Luhan bursts inside the Student Council room, his backpack falls unceremoniously on the floor under his desk as he checks the pile of papers in front of him. "This isn't the right time to be really late!" He screams to no one in particular, he scans the empty room - none of the rest of his staff are here yet - and he almost wants to rip the eyes of whoever will come strolling through the door next. "I'm sure I said 9:00!"

The door of the small office opens and Luhan marches forward to scream at the late-comer but decides not to bother when the Vice President, Yifan, walks in with his face buried in a book. The tall blond just sits on his desk, not a care to Luhan and continues reading his novel.

"Good morning to you, too." Luhan sarcastically mumbles, Yifan just gives him a low, 'huh.' The president decides that even if Yifan is here, he won't be of much help anyway, thus he returns to filing the documents on his desk.

"Hey! Am I late?!" Kyungsoo, the secretary, yells as he barges inside the office, face slicked with sweat and breathing uneven. "I didn't hear my alarm and I'm so sorry!"

"You're not late. He's just really early." Yifan tells the younger without even sparing him a glance. Kyungsoo sighs in relief and drops his bag on the small couch. He walks over to Luhan's desk and he hands him a cookie (he doesn't offer any to Yifan, he loathes sweet stuff), "Exchange students are coming today, right?" Kyungsoo starts, "Do I deal with them or you?"

"I'll deal with them. It's supposed to be HIS," there's venom on Luhan's tongue as he glares at Yifan then turns back to Kyungsoo when the only reaction he gets from the taller is a page of the book turning, "job, but that's okay. Exchange students might run back to their country if they see his face. You go and look for the club presidents and tell them to finalize their major projects for the year so we can divide the funding."

"That's great. I'm gonna meet Minseok today for breakfast, so I'll go ahead and ask him about the theater club."

Luhan pouts, "You still have time to date. I'm envious."

Kyungsoo slaps Luhan's shoulder lightly, "He's my bestfriend, come on! It's not a date."

"Whatever. I wish I could go out too." Luhan leans closer to Kyungsoo and whispers, "and not be stuck with a faced statue inside this office."

"I'm not a faced statue." Yifan comments as he turns another page from his book.

"You weren't supposed to hear that!" Luhan yells over Kyungsoo's ear, the younger flinches. Yifan takes a sip of his coffee and completely ignores the president. Luhan slumps on his chair and beckons Kyungsoo to leave.

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Tao adjusts his backpack on his right shoulder and then carries a huge bag on his hand. He struggles a little as he stares at the map he was given at the main administrative office. He lost his way finding the Faculty of Arts and Letters building itself after the group of exchange students were dropped off at the main building to fend for themselves. Now that he's inside his building, he's sure he'll be lost looking for the Student Council office too. He looks at the signs and it's either in Hangul or in English and honestly, he's not very confident with his understanding of both languages except for the Korean language, he can communicate quite well, but reading it is the problem.

He stays in the lobby, looking at the diety of the goddess Athena, the department's icon and symbol. There are staircases across each other heading to the second floor, and in front of him, he guesses is the faculty office judging from the older people coming in and out of the said room. There are two hallways on both sides leading to a number of rooms, some students are walking down the hallway. He sighs in defeat when most of them try not to get near him, "Must be my dark aura. Again." Tao mentally pouts as he tells himself that. He decides to take a left and walk through the hallway. He's walking with his head down, trying to figure out the sorry excuse of a map when someone crashes onto him.

"I'M SO SORRY!"

Tao looks down to see a wide-eyed boy on the floor, scratching his . "T-that's okay." Tao tells him, he mentally slaps himself when he realizes he spoke in his mother tongue.

"Ah! Exchange student, right?! Chinese? Luhan can definitely help you!" The shorter boy has already gotten up, "I'm Do Kyungsoo, I'm a secretary for the student council, Luhan's waiting for you."

"Uh, where is Luhan?" Tao asks in his elementary Korean. He hates how his confidence had died, this isn't how he talks to his Korean friends.

"Oh! Right. 2nd door on the right. Only glass door in the hallway." Kyungsoo waves goodbye before running off again. Tao sighs, he isn't able to say his thanks so he hopes to see him again.

Tao fixes his backpack again before entering the office, he sees two persons busy on their desks. He walks over to the one reading a book, "Luhan?" The reader doesn't look up but just points his thumb over his shoulder. "Oh. Sorry." Tao walks away from Yifan's table and sits on the chair in front of Luhan's desk, "Luhan?"

"Who's asking?" Luhan looks up with a happy smile, Tao sighs, "Uh, me?

Luhan looks at Tao and then speaks in Mandarin, "Exchange student?"

Tao nods, Luhan looks over his shoulder, "Only you?"

"Yeah. All the other students are in the art or engineering department. I'm the only one for Philosophy."

Luhan pouts then smiles brightly, it's almost blinding. "I was expecting a whole lot more," Yifan chuckles and Luhan throws a crumpled paper to his direction, the vice president tilts his head and the paper misses him, "Nevermind him. I'm Lu Han, you can call me Luhan."

"Huh?" Tao raises an eyebrow, Yifan chuckles again and another thrown crumpled paper misses him.

"My surname is Lu. But I don't like being called Han. I lived through elementary being called Ham. Hamster. Just, no. So, Luhan. You are?"

"Huang Zitao."

"Great." Luhan claps his hands together, "Come with me. Looks like I'm giving a one on one tour."

Tao nods and stands up, he takes his bags and Luhan notices how heavy they look, "Let's head to your dorm first."

"Better."

"Yo, Yifan. Be useful and assist the students, don't be a . It's the first day of the semester for goodness' sake." Luhan reminds Yifan, the vice president just nods.

"Nice to meet you." Tao nods a little in front of Yifan, the vice president finally looks up to see Tao straighten up with a shy smile on his face. Yifan just stares until Tao and Luhan leaves. He doesn't notice that he loses grip of his book and it closes, un-bookmarked.

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"Who was that?" Tao while the both of them are walking in the corridor. Luhan speaks in Korean as a reply, "You should try and speak more in Korean. And that was Wu Yifan. Literature major. He's a senior student like me, but I major in Communication Arts. He's the student council's vice president."

Tao nods, understanding a bit of what Luhan's just said. Luhan points some of the places and buildings to Tao as they walk. He explains stuff and the younger Chinese just nods even if it passes from one ear and out the other. He notices just how many students greet and dote on Luhan as they walk by. When they're near the dorms, Luhan takes the paper from Tao's hand, "Ah. Dorm B." They walk to the direction of the building, "I'm from Dorm A. Yifan's on Dorm D. Because he's a ."

"What?"

"I kid. Sorry, Yifan's a good vice president if he wants to be." Luhan laughs and just walks to the reception and talks about Tao's accomodation. A few minutes later, he returns to Tao with keys in his hand, "Here you go. He said your roommate's already there."

They take the elevator to the 3rd floor and they stop at room 307. The door is a bit ajar and Tao kicks it a little with his foot, a boy turns to them. He's got pale-white skin and silver hair. "Are you my roommate? I'm Oh Sehun."

Tao nods, he enters the room and Luhan follows him inside. Sehun stares at Luhan, takes in the president's features and if he could swallow it, he would so that it won't leave his memory, his nerves, his bones.

"Hi! I'm Luhan, are you a freshman too?"

Sehun just nods for the lack of words to say, "Are you an AB student too?"

"Y-yes. Major in Economics." Sehun shyly responds. Tao ignores the two and starts to unpack on his side of the room. Luhan notices this, "Oh, Tao. I think it's better if you settle first. How about we take the tour after lunch? You wanna come, Sehun?"

Sehun nods even if he has no idea what the tour is about, "Okay! Both of you come to the Student council around 1pm, okay? I'll see you later!" Luhan waves goodbye to the two of them and leaves the room.

"I'm Huang Zitao, by the way." Tao turns to Sehun and nods, "I'm a Philosophy major."

"Right. Uhnm, I'll just meet you at the student council later, I need to go see my cousin. Excuse me." Sehun suddenly runs out, leaving Tao alone.

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"Hey, baby cousin!"

"I'm not a baby, Jongin!" Sehun slaps his cousin's shoulder, "I need to ask you something..."

"No. I don't have any more books I can spare you. I sold all my freshman materials."

"I know. I expected that from you."

Jongin takes a drag on his cigarette, Sehun coughs and his cousin blows smoke to his direction, "Gyah!"

"You're so cute, Oh-mija!"

"I will cut you." Sehun scoffs, "Why are you smoking? You're a friggin' dancer."

"But I don't smoke all the time, only when I feel like it." Jongin throws the cigarette to the ground and crushes it with his shoe, he turns to his cousin, "Okay, enough of my habit, you aren't here to preach about it, right?! So tell me, baby cousin, what's up?"

"Do... Do you know Luhan?"

"Who doesn't know Luhan? He's the student council's president."

"I mean, do you know Luhan?"

"Indirectly, I guess? I don't associate myself with people from the student council. It's like associating myself with those corporate ers with their suits and ties, it's scary."

Sehun laughs and takes a sip of his bubble tea, "Whatever. You're just staying away from them because they're more responsible than you."

"That too." Jongin laughs, "What's with the sudden interest to the honorable Luhan?"

"I... I think I have a crush."

"Kyaaah!!!" Jongin makes a very unmanly sound and starts pinching his cousin's cheeks, "You're so cute! You're so cute!!!"

"Stop it! Motherer!" Sehun flails, Jongin removes one hand from the younger's cheek and starts ruffling his hair. "Stop it!!!"

"Kim Jongin!" A voice stops Jongin from continuing on, the cousins look up to see Do Kyungsoo glaring at the tanned boy, "You're bullying kids again?!"

"Why do you even bother with him, Soo? He makes your blood boil every morning, and the rest of the day too." A chubby-cheeked boy adds.

"Oh, hello to you too, Minseok. Gonna outgay Moulin Rouge from last year?" Jongin greets the two with a smirk, Minseok rolls his eyes. "Romeo and Juliet is a classic." The chubby-cheeked boy retorts.

Sehun just watches as his cousin teases the two older boys (though he personally questions both their ages). He fixes his hair without taking his eyes off the three. "Classically boring." Jongin smirks and Minseok yelps in mock hurt.

"You are a horrible, horrible man!" Kyungsoo pokes Jongin's chest. The younger grabs it, "Oh, babe. Don't say that." Jongin smiles then pecks the back of the shorter boy's hand, "You know you love me."

Kyungsoo turns bright red immediately up to the tips of his ears, "KIM JONGIN!!!"

"You're so adorable Kyungsoo. Now both of you, leave me alone with my baby cousin, okay?" Jongin grins, "I can bully him as long as I want. It's my priviledge. Check yours."

"You ." Minseok comments before grabing Kyungsoo away from Jongin. The younger sits next to his cousin again, Sehun is grinning at him. "What?"

"It's like you and Taemin in high school all over again."

"What?"

"Remember you to no end in high school and you ended up dating for a year. You like that Kyungsoo, huh?"

"I do not. He's just so easily teased! And he's the student council's secretary so, just, no way!"

"You also have a crush!" Sehun teases and Jongin pinches his nose, the younger squirms in pain.

"NO WAY. Taemin is a different story. He's graceful, and free. Kyungsoo's a stuckup Behavioral Science major who's out to get me as a study subject." Jongin pinches Sehun's nose harder before letting go. The younger grabs his cousin's arm and bites his wrist, Jongin yelps and slaps Sehun on the head. "You are such a kid Sehun."

"Says you." Sehun tries to soothe the pain from his nose. "You know what," the younger checks his watch and it's almost 11, "Forget it. Forget I ever asked about Luhan. You're friggin' useless." Sehun walks away from the alley where Jongin and him are sitting by the sidewalk. Jongin lights another cigarette before his class starts in 30 minutes.

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"I hate that Kim Jongin!" Kyungsoo screams in frustration as he and his bestfriend walk inside their building.

"You do realize he's the dance club's president now, don't you?" Minseok tells him, Kyungsoo gasps.

"He is!? Wasn't it supposed to be Kibum?"

"Kibum was. Until he transferred to another university."

"Oh my god! He's gonna give me a freaking hard time!" Kyungsoo whines again.

"So, I'm gonna go ahead. I'm meeting with some of our club members. Tell Luhan to allocate more funds this year, okay? It's my last year and this is my goodbye stage."

"Save the drama." Kyungsoo waves him goodbye and he heads to his class. Minseok walks silently along the hallways and finds Yixing inside their little office when he gets inside. "Oh. Hello! You're here early."

Yixing looks up from his phone, "I have classes later around 3 and I still have time. I was bored at home."

"Yeah. About that, have you found a new roommate?"

Yixing sighs, "Nope. And I'm gonna have to pay the rent soon. My parents won't stop nagging if I get more money from them after choosing not to live in the dorms."

Minseok looks over at some of the screenplay they've been looking over from last year. He files them in a folder labeled "not in a million years" and hides said folder in the last drawer of his desk. They're doing Romeo and Juliet, that's final.

Yixing watches Minseok look at the things they're planning to do to get new members on club week starting next Monday. "Hey, 'xing." The club president calls out without looking up from his laptop, "Any ideas you wanna input to get new members?"

"Make them cry blood while watching a romcom."

"You're so dramatic." Minseok chuckles. "Seriously, Yixing."

"I'm pretty serious. You made me cry my heart out while watching a friggin' variety show."

"And you're part of this awesome club now."

Yixing rolls his eyes, 'And for 2 years, I've never been a lead character...'

There's a knock on the door, "Excuse me? I'm looking for..." The short boy looks at the flyer in his hand, "Zhang Yixing?"

Yixing stands up from seat when he noticed the flyer on the newbie's hand, "For the apartment?!"

"Y-yes?"

"Oh my god!" Yixing exclaims too excitedly that the newcomer backs away a little.

"Yixing, calm your friggin' . You're scaring him."

"Oh! Right. I'm so sorry. I'm Zhang Yixing. That's Kim Minseok. You are?"

"I'm Kim Jongdae. I was a psychology major but I recently transferred to major in Literature."

"Great! I major in Asian Studies. He's a Communication Arts major but I don't know why I'm even introducing him to you. Wanna go see the place?"

Jongdae nods. Minseok waves the both of them a hand as farewell and the two walks out of the room. "I'm so glad you're interested to share the place." Yixing starts, Jongdae chuckles next to him, "Well, technically, my ex-boyfriend kicked me out and I need a new place fast. Your flyer's the first thing I saw on the bulletin board."

"Aren't I glad you did?" Yixing smiles then a flash suddenly blinds him and Jongdae. The Chinese furrows his brows to find Kim ing Joonmyun with his camera in front of him. Again.

"You know you can just ask me, Joonmyun!"

"But I'm not taking your picture. I'm taking pictures of what's happening right now."

Yixing rolls his eyes, "What-ing-ever."

"So, do you think you're gonna be a lead this year?"

Yixing's face softens, "I'm not betting on it. Anyway, meet Jongdae he's my potential new roommate!"

"Hi!"

"Hey! I'm Kim Joonmyun. I'm the photographer for the department's paper and I'm also part of the photography club."

"We're gonna go ahead. See you around." Yixing waves him goodbye, Jongdae does the same.

Joonmyun reviews the pictures he's taken so far and smiles to himself as he looks at the picture of Yixing smiling at Jongdae. He's still looking at the picture that he doesn't notice another student looking over his shoulder.

"You think he'll notice you this year, senpai?"

Joonmyun almost drops his camera in shock, he turns to see Byun Baekhyun grinning at him, "Are you trying to kill me?"

"Not as much as Yixing has killed you over and over. When are you gonna confess to him?"

Joonmyun rolls his eyes, "Look, Baekhyun. I'm okay like this."

Baekhyun shakes his head, "How can you be okay like that for over a year? I mean, come on."

"Yixing is like a delicate piece of art," Joonmyun starts as he walks towards their small office next to the student council's room, "he's okay encased in a frame or a glass box and as a spectator, I'm happy to look at it and not touch it."

Baekhyun fakes vomit, "Stop it! You're making me sick with the cheesiness. Go ahead and ravish him!"

"How dare you!? I won't do that to him!"

"I'll ravish him if you won't." Baekhyun teases and Joonmyun punches him lightly on the shoulder. "I kid."

They're about to enter the glass door when Baekhyun is suddenly pushed aside by a tall student with his light brown hair in a ponytail. His uniform is ed and he's showing his wifebeater that hugs his firm body and Baekhyun couldn't help but stare because this is Park Chanyeol, their department's basketball team's captain.

"I'm so sorry!" Chanyeol's deep voice booms and Baekhyun's pulled back into reality and he just nods and mumbles an "i-it's okay."

"You go first." Chanyeol opens the glass door wider and Baekhyun enters, followed by Joonmyun.

"Yo, Yifan!" Chanyeol's voice booms again and the student council's door closes. Baekhyun looks at the empty (and rather small) hallway and Joonmyun chuckles from behind him.

"What?"

"You preach about me and Yixing and here you are fawning over Park Chanyeol."

Baekhyun raises an eyebrow before unlocking their office, "There's a huge difference between Yixing and Chanyeol, okay?" The Journalism major starts, "Chanyeol is popular. Everyone wants him, wants to be with him and I'm a nobody. I write for the school paper and that's it. I'd graduate and I won't leave a mark in this university. In the end, unless I'm the editor-in-chief in our paper, I'm nobody but a contributor."

Joonmyun plops himself down on a couch, "Go on."

Baekhyun grins at Joonmyun, "As for Yixing, he's never had a lead role in their plays, he's quite a somebody but a bit of a nobody if you get what I mean." Joonmyun raises an eyebrow, Baekhyun sighs as he leans on his desk, "You won't have to fight for his attention with half of the population of the department. And in my case, maybe a third of the university's population given the popularity Chanyeol is getting."

Baekhyun is about to say something again when the door to their office opens to Yifan and Chanyeol, "Huh." The vice president exclaims, "What is it?" Baekhyun asks, glad that at least his voice isn't breaking this time.

"Where's Jonghyun?" Yifan asks, seeing the editor-in-chief's desk empty.

"No idea." Joonmyun responds, "Do you need anything?"

"Yeah." Chanyeol pushes Yifan aside so that he can step forward and enter the office, "I'm looking for an issue from last year. I think it was from last November? I hope you still have it."

"Any particular article you're looking for?" Joonmyun asks, realizing that Baekhyun's system has shut down and his friend is now immobile against the desk (since Chanyeol is now in front and not obstructed by Yifan anymore).

"The one where we won against the Engineering team!"

Baekhyun has at least 3 copies of that particular issue because he loves the way Chanyeol's smiling in the picture Joonmyun had taken. He could have easily taken the raw picture from his friend but there's something different about the said photo when it's plastered on paper, next to the article he's written about the game.

"Wait a moment." Baekhyun finally springs back to life and moves around his desk to open up his middle drawer and take out the issue, "Here you go." He hands the paper to Chanyeol, the team captain pats the shorter on the shoulder, "Thanks!" The two tall guys leave the room and Joonmyun chuckles.

"Shut up!" Baekhyun yells.

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"Shut up!"

Chanyeol turns back to the room he and his bestfriend just left before the both of them return to the student council's office.

"You do know you can just ask Baekhyun out and not be a total nerd about it." Yifan starts once he's back on his desk and Chanyeol's slumped on the couch. He's already placed the newspaper inside his bag and is now pouting at his bestfriend.

"I don't even know how I'll start." Chanyeol sighs and places his chin on his palm, "I want a reason to talk to him but I don't think we have any common interest."

"Why don't you try?"

"Because butterflies!"

"Because what?" Yifan looks up from his book and Chanyeol repeats himself. The vice president clears his throat, "Butterflies?"

"I get the butterflies in my stomach and it's hard to ignore. Before I can even think of saying anything to Baekhyun, the butterflies go haywire and I can't say anything anymore."

"You were able to speak to him earlier."

"Because you're there and Joonmyun's there but just the thought of just me and him is already turning me into a puddle of goo."

"Stop it Chanyeol. Very unbecoming of you."

"Haven't you ever had a crush?"

"Chanyeol. I'm friggin' 20 years old."

"And so?"

"Crushes are for hormonal teenagers."

Before Chanyeol can say anything, the student council's room opens and Yifan knows time stopped when Tao pops his head inside, "I-is Luhan in?"

Yifan doesn't say anything, but just stares. Chanyeol smirks, he turns to Tao, "Looks like Luhan's not yet here."

Tao pouts and checks his watch, "Well, it is just a quarter before 1 and I'm quite early. I'll just come back."

"No! Stay." Chanyeol moves to the side of the couch and Tao walks in. Yifan tries in desperate attempt to look busy by turning his attention back to his book. Chanyeol inwardly laughs at the rare public display of embarrassment of his bestfriend. "I'm Park Chanyeol. I major in Economics in 3rd year. I'm also the basketball team's new captain. You are?"

"I'm Huang Zitao. You can call me Tao."

Chanyeol grins wider and offers a handshake, Tao takes it and Chanyeol can feel the glare coming from Yifan. He decides to shake Tao's hand longer for good measure. The student council's room bursts open again this time with Luhan and Sehun, "Oh! Tao! Great! You're here already!" Luhan greets him, "I found Sehun on the way here, so? Shall we go?"

"Yeah." Tao stands up, he waves goodbye to Chanyeol and Yifan before leaving with Sehun and Luhan. When the team captain is sure that Luhan and the freshmen are out he bursts in a fit of laughter.

"And you say crushes are for hormonal teenagers! You're worse than me!"

"Shut up." Yifan buries his face harder in his book if it's anymore possible so he can hide the blush that has crept into his cheeks.

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Author's Notes: This will be a short chaptered fic, maybe 8 chapters maximum. Enjoy!