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The Day Before They Met
"My Jinyoung, the most prettiest person I've ever known in my life, my Park Gae to my Wang Gae, would you please cover up for me a bit for gate duty? Before you say anything, yes there will be Jaebeom with you so you have someone you know so you will never get bored, what do you think?" Begged Jackson, his so called best friend just stood in front of him with his big puppy eyes. Seriously, how can he be best friends with this man?
"First thing first, you're lying because Mark would be the prettiest for you, and second don't bring Wang Gae Park Gae in this conversation when you never treat me to eat meat with you, so tell me why should I agree with you again?" Challenged Jinyoung, yes he is that petty. He just can't help being annoyed because of his best friend's status being stolen by that Namjoon guy, seriously hadn't that man got his own best friend or something?
Jackson started to lose hope, but it wasn't Jackson if he cannot make Jinyoung change his mind.
"Well, here's the thing, I got this coupon for a new meat restaurant in town, I want to ask you to try it with me or maybe... I could ask Namjoon to go with me..."
"Don't you dare! Okay. Fine. But I only expect really good meat! Why can't you do the gate duty anyway?"
"Yes! Thank you Park Gae! I know I could always count on you! Well it's because of Mark, I haven't seen him in a long time because of the school break, so I want to meet with him as early as I can." Jackson said sheepishly while scratching his back head.
"God, you couple makes me exhausted."
"Well it's not my fault you never get laid."
"Shut up. Now go before I change my mind."
"Thank you Park Gae, I love you!" He walked away after he blew a kiss in front of his face.
Ugh tomorrow will be a pain in the ass. At least he got Jaebeom in the same situation as him.
The Next Day
"Morning hyung, why does your face look like that?" Jinyoung just arrived at his spot with Jaebeom and he already wanted to laugh, at least someone hates this job more than him.
"Looks like what?"
"You look like that green creature thingy that hates Christmas, what does it called, Gurin? Grinch? It's really scary, you know."
"Fuck you, you're lucky you're my best friend if not I'll already eat you. It's just that our job was unnecessary you know, like why would we greet the freshman here at the gate, why not near the field or something?" Seriously, if it wasn't for an additional point to make up for his bad score, he wouldn't be standing here, he would already be sleeping in class or something.
"Shut up, you love me. Also yes of course it is necessary, we just want to maintain the school image that is friendly for new students and also keep the new students out of trouble you know."
"Yeah yeah, I still don't think it necessary for us to stand here you know what I mean."
"Just for a couple of minutes okay, after that we can close off the gate and go join the other committees."
"Sometimes I really want to applaud you for having such patience of a saint."
"It took years of practice that you'll never achieve." Laughed Jinyoung, "Okay wait here, I'll check my note for our next schedule, you stay and just prepare to close the gate or something. There's no student that will come again anyway." He checked his watch as it said 7:29.
While he went back to the gate, he saw a boy who looked like he got caught in a tornado or something, also he looked so scared and he knew why. He swore to god Jaebeom should put on a mask sometimes.
"Hyung, stop scaring the kid." He finally said that just to stop Jaebeom from making that expression.
"I was only asking him where he wants to go." Seriously, did he just pouts? He would never understand Jaebeom.
"I know hyung, just clean up the table for a bit, yeah, I'll join you soon."
"Yeah, yeah." Replied him lazily.
Then finally he got a full body look on the kid in front of him. Okay he should stop calling him a kid because damn he's so tall if he isn't looking so lost he might mistook him for a senior. He looks like a mess though, his uniform is dirty and he wonders what happened to this boy. But his face is also really cute. God he sounds like a creep, he probably should stop staring and stop embarrassing himself then.
"What happened to your uniform?" He asked.
He listened to his explanation and felt sorry for him, this must be his unlucky day. He looked at him again from the top of his head to the end of his toe. He was not bad at all, and his voice is nice though, damn what was he thinking again? Right, he should be helping this boy.
"Wait here." He said and went to his bag and decided to lend him his jacket, he was so glad that he brought his jacket this morning, mind you this was his favorite jacket so lending it to him is a big deal.
"Wear this, yeah? It could cover up your mess." Just after saying that he realized that he was already late for the assembly. Without thinking twice he just walked to Jaebeom and left the boy.
But then he can't resist to take a look back at the boy and he looks like a lost puppy and that kinda makes him want to protect the boy, oh god why is he like this? But then he realized that he forgot to ask his name, damn his friend is right, he is stupid.
After their first encounter, fate seems doesn't want them to meet. He never saw him anywhere, it's like he was just a piece of his imagination in his mind. If it wasn't for Jaebeom who were there with him, he might believe that he was indeed hallucinating.
"Okay tell me how he looks again." Jackson asked. He is probably the only one in school who knows anyone, literally. Like he also probably knew the name of every floor's janitor. He hoped he didn’t ask the wrong person.
"Well, he's tall, taller than any freshman, umm.. he has this stark black bowl haircut which was very hot I may say, he got a one mole below his left eye, he's really cute and-"
"Okay stop I don't want to hear him babbling about that boy again, I'm tired of hearing it Jack please don't ask again."
"Hey, our friend is in love and what's wrong with that Beom-bummer?"
"But it's been weeks Jackson, please spare us our misery and find that boy I’m begging you"
"No need to be that dramatic, it's your duty as my best friend to hear me talking about all of this, it's not like I love him or like him anyway, I'm just... curious." Intercept Jinyoung.
"Curious my ass. You can't stand watching a 3 episode drama that I told you about and you have already talked about this boy for a week non-stop already."
"Shush you both, sometimes I wonder who's the mature one here."
"Shut up Jackson" said Jinyoung and Jaebeom at the same time.
"Jeez, you both act like married old couples, always been scary to me, I thought you were my Park Gae only," Jackson said while pouting.
"Jackson," He gave one of his death glares looks at Jackson hoping he would scare the boy. Jinyoung started to regret asking Jackson about this.
"Okay okay give me a day I'll find him for you." Jackson smirked.
"Thank you Wang Gae."
"Anything for you Park Gae!" Now he made a smooch face, Jinyoung just shoved him away. Talking to Jackson always gave him a headache, now he just has to wait for the deity to work a miracle for him.
Turns out finding this kid is easier than he thought. Jackson is friends with the new kids named Bambam, and everything went well from then. He asked what his name was and which class he was in. Kim Yugyeom is a pretty name, he thought. He knows many Kims but Kim Yugyeom is definitely the prettiest one.
Except until now he still hasn't had a chance to talk to him. Jackson said he has noticed Yugyeom stole a quick glance at him a couple of times but it would probably be Jackson's bad sight fault since he always refused to wear contacts whenever he told him, and glasses made him look like a nerd he said. So he always ignored what his friends said, maybe it was nothing, them meeting up meant nothing.
Then the whole confession happened and Jinyoung was really thinking that he must be a really good person in his past life because what could be the reason this whole thing could happen? Now he finally had a chance to know the boy that he'd been getting curious with and a boy to text.
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