guess." Joshua sounded happy but at the same time he was still concerned. 
"But no one's with us right now." He remarked. 
"Yeah but they're just inside the classroom, it's okay." I shrugged. They could watch us any time so it wasn't a big deal. 

"Look what we got here." 
Speaking of the devil. 
Mingi leaned against the doorframe and looked back and forth between us. 
Joshua raised his eyebrows at the not so new behavior and gave me a look as if to say that nothing has changed. 
"Hey, I just told Joshua about the compromise." I told Mingi with a smile, trying to shake the slight tension away. 
"Ah nice." Mingi nodded and turned to the male standing in front of me "And what do you think?" 
"It's okay I guess-" 
"You guess?" Mingi interrupted and stood up straight "Would you want it to be different? What do you have in mind, huh?" 
"Song Mingi." I directed the tall boy's attention towards me and he gave me an innocent smile while I gave him a look. 
"Right, sorry." Mingi ran his hand thorough uis hair and turned back to Joshua "I'm not used to this. Give it time." He told the other boy in his usual hostile voice and gently grabbed my arm to guide me into the classroom and away from the elder. 
"Hey wait-" Joshua was quick by my side again and looked at me, ignoring Mingi's still threatening presence.
"We should catch up with our tutoring, so how about we do it today?"