He didn't see Seungyeon for the next several days, despite being in detention each day after school. Jihoon couldn't pinpoint why his thoughts kept returning to the tall boy, except that he couldn't shake the feelings that his sharp words had hurt Seungyeon. He didn't know him, so why should he care? All he needed to care about was getting high school over and done with. So why did he keep thinking about Seungyeon?

If thoughts could have been a summoner, his had worked. On the final day of his assigned detention, he was finishing filling out the sheet, not even halfway into the session, when the door to the classroom opened. He looked up, curious as to who would dare to interrupt a detention, and to his surprise it was Seungyeon. He entered and moved to Mrs. Kwon's desk to whisper something in the older woman's ear. She looked out over the class briefly, then nodded and followed the young man out of the door.

There were no other students in with Jihoon that day, a Friday, something that he had been surprised of. But he'd tucked into his seat and begun working on the assigned sheet right away. It was the same one that he'd been given at the start of each detention, and instead of just writing the same thing over and over again, he'd taken to telling the story in a new way each time. If anything, it kept the action of filling out the questionaire from being too monotonous. Now, with Mrs. Kwon gone, he ducked his head and finished off his paper, trying not to let the curiousity get to him.

The door finally opened again and Mrs. Kwon entered alone, a smile on her face as she looked at Jihoon. "You're a pretty exemplary student, Jihoon," she said, completely out of the blue. "Have you filled out your assigned paper?"

"Uh, yes ma'am," he began, unsure of where this was going. 

She shook her head slightly with a laugh, then motioned for him to bring it to her. Once he handed it over, she looked up at him with a raised brow. "Well? What are you still doing here? Detention is out."

His gaze darted to the clock above her, showing that there was still almost twenty-five minutes left. She laughed and pointed at the door, though, and so without questioning his good fortune, Jihoon returnd to his seat to gather his things quickly. He gave her a bow and a wish for a good weekend as he left, which she returned, and then exited the door to see Seungyeon leaning against the lockers beside him.

A slow smile spread over Jihoon's face, one that he tried to keep away with little success. "How did you manage that one?" he asked in lieu of greeting. 

Seungyeon's cheeky smile grew wider, his eyes nearly disappearing. "I'm charming, if you haven't noticed," he teased. They fell into step with one another, headed out of the school in a surprisingly comfortable silence. Jihoon was torn between saying that he was sorry for what he had said the other day, or thanking the tall boy. Before he could do either, Seungyeon moved around in front of him. "Can we go somewhere? Like, I don't know, grab a hamburger or something?"

"Um, I don't-"

"I'll pay!" Seungyeon cut him off. Jihoon gave a short laugh at the excited tone in the tall boy's voice, and gave in with a nod. "Yay! Um, I am kind of new here, so... lead on!" he finished, with an over-exaggerated motion. Jihoon did laugh that time.

The place he led them