Two Sides [Minchan]

Chapter 30

Love blooms so sweetly, you can never know who you'll end up with.

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"The essence of painting is to show and illustrates your thoughts, your mind and your experiences. It's very important that we know how to express ourselves in all sorts of ways. Some, even have a hard time expressing who they are because of a barriers that controls their own selves." The teacher taught her students, showing how she strokes up the brush with the yellow paint on her own canvas.

Jisung sighed, listening to her but not entirely sure what he wants to paint in the first place. But like, what she said... Jisung is one of the types of people who is having a hard time expressing himself. The reason? It's his family who pushes him to limit of expressing his own thoughts and emotions about everything. And that didn't really helped him become a good person, he has hurt people because of it.

"Jisung? You seem distracted." Jisung's seat mate nudged him, causing the latter to snap out of his own bubble and nodded apologetically towards his seatmate.

Jisung could only look back at his professor and listen to what she's saying, although he doesn't completely understand.

In the corner of his eyes, a puppy-like boy was glancing at the squirrel-like boy, he knew that Jisung got his thoughts bothering him throughout the whole lesson. Jisung hasn't been himself lately.

Seungmin kept glancing at the elder boy from time to time and doing his own in painting. He has thought of what the teacher meant, ideas coming to him on what he should paint about.

He started painting, not forgetting to look at the boy on the other side, only to realize that Jisung doesn't really have something he can draw by his thoughts. So, Seungmin wants to know what's bothering him. Painting... well shit.

Seungmin's eyes widen as he looked at his painting, he didn't exactly planned this to be his painting. But his mind was so distracted, he didn't realize painted Jisung's feature. The mole, of course the little mole on his cheek.

It was a masterpiece, since Seungmin was always considered good at painting, but to realize that the painting of Jisung expressed his confusion and anticipation of what to paint, Seungmin paused.

"Wow, Seungmin you did a very good portrait painting of Jisung." Their teacher praised Seungmin for his work, and the whole class heard it.

This made Seungmin panic in the awkward silence, Jisung even turning his head and he was confused about what the teacher meant. The puppy-like boy could only clear his throat and put the painting aside.

When Jisung saw the portrait of himself, he was amazed seeing it was definitely a very elegant and delicate painting of him... but why did Seungmin painted him? He's questioning a lot.

To Jisung, he wanted to do something in return. An image of a boy holding a puppy, that one time where he saw Seungmin playing with a puppy. A puppy playing with another puppy.

It was a very cute sight.

He smiled as he started painting, his memory were the only one guiding him to make such an expressive painting that expresses compassion and care.

A care that he has for his friends, a care that he has for his brother. His co-workers, a car that he has to animal.

The compassion and care that he shares with Jisung...

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The squirrel boy smiled, a little smudge of paint on his face while he was busy creating such piece of artwork. It was only him on the art room on a weekend, I mean who would be even at school on a weekend just to work on a painting... except if, you're a good hardworking student and have saturday classes, which not a lot of students, and Jisung doesn't have any, then you are seen on school on the weekends.