black swan || hyunjin

five

5:00pm.

I walk lazily over to the door as I hear the special knocking pattern I've always known. He's here.

I look through the peephole and see Hyunjin waiting impatiently, looking up at the patterns at the top of my door and biting his lip. It's something he's always done when he gets nervous, or excited. Or both.

Opening the door, I am greeted by a tall man with a NYC cap on, shading his face. It makes him look quite mysterious. I study the rest of his body. There is a plain, black backpack slung on his back. It looks pretty heavy. He is wearing some washed out jeans, plain white sneakers and a black tank top, showing his defined biceps.

It is very hard for me to stay focused, I must say. It's almost like they are staring at me, telling me to look at them.

But, I stay respectful, and smile half-heartedly at him. There is a warm grin plastered across his face, he looks overly happy to be here. I don't like it.

"Heyyy Aera!" Hyunjin exclaims excitedly. "Are you ready to become the top student in your class?" he asks, as I open the door wider to let him in. 

"Super excited." I reply sarcastically. He looks at me and chuckles.

"C'mon, I'll take you to my roo-" I start, before Hyunjin rudely interrupts and says, "I know where your bedroom is, Aera. I remember every square inch of your house."

Creeeeep.

I scoff, as he takes off his shoes and ambles up my stairs into my room, which I had started to clean, but gave up due to the ocean of clothes spread all over my bedroom floor.

He plonks himself down on my made up bed, messing up all my hard work. I guess it was bound to happen at some point. My bed is one of the only things I tidied up today. He pulls out a workbook and paper from his bag, and motions for me to sit down.

I sit down at my desk, bringing out my schoolbook and a pen. I sigh deeply, and turn my head to look at Hyunjin, who was looking at me keenly smirking, his deep brown eyes wide with enthusiasm.

"Okay, lets start!" He says cheerfully. "What are you currently doing in biology?"

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3 HOURS LATER

It has already been 3 hours, and Hyunjin has proved himself to me that he is really good at biology. We had been doing anatomy of a leaf, which was one of the things that I was very weak at. I mean, I am weak overall in biology. The only thing I can remember is that the stomach has amino acids that break down the food, and I don't even think that's right.

We had been studying for 2 hours, with occasional breaks in between. Whenever I was stuck on something, and look up at him for help, he was always looking at me first. It made me feel quite uncomfortable, but hey, what can you do.

The last hour, we have just been talking. Hyunjin has been telling me about his trip to Paris with his brother Felix recently, which made me quite jealous. I've always wanted to travel abroad. I've never been anywhere apart from Korea, as my mum has never had the money to take us anywhere.

I'm now sat on my bed opposite Hyunjin. He is asking me about the massive XXXTENTACION poster on my wall, staring at it intently. I turn around behind me to also stare at the poster, admiring it. I explain to him that since we fell out, my obsession with X has grown stronger.

"That's the same with me and Billie Eilish. I love her music soo much, like, I don't think a day ever goes past without me listening to her." Hyunjin states, his face lighting up as soon as he starts to talk about her. It's quite cute, actually.