✓ odds.

twelve

l oi just wanted you — openside || 3:31
caught me off guard and i love the way it feels

— 🎶

january neared, soonyoung and jihoon stayed closer as ever. they were inseparable from the beginning.
"jihoon, where are you bringing that thing?"
"it's not a thing, it's a guitar mingyu." jihoon answered, swinging the guitar case of his shoulder and making sure that he had everything for the outing with soonyoung he has agreed to.
"i know, but it's unusual of you to bring your guitar with you, are you doing busking today?"

"what? no, soonyoung just wanted to see me play."
"ah," then mingyu realized.
"ah," he let out another, this time with the intentions of teasing. it wasn't everyday that you would see a jihoon carrying his guitar that smacked mingyu with outside.

jihoon held onto that guitar in his room like treasure.
since, it was given to him by his grandfather. the parent that jihoon talked to about his first guy crush and the man that understood him truly unlike his parents who took time.
sadly, he died and heavily affected jihoon's childhood.

"i'll get going now, don't do anything nasty."
"no promises!" mingyu responded to his room mate as wonwoo was found coming out of his room and facing mingyu.
"uh hi?"
"babe, i want hugs." mingyu whined as wonwoo pretended that his lover was a clingy one, especially with hugs and cuddles.

yeah, jihoon gagged at the sound of mingyu begging for wonwoo to give him hugs, and probably something more than that.

as jihoon walked from his dorm to soonyoung's dorm which were two buildings away from each other, jihoon took notice of the trees growing back its lush leaves.
life was always something jihoon didn't like, why even bother being born when you know you'd die anyway?
but these feelings, butterflies in his stomach made him rethink life.

why was it only soonyoung that he felt this way?
he was unsure.

"jihoon, are you okay?" a voice popped out, he looked up and soonyoung was there with his hoodie thrown above shorts. right, it was only a five minute walk and jihoon's thoughts walked slowly in his head, but with soonyoung, they ran around the planets.
"i'm fine, am i allowed in?" asked the younger, making himself confused. of course he'll be allowed in.. if not then why the fuck did soonyoung invite him over?

"yep!" it was the first time jihoon entered soonyoung's shared dorm with another business major like mingyu. his tall friend was the type to messily keep items everywhere and forget where he placed his wallet with multiple things in it.
he puts a lot of trust into that bulky thing.

joshua was the type to keep everything neat and clean, modest and with a dorm mate that seemed to buy everything he deemed as money-spendable with no usage at all.
it was clear who was the messier one in this dorm.

soonyoung had multiple tiger prints and things in the dorm, the living room had a tiger print fluffy blanket for when the room was too cold. jihoon also noticed the tiger print mug on the table that probably held a warm cup of tea.
"soon, can i ask a question?"
"go ahead hoon," soonyoung answered as he lead jihoon to the couch, running off to the kitchen and making another cup of tea with one of joshua's cups that held motivational quotes. he walked back and gave jihoon the cup of warm tea, which the boy took a sip and placed it on the table in front of him.

it was a weird mix in this dorm.

"all these tiger shit, are all of these yours?" an awkward laugh came from soonyoung who desperately tried to skip and dodge all question on his seven tiger plushies named stella one to six and daisy the lucky tiger, his tiger jacket at the hat rack over there, his two twin mugs of two tigers doing a heart with their tails and also the tiger blanket on the couch.

soonyoung used lie, "no."
it was not very effective against guitar destroyer, jihoon.
jihooon used truth, "you're lying aren't you,"
critical hit! soonyoung's spending habits on tigers have been exposed!

"fine.." soonyoung grumpily answered but soon was washed over with excitement upon seeing jihoon open his guitar case revealing a guitar.
obviously, what did you expect?
a body that jihoon killed?
yeah, mingyu wouldn't fit in there actually.

jihoon has a slight hatred towards mingyu if you couldn't tell but they're still friends.

"are you gonna serenade me to fall in love~?"
"stupid no, you asked me to bring my guitar so i could play a few songs and chat." though, the pick-up line did manage to make his heart skip a beat with a blush jihoon managed to keep in.

soonyoung smiled, watching jihoon strum the guitar with his fingers.
he started to play a random tune, with singing a few acoustic version of pop songs and also practicing the chords for their after spring break performance.
soonyoung singing along with the younger which made the dorm feel warmer towards the two.

• • •

"so jisoo, how's life with soonyoung?" seokmin asked and received an answer from the older who watched him write down notes.
"good, i just hope he doesn't wreck the dorm down while i'm away, by the way, why are you taking notes when you're in maa?" jisoo asked, curious on why seokmin was writing so quickly while also glancing at his phone multiple times.

"we still have to take music classes so these are the notes from the october class i missed because of a play," seokmin answered, placing the pen down after being done with writing.
"i never knew you guys had to take notes, may i see?" seokmin nodded, handing the notebook filled with seokmin's handwriting and very detailed notes that were taken by the top student in mr. min's music theory.

"how did you manage to get jihoon to send you notes of his?" the american asked. yeah, over the course of hundreds of talks on how soonyoung is head-over-heels for jihoon, he had learnt that jihoon has a habit of writing his notes in a very descriptive way. this is how jisoo imagined jihoon took notes, and it was exactly like how soonyoung described it towards the american.
"soonyoung of course," jisoo chuckled and gave back the notebook, enjoying the company of the younger as they spent the weekend together until the horrid monday starts for the business major.
maa students were safe until wednesday, but seokmin still visited joshua on monday after his business class.

— 🎶 AUTHOR'S NOTES
seoksoo moment~