23 — REUNION.. OF WHAT, EXACTLY?

seungwoo thought he wouldn't be the one having a bad time after he discovers the other x1 individuals.

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yohan : hey bitchezzzz we @ bio lab see ya there🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

seungwoo: language.

hyeongjun: 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽😽😍❤️💖

"just like how we practiced, dongpyo-ah," yohan chimes as he lays down against the table, his long legs dangling up and down. "let's try once again, but now you have to try to turn into me."

dongpyo huffs. "you said i could change into park jimin this time!"

yohan gets up quickly as he turns to face the latter. "yah, son dongpyo! you gotta start with the basics, there's no need to rush." he walks towards him, holding him by the shoulder. "there was still some flaws on your eunsang attempt, y'gotta get no mistakes in this one in order to learn other transformations, a'ight?"

"but—"

"listen to your tutor, dongpyo-ah." his voice rises. "you don't wanna turn into a toothbrush without your own consent again, don't you?"

eunsang could only cringe excessively seeing yohan trying to be all wise all of the sudden just because he had solved one thing without the help of the other seniors. but as much as he dislikes his upgraded confidence eunsang did not argue, as the latter really was doing way much better than him. five-days x1 yohan learns the patterns so quickly, as he interprets his own ways of training to the one-hour rookie dongpyo.

dongpyo scowls. "okay, whatever. this one more time."

"let's get it."

dongpyo closes his eyes, getting his mind prepared for the transformation. yohan accompanies him with vague instructions to help him visualize it well.

"okay, now repeat after me. imagine you're me." yohan speaks out.

"i'm you.." dongpyo starts roughly.

"you got black hair,"

"black hair."

"tall figure,"

"tall figure."

"bunny teeth,"

"ridiculous teeth."

yohan flinches, but he did not argue. he continues the commentary. "a handsome face,"

"beauty is relative and it depends on people's own taste and standards,"

"but yohan defies all those beauty standards and aces most of them because he is indeed handsome—"

"okay, this is ridiculous." dongpyo opens his eyes, slowly realizing that he in fact has transform to someone new.

eunsang laughs. "wow, can't believe that really worked."

yohan gasps. "i know right? i'm so cool."

dongpyo quickly grabs his phone from his pocket and opens the front camera. his mouth went wide open. he gazes at his new self, looking like an exact duplicate of yohan himself. he grins. "wow, this is definitely something i could live with."

"i mean, i am still way more attractive, but your attempt's.. alright." yohan chirps as he crosses his arms. "say thank you yohan-hyung, you're the best."

dongpyo glares at him in dislike, but he ends up doing it anyway. "thank you yohan-hyung—"

the door suddenly bursts wide open, shocking the three of them. they definitely did not expect the one who arrives first would be alone, and he would be very very mad.

seungwoo searches the room with his blazing eyes. "CHO SEUNGYOUN, KIM WOOSEOK!"

eunsang gets up from his seat and runs towards him, as he immediately tries to calm him down. "hyung, they're not here yet. what's wrong?"

"those rascals, sons of bitches!"

"woah, language." yohan fires back, referring to their previous chat.

seungwoo's attention shifts to yohan. his eyes flutter in disbelief. "what the hell.. there are two of you?" he points at yohan and dongpyo.

yohan and dongpyo exchange glances at each other. dongpyo immediately explains the situation. "no, no. i'm not yohan-hyung—"

"why is this day cursed?!" seungwoo cries out. "wooseok, seungyoun, now 2 yohans? does god want me to suffer this bad?!"

yohan gasps. "what's that supposed to mean?"

eunsang holds the older one in the shoulder, trying to calm him down. "hyung, hyung— it's alright, you're alright—"

seungwoo falls to the ground, his whole body collapses. automatically eunsang holds unto him before his head hits the ground. "what the hell.." eunsang mutters.

"oh my god, is it really that serious, ma?" yohan mumbles under his breath.

dongpyo looks like he's deep in utter shock. "you just killed him."

"we did not kill him—"

"look at him, he's dead!"

"he's not dead, dongpyo. stop making false assumptions." eunsang sighs as he caresses unconscious seungwoo's hair lightly. "what should we do?"

"here, let me take him." yohan gets up and manages to carry seungwoo on his feet. "i'll teleport him to the infirmary. he'll rest there."

"have you tried bringing someone whilst teleporting, though?"

".. no, so there's a slight chance that he'll lose an arm in the process."

eunsang winces.

"just kidding, weasley. i'll return back as soon as i can." he held unto seungwoo and suddenly disappears into oblivion.

eunsang returns to his seat, sitting across dongpyo who was still in the figure of yohan. "well that was surprising."

"seungwoo-ssi, is he always like that?" dongpyo asks curiously.

"is he always that frantic? no, this is the first time i've seen him so unstable honestly. something must've happened to the point he broke his strings just like that." eunsang glances at him. "why?"

"why what?"

"the fact that you show interest of him is quite.. questionable."

dongpyo sneers. "i was only curious."

"you're never curious of anyone," eunsang smiles. "what, you got a soft spot for the fire guy?"

"he's.. a respected figure." dongpyo describes honestly. "he was so cool when he was the leader of the student council, i really wished that i could be like him—"

"dongpyo-ah,"

he turns at eunsang.

"if you really want to get to know him that much, you could ask me to introduce you to him." eunsang says shortly. "i'll be happy to help."

"help— i don't need your help!" dongpyo snaps. "i'm fine by my own, thank you very much."

they were too invested with their argument to the point they didn't notice the door has been pushed wide open yet again, now by a group of boys instead of one. the first thing that captures their attention was a deep voice calling.

"yohan!"

a muscular boy appears in the picture, sprinting towards dongpyo in such a fast pace, dongpyo wasn't able to move away at first.

"yohan-ah, you're alive!" the boy hugs him so tightly to the point dongpyo wasn't able to explain himself in the process.

"i-i'm—n-not—ugh, y—yohan!" he manages to articulate a couple of words yet none of them were clear enough to be understood by the new guy. "eun—sang—change!"

getting the cue, eunsang immediately uses the reverse trick he used when he returned dongpyo back to his normal self. quickly dongpyo starts to decrease by height and figure. the boy lets go of him, noticing the height difference. his eyes widen.

"who's the kid?" wooseok asks.

"yah, you collected the shapeshifter!" seungyoun chirps excitedly. "yay, the more the merrier!"

"who are you?" the boy that eunsang was not familiar of scrunches his face in confusion, slowly backing away. "you said yohan was alive, did you mean to fool me?!" he faces both wooseok and seungyoun, his tone rises immediately. "was that all bullshit?"

the ground begins to shake. wooseok raises his voice. "hey, hey! we weren't lying to you, kiddo. yohan's here!"

"i don't see him anywhere."

"of course you don't! he's the invisible dude!"

"eunsang," seungyoun turns to the red haired boy. "call yohan."

"but—"

"now!"

with his limited skills, he tries to summon yohan. he starts simple.

y..

o..

h..

a..

n...

"GET YOUR ASS HERE IMMEDIATELY!"

just like what he wishes for, yohan suddenly pops up at the corner of the room, looking as confused as ever. "hey, hey what happened— oh shit."

hangyul turns around. his gaze immediately shifts to yohan.

"lee hangyul!"

"stop right there!" hangyul commands him. "this is not a trick, right? you're really kim yohan?"

"uh.. yeah?" he answers unsurely. "you should've told me that you're planning on bailing out of class, we could've gone together—"

his sentence was cut off by the sight of hangyul running towards him and wrapping him tightly in a big hug, tears streaming down his puffy face. yohan looks at him in shock. "dude, who died?"

"fuck you, i thought you died!"

"wait, what seriously?!"

"yeah, i was getting pretty pissed that i didn't get an invitation to your funeral, i was your bestfriend." hangyul cries on yohan's shoulder. "theoretically i was the one who killed you, so at least you should've given me credit."

yohan laughs. "what's with the past pronouns? i'm here! i'm still your bestfriend." he pats on his back, giving him assurance. "yah, lee hangyul, don't cry. you look miserable."

wooseok and seungyoun was too busy staring at the duo reuniting that they didn't realize a figure coming towards them. seungwoo goes in between them and pulls each of their ears with both of his hands, causing them to wince in pain.

"yah, seungwoo-hyung!" wooseok yells.

"what are you doing?!" seungyoun shouts in agony.

"you know how much headache you've caused me today?" his grip goes stronger. "this much."

with their hyungs minding with their own business, the younger ones form their own group, hoping to have all of this to finish soon just so they could go home. minhee's eyes brighten once he saw dongpyo. "aye, son dongpyo!"

dongpyo looks surprised to see so many of his classmates. he points at minhee and hyeongjun. "you too?" he shifts his eyes to dohyon. "wow, this kid too?"

"so we got two new ones, then." eunsang says with a smile. "three, with toothbrush right here."

"what do you do, black widow?" dohyon asks eunsang.

eunsang raises his eyebrow. "black widow—"

"he's referring to your hair." hyeongjun replies.

"yes, i know." eunsang turns to dohyon. "shouldn't you be referring to me as hyung, new kid?"

"i don't see that as an obligation." dohyon points out.

"you know, this is why people make fun of you, dohyon-ah. you have no respect." minhee snaps.

dohyon glares at him, and all of the sudden the books started flying around, all targeting to minhee. "you were saying?"

with a flick of his finger, eunsang manages to disable dohyon's powers— the books that were levitating all of the sudden falls out of the air abruptly. "this is what i do."

dohyon looks at him in awe. "interesting."

eunsang himself was also surprised he managed to do such thing.

dongpyo turns around, facing the entrance. "yikes, dropout!"

eunsang glances at him. "what?"

"your boyfriend's here."

eunsang scoffs. "my boyfriend—" he turns around to see who dongpyo was referring to, and he himself was quite surprised to see who it was.

this is why you should make sure the door's closed at all times.

the room goes silent.

"eunsang?"

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