mistakes like this | minsung ✗

chapter six.

• jisung's pov •

minho and i have been getting close the past week. it's been a week of surprises. he comes over my house after school, he says it's because he wants to know how soonie is doing but i have a feeling that isn't the only reason why. 

we a play a few board games while we talk about our favorite things that we can't seem to talk with anyone else. we also started studying together more often, it's like we're actually friends. for the first time in my life, i feel like everything will finally turn out great. 

the bullies haven't yet stopped, but that doesn't matter more than the after school time i have with minho. i have a great feeling that minho is beginning to see a new side of me. the real me. 

i hope he'll be able to ask me to be his friend soon. 

as i'm working on my homework in the library, hyunwoo, one of my classmates comes and sits down beside me. hyunwoo and i aren't close, but he knows i'm gay, and i know he's gay. no one else in this school knows besides me. he told me secretly, saying that he wanted to be my friend cause he was the same as i was too, he was just afraid to be seen close to me since things could go bad if anyone figured out he was gay. 

hyunwoo is nice. 

if he weren't so afraid to say aloud who he was, i think we would've been friends. 

but he's not, so it's weird to see him sitting beside me all of a sudden. 

i furrowed my brows at his presence. "what're you doing here?" i questioned. 

"guess what?" he sounds far more excited than he probably should be, knowing he's sitting beside me. a gay. 

"what is it?" i wondered, not really caring, since i wanted to finish my homework so i could help minho after school when he'll come over my house. 

hyunwoo wiggles his eyebrows at me, making me cringe. "lee minho is secretly in love with you," his sudden words make me flinch, making my heart stop for a moment. 

his words feel real for a moment, before i gather myself back and shake my head, focusing back on my work. "don't be stupid. he doesn't—"

"i caught him writing down your name in his notebook in history class. do you know how many times he wrote it? oh my god, at least one-hundred times! all i could see was jisung jisung jisung jisung jisung written all over his page! that guy is starting to get head-over-heels for you, i mean it!" 

i feel myself blush, so i look away from hyunwoo in embarrassment. i want to believe his words, i want to believe everything that he's saying but something in the pit of my stomach can't help but think it isn't at all real. i let out a disbelief chuckle and roll my eyes back. "you're lying," i point out. 

"no i'm not! i know what i saw! and it was exactly that," suddenly, hyunwoo grabs my wrist, "c'mon, i saw him going to a hall around the corner," hyunwoo makes me get off my chair before i can even protest about anything. he leads him somewhere around the corner of the library. 

when he stops walking i hear minho's voice over the other side of the room. there's a slight gap between a book and another, so i take a peek and see minho standing over the other side, facing my direction where he doesn't see me. he's talking with a friend of his. i can't remember his name. 

"dude, what the fuck is actually going on with you?" the other person spats, i flinch, taken aback from the tone of his voice. 

minho's brows furrowed, he looks a bit bothered. "what the hell do you mean?" 

"i'm talking about you and han jisung. i've seen you two together. walking together after school, the glances you two make when you guys are in the same room. like, ugh dude! what the fuck is all that about?"