Crushes in the classroom.

Jeongin was running late, he knew that, but he just had to make a stop at the local coffee shop to pick up an iced americano and an iced tea for Chan. He knew the other man did not like coffee in any form, which Jeongin didn’t understand at all. How can you be a teacher and not like coffee? Jeongin really didn’t understand, but he didn’t want to question Chan about it. He knew would get a long spiel about how coffee was not good for you in big quantities. 

As he arrived at the school, he looked at his watch and realised he had managed to make it on time. He even had a little spare time to maybe have a short chat with Chan before he had to go to his own class. He broke out in a big smile at the thought, since the small talks he had with Chan were one of his highlights. Don’t get him wrong, he liked his other colleagues, but none of them made him feel the same way that Chan did and he just enjoyed the other man's company a lot. 

He walked up to the main doors, slowly pushed them open, and, careful not to spill the beverages, headed straight for where he knew Chan would have his first class. Jeongin was humming a familiar tune as he knocked on the door and waited for the other man to call him in. 

“Come in,” Chan shouted from inside the room and Jeongin pushed the door open. “Oh, good morning, Mr.Yang,” Chan said with a smile as he looked over at Jeongin. Jeongin pouted at him. 

“I have told you many times that you can just call me Jeongin, Chan. You don’t need to be formal, when the kids are not here yet,” Jeongin said to him and walked over to the desk, where the other teacher was setting his stuff up for his first class. 

Chan, as a science teacher, was one of the few teachers who rarely moved around the school. Instead, the students came to his room, as the sciences rooms had to be separated from the other rooms because the science equipment couldn’t be moved. Being a korean teacher, Jeongin didn’t have the same luxury.

As Jeongin reached Chan's table, he held out the cup of ice tea he had gotten for the other man silently. Chan looked up at the movement and his face morphed from its neutral state to shock as he realised that Jeongin was holding out the cup for him. 

“Oh, is that for me?” he said with a small smile. Jeongin nodded as Chan took the cup from him and took a small sip from it. He looked up at Jeongin with a big smile, which made Jeongin’s cheeks heat up and look down at the floor. 

“You really shouldn’t have done that, Jeongin, but thank you and it is my favourite as well,” Chan said as he continued to take sips from the drink with a small smile on his face. 

“Well, I was already at the coffee shop and knew you really like the ice tea from this specific place, so I couldn’t help myself getting one for you as well, no need to thank me, Chan,” Jeongin said dismissively and took a sip out of his own drink. 

“Well, thank you for it still,” Chan said with a smile. Jeongin smiled back at him. Then he pulled up a chair to sit by the table, enjoying the silence and the small noises Chan let out while he was preparing things for his first class. Jeongin looked at what he was doing and wondered, what it was about. He’s never been much of a science person, always enjoyed languages and the more artistic subjects more, so he had no idea what Chan was preparing at all. 

“What are you preparing for your class?” Jeongin asked, as he looked at all the stars that were spread over the table. 

“I’m planning on having the kids set up a tent with me and then we are going to go into the tent and place the stars on the inside to emulate the night sky and try and make as many constellations as we can in the time we have,” Chan started explaining enthusiastically as he was gesturing around at all the stars and the roll of black fabric that was standing up against the wall. Jeongin nodded along as Chan continued to explain. “I’m obviously going to be making some real constellations, that the students then have to try and name and answer if they are specific for this time of year.”

“Are there constellations you can’t see all year around?” Jeongin asked in surprise, since he had no idea about this. 

“Yes, loads. The stars are stationary, so as the earth travels around the sun, some constellations are only visible during the summer or the winter, ” Chan explained with the biggest smile on his face as he loved to talk about the night sky and all the stars in it. Jeongin tried his best to follow along as Chan continued to explain it all, but he felt more and more lost in the explanation as he didn’t know much about the night sky at all. Instead, he ended up just sitting there and staring at Chan in wonder over all the things he knew about the night sky.

They were so completely in their own world, that they hadn’t noticed the set of big eyes staring at them from the door and the sudden loud voice shouting.

“WHAT IS MR.YANG DOING HERE, MR. BANG??” 

Both men flew up from their chairs in surprise and looked over to the door, where one of the students was standing and just staring at them in confusion. Neither of them had noticed the student arriving and at that moment Jeongin also realised that he had to run over to the regular classrooms for his own first class. 

“Oh Shi-Oot,” Jeongin exclaimed, nearly swearing in front of the student. He quickly collected all his things and, with a quick goodbye to Chan, ran out of the room. When he arrived at the room where his own class was located, he had some time to collect himself before class actually started, as luckily only a few students had arrived so far. As he slowly got out the books he needed for the day's lesson, he thought about how caught up he got in Chan’s talking, that he didn’t even notice his surroundings and had embarrassed himself in front of the student. 

Why did Chan have such an effect on him, he wondered to himself as he placed his books on the table. He sat at his desk, the quiet noise of students slowly milling into the class, chatting with each other and ignoring their teacher, providing background noise as he spaced out. Suddenly the bell rang loudly, pulling Jeongin out of his thoughts with a small jump and a loud gasp. All the students looked at him with big eyes and wondered what was up with their teacher. As Jeongin tried to collect himself over the shock, one of the students slowly stood up.

“Are you okay, Mr. Yang?” she asked quietly and looked quizzically at the teacher. All the other students nodded and looked at him. 

“Yes, I’m fine, Ryunjin, was just caught up in my own head for just a moment,” Jeongin said as he stood up and got ready to start the class. As he picked up his book to turn to the page they have gotten to, something fell out from between the pages. 

It was a small cut out of a star. 

Jeongin looked at it for a long time, completely spacing out again as he thought about his conversation with Chan earlier that morning, about the stars and the universe and how he had just sat there and took in everything the other man had talked about without knowing anything about it. 

“Mr. Yang?” a little voice said again. 

“Yes, sorry, class. Now let's continue with the reading from yesterday,” Jeongin said quickly as he picked up the star and tucked it quickly into his pocket. He turned back to the front of the class and started the lesson as if nothing had happened. All the students looked confused at each other, but just shrugged their small shoulders and took out their books to start their reading. 

As the day progressed and Jeongin moved from class to class, he kept coming back to his morning with Chan and how the other man had affected him. He kept drawing a blank on why it had happened and what the other man had done to even have that effect on Jeongin. As he reflected on it, he realised that this was not the first time it had happened either. He suddenly remembered more and more times, where Chan had seemingly put him in some sort of trance, while telling him about some obscure science fact that Jeongin did not understand and probably would never understand. 

Jeongin took a deep sigh, looked down at his watch, and saw that they were closing in on lunch time for the kids. He moved back to his first classroom and the class he had that morning. He was the assigned classroom teacher for them and had to sit with them while they had their lunch before recess. He put his hand in his pocket and felt a small piece of paper, which he then pulled out. 

Oh, it was the star from earlier that he had found in his book. One of Chan's stars. He smiled at it and tucked it back into his pocket for safekeeping, reminding himself to hand it back to the other man before the day was over. Once he arrived at the classroom and made sure all the kids were properly seated and had started their lunch, he sat down at the desk and pulled out his own lunch he had prepared yesterday.

Just as he started eating, there was a knock at the door and everyone looked up in surprise, since none of them were expecting anyone else to come to their classroom.

“Come in,” Jeongin shouted as he stood up to move towards the door to see who had come to the class, fully expecting a student who might have gotten lost, despite having counted all his students and none of them were missing. He did not expect Chan to enter the classroom with a small smile on his face and a bag in his hand. 

“Hi, Mr. Yang, I just came to see if I could possibly join you and your class for lunch, seeing as I don’t have a class to overlook today,” Chan said with a smile and gestured to the bag in his hand that contained his own lunch. Jeongin looked at the man in wonder as he couldn’t believe he had come to eat lunch with him, little him, like Chan could have picked any of the other members of the staff, but he chose Jeongin. A light blush started to rise on Jeongins cheeks as his thoughts started to drift.

“Mr. Yang?” 

Jeongin was abruptly brought out of his thoughts by the other man saying his name as he blushed profusely and stammered out an answer. 

“S-su-sure, you can join us for lunch, Mr. Bang,” Jeongin finally got out as he pulled up a chair for the other man, so he could sit at the desk with him. Chan sat down and pulled out his own lunch and started to dig in. As the two men sat and ate in silence, Chan looked at some of the papers Jeongin had placed on the table, that he was planning to look over while the kids were out in the schoolyard for recess. He reached over and pulled one of the sheets over to him and started reading it.

“What is this about?” he asked and turned the paper over towards Jeongin. He looked down at it and saw it was one of the short stories he had assigned this class to write over the weekend.

“Oh, it was a writing exercise I had the students do over the weekend, where they had to write a little story about an animal they had met and use as many descriptive words as they could,” Jeongin explained as he pointed out the different words that the student had used without saying them out loud. 

“Oooh, that seems like a fun and creative little exercise,” Chan said with a smile as he read what the student had written and chuckled at it. He put the paper down again and picked up another one and looked it over, smiled and continued to do this with a couple of more papers. All while Jeongin was just sitting there and looking at Chan like he was the only person in the room and no one else but them existed. 

“A lot of these are really good and funny. You got some really creative students, Mr. Yang,” Chan said and looked over at Jeongin with a massive smile, which made Jeongin blush and look away just nodding along to what Chan was saying. 

They continued to chat about different topics and just being in their own world, neither realising that a whole classroom of small eyes was looking intensely at them and between each other, wondering what was going on between their two teachers. 

“Mr. Yang? Mr. Bang?” one of the students asked out loud, making the two men jump and turn around in their chairs. They looked at the class with wide open eyes, remembering at that moment that they weren’t alone in the class, but were in fact being observed by twenty small kids. They both blushed and Jeongin spoke up.

“Yes, Jooyeon?” Jeongin asked the little boy.

“I’m sorry for asking, but are you and Mr. Bang dating?” the little boy asked and looked back and forth between the two men. Both of them looked in bewilderment at the boy and to each other and back to the little boy again, completely taken by surprise by the question, that neither of them knew what to say at first.

“Uh, Jooyeon, that is not a very polite thing to ask someone,” Chan finally managed to get out and looked over towards Jeongin, who was just looking down at the table with a completely red face and didn’t know what to say to what the little boy had asked. Chan reached his hand over to check if Jeongin was okay. Just before his hand touched the other, Jeongin jumped up and exclaimed. 

“Time for recess. Pack your things and get your clothes on and off to the yard with you guys,” Jeongin said in a haste and started ushering the kids towards the door. All of the kids looked in confusion at Jeongin, but did as he said and started to follow him towards the yard, where the teacher, Felix, who had yard duty was waiting for them.

“Hey Jeongin, thanks for bringing your class,” Felix said with a kind smile, looking up at Jeongin. His smile faltered a bit and he asked, “Are you okay? You are quite red in the face.”

“Oh that is probably ‘cause we asked him and Mr. Bang if they were dating,” Jooyeon said with a smile as he looked up at Felix.

“Oh..” Felix said and looked back up at Jeongin, who had turned even more red in the face than he was before. Felix smirked at Jeongin with a glint in his eyes and mouthed to him that he would be asking about this later. Jeongin spluttered over that and just turned around and walked fast back towards his classroom. As he arrived at the classroom he hurried in and closed the door behind him. He leaned against it for a moment and looked up at the ceiling with a deep sigh.

“Are you okay?” 

Jeongin looked towards the voice in surprise, having fully expected Chan to have left the room and gone back to his own classroom. But no, he was still sitting by the desk and looking over at Jeongin with questioning eyes. Jeongin sighed, walked over to the table, and sat down beside Chan again, placing his head in his hands.

“I’m so sorry for that, Chan. That was so inappropriate of Jooyeon to ask and I’m going to have a proper word with him later about not asking those things, since it is just not okay to ask, especially your teachers,” Jeongin said in a hurry. He didn’t even dare to look over at Chan to see his reaction to what he was saying, continuing to sit with his head in his hand and trying to reflect over what the little boy had said, and if there was any truth to it.

Did he have feelings for the other man?

Was that why he got flustered around him and lost in his train of thoughts, when the other man was talking?

Was that why he would listen to anything the man was talking about even though it didn’t interest him in the slightest?  

Chan was just sitting and looking at the other man, while he was clearly deep in thought, and didn’t know how to approach him or ask him what was going through his head. 

“Should I leave, Jeongin,” he asked quietly. Jeongin looked up at him in confusion, as if he had completely forgotten the other man was still there. He looked at him for a bit and shook his head.

“No, sorry, I just got lost in my own thoughts for a moment,” Jeongin said. He shook his head at Chan and smiled as he composed himself. He turned towards the other teacher and just smiled at him, trying to push his thoughts to the back of his head, deciding he was going to think about it later and just enjoy the moment with Chan before they had to go back to their classes.

“Do you wanna talk about it?” Chan asked slowly as if trying to assess the situation and figure out what Jeongin wanted. 

“NO,” Jeongin said with a blush and turned away from the other teacher and looked out of the window. “I don’t really wanna talk about it right now, sorry, Chan, can we just talk about something else?” he asked and turned back to the other man. Chan just nodded at it and they fell silent again just looking around awkwardly, not knowing how to start a conversation again. 

They ended up just sitting in silence for the rest of the break and only glancing at each other from time to time, too scared to start the conversation again, as neither of them knew how to approach the subject that was going through both of their heads. 

As the bell rang and signalled that the break was over, Chan stood up and packed his things together getting ready to go back to his class. That made Jeongin look up at him and want to say something, but he just didn’t know what to say until he remembered the star he had in his pocket from this morning.

“Chan!” he said and reached into his pocket and held the star out to the other man. “This ended up between my books this morning and I thought you might want it back as it might be important to the thing you were doing with your classes this morning,” he continued and turned his head away, avoiding any eye contact with the other man. 

Chan took the star and looked at it. Then he decided to hand it back to Jeongin, told him he could keep it as a keepsake, and decided then and there to be a bit bold.

“You can keep it and it can remind you of me, when you look at it,” Chan said with a slight blush to his cheeks as he looked at Jeongin like he was expecting some kind of response from the other man. Jeongin just sat still for a moment and looked up at Chan with a similar blush to his face as he took back the star with a small smile and a thank you, not knowing what else to say.

“Well I need to get back to my class, so see you later, maybe?” Chan said as he scratched the back of his head and let out an awkward cough. 

“Yeah, see you later, maybe,” Jeongin replied, absent-minded as he looked down at the star in his hand, as if it had all the answers to the many questions that were floating around in his head. He didn't notice that the other man was still looking at him, until he let out a sigh and walked away. It was first when he heard the door close behind him, that Jeongin looked up again and stared at the closed door. He wondered if he should run after the other man and try to talk to him, but he couldn’t get himself to do it. 

He looked back at the star, let out a deep sigh, and held it close to his heart as he closed his eyes and thanked someone that he had a free hour before his next class to sit and think about what this all meant to him. But his calm was rudely interrupted by a knock on his door and someone walking in.

Jeongin looked over to the door, saw Felix standing there with the biggest smile on his face and sighed deeply, knowing what was coming. He put the star down on his table and turned fully to the other man.

“What do you want?” he asked and looked at Felix. 

“Oh, you know exactly what I want, Jeongin. I want answers to that little thing that Jooyeon mentioned when you came with the kids to recess,” Felix said with a bigger smile as he walked over to the table and sat down on the chair that Chan had occupied earlier. Jeongin let out a deep sigh. He wondered for a moment if he should just try and deny everything or if he should actually tell Felix what he was feeling, and maybe get an outside perspective on the whole thing.

“I don’t even know where to start, Felix. I’m so confused about all this and I don’t even know how I feel about Chan to be honest,” he said with a deep sigh. He slumped further down in his chair and looked out of the window, as he didn’t want to look at Felix and see what his reaction was to what Jeongin was saying.

“But what are you feeling about it? Like what is going on in your head to be exact?” Felix asked. Jeongin sighed and looked over at Felix, then put his head in his hands and sighed again.

“All these questions are just floating around. Like why am I feeling flustered every time Chan talks to me and why do i feel like my heart is going to beat out of my chest, when he looks and talks to me? And why is everything he does just affecting me in some way and I just want to do everything for him without him asking. Like I went out of my way this morning to get him the specific tea he likes from this specific coffee shop and he didn't even ask me to do it,” Jeongin said. He took a deep breath as he continued to try and explain what was going on to Felix.

“And like every time we sit and talk, I feel both comfortable, but also like there is some kind of tension between us that I just can’t explain and it is slowly driving me crazy and I don’t know what all this means,” he finished and looked up at Felix, who was just sitting and listening to him talk. 

Felix took a deep breath.

“Do you want my honest opinion, Jeongin?” he asked. 

“Yes, please, I really do, because I don’t know what any of this means,” Jeongin answered him.

“Okay, here is what I think is going on and that is that you like Chan,” Felix started. Jeongin rolled his eyes at that, because obviously he liked Chan, they were colleagues and he enjoyed hanging out with the other guy.

“I know what you are thinking and what I mean is that you like him more as a friend and that you might have a crush on him,” Felix said, looking straight at Jeongin with a soft smile and a tilt to his head. Jeongin looked at him and couldn’t believe what Felix was saying to him.

Did he really have a crush on Chan?

Is that why he was feeling like this?

Jeongin ran his fingers through his hair and stared in bewilderment at Felix. He didn’t even know how to respond or what to say to what Felix was telling him.

“Jeongin, can I ask you something?” Felix said slowly and Jeongin nodded slowly.

“Have you ever thought about kissing Chan and spending more time with him outside of work hours?” Felix asked. 

Jeongin looked at him with wide eyes. He couldn’t believe Felix had the audacity to ask those things, but the more he thought about the questions, the less he could deny that those thoughts had for sure passed his mind. He couldn’t argue with Felix on it. He couldn’t believe he hadn’t figured it out himself. 

“Oh my gosh, I do have a crush on Chan,” he slowly said and looked at Felix with wide eyes. “What the hell am i going to do about it?” he asked in a small voice and looked down at his desk again. Felix let out a sigh and looked at Jeongin with so much care and sympathy in his eyes.

“My honest answer to that is just to talk to Chan about it, I don’t think he is going to reject you, since I have seen how he looks at you sometimes and how often he brings you up, when I talk with him,” Felix said and smiled at Jeongin.

“Really? He talks about me?” Jeongin asked in surprise and looked up at Felix again.

“He does and sometimes it is really sickening to listen to, because he will just go on about something silly you did that to everyone else would be seen as so insignificant, but to Chan hyung it was like the greatest thing ever. He is honestly so smitten with you, it makes me feel lonely at times, even though I do have a boyfriend myself,” Felix said with a laugh as Jeongin turned a deep red and looked away. 

Jeongin didn’t even know what to say to that as he looked out the window. He started thinking again about everything Felix just told him and he just didn’t know how to go about it. Did he have the courage to talk to Chan about this, now that he knew what it was that was going on with him and he knew that there was a possibility that Chan was feeling the same as he was feeling?.

“How do I ask him about it? Please help me, Felix, I have never asked anyone out before or asked anyone if they also have feelings for me,” Jeongin said in a desperate tone as he turned back to Felix and looked at him with big pleading eyes. Felix sighed and put his hands on the table reaching for Jeongin’s hands. 

“I don’t have much experience myself, since it was Hyunjin who asked me and confessed to me first, but I know you just have to go for it and give it a chance, even if it isn’t easy to do,” he said/ He took Jeongin’s hands in his and looked at him with a smile, trying to reassure the other man that it was okay to feel this way and that nothing bad was going to happen if he took the chance. 

“Yeah but it is just gonna be hard,” he said back to Felix. Felix just looked back at him in pity and patted him on the shoulder.

“I believe you can do it, now that you know what is up and you know he won't reject you,” Felix said to him with a smile. Jeongin looked sceptical at him and just sighed and shook his head. 

“Anyway, should we maybe talk about something different?” Felix said with a smile and leaned back in his chair. 

Jeongin looked over at him and nodded. Felix promptly started a long tale about something his fiancé, Hyunjin, had done the other night, which had frustrated Felix endlessly. According to Felix, Hyunjin just didn’t understand why Felix was so upset over it, which had, evidently, ended in a small argument. 

As Felix continued to tell his story, Jeongin tried to listen along and nod at the appropriate times in the story. But he couldn’t help his brain drifting back to a certain science teacher and how in the hell he was going to approach asking him out. He knew it wasn’t going to be easy and the likelihood of him chickening out of asking him was very high, and nothing would come of it. And if Jeongin was honest with himself, that outcome would make him sad, now that he knew what it was he felt for the other man.

“Jeongin, are you even listening to what I’m saying?” Felix said with a pout. 

“Huh? Oh, I’m so sorry, Felix, I just got lost in my own thoughts again,” Jeongin said rather sheepishly. Felix sighed and shook his head.

“You got to talk with him later, please Jeongin or else this will eat you alive. I’m obviously not going to pressure you, but I would just highly recommend it,” Felix said with a pleading voice and just as pleading eyes. Jeongin rolled his eyes at the other man's antics.

“I will try to talk to him later, though I will not make any promises at all. I will try and that is it,” Jeongin said in a stern voice and glared over at Felix, who raised his hands in defeat and shook his head. Jeongin knew that Felix wanted to say more on the matter and he was ready to stop the guy in saying more, but just then the bell rang, indicating that the free hour was over and Felix had to go back to his own class.

“Just think about it, Jeongin,” Felix said before he walked over to the door and gave Jeongin a pointed look, which made Jeongin roll his eyes and shoo the other man away. Felix sighed and walked out of the door with a small goodbye. 

The rest of the day went fairly uneventful for Jeongin as he had two more classes to teach and then he was done for the day. None of the kids gave him any more trouble, but he could see some of them whisper between themselves and look up at him from time to time, when they should be doing their work. He decided not to call them out on it and let it slip for now, as he didn’t have the energy to discuss his crushes with a bunch of 10 year olds, which was also highly inappropriate. 

As the last class wrapped up, Jeongin felt the nervous feeling rise in his body again as he realised that he would have to talk to Chan very soon. He kind of hoped that the other man would go straight home after he was also done wrapping up, but knowing Chan he most likely wouldn’t and he would come and check on Jeongin as he did that every single day.

And right on cue, just as the last student was leaving the room, Jeongin heard a knock at his door and there stood Chan with a small smile. Jeongin felt the blush rise in his cheeks as he locked eyes with Chan and turned away fast, uttering a small “Come in” to the other man.

“I hope I’m not disturbing you, Jeongin, but I do have something I really want to ask you,” Chan said with a slight hesitation to his voice. Jeongin whipped his head up so fast and looked at the other man with wide eyes. 

“I actually also have something to ask you, but you go first,” Jeongin replied and started to fiddle with his hands.

Chan approached Jeongin and for a split moment hesitated before he reached his hand out and took Jeongins hand in his. Jeongin felt his heart start racing as he looked down at their hands and couldn’t believe that Chan was actually holding his hands. Chan cleared his throat and started to speak.

“So, I know this might be a silly thing and might be all in my head and maybe also Felix getting to me about this, but I just feel like I have a special connection with you and I keep getting butterflies in my stomach when we talk and just hang out between classes or before and after school,” Chan started/ He looked down at their hands and then up at Jeongin again before continuing.

“And again, I don’t know if it is just me reading something wrong into it or if there is actually something there and I don't really want to make anything awkward between us as that would break my heart if I lost this precious friendship we have for a silly crush I have on you,” Chan said with a flush and looked away. Jeongin gasped at Chan's confession and looked at him with big round eyes. 

“You have a crush on me?” Jeongin asked timidly. Chan nodded and started to talk again.

“I do, I’ve had one for quite some time, but I haven’t been sure if you felt the same, but after this morning and lunch, and after Felix knocked some sense into me before I got over here,” he said with a small chuckle and continued. 

“Anyway, what I’m trying to get at is that I want to ask you on a date and I do hope you will accept it or else this will be really silly and I hopefully haven't ruined our friendship,” Chan said in a hurry. He looked down at their hands again as he fiddled with Jeongins finger and turned them over in his hands. 

Jeongin stared at the other man in disbelief.

Chan had just asked him out. 

Jeongin couldn’t believe what he heard and kept staring at the other man. Chan looked more nervous the longer Jeongin was quiet. 

“Oh gosh, I have messed it all up and read the situation completely wrong, I’m so sorry I asked you! Oh gosh, I have really done it now. Oh gosh, I’m just going to leave now, I’m so sorry,” Chan said in a panic. He dropped Jeongin's hands in a hurry and started to turn around to leave the room.

Jeongin snapped out of his own thoughts as Chan turned around and in a panic grabbed the other man's hand to pull him back.

“NO! I’m so sorry for not saying anything, you have done nothing wrong, I just couldn’t believe what I was hearing, as I wanted to ask you the exact same thing, Chan,” Jeongin said in a hurry and caught Chan's eyes, so he could see he was sincere about what he was saying.

“Really?” Chan said.

“Really,” Jeongin confirmed with a blush as he intertwined his fingers with Chan and looked at him with a soft smile. They stood there for a while and smiled at each other with a soft smile, until Chan let out a little chuckle.

“I guess Felix was right after all and that I didn’t have to worry,” he said with a soft smile.

“Yeah, he said the exact same thing to me,” Jeongin replied and they both laughed at how Felix had given them both the courage to ask the other out. 

“Well, I guess we have to find a day where I can wine and dine you,” Chan said with a wink. In a brief moment of courage, he leaned over and gave Jeongin a small kiss on the cheek and smiled at him. 

“I guess we have,” Jeongin said in a low voice, but he couldn’t contain his smile and smiled brightly at Chan.

“Now we need to get out of here, before they start locking up the place,” he said and started to pull Chan towards the door. While they walked out of the door and out of the school, they both had a good feeling about all this and couldn’t wait for the next chapter of their life to begin.