Incomplete Thoughts

1. Ten Minutes

Pairing: Seulkai [Seulgi and Jongin]

Concept: College!Au

[Completed]

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There she goes in all her glory.

He spots her in a millisecond as if he had been waiting for her all night. Well, to be fair he hadbeen looking at the door for quite a while even before she stepped in, wondering when he would finally get to go back home. This party was boring and he wished he hadn't come. If he could, Jongin would have stayed home to finish another novel for his next Monday lecture. Yes, he was a nerd and no, he couldn't let others know now that he was considered the Itboy.

He doesn't know how that happened but when college started, people started flocking around Sehun naturally because of his handsome looks but the boy was so not interested that he just as smoothly rejected his "fans" and possible friends by refusing to do the bare minimum to keep up the conversation whenever they talked to him. "They're superficial, I don't need fake people around me," he said to Jongin. Who didn't know that Sehun was all about loyalty anyway?

Eventually, the same people who went to Sehun for self-gratification by hanging out with good looking people went to him and being the sweetheart and polite young introverted and handsome nerd he was, Jongin simply couldn't find the resolution to be rudeto them.

Being the "It" boy brought more than just fame and many friends. It gave Jongin responsibilities and headaches. It meant to pretend to enjoy having an eventful social life, to act like you cared more than you really did about other people's life and more than anything, being fun to be around all the time, whatever that what supposed to be. Thankfully for him, Jongin didn't have to try to be funny or to make girls swoon. It was natural.

Whatever. Nobody cared about how he got his popularity, he was popular that's it. Onto more important things: her.

So there she was in all glory fully dressed in black, standing by the door frame with a bored expression and her arms crossed on her chest while looking around to witness the mess that was this welcoming party. Same, he thought. Jongin finally decided to go for it. He made his way to her, slowly but surely as he was mentally preparing himself for the usual self-embarrassment and self-destruction that was about to take place in 3, 2, 1...

"Hey," he said to get her attention with a slightly awkward wave.

It was as awkward as it could be and Jongin could feel it all the way to his bones.

She turned around to face him slowly, almost languorously before breaking into a soft smile. This same smile turned into a smirk and then became a smug. There it is, the mocking.

"Hey," she said back on a light and friendly tone. He wasn't about to be fooled, he knew better.

"Still in that emo phase I see."

"Still a bitch I see." Her smile faded.

They stayed there glaring at each other for a while before she sighed and unfolded her arms to let them fall helplessly beside her. The walls were down. The field is clear.

"You look beautiful," Jongin said before he could notice his slip. He probably hesitated a bit to say it but did it anyway because she was just so stunning.

"You don't look too bad yourself, 'It' boy."

It was always like that with them. There was this strange zone where friendship and enmity coexisted that allowed them to tease each other constantly. That's what happens when one of your closest friends becomes your ex.