Sunghoon || Enemies to Lovers

XO (Only If You Say Yes)

"You are literally the most annoying thing. Why would I break it? Seriously!" Sunghoon bent down and picked up the box of Law textbooks Melony left for him by the door of her dorm room. He grunted while he did it, giving me the sense that he was about to drop the box. Melony and I were on bursaries funded by the university and couldn't afford to waste our stipends replacing damaged textbooks. I couldn't say the same for him. 

Sunghoon didn't know what the back of his fridge looked like. He didn't know the scent of discounted perfume or the feeling of secondhand clothes. He probably didn't even have a grocery budget for the month. He looked like the person who added whatever he felt like having that month in his grocery trolley. It's disgusting. 

I placed my hands at the bottom of the box and supported it where his hands couldn't reach. "If you let these fall, Sunghoon. I swear to God..."

"Will you stop threatening the man so that he can actually do what he's here to do?" Melony scolded me, sitting on her bed. The bed sheets had been pulled off and stuffed into a box somewhere so she was just sitting on the bare mattress. She had one of her pillows laid across her lap. She tossed her expresso braids over her shoulder, the fine strands whipping aginst the still air in the room. "The day is almost over."

"He was literally about to drop the box. For like the second time! I don't know about you, but the school doesn't pay me enough to replace textbooks," I argued.

She nodded. "That's true."

"I can just replace them," Sunghoon said. 

I looked at him over the edge of the box. "Then why break them in the first place? You can't solve all of your fuck ups with your money."

"Who says he can't?"

My head whipped to Melony. "Literally, whose side are you on?"

"The thing is: I'm not choosing any sides. I've never seen you like this before. It's very entertaining. He doesn't even need to say anything and you're already fuming. Like, it's giving anger issues," she said.

"I don't have anger issues!"

"I mean..." Sunghoon began saying. 

"You're not allowed to speak."

"But-"

"She's right. You were sentenced to moving my boxes out of my room, Mr. Park," Melony said, adding fuel to the fire. The raging fire that I was going to light under his ass every time he tried talking back to me. I was older than him by like four months and I'll use every opportunity to remind him of it. It's the only thing that I could hold over his head at this point. 

I hated to admit it, but he was better than me at everything. It was the most annoying thing. When we were trying out for figure skating as kids, I almost broke my face twice and he had to help me off the ice. I started my lessons a month before his and still hadn't gotten the hang of it. Then he waltzes into the lesson with a pair of brand-new skates and impresses all of the instructors. How did the skates not absolutely destroy his feet? God, he was the most insufferable person I knew. 

This was my domain. And I was going to put him in his place when I saw fit. Sunghoon's face darkened the same way it did when we were in the hallway. I had a feeling he wasn't going to be able to maintain his composer this time around. How far could I push him before he cracked? In all of the years that I had known him, he had never lost it around me before. It was something about him that I admire but envied all the same. 

He was very good at getting a reaction out of me and hardly reacted to me when I fussed with him. He was just really mean and insufferable. Most of the time.