Benchmates (Hyunho ff)

one more step?

"Can I have a gel pen, mine ran out" Minho said to Hyunjin, "Sure" Hyunjin said quietly as he rummaged through his pencil case and pulled out a gel pen with a transparent body and a melody charm hanging at the bottom, Hyunjin surely paid attention to aesthetics but still he was embarrassed. Too busy thinking that what would Minho, his bench mate think, I mean Minho seemed like someone who would judge, he was hesitant and held the pen firmly for Minho to grab, Minho being too busy writing away put his hand out to take the pen. By mistake his hands touched Hyunjin's. It was Ice cold, as if he were a dead body. As a reaction Minho jerked his head towards Hyunjin and flinched. Minho and Hyunjin shared a brief moment of eye contact ; in a way communicating in silence. Hyunjin quietly observed Minho's features. The way he blinked his eyes often, his long eyelashes and his soft brown eyes.

Minho turned back and continued scribbling notes. After a couple more paragraphs, his hand was put to rest, his hand started aching by writing so much and there was some ink on his palm that he knew would take some time to come off. He noticed the charm 'cute' he thought to himself and politely returned the pen back, with a polite nod as a thank-you.

In Minho's eyes, Hyunjin was sorta Introverted, he personally wouldn't be more than bench mate with someone like him as their interests and personalities didn't match, not in a mean way of course.

During break Minho didn't really eat lunch, he would just find someone in the school campus to roam with. It was mostly Chan. Chan had to eat his lunch during the first recess so he could walk with Minho; such dedication.

Today Chan and Minho played basketball. After a sweaty basketball match they decided to head back to class, They walked in as they saw field trip forms laid out on each of their respective desks, and their homeroom teacher-Mrs. Hye-Kyo smiled warmly as she let them enter the class, Minho looked at the field trip form intently and read all his contents as he paid less attention to pulling out his chair and just sat beside Hyunjin; his bench mate.

"Class, after a lot of pleading, the school is finally letting us go to Jeju Island!" Hye-kyo said as she cheered and continued speaking "As its a 3 days 2 nights trip I want your guardian's signature on this, you know the drill. So please keep the form safe as I won't be handing out spare ones" She finished her statement and walked to her place and packed her things up so she could go to her next class.

"so...Hyunjin you coming with?" Minho asked Hyunjin while looking at his form. "oh yeah, I think I can go" Hyunjin quietly replies while keeping his head down, after a couple of seconds he asks Minho "are you coming...?"

"oh yes" Minho says to Hyunjin as they share a brief moment of eye contact, where Hyunjin is putting his head down and looking sideways at Minho and Minho is looking at the peaceful boy resting, now looking at him. Their brief eye contact is interrupted by the one and only Han Jisung. The squirrel boy tell Minho with full curiosity "you know how the Sewol ferry sank right?...the students were also going to Jeju on a trip!" He dramatically put his hands over his face as a sign of shock, the squirrel boy was clearly overthinking.

Minho rolled his eyes and said "except the fact that we aren't going in a ferry we are going in a flight". "you never know Lee" Han said as he put one his hand on Minho's shoulder. Minho moved Han's hand is a polite manner and said "Ji, you are exaggerating and overthinking, chill"

"our death awaits us!" Jisung whispers quietly, a whisper that can be heard by everyone a whisper-scream. Hyunjin the raven boy who is putting his head down at the moment just chuckles and Minho just smiles while looking at him.