School Afternoons [HyungWonho]

Chapter 3 - Discovery

Hyungwon, for once, finally felt comfortable.

Jooheon was here, Jooheon's friends were here, the teacher seemed nice, and best of all...

Hyungwon easily understood all of the algebra.

The algebra class now was currently working on a review for their second unit, and that review in turn would help them study for their second unit's test. Hyungwon's dad, a math teacher, had previously tutor his son in mathematics higher than his grade level, nurturing Hyungwon that his tutoring would come to use someday.

For this very moment, Hyungwon thought, his dad's vigorous tutoring had finally come to use.

They were also working on a unit review regardless, so as long as Hyungwon was caught up enough with this American school's curriculum, his grade wouldn't be majorly skewed when compared to his classmates.

Mr. Ganley was nice enough to let Hyungwon sit where ever he wanted, so off he went as fast as humanly possible to Jooheon's group.

When he arrived at the table, he heard and saw Jooheon and Minhyuk... pretending to play woodwind instruments?

It was surprisingly well-kept in terms of rhythm and sound (for non-existent instruments, of course), but as Hyungwon could see from Changkyun's resistance to the noises coming right across from him, those two must have done it so loud very often.

Minhyuk noticed the presence of Hyungwon immediately, and quickly ceased his imaginary music playing. "Hi again!" Minhyuk said, beaming a giant smile. He suddenly snorted while briefly glancing at Jooheon, and then proceeded to guess at Hyungwon's name.

"H-Hyunwoo, right?" Minhyuk questioned, while Jooheon snorted in the most extravagant possible way that Hyungwon had ever seen. "Minhyuk," Jooheon started to say, "Hyungwon's not buff enough to be Hyunwoo!" They continued to giggle and snort even more, even hitting their fist on the table a bit. However, the table behind where Jooheon was sitting glanced back at them, nearly burning into their flesh with anger. The two quickly went silent.

"Gosh," Changkyun started, catching everyone off guard from the consistent silence he had participated in for the first fifteen minutes of class. "Is this what band does to people?" Changkyun asked again, looking towards the two for their response. Hyungwon thought that he seemed like he was joking, but also not joking at the same time.

Hyungwon sat down in the rolly chair that he carried along with him from the front of the class. He was utterly confused in the conversation, but he hoped that him actually joining the conversation would hopefully get them to explain.

Minhyuk straightened up his back, pride seemingly emitting from his body. "Well, I guess when you blow into your instrument that much, you gain a ton of hot air over the course of the school year," he said smoothly, while Jooheon again snorted and giggled, seemingly quieter this time.

The small boy rolled his eyes, and turned his attention to Hyungwon. "I'm sorry," Changkyun said, "They talk about band all the time. Like, 99 percent of class."

Band, Hyungwon thought. Like, marching band?

Jooheon stopped giggling finally, and proceeded to turn to Hyungwon as well, with Minhyuk following quickly behind. Jooheon face was filled with some surprise, and Hyungwon saw, maybe a bit of embarrassment?

"Sorry, Hyung!" Jooheon said with some exasperation. "I didn't mean to geek out as much as this nerd over here." The red-head jabbed his thumb at his black-haired band sidekick, while Changkyun proceeded to roll his eyes even more. Hyungwon could feel the sigh the small boy wanted to produce so much.