"sooo you two eh???" hyunjin looks at minho and jisung.

"no"

"what!? but after all of what jisung told me that's what it seems likeeeee"

"well it's not"

"booooo" hyunjin puts his thumbs down in minho's face as he rolls his eyes.

"just because you're in a relationship now does that mean you want everyone else to be in one too?" minho asks hyunjin.

"well duh"

"speaking of" jisung says and hyunjin looks towards the door to see changbin and lia walk in.

"bye bitches!" hyunjin gets up and goes over to them.

"hiiii" hyunjin smiles at changbin and he smiles back at him.

changbin's smile goes away when someone puts a backpack in his arms.

"hey nerd, there's my homework give it back at the end of lunch it all better be done"

"hey!" hyunjin looks at him.

"hyunjin? you're talking to this nerd?"

"so?"

"but he's—"

"that's what you think! but he's my nerd" hyunjin wraps his arm around him. "take your backpack back and do your own homework!"

"hyunjin it's fine..."

"but people are using you! I know you're bothered by it, I see it every day" changbin looks down as hyunjin was right.

he takes his backpack back and walks away.

"don't do it anymore" hyunjin says and changbin hugs him.

"that's the only thing that people will talk to me, in case you realized I'm not popular like you"

"that doesn't matter, I'm only popular because I'm so hot. you're the first one who doesn't want me for my looks"

"hyunjin? and that nerd?" everyone in the canteen saw the two of them together.

"who would've thought the nerd was a fairy!" everyone starts laughing at changbin, he looks at everyone who was laughing and he slowly backs away to go to the doors of the canteen.

he kept hearing all of these words that his classmates were saying about him, it reminded him of his home life when he parents were drunk.

his dad said the same words to him.

his mom laughed at him.

he starts breathing heavily and runs out of the canteen, hyunjin and lia follow him out.

"changbin!"

"hyunjin, there's something you need to know" lia says and he looks at her. "his parents are just like yours, except his get drunk. they say all of these things to him... ever since he came out to them and started acting differently towards them... they'd always yell all of these things to him. but he still stuck with them so he could have a place to live. he'd go back and forth with living with me and living with his parents. they were practically bullies to him"

"he did tell me that he goes to the park at night to get away from his parents... I didn't know how bad it was..."

"all you need to do if comfort him, okay?" hyunjin nods and goes to find changbin.

lia goes back into the canteen to raise hell.

"okay listen up you jackasses!" she stands up on a table so she can get their attention. "I don't want you acting like assholes to my best friend anymore got it!? hyunjin is gay too! but you didn't say anything about that did ya!? social class doesn't matter, popularity doesn't matter! all of you assholes probably have some secret you don't want your friends or classmates knowing about huh!? well this was his! anyone talking shit about them will have to face me!" lia steps down and crosses her arms before leaving the canteen.

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