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seungmin walked to each one of his classrooms the next day, a beanie covering his head with his earphones not leaving his ears at all as he avoided each one of his friends.
he had been avoiding eye contact with everyone all day, and ignoring each text message he got. though the situation was worse than bad, he refused to miss school for something so trivial.
after making it through the whole day, he realized what a mess prom decoration would be. seungmin decided to be responsible and did not ditch, but walked in to see quite an empty room.
letting his earphones hang, he walked out of the door, and instead sat on a bench near the parking lot for the entire school. the boy expected to be alone but felt someone take a seat next to him, and turned to see someone who also had earphones in.
seungmin slightly smiled before dropping it, remembering everything that happened, "you told jisung, right?"
"i'm sorry, i felt too awful. but i didn't mention you at all." sohye confessed, a slight frown on her face as she messed with her already picked at fingernails.
"he figured it out, but i'm not mad. i'm glad you told him, make's me feel a centimeter less bad for what we did to him." he responded, sohye nodding, "i shouldn't have kissed you."
"i know, but i liked it." sohye looking up at him, the boy showing no expression, "it was nice... kissing you."
seungmin didn't know how to feel about it, he didn't know how to feel about the entire situation. he hurt jisung, he hurt the entire friend group. he ruined a relationship, ruined sohye's friendship with the girls— but he didn't regret kissing her.
it was the first time he felt like there was something to look forward to in life.
"i don't think he'll ever forgive me." he shook his head, "and he shouldn't. he would never did what i did."
sohye was brave, and reached for the boys delicate cold hands that she once admired from afar. taking his hand into her own, she looked up as he slightly turned towards her, "the best part of all this, is that it's just high school. the shortest experience of our lives, we'll all move on eventually."
"i know, but it makes me think that when i go off to college i'll have to make new friends, find new people to call my favorites. i like to have most of my life figured out— and this feeling of unknowing— it's eating at me."
"this is sort of a blessing for you though, i've always believed people need to be grounded sometimes, reminded of what's actually possible and what is just a concept. it's vital that we all reach a point in our life where we realize just how small we are. figuring it out isn't a safe goal, if it was, we would all go to our graves with thousands of questions." sohye responded, still playing with his hands that have started to warm up.
