School Life // skz

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^SKZ DOESN'T HAVE ANY SONGS STARTING WITH F :(

Seungmin watched contemplatively as Hyunjin stuttered out a request to go to lunch with him. They'd been studying - well, he had, anyway - for an hour and,  to be fair, it was lunchtime.

"-there's a café nearby, so, do you want to go there? I mean, it's your choice, of course, but we could study there? Unless you don't want to-"

"Okay. Let's go." A pause and then, "Well? I'm getting hungry."

A previously frozen solid Hyunjin suddenly jumped up and started packing away all of the notes he'd made with Seungmin. He handed Seungmin his coat, putting his own one on. Seungmin stood there statuesque-like, waiting for his date partner to stop fumbling so they could start walking.

They were at a table now, Hyunjin with his iced americano sitting, unconsumed, in front of him.

He was babbling, about some inconceivable matter, and Seungmin wasn't listening. His head was in black storm clouds.

"I don't like you."

It was barely noticeable; Hyunjin only stopped talking for a half-second before swiping his coffee off the table and taking a sip.

"Yeah, I know. It's not like this is a date or anything. We were just taking a break. Oh, aren't you going to order food? You said you were hungry. Let me just-" he called over the waiter and asked him to bring a menu. "We should go back to studying after this. Thank you for the help by the way. Maths is a really weak subject for me so-"

"Do you like me?"

Damn, he's blunt, Hyunjin thought.

"What would you do if I did?" he said haltingly, trying for a safe response.

"I don't like you so, nothing, I guess," Seungmin shrugged.

"Well," Hyunjin coughed. "Do you like girls?"

Seungmin sighed, furrowing his eyebrows in thought.

"I don't know. I've never dated anyone before."

Hyunjin's eyes widened, "Have you ever liked anyone before? Or ... do you like anyone?"

"No, I don't."

Hyunjin smiled slightly, "So, I still have a chance." And that was it.

"Wait-"

"Let's order. I think this looks nice. What do you want? I'll pay."

"No, that's not- I can pay."

"It's okay. We can discuss that later. First, you're going to have to decide what you want."

For probably the first time in his short life so far, Seungmin was left dumbfounded. He really didn't know how to solve the problem that was Hwang Hyunjin.

skz

"Felix?" he said, surprised to see the boy there. "What are you doing here?"

The named boy had jumped at the sound of his voice. 

"Nothing. Just walking around. I actually have something to do so-"

"You're just walking around in this place?" the disbelief was obvious and hard to conceal.

Felix cleared his throat, "Well, what are you doing here, then?"

Jisung had taught him this technique; if being interrogated, just turn the question back onto them.

It had worked, it seemed, because Minho was now fumbling.