What Can I Do

Chapter 1 ~Looking at you looking at someone else is painful

The middle of late May had the weather looking beautiful.

The strawberry blonde walking up the path towards the school building hardly noticed it as all his thoughts were taken with the notes in front of him, as he scrambled to study for the test that would commence in only a few hours.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the mute boy Dowoon hiking up the path as well, unfazed by the horde of girls following behind him. Jae tried not to get distracted by their commotion, focusing on his notes.

He cursed silently as he tried to memorize the definitions that were on his sheet.

"Yah! Chicken Little!" cried a teasing female voice that ran up the path next to the boy and hit him on the arm.

"Noona!" He whined, slightly smiling at her. "I told you not to call me that!"

"Can't help if you look like him with your glasses!" Haru laughed. Looking at his notes she said, "Oh! You're still studying? Teacher Kim is going to have your head for failing this test!"

"Help me then?" Jae asked.

She grabbed his notes saying, "How are you so good at English and so bad at Korean?"

"Hey! English comes naturally."

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Halfway across the school, two boys were also stressing over the same test. Well one boy was while the other was pretending to be.

"Hyung!" Wonpil cried, throwing his head into his arms. "I can't do this anymore. My head is going to explode."

Sungjin smiled but looked back at his notes because he knew Wonpil was only exaggerating. The boy was extremely intelligent and barely needed to study to pass a test because he listened diligently to the teacher, even if he denied it to his friend.

Unlike his best friend, Sungjin actually had to study if he wanted to pass the test, so he continued diligently reading his notes.

Wonpil peeked at Sungjin underneath his arms, studying him. They had been friends ever since the first year of high school and were scarcely separated. They were both generally quiet kids; Wonpil not knowing what to say and generally being awkwardly adorable, and Sungjin just being naturally obedient and quiet.

Sungjin didn't notice his friend looking at him as he was too focused on studying. Wonpil sighed under his breath, laying his arms comfortably on his arms, still scanning his eyes over his friend. He wondered if Sungjin would look up and see him staring at him, but Sungjin did not look up for the longest time, leaving him unaware of the eyes on him.

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Finally, in the classroom across the library, two boys sat, far across from each other, both uncaring of the commotion around them. Many students opted to come to class early instead of waiting in the halls, two of them being Dowoon and Brain. The former of the two surrounded by many of the classes' (and some of other classes') girls who crowded around him. The latter being surrounded by no one at all since the boy had an exact number of friends, which was 0. 

His cold and bad boy attitude kept everyone away. His piercings were violently against school policies and his uniform was always being worn sloppy and out of dress code. No one dared approach him thought, for his sarcastic attitude and snarky remarks drove people away, even if his good looks had attracted them at first.

Dowoon scarcely said anything at all (actually he had never said anything in front of his class mates, not even answering the teacher when called on) leading everyone to believe he was mute. To his gaggle of fangirls however, they believed that only made him more mysterious and alluring. His bright eyes and jet black hair were idol like to the group of girls obsessed with him. They surrounded him, trying to talk over each other to get his attention.