"josh." the high school senior looked to his right to see jun just about to sit down next to him. the purple haired male gave joshua a small kiss on the corner of his lips as he draped his arms around his boyfriend's shoulders. they were so close to one another that joshua could feel jun's purple hair brush against his own dark brown hair. he hummed in response to his clingy boyfriend as he continued to hug joshua's shoulders despite getting stares from their friends and the students sitting at the nearby lunch tables. jun only ever got this clingy in public (or in general) when he wanted something so it really was no surprise to the brunette when he heard jun start to whine. "can I have a bite please?"

joshua glanced downwards to his lunch tray and shook his head. he had a medium sized portion of rice that acted as a side dish to the large pork cutlet sitting next to it on one of the plates on the senior's tray. it looked absolutely delicious and the brunette could easily confirm that it was because he had already taken a few bites out of the cutlet before jun had arrived at the lunch table. the high school senior sighed when he spotted his boyfriend's untouched lunch just sitting in front of him, being paid with no attention at all as the purple haired teenager focused all of his energy towards gleaming hopefully at joshua's lunch. "this is my lunch junhui, you have your own to eat sitting right there."

"I know but your lunch looks better than mine! just spare me one bite please?" the purple haired male tilted his head, not letting go of his boyfriend in an attempt to use skinship to change joshua's mind. jun made a soft whining noise, pushing joshua on his chest and pressing another small kiss this time to joshua's right cheek. students around them awed at the sight of jun being so affectionate and complained about how they needed love like that while joshua tried his best not to give in to his boyfriend's demands. "just one bite I promise!"

"it won't just be one bite though, I know you junhui." joshua rubbed his chest after it got slapped by jun again whose whining only continued to get progressively louder the longer their conversation continued. "last time you pulled this act on me I paid the price when I turned around and noticed you ate up all of my lunch. I'm not falling for this one again-"

"you're my, my boyfriend, you're obligated to share with me!" jun whined into joshua's ear. the brunette couldn't help but catch the way jun stumbled over his words when openly calling him his boyfriend and how it made the chinese senior blush a bright pink color. seeing that joshua could only shrug off his argument made jun very angry, which is why he made a complete scene out of crossing his arms and turning away from joshua. "fine if you won't share, then I won't share my kisses!"

it only served to be entertainment for his boyfriend though who laughed at how cute jun was while the others at their table only sighed and shook their heads at their upperclassmen's childish behavior. wonwoo coughed, having overheard their conversation because he was sitting right in front of the couple, in complete annoyance with them. if it were him, he would have given in right after the first five seconds of begging. he knew this because both mingyu and chan loved to act cute to get him to do things; it was actually how the two convinced him to go outside in freezing cold weather to have a snowball fight with the rest of their group. the ravenette just had a big weakness for his two boys, and of course they both knew it and took full advantage of it!

"you both were intolerable before you started dating, so what does that make you now?" wonwoo rolled his eyes and glanced to the couple who completely ignored him. he then surveyed those sitting to his immediate right and frowned when he realized neither mingyu or chan were paying attention to him. even seokmin who always offered a good reaction to anything anyone said was preoccupied by his phone. wonwoo was used to being ignored though so he only grumbled the punchline of his joke to himself while looking down at the news article he was reading. "I know it makes me sick."

"hey seokmin who are you texting?" mingyu popped a small glimpse at seokmin's phone as he leaned over to gaze at the screen of it. seokmin instinctively shifted to his right to avoid the watchful eyes of his best friend though, he didn't want mingyu to see who it was he was texting at all. the brunette hoped it would cause for his friend to lose interest in who he was speaking to, but really being denied the privilege of seeing seokmin's texts only fuelled mingyu's curiousity even more. who was this suspicious person seokmin was texting and why was he being so secretive about texting them? "must be someone really important if you're not answering me huh? let me just get a little peek here-"

"I'm not texting anyone mingyu." seokmin nudged mingyu with his left shoulder and glared at his best friend. they shared a moment of eye contact before mingyu smirked at his best friend knowingly. seokmin was naturally a horrible liar and it didn't take much to see through one of his lies. the junior always puffed his chest and bit his lip when he was lying, which is what he was doing when mingyu flashed him that irritating smirk of his. frustrated by his lack of experience at lying, seokmin dropped his glare and confessed to his crime (sort of). "okay fine I am but they're just a friend."

"just a friend you say?" the expression on mingyu's face looked cunning, as if the tall junior were up to no good. seokmin knew for sure that his best friend was indeed up to just that; mingyu took any chance he got to pay his friends back for all the teasing they inflicted on him in the past few years. seokmin in particular loved to tease mingyu any chance he got, so the tall brunette glimmered at the chance of teasing his best friend. it was just how they worked as friends and besides both of them knew that the other never really had any bad intentions behind their words. "do we happen to know this friend you speak of?"

"no you guys don't!" the junior's face flushed in a bright pink color which made his best friend smile. then his phone buzzed, and when seokmin looked down at it he couldn't help but grin at the message he had just recieved. he abruptly stood up, typing a quick response to the person he had received the message from before grabbing his bagged lunch (he packed it early that morning with the help of his older sister) and dashing off. "anyways yeah, bye!

"he's totally texting someone, we have to find out who so we can properly tease him about his crush." the junior eyed both chan and wonwoo who were sitting to his left. while chan looked as if he hadn't heard a word mingyu had spoken, wonwoo nodded and smiled at the junior. the ravenette whispered the words "yeah totally gyu" to mingyu, which made the tall junior blush. it wasn't every day that wonwoo was willing to be so kind with his responses, he usually went the more blunt route of shutting down anything mingyu said, so when he was nice mingyu felt flustered. the tall brunette then turned to see if chan was willing to praise his plan as well but frowned when he spotted his fellow junior standing. "you're leaving too?"

mingyu raised his eyebrows out of concern for the smaller junior who looked like he was just about to puke all over the cafeteria floor. chan nodded weakly while clutching his stomach. that was when mingyu noticed the way the junior was biting the insides of his cheeks anxiously. "I have a project to present, I'm way too nervous to eat."

"I'll walk you to class and give you a mini pep talk to cheer you up?" mingyu offered almost immediately. chan nodded yet again, too stricken by his feelings of nervousness to speak again. the two juniors stood up and said their goodbyes to the rest of the group, wonwoo and junshua, before abandoning the table. mingyu held onto both his and chan's lunch trays and disposed of them before he grabbed one of the shorter junior's hands and stroked it to ease chan's nerves. the short brunette let out a small smile and felt his breathing start to stabilize as mingyu spoke to him in a soothing manner. wonwoo watched them carefully until they were out of his line of sight; he was sure mingyu was capable of easing chan's nerves so he only continued to read his article in peace while knowing that.

"oh seriously, don't tell me you're still ignoring me now." joshua frowned when jun didn't answer him at all. the purple haired teenager insisted on keeping up his act by keeping his arms crossed and furrowing his eyebrows without looking at joshua at all. it was his way of getting the brunette to melt in with the guilt of not sharing his lunch with him. unfortunately for joshua, jun's tactic was working quite efficiently. he couldn't resist giving in to jun at all because an upset jun was way worse to deal with than a loud and hyper jun (and an angry jun was the worst of them all). "all this for a mere pork cutlet? just take it it's not worth the struggle."

joshua peeked at the purple haired teenager next to him and rolled his eyes when he saw that jun still had his arms crossed. when jun caught his boyfriend staring at him he huffed at the brunette, as if the reason why he was still so stubbornly angry at his boyfriend was so painfully obvious. it was only when joshua gave him a questioning look that jun broke away from his stance to open his mouth. "feed me."

"you really are a stubborn piece of shit aren't you?" jun glanced over his shoulder to catch joshua peeking at him for an answer. the purple haired senior nodded with both his eyes closed and his nose up in the air. a few seconds of silence caused for jun to open one of his eyes to spy on his boyfriend's movements and when he did do so, he ended up facing joshua with a wide grin after spotting a spoonful of food coming his way. joshua even pretended that the spoon was an airplane, flying and delivering it straight to his pouty boyfriend's mouth with a small smile planted on his face as he watched jun chew eagerly. "happy now?"

"very!" joshua was just able to decipher a few words jun exclaimed before the rest of his sentences was muffled due to his chewing. the brunette gave jun a knowing look, one that urged jun to calm down and focus on eating so that he didn't choke on the food in his mouth while talking. surprisingly jun did listen, which was something he didn't do often, and then ruffled joshua's dark brown hair before continuing to exclaim. "best boyfriend ever!"

"you two make me sick." they both stopped and stared at wonwoo who was still sitting with them. they hadn't even noticed that the ravenette was still there since they were both under the impression that wonwoo left with the others earlier. he smiled to himself behind his article, happy that his comment was finally heard.

"don't mind him, he's only jealous because he hasn't figure out how to ask both of his idiots out yet." jun picked up his own spoon and began to eat his own lunch. he internally screamed when joshua placed a large piece of his pork cutlet on one of his plates and thanked the brunette by lacing their free hands together under the lunch table.

"it's true, but did you have to say it out loud?" wonwoo glanced away to avoid the small smirk on his best friend's face that he just knew was there. when he looked back, the ravenette was instead met with matching smirks from both boyfriends who wiggled their eyebrows at wonwoo. jun whined for him to confide in them so that they could help him, but he only shrugged off the offer and buried himself in his reading. "you two figured it out and you're idiots, so I'm beyond sure I'll figure it out too."

"jun don't do it, there are witnesses around." joshua whispered, holding his boyfriend's arm back from reaching over and punching wonwoo in the gut. the purple haired teenager sighed and listened; joshua had been right after all, there were way too many witnesses in the cafeteria. he would just have to lure the ravenette into a secluded alleyway some time in the near future. "do you want some more rice?"

"I swear, you know just what to say to get me all riled up. I said it before and I'll say it again: best boyfriend ever!" joshua smiled proudly before a bitter scowl rushed across his face when he found jun abandoning his own lunch and instead going on to sliding joshua's lunch over for easier access so that he could eat it. the purple haired teenager gave his boyfriend a doe-eyed stare when he realized joshua had caught him stuffing his cheeks up with rice. the brunette only sighed with a chuckle though as he patted jun on the head lovingly and grabbed his boyfriend's lunch to eat instead.

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man the way there's like 3 - 4 chapters of this book left😔 (dw!! junshua is going to come back strong in the seokhan fic I'm planning)

also just realized we're getting gose and minghao's single this week ajajajajja saying carats are spoiled rotten is the understatement of the century ;-;