The Real You || Jung Sungchan

Chapter 16

Miyoung:

Now that my parents are working from home, they get to drop my brother and I off. I didn't feel like dressing up again today so I just wore my normal uniform. After we finished eating breakfast as a family, my dad took my brother and I to school since he doesn't start work until 10am now. However, my mom starts at about 7am so she wakes the whole house up. My brother was showing me his rap lyrics on his phone the whole time and I was telling him how proud I am. Rapping is something he's very passionate about and I'm glad that he's finally chasing his dream. He's already signed into a company and he trains with a lot of people from his academy. I admire his determination, I know I could never be an idol even if I tried.

My brother didn't mind coming to school early since he just sleeps anyways. Once we got to school, we parted ways after saying goodbye and I went inside. As always, there was nobody in the hallways so I went to my locker to collect all of my gifts and letters and stuff. I took out a plastic bag from my backpack and put everything in it without even checking if they're getting damaged or not. I held the bag and made my way to the classroom. It was 7:12am which is my normal time to get to school. I come to the classroom and only one person is here, cleaning the floors.

"Sungchan?" I ask, smiling. He turns around and laughs.

"Hey. It got dirty in here so I cleaned the floors. Be careful." He warns me and comes over to the door, offering his hand to help me walk. I gladly take his hand and slowly walk to our desk. Once I sit down, he places a bunch of peach flavored things on my desk.

"I bought these before I came to school. I'm not sure if you like these or not." He laughs, I smile and look at everything. It was all peach-flavored gummies and other sweets. He also got me peach milk which is my absolute favorite. I opened it up and started drinking it and finished it all at once.

"I guess you like this one." He smiles, giving me another one. I smile and put it in my bag.

"How was your weekend?" I ask.

"It was pretty good. I went to my extra lessons and I had a rap lesson at my academy. Speaking of... can you give this to Mingyeom?" He asks, pulling out a couple pieces of paper. Wait... they attend... the same... academy?????

"Wait... what?" I widen my eyes and Sungchan laughs.

"That's how I got your number. I lied saying I don't know who you are. He's a little slow but he is such a good rapper and dancer. No wonder he got accepted into YG." Sungchan explains and compliments my brother, I awkwardly smile and laugh.

"Wow... I didn't know you two were both into being idols and stuff." I say and Sungchan nods.

"You should see what I can do, I'll blow you away." Sungchan laughs and I do too, lightly pushing his shoulder.

"So you're a trainee, right?" I ask, he nods.

"If there's rumors about you, I'll defend you." I smile, he laughs.

We shared the rest of the snacks and almost finished them before class started. During our first class, we had a self-study period since our teacher called in sick. It was nice that everyone was quiet for once, so I was in a pretty good mood. Sungchan would lightly bump my elbow and smile at me. It's so weird, it's like I can read what he's thinking and he can do the same to me. While I was studying the material for our next class, Sungchan slips me a note.

Wanna eat lunch together today? Don't worry about my friends, they're avoiding you cause they think you have a cold. I know a quiet place we can be alone cause I know you don't like being around people. How about it?

[] Yes [] No

I smile and check the "yes" box, he smiles and puts the note in his notebook. For the rest of class, we worked and stole small glances at each other once in a while. I just kept nudging him to focus on his work and he did. After class, Minji and Kyungmi tried talking to me as usual, but Sungchan told me to put my head down and not pay attention to them until they leave. Once they finally gave up on trying to talk to me, Sungchan placed a peach tea on my desk.

"If you keep feeding me before lunch, I won't have enough room to eat." I joke and Sungchan smiles.

"Don't diet, okay. You're perfectly fine the way you are." He says casually and I look away to pretend to get something out of backpack. I didn't want him to see that I was blushing because I was blushing real hard. He turned towards me and saw the plastic bag full of confessions and gifts and stuff.

"Can I take those?" He asks and I immediately turn towards him with a confused look on my face.

"Why?" I ask.

"I just don't want you to feel overwhelmed and the bag looks heavy and you're probably walking home so it will be too heavy for you." He says quickly and I smile, giving him the bag.

"Enjoy. Especially the makeup products." I smile and he laughs, placing it on the side of his desk.

— time skip

After Sungchan and I got our lunch trays, he dragged me to the school garden, where it was blooming with cherry trees. The leaves were falling and it was beautiful. I looked at him and he smiled, signaling for us to sit down. We sat down underneath one of the trees. We ate while talking about Mingyeom.

"Who's his role model?" Sungchan asks.

"NCT's Taeyong." I reply and Sungchan coughs, I panic and place my hand on his back.

"Are you okay?" I ask and he nods, drinking some water and catching his breath.

"Uh... so is mine.. and um... Haechan." Sungchan awkwardly laughs, and I nod. I only like girl groups so I don't know much about boy groups. All I know is that my brother loves NCT, especially Taeyong.

Once we were done with lunch, we had to return our trays to the cafeteria and we went to go change into our gym uniforms. Obviously we had to separate because we had to change in different bathrooms but he was quick to change for some reason. I got outside and he smiled. We walked to the gym and we were basically like 30 minutes early for class. We sat down and talked even more.

"When did you realize you wanted to be an idol?" I ask.

"I don't really remember to be honest. My mom told me to audition after I got scouted and I did." He explains and I nod.

"Mingyeom was a street dancer for a while and he's always looked up to Taeyong. He auditioned for SM and YG and got into both but he chose YG because SM doesn't really pay their artists I heard." I say and Sungchan nods.

"Yeah..." Sungchan laughs awkwardly. I had a feeling he's an SM trainee because everything I mention SM or Taeyong he gets nervous.

— time skip

"Miyoung! There's a new lip tint that's releasing at the mall today. Wanna come with?" Minji asks and my heart stops. The mall? After what happened? Sungchan immediately noticed and looked at them.

"We're gonna study together. Right, Miyoung?" He asks and I nod. Minji and Kyungmi look at each other confused but shrug it off, telling me to join them another time. Once they're gone from the classroom, I let out a sign of relief.

"Thanks for that. I'm heading home now. See you tomorrow." I say, almost walking out but Sungchan stops me.

"Are you walking home?" He asks and I nod.

"So you're not busy?" He continues and I nod.

"Why don't we actually go study together?" He asks. My heart starts to beat and I nod my head slowly. He smiles and quickly packs his bag, chasing me out the door.

We walk side by side to the library, making jokes and laughing together. We got quiet in the library of course and we did half studying and half distracting each other. It felt great having a friend like Sungchan. I haven't felt this happy in years.

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