The Badboy And The Nerd | ATEEZ

Chapter 3 : Only You

The next day slowly approached, it were all the same, except for the fact that San now had become friends with the school's Badboy.

It was still hard for him to believe and he were still insecure why he so suddenly would be friends with him. San didn't knew how to react when he sees Seonghwa at school, what if he approaches him again? what if he begins to talk to him? That were only some of the thoughts that went through his mind.

San were walking down the same path as yesterday, enjoying the weather and all the scents there were roaming around in the air. San felt so weird as he had to wear contacts after his glasses had gotten broken, he felt his face had gotten exposed after he lost his glasses.

He took a deep breath as he slowly approached the school. He looked around to see all the students looking weirdly at him as he normally were wearing his round glasses, but were bare faced. His beautiful visual never meant anything to the other students as they still saw him as the school's nerd and nothing more, except for one person who stand out from the crowd..

Seonghwa stood together with his gang, waiting for San to arrive. When he finally saw him walking silently towards the entrance of the school's building, he felt how his heart began to beat uncontrollably fast. He have been trying to calm himself down, but the shy, nerdy boy were the only one who were able to make him feel this way.

Suddenly an hand waved in front of him and he blinked a few times, before he turned his attention back to the boys there stood around him, looking at him with a confused gaze. Yunho tilted his head and raised an eyebrow as he stood in front of Seonghwa and spoke, "yo, what's wrong? I have been calling out for you, but you just fell into an doze.." he just shook his head, he couldn't tell the boys how he felt enchanted by the sight of San's presence.

"There is nothing wrong, come on let's go.." he tried to avoid any more questions and began to walk towards the entrance of the school, with the boys following him behind. They were all confused by his reaction, but just simply shook it off.

San were as usual, walking down the long hallway alone in his own company, when he suddenly passed by Jihoon and some of his friends there stood by their lockers. San quietly peeked up at them, seeing Jihoon's gloomy gaze as he let his gaze follow San as he passes by. He slightly opened his mouth to speak, "trash.." he silently mumbled as he looked at San, who immediately looked away from the group of boys.

The doors at the end of the hallway opened, revealing Seonghwa and his gang, San automatically looked back over his shoulder to get eye contact with Seonghwa. A smile appeared upon his plump lips as he looked at San, feeling how his body slowly began to heat up by the sight of the bare faced young boy, who stood pressed up against the lockers.
San's eyes followed Seonghwa as he passed by him, feeling how his heart skipped a single beat. He were unaware of Seonghwa's feelings, but mostly his own.

The days passed like this, San had noticed the change in Seonghwa's behavior whenever he runs into him on his way home, it was like if he were an complete different person when he stands in front of him. At some point, San really enjoyed the way that he showed his other self when they bump into each other.

A few weeks later, they have grown closer to each other, but still kept their friendship hidden from the others around them. They began to spend more time together after school and got to know more about each other, which also had bought them closer.

"Come, I have something I wants to show you.." Seonghwa said as he grabbed San's hand and dragged him with him. San silently just followed along without any questions to where he will lead him.

After a few minutes walking, Seonghwa finally stopped by an bridge there were connected to the park and forest ahead of them. The cherry blossoms were still blooming brightly, but the leaves began to fall one by one and floated away in the soft breeze there blew gently through the air.

"It's.. beautiful." San lowly said as he looked up at the cherry blossoms that he admired so much. Seonghwa chuckled at his reaction, but deep down felt an comfortable warmth spreading throughout his body as he looked at San, who just stood and let his eyes wander up to the sky, watching the flowers waving in the air, sending their leaves down to the ground.

San got startled as he felt Seonghwa's hand gently touching his hair, until he saw him holding an pink petal in between his fingers. San felt his cheeks slightly blushing as he looked down at the petal in Seonghwa's hand and then back up at him to let their eyes meet.

"Uhm.. thank you." He silently said as he didn't knew how to break the awkward silence between them. Seonghwa shook his head while he lets out a faint chuckle and blew the petal away, watching it floating away with the wind.
"You have no need to thank me, San.. you look cute no matter what may hit you.." he lowly spoke, making San widen his eyes at his words.

Seonghwa realized what he had just said and cleared his throat, but those words that he had just spoken were all the truth, it was all sincere, "I'm sorry.. I didn't meant to make you feel uncomfortable." He said, while looking down at the running water beneath them.

San sighed and shook his head, "it's okay.. you look handsome every day and every time we meets.." he spoke, making Seonghwa look shocked back up at him. San slightly looked down at his feets not daring to make eye contact with him as he felt embarrassed.

Without any hesitation, Seonghwa went to stand in front of San once again, he let his index finger slide down under his chin and slowly lifted up his head to make eye contact with him. His cheeks were turning faintly crimson as he looked into Seonghwa's dark brown eyes.
"Why? Why are you doing this?" San whispered as he were unable to look away from him. Seonghwa stood in silence, slowly leaning closer towards him and with only a few inches away from him, he whispered, "cuz you have enchanted me."

San felt how shivers ran down his spine by his low, seductive voice there spoke in an soft whisper.
He gulped hard as he felt Seonghwa's hot breath brushing over his skin, his sweet scent reached his nostrils, making him feel hot and unable to breathe normally.

Without any warning, Seonghwa lightly let his lips brush San's. Adrenaline ran through his body like an electrical shock. After Seonghwa took a step back and just let his hand rest upon San's hot cheek, he felt an loving and warm feeling grow inside him. Never did he ever thought that he would fall for the school's nerdy boy, but his innocence and caring soul had attracted him and he were unable to hold back those feelings he had been trying to avoid, but were just not strong enough to do so.

Seonghwa knew that if his feelings for San ever got revealed to the rest of the community around them, San would be bullied even more, not only by Jihoon, but many others as well, that is why Seonghwa needs to hide his feelings for San away from the people around them, including his gang members.

San gulped as he looked down, his expression changed, which made Seonghwa feeling nervous and worried, "what's wrong, San?" His voice were shaking as he were afraid that he might have crossed the line, that he might have done something that San didn't liked and that the love between them were only one sided, but..
"I like you, I really do and my feelings for you have grown a lot, but I just don't want to see you hurt if the rest of the students and your friends sees us or finds out." He said with an sympathetic voice.

Seonghwa shook his head and cupped his soft cheeks and made him look back up at him, "please, don't worry about me San, I'm strong enough to defend myself.. and to defend you, ONLY YOU."