a new day and jisung walks into his fifth period which is math, he hated how it was towards the end of the day because he surely was never going to listen to the newly presented lessons. but, he needed to set his attention on the board because from today till next week they will be doing a project with an assigned student of the teacher's choice. he was never excited when it came to those, because his last partners always dropped all the work onto him. if he didn't finish all the elements that would bring him a decent grade, the letter that displayed on the grade book would come falling down.

he takes his seat, which is practically set in the middle of the classroom. but as everyone starts to settle in, their teacher mr. simon quiets down the class so he can start discussing the project. due to a big test coming up, their grades will be affected majorly if they didn't complete the project or do well on the exam. so, his assignment for the two students would be to create a five page study guide with problems and answers with explanations on how to do the problems, and of course how they concluded to the answer. they had one week to complete the assignment, if not done. say goodbye to your math grade.

mr. simon begins to call out the pairs for the class, jisung's leg immediately started to bounce up and down hastily as he waits for his to be stated. he was way too anxious, a bit nervous that he'd be pair with a lazy student. because sometimes, pair work turns into individual work, or what jisung likes to call it - jisung does all the work project.

"jisung and hyunjin." mr. simon states, he glances towards both boys. jisung's lips slightly part as his ears hear the name, he was paired up with hyunjin. he shouldn't complain because he was a great student, but he also was sketchy. but as mr. simon begins to wrap up the pairings for the project, students make their ways to their declared partners in order to start. hyunjin decides to move since jisung didn't seem like budging.

he takes the empty seat, his materials hitting the wooden desk as he smiles at jisung. the boy only raises his eyebrows as a response which was better than nothing. "so, jisung. you're the guy who's friends with seungmin?"

"and you're the boy who's manipulating him into stupid shit."

hyunjin scratches his neck, guilty as the truth was told. "yeah..sometimes I get carried away. I didn't mean it in a negative way, it was just a thought that turned into something wild. I shouldn't have said that, I just hope seungmin isn't mad at me."

"he's too sweet to stay angry at you, but I am."

hyunjin nods, "I can tell."

"look, I don't know what your motive is." jisung admits, hating how his words sounded. "but, why take interest in seungmin suddenly? I'm not claiming that your feelings are invalid but it's just odd."

hyunjin shrugs, acting innocent as always. "well, he's in my fourth period for english. I find him...cute. really smart and he obviously is a good person to be around, his influence is better than anyone I've met. he just seems...or is..special."

jisung still doesn't buy his words, but he can't tell if the words that spilled from his mouth are lies. hyunjin is still smiling at him, as if he's trying to convince him he's no harm to his best friend. maybe..he was just overreacting when it came to hyunjin. he shouldn't be so hard on the boy, especially since he was lonely. word went around school that hyunjin lived by himself after his parents died, maybe the boy was trying to find the right person to patch up the hole in his heart. that was a reasonable answer... "look..." jisung softly says, "I want you to treat seungmin right...he deserves the whole world and as his best friend I want the best for him."

"that's very sweet of you to say, I wish I had someone like you beside me." hyunjin sighs, "but, not everyone can have what they want. am I right?"

"yeah..." as jisung agrees shortly, "it seems as if we're not gonna get anything done, when are you free?"

"give me a time and date. I'm free whenever."

"how about...tomorrow, friday you know? six p.m because I got stuff to do." jisung offers, hyunjin gives him a thumbs up. "your place?"

"sure, why not." as the older boy agrees to his suggestion, "I think we'll be up all night since you're coming late, so wanna meet somewhere to buy drinks? I'm cool with anything."

"I'm a bubble tea type guy, there's one near the school. It's pretty well known you should be familiar of the name."

the boy thinks for a second, but of course he knew where the shop was. sunwoo's best friend works there, yet the archer was unaware that he was the mysterious boy sunwoo was meeting up with time to time. "yeah, I'm sure I'll find my way there."

"alright, don't be late hwang or else I'm kicking your ass."

"no worries, I won't be."