minty_pixie(ao3)
Kim Jongin, stressed-out student by day and fanfiction author by night, is here to give you two very helpful tips about college student life.
First : Let coffee become your best friend. Second : Don't accidentally sent your smut fic to your tutor. Except maybe if his name is Do Kyungsoo.
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For the eighth time since he sat down, Jongin checks his watch. 12:17am. It shouldn't be long now until the person he is waiting for arrives.
Next to him, Sehun gives him a knowing look.
"Shut up," he grumbles and munches on a chunk of pizza crust.
"I didn't say anything !" his friend smirks.
The boy shakes his head, but Jongin's eyes snaps to his right when the cafeteria's door opens.
Just as he predicted, Do Kyungsoo enters the room, cladded in black ripped skinny jean and a navy-blue leather jacket, combat boots thumping on the hard floor.
Jongin's gaze follows the boy as he strolls towards the far-right corner of the cafeteria.
Right, it's Wednesday.
And Wednesday means he will be spending lunch time with Byun Baekhyun, a Bio-Chem major in senior year and Kyungsoo's official best friend. Jongin heard they met when Kyungsoo entered high school and joined the official school's choir. Baekhyun was delighted to finally find someone talented he could perform duets with and both had been best friends since then. The Hot Duo as their girl classmates used to call them. Teenagers aren't that creative with nicknames, clearly.
But really, Jongin only knows this because he heard it. Not because he tried to know what the boys' relationship was after he noticed the amount of time they seemed to spend together.
Just like he absolutely hasn't made a mental list of who Kyungsoo eats lunch every day. Nope !
He just heard that on Mondays, he sits at the table near the cafeteria's entrance with the tall and goofy Park Chanyeol who studies Microbiology and his shorter version, Kim Jongdae, majoring in Sociology. On Tuesdays, at the table in the very center of the room, Kim Jongdae joins him again, with another guy named Im Hyunsik who apparently majors in Civil Engineering and has known Kyungsoo since elementary school. Just like Wednesdays, Thursdays' lunches are spent with Baekhyun, and they're joined every two weeks by Jung Eunji and Park Jiyeon, two juniors studying Linguistics. Once again, Baekhyun sits with Kyungsoo on Fridays and every now and then, History of Arts major Ahn Heeyeon come to eat with them.
Or so he heard. And he accidentally remembered.
"There's a rumor saying he's dating Kang Seulgi, from the Psychology department."
Jongin turns his head to look at Sehun, confused.
"Who ?"
"Do Kyungsoo. You know, your hot tutor. The one you spend your time staring at..."
"I don't stare !" Jongin pouts.
"Sure, you don't !" Sehun scoffs then throws a fry in his mouth, "You totally weren't drooling all over the table just now."
"I don't stare. And I don't drool. I was just thinking I need to ask him something about an assignment," he retorts, still subtly wiping his chin, just in case. His eyes give a quick look to the table Kyungsoo sits at, happily chatting with his best friend, "And what if he is dating her ? I don't care."
Sehun snorts.
"Yeah, right."
Alright, he may care a tiny bit. And he may have been staring.
Just a little.
Fine. Maybe more than that.
