"5..4..3..2..1." Jihoon mumbled under his breath. I looked over him. "What?"
Right then, the bell rang again, indicating that the school day was now over. Without a word, Jihoon grabbed his things and stuffed it into his bag.
"See you tomorrow partner." he smiled before putting up his chair and running out the door. "Well then."
"He's always like that. He's the leader of the music club at our school and he has to start prepping for the club fair tomorrow." Soonyoung walked towards me and picked up my bag. "So don't worry about him."
"I wasn't, thank you very much." I grabbed my backpack away from him and slung it over my shoulder. "Now, you and I need to have a serious talk."
Soonyoung gave me a weird look. "Oh gosh. You only say that when you have to either scold me about who I like or scold me about my lifestyle."
I scoffed. "You act as if I don't care about you!"
He snorted. "Let's be honest, when have you EVER cared about me?" 
"Yah," I pushed him. "Excuse me, but I'm a very caring person!" 
Soonyoung ignored me and looked around. "Where's Miso?"
"She has tutoring today so you won't have to be breaking her heart for the time being." I glared at him. Soonyoung looked down at me before wrapping his arm around my neck and head locking me. "Since when have I ever broke her heart, huh?"
I pretend to choke before biting his arm. "Since you never returned her feelings, you idiot!" 
"Dude, if I like someone else, I can't help it."Soonyoung shrugged. "It's better to say that than to actually play with her feelings."
I narrowed my eyes."You're evil. Do you know that?"
He sighed. "Yeah, I know, okay." he ruffled his hair. "She's really sweet and kind, really. But I only see her as a dongsaeng."
I scrunched up my nose. "What am I then?"
Soonyoung stared at me before pinching my nose. Hard.
"Ow! The heck Soonyoung! What was that for?" I cried.
"You're a monster." he laughed. "And that was for slapping me earlier."
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"So, have you been practicing over break?" Soonyoung asked as we entered the empty dance studio. 
"Don't act like you don't know the answer to that. We spent the whole winter together."
"Yeah, but I felt the need to ask you so you can remember how sloth-like you were during this break." he gave me a pointed look. I shrugged. 
"Everyone hibernates during winter, okay? You're the one who's weird. Spending hours upon hours in the practice rooms and never coming out. Your mother had to tell me to pry you out of the room, for goodness sake." I shook my head at the memory before punching his arm. "Stop making your mother worried."
"Dancing is my passion. My family, and your family, both know that." he smiled blissfully as he twirled across the room.
"Why are you trying to make it mine?" I groaned as I followed. Soonyoung stopped mid-twirl. "If I'm not mistaken, you're the one who asked your mom to start dance classes after you came to my first dance recital in the 3rd grade." he grinned. "Remember?"
"You know, everyone was taking dance classes back then! Ballet is kind of a given for girls my age." I grumbled. 
"But you don't regret a thing, right?" he nudged me before plugging his phone into the speaker's aux cord. "Now hurry up and change so we can warm up and start."
I nodded and pulled out my things before going to bathroom to change. As I entered, I saw my reflection and sighed. There it was. 
My grumpy looking face. I tilted my head before pulling the corners of my lips upwards. "How do they manage to have such beautiful smiles?" I mumbled to myself as I thought of my friends' smiles.
    
Welp. I tried. I sighed again before hurriedly changing into comfortable clothes and my dancing shoes. 
"Let's do this, Soonyoung." I said as I exited. I was greeted instead by the face of...
"Jihoon?" I blinked and looked around. "Where'd Soonyoung go?"
"To the bathroom. Don't worry, you won't be alone with me. He just invited me to this dance session." he got up and stretched. 
I tilted my head. "You look so different without your uniform on." I mindlessly blurted. 
"What?" Jihoon laughed slightly and looked at me. I shrugged. "You just do."
"Not as short maybe?" he joked. I cringed as the memory of this morning appeared in my mind. 
"I'm really sorry about that. I was really rude right?" 
He held up his fingers. "Just a little. But it's totally fine. Since you still manage to be 4 inches or so shorter than me."
"Huh?" 
Jihoon gripped my shoulders and pulled me next to him. "Look. Your forehead is like right around my lips. So short." he laughed before pausing.
"Crap. That's NOT what I was trying to say, Yeonhee. My bad." 
I furrowed my eyebrow. "What?"
"Um..nothing! Nothing. I'm gonna just.." he inched away from me and reached for his things. "I'm gonna head back to...somewhere. Gotta start studying, you know."
Soonyoung came out of the bathroom and grabbed his friends wrist. "Studying? Since when did you study, Lee Jihoon?"
"Gah, shut up!" Jihoon waved really quickly before taking his leave."See you guys later!"
Soonyoung turned to me and glared. "WHAT DID YOU DO YEONHEE."
I shrugged. "Nothing?"
"YOU SCARED MY FRIEND AWAY." Soonyoung grunted before pushing my forehead lightly. "He's really good at dancing too! You could've gotten a really great lesson from him."
"Hey, he chose to leave, not me."
"But you're at fault! What happened, while I was gone, anyways?"
I thought for a moment over how our conversation went.
"Really, nothing."
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Jihoon POV:
"Aish, what's wrong with you Lee Jihoon!?" I cried as sped-walked to the music rooms and took a seat at the piano. "Seriously? 'Your forehead is right around my lips'?! THAT'S SO CRINGE-WORTHY UGH."
Sighing, I put my head down on the keyboard.
"I'm so done with everything."
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a.n:

hahahahahaha this is the photo I refered to.
anyways,
sorry guise, I'm creying a little. I was in Korea for this summer and I got back a little while back. BUT OMG I WAS SO CLOSE TO MEETING SEVENTEEN. ;__; 
they're having a fanmeeting in a week or so at the town that I stayed in, and here I am. across the world from them.
but luckily, I have you guys and youtube <3
oh yes, and if you are or know anyone who likes Junghan and Joshua, my friend 'beautifully' has started to write a story. I'll keep the storylink below!
 regardless, thank you all again! stay wonderful~
 

you're my twenties