orange peel theory | chenji

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"Jisung, have you seen Chenle?!" is the first thing Sungchan says to him that morning when he sees him at their Biology lecture.

"What do you mean?" Jisung blinks sleepily. It was way too early in the morning to be deciphering anything Sungchan had to say to him.

"I mean his hair" Sungchan sat down, voice low and urgent as he shrugged off his bag and pulled out his ipad "He looks incredible"

"Okay...?"

"I mean orange, right?" the elder continued to jabber on "Who would've thought?"

"Sungchan, listen I have absolutely no clue what you're talking about right now" Jisung finally sighed "Why are you talking about oranges?"

Sungchan simply said nothing and pointed towards the doorway of the lecture theatre where Chenle had just arrived.

Sporting bright orange hair.

Jisung's mouth fell open as the elder Chinese skipped up the stairs towards them, taking the seat on the other side of Jisung.

"Hey, guys" he grinned "How's it going?"

Jisung continued to open and close his mouth like a fish out of water but thankfully Sungchan cut in for him.

"Chenle your hair looks so good"

"Thanks, Sungchan" the younger beamed.

Good was an understatement, Chenle looked absolutely stunning to say the least. Jisung thought his brain was short circuiting the way his eyes were glued to Chenle's hair and no words were coming out of his mouth.

"Are you okay, Jisung?" Chenle laughed a little and Jisung swore his heart skipped a beat.

Had Chenle's laugh always sounded that magical? Were his lips always this pink? Had his eyes been that sparkly this whole time?

This was Jisung's best friend in the whole entire universe for crying out loud. Had the whole dying alone thing spooked him out the point where he was having phantom feelings for Chenle?

"I'll take that as a yes..." the elder raised and eyebrow and turned away, focusing on the teacher who had just entered.

"Your hair" Jisung finally managed to whisper "It's....orange"

"Oh wow no way Jisung" Chenle replied sarcastically, not even looking up from his laptop "That's news to me"

"Oh" Jisung blinked stupidly.

"Look" Chenle sighed "If you think it's ugly, just say that okay?"

"No, no, no I don't think it's ugly!"

"Well, you've been staring at it this whole time like it just murdered your whole bloodline"

"I promise I don't think it's ugly" Jisung pleaded "I think it's pretty"

Chenle raised an eyebrow and Jisung gulped, ears red.

"You're being weird today" the elder simply stated before turning back to the lecture.

Jisung internally sighed with relief hoping he'd be able to pull himself together now.