hyunjin crossed his arms across his chest as he walked around in his walk-in closet, "should i wear a hoodie?" he looked through each hoodie he owned, "maybe not... how about a sweater?" hyunjin looked through each sweater he owned, ranging from turtlenecks, to pullovers, to cardigans, and long-sleeves, nothing satisfied him. he walked over to the t-shirt section of the closet and pulled out a black short-sleeved t-shirt, "maybe this'll do," hyunjin took off his shirt and put on the shirt. he then walked over to the gigantic full-body mirror standing in the middle of the room to check himself out.
"hyunjin?" mrs. juhee knocked on hyunjin's door, "seungmin is here. hurry up and get yourself ready."
"oh! okay," hyunjin hurriedly put on the cologne that smelled the most masculine among all the cologn he owned, wait a minute, he paused, why am i doing this? it's not like i'm going to be with my girlfriend today, hyunjin nervously laughed as he scratched his neck, i'm totally not doing this for seungmin either.
"hyunjin?" seungmin peeped his head in through the door, "can i come in?"
hyunjin cleared his throat, "yeah. i'll be out in a sec."
seungmin gently shut the door behind him before walking over to the desk and sat down.
meanwhile, hyunjin was still looking at himself through the mirror, why are you worried about your appearance? it's not like i'm trying to look nice for seungmin, he nervously chuckled, obviously not.
seungmin watched as hyunjin exit the walk-in closet. seungmin suddenly felt himself blushing. seungmin, no doubt, really liked the way hyunjin's t-shirt fit on him. it hugged his body in all the right places really well and it made hyunjin look really muscular. he already was, but the t-shirt made it a thousand times even better.
hyunjin sat down beside seungmin, "who drove you here today?" asked hyunjin, as he organized his stuff for today.
"chan drove me today," seungmin answered, why does he care?
hearing the word 'chan' made hyunjin's blood boil. he despised chan. hyunjin hasn't even personally met him before, but he just somehow disliked him. a lot. especially when seungmin's arms are wrapped around him, "how do you even know that guy?"
seungmin hesitated, "i-i don't know if you know this but we used to date. we've become really good friends now, though."
"what? you've never told me this before! since when??"
again, why does he care? seungmin thought, "u-uh... we broke up 6 months ago," he added, "before you ask me, we broke up because... i didn't feel quite ready yet."
"did he hurt you at all? physically? emotionally? mentally? he seems like the abusive type. just tell me, and i'll be sure to hit him really ha-" what the fuck? hyunjin paused, did i just really say that? "i-i mean, i don't care. i don't care about you and your relationship with that dude," hyunjin looked away into the distance.
seungmin smiled to himself, "chan is the opposite of abusive. he was really caring and sweet, and he always treated me with-"
"i don't care. now, please, can we just start?" said hyunjin, clearly annoyed.
"o-oh, okay," seungmin hated it when people raised their voice at him, "... sorry about that. let's start."
an hour of intense tutoring went by, and all hyunjin did was stare at seungmin's lips as he rambled on about korean history. it looked so... captivating, as per usual. there were no flakes to be seen, making seungmin's lips look incredibly smooth and soft. hyunjin suddenly felt himself slowly leaning in closer to seungmin and-
"hyunjin?" seungmin looked at hyunjin in concern, "are you okay? do you want me to get you some water? or anything?"
hyunjin moved away from seungmin's face, "o-oh, sorry about that. i'm fine. it's just that i can't really focus right now. dunno why," he felt his face burning up.
seungmin tilted his head in confusion, "do you wanna take a break or something?"
"no, it's okay," hyunjin added, "can we go somewhere else to do all this? i'm not really feeling it here, for some odd reason."
"if you want," seungmin took his phone out of his pocket to check the time, "it's only 1 pm, so i guess it would be fine."
"hmm... should we go to a nearby coffee place? like starbucks, perhaps?"
"okay, sure. i'll just call chan really quick to drive me there."
hearing seungmin say that made hyunjin put on the 'wtf did you just say?' look on, "why would you call him?"
"but... i thought you didn't like being in the same car as me?" questioned seungmin, "remember when me, my dad, you, and mr. hwang had a road trip together and we went to busan? you started crying before we left because you didn't wanna sit next to me."
"well, yeah, that happened. i don't like being with you in general, but there's no way you're going to be with him. not on my watch."
hyunjin? is this what you call when someone is being possessive? what's happening? seungmin shrugged the thought off, "o-okay, you really don't like him, huh?"
"yeah. i just don't like his face," articulated hyunjin.
"oh, okay," was all seungmin could say. he started to put away all the stuff in his tote bag.
hyunjin walked over to his closet to put on a coat, "by the way, why are you wearing shorts and a sweater? it's cold outside," he walked over to the door and leaned against it, waiting for seungmin to finish, "the least you could've done was to put on a coat."
"s-sorry, i kinda forgot to," seungmin finished putting all the stuff they needed in his tote bag and went over to hyunjin.
"wait here," hyunjin said, before going into his closet to grab a cream-coloured hoodie for seungmin, "it might be too big for you, but... just put this on."
seungmin looked at hyunjin in utter confusion, but then proceeded to put on the hoodie hyunjin gave him. it was super big on him, but it made him feel warm. though, the hoodie covered seungmin's shorts so it looked as if he was naked.
on the other hand, hyunjin felt as if his heart was doing jumping jacks. he felt as if he had made the best decision ever, to give seungmin his hoodie. he looked so adorable and small.
"cute," hyunjin smiled as he chuckled.
"hm?" seungmin looked up to lock eyes with hyunjin, making hyunjin's heart flutter even more.
hyunjin felt his face heat up, "i-i... nothing. i said nothing. we should get going now," said hyunjin before quickly leaving the room.
why is he red? seungmin thought, is it warm in here? he stood still for a few seconds to feel the temperature, but it's not warm? that's weird, seungmin gently shut the door behind him and shortly followed hyunjin after.
[ chapter four fin. ]
[ 27. mar 2020 ]
