𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥 𝗚𝗔𝗭𝗜𝗡𝗚，park sunghoon

➴ 𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄: Do you like her?

❕1001 words❕

━━━━━━ Chapter Five.
❛ Do you like her? ❜

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AS JUNGWON AND I talk, we hear someone running towards us. It's Sunghoon.

<What happened? Sohee, are you okay? What have you done?>
<Don't worry Sunghoon, I just got a sprain.>
<Well, it's not your fault...> Jungwon whispers, but Sunghoon hears him anyway.
<Who did it?>

Jungwon breaks this moment by saying that he needs to go to class urgently. Then I put my arm around Sunghoon's shoulders and he takes me by the waist. With a little effort we arrive at the infirmary.

I sit on the table and the doctor arrives. He takes a bandage and, wrapping it around my ankle, tells me: <Unfortunately the sprain is not slight. You should rest for a few days.>

As soon as the doctor leaves, we start talking about my ankle. A notification interrupts us. Notification of a new post on the school website has arrived. We open it and see the very scene where I got hurt.

"<Hey you!>
<Be more careful next time, and apologize to my friend.>
<I'm so sorry. I didn't want to. I'm sorry. Please forgive me.>
<It does not matter. The important thing is that no one got hurt.>"

<If I were you I would have slapped her, girl to girl. I mean... first, she throws herself at a boy she isn't even friends with, causing another girl, who is also a friend of the boy, to fall. How stupid. I hate people like that. I wonder how you managed to stay calm.>

I'm watching him. Actually no, I would use a more suitable term: staring. I got lost in his eyes wandering around the room as he spoke. I got lost looking at her his, which were moving quickly but I could still see how soft they were, treated with lip balm, they were without splits or cracks. I press my lips together, thinking about what it would be like to kiss Sunghoon's.

Panic by my own thoughts I open my eyes wide. Just then the boy looks at me, raising an eyebrow.

We remain like this for a few moments, which actually seem like minutes to me. Sitting on the infirmary bed, exchanging words with our looks. Every time we look at each other I feel a jolt, as if we were connected by some attraction that I can't explain. And I hope he feels this feeling too.

Sunghoon swallows and then speaks again.
<In any case, don't come to school these days, if you strain your ankle it won't improve. We will come to visit you, we will not leave you alone.> Sigh. <Thanks Sunghoon, but it's just a sprain, it's not serious-> He interrupts me. <You're still sick. I'm going to class now. See you.> So he gets up and leaves the infirmary, leaving me alone.

The boy leans his back against the door and thinks back to what had happened, to our eye contact. His heart beats wildly and he breathes heavily.

He decides to go back to his classroom to calm down. There's Jake there, his best friend.

Once he arrives in the classroom he apologizes to the professor for the delay saying that he took a friend to the infirmary. He goes to sit at his desk and Jake immediately hands him a note: "Do you like her?". Sunghoon remains with his pen in mid-air, not sure what to write in response.

Thinking about it, Sunghoon had felt some strange sensations. He has never been like this with a girl, with none of them he had this connection from the beginning. But it was also too early to say, they had only known each other for a few days.

So he replies with "I don't know, we'll talk about it later". He absolutely needs his best friend's help.

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Once the lesson is over, Jake and Sunghoon immediately leave, without waiting for the others. They holed up at Jake's house.

<Hi sweetie! Hi Sunghoon!> The mother waves while washing the dishes.
<Do you eat here Sunghoon?> Asks the father.
<I don't think so, maybe next week, but thanks for the invitation!> The boy replies kindly, and then locks himself in his friend's bedroom.

<So?>
<I don't know, I don't know if I like her, I don't understand, Jake..>
<Come on, what do you think of her? Tell me everything, I'll help you understand if you like her.>

<The first time I saw her I was struck, I mean, she's very pretty, you've seen her too. While we were returning to her house yesterday I started staring at her without realizing it. Then at his house he told me how he lost his parents and I... I told her..>
<Did you tell her??> Jake exclaims surprised.

<Yes. Then I hugged her and before leaving I gave her a... kiss on her wrist where she has a scar.>
<Sunghoon, since when do you do these things?>

<I don't even know what came over me! But it didn't end here. We saw each other this morning in the infirmary and when I looked at her I got shivers. And when I left the infirmary I was panting as if I had just finished a run.> He looks up at Jake to let him know what he thinks.

<Sunghoon...> sighs <you're lost.>
<But how? We've only known each other for a few days.>
<Have you ever heard of love at first sight?>
<But what if she doesn't like me?>
<Sunghoon I didn't think you were that stupid.> So Jake points to a photo behind them. The photo of the seven of them. Enhypen.
<I still don't understand.> Sunghoon says. The friend slap a hand on his forehead and then say: <Sunghoon, you have seven friends and you ask yourself "but what if she doesn't like me?". We'll help you!>
Sunghoon hugs him tightly <Thank you, thank you, thank you! You're the best!>

<No girl has ever taken you like this, not one. And then this is how you behave when you fall in love.>

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