With You ~ (dowoo) COMPLETED

ch. 4

So far, the first day of school was actually a lot more boring than Jungwoo had expected. He supposed he should have known, it was his 12th first day of school after all.

First, he'd gotten his schedule for the day. Then he'd gone to his 1st period class, which was office aid, during which he'd gone to Starbucks. And now he was making his way through the halls, sipping on his venti caramel frappe on his way to 2nd period English.

He got there just a little too late to be showing up with Starbucks, but the teacher didn't seem to notice. He spotted Ten sitting at a table with Johnny and took the empty seat next to him.

They were about to start up a conversation but the teacher started teaching. Rude.

It was only the first day, but it was still English, the worst class ever, so Jungwoo droned out most of what the teacher was saying while he doodled on the syllabus he'd picked up on his way in.

After a few minutes, he leaned over to whisper something to Ten, only to notice, was he staring? at Johnny?

Omg.

He scribbled something on the corner of his syllabus and passed it to Ten.

New victim? I see you staring

If looks could kill, Jungwoo would be six feet under.

Ten grabbed the pen from him so he could write a response and slid the syllabus back to him.

Junngwoo was expecting a "fuck you" or a "stfu" or something along those lines, but, to Jungwoo's surprise, Ten had just written:

He's straight :(

Jungwoo almost wrote 'lol knew it", But when he looked up at Ten he seemed genuinely kinda sad. So he decided to drop it.

Eventually the bell rang signaling the end of class and the three of them, Jungwoo, Ten and Johnny, walked to lunch together. They were all friends, Ten had actually known Johnny for way longer that Jungwoo had actually, but since starting high school they'd settled into different cliques.

When they got to the courtyard, Ten went to go sit with his other friend group while Jungwoo sat with Johnny at their usual table, otherwise known as Jaehyun and his dude bro friends + Jungwoo (the boyfriend).

Jaehyun was already there and when Jungwoo walked over to them Yukhei scooted over so the couple could sit next to each other.

"Does anyone have the History summer assignment?" Yuta asked after they'd all settled down.

Taeyong rolled his eyes, "It's literally the first day of school and you didn't do the homework?"

Yuta shrugged.

"Here, I have it" Yukhei said. He dug through his back pack and pulled out a crumpled up piece of paper and handed it to Yuta.

Their table looked at Yukhei, shocked.

"Since when do you do homework before it's due?" Taeyong asked.

Yukhei shrugged. "Coach said I need to get my grades up this year if I wanna stay on the team. I'm paying some sophomore to do it for me."

Taeyong rolled his eyes and Yuta gave Yukhei a high five. "Nice."

The group continued to talk and joke around, but Jungwoo, who was usually pretty talkative, found himself not saying much. He felt like he was in his own little world. Also, he kept looking around for that someone he'd yet to see all day. His shared day with said person at the amusement park felt so long ago now that they were back to school, even though it was only two days ago, and though Jungwoo assumed he'd be trying to avoid him, he found that, actually, part of him wanted to see him.

The bell rang and Jaehyun offered to walk Jungwoo to his next class, but it was in the opposite direction to his and Jungwoo insisted it was fine.

So, Jungwoo made his way through the familiar hallways on his own, not even having to look up where his next class was since he knew the school so well by now. He was almost there when he finally spotted a familiar face, and it looked absolutely, positively lost.

"Doyoung?" Jungwoo called out to him, so that he could be heard over all the other people in the hallway.

Doyoung's face lit up in recognition. "Jungwoo!" He walked up to him with a big smile.

"I didn't see you at lunch?"

Doyoung sighed, seeming stressed. "I'm having issues with my schedule so I've been at the counselor's getting things sorted out. They put me in regs pre calc? I'm taking AP calc! - not that there's anything wrong with-" he rambled.

Jungwoo giggled. Doyoung didn't seem the type to get flustered easily but it suited him.

"Don't worry, I'm actually on my way to calculus now."

Doyoung looked down at his schedule. "Lee room 334?" He asked.

Jungwoo smiled excitedly, "Yeah!"

Doyoung smiled back and they started walking to class together, Jungwoo leading the way.

"I didn't know you were a cheerleader," Doyoung said after a moment, looking Jungwoo up and down.

Oh, yeah, Jungwoo remembered, it was the first day of school so he'd had to wear his cheer uniform: a pair of black athletic pants and a matching top with green stripes and the letters "NHS" across the front in white.

"Yep."

"Woah. The uniform looks cute on you."

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"O-Oh, uh...thanks haha."

Here's the thing. Jungwoo didn't get flustered. He didn't get out-gayed. He was popular, pretty, and funny. Boy's  flirted with him all the time, and he always out flirted them. So why was he tripping over his words like a middle schooler right now?

He was starting to remember just why he hadn't wanted to see Doyoung in the first place.

They got to their class soon enough, and sat down next to one another at the back of the room. It was a little distracting at first, Jungwoo kept catching himself staring at Doyoung, but calculus quickly, too quickly, became super duper confusing. What the fuck, it was only the first day of school he wasn't supposed to be lost already?!

It was over an endless hour and a half later and Jungwoo laid his head on his desk with a frusterated groan.

"You okay?" Doyoung asked as people started to pack up and leave.

Jungwoo sat up and made a pouty face. "Why is calculus already so hard?" It came out a lot whinier than he'd intended.

"If you want, I could help you?" Doyoung started. Then he reached out and brushed the hair that had stuck to his face when he'd buried in in his arms out of his eyes. Jungwoo blinked up at him and he continued, "We could grab coffee after school and work on the homework together."

Oh no no no.

The last thing Jungwoo needed to be doing with the boy he was all hot and bothered for was go on study dates.

But Jungwoo made the mistake of looking into Doyoung's sweet, helpful eyes for just a little too long and (despite his better judgement) said,

"Sure."

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This chapter and the one before it are both pretty short so I thought I'd update again :) thanks for reading! 💕