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"Han Jisung, detention!"
Jisung rolled his eyes at the words.
If it wasn't for the boy standing near the teacher he wouldn't have been caught. He looked at the boy, he had a smug look on him, which made every cell in Jisung's body boil with newfound hatred.
It was Kim Seungmin, the annoying student council president, the nerd, the teacher's pet. Jisung didn't like him, Seungmin has tried putting him in detention multiple times. He doesn't know why, but Seungmin seems to dislike him a lot. Jisung has never even tried to go for him!
Jisung was a player, he liked to play with others feelings, never was into the love stuff himself, just there for fun and attention. That's why he had a lot of people who didn't exactly like him. But he never did anything to Seungmin, after all, he didn't stoop so low, nerds were out of his league.
And he usually wouldn't mind him, but this time Seungmin really annoyed Jisung and he decided to annoy him back, he just didn't know how yet.
"I don't know, just fuck with him like you usually do," Hyunjin, his best friend, suggested when their friend group was hanging out at Minho's. Their friend group consisted of Hyunjin, Minho, and Changbin.
"Yeah make him fall in love with whatever charm you have and then break his heart, you're the best at it," Changbin agreed.
"That's a bit boring and l think he'll know," Jisung said thinking about it.
"Then just do it to piss him off, hurt his pride, he won't like the idea of you thinking that you can fool him," Minho the mastermind said nonchalantly, taking a sip of his drink.
"That's genius!" Jisung said loudly with wide eyes.
"Obviously it is, everything I say is genius!"
"That one time you said that rats can talk was also genius?" Hyunjin butted in, but as soon as Minho glared at him he squeaked out a "sorry".
"Hm, I have to get his phone number," Jisung says in thought, already scheming his plan.
"That won't be too hard, his phone number is on the board next to the student council's cabinet," Changbin said and there was a sparkle in Jisung's eyes, one that didn't promise anything good.
It didn't take Jisung long to get to his plan. The next day he went to get Seungmin's phone number.
After the phone number was included in the list of his contacts, the plan could take its action.
He found a selfie, which in his opinion was very attractive and could make anyone fall in love with him, and sent it to Seungmin.
And so he did every day, finding selfies of himself that he thought were seductive (I got to agree with him though, they were seductive) and sending them to Seungmin.
Seungmin read the messages but did not reply. To be fair Jisung was just surprised he hasn't been blocked yet and he embraced it as a small victory.
He thought it would stay like that and nothing more, just Jisung annoying Seungmin with his selfies, but boy was he wrong.
He was sitting in the passenger's seat of Changbin's car, chugging an energy drink, which did nothing to him anymore with the amount of energy drinks he consumed daily, while wind was messing his hair. When a notification dinged. He lazily unlocked his phone, being sure that it was someone cursing him out for breaking their heart. But when he saw what it was he choked on his drink.
Seungmin had sent him a photo of himself, he was in a simple t-shirt in front of a dirty mirror, but he somehow made it look extremely captivating.
"What's with you?" Changbin asked at the sudden choking sounds.
"Seungmin sent me a picture of himself," Jisung barely choked out.
"Really?" Changbin asked, not quite believing the other.
"Look," Jisung showed Changbin his phone.
Changbin gave it a quick glance.
"Oh, he looks nice."
"Nice? Nice?? He looks hot! How can a nerd look hot? What the fuck." Jisung asked in bewilderment.
"He's a hot nerd?"
"Nerds are not hot."
"Well as you can see they are now."
"I need to get back to him," Jisung said determined, he was not about to lose a game with a nerd.
"And how are you going to do it?"
"Simple, I'll flirt with him."
Jisung took a picture in the car, it came out blurry, but that made it look even better, and sent it to Seungmin with a text.
Me: not ignoring me anymore huh?
Seungmin: do you want me to?
Me: your a bit dumb for a nerd
Why would I send you pictures if I didn't want your attention?
Seungmin: *you're
At that Jisung locked his phone with an eye roll.
"He's annoying," Jisung said with a huff.
"What did he do?" Changbin said with a laugh.
"He corrected my writing mistakes," Changbin snorted at that.
"Guess flirting with a nerd is not easy."
But that didn't stop Jisung from sending Seungmin selfies. In fact, he started adding pick up lines. His favourites so far were:
- Do you like raisins? How do you feel about a date? (To which Seungmin replied: I'd rather die)
- Did your license get suspended for driving all these guys crazy? (Seungmin: I don't have a drivers license)
- It’s a good thing I have my library card because I am totally checking you out (Seungmin: I'm happy for you)
And while Seungmin might not reply to his pick up lines how he planned he would, Seungmin actually sends his own pick up lines. Jisung catches himself blushing at some and as quickly as he can, blames it on the room temperature.
There is one thing for sure though, Kim Seungmin is undeniably attractive and Jisung would not mind making out with him. This turn of events makes Jisung want to crawl out of his skin because it's supposed to be the other way.
One day he's just sitting in one of his classes paying exactly no attention when he gets a notification from Seungmin. Another photo that makes Jisung want to pull out his hair. This time he replies genuinely what he's thinking and not with a pick up line he found on the first site Google gave him.
Me: no but you actually look so fucking good wtf
Seungmin: ok?
Me: no like so good I could actually kiss you rn
Seungmin: then come and kiss me right now
Me: ok bet which classroom?
Seungmin: 117
At that Jisung stood up and quickly left the classroom. It didn't take him long to find the classroom Seungmin told him about. He burst into it. The classroom was full of other students but he was looking for a certain pair of eyes, which he did not find.
"Han Jisung, may I ask what you think you are doing here?" Said the teacher and Jisung immediately knew that this was a trap. The teacher despised Jisung, feelings were mutual, and took every opportunity possible to put him in detention.
So he came out of that classroom with detention and no kisses.
The next time he saw Seungmin in the halls, the other had a smug look and it pissed Jisung off.
Jisung took the other's wrist and pushed him against lockers.
"You think it's fucking funny?" Jisung said through gritted teeth.
"Actually? Yeah I do, you're so desperate for attention it is funny," Seungmin said calmly leaning closer to Jisung.
"Stay in your place nerd."
"And where is my place?" Seungmin said acting dumb.
"You're the biggest dweeb in school stop acting stupid or I'll put you in your place myself."
"Oh but you would like that, wouldn't you? Making sure you're the superior one from us. Well sadly, I simply do not agree," Seungmin said with a smile as if Jisung did not affect him after all.
"Because if you were so superior, you wouldn't be so riled up," Seungmin said and pushed Jisung off of him.
"Think of better pick up lines and you might have a chance," he added before leaving.
After the hall situation , somehow rumors that Seungmin and Jisung were dating erupted. Jisung found that out in an unpleasant way.
"What the fuck dude why is everyone saying that you are dating the nerd?" Hyunjin asked during lunch.
"I am what?" Jisung asked, completely appalled. The last time he checked, he hated the guy.
"I got asked at least thrice if it was true that you and Seungmin were dating."
"Why would they think that?"
"Apparently you were flirting with him at the hall, you were standing close and were almost making out."
Jisung groaned and hit his head against the table.
"I pushed him against the lockers and threatened him, they completely twisted it all!" He said but his voice was muffled against the table.
"Well, Seungmin actually confirmed that the two of you are dating," Hyunjin said carefully, already awaiting Jisung's reaction.
"HE WHAT?" Jisung lifted his head up immediately and shouted.
"Yeah…"
"Oh I'm going to end him."
"And what is your plan?"
Silence.
"You don't have a plan, do you?" Hyunjin asked at which Jisung shook his head.
"I say you play along," Hyunjin suggested and Jisung looked at him as if Hyunjin was out of his mind.
"And why would I do that??"
"To mess with him, he clearly is messing with you, he doesn't expect you to play along," Hyunjin got a point and Jisung knew it.
"You're right."
"I always am." Jisung laughed at that.
"Hey babe," Jisung greeted Seungmin with a sweet smile and a peck on his cheek. He wrapped his arm loosely on Seungmin's waist. He has done that so many times before. Seungmin looked at him with a weird look.
"So it's true? You're really dating?" Asked the girl Seungmin was talking to.
"Yep!" Jisung said, faking his happy tone.
"How did that happen?" The girl was probably Seungmin's friend as she did not believe it so easily.
"He put me in detention, I started texting him to annoy him, one thing led to another and now we're dating."
"We are not dating." Seungmin finally spoke up.
"Listen, love, I know you don't want attention, but people will keep flirting with me if they think I'm single! And that is annoying."
"Please, no one believes that we are dating."
"I don't agree with you, well anyways I have to go to my class, have a great day and I'll text you later!" Jisung said and made his way to his class.
Soon after he received a text from Seungmin.
Seungmin: wth do you think you are doing?
Me: just playing along
Isn't that what you wanted?
Seungmin: alright, let's play then
Jisung didn't know what Seungmin meant by that, but he soon found out.
Jisung was standing in a hall talking to his classmates who he didn't really care about that much when he felt a pair of arms wrap around his body and a kiss being pressed on his cheek. He would be lying if he said that it didn't affect him at all and that the smile that made its way on his features was completely fake.
"Hey baby," he said softly, already knowing who it was.
"Hi," said Seungmin in the cutest voice Jisung had ever heard him speak in.
The guys Jisung was talking about seemed surprised but kept carrying on with the conversation. Seungmin didn't join it, he was quietly hugging Jisung, which was nice, Jisung had to agree that it was nice and warm.
They kept acting like boyfriends, none of them backed off and Jisung got used to it. He got used to holding hands, to all the sudden hugs, to the pet names, and generally spending time together in school. Only in school though, they didn't talk outside of their dating act in school. But somehow Seungmin still became a part of Jisung's routine that he unconsciously started looking forward to.
"And when are you going to stop pretending to be boyfriends?" Minho asked him when their friend group was hanging out at the arcade.
"I don't know," Jisung shrugged.
"And you are okay with it?" Changbin asked, doubtful.
"I mean it's not that bad.."
"So you enjoy it?" Changbin continued with questions.
"No, I don't."
"Really?" Hyunjin asked with a laugh of disbelief.
"I-I don't know! It's nice getting all the hugs and kisses! It's nice having someone by your side!" Jisung burst out and Minho sighed as if fearing this exact thing.
"Sung, I think you're catching feelings."
"No, I'm not! Just because I enjoy it doesn't mean I like him, it could be anyone!"
"You have dated half of the school and not one person has lasted longer than a week, you and Seungmin have been fake dating for a month," Hyunjin argued but Jisung still believed that he had no feelings towards Seungmin.
"It doesn't mean that I am catching feelings, I'm just having fun, all of this is fake!" It was Jisung who said that it was fake. That meant that all of Seungmin's touches were fake, all of his kisses on the cheek were fake, all the I love you's were fake. Obviously, they were. And yet somewhere deep inside of him, a flower's petal was torn.
His friends words kept repeating in his mind. Was he catching feelings? No way that was ridiculous.
"Sungie, love is everything alright?" Asked Seungmin, who sat in front of him at lunch.
"As if you care," Jisung replied grumpily.
"Actually I was genuinely asking but if you want to be a dick then go on."
"Why?" Jisung asked, confused and somewhat hopeful.
"I can't let people think that I'm a bad boyfriend, can I?" Right. He can't, can he?
And there it appeared, the realization that Jisung truly has caught feelings.
"How long are we going to keep this up?" He asked instead.
"What? Want to break up after barely two months?" Seungmin said with a laugh, but Jisung wasn't joking.
"I'm serious, I'm tired of pretending to be in love, tired of pretending that I care, you win," Jisung said with a sigh. Seungmin looked at him with an unreadable expression.
"You're done?"
"Jesus Seungmin, yes! I am done!" Jisung said, frustrated.
"Alright then, we're done," Seungmin said and stood up.
"You really are a douchebag," Seungmin said as if being confirmed of his suspicions. Jisung’s heart broke at the hurt in the other's voice. But it was all fake wasn't it?
Seungmin didn't arrive at school the next day. Jisung felt guilty as if it was his fault. Did he hurt Seungmin? Seungmin also didn't tell him anything about having any appointments. Was he perhaps sick? But he didn't look like it yesterday.
Jisung decided to not do anything about it. Not like they were boyfriends or even friends. But then Seungmin wasn't in school the next day either, Jisung couldn't help but be worried, so he texted him.
Me: hey why aren't you at school?
Seungmin: why do you care?
Me: don't answer with a question to a question
Seungmin: or what?
Me: please Seungmin, is everything alright?
Seungmin: yeah lmao I'm on a trip
Me: oh
when will you be back?
Seungmin: on sunday
Me: you're traveling by plane?
Seungmin: yes
Me: what time do you arrive?
Seungmin: why do you want to know? just two days ago you told me that you're tired of pretending that you care
Me: maybe I lied
Seungmin: ???
Me: please tell me?
Seungmin: 2:20pm
Jisung wasn't sure what to do, but he knew he had to apologize and come clean with his feelings.
He did think of a plan till Sunday. It wasn't anything big but he thought that his words were the most important ones.
Before going to the airport he got flowers, red Chrysanthemums, I love you, and white tulips, I'm sorry.
When he got to the airport, he was twenty minutes early.
And while he had to wait for quite a while, his nervousness made the time go away in seconds, and soon he could see Seungmin coming his way. He gulped down, he tried to recite his lines, but his mind turned blank at the sight of Seungmin. He really did look beautiful.
"What is this?" Seungmin asked when he was right in front of Jisung.
"This is my way of properly asking you on a date and also apologizing for being such a dick," Jisung said as his hold around the flowers tightened.
Seungmin nodded for him to continue.
"It was wrong of me to try to hurt you, so so wrong and I am genuinely sorry and I am sorry for saying that I was pretending to care, because I didn't. You already know that I don't do dating, I am never in a relationship for longer than a week, I don't enjoy them, but the almost two months we spent fake dating were one of my happiest moments and I wish I could be happy with you for real, so will you go on a date with me?" It was nothing like Jisung had previously planned, his words were kind of all over the place and he wasn't happy with it, but it didn't matter as by the end of his speech Seungmin had a soft smile.
"Hm, I don't know, should I go?" He teased.
"Please do?" Jisung pleaded and Seungmin laughed.
"Alright I'll let you take me on that date, but it better be good." Jisung smiled brightly at that.
"The best you'll ever have."