Pirouettes&Flips

>>eleven<<

Renjun let out a sigh as he dropped his pencil on the book seated on the desk and stretched his shoulders as much as he can from his place. Lately he had no time to do anything other than his homework since all the other times were filled with increased amount of rehearsals for the upcoming regionals competition. After closing his eyes and resting them for a short while he reached for the sandwich that his mom made and left to his room about half an hour ago, as he checked his phone for any important notifications.

Haechan has added him to a group chat with Jaemin and Jeno a few days ago and most of the time it was filled with the bickerings of the youngsters. Jeno and Renjun didn't have the chance to actively participate in the conversations since they were both overwhelmed with their assignments and upcoming exams whereas the other two were more comfortable with their school responsibilities. They didn't get as much assignments except a few extra lectures Jaemin had to take in order keep his grades high.

He quickly typed a text to side with Jaemin on an argument about busting baby ballet classes and scaring the kids. After all none of them wanted to have the head of the studio scolding them for the second time that week. They've already heard enough when they started a water fight in the studio with the majority of the competition troupe. They were left with an extra hour in the studio to clean up the place and two same styled scoldings from Taeyong and Mr. Sicheng. The scoldings might have been much worse if Mr. Ten was the one to scold but surprisingly he was also being scolded for splashing some water to dancers as well.

Renjun put his phone next to his book and rested his head on his arms as he leaned on the desk. His eyes were hurting, he had a terrible headache and he wanted to sleep more than anything. With the last strength on his limbs he straightened his back and grabbed a hold of his pencil to write down the last two exercises on open page. This was the last homework he had due to tomorrow, he still had a two page essay to write in the next two days but he could worry about it later. Once he was finally done with his work he quickly put the book and the pencil back in his school bag, those two being the only things he actually took out, and lifted himself off his not-so-comfortable chair.

When he was finally done with his night routine he wasted no time to go under his covers and drift off to sleep, the tiredness of the day getting to him easily.

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Jeno cracked his knuckles hoping to relieve the tension that has grown in them because of his smashes on the keyboard for the last few hours. He had last two paragraphs to be done with his essay which meant he could finally get the rest he's been longing for.

He opened his eyes in panic after resting them for almost a minute. If he had kept them closed for one more second he would have fallen asleep. Essay was due to other day but he had acro class tomorrow and there was no chance that he could write a two page essay after an hour and a half of tumbling.

He gathered whatever strength he had left in his body and put it in trying to make his last few awake braincells to come up with sentences. He has put everything he could think of on the document but the second page was still not filled. He skimmed through the things he has written before and some of the notes he has taken in the class. He was officially out of forming new sentences after writing two sentences though. He tried to take some of the old sentences and changed their forming styles so he wouldn't be exactly writing the same things. After what felt like an hour he was finally done with the essay. He made sure to save it properly and closed his laptop, he was probably going to try to go through it once more before submitting it tomorrow night. His eyes were hurting from looking at the screen for so long but he forced himself to keep them open while putting the notes he has taken out back into his bag.

"Oh crap!" He cursed to himself as he stared at the book that was placed in his bag. He was supposed to do the exercises for tomorrow's class but he has totally forgotten about it, focusing on the essay instead. He has never missed out on homework before so it probably wouldn't be a big problem for once but Jeno didn't feel good when he had his work undone. He also didn't want his parents to know that he was struggling to keep up with his school work, scared that they may want to make him stop dancing. Maybe not entirely but they would definitely make him stop taking at least one of the classes. He has already stopped taking contemporary this year but didn't make much of a difference since he started taking acro instead. It took less of his time than contemporary did but still it was extra two hours if he counted to road to studio with it. His school would inform his parents if he had missed out on even one homework and his parents would definitely think it was because of dance and nothing else. They had minor arguments about it in the past but it hasn't happened for the last few years and Jeno wanted to keep it that way.