School Afternoons [HyungWonho]

Chapter 4 - Back in Gwangju

Hyungwon woke up when he heard the bell ring and felt a hand thrust his shoulder forward.

And it wasn't just a casual nudge on the shoulder, it was a great shove. Like, an almost-nearly-popped-his-shoulder kind of shove.

Hyungwon was about to confront the guy who shoved him until a head popped up from his peripheral vision. A head with raven-colored hair and sparkly, dark eyes of the same color were soon right in front of Hyungwon.

Hyungwon's sleep-deprivedness just might have recognized it was indeed Minhyuk in front of him, but his eyesight was blurry enough to suggest it was some other Korean boy he'd meet later at this school. Maybe if he would wake up later at a decent time he would figure out-

"ANNYOUNG, HYUNGWONIE!~"

Oh, that was probably Minhyuk.

Hyungwon saw the head from back up from where it came from, his eyesight following where it was going. Eventually, Hyungwon's back was nearly sideways, his head looking up at Minhyuk and Minhyuk looking straight back down at him. He was about to ask him what he was doing and why he was here, but then Minhyuk greeted him with a slightly-aggressive noogie.

"Sleepy Hyung~, it's lunch," Minhyuk said, ruffling Hyungwon's hair back and forth, "did you eat something yet?"

"Uugh," Hyungwon replied, sitting up a bit not to strain his neck and back too much. Minhyuk moved closer in response to support Hyungwon's tall weight, still noogie-ing Hyungwon's head.

"Ah, Minhyuk!" Hyungwon yelled, pushing the dark-haired boy's arms out of his personal space. "You're fine, but... you're... touching my head a little bit too hard. I just woke up..."

Minhyuk blushed, letting his arms fall down to his sides. "Oops! I'm sorry!" Minhyuk said in response, while sitting down next to Hyungwon... on a bench?

Hyungwon looked around to actually take his surroundings in. There was a lot of students here, sitting down, standing up, walking, everywhere Hyungwon looked. They all had trays and cloth boxes filled with... food? Hyungwon's vision was still a bit blurry.

"Hyungwon?" Minhyuk uttered, placing his fingers under Hyungwon's chin, turning it slightly so that the two would make eye contact.

Hyungwon blushed at the sudden fragileness of Minhyuk's touch, not to mention the slight concern, with a slight smirk, on the dark-haired boy's face. The realization of where they were and what everyone was doing finally hit Hyungwon, the pain from Minhyuk's knuckles before suddenly becoming a little more apparent.

"You said it was lunch time?"

Minhyuk's smile grew wide. "Correct! I don't know what you did before you started sleeping, but I was walking through the hallways and saw you napping on this table!" Hyungwon decided Minhyuk maybe was a little too happy about finding Hyungwon vulnerable, but then the concern originally on Minhyuk's face from before returned.

"You didn't answer my question yet, though," Minhyuk said, his head tilting a bit to the right, his hair following with a slight motion.

"Oh... right," Hyungwon replied, scratching the back of his head. "I guess I didn't... since I was sleeping."

Minhyuk got up and tugged Hyungwon's arm for him to follow suit. "Let's get some lunch then! As long as you have money on your account, you should be fine!"

"Money?" Hyungwon asked. "...In my account?" He turned toward the raven-haired boy.

"Aish~, I'll just give you some of my lunch then," Minhyuk exasperatedly said, tugging Hyungwon a little bit more to pick up their speed. "Pork barbeque with rice is fine, right?"