Stares and Glances (Baekyeol)

Stares and Glances

     The cold breezes of December continued to blow, resulting to a so frigid beginning of a New Year. It's already January and winter holidays were over. For students, it wasn't a good sign for they had to go back to school again, facing heavy loads of tasks.

     Days passed by from the return to the school. Teachers were having continuous errands, students were having hard times looking for good outfits and facilitators were working on everything in double time. Almost everyone in Blackroad Academy were getting ready for the upcoming Juniors-Seniors Promenade or also known as JS Prom. Even the freshmen and the sophies were also involved, unfortunately shouldering partial of their teacher's work.

     Byun Baekhyun noticed it all. He's actually also one of the busy bodies that was in an uncertain area of emotion. He couldn't tell whether he's excited, bored, annoyed, nervous or whatever. He's a senior in the said academy which meant, it's already his last chance to be included in a high school promenade. Well, he's included since he's one of the busy bodies as mentioned earlier. What made him busy was something that he engaged just because of some sense of either responsibility or necessity.

     He felt he needed to join because of some kind of debt. His classmate, Taeyeon, was the main reason. Last year, they were linked together by their classmates who eventually happened to be the Hyunyeon shippers. It's also when their first prom took place in which Baekhyun forgot to invite Taeyeon to dance with him some good slow dance despite of his promise to do so. He was aware of Taeyeon's feelings for him but he just shut his mouth up since he wasn't in the place to take it to a higher level.

     "Guys? To those who will join the cotillion dance, just come to the school gym. We'll have our first practice there," announced by Baekhyun's classmate to the whole section in a messy classroom.

     Murmurs and whipers were heard afterwards. The whole room was filled with the buzzing sounds of the faint conversations and Baekhyun focused his ears in listening to different voices one after another. Most of what he heard was about the upcoming prom and the cotillion. The statements were like, "Will you join the prom?", "Do you already have a partner for cotillion?", "Who's your prom date?" and "What will you wear?"

     It let Baekhyun think of it. He's wondering if he would join the said cotillion dance. It would already be his second time if he would join and it made Baekhyun consider the pros and cons. He mentally listed all the possibilities and grouped each of which into its corresponding group. There was the fact that he'd be able to see his friends in the juniors and the enjoyment he'd get from the dance. There were many more such as the excuses from classes that he would get from scheduled practices and the fact that he would need to stick to the color coding of the attire. The pros and cons weighed equal but one thing did something like "Ting!" in his head.

     "If the juniors will be there in the prom, that means he will probably be there, too," he thought to himself as he remembered something.

     With no more hesitation, he finally came up to the decision of joining the cotillion. It could be his way to impress that mentioned "he" and the only plausible way to receive even just a short word of compliment from him. He knew deep inside his heart that he longed for him, he longed for his attention. That's why... That's why he would be joining. It's his seems-so-simple attempt of sating the longing inside him.

     "Baekhyun! Will you join the cotillion?," asked by Baekhyun's bestfriend, Yoona, that just popped out while the boy was leaning against the wall outside the room.

     "I'm still thinking of it," he lied. "Why so? Are you joining?," he added.

     "Yep. Joonmyeon is my partner again."