cynical | soonhoon

08 || well it is free real estate

jihoon mentally facepalmed himself. when soonyoung had barged in on him playing and singing, he felt embarrassed and left the room quickly. he tended to show up to school early just so he could have the music room to himself, but that was ruined when soonyoung came crashing into the room and started blabbing about his singing.

jihoon's mistake was that he had left his music behind. when he went back later, it was missing. the only person who could have taken it would be soonyoung, jihoon assumed, because he couldn't bring himself to ask the music teacher.

he had planned to ask soonyoung for it back during his english class, but of course soonyoung had come so late to class that he had no time at all to ask for his sheet music back. soonyoung left the room quickly as well, leaving behind a flyer for the stupid club he asked jihoon to join.

that's where jihoon was now. or where he would be if he didn't feel anxious about entering the room that filled the school-like atmosphere with music and voices. he had tried to convince himself to enter the room, but he gave up.

he was about to leave, thinking about whether or not he would be able to rewrite the entire composition, when the door opened and he saw the blonde student leave the room.

"oh you came!" soonyoung spotted jihoon before he could retreat behind a wall to hide from the energetic student. he smiled warmly at jihoon, who only grumbled at soonyoung. "because you stole my music."

"well I didn't take it, you left it behind. it was free real estate after that." soonyoung shrugged which only infuriated jihoon. it wouldn't have been hard at all for soonyoung to hand the sheet music back to jihoon during class.

instead though, soonyoung had jihoon wrapped around his finger because it blonde student knew he had something jihoon wanted. this was exactly why jihoon stayed away from people; they just took advantage of him in ways like this, by stealing his things to get him to do things he didn't want to (oddly specific jihoon, but sure pop off).

jihoon didn't know what to say to soonyoung, mostly because he was too angry to speak calmy to the blonde student. he only glared while soonyoung looked back at him, confused by jihoon's facial expression.

soonyoung then put two and two together (or 1 + 1, depends on who you're with) and made the conclusion that jihoon seemed bothered because he didn't have his sheet music.

the only way jihoon was getting his composition back was if he stepped into the club room and got it back himself, and jihoon seemed to figure that one out because of how soonyoung smiled at him mischeviously while opening the door for jihoon to pass by. "what are you waiting for? come on in already grumpy pants!"

unfortunately for jihoon, it wasn't going to be as easy as popping in to grab the sheet music and dipping before anyone noticed he was there.

and the high school student realized that when he entered the room and discovered that all the club members' eyes were focused on him.

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heavily edited on 08/13/20