BLACKBOARD.

29. Smile (jjjb)

by. d_phantom

Rating: T

TW: none

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There's a new guy at school.

He's older than me, same grade as Daeyeol hyung, he's very loud and energetic I can hear his voice from miles away.

What makes me remember him the most though, how he'd smile at me whenever our eyes met.

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"Go on a date with me?"

Jibeom stops playing the game he currently messes with and look at the older boy who sit a few steps behind him.

"Uh, no."

The boy, Jangjun, smiles wider than he was before. "Damn, rejected again. You sure are a tough nut to break." He chuckles, his voice quieter whenever the two of them are alone.

"Mmhm," Jibeom resumes his game. The only reason he's here is because he's waiting for Daeyeol who has class duty.

'Daeyeol hyung will be here soon. He just need to finish his duty then he will get me. He will probably come here with—'

Jangjun stares at Jibeom who suddenly stops playing again. "You good?" he asks, slowly moving to sit beside the now seemingly distracted boy.

Startled, Jibeom drops his phone to the ground. The device landed with a loud thunk and it seems to wake the dark haired boy up.

"Yea, I'm cool," he says, voice waver a bit. He was about to open his mouth again when he turns and realizes Jangjun already sits beside him.

"Yeeaaaa your phone seems to say otherwise," Jangjun grimaces, eyeing the now dead phone a few steps under them. Noticing Jibeom has gone silent, he flicked his gaze and look straight at the younger boy face. "Is there something on my face?" he smiles a bit confused, because Jibeom just stare at him without saying anything.

Dazedly, Jibeom shakes his head. "No, it's nothing," he says. It always baffles him how Jangjun always smile around him, especially after he rejected his advance for the nth time. The fact he never forces him also confused him greatly, normally people either will force their way to get what they want or give up completely. Jangjun is neither; he just stay there as a friend while occasionally asking him out but never force him while also not giving up on him.

And it's not like Jibeom can say he's not attracted to Jangjun. He's handsome, dependable, funny, charismatic and well, hot. But the thing is, Daeyeol is still the one he loves the most, and he's still Daeyeol's number one priority.

... Although that will probably change with how Daeyeol seems to fall deeper and deeper for Sungyoon. Huh. Sure is funny what started as a petty prank turns into something more serious by the end of the day.

Jibeom looks at his phone blankly. His progress is most probably gone since the phone is now dead before he saved the game. He can't blame anyone but himself since he was the one who drops it anyway.

He tries to stand, but a hand on his wrist stop him. Looking down, he saw Jangjun smiling at him.

"Five more minutes? It's game over anyway," he asks, smiling softer than usual and it makes Jibeom's heart flutter a bit with how genuine it looks.

Jibeom looks away. "Just five minutes," he sits back down while trying to hide his blushing face from Jangjun's view.

Jangjun smiles widely. He doesn't let go of Jibeom's hand.

Jibeom lets him. His phone forgotten on the ground.

If Daeyeol takes a bit longer than usual to get him it doesn't bother him at all.

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Aaaaa sorry it's short, I wanna write JangBeom so much but what I have in storage is actually fantasy AU lol so I need to wreck my storage bank about HS AU that I know I have somewhere and here it is XD

This is kinda a snippets of my long HS AU (with DaeYoon as the main ship woohoo) that I plan to release sometimes in the future. It's a mix of HS and mafia AU sooo if you're into that genre please stay tune XD