EXO STORIES

Be my valentine? {LayHan}

It's Valentine's Day. The day when everyone shares gifts and feelings with their loved ones. Luhan arrives at school only to find many roses on his desk. The thing is, he goes to an all-boys school.

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"Morning" Jumnyeon grinned, greeting an exhausted Luhan. The male sat down and sighed. 

It was Monday morning, the worst day of the week, and Luhan just happened to stay up late the day before, resulting in him being tired the entire morning. He yawned and rubbed his eyes, ignoring a playful Jumnyeon who tried to get his attention.

"I can't believe you still haven't noticed it, are you that tired?" 

Luhan sighed and finally turned to the male. "Noticed what?" 

Jumnyeon pointed to Luhan's desk and the male's eyes followed. There were a bunch of roses lying on his table. "It seems like you got a lot today. They were just done distributing the last roses."

Luhan looked confused at the flowers. "What? Who are these from?" Jumnyeon facepalmed and sighed, "It's Valentine's Day, idiot. People could buy and send roses to each other remember? These are yours."

Luhan eyed the roses as he progressed the information, turning wide-eyed. "What the...there are so many roses!" The younger smiled and leaned back, "You seem to have a lot of people crushing on you. But not everyone is dumb enough to write their names."

Jumnyeon grabbed and twirled one of Luhan's roses, "Well, except for this guy, he was stupid enough to put his name on the nametag. Seems like you can track one of your crushes." Luhan looked closer and read the nametag. It was written in Chinese and that was probably the reason why Jumnyeon eyed him expectantly. "Well, who is it?"

The older smiled and leaned back. "Not telling~" Jumnyeon pouted, tugging Luhan's sleeve. "Lu, don't be so mean. I wanna know who the bold admirer is. Maybe I know him and I can help."

 Luhan considered the offer. Should he tell the name or not?

He shook his head, if he wanted to meet his secret admirer, it would be better to go on his own. He rejected Jumnyeon's offer and turned back to pay attention to class while ignoring a whining younger. Eventually, the class ended and Luhan quickly rushed out of the room to avoid Jumnyeon from following.

He halted in the stairwell and took the rose out again. "Yixing huh?" The name sounded familiar but he couldn't quite place it why. Maybe he used to share classes with this person, or he's one of the many people he tutored. Luhan sighed heavily, this was getting nowhere

Just as he rounded the corner, he bumped into someone, causing the person to drop what they were holding, papers spreading across the floor. Luhan immediately crouched down to gather the sheets, as did the person he bumped into, resulting in both of them accidentally bumping their heads against each other.

Luhan rubbed his head and groaned, finally opening his eyes to take in the person in front of him. The rather handsome male held the same painful expression as him, looking rather familiar. Luhan bowed, smiling sheepishly as he helped gather all the papers. Once they stood up, he handed the pile over and apologized. The person shook his head and smiled, dimples showing. "It's fine, I should've looked out so it's my fault as well."

"But really, I should've seen you coming," Luhan said as he quickly glanced over the male. His name was on the tip of his tongue but he just couldn't seem to grasp it. Might as well make the first move then.

"My name's Luhan, sorry again, I was just busy thinking." 

The male chuckled and had a slight blush that Luhan failed to notice, "It's really okay, my name is Yixing. I was on my way to bring these to the student council." He referred to the stacks in his hands and seemed to have trouble carrying the heavyweight. 

Luhan, being such a gentleman, offered to help. "I have nothing else to do so I can carry a part, see it as a way of making it up to you." Yixing protested at first but eventually obeyed, handing Luhan half of the papers.

The duo headed to the room; Luhan following closely behind Yixing. So this was the guy who sent the roses for Valentine. Luhan took another close look, the smaller male didn't seem nervous that much but he sure was cute.

They soon entered their designated room and Yixing immediately headed to the desk to put down the papers. Luhan proceeded to do the same and as he did so his arm brushed Yixing's. It wasn't anything but it seemed to have made a shiver run down Yixing's spine. The male blushed and stepped away to create a space between them, bumping the stack of papers as he did so. It caused the pile to drop to the floor, sheets spreading everywhere.

The two silently made eye contact before grins started to appear on their faces. "Again, seriously?" Luhan chuckled. Yixing bumped the male's arm, "Last time was your fault!"

"Alright, alright" The older male crouched down and the younger followed, the two reorganizing the papers for the second time that day. As they did so, Luhan figured it was the perfect time to ask about the delivery on his desk this morning. Since no one was around besides the two of them, he could easily start the conversation.

"Yixing?" He softly called out the male's name. The younger hummed and curiously looked at the other. Somehow this made Luhan's cheeks heat up and he couldn't quite place why, probably because of the question he asked next. "Did you place the roses on my desk this morning?"

Yixing seemed to slowly process the words, eyes widening noticeably. He caught on quickly to what the other meant. However, it made Luhan back out, thinking he asked the wrong question to the wrong person. "You- you know, I could be wrong as well. It was stupid to ask, it probably had nothing to do with you-."

"It did.." Luhan looked back at the younger who was brushing brightly, "I.. put the roses on your desk." 

The older seemed confused, he still didn't know who this other person was and yet he was capable of making him fall for him. As if he read his mind Yixing started talking further. "I don't know when I started liking you but it has been like that for a long time..."

He shyly looked down at the papers in his hands, "I didn't know how to express it and was so afraid to do it, so I bought the nicest roses there were and laid them on your desk.." Yixing seemed embarrassed and about to explode with how red he looked. He felt like he wanted the ground to suck him up so he could avoid having this conversation with his crush. Then again he brought this onto himself.

While he was having his internal breakdown, Luhan chuckled, catching his attention. "You know it's fine right?" Yixing stammered, "W-what?" He felt his hand being grabbed and looked up, eyes locking with the other's. "You're lucky you're cute." Luhan seemed to be teasing and it worked, he had Yixing flustered right away. The older however became serious soon, "It's fine to have these kinds of feelings for a guy, who should care anyways?"

Luhan continued, "If I'm honest, I like guys too." Yixing looked surprised, this became too much for him to process. "And i don't want to be rude saying this, that I feel like we don't know each other too well to start dating right away."

Yixing looked disappointed and he felt like his heart was starting to break apart until Luhan finished what he was saying. "But if you don't mind, I'd like to take you out once."

Luhan winked, "Like I said, you're cute, and it'd be a waste if we didn't try at all to get to know each other.

Yixing was perplexed, lips softly opening. "Only cute?" Luhan corrected himself, "And funny to talk with, I liked being with you."

Luhan smiled as he saw the younger was satisfied with what he said, "So what do you say we give it a go?"

Yixing almost giggled like a girl as he squeezed the male's hands, "Yes! Duh, it's yes, I sent the roses after all."

The two laughed, certain this wouldn't be their last meaning.