“I want to draw you~!” Someone exclaimed and slapped their palm on his usual table at the university park

Shocked, Junmyeon looked up.

“Excuse me?” Junmyeon’s gaze fixed at a pale young male who was smirking, dimples showing

Shaking, he blinked back at Junmyeon, his color almost disappearing

“I gathered all my courage just to go up to you and say that but you want me to say it again?!” He said in a pointless offended tone.

Junmyeon just hold their gaze, answering a firm “Yes, of course. I don’t really know you and your request sounded really ridiculous”

Swallowing, the guy has his palm still planted unto the table, blinking as if confused with his own life decisions.

“Oh” the guy came in realization

He straighten himself. Smoothing his paint-stained uniform, adjusting his backpack and retreating his palms from the table. He went on fixing his unruly hair before offering his hand to Junmyeon.

“Zhang Yixing...” Junmyeon eyed the extended hand with confusion, eyes travelling from the hand to its owner. The guy just curtly nodded a couple of times.

When Junmyeon finally accepted the hand shake he did not expect the owner to be this.... what should he call it?...

“So I am from the Fine Arts and Design Department... Well, judging from my messy uniform painted with every color of the rainbow, I am a unicorn!~”

“What?”

“Haha! Got yah!” Well, this Yixing guy is... well...

“No, seriously though I am a fine arts student and our prof gave us this uhhh.... plate last week and I was passing the science building and you were sitting at one of those benches facing the science building and you were alone and you were eating that musubi and I thought you can model for me. I don’t know how to approach~...” Well the Yixing guy is also talkative...

“....~you at first since you were from Pharmacy and I guess people in that program is all that busy and , not that other programs are not busy too and just  because my roommate Luhan”

“The student council vice president?” Junmyeon asked trying to break Yixing’s word vomit

“Yeah! That one! Well I guess there’s only one Luhan in the entire uni but oh well... So. Going back, I asked Luhan if he knows you. I just described you and all and he said yes he did and he told me to just approach you since you are nice and all. So I stalked you and all for the entire week but I guess you are really busy...~” He is still going with the explanation thing. People are starting to stare at them because Yixing is all animated too while talking...

“....because man, I started stalking you since Monday. I even followed you to the Science section of the library and sat across you while earning a confused look from the library assistant because what am I doing in that library section right?! Drawing tables are at the 4^th floor for God’s sake! So yeah, I was following you and all but you didn’t even budge. I even know that you eat dinner at that fancy café outside campus and in reality, I cannot afford that every day but I was following you so I got broke man!...” Yeah, he is still going and Junmyeon is apparently running out of time

“So today, I decided that as I stare at you at your usual noon spot and before I get really sun burnt, I will ask you dire..... Whhhooooaaaaa~~~!!!” He was dragged towards the university’s main building entrance.

Junmyeon was dragging him by his wrist and he can’t believe that incredulous look that he got from the security guard when he did not swipe his ID on time. He muttered a quiet sorry before he got dragged again, they climbed an old looking creaking staircase to the second floor’s laboratory. When they reached another creepy looking thing that looks like an old door, Junmyeon let go of him. Junmyeon held the door for him as he entered

Yixing got really stiff and quiet for some time and he just watch Junmyeon setting up what looks like a chemistry experiment. He tried to act really careful and less jumpy when Junmyeon offered him to sit at one of the rows of chairs behind Jumyeon’s working table.

Junmyeon was placing samples on tubes when he became aware of Yixing’s intent stare.

“Why so quiet?” He looked at the arts student for a brief moment.
“I’m afraid that I might break things” Yixing whispered

Junmyeon chuckled at his reaction

“You’re aware that you can speak normally right?”
“But I act out the things I say... I might break things...” Yixing whispered again

“You’re cute~!” That made Yixing blink A LOT.

After Yixing’s awkward almost clumsy time in the laboratory, he was asked to go to dinner by the person he had stalked for a week.

They were ushered to a table in that café Junmyeon always eats his dinner at, Yixing looks worried because he is about to lost a good amount of money again.

“Do you want to know a secret?” Junmyeon asked him while he plays with the lone carrot on his plate.

“Huh?” He tilted his head, confused

“My uncle owns this place” Junmyeon smiles

“Oh! So that’s explains it!”

“Yep! And congratulations, your dinner is on the house.”

That’s a relief... He thought.

They were walking at the sidewalk to the art shop that Yixing needs to go to when silene fills them. They reached the shop on time with Junmyeon still insisting that he will accompany the latter and walk him to his dorm building.

“So are you up for it?” Yixing asked while grabbing some art materials from some racks at the shop.

“I don’t know... I might consider it...” Junmyeon answered

“Okay... I’ll wait but you need to come to terms with it soon okay? You know, deadlines” He looked at Junmyeon

“No rushing though.... But yeah... You get it, right?” He asked

“Yup, yeah... sure” He continued following Yixing throughout his late night art shopping

They were back at the sidewalk not long after. Junmyeon now trailing behind Yixing seemingly judging how can he talk Yixing out of making him his ‘model’ for his art project because he does not know if he fits the role of being a “model” really but then, they have already reached Yxing’s dorm lobby.

“Okay this is it!” The art major announced bouncing as he did so

“Okay... I guess I’ll just see you around?” Junmyeon was about to turn his back when his mind bugged him  for something...

“Yixing?” He called out the retreating figure

He turned around.

“Hm?”

“Why did you decided on me? I mean, I was just eating musubi when you saw me...”

“Well... in case you don’t know...” Yixing smiled his dimpled smile

“...Junmyeon, you are beautiful like crazy beautiful and I know a couple of people who stalks you on the internet” He said

And that’s when the confusion started.

“No! I didn’t want you to model for me!” He declared at 7am on a Monday while he accompany Junmyeon on feeding some lab rats at the research facility.

“But you said you wanted to draw me” He was placing the lab mice for a bath

“Yeah but I didn’t mean you’ll pose stoically in front of me while I do stuff on the canvass” Yixing explained while petting the mice placed in a deep basin

“So how will you draw me?” Junmyeon asked

“I’ll just draw you like, well, I already drew you. I sketch your face sometimes especially on those times I was deeply thinking on asking you if I can draw you” Yixing explained

Junmyeon walked to the nearest tap and filled another basin with soapy water.

“You already drew me so why did you even bothered to ask me then?”

Yixing took the liberty to get some towels and place them on the working table for the mice’s bath.

“You need help with that?” Yixing pointed at the basin Junmyeon is struggling to hold up

“Nahhh... You’re diverting the question. So why?”

“Well, I think it’s weird to just see your face on an exhibit without any notice right? I mean, if that happens to me I’ll probably hunt the artist down. You know... that’s some form of evasion of privacy?” Yixing thinks deeply while laying more towels down

“Fair enough...” Junmyeon shrugged after placing the mice’s bath water on the table.

“So do mice also take baths?” Yixing curiously asked petting another mice with his hand

“Yeah, you want your pets clean right?” Junmyeon said like it’s a normal thing to have lab mice existing somewhere in your life

“But they’re not your pets, are they?”

“Hm?” Junmyeon looked at him again

“Well Sehun might or might not have said that they will be put to rest at the end of your group thesis”

“You know Sehun?”

“Yep! Luhan’s boyfriend right?”

With that Junmyeon choked.

“Yeah... he always hangs out in our room though...” For that Yixing might be or might not be right.

A week has already passed since the stalking was put on rest but Yixing somehow managed to sneak in Junmyeon’s schedule every now and then.

Most times they meet after their respective class schedules. Yixing just stands outside Junmyeon’s last subject every other day and they will just hang out in laboratories and animal research houses because of Junmyeon’s group thesis.

Yixing already got the hang of it. Junmyeon is always almost alone every time, not that he wonders where his other groupmates were. He once met the tallest one Chanyeol who was in-charge of the plant material that they are studying.  The guy was really cheery and hyper and their personality totally jives with each other and he assumed that the groups in Science courses are just, well, hyper organized and he doesn’t even question that at all.

Yixing just stares most of the time too. Junmyeon is not even bothered anymore when Yixing just falls silent, a 180 diversion from his usual talkative default mode. Yixing will just stare at him while he is mixing solutions, making samples for his HPLC run and sometimes even when he is just computing his results.

Dinners with the Fine Arts major has already fallen into the norm by this time. Junmyeon almost always ends late anyway. He already came to know that Yixing hates carrots and will always toss the vegetable on the side of his plate or offer it to Junmyeon most times if Junmyeon is caught judgingly staring at it. He came to know that Yixing is definitely an all-around cheerful person. He talks to Chanyeol when the tall one is bothered with his extraction of their active ingredient from the plant sample that they are studying. Although lacking in knowledge on what they are doing, he just advices the tall one on not giving up on drying their extract even during the rainy days when nothing is evaporated from it. Chanyeol just hugs Yixing after and Yixing in return pats the giant’s back. Junmyeon even concluded that Yixing is really a nice person.

“I like that Fine Arts guy. You should keep him” Chanyeol said while they are reconstituting their extract for a purity test.

“We’re not even dating” Junmyeon plainly said

“You should date then!” and a test tube hit the marble top-table they are working on.

“What?! Are you crazy?!”

“Nope. Seriously hyung, keep him!”

“I don’t even know if he swings this way. I - I haven’t...”

A creepy grin made its way to Chanyeol’s face.

“Oh..... Then you should ask him” And the bastard just strut away to the centrifuge room.

The day after. It was awkward. Like hell awkward.

They were hanging out at the university plaza, Junmyeon was reading his notes while Yixing was well, drawing.

He stares at Yixing direction. He was busily swiping his hands on his canvass.

“Yixing..” He called out

“Hhhhmmm?”

“Have you ever had a girlfriend?”

“I’m not really that interested” He answered

“With?”

“I don’t know... Love? I am not totally into relationships. I mean, have you ever seen Luhan and Sehun fight over a slice of pizza and never talk with each other for days? That is some crazy . I don’t get it.” He answered while drawing

“But you don’t have to get it” Junmyeon argued, folding his notes on the table

“Really now?” Yixing looked up with that signature dimpled grin

“Yeah. I thought out of all the people I might come across into you will become the most drawn with it. I mean, most people who are interested in arts are more expressive and stuff”

“I guess I am not most people?” Yixing tilted his head a little.

“I don’t get you Yixing” Junmyeon huffed, frustrated

“I don’t get this Junmyeon” Yixing said

Junmyeon packed his things, ready to walk out.

Panic hit Yixing.

“Wait. What’s happening?” But Junmyeon was already on his wa

“I don’t know okay? I just need to go Yixing... just yeah...” And just like that he was gone.

“Did I said anything wrong? I thought you were asking for my opinion?!” He tried to stop Junmyeon from his steps. Blocking this way.

“No. I guess you didn’t but let me through. I just need to be alone Yixing. I need to think things through. I think I over-thought things” Junmyeon looked distraught.

“What things? I want to know” Yixing looks worried

“Just let me go this once”

“Please?”

With that Yixing’s hands falls to his side and he stepped away from Junmyeon’s way.

 It has been a whole month. A week of stalking, a week of randomly hanging out, a week of mice and meeting Chanyeol and a week of confusion. It has been a month and Yixing is still hanging in there, not sure if he should still draw Junmyeon or not.

He was staring at a blank sheet of canvass after a week of failed apologies to the pharmacy major. He does not even have a clue where he went wrong. He is still hanging in the air. He wanted to know why.

“He had the most beautiful face. Angelic features really but....” He was trying to explain his problem with the professor

“But?”

“I still don’t know if I am allowed to draw him” He said, head hanging low.

“But the exhibit’s next week Yixing... and you said you have known him for a month right?”

He nodded. “But he never said yes”

He needs that yes. He is after that yes and he’ll go. That’s all that mattered...

...or is it all that?

He patiently waited for Junmyeon outside his usual laboratory on a Wednesday afternoon. He saw Chanyeol went out the laboratory but the guy just dejectedly stared his way and walked off.

It was already pass six in the evening when Junmyeon finally got out.

“Junmyeon”

“Sorry if I bothered you a lot. I am really sorry. Thank you for the fun times and I really learnt a lot of science because of you, I guess I did become smarter because of you but in the end I just ended up hurting your feelings or whatever. Honestly, I still don’t get it but if you really do not want me around and you do not want me to draw you I guess it’s fine. I am sorry. It was really nice meeting you Junmyeon-ah”  Yixing bowed and made his way towards the nearest stairs.

The creaking noise that the stairs made is the last thing Junmyeon heard from Yixing for the rest of the week besides from Luhan screaming his name the following Monday.

“JUUUNNNMMMMYYEEEOOOONNN!!!!!!!! He did it! HE FREAKIN’ DID IT!” Luhan jumping  at the door, he almost hit his head on the frame.

“What are you doing here?” Junmyeon was holding a serological pipette being careful not to drop it while being puzzled at his friend

“Yixing.... your face.... your amazingly handsome face....” He approached Junmyeon clutching the working table while catching his breath

:”What? I do not understand”

“He painted your face and it was awesome! And he won! He won first place!”

“I - I thought.... it was just a project”

“It was actually he nearly did not meet the deadline but Sehun and I forced him last weekend! God! I am never prouder of ourselves!” He beamed

WHOOOAAAA!!! Was heard outside the window followed by whistles and chants of WAAAAYYY TO GO ZHANG YIXING! ZHANG YIXING! ZHANG YIxing!

They both heard rapid footsteps and the bang of the door when Chanyeol came rushing in

“Junmyeon hyun! WINDOW NOW!” Chanyeol literally dragged him when he did not moved at all

Outside was Yixing, holding a BIIIIGG placard saying

I KNOW I SAID I WON’T BUT I DID
      (Luhan and Sehun forced me!)
SORRY!

AND NOW I ALSO UNDERSTAND
      JUNMYEON, GO OUT WITH ME
Please?

Junmyeon ran as fast as he could meeting the silly, crazy and funny fine arts student at the university grounds. Locking his arms around the dumbfounded guy then locking lips with him. It was maybe awkward at first and confusing in the middle but at least they are now both here. Meeting in the middle and Yixing finally understood.

When they part for air. Yixing smiled

“You are so handsome, I won first place! So date me? Please? Or I’ll die here of embarrassment”  He whispered

Junmyeon nodded.

They both laughed how silly this might look like to the onlookers still marveling the view. Yixing later enveloped Junmyeon in his arms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Epilogue

“I do look great” Junmyeon said while standing infront of the painting that Yixing made and won first place with.

“You do. I think I already said you beautiful the first time you took me out, didn’t I?” They were both looking at said painting

“Stop being so greasy....”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A/N:
Yep. This was sitting for a while in my laptop now. Decided to publish it here. 
I hope I made my co-sulay shippers day brighter!
=)

#SuLayisLife