Just College

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Hyunjin picked up his phone and bag, ready to leave the room for his morning classes. He looked at the heap of blankets on the first bed close to the wall. "Hyung, make sure to have breakfast", he said. He got no reply. He sighed, leaving the room.

Since he returned from that party on Saturday, he has not eaten nor spoken to any of them. He did leave for that party as a broken person but he returned as more than a broken man.

As Hyunjin walked downstairs, he couldn't help but wonder if he was going to see something like that again. He didn't want to. Seeing Minho that way, was scaring the shit out of him. He couldn't go through that ever again.

"You are late"

Hyunjin looked at his friends. The fourth year students have an early morning class on Korean history today. Hyunjin isn't an early person.

"Are you going to apologise or something?", Jisung dramatically threw down his hands.

Hyunjin shook his head. He looked at Seungmin. Hyunjin hopes that the boy isn't really attached to Daya. Minho became attached, very attached, to Nayeon and that was the reason he looking like death. He didn't want another person so close to him, to look like that.

"What is it?", Seungmin asked in suspicion. He wasn't liking that stare.

"You are keeping the line, aren't you?", Hyunjin asked.

"What line?", Seungmin asked back, very confused.

"That imaginary line you should not cross with Jeong Daya", Hyunjin emphasised on the not.

Seungmin rolled his eyes. "What?. Is Minho hyung still out of it?"

"Very. You have no idea", Hyunjin murmured. His day was about to become bad.

"He will come around", his younger brother said. He glanced at Minho's dorm building. "It's Minho hyung, after all"

"Felix, you haven't seen him", Hyunjin argued. "He is... he is... different okay?. This is so much more and worse. I have never seen anyone like that before", he looked at Seungmin again. "If you end up like that, I'm going to kill you"

"Wow. I'm scared", Seungmin shuddered, jamming his hands into his hoodie's pockets and walking off. Felix patted Hyunjin's back, running after the boy.

Jisung who had been silent, stared at the retreating two. "Wasn't that my worry?", he asked. "But you guys thought I was hating on Daya or something. I heard Nayeon noona isn't any different from that baby in there", he jerked a thumb at the boy's dorm.

Hyunjin hummed. "So I heard. Do you think Seungmin will be that way too?", said boy had walked past the dorms gates.

"Probably not. He is the devil himself, is he not?", Jisung joked.

Hyunjin turned to him. "How sure are you that he is still the devil?"

"What do you mean?", Jisung asked with round eyes.

"He plays all soft with Daya now. Since we came back for autumn semester, he has treated her differently. He gets excited to be with her. He even holds hands with her during those dark themed classes", Hyunjin had seen them a lot of times. "He gets less than 4 hours of sleep, helping her study and shit. He even came to the disciplinary office with us. That was a risky move"

"Why have you kept quiet all these while?", Jisung asked. He was the only one voicing out his displeasure.

Hyunjin looked towards the gates. "I am going after Daya's roommate, I can't afford to drag her. Yet", and he was walking away.