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one thing about gyuvin is that he hates pretty boys, and that included shen quanrui from his class.
its been months since they were classmates but gyuvin never tried to befriend him because he personally finds him cocky and arrogant even though his best friend, seungeon, convinced him he's not. the way he always arrives all dressed up, his dyed blond hair combed back so well, dangling earrings and lips so moist, not to mention a strawberry smoothie in his right hand and his expensive bag with a one strap over his shoulder, it was annoying to him. he would walk past gyuvin's seat to get to his front row desk and he smells so fucking good, gyuvin was close on sniffing him out and asking about the perfume brand he uses but he couldn't bring himself to do it because he hates him.
on the other hand, when gyuvin arrives to his classroom, he always has his messy bed hair, wrinkled uniform and tired eyes because he most certainly slept in the bus again due to playing video games in the middle of night with the neighbour kid, yujin. and he doesn't have time to check himself, or he just couldn't care less about how he looks 24/7 unlike someone he knows. and quanrui always seem to catch him looking like that, all messy, making him scoff and mumble, "are you a kid?" which triggered gyuvin off, as if hes making fun of him.
if gyuvin had to add on the blond boy's personality, quanrui was smarter than him, especially in art class, his paintings are so good whereas gyuvin just struggles with choosing the right brush. whenever the art teacher praises his paintings and showcase it to the other students in class, he could see quanrui giving him a smug face and gyuvin could feel the brush he was holding, was about to break apart. he's confident about his skills and it annoyed gyuvin so much.
but quanrui is not better than he at everything, sure he's good at classes like math, english, art and music but quanrui was not very good at p.e class. and that made gyuvin feel very superior, finally he's caught a weakness of quanrui. but yes, he's surprisingly talented at basketball and maybe tennis but he struggled at running in long distances, and doing push-ups.
when the p.e teacher had to do a fitness test to every student, gyuvin proudly measured his height, receiving a couple of frowns from the shorter boys. he was taller than all students no doubt shen quanrui too. as he finished, he glanced at the paper sheet the teacher was writing on.
quanrui - 183.9
the voice in gyuvin's head screamed, he's taller than quanrui too? he was strangely pleased about that fact and the test continued. it proceeded to the push-ups, all the students had their eyes on quanrui who was adjusting himself and his earrings were beautifully dangling. when the teacher blew the whistle, quanrui's arms started to tremble so much that it caused gyuvin who was observing him to chuckle out loud, earning a glare from the blond boy as his ears turned red.
the sight made gyuvin's eyes watery because how hard it was to hold his laughter back, "shen quanrui, hang in there." he blurted out loud, making the other students laugh along, including the p.e teacher who giggled quietly. quanrui cussed in his mind, biting his lips as hard as possible from the embarrassment while sending the brown haired boy death stares which he did not seem it mind, in fact, thought it was oddly cute.
gyuvin has spent a few months being classmates with the person he hates. he knows he doesn't take the bus and has a private driver picking him up, he knows he doesn't have friends and mostly spends time reading or sketching in his notebooks, there were many times where his best friend would start conversation with him but it would end up quickly due to gyuvin's glare at seungeon which quanrui always seems to notice. he hates him, so his best friend should hate him too, that's what gyuvin thinks.
he doesn't find anything similar between them both and doesn't try to put any effort to find any. gyvuin doesn't need any new friends, he already has seungeon, yujin who they hang out with sometimes, zhanghao and hanbin, his seniors who visit by. he doesn't need quanrui to befriend him, besides even if he did want to, quanrui hates it. he noticed how anybody who approached him would certainly get rejected right away, causing him to be friendless. it did make his best friend feel pity but gyuvin would assure him that its better that way, for him, at least.
it's rare for gyuvin and quanrui to verbally talk baldly towards each other and they never physically harmed one another but both of them feel annoyed by the other's presence, that's for sure, just not to the point of wishing harm for the other individual.
alright, there was once where gyuvin was close to punching quanrui in the face but that was stopped by none other than seungeon, and it wasn't gyuvin's fault, or maybe it was. it was when quanrui's job was to collect the homework from the other students on that day and when he stood in front of gyuvin's desk which he was hurriedly solving on, quanrui skipped him and went straight outside the classroom, ignoring the loud 'wait's by gyuvin. now gyuvin gets pretty easily triggered, and that action caused him to lose it all out.
when quanrui arrived to the classroom after handing out the homework in the teachers office, gyuvin angrily rushed towards him, grabbing him by the collar, "you fucker i told you to wait!"
"you should have done your homework beforehand kim gyuvin." the blond boy nagged, staring coldly at gyuvin, making the boy's grip on his collar tighter. seungeon ran towards his friend, grabbing him as he warned him, "gyuvin, don't." both of them exchanged glares before walking away from one another.
gyuvin hated quanrui and surely loved to see him in a tough situations but he learned that he never did when that known perverted boy lured quanrui with a love letter in his locker.
it was the end of a tiring day, and the usual gyuvin that couldn't resist sparing glances at the pretty boy who was getting his shoes and books out of the locker, but all of the sudden, a love letter fallls on the ground. quanrui stared at it before grabbing it and opening it. gyuvin on the other hand, was stuffing his clothes in his bag, still staring at quanrui who was reading the letter sneakily. the blond boy felt the need to present himself at the back of the school just like the letter suggested, but he did not except that the sender of the letter would be a boy, and none other than the creepiest dude in his classroom who's known for harassing many students.
quanrui gulped at the sudden figure approaching him, the shorter boy confessed his feelings to him, getting closer, but quanrui backed up right away and rejected him, saying he's already with someone else, which was a lie. the boy couldn't handle the information he was given and attempted to grab quanrui's arms who was about to leave. thankfully for gyuvin who was curiously following them both, witnessed the event and rushed right away, grabbing the hands of the boy who was holding quanrui's thin pale arms.
quanrui was surprised with gyuvin's sudden appearance, "what are you doing here?"
"he's bothering you, isn't he?" he stated, his back facing quanrui's and the blond boy couldn't tell which expression he had but his tone was certainly scary.
"l-l-let go you bastard." the weird guy aimed his words to to gyuvin who's grip on his arms was so tight that he could feel his blood vessels were about to snap off. gyuvin glared at him terrifyingly before letting go, causing the shorty to run away.
gyuvin sighed before turning to face quanrui's face, he raged, "are you fucking dumb? do you have any idea of what could have happened if i wasn't here right now?" he added, "that guy has awful rumours, including raping someone you idiot."
quanrui could feel his entire body shudder, he looked down, fidgeting, "i.. i didn't know."
"of course you didn't, you locked yourself in your own little bubble that you don't feel the need to know or look at what's happening around you." he scolded.
quanrui stared on the ground before looking back up, wondering, "why are you mad anyway? and you still haven't answered me, what brought you here?"
quanrui was right, why was gyuvin feeling so frustrated right know, he hates quanrui doesn't he? he laughs at him, sometimes makes fun of him. its weird that he's acting all angry at quanrui's dumb decisions. its none of his business if something bad happened to him, he's not even his friend so why?
"its not like i was following you or anything, i was following that bastard around, i knew he was up to something awful." he murmured, looking around, hoping that it sounded convincing to the boy in front of him.
quanrui stared at him, trying to seek more answers but unfortunately had to be interrupted by a call from his driver who was waiting for him outside the school gates. he turned his back and started walking away, leaving gyuvin behind who was confused by the unexpected act, "hey! not even a thank you?"
quanrui stopped in his tracks, then offered, "do you want a ride? you can consider it as a thank you."
gyuvin stared at him, wasn't sure at first but eventually agreed since he probably missed the bus timing due to what happened just now. "alright.. but i still need to hear a thank you from you shen quanrui!" he argued, following the blond boy like a lost puppy.