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The sound of a bell jingled through the air as Mari opened the door to a small painting studio.

The girl wanted to relax today so she decided to try and take a painting class.

Luckily for her, there happened to be a free session today and she decided to take advantage of it.

Mari took a seat in the middle of the easels and put on the apron in front of her. Afterwards, she pulled out her phone to send a selfie to the groupchat.

As she typed away on her phone, the bell to the studio jingled again.

"Funny seeing you here," a melodious voice echoed.

Mari looked up a bit surprised at the familiar tone.

"I didn't expect to see you here, Hyunjin," the girl said.

The taller boy shrugged and took a seat beside her.

"Maybe it's fate for us," Hyunjin said with a teasing tone.
"Are you just stalking me?" Mari laughed.
"I'm not a creep, I swear!" Hyunjin defended, throwing his hands up. "I genuinely just love painting and wanted to come to this class."

Just as Mari opened her mouth to respond, the instructor walked to the front of the class, with a wide grin.

"Welcome! Thank you all for joining me today! Whether this is your first time coming here or your fifth, we love to see you. As always, there's a theme to these classes and today, we're doing butterflies! You can either follow along with me or you can paint your own butterfly related picture. Let's begin!"

Mari grinned and picked up one of the brushes. Hyunjin meanwhile had gone off to pick paint.

Clearly one was more experienced than the other.

As Mari listened closely to the instructor, Hyunjin had already begun to paint out a field and a sunset on his canvas, easily outdoing everyone around him.

Mari decided to close off her peripheral vision and focus on her own painting which happened to be a butterfly on a sunflower.

"How's Bittersweet's debut song coming along?" Hyunjin asked quietly.
"I think pretty good! Robin and Riley are working hard, Lanhua is writing her taps, Laska is choreographing, Mya has been singing every single day... I think all of us feel pretty okay about the next challenge," Mari replied while painting in a sunflower petal.
"How about you?" Hyunjin asked.
"I'll be the details master once Laska has finished the bigger movements of the choreo," Mari smiled.

Hyunjin nodded, pausing his own brush strokes to watch the girl beside him happily paint.

He studied her for a moment; as if memorizing every small detail of her face, the way her lips curved into a smile, the way her hair flowed around her... just taking it all in.

Naturally, Mari felt the gaze upon her and turned to face him, however she hadn't realized that he had gotten so close to her to the point that the tips of their noses bumped as she turned.

Hyunjin instantly turned a bright red and turned away, flustered.

"S-sorry," Hyunjin apologized, still not turning back around.

Mari only giggled and resumed her painting. "I liked it, don't worry."

However, that only made Hyunjin's heart beat faster.

He placed his hand over his racing heart trying to calm it, but the image of her wouldn't seem to leave his head.

Mari meanwhile continued to carefully paint a beautiful purple coloured butterfly, ignoring Hyunjin's panic.

Secretly, she was rather proud of herself for making such a popular idol so flustered. She couldn't believe her power.

In doing so, she was so distracted that she went to scratch her nose forgetting about the paint on her fingers.

Hyunjin was quick to notice after he had recovered from his 'Mari attack'.

"Mari, you have something on you... do you mind?"

Mari shook her head and turned to face Hyunjin.

Hyunjin moved to use his fingers to brush the paint off her nose but quickly forgot that he too was covered with paint.

"Hey!" Mari gasped, feeling wet paint on her nose.

Mari's nose scrunched up from the side grin appearing on her face as she took her brush and gently brushed it against Hyunjin's arm.

Hyunjin let out a fake gasp and then used his paint covered thumb to rub a smudge of paint onto Mari's cheek.

As Mari giggled away, she took her own thumb to rub an entire streak of paint onto Hyunjin's forehead.

The two of the stopping, slightly breathless from all of the shared laughter they had.

"You look cute with all the paint smudges," Hyunjin said finally.

This time it was Mari's turn to flush red. Except this time, the girl stood up and quickly fled to the bathroom.

Hyunjin smirked to himself until he remembered that he too was covered in pain smudges.

He sighed and stood up to go wash off the paint, hoping it wouldn't wash off Mari's touch as well.

~~~୨ ♪ ୧~~~~~ ୨ ♪ ୧ ~~~~~୨ ♪ ୧~~~

When the class was over, Hyunjin and Mari were both holding onto their canvases with the paintings they created as they walked out of the studio. The canvases were covered with a sort of cover so the latter couldn't see what the other painted.

"That was so fun," Mari giggled.

Hyunjin nodded, nerves bubbling up inside him.

"You okay?" Mari asked, noticing his anxiety.
"Fine but, I, uh... I wanted to give you this," Hyunjin said, gently extending the canvas.

Mari's face for the second time of the day flushed a red.

She gently removed the cover of Hyunjin's painting and audibly gasped.

The theme was definitely butterfly.

In a golden field there was a figure illuminated by the sunset behind her.

But the most distinctly detailed part of the painting was the butterfly painted on the tip of the girl's nose.

And the girl happened to look exactly like Mari.

Mari felt her heart swell up looking at the painting.

"Hyunjin... you painted me?" Mari asked, her voice trembling a bit.

The older boy nodded, his eyes soft as he stared at her.

"Do you like it?" Hyunjin asked, his voice equally as soft as his gaze.
"Like it? Hyunjin, this is the most thoughtful thing anyone has ever done for me. I love it," Mari said, looking deep into his brown eyes.

She leaned onto her tip toes and gently pressed a kiss into his cheek.

"Thank you."

Just as she covered the painting back up, a soft drizzle began to pour and the two dashed under a nearby shelter.

"This rain," Mari sighed.
"I'll text Minho to come get us," Hyunjin said, pulling out his phone.

After sending out the text, Hyunjin had an idea pop into his mind.

He scrolled through his playlist until he found 'Hydrangea Love' by Seventeen and hit play.

He slipped the phone back into his pocket and stepped into the rain.

"Hyunjin? What are you doing?" Mari asked, confused.
"Come dance with me."

Mari'a face broke into a gentle beam and stepped out into the rain as Hyunjin placed her hands around his neck and placed his on her waist. (After checking that she was okay with it. Consent is important.)

The two danced in the rain, letting the sounds of Seventeen's heavenly vocals fill the air as their footsteps matched the beat.

At the end of the song, another began to play, encouraging the two to continue dancing, but unfortunately for them, Minho had happened to be close by with Jisung and the two of them had just shown up.

"Get out of the rain and into the car, love birds!" Minho hollered.

Someone clearly wasn't in a good mood.

The two quickly grabbed their canvases and hurried into the backseat of the car.

"Ignore Minho," Jisung chuckled. "He's grouchy cause Hyunjin interrupted our date."
"Shut up Jisungie," Minho mumbled, keeping his eyes on the road.
"You two looked really cute," Jisung said to them, turning to face the backseat. "I took a picture, by the way."

The two of them only smiled at each other, adrenaline rushing from the fun.

~~~୨ ♪ ୧~~~~~ ୨ ♪ ୧ ~~~~~୨ ♪ ୧~~~

"Thanks for everything, Jinnie," Mari beamed. "I had a lot of fun today."

Hyunjin nodded in response, happy.

"I'll see you soon?" Hyunjin asked, hopefully.

Mari nodded and leaned in again to kiss his cheek.

"Good night Hyunjin."

The girl hurried into the dorm rooms as Minho began to drive back to the dorms.

"You didn't even ask her out," Minho sighed. "You really are the leader of baboracha."

Hyunjin scoffed, but smiled to himself.

On the back of his painting which Mari was looking at right now, there was a small message for her.

'For my Mariposa, coffee date? Text me.'

.·:*¨༺ ♪ ༻¨*:·.
𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬

THE CREATIVE JUICES WERE FLOWING FOR THIS CHAPTER OML

also there was a lot of cheese but I love it

Hyunjin would

Anyways, what did you all think? You like?

I had lots of fun writing, shoutout to Mari choosing mari.posa as the Instagram cause it gave so much inspiration.

Q: Do we want a Minsung date chapter?
A: I'm not sure but if we do, it'll come next <3