Baekhyun learned a lot about the school in two days. Infiltrating was like a kid’s game and he enjoyed it. Thanks to Jongdae’s information that he copied with a chameleon program to pass for any student that he wrote from scratch, he knew everything about the hidden organization made by the students themselves. The people who knew. Apparently, Jongdae could access to the library secret database of Seoul which holds the forbidden books and knowledge. Baekhyun had had access to some thanks to a few tricks but not the whole lot. Jongdae had a secret key that would be useful to Baekhyun. He could finally read more about romance and dream for a prince to rescue him. He was interested in boys. Not that it was forbidden however, having a boy partner was a bit unusual and not well seen.

The door suddenly opened to his best friend and roommate. Lu Han also called Luhan. The pink haired boy was smiling dreamingly and ran to his bed to cover his face with the pillow as he squealed.

“I bet something good happened.” Baekhyun closed his opened windows and turned his chair around.

Luhan hugged the pillow tightly with his face popping up shyly. “I just saw HIM!”

“Him?” The brunette repeated so that Luhan could explain further.

“You remember when you told me about love at first sight and I didn’t believe you?” Luhan fiddled with fingers.

Baekhyun blinked and was about to open his mouth to speak but Luhan was faster. “I went to my department and there he was! He is the cutest thing ever and he actually patted my head! For real! Because I was lost in his eyes, I mean I was lost in the building. He is a second year and…”

Baekhyun got up and held Luhan by his shoulders. “Luhan, breath. What’s his name?”

“Kim Minseok.” Luhan cooed and giggled like a high school girl. Creepy.

“Didn’t he greet us when we entered the dorm?” Baekhyun sat next to Luhan making the bed sink slightly from his weight.

“Yes but I was too busy on my phone playing Angry Birds V5383.4….”

Baekhyun almost facepalmed himself.

“Baek, do you think I have a chance?” Luhan beamed. “He is sweet, nice, hot, such a gentleman and…”

“How about you get to know him first?” Baekhyun slowed him down as he patted his best friend’s back.

“But if he is the one!”

“Well, you will know.”

Luhan was lucky to have a crush. Baekhyun wanted to learn how it felt as well. He had read so any stories about bubbly feelings in the stomach, the heart beating faster. It might seem like being sick but it could have a pleasurable feeling. But unfortunately he would never go to a compatibility test with a person. He had a reason. He had already tried but it never gave a good result.

Kim Minseok was one of the members of that weird underground group. He couldn’t tell Luhan yet though. He might get too excited.

“Baekhyun, what about you?”

“I have learnt a few stuff…”

“You hacked the school?”

“Nope, I didn’t need to do that.”

Luhan blinked in confusion. So Baekhyun answered him. “There’s a group of students who are like us, who know. You were actually right and I have proof.”

Luhan brought his legs on the bed to cross them as his interest rose up. “Do tell.”

“They have a group chat that I managed to infiltrate and they were looking for new recruits. Of course, I was undetected as a potential recruit. There are four people apparently in this organization. Thanks to a trail that was left by one of them, I went up the trail and found one of the people. When that person was busy following a first year, I sneaked in his locker and copied all the data in his pad.”

“Without getting caught? What about the security cameras? And the ID recognition?”

“You wouldn’t think I wouldn’t have thought about that, would you?” Baekhyun winked with the sound of tongue click.

“How awesome.” Luhan clapped being very impressed. “Your father would be proud.”

Baekhyun’s heart stung a bit but he knew that what Luhan said could be true.

**********

Chanyeol swiped his ID card on the machine before class.

“Park Chanyeol attending VG02 Conference.” The voice purred from the machine.

He entered his class and sat next to Do Kyungsoo who already took out his pad and installed it on his desk. His card was already in and made the pad buzz happily in activity.

“I heard that our school will participate in a big project of the Ubisoft firm.” Chanyeol told Kyungsoo excitedly as he took out his own pad and activate it with his card inside.

“Is that so?!” Kyungsoo’s eyes beamed. “That means we’ll be part of a making of a video game?!”

“It sounds cool, right?”

Chanyeol’s screen greeted him in shiny letters and opened the files needed for the class.

“How did you get that information?”

“Some people were talking too loudly about it and I happened to be there.” Chanyeol snickered. “Apparently, it is because of the latest Oculus Rift and the new dream induction.”

Kyungsoo opened his mouth to ask about it but a voice rose up in the room.

“Good morning, students.”

“Teacher Bang, you’re late today.” The machine answered when the professor swiped his card.

“One minute late. Heartless machine.”

A few students chuckled but they were immediately stopped as the burly professor glared at the whole class with his hawk stare.

“My name is Bang Yongguk. I am one of the Ubisoft representatives who were assigned to help you students in one of our big projects of all time using the Oculus Rift.”

The students gasped and got excited. Professor Bang knocked on his desk to get everyone’s attention back to him. “This will be one of the most important projects we have as it needs a lot of work and concentration. If you all work hard, everyone will be able to test out the game. The first years don’t have a lot of competences so you’ll take care of small tasks but still challenging.”

Bang Yongguk explained what the new Oculus Rift was and what was the new dream induction option. “It connects with your brain directly and puts it in dream mode as if you were sleeping but with the only difference is that your conscience is still there instead of your unconsciousness. That means you can control your mind and your trail of thoughts. It will be like living in another world. So yes, you can play video games as you are asleep.”

Chanyeol was impressed. He would love to play video games for hours without tiring himself. Actually, playing games while resting.

After a few explanations, Professor Bang introduced the video game that they were making without spoiling too much.

“The scenery is our society nowadays. It will be Seoul, our town that will be depicted virtually that it might seem like the same as our daily lives. Your mission will be to research and design some parts of the city we haven’t done yet. We count on you to make everything exactly the same as our Seoul. The years ahead you are asked to design missions in the game and character design. So you won’t be doing the same thing. It is quite demanding and I am sure you all will have fun.”

The man indicated that they would pair up to explore a certain part of Seoul and take pictures. They would model the buildings and replicate everything. Kyungsoo nudged Chanyeol to what Chanyeol nodded. Pairing up with Kyungsoo wouldn’t be bad at all. He already knew that they weren’t going to have any fights and they would both work hard on their projects.

However, the main plot wasn’t spoiled though. The students had no idea what the game was about. It was strictly confidential for the first years.

Chanyeol knew he had a lot to learn. He would do his best. That was what he intended to do to realize his dreams.

**********

Kim Jongdae disliked being played with. He was chewing his nails as an old habit. Minseok pulled his hands away from his mouth. “Don’t do that, Jongdae.”

“Aish, but I can’t help it!”

“Is it about Eyeliner?”

“Yeah… I am pissed. I can’t believe it still!”

“Oh, you knew there were people who might be more intelligent than you.”

“No! I cannot even imagine this possible!”

Drama Jongdae. Minseok shook his head and stuffed his face with his pork buns he bought earlier.

“You should eat, Jongdae.”

Jongdae sighed and picked his homemade meal. He looked at Minseok who had puffed cheeks. He chuckles. “Hey. Don’t you want me to cook for you sometimes?”

Minseok looked at Jongdae and smiled softly. “If it is not burnt, then I will accept gladly.”

Running footsteps approached quickly. “Guys! Have you seen Yixing?!”

Junmyeon huffed and caught up his breath when he stopped. The third year was kind of panicked.

“Isn’t he at his usual place?” Minseok asked with his mouth full.

“No… And I saw Kri- I mean Yifan smirk at me. I think he might prepare an evil plan again.” Junmyeon said quickly as he felt he was running out of time.

Jongdae frowned. If he had a rival, Yifan could be a potential one. Although, Eyeliner could appear much stronger than Yifan. Wu Yifan was a third year in the Programming department who also called himself Kris. However, Jongdae had discovered that the man worked as MISC’s spy. Yifan knew that he knew. It was all the problem. Moreover, Junmyeon, Yixing and Yifan used to be great friends until they had an argument and broke off their friendship. Junmyeon never told his friends why and Yixing avoided the subject mostly by doing what he was best at, sleeping.

“Guys, finish up your lunch and help me find Yixing!”

Junmyeon ran off again.

“He worries a lot about him.” Jongdae made an obvious observation.

“Do you think he noticed about it?”

“Nope, but it will be fun when he does.” Jongdae chuckled but was interrupted with food choking him.

“Eat. I am also starting to get worried about Yixing.”

**********

Yixing had the bad luck to speak Chinese with his mother on the phone and a first year, also Chinese, was bugging him.

“I have never met anyone from the same country as me. I thought I would be the only one.”

“But there are a few Chinese people here…”

“Really? You should tell me their names.”

“Ah...”

Yixing was never talkative by nature. He felt incredibly sleepy and that person… what was his name again? Anyhow, that person was ruining his sleep time greatly. And why did he stay in his classroom?

“Where do you used to live?”

“…”

“Yixing gege?”

Damn it. He almost managed to sleep.

“Luhan! Where are you?” Baekhyun called from afar.

“Oh, it’s my friend. Shall we meet later, gege?” The pink haired boy smiled softly at the other.

“…”

“I take that as a yes. Bye!”

Yixing looked with droopy eyes the pink haired boy waddle away. His hair reminded Yixing of candy floss. Now he was hungry but sleep comes first afterall.

The door opened again though to the boy’s unfortunate destiny. “Yixing!” A relieved Junmyeon appeared.

“Hey…” Yixing waved at Junmyeon slowly and lazily.

“Why weren’t you at the rooftop?!”

“Ah… Candy floss… and…” Yixing yawned not being able to explain anything further as drowsiness invaded him.

“Candy floss?” Junmyeon sat in front of Yixing and watched his friend resting his head on his arms.

“Hm… Couldn’t sleep…”

“It wasn’t Kris, was it?”

Junmyeon stopped talking altogether when he heard the soft snores. He guessed it wasn’t Yifan since Yixing didn’t seem bothered too much. Yixing, Yifan and him would hang out a lot. Yifan changed and started to be influenced by greater powers. He even suggested them to join him however, their friendship was already broken.

Junmyeon pet Yixing’s hair caringly. “I miss the old days. Sometimes, I wish Yifan would open his eyes.”

**********

Today, Sehun wasn’t bothered by the second year and he was glad. He could eat happily with Chanyeol although Jongin was totally ignoring Kyungsoo and the small one tried hard to hold a conversation with him.

“We’ll check a few bugs in the game. Professor Kim Himchan told us that the programs we will work on are crucial. Most of the people of my class don’t understand a single thing in programming. I wonder how they even got here.” Sehun bit in his sandwich. He could only hold decent conversations with Chanyeol but he had to stand Jongin’s presence.

“No one is a genius like you.” Chanyeol grinned. “Jongin, what do you do in robotics?”

“We will work on the Oculus Rift Revolution as they call it.” Jongin said with a mouthful of rice.

“How disgusting…” Sehun grimaced. “Why is he eating with us already?”

“Because I am your y roommate.” Jongin still talked with his mouth full, chunks of none identified food visible in his mouth.

“Right, you’re just a disgusting douche.” Sehun scrunched his nose at his pig roommate.

“Touché.”

“Kyungsoo, how about we choose Gangnam district?” Chanyeol nudged the quiet boy.

“Ah… It could be interesting…”

“Do you have another district in mind?” Chanyeol saw the discomfort in the smaller’s eye.

“I was thinking about Hongdae…”

“Ah… It’s a good place. I recommend it.” Sehun agreed. “I found a nice pair of shoes there.”

“Then we’ll do Hongdae!” Chanyeol cheered.

“Are you sure?” Kyungsoo didn’t want to seem like a bother.

“Well, it’s not like I know a lot about Seoul anyway.”

“Not that you know a lot.” Sehun joked as he took another bite off his sandwich.

“Ouch, my pride.”

“I heard there is a big Compatibility Centre there.” Jongin informed pulling the conversation back at him.

“Not interested at the moment.” Sehun snapped. “I will ask a girl worthy of me to go to a Compatibility test, not arranged like Park Chanyeol.”

“Sehun!” Chanyeol scolded not liking where the topic was turning towards to.

“Oh come on, Chanyeol. It’s not that of a secret. Your mother almost screams it in the streets so that no girl ask you.”

Chanyeol rolled his eyes. “I still want to be able to choose the person whom I am going to have a compatibility test with. It’s not like any of my parents are big entrepreneurs or company bosses or investment holders. ”

“Have you met the girl you were partnered up with?” Kyungsoo questioned curiously.

“No, and I will never meet her. It’s my choice.”

“Tch, how will you ever get out of it, anyway?” Sehun knew that it was almost impossible to get out of Chanyeol’s type of situation with a mother like Mrs Park.

“I will. That’s all.”

I feel like this chapter is a bit chaotic so I hope I didn't lose any of you D:

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