Reasons to Stay // Hyunin

~20~

Hyunjin was back at school before Jeongin knew it, and in his heart he was so happy yet kind of nervous because of the deal he'd made with Kiara. However could he get Hyunjin to kiss him?

Hyunjin was the one to talk to him first in the hallway, he was relieved of. "Hey, Innie!" he smiled and waved, "It's been a while...I missed you."

Jeongin's heart beat. He misses me?! Jeongin was sure that was a good sign that he was more in Hyunjin's favor than Kiara was. Jeongin looked down and shyly whispered, "Me too."

"Hm? What did you say?" Hyunjin asked as he was closer.

"I- uh, N-nothing!" Innie was embarrassed now and was afraid to repeat it, especially with this handsome face staring right at him. Hyunjin smiled slyly and repeated in a low, cool tone, "What did you say, Innie-yah?"

Hyunjin was pretty cruel to give off a feel that he liked Jeongin while in his head he was only thinking about accomplishing his missions for "posh" Eun while adding fun for himself into it. And poor Jeonginnie was naïve and falling for everything. Love wasn't always healthy, he would realise.

The two walked to homeroom where Kiara was, apparently. Jeongin stared hardly at her and blinked twice, Kiara wasn't supposed to be in his homeroom. Hyunjin passed her first, then Jeongin slower, and muttered to her quietly, "what're you doing here?!"

"Hm? Is it a problem to switch homeroom so I can fit my schedule better?" She asked with an innocent look on her face. She didn't answer softly and the whole class heard it. Heads immediately turned and it was soon discovered that Jeongin had talked to her.

A boy near the back commented nonchalantly, "Yang Jeongin? I didn't know he was someone to hit on popular girls."

Jeongin's face reddened as there were snickers heard throughout the classroom, and it didn't get better when one of Kiara's friends, who apparently she had told some things to this friend recently, spoke up with a "What do you mean, popular girls. He's gay."

Jeongin tried to ignore it but he was burning with embarrassment and then he remembered Hyunjin was in the room hearing everything. Oh great. But out of the corner of his eye he saw Hyunjin rise from his desk. Then Jeongin heard his crush's voice, "Shut up."

Jeongin slowly turned to look at his face, awe rising in his heart. Hwang Hyunjin was standing up for him?

And as quickly as his hopes rose, they fell fast with a sickening thud as he heard the next words:

"He's not gay, he's smarter than that."

- - - -

Seungmin/Sky was back at Eun's base, looking over some things on his laptop. He had heard snippets of conversation earlier that morning, and it seemed that suddenly all the missions and tasks' due dates were put earlier, because "Posh" Eun had changed his plans and he was coming in two weeks or less. And the tasks had to be completed by the time he arrived.

That meant I.N and Lee Know didn't have much time left. And it didn't help that two new other people had entered the scene, name Seo Changbin and Lee Felix. They kept getting in his way, that's why he hasn't come face-to-face with Jeongin yet. Because Changbin seemed to know something was up and somehow didn't want Seungmin to get to Jeongin; which made sense, because Seungmin was supposedly part of the gang, and Changbin didn't want Jeongin to be in trouble. But Seungmin didn't know Changbin and Felix were friends with Jeonginnie.

Today when Han came back in the afternoon, he had said he would let Seungmin see Lee Know. Lee Know had been like a hyung to him too, when they were in the orphanage. He wondered if Hyung would recognize him. Hopefully so...