Benchmates (Hyunho ff)

bruises on your knees

It was now time for the next assignment; the pairing. Where you chose your partner who you are going to stick with for the rest of the trip. Hyunjin turned around looking for a man called Jeongin; his best friend, but Jeongin was long gone with Seungmin, he saw the two of them as they held hands and skipped away merrily. He could have asked Beomgyu, you know? but Beomgyu was also gone with Taehyun. His attempt of desperate partner searching was interrupted by a boy who wasn't too happy being partnered up with Han Jisung, he just stared blankly at the scene playing right in front of him, partially zoning out and only taking in a very blurry 40% of information in.

"Hyunjin, do you have a partner?" Hye Kyo, their homeroom teacher said which was enough to make Hyunjin snap out of his thoughts. "umm no" Hyunjin said as he slowly looked up to her and the rest of the group. "you and Minho are partners then, please keep an eye on Minho"  she announced, and the last bit was partially a joke; mostly serious. The duo's started dispersing in their own separate ways currently they were supposed to check-in at the hotel. The hotel being a beach house themed already had the students head over heels. The giggled as they entered, in awe of the huge halls and glass windows, the cold air conditioning air hitting their neck, the sweet but refreshing scent of the hotel, sounds of distant ocean waves. Everything was colour coordinated from the marble floors to the expensive carpets, inbuilt waterfall inside the hotel and an entire wall covered with Sea shells. 

Each room would be accommodated by four students; the students were given each a 3 hour rest time, in their respective rooms. In Minho's room with him there would be Hyunjin, Yeonjun and Soobin. 

The group was very tired; they had no time to chat once they stepped foot into their rooms they dozed off right away. 

in the afternoon it was time for high-tea, the students were seated in the hotel's garden. Some took pictures, some enjoyed the freshly made hot pipping tea with cinnamon cookies placed beside it and some just ran around; that some one who ran around was Minho and Hyunjin.

unexpected?, I know.

turns out that Minho, currently in his era of mischief ate some of Hyunjin's cinnamon cookies; the ones Hyunjin had asked not to touch, very respectfully but Minho had breached the contact and was guilty as charged, not only that he put whipped cream on Hyunjin's face; you know, when you put wipped cream all-over your best friends face, even If the pleaded and begged not to, using the excuse 'my skin is too sensitive'; yeah, that one. 

was Hyunjin entirely mad at Minho?

nope, not at all.

The older was too cute for Hyunjin to stay mad at for long, and actually he was having fun chasing him around with whipped cream in his hands that were ready to be smeared all over Minho's face.

'the way he giggles'.

but their fun came to an abrupt halt, that was when Minho started running a little far away from the actual garden to the rocky part of the garden, Minho was too busy looking at Hyunjin; afraid he was gonna catch up. He tripped on a rock, and fell. You could say it was nothing but small bruises, oh but it burned; its always the small bruises that hurt the most. Nothing a bandaid couldn't fix!

Hyunjin slowed down as he realised Minho stopped running, his laughs were turned down, he made Minho sit down on a nearby bench and asked him in the most worried, concerned voice possible "Minho-yaa are you hurt? can you walk?" and insisted on taking his body support to sit on the bench, Our Minho on the other hand was too focused on Hyunjin to talk, he just stared right into Hyunjin's eyes thinking

'this is the first time someone has cared for me so much...'

'where was this guy my whole life?'

Minho was too focused on Hyunjin that he forgot how bad his bruises sting.

"Are you okay? wait let me go get a band aid."

"uh n-no I-I'm fine I swear it doesn't hurt." Minho said to the worried boy, but Hyunjin wasn't having it, before Minho could convince him otherwise Hyunjin sushed him by placing his index finger on Minho's lips; they were soft. He dashed out in lightning speed to get a bandaid for his bench mate. Meanwhile Minho was too stunned to speak he touched his lips again on the same exact spot were Hyunjin's index was a second ago, the Raven boy returned in a matter of seconds; well that was quick. He returned, softly panting to catch his breath and returned with a flask of water and a bandaid. He washed his bruise with water; as gently as he could and put a band aid, its funny how it was supposed to sting but Minho was too busy starring at the raven prince. Oh, his care.

"are you okay?" he asked once again just to make sure, now looking up at Minho. The were in a position where Minho was on the bench starring at Hyunjin and hyunjin who was crouching down sorta in a proposing position. Minho nodded and smiled at Hyunjin's question making Hyunjin smile in return as well.

"does it hurt?" Hyunjin asked again, he just wanted to know if Minho was okay or not.

"yes, but you could kiss it to make the pain go away" Minho said in a quiet voice which was definitely not meant to be heard by Hyunjin, but Hyunjin heard it anyways. 

"what?" Hyunjin asked in shock whether if he heard that correctly or not. 

"nothing" Minho said, and they both got up at the same time and started heading towards the garden where the rest of the students were, none uttering a word and looking away, secretly blushing like crazy in disbelief.