Window to freedom °•Minsung•°

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Jisung didn't sleep a second the night before the exam and for the first time of his life not because he had to actually take it.

But because it was his job to assist Minho that day.
He was forced to see him again.

Forced to face him after a few weeks of zero contact. Forced to face him after what had happened.

"You can do it" said Jeongin.

"Hell yeah you can. Just be careful" added Chan.

Jisung walked into the Natural Sciences building with his heart under his feet. He was so terribly scared he thought he might just combust.

"Maybe I should've quit this job after all" he thought with a grimace.

Students were already starting to gather in the corridor, hands full of densely annotated pieces of paper. They were anxious, revising, walking up and down or bouncing their leg from where they were seated. Jisung knew the feeling and felt a wave of empathy for them.
Julia and her click seemed to be absent...well, it was early after all.

There and then, the students fell silent. All their eyes lined up to look at the front door and Jisung knew he was doomed.

Mr Lee had arrived.

Jisung didn't know what he had expected but it wasn't what ended up happening, not at all.

Maybe he had expected them to work in a chilling silence, ignoring eachother.
Maybe he had expected Minho to glare at him, disgusted.

Instead a hand instantly wrapped around his wrist and Jisung was pulled along through the corridors until they got to an empty laboratory classroom. Someone had been working on fossils in there and the tables were filled with baskets of sand and documents everywhere.

Minho closed the door with a click.

Jisung turned to meet his hardened eyes, tense muscles. He had his arms crossed and was staring at him intentely.

"Minho-"

That was enough to make him explode:
"Oh! So now you remember I exist! Wow, congrats." he hissed:

"I texted you everyday, nothing. I needed help with choosing the exam questions but of course you wouldn't know about that since you ghosted me!"

Jisung tried to make himself as small as he possibly could, pressing his body against the wall and away from his anger.

"Explain yourself, come on! What did I do, huh!? You're the one who started it and then you just...disappear?? What the fuck, Jisung!"

he was shouting at that point and Jisung just couldn't have that happen, the students were crowded up just a few meters away... They couldn't hear any of this.

So he sprinted forward and pressed a hand on Minho's mouth:

"Shhhh!" he hissed:
"If you keep screaming like that, everyone and their mother will hear our shit"

But Minho's entire energy had shifted. Jisung looked up into his eyes and trembled.

"Oh god..."

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