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strawberries and Cigarettes - seungjin

Seungmin learns to always lock the door behind him, and that kissing a guy who smokes cigarettes isn't as bad as they say. -  onlyfoolsfall on ao3

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Seungmin probably wouldn't even have noticed the new kid if not for the fight.

There are reasons for this. Seungmin for one, rarely notices anything that isn't shoved right in front of him, and for two, being that the new kid wasn't in his homeroom or any of his classes, he wasn't right in front of him, and so Seungmin didn't notice him. He could have easily gone the rest of the year without knowing anything about one Hwang Hyunjin.

Seungmin does end up noticing him, but only because the one thing any high school student notices is a fight. Granted, it's hard to miss once people start mobbing and chanting but it could probably happen.

Seungmin is right at the forefront of the whole thing. A couple of jocks tried to jump the New Guy outside the parking lot. It was probably some macho thing about looking at one of the jocks' girlfriends – that's still the standard bullshit excuse for starting a fight these days.

New Guy bruises a few ribs, breaks two of their noses, and one jaw. Seungmin's pretty sure the only reason he didn't get expelled was because it was four against one, and because Mr. Bang saw the whole thing. Mr. Bang might be a crazy old bat- he's not that old, he's probably fresh out of college but still he acts and talks like he's on his retirement age already- but he's nothing if not fair.

So the new guy whose name is Hwang Hyunjin,care of Jisung's detective skills, gets a month's detention and shows up at school the next day with a busted lip. After that, the rumors start flying thick and fast. He's a deliquent, raised by single dad who was a retired Marines. Black Ops. CIA. He's fresh out of juvie. He used to be in a gang. Is in a gang. Runs a gang.

As far as Seungmin can see, the only thing he actually does is run tracks and smoke in the bathrooms. He doesn't say anything only keeping to himself, and the only ones with enough balls to initiate any interactions are Mr. Bang and that lanky kid with a foreign accent and questionable wardrobe choice.

Anyway, everyone leaves him alone after the fight, and now he's even quieter than before.

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Seungmin always drinks too much coffee in the mornings. He can't help it. He's completely seduced by the dazzling array of flavors ever since he bought that second-hand capsule machine from Daehwi, and learned that there is more to coffee than his go-to iced americano. Plus caffeine does wonders to his angsty sleep deprived soul. So even though he thinks his third period teacher is getting annoyed with his constant bathrooms breaks,he could never cut back.

The first thing Seungmin sees when he enters the bathroom is Hwang Hyunjin leaning against the back wall, smoking. He's dressed in an oversized black shirt tucked into a pair of distressed black jeans and some military boots, his shoulder length hair is tied in a half pony, loose fringes hanging in front of his face. He's as dark and broody as any mysterious bad boy character in every teenage films out there – which Seungmin, for the record, does not watch.

Seungmin relieves himself, then goes over to wash his hands. He dries them carefully, thinks very carefully about what he's about to do, because there are only so many reasons a kid in high school is as apparently and honestly self-loathing as Hwang Hyunjin is and only one of them honestly works in his favor. Plus, he stares at Seungmin from time to time. Seungmin may or may not be staring back. You can't blame him though.

Seungmin walks over and kisses him. When he pulls back, Hyunjin looks totally surprised.

Seungmin is fairly sure that's surprise. Right?