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As Seungmin balances the written chemical equation on the board, Jisung’s eyes look outside the hallway.
His interests are currently nothing related to Science, so he lets himself space out, thinking about music production and lyric writing instead.
He doesn’t notice when his friend returns to his seat later, the one beside Jisung.
“Mr. Kim,” their teacher calls Seungmin again.
This disrupts Jisung’s thoughts, finally focusing on what’s happening inside their class.
Mr. Park, their teacher, looks at Seungmin with a sly smile.
He’s been widely known throughout campus that he likes to tease his students, especially the genius ones. So it is a surprise to no one when it seems that Jisung’s friend is the teacher’s new victim today.
“Do you know Lee Minho of class 12-B?” he asks.
Seungmin shakes his head, an eyebrow raised in puzzlement. “No, sir.”
“Ah. Will you wait for a second, then?” Mr. Park requests, earning confused looks from every student in the room.
He gets up from his seat in front of the class and heads to the entrance. He appears to be looking out for something. And when he finally finds it, he waves his hand. From somewhere in the hallway, a young student comes into view.
“Oh, who’s that?” asks the boy sitting behind Jisung. “He looks like a fox,” he continues to say. “Cute.”
“Yikes. Does Hyunjin have a new crush?” Felix comments from where he’s sitting behind Seungmin.
Hyunjin, who’s about to reply, gets cut off before he can even say a word when Mr. Park suddenly asks for a favor from the young boy.
“Can you call that student for me?” Mr. Park asks, pointing to the outside of the building.
Outside the large windowpanes, the students look to the other side of the room. They all see a group of friends sitting on the center stairs of the different structure across theirs.
“That boy with the dark brown hair and small face,” Mr. Park continues to say, describing one of the people hanging out.
Jisung can’t see the boy clearly. But maybe it’s because his eyes are focused on another boy he recognizes as one of his co-members in the music appreciation club. Jisung remembers that he’s called Seo Changbin.
“Okay, sir!” The younger boy nods, voice loud as if eager to do the favor requested from him right away.
“Alright, alright, thank you…?”
“Yang Jeongin of class 11-D, sir!” The boy—Jeongin—chirps, the smile on his face so bright. He even has dimples.
“Ah, so cute!” Hyunjin whispers, writing down something in his notebook.
Jisung guesses it to be the younger student’s name. He rolls his eyes at his friend.
“What does he want now?” Seungmin mumbles from Jisung’s right.
“Maybe he wants to pair you up!” Felix remarks, his body on the edge of his seat as he tries to move close to them.
Seungmin only scoffs. “For what? In a debate?”
Later, they find out that Felix is right. Because, as the mentioned Lee Minho finally stands before all of them, Mr. Park calls Seungmin again to the front.
He’s saying, “Minho, there’s someone I think you’re compatible with!” as he waves for Seungmin to walk faster.
The boy, Minho, doesn’t say anything. But his face flashes a look of cringe for a second before transforming into a neutral one.
But honestly, even if he’s making a set of faces, funny or mocking, Jisung knows he won’t take his eyes off him for a nanosecond.
Because wow, Lee Minho of class 12-B is so pretty. He’s a beautiful boy. Wow, Jisung thinks again. Someone like that really exists, huh?
While Jisung stares at the older boy, he misses the conversation between Mr. Park, Seugmin, and Minho. [It’s honestly somewhat of a disaster. Mr. Park says something about Minho having three cats, and Seungmin’s face contorts right away in confusion. To which mistakenly comes to Minho as a look of disgust. So the boy kind of harshly rejects the offer on behalf of Seungmin that Mr. Park makes about the two of them hanging out.]
As Minho walks away from their class, Jisung follows his every step with his eyes.
His friends instantly notice this, of course. So he ends up being teased later about how he dares to steal away Seungmin’s boy.
The latter only taunts at the term, saying, “Nah, go ahead, Jisung. Have him!”
Jisung finds himself blushing because he got caught. And also to the idea of Lee Minho smiling at him with his gorgeous eyes, handsome face, and beautiful self.
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