Freeze Tag | Hwang Hyunjin

15

<Once again a normal format chapter, sorry for tricking you into thinking this was a texting only au :p>

When Soyoung exited her house, she was surprised to see Hyunjin already there, leaning against the gate with a paper bag in his hands.

"Surprisingly, you're early every time we meet." She remarked while the boy pushed himself away from the gate.

"You're prejudicial."

"Considering you're usually late for every History class, my assumption is based on facts."

"Oh, shut up." He rolled his eyes, the two still standing still, facing each other and just talking.

"One minute passed till you told me to shut up, this is a new record." She grinned.
"Anyways, we should get going now."

"Wait, let me give you these lights Minho dropped off at mine yesterday." Hyunjin handed her the paper bag.
"It goes without saying that I was very surprised when he showed up."

Soyoung grabbed the bag, peeking into it, only to see the lights afoul like a bowl of freshly boiled spaghetti.
"Sorry, I thought I texted you before."

"Well, you didn't." He murmured.

The two started walking down the street. Yesterday they agreed to meet up. They had a few things to do - buy a can of green spray paint because they ran out of it on their last painting session (which was the second) and Hyunjin also agreed (more like 'was forced to') to be the model for Soyoung's arts class homework. Long story short, they were hanging out like friends.

They finished at the paint shop in no time (though Hyunjin had to drag Soyoung out as she was getting immersed in a new set of brushes) and now they were sitting at the café, the one where they had first met up two and a half weeks ago.

They sat down after ordering their coffees, facing each other so Soyoung could see him better while drawing.

"Okay, turn a bit sideways.. No, to the left... Okay. Do something natural, I don't know. Do your homework, or use your phone or something. You will get bored in no time if you just sit still."

Hyunjin opened his copy book, planning on doing his maths homework. But he couldn’t concentrate, seeing Soyoung stare at him for minutes before looking down to sketch something on her paper and repeating the same set of moves over and over.

After 10 minutes, he looked up.
"Is this your way of admiring me secretly?" He crossed his arms.

"If I wanted to do that, I wouldn't do it in secret. Hey, uncross your arms." She looked up for a second to wink at Hyunjin. The boy grimaced and uncrossed his arms, looking back at his empty copy book.

So, instead of the maths homework, he did something that he found interesting - he, too, started to sketch the drawing girl. He wasn't at her level, of course, as he never took advanced arts classes, but he did like drawing.

The two teenagers sat in silence, sipping their coffees and ocassionally looking at each other. Hyunjin always managed to look up at different times, successfully avoiding making Soyoung aware that he was drawing her. He didn't want her to know because then she would ask to see the drawing and Hyunjin didn't want her to judge his skills, even though deep down he knew she wouldn't.