you don't have to l o v e  m e tomorrow

stray kids' lee know / twice's dahyun

+ seventeen's vernon, seventeen's seungkwan, (g)i-dle's soojin

school!au, friendship, slice of life, romance if you see it

for sweetcynicism

It's always like this: Minho dates pretty girls, Hansol gets roped into trouble(s) by Seungkwan, Soojin pretends she isn't friends with any of them, while Dahyun keeps them together.

i. 

Minho doesn't try to resist the yawn that threatens to split his face - he has a long night, his college girlfriend never care about 'school night' and asked to hang out, resulting in him lying to his parents about working on some group presentation at Hansol's place, who gave him a thumbs up emoji when Minho told him to cover for him if his parents ever asked - as he walks to the school's gate, hands in the pocket, shirt untucked, ties somewhere in his bag, when all of the sudden someone shrieks next to him, "AAAH!" before a hand covers his mouth. 

He frowns and glances down to a grinning Dahyun. "My hand is by your black hole," she tells him, so he leans forward until his lips touch Dahyun's hand.  She covers his mouth until Minho finishes yawning and leans back. "Your face can stuck like that forever if you don't close your mouth, do you know that? Your muscles get pulled and your face will look like this, permanent," she opens wide, "--wike dhis."

Minho snorts.

"Oh! I style my hair this morning!" undeterred by Minho's lack of reaction, Dahyun continues to talk though she changes the topic. "Look look, what do you think?" 

He turns his head to the side to look at Dahyun, and true, her usual long, sleek, shampoo-commercial-worthy hair is now wavy, it has more volume and it makes her looks...  less like the girl who the boys liked to tease back in junior high because she danced comically, more like the girl the boys like to tease now in high school because she dances comically but she's also a member of school's dance team. 

"Can I touch it?" 

"Sure sure, yeah, touch them all you want!" Dahyun tilts her head and puts her hair to the side. "Wait. Your hands are clean, right?" 

Minho reaches out, Dahyun babbles on about how she has to wake up at five and how she browsed videos for tutorials because she doesn't want it to be curly, she wants it to be wavy, and-- and Minho her hair, from top to the tips, and he stares at her side, the pale skin that looks paler next to the black hair.

"--so what do you think?" 

Minho retracts his hand and shoves it back where it's safe in his pocket. "Oh. You look pretty. It suits you."

Dahyun makes some disgustingly cute noises after hearing his answer, making finger guns and winks at him which makes Minho shakes his head with a small smile. "By the way, do you know that we're late? Like, SO LATE. C'mon, Flaming Charisma Lee Minho!" Minho is in the middle of rolling his eyes because of the lame joke Dahyun makes when Dahyun pulls him by the arm to sprint forward. 

When they reach the school's gate, several students are already kneeling on the ground with their hands raised, the PE teacher stands nearby carrying a wooden stick he uses to pokes the students here and there.  

"Oh look, Hansol and Seungkwan are also late!" Dahyun points out, voice too chirpy, as they come closer and notices Seungkwan's self-proclaimed natural brown hair which even more obvious it's dyed under the sunlight and Hansol's ASSC rainbow tie dye hoodie. They join the line, kneeling and raising their hands under the PE teacher's bark about how students now days don't respect time and how he had it harder back then - climb a mountain, swim across the ocean, fight bears - to attend school and he always came on time. 

Soojin who's in the student council and often on duty in the morning, steps next to the PE teacher, looks down to her friends, and doesn't even blink when she writes down their names. "Choi Hansol, first time this month. Boo Seungkwan, second time this month. Lee Minho, third time this month. Kim Dahyun, second time this month."

"It's Seungkwan's fault," Hansol mutters under his breath. "He said he want Havana's bread for breakfast. The line is unbelievable, but what even more unbelievable is Boo Seungkwan still went on with his plan."

"Listen, you uncultured swine, a gentleman needs Havana's chocolate bread to starts the day, I know you don't understand but the way the chocolate melts in your mouth, uuhhmmmm...," Seungkwan closes his eyes and lets out a low moan. 

"Stop re-enacting a scene and raise your hands, Seungkwan," Soojin tells him with that husky voice of her that made for jazz songs and lazy afternoons, earning chuckles from the other students before the PE teacher barks some more and tells them to shut up. Dahyun still grinning, though, telling them that it must be a sign of a good day ahead since they gather in the morning like this.

And it's always like this: Minho dates pretty girls, Hansol gets roped into trouble(s) by Seungkwan, Soojin pretends she isn't friends with any of them, all while Dahyun lights up the world.

(i.)

Minho overhears Dahyun's asking the same thing to Hansol later that day. The poor guy stares at Dahyun for so long, probably wondering what changes, what's the difference, before stutters out an agreement to Dahyun's 'So? Am I pretty?' while red stains his cheeks.

Hansol, Minho thinks, is an amateur.

It's always like this: seating in the second row, Soojin lets Dahyun does anything she wants, while in the third row Hansol lets Seungkwan does anything he wants. Behind them, Minho lets them do anything they want. 

ii.

One of these days, Dahyun will hurt her neck for always turning around to chat with the boys. "Hey, let's go to the pool this weekend!" she proposes with sparkly eyes as soon as the teacher leaves the room.  

"Yah Kim Dahyun, do you want to fund the pool's renovation? At this point they should give you a VIP membership, don't you think?" Seungkwan says, referring to the fact that Dahyun visits the public swimming pool too many times. "Don't you get bored always going to the pool?"

"No no!" Dahyun ties her hair into pigtails today. They swing around as she shakes her head. "I mean, let's go to the water park! What do you think? Soojin-ah. Say yes!" she grabs Soojin's hand and gives the girl an intense stare.

Minho always suspects that Soojin, despite her glamorous style - bright red lip tint, modified uniform with shorter skirt and fitted shirt, colored lens, it's always a wonder how she can goes into the teacher's room and leaves unscathed - has a soft spot for cute creatures, because she doesn't need more persuasion, saying, "Call," without even moving from her pose, propping her head with the palm of her left hand.

"Yes! That's two, Boo!" Dahyun flaunts two fingers in front of unimpressed Seungkwan's face. She fully turns to Hansol now. "What do you say, Hansol?" 

Meanwhile, Hansol suffers with great awkwardness, especially around girls. Especially around Dahyun. He never seems to know what to do or say to match Dahyun's enthusiasm and high energy. But he's a kind one, and his attempts are all with good intentions. He blinks repeatedly while trying to avoid Dahyun's intense stare. "Oh... this weekend...? Um..." 

"Choi Hansol! Be strong! Don't give in! We're having Stranger Things marathon, remember?" Seungkwan tries to shake his deskmate's body, probably to casts out Dahyun's spell on him. "We already plan this last week! You can't do this to me!" He's super dramatic, people actually shocked Seungkwan's not in the drama club.

Hansol turns to look at Seungkwan. "O-Oh. Right. Ah... Dahyun, how about... we'll go to water park next week? I can go with you... next week." 

"I can't," Soojin raises her hand. "I have a date. Let's just go this weekend, you can do your marathon next week." 

While Seungkwan goes on rant how the idea is atrocious, Dahyun's eyes shift to their last player. She smiles from ear to ear, it's kind of concerning. "Minho-yah?" she claps her hands together. "Minho-yah, look