The edges of Namjoon's once clean paper was starting to turn into fragments of crinkly black soot as the series of blue flames slowly licked it to its destruction.

Lindsay still hadn't noticed the latest havoc she had wrecked and it was her worst one yet.

She poured an unknown substance into the mixture desperate for a change but the mixture frothed even more. "None of this is working!" she cried in anguish and let her head drop.

Then she saw it!

Her eyes went wide so that her whites were visible and her jaw dropped to the floor.

Almost half of Namjoon's award winning paper was incinerated in the devilish flames!

"Oh my fu- "Lindsay cried out and her hands shot to upwards to clutch the sides of her head.

Lindsay immediately removed the paper away from the Bunsen Burner and turned it off but the paper was still on fire!

She was alarmed and was totally freaking out. So much that she couldn't even think straight to figure out what to do. She was totally losing it!

Maybe if I put it down on the floor and stomp on it? She desperately thought. Well, at least no one had noticed Lindsay's chaos.

"Hey Guys, look. Lindsay had set someone's research paper on fire!"

Never mind.

"Say what?" someone cried out in aghast.

Lindsay just wished that the ground would just open up and swallow her or if aliens are real why couldn't they have just taken her away right now on one of their space ships?

Within seconds, the entire class had abandoned their experiments and were now crowded around Lindsay's table and each student was extremely alarmed on whether it was their paper that was being destroyed.

-"Someone get a pail of water!"
-"Stop, drop and roll. Stop, drop and roll!"

"Namjoonie-ah, isn't that your paper?" Hoseok had asked amidst the crowd.

"It is! Look, you can see his name written on it!"

"What the heck!"

Oh No!

Lindsay tightly covered her eyes with her hands as she heard the angry voice that almost sounded like a growl.

The voice that she had been dreading to hear ever since she gave birth to this disaster.

She bit her lip and gritted her teeth furiously, not knowing whether she would ever even be alive after this disastrous episode of humiliation and regret.

Namjoon shoved his way through the crowds of anxious students. He looked at his hardwork literally going up in smoke and then his stern gaze fell on the quiet and petrified girl standing next to it staring right back at him in tears.

Oh, he wanted to let that dumb girl have a piece of his mind but he would have to do it later.

He scurried towards Lindsay's desk in an attempt to save his paper. "Don't do anything else!" he yelled as he ran towards her.

Lindsay who thought that Namjoon was definitely charging at her like an angry bull charging towards the bullfighter who was waving the red cape, frantically turned to the bottle of liquid placed on the next table and wasting no time, she unscrewed its cap and threw the transparent liquid at the burning paper.

"NO!" she heard Namjoon roar and her heart dropped to the floor as she saw that instead of the liquid putting out the fire, it had caused the flames to sizzle and grow larger and more ferocious in size.

There was no solution now.

Namjoon's entire paper was irrecoverably taken up by the flames.

"Why would you do that?!" Namjoon raged at poor confused Lindsay.

"I... I thought that the water would put it out..." Lindsay stuttered out, each word she uttered bringing fresh tears to her eyes.

"You dumb girl, that's a bottle of flammable liquid!" Namjoon shouted.

What?

Lindsay turned to examine the empty bottle she was clutching and her head almost felt like exploding when she saw that it had the "Caution. Highly Flammable" seal on it in bright red.

"UM, guys. Correct me if I'm wrong but we sort of have a fire happening in the middle of this class," Hoseok unhelpfully pointed out.

Geez, Hoseok, I would have never guessed. Lindsay bitterly thought.

Wasting no further time, Namjoon grabbed the container of salt and another of baking soda before making his way closer to the desk so that he could dunk it over the fire because salt and baking soda does in fact help to smother out or extinguish a fire.

He didn't get a prize for Chemistry for nothing.

Lindsay on the other hand.

Ok, no time for crying and wallowing, Lindsay. You have to fix this. She desperately thought.

Her eyes darted across the room until she spotted the red fire extinguisher hanging off from one of the walls.

She rushed to it and detached it from its hinges. It was extremely heavy for her to carry but she managed it thanks to her willpower.

She carried it over to her desk where she found Namjoon standing right in front of the small smoking bonfire while holding an open container of salt in one hand and a spoonful of salt on the other, ready to dunk it any moment now.

"Wait Namjoon, hold up!" she yelled dragging the extinguisher behind her.

Namjoon looked up and barely had time to yell a "No don't do it!" because Lindsay had grabbed the extinguisher with all her might and raised it high up to her chest level and pulled the trigger and out sprayed out a stream of milky white foam splattering both the burning paper and Namjoon himself in the process.

Let's analyze the situation.

Good news: The fire had been successfully stopped.

Bad news no 1: The research paper was gone for good because all that laid now were ashes and soot.

Bad news no 2: Namjoon was dripping in fire extinguisher foam and his clothes were horribly ruined.

He was so outraged and furious so much that you could see the veins throb in his temple and he was glaring straight at Lindsay with the deadliest expression and he looked as if he wanted to strangle her on the spot.

The laboratory door opened and in stepped Ms. Melody sighing in relief while brushing her clothes, "Ahh, I successfully took care of the alien situation. So, now we can get back to our- ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WHAT HAPPENED HERE?!"

The entire class pointed their finger at Lindsay who had her eyes fixated on to the floor drowning in guilt.

Poor Ms. Melody had jumped from one class of chaos to another.

Oh yeah, bad news no 3: Lindsay and Namjoon were to stay back from class to have a 'talk' with the professor.

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