Felix is a... Genius?

Inciting Incident

Felix trudges down the sidewalk hoping to get to his own house as fast as he can without making himself feel any grosser than he already does, grumbling to himself all the while. It wasn't his fault that he forgot that the coke was still shaken up from Chan chucking at his head! And would it have killed him to a least give a warning or something? Now Felix's fifth and a half favourite T-shirt had been drenched in the sugary soda and his semi-expensive foundation got washed off when he tried to get the syrupy residue off his face! At this moment, Felix felt like some type of gross freckled gremlin as he made his way down the street, but luckily he didn't have to bear the sticky feeling for too much longer as he and Chan lived only a couple blocks away from one another.

Felix continued to grumble to himself as he walked while an almost tangible aura hung around him that seemed to scream "don't talk to me".

Meanwhile, the boy walking towards Felix from the opposite direction was lost and... also didn't really give a damn.

He had received multiple cryptic text messages from his supposed new friend, directing him to his house so that they could work on a project for college together, yet none of those messages seemed to remotely help the lost boy in locating the foreign building. 

"Hey you!" he called from a distance, waving at the yet-to-be-made unsticky Felix who, after glancing up at the figure only narrowed his eyes and cursed his luck. Why did some stranger have to come up and talk to him now of all times, when he looked like a piece of trash that just got pulled out of the storm drain? Why doesn't anyone approach Felix on the days that he looks hecka bomb or handsome as hell?

He wished that he could yeet himself out a window, although unfortunately, there were no windows in sight and he was already on the ground. He considered ignoring him, but it seemed like there was a slim chance of that happening as the other boy is still trying to get his attention. 

Felix braces himself and slaps the brightest, fakest smile to his face as he comes face to face with the stranger. A stranger with a very intriguing face, Felix doesn't hesitate to note. 

"How can I help you?" asks Felix with as little sass as he can muster.

"I'm just looking for this address," says the boy, showing Felix his phone, "Can you point me in the right direction?"

"Sure just keep straight like how you're doing and then take a right at the end of the block. It's the house on the corner."

"Thanks."

And that was the end of that, thank god. Now Felix can finally get home to change and shower.

Even though something about that interaction tugs at the back of his mind, except Felix ignores it wanting to head home more than ever.

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In the shower the nagging thought about the stranger resurfaces, hitting Felix suddenly and without warning. "WAIT! THAT WAS CHAN-HYUNG'S ADDRESS!" 

And in his shock Felix proceeds to step on the bar of soap that he dropped, slipping and falling in a terrifying cartoonish visual that was far too real.

Ouch... that is going to leave a mark.

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Later that day, Felix is upstairs in his bedroom currently working on his part-time job when Seungmin calls him out of the blue. Felix answers holding the phone using his shoulder leaving his two hands free to continue typing on his laptop.