✓ odds.

seven

just as usual — exo || 3:27
i can say things will be just as usual

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it was probably the breeze that knocked the hat off soonyoung's head as he walked through the streets with the thought of buying something that hopefully wouldn't be too useless like the other times he had shopped alone.
but during that time, a kind girl pick up his hat for him, with a small voice, she shouted, "mister!! you dropped your hat!"

lesson learned that he needed to strap down his hat more and that he needed to control himself from shopping near the plushie section of the store.
his dorm was slowly becoming a tiger enclosure with all the tiger shit he had bought over the course of a month from last year.

but did it stop him from buying more useless shit? no, even his roommate is stressed from the overwhelming of tigers.

• • •

his roommate could only dropped the flower he was holding that he probably had gotten from his crush that living next door, which was also soonyoung's dearest best friend; seokmin.
"soonyoung, don't tell me—" the boy stated, the translucent white from the plastic that soonyoung held showed the familiar colors of orange and black stripes.

joshua prayed to his lord that it wasn't another tiger—

"meet tiger number seven! stella!" soonyoung nearly has named all his seven tigers stella without knowing. one managed to obtain the name daisy by a stroke of luck from being named the next stella the tiger.

joshua nearly passed out.

"soonyoung, are you fuc— are you kidding me right now?" he almost cursed, nearly forgetting his image as the sexy gentleman living with a tiger obsessed boy who has named now six of his tiger friends stella. the blonde could only nervously laugh as he noticed the intense glare at the plushie with its sparkling eyes; soonyoung slowly pushed the plushie behind him after noticing the deadly glare.

"do you want to turn this dorm into a tiger zoo kwon?" the older speaks, using soonyoung's surname and holding up the tiger pillow from the couch to support his sentence.
he also points to tiger patterned mug in the kitchen behind soonyoung and coincidentally, the tiger jacket hanging from the hat rack near the front door of their dorm. soonyoung claims it wasn't his but joshua has heard better lies than that.

soonyoung nervously smiles for the second time.
"you see—"
"—you are not allowed to leave this dorm without someone accompanying you when shopping." joshua completed his sentence, making soonyoung frown. he wasn't able to finish his sentence!

"your little frown isn't going to work on me." soonyoung dramatically fake cries in loss, hugging tiger plush stella the sixth in the process.

• • •

that was surely the fun story to tell when meeting up with his two best friends, seokmin was making a coffee for minghao and junhui who had happened to stop by and also tag in the listening of soonyoung's wild adventures with a roommate willingly to move out because of soonyoung himself.

"he sounds like he's willing to move in with seokmin instead of you." junhui sips on his coffee, hearing a loud shriek from across the cafe.
seokmin and jeonghan tend to that mess as another worker by the name of dowoon took over seokmin's job as cashier person.

they pretend they didn't hear the campus not-really-diva fake cry as he noticed his perfectly white shirt was stained by coffee because of silent kid, chwe hansol from america.
tons of apologizes left the american as he continued to pester the shit out of seungkwan for staining his white shirt.

seokmin and jeonghan finally piece things together and act like cupid. the cafe isn't called matchmarker cafe for no reason.
"sir, why not take a seat while we clean up this mess?" jeonghan mentally cringes at the name he uses to address his friend's crush as he mentions to seungkwan who immediately takes a seat at the table hansol was studying at. the boy continues to apologize.

seokmin and jeonghan clean up the mess just in time to see the two leave the cafe together, probably because they noticed that they were also paired up for a project from mr. min's lecture of music theory that soonyoung had remembered he was paired with jihoon.
"mission success." the two boys fist bump before going hack to work.

on the other hand, the whole table where soonyoung sat teased the hell out of him, "guys, i'm literally the oldest— wait no junhui is the oldest—"
junhui exclaims, "you really forgot my age? soonyoung, we're literally the same age." 
"sorry not sorry..?" soonyoung hesitantly replied, worried that jun would chase him around the cafe again like last time.

but this time, maybe because of minghao, he didn't have to stand up and run around the place like a maniac, this time, he just sat and watched junhui sigh in frustration. maybe things were finally changing.

— 🎶 AUTHOR'S NOTES
this chapter was actually pre-written before my writing juice got taken up by editing blood smile :)
with just a few edits and adding more words, it turned out to be at least a 800+ word chapter😅

edit: i use diva as a joke, he isn't a diva in this story! he's more of like— someone who hangs around the cool kids until he finally learns that they're using him for money.
hansol is his first friend, but this is a side-story for another day or like a short story if possible.