yoon jeonghan.

the boy everyone aspired to be. let's be honest? everyone either really wanted to be like him and didn't say, or had a crush on him and didn't want to say. why? it's not easy to be yoon jeonghan and it's not easy to have a crush on him either. he's perfect. he's always surrounded in the halls by a mob of girls drooling over him and trying their best to get his attention. you either had to, one, forget about that stupid crush or, two, watch from afar. out of those two choices? seokmin chose the second one.

he always strayed not too far behind jeonghan most of the time. and don't think he's a stalker. he's just head over heels for him. oh, and they have the same classes. he's just never had the guts to walk anywhere past within ten feet of the bubble which is jeonghan's aura. it was always occupied by other anyways.

it's like he had this forcefield. everyone around him would turn to see him when he walked down the halls. at least take a glance, not every day you see an angel so beautiful. except it this case, it is every day. you just never get tired of it. seriously, he was the center of attention anywhere and everywhere around the school.

and seokmin? a hopeless romantic. he's never exactly been in a relationship. he's just had crushes, and crushes, and crushes. that was the problem. he fell in love too easily. which is why he never dared to date anyone, in fear that he'll just be left heartbroken.

jisoo. his first crush. beautiful doe eyes and the brightest smile.
moved away after middle school.
kwon soonyoung. the cutest squishy face and a real talent for dancing.
fell in love with lee jihoon instead. they're now dating.
xu minghao. one of the smartest and sweetest people you'll ever meet.
indirectly friend zoned him.

there were many others but the ones that you remember most are the ones that hurt the most.

seokmin has tried to give up. to save himself. but he couldn't help but fall in love with yoon jeonghan. he was honestly whipped the moment he laid eyes on him.

a little strange how they met. both seokmin and jeonghan are juniors in high school. along with all their friends. seokmin mostly hung out with minghao and kim mingyu. as apposed to jeonghan being able to hang out with whoever. he was never boastful about being so popular which made it hard to hate him. he sat at the center table in the cafeteria during their lunch period, surrounded by girls and his closest friends choi seungcheol, jeon wonwoo, and wen junhui. jeonghan was like the king of the table, and his friends, princes. you had to envy them all at some point. who wouldn't want to sit with high school royalty?

anyways. back to how they met.
it was during the first week of school when seokmin was at peak anxiety with starting his junior year. minghao and mingyu had a different class to attend to for their first period so they had to bid goodbye to their friend seokmin for the beginning of the day until lunch. he was beyond nervous having to go through the entire morning without his support team.

seokmin was walking down the hallway, trying to make as little eye contact with anyone as possible. it's hard to pay attention to where you're going when you're staring down at the floor though, as seokmin learned that day.

to him it was fate and also....his dumb luck. he just so happens to bump straight into yoon jeonghan's back and drop all of his books. dead center in the hallway. all eyes were on them.

"are you okay?"

the first words the older said to him. as he looked at him with a worried but soft expression painted on his face.

"y-yeah. i-i...i'm fine..."

he just had to stutter.
jeonghan thought it was cute.

"i'll help you with your stuff." he smiles as he carefully picked up some of the books that were now scattered on the floor.

seokmin swore he felt his heartbeat race. was it the anxiety? or was it what he dreaded most. he quickly kneeled down on the floor and began picking up his schoolbooks. he'd be lying if he said he didn't steal a few at jeonghan while doing so. then they reached for the same book.

the looked up at each other in slight surprise. time felt like it had stopped for both of them.
while jeonghan let out a small chuckle and the brightest smile, seokmin was a blushing mess.

he hoped it was only the embarrassment but, it wasn't. the moment they made eye contact, seokmin was sure he was an angel. he had this sparkling look in his eyes when he smiled. the softest look that could make anyone smile back. he had to blink twice to make sure there really was a halo over his head and beautiful wings on his back.

jeonghan broke the stare as he picked up the book, got up, and offered a hand out to seokmin. the younger hesitantly took a hold of his hand and helped himself up.

"hey, here are your books. sorry about that. you should watch where you're going so you don't get hurt." jeonghan said with a light reassuring smile as he handed seokmin his books.

"t-thank you..." that was all he managed to let escape from his mouth before jeonghan turned and walked away

he could see people around him whispering but all he could hear was his racing heartbeat.
he could see his feet staying planted in place but all he could feel was his face burning up.
he could tell his eyes were looking down at the floor but all he saw was jeonghan's face in his mind.

he felt tears well up his eyes as he snapped back to reality.

he held a tight grip onto his pile of books and started running down the hall. where he was running to, he didn't know. but hopefully it'd be a safer place than this.