the masked male was inside the elevator, waiting for it to travel to the third floor since that was where his first class of the day was. however, the metal box had stopped on the second floor, catching the male inside off guard, and opened its doors to reveal another person standing outside.

looking at the person, yedam recognized the male as doyoung's older brother. although the two of them shared a couple classes together, they didn't have any interactions and didn't really cross paths at the faculty either. the second year university student believed that this would be the first time that the two of them coincidentally met each other, specifically after doyoung had introduced the two to each other.

a smile formed on seunghun's face as he pointed at the second year university student. "... yedam, right? doyoung's friend?"

a small nod came from the smaller male and a small bow followed after. the older of the two boys followed the gesture before entering inside the elevator, both of them heading up to the third floor, where their first class of the day was.

"feels good to have someone to walk to class with in the mornings," seunghun suddenly mentioned, causing the masked male to look up at the senior. the two were standing on opposite sides of the elevator, mainly because they weren't very close with each other and found it awkward to stand directly adjacent to someone you're barely acquainted with, not like the elevator trip itself wasn't already awkward.

the metal box that the two were riding in wasn't exactly seven feet apart, thus the secondary reason as to why the masked male was nearly gluing himself to the wall in an indirect way. when the older of the two had passed by the second year university student to get inside the elevator, their arms were this near to brushing against each other, causing yedam to shift some steps to his right to avoid contact. the second year university student didn't hyperventilate, and although there didn't seem to be any signs of heavy baby powder use coming from the older, contrary to his younger brother, the masked male still wanted to be careful.

"are your friends busy?" yedam asked as a reply to the older's statement, catching his attention. seunghun just showed a small smile before shaking his head.

"they have different classes. the only other friends i have that share the same morning class with me usually don't come to the faculty this early."

the masked male gave a nod of understanding to the taller male. as the elevator dinged, signaling their arrival to the third floor of their faculty building, the two of them got out one by one, almost in a single file line, before switching back to being side-by-side and walking to their first class.

"why are you here this early, though, hyung?" the second year university student asked. seunghun turned towards him and let out a small sigh.

"i'm usually here this early. i meet up with my friends and chill for about an hour before heading to class. but today, we ended up splitting fifteen minutes early because two of them wanted to get some last minute studying done for their music theory test today," the older spent some time to explain his situation for this morning to the masked male, causing yedam to nod his head as he caught every word seunghun was saying.

"how about you? why are you here so early?"

yedam turned his head to look at the older before returning to look at the ground before answering seunghun's question. "i usually come here this early. i can get to class and spend some time or organize myself."

that was a lie. the reason why the masked male would get to the faculty so early was because there would be less people than later on despite the time difference only being half an hour. yedam's allergy would worsen as he becomes surrounded by more and more people who use baby powder, and that was nearly everyone in his faculty, so the conditions were unfavorable for the second year university student.

the older of the two only gave a slight nod, showing that he heard yedam and understood where he was coming from. seunghun slightly leaned closer towards the shorter, catching him off guard, before asking a question. "now tell me... how was your date with doyoung?"

the second year university student lightly hit the older's arm at the reminder that he gave yedam. the masked male also recalled the teasing from seunghun that same day as well, causing him to get more shy. "t-that was... two weeks ago."

"but still. i want details. doyoung never told me anything except for the fact that he enjoyed it. so tell me, what did you guys do? did doyoung confess to you? did you confess to him? did you both confess to each other? aw come on!"

"n-not telling," yedam made a pout behind his mask, which was unseen by the older of the two because of the black fabric that covered over the bottom half of his face, but seunghun still laughed nonetheless, pretty much expecting for the younger's reaction to be this way.

with that, the two of them arrived to their first class of the day, and they split their ways upon entering the classroom and agreeing to see each other later. yedam smiled to himself after arriving at his seat because he had gotten closer to doyoung's older brother, who could possibly be a potential friend.

"that journalism lesson was useless," seunghun complained to yedam on their way out of the classroom. the masked male and doyoung's older brother had regrouped with each other after their first morning lecture, and the older of the two had began their conversation by whining about the useless lecture.

"i mean... all journalism classes are useless, but we apparently need to be able to write well and get our imagination flowing in order to develop a good screenplay or a song," yedam commented, adding onto seunghun's complaint about the class.

"but we're music and film production and management students. shouldn't we be learning how to... you know, produce and manage music and film?"

yedam let out a small chuckle at the older's humor and shook his head. "that's just the name of our faculty and major. in reality, we would need to know the processes that go on behind the scenes."

seunghun turned to look at the shorter male and let out a sigh. he turned back to look at the direction he was walking before clicking his tongue a couple times. "i guess you're right. music and film wouldn't work without our imaginations anyway."

the masked male nodded his head, agreeing with seunghun's statement as they approached a split in the hallway, one way leading to another hallway with rows of classrooms and the other way leading to the elevators. yedam had to make his way down to the second floor, since that was where his next class was, while the third year university student had his next class on the same floor.

"well, i guess this is where we part," seunghun said, the second year university student nodding his head in agreement. yedam was happy to have met the older by coincidence and hold a solid conversation with him twice. it made him feel as if he had established some kind of bond between the two that has the potential to grow to become the type of bond that the masked male had with doyoung.

the older of the two placed his right hand on yedam's left shoulder. "i'll see you around, yeah? maybe we will cross paths more often now."

seunghun gave yedam's shoulder a light squeeze as the masked male replied to the older's statement. "mhm. hope to see you around more often."

the two of them waved to each other before the third year university student turned around to head to his next class. yedam spent a couple minutes to look at the older's back get smaller and smaller with each step down the hallway before turning around and getting to the elevators so he could head to his next class as well.

but the masked male couldn't shake off the strange feeling that lingered on his shoulder, where seunghun's hand had been. yedam didn't know what the feeling was, but he knew he definitely didn't like it.

but what exactly was the strange feeling that he didn't like?

[YEDAM]