Gradually | PJM

Early April

Something is off with Alex today, and Jimin notices almost immediately.

Not that it's easy to notice in the first place, since she's the type of person that doesn't like to draw attention to herself when she's not happy. She hasn't smiled once today and she's quieter than usual. Jimin knows that this means something is seriously bothering her.

It's the first day of April, meaning its April Fool's Day. Usually, Jimin uses this day as a way of spreading the joy more in the 'If you can't take a joke then fuck off.' sort of way. He's probably offended half of the students of this university by now and he's living for it. Oh, how he loves this blessed day.

But with Alex moping on the side, it's slightly dampening his mood.

"What's crawled up your ass today, Alex?" Jimin asks her, knowing fully well he'll probably get a kick in the shin any second now for speaking to her like that.

It's a nice day for April, so they're both sitting on a picnic bench located outside on the college campus. They're accompanied by their respective best friends Yoongi and Leah who are now both looking at him like he's got a death wish. Alex looks up from the table for the first time in a while to stare into his brown eyes. If she looks into their depth, she can even make out the slight concern.

"Well, it wouldn't be surprising if the answer was you now would it?" Leah answers for her instead, a scowl on her face. She clearly still isn't over Jimin scaring the living crap out of her only moments ago as his April fool's joke on her for today.

"I doubt it, she loves me," Jimin breaks his eye contact with Alex to give Leah his cheeky smile but Alex continues to admire his eye colour regardless if he's staring back. As Leah scoffs and Yoongi shakes his head, all Alex can think is he's got the prettiest brown eyes she's ever seen.

"She's not agreeing with you, bro. Maybe it was you." Yoongi inputs with a snicker. Jimin scoffs at him and nudges his shoulder with his own.

"It can't be me. Right, Al?" She blinks for a moment, trying to get back to reality. Jimin's eyes are directly on her again and she swallows; down casting her eyes to the wooden bench in front of her like she had been before.

"It's nothing, don't worry about it." Her voice isn't as hard or as strong as it usually is, as if she can't even be bothered to put emotion into it. She slowly stands up from the bench causing the rest of them to turn their heads in her direction.

"I'm going home. I don't feel too well...I'll see you guys later," They barely get a chance to even blink let alone reply because she's already walking in the direction of her apartment and is out of sight in seconds. Jimin frowns, watching her retreating figure as it disappears out of sight. Not that this type of thought would usually cross his mind but...he didn't even get a chance to ask her seriously what was wrong.

-X-

Alex shuts her front door with a sigh, resting her back against it and closing her eyes for a few brief seconds. She can't get over the fact that today is April 1st. The day that...she hates even bringing it up. She straightens her shoulders and walks into the kitchen to pour herself a glass of water. She really needs to stop thinking about it, or she'll end up blurting it out to someone.

And she definitely needs to stop thinking about Jimin and his mesmerizing brown irises.

For a moment or two she thinks about her mother...then rolls her eyes because she knows her mother will busy herself with loads of work to forget about today of all days. She suddenly can't be bothered to even get a glass from the cupboard and just heads out of the kitchen to head to the living room couch.