Tension | Hyunsung ✓

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The news spread like wildfire when Hyunjin broke up with Sae Hee. The first couple of weeks they seemed like a normal couple who do things together but as another week passed, they seemed distant and more distant. There was also constant fight between them, people always heard something like "it's obvious it's not me!" and "you sure you see him as a nuisance?!"

It was really a bit dramatic for bunch of 14-years-old but this small conflict was a huge obstacle for the two 14-years-old who were dating each other.

Days and days, students saw how Hyunjin just grew colder to Sae Hee . They pitied her but at the same time they pitied Hyunjin for getting beaten up by Sae Hee everytime he refused to say anything.

Just like that, after a month they broke up. Hyunjin had thought she would come running to Jisung and Jisung will have his win again but it didn't happen. She seemed to avoid Jisung just as much as she tried to avoid Hyunjin.

"What have you done? Why is Sae Hee ignoring me too?!", Jisung grabbed Hyunjin's collar, gritting his teeth as he glared at Hyunjin who later pushed him away. "I did nothing. She probably doesn't want to talk to you because you're annoying", it wasn't a lie, he did nothing other than keep wanting to compete with Jisung when he was dating Sae Hee. She probably realized how obsessed Hyunjin was with Jisung and she couldn't take it anymore.

"You-", Jisung took a step back and narrowed his eyes, there were tears in his eyes. He really hated it when Hyunjin say those mean things to him but he hated it more that he would easily be beaten up by Hyunjin's words. Hyunjin widened his eyes, baffled when he saw Jisung wiping his tears off his cheeks.

Unknowingly, Hyunjin took a step forward and pulled Jisung into his embrace, his hand patting Jisung's head to calm him down. "Why are you doing this?", Jisung sniffled.

"I-I don't know", Hyunjin stuttered.

"Why are you crying?", Jisung punched his stomach, Hyunjin responded with an 'uff' but said nothing about it. It was probably not a good idea to upset him more. "You made me lost one friend"
The answer was surprisingly very pure and innocent. He had expected to hear Jisung saying something like, "you made me lost my chance with Sae Hee" but it was clearly not that. Friend...did he misunderstood Jisung's and Sae Hee's relationship? So, Jisung was angry because Hyunjin dated Sae Hee, hence taking his friend away with him. Now, Sae Hee even started to ignore them both. So, he was responsible for this?

"Fine", Hyunjin pulled Jisung away from him. "I will be your friend from now on", an eye for an eye, right?

Jisung frowned," Huh?! What do you-", his voice lowered by the end of his sentence when he saw the seriousness and sincerity in Hyunjin's eyes.

Jisung freaked out, he had never seen Hyunjin's face this up close before. "Do whatever you want!", Jisung said before he ran away.

To be said, what just happened was peculiar. It was simply weird. Nobody could have imagine just what happened for it to escalate so quickly to their current situation.

For the past days, Sae Hee hadn't say anything to either if them and Jisung had continued his lesson with Hyunjin.

Hyunjin tried his best to make sure Jisung could at least float and swim like how people normally would do.

"Jisung. You're supposed to push your arm forward. Stop bringing them down", Hyunjin slapped Jisung's arm and fixed his position again. Jisung grunted, pulling his hand away before hitting Hyunjin with the swimming board, "how should I know that!?", He angrily flailed his hands around. "It's common sense,Ji. It's common sense". Jisung went silent, this was the first time Hyunjin had called him that other than Jisung or Han Jisung.

"Whatever, Hyunjin",and that was the first time Jisung had tried calling him 'hyunjin' instead of the usual 'hwang' he used.

Hyunjin dragged himself out of the pool. "You're the one who asked me to do this. Put some more effort, can't you?", Hyunjin seemed really angry when he said those words and Jisung wished he could deny it, he was scared.

Jisung didn't question Hyunjin when he left the pool, instead he grabbed the swimming board and kicked his leg in the water. "Whatever", he sulked while waddling in the water.

Hyunjin hadn't gone far, he went out to get some refreshments for him and Jisung. Although, he could have told Jisung and not left him thinking Hyunjin had abandoned him.

On his way back, he bumped with one of Jisung's teammates. He didn't know them well,so, he just bowed at them before picking up the drinks that fell out of his grip and walked away. "That Jisung guy is too arrogant. Why didn't the captain just kick him out", Hyunjin stopped walking, he turned around. "He is too stupid. It felt so great when the coach decided to put him as a bench warmer. It suits him more!"

Then he continued walking to the pool, he would have never guessed that the happy-go-lucky Han Jisung was an outcast in his own basketball team.  No wonder he had been spending more time with Hyunjin rather than with his friends. He couldn't throw his trust to anybody anymore, so, he ran to Hyunjin who had no ulterior move since he knew they hated as each other. "My... aren't you smart?", Hyunjin muttered, looking at the bottles in his hand before he heard a yell, "Didn't you leave?!"

Hyunjin looked up and threw the bottle to Jisung. Maybe because he was a basketball player but he caught the bottle pretty well. "I got that for you"

"Now, get out from the water and have some food", Jisung nodded, waddling his way out but slipped when he missed his step. Jisung cursed in his head how the hell do you float again?

Hyunjin dropped the food and jumped into the water, Jisung, you fool! The pool wasn't even that deep, how could he still manage to drown himself like this?

Jisung's head popped out of the water just before Hyunjin managed to grab him. "I'm safe! I finally remember how to float", Hyunjin stared at him blankly. Was this the time to be proud about something so simple as floating? Jisung slapped Hyunjin's shoulder, "Hey! Hey! I know that look! You're mocking me in your mind again!"

Hyunjin walked out of the pool,"hey! Where are you going now?!" Jisung irritatedly asked when Hyunjin walked into the changing room. Jisung grumbled, Hyunjin was acting strange. Usually he will reply back with mean words but he didn't this time around.

"Is the the lesson finished? This early?", Jisung asked, also getting out of the pool. Hyunjin nodded, not saying anything before he left.

Jisung may or may not have been friend with him only for a short period but he knew that look, Hyunjin was angry.

"But why is he angry?!?", Jisung furrowed his eyebrows and questioned himself if he did anything to anger Hyunjin.

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Bruh 🥴 I'm just prolonging everything because...er..I don't want this story to end- lmao-hunny