basketball ➸ lee eunsang

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haeyoung stared up at her ceiling blankly, thinking about what happened a few hours ago. why would eunsang just hug me out of nowhere? pfft, yeah i did need a hug, but out of all the people, why him? she thought.

who is the other person yiren likes? she then shook her head. no, i shouldn't be thinking of these things, she assured herself.

her head was filled with so much thoughts, she couldn't sleep. she was just tossing and turning the entire night. so much that the next day, she felt really drowsy.

haeyoung felt like her eyes were going to close in any second, but she just kept it open because she knew that she would get a punishment. she didn't want to stand up in the back of the class, arms raised for the rest of the period.

why is it that every time i have to sleep, i can't, but when i can't sleep i can? she thought the whole day.

lunch time came, and the three friends decided to sit on one of the benches outside.

"guys, wake me up when the warning bell rings." haeyoung said, resting her head on the armrest.

"why do you look so slee-" wonjin was about to ask, but haeyoung shushed him. the girl closed her eyes and tried to get some rest for at least their hour-long lunch.

after a couple minutes, a voice spoke. "oh! i finally found-" sua said, popping out from the exit of the school's main building, but got cut off.

"shhh!" the two boys said, interrupting her. she was confused at first, but then she saw haeyoung sleeping.

"oh, okay..." sua whispered. the bench could at least fit fivr people, so sua decided to take a seat beside dongpyo.

"where did you come from?" dongpyo asked.

"i was with eunsang, mingyu, and yiren at a table." sua said. she cringed as she thought of what happened.

"i couldn't stand yiren being so fake towards mingyu. i wasn't really sure if this statement was true, but now, i believe in this saying; love does really make you blind. i mean, that's the case for mingyu, i guess." she said.

"and what happened with eunsang?" wonjin asked.

"yeah... i left him there. he's probably gonna be running to us in like, a minute or so." sua said.

"almost the whole high school department knows about yiren noona and mingyu hyung's relationship." dongpyo said, looking at his phone.

"i mean, look at the sophomore year's group chat? it's full of messages about the two. one person even sent a screenshot of the junior year's group chat with mingyu and yiren saying that they're actually dating." dongpyo said.

"what's the big deal about it? they're treating the couple as if they're a celebrity couple or something." wonjin said, scoffing.

"they're basically the 'campus couple'. jeez, if i was in yiren's position i would be so uncomfortable." sua said. "i just realized that i sound like a fake friend because i'm talking behind yiren's back even though we're best friends. but i promise, i'm not. i'm just... stating my opinion."

"i understand. i did that when one of my friends started dating this girl." wonjin said, cringing as he remembered the details.

they continued chatting (and ranting), while all of the sudden, the three (awake ones) heard really loud, running footsteps coming from the exit where sua came from. they looked at one another, before saying in unison, "eunsang."

they were right. it was eunsang, running towards them with his red-colored hair sticking to his face because of sweat, panting. "gosh, eunsang. why are you so tired when the cafeteria is literally like, ten minutes away?" sua asked.

"hello?!" eunsang said. "i-"

"keep your voice down." dongpyo and wonjin said, interrupting eunsang.

"oh, sorry." he said as he noticed haeyoung's presence, fast asleep on the bench.

her head was now tilted back, and wasn't on the armrest anymore. since the bench's backrest is on shoulder level, her head was tilted back in a way that it looked uncomfortable because it was "hanging" over the backrest.

"anyway, how can i not be tired when you left me out of nowhere with two lovebirds doing cringeworthy stuff in the cafeteria that is like, really far away from here, and me running all around the campus with a lunch tray while also being careful not to spill it just so i can find you and eat lunch with you, hwang sua?!" eunsang blurted out in one breath, but also keeping his voice down.

"gosh, you could've eaten with sihun or your bnm (brand new music) squad." sua said.

eunsang took a breath, "they were busy." this girl is really getting on my nerves.

eunsang looked at haeyoung who was asleep, and decided to sit next to her. he started eating while chatting with the other three. haeyoung started moving which caught eunsang's attention.

from the position haeyoung was in, she sat up straight (still half-asleep), and tilted her head left and right to soothe her muscles. she must've been really uncomfortable sleeping in that position eunsang thought.

after stretching, haeyoung put her head on the armrest again. eunsang watched as she moved and changed positions, trying to find the most comfortable one. he sighed, and gently held her head, putting it on his shoulder [cliche but i couldn't think of any uwu moments lmao].

haeyoung fell deeply asleep again, while her head was rested on eunsang's shoulder. eunsang started eating while chatting with the other three, as usual.

"ooh, look at them. looks like we're gonna have another campus couple." wonjin whispered to sua and dongpyo, pointing at haeyoung and eunsang. the other two smirked, while eunsang was still busy eating.

"speaking of campus couple..." sua said, clearing her throat while looking at something. they looked at that direction, and saw mingyu and yiren.

as if it was staged, haeyoung woke up and yawned. "is lunch time-"

"close your eyes and sleep! you need good rest! lunch time isn't over yet! there's still a lot of time left." dongpyo said.

haeyoung sighed but still obliged and rested her head on eunsang's shoulder again, luckily not seeing the couple. eunsang smiled at haeyoung's cute sleepiness, and continued doing what the four of them were doing.

eunsang could feel butterflies in his stomach and it was making him feel very weird. eunsang knew his feelings towards haeyoung already, and he also knew it was growing larger and larger each day.

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