꒰ BE QUIET ꒱ - SUNNEW ˎˊ˗

five.

"i can drive you home," kevin suggested as he and chanhee walked out of the building. the latter looked at him with his eyebrows slightly raised, making kevin click his tongue and roll his eyes in annoyance. "okay, i can make jacob drive you home while i'm riding in the same car."

chanhee shook his head lightly and chuckled. "thanks, kev, but i already bought a day ticket for the train. so i will think about it if you ask me again tomorrow."

"bold of you to assume i'd offer you my kindness like this a second time." kevin dramatically clutches at his heart as he was turned down by his friend.

"wild of you to think you have any other choice." chanhee grinned at him and patted his shoulder. he then straightened his posture a little and moved his hand away from kevin, taking his phone out of his pocket instead. "i will be heading home now."

"okay, get home safely." kevin smiled at chanhee and then the pink haired boy headed to the train station.

while waiting for his train, he was sitting calmly at a bench and listening to music. he was looking around, too awkward to land his gaze on one thing in case he accidentally looked directly at someone who passed.

he was constantly checking his chats, especially the one with younghoon but unfortunately his best friend hadn't been online since morning.

when he got too frustrated, he just shoved his phone back in his pocket and continued listening to music. he was done worrying about that for the day, he was too fed up.

he got on the train when it arrived but very unfortunately for him, it was packed. a lot of people were getting off work and school. he eventually found himself an empty spot to stand at beside a window and leaned against the hand rail, facing the window so he could look outside.

even though the train was getting more and more packet with every next stop, the ride seemed normal in the beginning. of course, chanhee couldn't have any expectations from a train ride other than getting on the train, riding for a while and then getting off and going home.

but after the fourth stop, there was something that brought his attention. or rather someone.

while looking out the window, he was also focusing on his own reflection from time to time just to check himself out. but as he was doing that, he noticed a familiar red head. and he really cursed his luck because it was the fourth time for the day already when he sees him.

first it was at the morning train on his way to school. of course, nothing weird about that. he's not the only person going to school, after all. and there was no way he would've seen the red haired boy before that in his life just because he was a first year and also because chanhee never got on the train.

the second time at the vending machine was probably some sort of a coincidence. still, nothing weird.

at the student council chanhee was trying a little too hard to pretend he wasn't noticing that sunwoo was there. but being the only one with bright red hair around, it was a little bit difficult for sunwoo to stay unnoticed.

of course, at that point chanhee already knew there were rumours about him that he was supposedly "hitting on" first years already. but there was really nothing he could do about it. after all, they didn't know each other, he didn't even know the younger's name. so it was none of his business what others were saying when he and his friends knew the truth.

but this time it didn't seem like a coincidence. sunwoo was coming from a completely different stop than the one next to school. he hadn't been at school for a while already. so them going back home at the same time from two different places felt weird.

chanhee tilted his head slightly, trying to stay unnoticed as he peeked over his shoulder to look at sunwoo.

needless to say, he did get noticed. sunwoo had been looking at him but he quickly looked away, staring out the window into the distance and acting like he hadn't just been staring at the slightly shorter boy.

chanhee also quickly looked out the window again. he took his phone out and looked over his notification as he was trying to ignore his face burning up because he felt so awkward and uncomfortable.

but if he thought that was the most awkward thing he could experience for the day, he was once again proven wrong.

when he got off the train, sunwoo got off on the same stop. which also made chanhee realize that they supposedly lived close to each other since they got on the same stop on their way to school too.

sunwoo sure did walk quite fast because he had walked way ahead in no time.

he didn't think anything of it and was quickly distracted by that because he got a call from younghoon.

"hello?" he said as he picked up, making his way out of the train station and heading home.

"i'm sorry i didn't pick up earlier," younghoon immediately apologized. "i had a lot of work to get done."

chanhee hummed and raised his eyebeows slightly. "had work more important than lectures, the council or even drama club?"

"yeah?"

"are you sure you weren't just skipping so you could spend time with your boyfriend?" by that point chanhee felt too pissed so he decided he just wanted to make it clear that he knew what younghoon was hiding from him even if he wasn't lying about having work to do.

the line went silent for a bit as younghoon didn't know how to respond. "chanhee," he began a while after but he couldn't come up with much to say. "i really had work. but let me explain about all this."

"you will explain tomorrow. i'm really too exhausted now."

"alright."