first snowfall | sunki

05: closer

"Wait, you're partners with Yang Jungwon?" Jay's jaw dropped after hearing such news from Heeseung. "No way, please tell me you're lying, Riki."

"I'm telling you! And neither of them asked each other, the teacher was the one who brought them together!" Heeseung remarked, giving them drinks he got from the vending machine. "If you don't make a move, Riki will take him in no time."

Ni-ki laughed so hard he almost slipped while walking. "I don't like him but if Jay doesn't do anything at this point? Why not, right?"

"No! If you do that, forget hanging out with a cutie like me." Jay pouted as he wrapped his arm over Ni-ki's shoulders, making a fist to threaten the younger.

"Then why don't you make a move? You've been just looking at him distantly for 4 years. You've liked him ever since we started high school!" Ni-ki blurted out, causing Jay to understand his worth. "You never knew but hell... He already likes someone."

Jay hung his head low, thinking about what he should do to make Jungwon notice me. "Does he like someone already? Am I a fool, then? Riki, what should I do?"

Ni-ki rolled his eyes as he left the latter's questions up in the air, moving on to talking with Heeseung. "I'm not that close with him yet, we still call each other through our full names."

"It's fine, you'll be close soon! Tell us your plans for tomorrow~! You can't keep anything from us." Heeseung nudged Ni-ki while his eyebrows went up and down, making the younger uncomfortable. "Oh, and I promise I won't tell anyone!"

Jay quickly clasped his hand over Ni-ki's mouth before he could even say anything. "Don't say anything to Hee! You know how he always starts the biggest rumours in school, right?"

"How dare you?!" Heeseung slapped Jay at the back, throwing punches at the younger. "I'm going to tell everyone that you skip psychology classes in the afternoon so you can get the cafeteria's leftover foo—"

"Did you just hear him? He said he's not going to tell anyone about that but look! He just told you my deepest and darkest secret!" Jay threw small punches back to Heeseung until they looked like kids fighting over the smallest things.

Ni-ki went between the two, trying to stop them from fighting even though it doesn't seem like it's working. "Are you two going to act like kids? People are starting to finish their classes, they're gonna see you—"

"Riki."

The three stopped fighting, turning their heads around just to see Jungwon standing behind them with his hands clutched on the straps of his backpack.

"R-Riki?!" Sunoo and Ni-ki exclaimed in chorus, not believing Jungwon just called him by his first name.

Sunoo stepped in front of Jungwon, tiptoeing to be in the same height as Ni-ki. "What's between you and Jungwon, huh? Why are you suddenly calling each other by first name basis?"

Jay and Heeseung looked at each other before they sneakily walked away so that only Ni-ki will get in trouble.

"I don't know, I was just here with them— huh?! Why did they run away?!" Ni-ki turned around only to find his "so-called friends" running away within a second.

"They're gone," Jungwon replied, walking towards the younger to kick his leg. "I'm going to be waiting for you at the front gate." He muttered, walking away without Sunoo. "Oh yeah, Sunoo. I know you're going out with Sunghoon so I'm going out with Riki today too."

Sunoo blinked in confusion, watching Jungwon walk away without even saying goodbye. "Gosh, he's nuts for calling this creep by his first name!" He then turned to Ni-ki, pointing at him aggressively. "Are you two close now? In 2 days?"

"Why do you care about that? You haven't even paid close attention to him since you're in love with that man." Ni-ki pointed at Sunghoon, making Sunoo turn around and run towards him with a huge smile. "I knew it." He then rolled his eyes, walking away from the scene to follow Jungwon in the front gate.

Sunghoon hugged Sunoo tightly, ruffling his hair like always. "How are you? Did you have fun in class, my sunshine?" He pulled out a plastic bag full of drinks so they can drink it somewhere while walking to the convenience store. "I bought these for you~!"

"Really? Thank you so much!" Sunoo happily jumped up and down, completely forgetting about the issue within Jungwon and Ni-ki. "Let's go to the convenience store so we can buy snacks for tomorrow!"

"Sure, anything for you." Sunghoon laughed as he held Sunoo's hand, walking with him happily to the convenience store near the school.

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"I'm here~!" Ni-ki hopped happily, standing next to Jungwon who distanced himself. "So we're close now, right? Okay! I'm going to start calling you Jung—"

"If you say my name, I won't hesitate to kill you." Jungwon kicked Ni-ki's ass again before walking away with Ni-ki following behind him.

Ni-ki rubbed his hands against his ass, frowning as he thought he's already close enough with Jungwon to call him by his first name. "Why can't I call you on a first-name basis? It's unfair for you to call me Riki."

"I just wanted to see if Sunoo would be concerned about it," Jungwon replied, staring at the sunset ahead of them. "When I left, was he still agitated about it?"

"He was interested about it not until Sunghoon came. It was like he got brainwashed by that horrifying visual." Ni-ki remarked as he walked next to Jungwon, looking down to see his face. "Uhh... are we going somewhere?"

Jungwon shook his head, taking off his backpack as he gave it to Ni-ki so he can carry it. "No, I just don't want to go home alone."

"Pfft... why? Are you scared?" Ni-ki tried holding his laughter even though he already started laughing at the beginning of his sentence. "It's okay, I'm here~!"

"I just need someone to talk to, okay? I get bored walking alone." Jungwon scoffed as he looked at Ni-ki. "Do you have plans after the last trip tomorrow? Everyone's allowed to do whatever they want since the next day will be the start of the winter festival decorating preparation."

Ni-ki shook his head, smiling brightly. "Nope! I'm going to go home. It's so boring and I'm probably going to get tired—"

"Great." Jungwon stopped walking as he firmly held Ni-ki by the shoulders, confusing the latter. "I need you to come with me to the skyline tomorrow. Sunoo's meeting Sunghoon there because he thinks it'll be a great opportunity to witness the first snowfall with him."

"Eh?" Ni-ki blinked his eyes in the lack of uncertainty, trying to process what Jungwon just told him. "Me? Why would I come there? It's between you three. Plus, how is he so sure the first snowfall will arrive tomorrow? No one can predict the snowfall, you know."

Jungwon shrugged, letting go of Ni-ki's shoulders. "I don't know either but we need to be there. I wanna see if things between them will go smoothly tomorrow. As I said, I get bored very easily that's why you need to be there while waiting for something to happen."

Ni-ki pouted, avoiding Jungwon's gaze with closed eyes. "What if I don't want to come? I have so much important things to do such as twerk and sleep on my bed."

"I'll stop kicking and hitting your ass," Jungwon added, stepping closer towards Ni-ki to see if he'll agree.

"Really?" Ni-ki has been starstruck after hearing that. "Oh my, yes! I'll do anything for you to stop hitting me~!"

"Just your ass. I can still hit you whenever I want, you know! Sunoo considers you as his number one rival so I'll do anything to prevent you from going near him." Jungwon took Ni-ki's uniform tie, causing their faces to be so close. "So, are you up for it?"

Ni-ki cleared his throat, taking his tie as he looked away to avoid awkwardness between them. "Yeah, I'm up for it. But you don't expect me to just stand there! I'll be teasing him if things go down between them~!"

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very late update but i hope u enjoyed it since all enha members appeared already ! i feel like the storyline has lots of connections between characters but i wish u're ok with that huhu :(