rainbow boy - minsung

this damn kid

After a long day of 20 million events it felt nice to yet again lay back down in bed. It was almost midnight which meant soon it would be the day that could change everything. God I was so scared for everyone's reactions.

Hopefully I'd still have friends by tomorrow...

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The next morning came so fast. As if I blinked last night and opened my eyes to the dawn peaking up at 5:30 in the morning.

School wouldn't start til 7 though, but i was definitely not a morning person. There have been several occasions where Kat had to get me up. Today wasn't one of them. I woke up to a terrible knot in my stomach .

It wouldn't go away until after breakfast. Minho knocked on the door around 6:40 to walk to school together as normal. The air was frigid and crisp. Way too cold for me. I was wearing a black button up fleece raincoat since I thought it would be nice to wear today. I mean. Why else.

My face felt locked in one position and burnt as we walked along the frosted concrete. It wasn't long til Minho stopped whatever he was babbling on about to notice. I wasn't paying attention to his words since I was so cold.

But this kid. THIS DAMN KID. HAD LIKE. 4 COATS ON. i wanted to like, steal all his coats. But I mean then he'd be cold.

"Hey, you ok Ji-

"NO. ITS COLD AS SHHHHHHH- NOT SAYING THAT RIGHT NOW." I hollered to him. He jump back in sudden shock.

"Why didn't you say anything?" He laughed. "Obviously it's cold out."

"Because I'm f-f-fine." I shivered to him. "We can see school from here so I'll b-b-be fine." I smiled to him weakly.

I could already tell he didn't believe me. Quickly he jumped in front of me and put his hands on both my shoulders.

"Stand still." He said. And my face wasn't cold anymore because my blushing cheeks heated quickly as expected. Did I bother to hide it? Nope. Not at all. I mean he'd learn about Emma and I today too so.

I saw Minho take off his scarf and wrap it around my neck first. That helped a lot. And shockingly quick too.

Next he took my hands together between his, which had soft black mittens on them, along with several string dangling from the fingers from the cats. He rubbed my hands between his for a couple seconds before putting them in my pockets.

"And finally." He took me into a super tight squeeze, making one of those noises when... people are tightly squeezed. I- I dunno how else to describe it.

"You better now?" He said laughing as he let go. Gasping to breath for a minute I replied. "Absolutely not but thank you anyways."

He could tell i was being sarcastic so we finished our walk to school right on time. Before we split ways to get to our lockers I don't know what told me to speak but i did.

"Hey, Minho. Just so you know. I think you give the best hugs." I smiled. I was honestly surprised when Minho turned a bit red and walked away.

He truly did like me didn't he? But how would he react with Emma and I... I hope he didn't care, too much.

I made my way through my first too classes before catching up with Woojin to go to math again.

"You look , different?" He stated. "What's up?"

"Uh-... you'll find out later. Not right now." I stated with a smile. I had to get through math first. Luckily today was a review for a test tomorrow so we just played computer games.

Woojin nodded respectfully and walked me to our side by side desks. We both pulled out our laptops and made silly names for the review. Mine was always just "Han 🐿 " and his was "mama bear 🐻".

We were the rather quiet people in class so no one cared about our names. Jocks focused on jocks. Popular kids didn't care. And those loud kids just tried to be the funniest.

but no one paid attention. I saw emma's name appear and forgot she was in this class. it was "eb15". a cute little thing she came up with recently. i knew her initials were the letters, and i assumed the 15 was her age but i guess id just ask later.

The review went by easily. Emma places second actually! And woojin got third. my dumbass clicked red not blue on the one and it dropped me to 18th.

But now it was time for lunch. The big moment. As the teacher was saying her final words for the class Emma looked over to me with a reassuring look and mouthed "it's ok."

She could easily sense the worry on my shoulders about doing this. I smiled bad shyly and rested my head on my desk. While the final few seconds til the bell passed.

I stood up and quickly rushed out before anyone could talk to me. I wanted to see Minho as quick as I could. The hall was less crowded today and I easily found Minho. He smiled and pointed out i was still wearing his scarf.

"Oh- yeah." I quickly rushed to take it off and hand it back, without trying to choke myself. But he just told me to keep it, said it looked nice on me. I thanked him and we headed to lunch.

We sat in our normal seats. But a new fave had joined us today. Seungmin moved over next to Hyunjin and Emma took his original spot. "Oh you're here already." I smiled. I didn't know she'd beat me that quickly.

I sat beside her and she put her hand out to take mine to start this whole acting thing. She was really that dedicated to the situation.

When Felix came back with Seungmin and their lunches Emma have a little "ahem" cough. Everyone's attention was on us. Woojins jaw just stayed opened cause he could tell what was coming.

"So... I just wanted to tell you guys something. That's why I'm here today." Emma started. Everyone nodded and looked around at each other. I saw Chan's gaze go to me with a small smiley look and wide eyes. He nodded to me as if knowing what was coming.

"Jisung and I are together."