My I「Junhao」

1.7

SAY THE NAME

A few people at our school who knew about the competition had come up to us during the break hours and congratulated us on progressing to the next round and it was refreshing, having people actually talk to us rather than avoiding our loud, diverse group like we had the plague.

"HANNIE, MY SWEET SUMMER CHILD!" I heard a familiar voice that didn't belong to our group shout from the entry to the cafeteria and covered my mouth to stifle my laughter as Jeonghan's eyes widened almost in fear. Minghao frowned in confusion and turned to me but I just shook my head and told him to wait.

Jeonghan shrunk into himself slightly and a body barrelled into him, effectively throwing the both of them to the ground. "Oi! Choi Minki I'd appreciate it if you didn't break my boyfriend." Seungcheol complained. I stood up and looked over the table to see exactly what I thought was happening. A boy who had tackled Jeonghan to the ground also had relatively long hair and was kissing him all over the face - everywhere but his lips, knowing that if he did that, Seungcheol would probably kill him depending on his mood - and Jeonghan was laughing uncontrollably because of it. I momentarily looked over at Minghao and he side eyed me with a confused look and I laughed at his confusion.

The boy looked up with a big grin on his face and when he saw me looking at the two of them, the grin seemed to widen. "Huihui! My ray of sun." My eyes widened and I backed away slightly as he stood and went for me. "Hyung no!" I cried and the boy ignored me and wrapped his arms around me in a tight hug, kissing me on my cheeks and forehead. "Ooh who's this?" He asked and I knew he was talking about Minghao. I struggled against his death grip for a bit longer before I managed to free myself and stood by Minghao, who looked vaguely terrified. "Hyung, this is Xu Minghao, my best friend. Xiao Hao this hyung is Choi Minki. He's Jeonghannie-hyung's childhood friend. They're practically twins."

"Well, its nice to meet you, Minghao, but I need to go." The way he said his name was strange so I cringed and covered his mouth. "Please hyung, until you get used to saying his name just call him Myungho, that's his Korean name and it sounds similar enough." Minki nodded in understanding and grinned, "Hello and goodbye Cheol-ah, Jisoo, Muellie and Chan! I must go now! Oh! I almost forgot! Congratulations to you all for moving on in the competition." And just like that, he was gone again.

"What the heck just happened?" Minghao asked, "You know what I don't want to know. I'll be back." He pushed his chair back under the table and put his bag on it, leaving while shaking his head with a slight smile. "Minki-hyung is such a strange person." Chan muttered. "Hey, do any of you know if Jihoon and Soonyoung hyungs are in the music room that Jihoon-hyung has been recording in?" He added and I shrugged whilst sitting back down in my seat.

There was a moment where I shuddered suddenly in unease because I felt that something was about to happen and I looked at the time on my phone and saw that Minghao had been gone for about five minutes now. Ironically enough, shortly after I put my phone back down I felt it start to vibrate, moments before Minghao's personalised ringtone started playing — It was from when Minghao and myself were dating still, it was of Minghao singing our favourite love song and I never had the heart to change it. — "What's up Xiao HaoHao?" I asked.

"I have a feeling something is about to happen and I want you to watch over whatever happens. Can you bring my bag and come to me? I'm near the bathrooms in the year 10 dominated area." I nodded, then remembered he couldn't hear me. "Okay, I'll be there soon Xiao Hao."

(Over 1100 words and I haven't reached the action of this chapter lmao)

I stood up and picked up Minghao's bag after slinging mine over my shoulder. "Hey, Minghao asked me to go to him so I'm leaving now. I'll talk to you all later." I bowed slightly and left towards where Minghao said he was.

"Hey Xiao." I greeted when I saw him. He smiled at me when he noticed that I had joined him. "Don't move from where you are Gēge. Whatever is about to happen, I can deal with it and I only want you to step in if it looks like the odds are not in my favour." I nodded in understanding and stopped, stepping back around the corner, thankfully being able to see what was happening. Seconds later, a group of people approached him. All of them looked like sketchy people and majority of them had cruel looking smirks on their faces.

I'd heard of these boys, they always tried to intimidate boys who had joined the tenth grade to either join them or get out of the school. Key word being tried. They really weren't intimidating enough to scare someone off and they certainly wouldn't intimidate Minghao (who had heard about them from Chan, who'd witnessed them trying to intimidate someone and told us that he was trying not to laugh because the leader got kneed in the stomach by the new kid). I knew that they had been waiting for Minghao to return to school to use their initiation method on him.

They surrounded him and the leader of them started speaking. "What do we have here? A new kid? We have someone new to initiate, boys. This is our school and we don't like new people coming in." I tried not to laugh out loud because of all of the lies that were coming out of the boys mouth, but I was definitely struggling.

Minghao, much like I would, decided to improvise and I saw him slip into a facade of mock confusion. I knew exactly what he was planning at this point. He was making use of the acting skills I had taught him. I know I had made an assumption as to what he was going to do, but when he spoke in Mandarin in response and started cursing out the boys, I had to bite the inside of my mouth to stop laughing.

"Oi are you dumb? Why are you here if you can't even speak Korean. Go back to China you fucking fag." Minghao didn't even flinch and instead continued cursing at him, smoothly transitioning from Mandarin curses to long sentences in Korean. The look on the faces of the boys was hilarious and I couldn't stop myself from barking out a laugh.

"Oi! Who's there?" I stepped out from behind the wall and almost laughed harder at the look of betrayal on his face. "Gēge, I said don't step in!" I bit my bottom lip, trying to control myself.

"I was just laughing Xiao Hao. I'm not going to do anything." The leader narrowed his eyes. "You're a Chinese fag as well, are you?" I rose an eyebrow at him and barely moved my eyes to look between an amused Minghao and an irritated group that probably calls themselves a gang unironically.

"We're gonna beat up this kid and we'll make you watch us do it." I bit my lip again, my laughter bubbling up. "Why are you laughing, asshole? Do you not care that this kid is about to get beat up?" I called out to Minghao again.

"Xiao Hao! Make them regret trying to pick on you, who is a national champion at wushu." Minghao rolled his eyes at me. "I was champion when I was eight shut the fuck up." I laughed at him. "But they don't know that~!" I singsonged and he laughed slightly at that.

Minghao managed to get all of them on the floor and writhing in pain within a few minutes, leaving no evidence of him hurting them, and I didn't even have to move. "That, boys, is why you don't mess with us. I'm surprised you don't know who we are. We're only part of the most well known group of boys in this school." The leader looked up at Minghao and myself. My arm casually and naturally slung around Minghao's waist while he crossed his arms, looking down at them. "Who do you- You are part of Choi Seungcheol-sunbae's group." I smirked at him.

"We certainly are. Don't mess with us or you'll come to regret it." I called out and left with Minghao. Once we were out of the hearing range and line of sight of the group, we almost keeled over because of how hard we started laughing. "Don't mess with us or you'll come to regret it." Minghao mocked me, tears in his eyes. "Don't mess with me or I'll make you regret it." I retorted and waggled my eyebrows, which caused a whole new wave of laughter to overtake Minghao. I looked at the boy who was laughing on the floor and felt warmth spread in my chest at the sight of him so happy.

Without realising it, I was starting to fall again, and I was falling fast.

IM SORRY IT TOOKSO LONG TO UPDATE I KEPT ON WRITING MORE (AGAIN) AND IT ENDED UP BEING ALMOST 1600 WORDS LONG TOTAL
ALSO MINKI IS FINALLY INCLUDED AS THE CHILDHOOD BEST FRIEND/PRETTY MUCH ADOPTED TWIN SIBLING OF JEONGHAN

OKAY BUT CAN WE TALK ABOUT LILILI YABBAY HOLY HELL I LIVE FOR THAT SONG