Chapter Text
Intro
It all started when Yushi, Chan, Minho, and Changbin started to pass their time at their school’s main building’s center stairs.
The main building at their school is a three-story structure designated for the Grade 12 students and the staff offices for the Science and Mathematics departments.
The top floor is a gymnasium. It serves nothing like its name and is only used for their weekly opening ceremonies—to almost everyone’s dismay as they climb up two floors every Monday.
[The real fitness and athletic things only happen at the sports ground located one building away from the main one, which the students commonly and jokingly call ‘The Oval.’]
The main building’s middle and ground floor is for all the Grade 12 classes: A-H—that many because only 15 students are allowed per class.
The east end of each level is a staff office. The Mathematics Department is on the first, along with classes E to H, while the Science Department is on the second, with classes A to D.
The west end of each floor is the stairs, with an adjacent comfort room.
The middle and ground floor also has stairs at the center. They are placed between 12-B and 12-C on the second story and between 12-F and 12-G on the first. Minho and his friends mostly gather during their breaks or vacant time in these places.
[So yeah, it all started with the four of them and the legendary main building’s center stairs.]
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Today, Minho and his friends are sitting on the second-floor center stairs.
Well, the three are sitting while Minho is the only one standing. His right leg is bent, one foot at a lower step on the stairs, the other at a higher one. His hands rest on his knee. At the same time, the right side of his body leans on the wall next to him.
He traces his fingers between his dark brown hair strands, feeling its softness. He laughs at Changbin’s face after Yushi secretly and successfully pranks their friend again into eating sour candy.
Minho briefly turns away while chuckling. Then, through the vast windowpanes, he spots a pair of eyes watching from the building across theirs.
He only catches a glimpse of what seems to be blue-colored hair before he looks at his friends again. Then he forgets that they seem to have an observer.
That is until their break ends, and they all stand up to return to class.
Yushi is walking ahead quickly as if she won’t make it on time if she treads at the other three’s pace. Meanwhile, Chan is back hugging Changbin as they both follow the girl. The older boy is poking the other one’s cheek with one finger and teasing, ‘Our Binnie is adorably cute.’
Minho fondly watches his friends as he walks behind them, a smile ghosting on his lips.
But when he unconsciously decides to look outside again, he quickly finds the onlooker earlier.
It’s because of the blue hair that they have. (Unexpectedly, it’s a boy from 11-B if Minho guesses the class correctly by the location of the classroom the boy is sitting in.) And it’s also because said boy is still gawking at them, especially Chan and Changbin.
Then, to Minho’s surprise, the boy makes a tiny smile, adorably so as if he can’t stand the cuteness between— oh.
Oh.
Minho gasps for a second, and then he giggles afterward. He covers his mouth so no one else can hear him as he mentally notes to himself about this kid who seemingly likes Chan or Changbin.
He thinks it’s the former.
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It’s not Chan, but Minho is pondering if it’s probably Changbin, whom Blue likes.
(If it isn’t obvious, he calls the boy Blue because of his hair color.)
[But why does Minho think it’s Changbin? Well, here’s a list of evidence that he’ll gladly present on the table:]
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