Salty Sweats

"Okay, I will let it pass, but I wanna ask something else. Why do you guys always call me Dodge?" George asked, making a tired face.

In an instant, both Vincent and Anna started to snicker.

"Hey, what's so funny about it?"

Suddenly, Anna coughed a bit to clear her voice and stood up straight. She always does that whenever she wants to fool someone.

"Look, bro. Whenever we call you Dodge, you just play with more vigor. And look, just because of our unique cheering, you every time win your matches. Isn't it, Vin?"

Vincent nodded with approval as he was feeling a bit better to hear her switch to 'Vin' from 'Froggo'. He actually doesn't care about these nicknames, but Froggo just doesn't suit his persona in any way.

"Then why do you guys ask me to dodge the ball?"

Anna was feeling a bit complicated as she didn't know how to answer this, but suddenly something clicked in her mind.

"Ah hahaha...! You don't know? Aighooo… What should I do with you? Listen, the ball we meant by is those pig balls from class 3. We told you to dodge them, not the soccer ball, brother Dod…. George," Anna tried to make her theory look more realistic as she mimicked a kick towards an invisible ball for George.

Then, Vincent looked at her and their eye conversation started again.

'Good job, Dodge looks convinced.'

'I know right? I am a genius.'

George was almost convinced but then again, when he saw the sign language they were sharing, he had no doubt that they were making fun of him. He was preparing to beat the hell out of them when someone hugged him from behind.

"Baby, I heard you guys won."

"Yes, baby!"

"Amazing!"

That's it. George totally forgot about them the moment Sophie came inside the picture. Soon, they started to peck each other on the lips leaving the other two singles no room to hide. Anna's eyes already started to hurt witnessing their mussy acts as she always felt a bit allergic to those.

"Eww… gross… Why didn't he wipe his sweats first?"

"Maybe they like the salty taste of sweat," Vincent answered, sighing as those two were still at it giving no damn to them.

"Yack!" This time, Anna felt like vomiting. How can people have this kind of weird fetish?

After a long time, George shifted his attention to them while Sophie was panting because of their exercise a few seconds ago.

"Where is Jaemin?"

"Maybe somewhere making a hole through his books," Vincent replied.

All of a sudden, Anna remembered something and in an instant, she regretted remembering it.

"Shit! Shit! Shit! No!"

Vincent twitched his brows.

"What is it?"

"Shit, Dodge, Froggo! Shit! Today is June 9th!"

"Yeah, so what?" Vincent frowned a bit.

"June 9th, June 9th, damn!" Anna was making it worse to remind him.

All of sudden, something clicked both George and Vincent's minds.

"SHIT!" Both of them cursed this time as three of them dashed towards the library leaving Sophie in awe. What happened to them again? These three are such a headache. At least, senior Jaemin is much better than them in terms of common sense. She doesn't get why the hell he tolerates these fools and still remains as their best friend. But actually, it's not all bad. After all, they hold the best friendship bond in the whole school which is always able to make others super envious of them.

… … … … ...

It was almost the lunch break. So, all the students already headed towards their classroom from the library. There was only one student in the whole library. He was in his senior year. Whenever he gets a self-study class, he spends his whole class time here in the library reading books, especially historical ones. Somehow he finds them more interesting than having fun with his friends in the classroom. Actually, he is not also that interested in hanging out with the guys with the same grade for some reason. Maybe it's because he has some friends from junior year.

There was another reason he was not in the classroom now. Those three idiots will surely come to him running like squirrels. Right now, he isn't feeling like talking with someone.

But alas! Luck wasn't on his side. All of a sudden a little gang of three people entered the library.

"Jaemin Ge*!!!"

Damn, he told this girl one hundred times not to call him this way. But what to do? She never listens to anyone and always gives those weird types of names to him, George and Vincent without getting tired.

Though he pretended not to listen and continued reading the book he was holding, Miss Margarett, the librarian, didn't look very pleased by the ruckus she was making. He then turned towards them and signaled them to sit beside him silently. Miss Margarett didn't miss to glare at Annabelle once again as she was quite displeased with this girl. Every time she comes here, she would always do something crazy enough to make her angry.

Anna and others found the empty seats opposite Jaemin and occupied three of them happily. Jaemin didn't have the least bit of interest in those three as he continued dipping his head inside the book.

"Jaemin Ge!"

Though Anna called out for him, he didn't move an inch. He will not until she stops calling him that.

But Anna was least interested in changing his nickname. To her, 'Ge' sounds quite cool. Jaemin's father was Chinese, though his mother was an American. Once Annabelle asked him out of curiosity what Chinese people call their big brother. She somehow found the 'Ge' word super cool and from that moment, she started to call him this way though he didn't like it that much.

"Look, it's all Dodge and Vin's fault. They are the culprit here."

Both Vincent and George glared at her as she pretended to be the most decent one here. But Jaemin wasn't a fool. He finally looked up to them, making a super irritated face which almost made their soul leave their body.

"What are you guys up to?" Jaemin said, returning a stern gaze to them.

Anna suddenly stood up from her chair and sat on the chair exactly beside him.

"Jaemin Ge… we are so sorry…" Anna pleaded as she poked his biceps with her finger. Jaemin is the top player on the wrestling team of the school. So, it was quite obvious for him to have some muscles. To be honest, he has quite a good proportion of muscles.

Whenever Vincent asked why Annabelle didn't ever drool over Jaemin's muscles though she never stops gawking at any random guy who has muscles, she would always answer that her Jaemin Ge is the God here. He has the finest body in the whole school. Gawking at him will bring disaster, so she wants to be his perfect devotee, worshiping in silence.

To be honest, Jaemin really was suitable for the title. He is also one of the top students of sports class, excellent in wrestling and archery, meritorious in studies, quite handsome and smart. Though he was on the introverted side and liked reading books in his free time instead of going for hangouts with his friends, his popularity never lessened. He was still the guy boys liked to make friends with and girls fell in love with. Anna always felt a headache as Vincent was the most popular in her year but she never complained about Jaemin being the most popular one in the senior year.

Jaemin was more of a big brother to her than a best friend. Jaemin was also committed to these three idiots. Who would have thought that he would make best friends with his juniors like that?

Jaemin sighed a bit looking at Anna as she was continuously poking his arms with her index finger.

"Okay… I got it. Just don't disturb me now. We will talk later."

Anna pouted a bit.

"Hey, Jaemin. You said you will take us there this year, right?" Vincent asked all of a sudden.

Jaemin looked at his eyes for a while and then nodded a bit.

"Yeeeh!" Anna shouted, again earning an annoyed gaze from Miss Margarett.

Jaemin smiled at her stupidity and ruffled her hair lovingly. No matter how mighty she acts in front of others, she is just a baby. It is okay as long as she shows her vulnerable side only to them.

All of a sudden, Jaemin abruptly removed his hands from her hair. In the next moment, Sia from class 3 interrupted them.

"I see… the whole gang's here? Senior Jaemin, it's been a while. How are you?"

Jaemin didn't feel like answering and started to give his attention to his book again. Sia felt a bit awkward as she wasn't answered by him.

Anna scrawled. Why is Jaemin always rude to her? Anna kinda liked Sia. She was a very sweet girl in person. Though they weren't in the same class, Anna often got to talk with her as they were in the same club. She was genuinely a good person, but somehow Jaemin feels wary whenever she is close to him. Even George didn't like her for some reason. On the other hand, Vincent was neutral about her.

"Tomorrow a meeting will be held in the literature club, Anna. Try to be there on time," Sia gave up on getting any reply from Jaemin as she was actually here for Anna to inform her about the meeting.

Anna nodded assertively and waved her goodbye. Letting her stay here would double her awkwardness. As soon as she left the library room, Anna glared at the three of them.

"What was that? Why were you guys so rude? And what if she sees us together, she doesn't have any bad intentions towards us!"

"How can you tell that so easily, Anna?" George replied.

"How can I?" Anna was huffing and puffing with anger.

"You are too innocent to understand. Your life is already quite hectic now, I don't want to make that more problematic," Jaemin said looking at Vincent.

"Hey! What do you mean by that!" Vincent totally got what Jaemin was implying too.

"Urghhhh… stop fighting. Jaemin, you finish your book there and Vincent, you shut your mouth right away," saying that Anna stomped outside grabbing George with her not noticing that she didn't call them with any weird nicknames after a long time.