"It seem like you're still not used to the school" Minho said to the taller guy who had been bumping into people as he walked. It had been 2 weeks since he attended the school but the only person he knew was Minho and another student who had been introduced to him by Minho. It seemed like all the person he knew would be from Minho.

"No, I'm just looking fo--" he almost busted out what he was doing. He quickly nodded to cover it up. "Yeah, it's hard to walk around without bumping into people" he faked a laugh and they continued walking down the hallway before the both of them went to their own respective classes. "Hey" Hyunjin said to the male student who was sitting beside his chair. "Do you know where that person is?" His seatmate raised an eyebrow. "What person?"

"Never mind" Hyunjin said while sighing before sitting on his seat. People must think I'm weird...I'm not even close with him. Yet, he was searching for the other person after messing with him in this past 2 weeks.

'Messing with'? That word should be insufficient to what he had done. It should be harassing Jisung. On the first day he came, he had stole Jisung's book that was supposed to be sent to the teacher and returned it shamelessly at the end of the day. "I borrowed it for revision" and left without saying anything.

On the second day, he was supposed to hand out some question paper to his classmates and took the extra papers for himself. He didn't even give one to Jisung. "I must have forgotten" he simply said to the teacher and Jisung.

On the third day, he spilled milk on Jisung's track suit. "Sorry, I wasn't walking straight" He thought Jisung wouldn't wear the track suit during PE but he did. The smell of milk was too pungent that the PE teacher had to shoo him away. "Change into your school uniform" and he was excused to sit at the corner of the gym while some kids laughed at his state.

On the fourth day, he had walked out from the student council room without looking and hit Jisung's face who was reaching his hand towards the door knob. "I really wasn't looking!" Hyunjin had said as he crouched down and saw Jisung's bloody nose. "You're bleeding!" Hyunjin said as he handed a tissue. "Let's go to the infirmary", Jisung shook his head. " I'm fine"

"You're not" Hyunjin said as he placed one hand on Jisung's nape and one behind his knees. Jisung widened his eyes once Hyunjin lifted him and carried him to the infirmary while running. "I'm fine"

"You're not" Hyunjin said,Jisung covering his face to hide himself from being embarrassed. How dare he carried a grown man like a bride? And Jisung went through a hell like weeks.

It would be crazy if Hyunjin said he didn't feel anything while doing all of those awful things to Jisung.

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"Stand up" Hyunjin pushed himself up once the class representative commanded them. "Bow" he bowed to the teacher and sat down, his focus back to the vacant seat in front of him. "Jisung is still absent?" The teacher said while frowning. "Did anybody hear anything from him?"

Hyunjin was anticipating. He wanted to know whether someone knew where he was. To his dismay, nobody raised their hand. The teacher sighed again. "He didn't even give me any letter about his absence. I couldn't even contact his parents" the teacher mumbled as he went through the student list. For 6 consecutive days, Jisung had been absent. Just another day and it would've been a week.

He raised his head and stared at the students. "Any of you can go to his house today to check him out?" Everybody was avoiding the teacher's eyes. Hyunjin frowned. He was disappointed. Weren't they classmates? Why none of them knew where he was nor why none of them wanted to see him? But Hyunjin was also his classmates yet he didn't know where he was.

Right, just because they were classmates didn't mean that they were friend but didn't Jisung have any friend at all? "Fine, none of you want to go and see him" the teacher continued. "I will go after scho-" Hyunjin quickly cut the teacher's words off. "Let me go and check on him!"

The teacher raised an eyebrow. The least person he would expected to go and see Jisung was Hyunjin. After all, he hadn't been around for too long. 'Since when did Hyunjin befriended Jisung? But I did see him around Jisung a couple of time' The teacher thought while smiling at Hyunjin. "All right, then"

"Come to my room at lunch. I will give you the address later." Hyunjin nodded and the class continued smoothly with some students joking around at the back and the teacher feigning ignorance about it.

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"What's that?" Minho asked as he took a peek at the piece of paper Hyunjin was holding. Hyunjin turned his head to look at Minho who was tiptoeing just to get a better look of the paper although he really didn't have to do that. Hyunjin wasn't that tall, he was just exaggerating. "The teacher asked me to go and meet one of my classmates because he had been absent for a week"

"A week? Something must had happened" Minho said as he retreated and nodded his head in understatement. "What happened? To who? In a week?" A shorter guy said as he approached both Hyunjin and Minho. "Oh, Chan hyung!" Minho said while smiling. Chan was the other person Hyunjin met by accident. He was a friendly senior who had many friends— the popular guy it seemed. Not the popular in a sense of 'everyone wants to be like him' but in a sense of 'oh? He's a good guy' kind of way.

"It's nothing" Hyunjin said before pulling the paper away and shoving it deep into his pocket. "Did I saw it right just now?" Chan said while widening his eyes in an exaggerated way. "Wasn't that Jisung's address?"

"How did you know?" Hyunjin asked, curious how Chan memorised Jisung's address. Chan scratched the back of his head and dryly smiled. "We used to be friends and I hung out a lot at his home with Changbin." that was a shocking news for Hyunjin because they seemed to not get along at all whenever they met by accident. The person that had 'bumped' into Jisung a few weeks ago was Chan, he didn't really know that they used to be friends.

"You could say I did something terrible in the past and he did something to me too" Chan confessed.

"So, Jisung is not a cold person you see and he used to be a cheerful guy" Hyunjin wondered if Jisung really was not a cold person as Chan said but again Jisung also didn't seem to be a person that would treat others coldly. A person is not always cold from the beginning, there must be stories behind it. Suddenly Hyunjin felt bad and ashamed of his behaviour towards Jisung. He had wanted to see Jisung at least make one different expression other than his unreadable poker face. 'I'm so childish'.

He didn't really know what came to him when he did all of those irritating things. It's a wonder itself how Jisung hadn't cracked and punch him in the face.

"Hey, are you alright?" Chan said once he saw Hyunjin's distorted face. Hyunjin flinched at the realization that he was showing his true feeling on his face. The grimace in his face was quickly replaced by the so ever friendly smile he had always worn. "I just had a sudden stomach ache. I haven't eaten yet."

"What did you do at lunch?" Chan asked since he was at the library doing his chemist homework that he forgot to work on last night. Hyunjin tilted his head and bluntly answered. "Eat of course" Chan snorted. He was talking like he didn't eat for the whole day. Upon seeing Chan's reaction, Hyunjin laughed.

He patted Chan's shoulder. "Aren't you going to your study group after this, hyung? You should hurry up" Hyunjin advised. "If you're smart enough, you won't need that study group anymore just like me" Hyunjin said while hitting his chest proudly. Chan slapped Hyunjin's face with his forever hated chemistry book. "So, what about the address?"Chan asked as if he didn't just slapped Hyunjin's face.

The younger rubbed his nose which had started reddening from the slap. He looked at Chan and scoffed. "Not telling you" Hyunjin smirked as if he had won something just because he managed to annoy Chan, it wasn't anything big but it showed just how much Chan made him feel comfortable around him— enough for him to joke around. "You know what? I'm leaving now" Chan said when he saw the members of his study group. He didn't look back at Hyunjin who was waving at him, afraid that he will throw his book to his junior again if he saw that irritating face, although he probably wouldn't do that because he adored the junior of his.

As soon as Chan disappeared, the smile on Hyunjin's face flattered away. He looked down and stared at the piece of paper he had in his hand. "...." He said something inaudible to the ears of others before walking from the school.

"Is he avoiding me?"

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