everybody knew about the soccer practices. everybody knew they were opened, which meant you could assist to the trainings. but actually, nobody really did. sometimes girls stay for half an hour, before their classes start, sometimes, people came to do their work under the sun. but the only person who came every day, with no exception, was jaemin, because he had to wait for jeno.

well, that's what everyone thought. actually, there was another person who came to watch every soccer practice, except that this person didn't go on the benches where the other would sit. this person was at the last floor of the school, in an abandoned janitor's closet, with a window that had a great view on the soccer field, meaning on every soccer practice.

this boy was huang renjun, an art student, that has had an eye on jeno ever since he arrived in this school, but the poor boy was too shy to even approach the popular soccer player.

that's why he locked himself in the janitor's closet of the last floor every afternoon, after his classes, to assist to the soccer practice and look at jeno.

nobody had ever found him up there. perhaps because there were only old clothes and unwanted stuff, and it was way too dusty for someone to walk in. actually, it was before renjun tidied it, moving the stuff around, to make a sitting place in front of the window, where he could work if someday, he hadn't finished his homework while he was looking at his crush.

today, renjun hadn't any homework to do, so he was happily climbing up the stairs to enter his little janitor's closet. he carefully closed the door, without any noise, in case someone was around, and switched the lights on before sitting on his self-made couch, just in front of the window. he played on his phone, waiting for the training to begin, and then got all his attention on the soccer field.

he stared at the players, and particularly jeno, for one hour, doing a mini victory dance any time jeno would do a great action or score a goal.

the boy was so immersed in the match that he didn't even hear the door opening. well, he wasn't paying attention, but that is because in two years of staying up there almost every afternoon, he had never seen anybody entering the closet, so why would anyone enter it now?

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this morning, jaemin had brought to school a bag full of money, and by full, you need to hear "with way too much money compared to what a high school student should have".

why? jaemin is the son of two rich businesspeople. and well, his parents' particularity is that they transform majority of their money in bills, because they don't trust banks nor technology. this way, every payment they receive is by cash. they often ask jaemin to take it and bring it home, in their safe, which the boy doesn't mind, because it makes him encounter new high-class people for his future. anyway, this morning, he had to bring back almost 100,000,000 won home, but, because he had school, he hadn't had time to bring the money back home, which meant he had to take it to school with him.

so, he had looked for a safe place to hide the money, and take it back later on, in the afternoon. when he had found this abandoned janitor's closet, he had decided he would hide his bag behind a pile of dusty clothes, close to the entrance, but nobody would enter here anyway.

so, in the middle of jeno's training, jaemin had decided he would get the bag and then come back to wait for jeno. he left the soccer field and nonchalantly climbed up the stairs to getin front of the closet.

he opened the door wide and moved the pile of clothing in order to take is bag. he breathed deeply when he saw his bag was still here, caught it and moved the clothes back to their original place.

as he was about to leave the place, he heard, inside the same janitor's closet, a little cheer. curious as he is, jaemin entered the closet and discovered it was way bigger than what he thought. at the end of the closet, he saw a boy, sitting on what looked like a couch, in front of the window. the boy was actually giggling, and clapping his hands silently, but loud enough for jaemin to hear.

"hum... hello?" jaemin hesitaded, catching the attention of the other boy.

renjun turned around violently when he heard a voice and fell of the couch out of surprise. "w-who are you? and w-what are you doing here?" he stuttered.

"i'm jaemin, and i had to take something in here." jaemin said calmly. "i'm sorry i scared you." he continued approaching the boy on the floor, and presenting him his hand to help him stand up.

renjun hesitated before taking the other's hand and standing up. jaemin was taller than renjun, even though he was younger.

"what's your name?"

"renjun." the smaller answered as jaemin nodded.

"what are you looking at from up here?" jaemin said looking out the window. "oh, you're watching the soccer training..." he smirked at renjun. "why don't you go on the benches, next to the field?"

"because..." renjun lowered his head.

"you're shy." jaemin remarked, which renjun nodded at. "i see, you're hiding from someone, aren't you?" he continued. renjun nodded again. "does he or she knows who you are?"

renjun shook his head to tell no.

"then you can come with me, don't worry, i won't tell anybody anything. my bestfriend is just waiting for me, and he is on the field at the moment." renjun hesitated, looking at jaemin leaving. "you're coming?" renjun hummed and followed the boy.