"Hey, Ravi, you heard about the new transfer, right?" Another friend of his, Hakyeon, inquired from across the hall. Wonsik's head snapped to the right, eyes boring into the boy, once the question left his lips. New student? Easy pickings. Hakyeon looked back over to his friend, jumping when he noticed the expression dawning across his features. "Oh, no, you are not going to.. Please tell me you won't."
Defeat flickered in the taller boy's eyes as his devilish smirk fell. "Oh, come on. You know me too well." Wonsik turned back to his classroom, entering slowly and catching the attention of the other students already sat in their desks. He moved carefully under the eyes of the many students to his desk in the back. He sat alnoe at a table for two, as none of his friends had the class with him. This was going to be a long class...
"Settle down!" A screeching voice sounded from the front of the room, the teacher. Most conversation throughout the cramped space subsided to whispers, very little ceasing completely. "Class, we have a new student. Would you introduce yourself, hun?" She said, tone calmer than it had ever been with the rest of the students as she waved the new kid into the class.
Behind curtains of jet black hair, light shining off of it as if it was luminescent itself, rested an anxious face. The boy, though he was beautiful enough to have been an ethereal being, brushed some of the dark locks behind his left ear, looking up at the class.
"My name?" He asked quietly to the teacher, eyes scanning the room and presumably searching for something. Or someone. Before the teacher could answer back to him, he flashed a bright smile, saying, "Leo!"
The teacher was slightly caught off guard. Strange behavior, strange look, strange name. "Ok, hun. You can feel free to find an empty seat. There aren't many, though."
Leo nodded, his hair falling back into his face, and began walking through the desks, trying to find an empty chair. "Excuse me, can I sit here?" He spoke quietly to one of the students, back to his more shy self. Though, the kid refused, claiming that the seat belonged to someone who was absent. Leo just nodded quickly, moving to another student with an open seat. Rejection after rejection, he soon found himself at the back of the class, still with no seat. Until the class started whispering, looking in his direction.
"There's still an empty seat next to Ravi... Is he going to ask to sit there, too? He'd be dead meat!" Leo didn't know who this 'Ravi' was, but he assumed it was the boy in the back of the class, hair bleached blonde with headphones in, eyes closed and chin rested on the palm of his left hand. He doesn't seem too bad at first glance.
Now confident, Leo almost skipped to Wonsik's side. He poked the boy's shoulder a few times to get his attention, then asked, "Can I sit here?" The rest of the class seemed astounded; not just anyone could... just, talk to him. The boy was a stone wall, for god's sake. Though, what's more amazing would be what comes next.
Wonsik looked up, taking out his headphones once he felt a light tap on his shoulder. He hadn't been paying attention to the boy when he was introduced; he was listening to music, half-asleep. Now that he could get a good look at the boy, he was starstruck. This is the transfer? "Absolutely. You've already been to every other seat, huh? They all turned you down?"
Other students watching immediately started whispering about the two - some took pictures, some started texting their friends about what was happening. Wonsik, the Wonsik, ridiculously hadsome heartbreaker of year three, was speaking in a soft voice with a genuine smile on his face. How? What did that boy Leo do to him?
Leo say down in the seat next to Wonsik smiling and pulling out a few stationary items from his bag. "I saw you while I was introducing myself; you weren't paying attention. Anyway, my name's Leo." He said, much more talkative and confident with the boy than he was with anyone else. Though, his eyes scanned the room from behind a screen of his hair. Once the rest of the students had looked away from them, his cute smile and friendly demeanour faded into a slightly cold stare, no grin. Leo looked to the board, quickly copying the date into a standard yellow notebook.
"Well, it's nice to meet you, Leo." Wonsik smiled, not noticing the sudden facial expression change. "My name's Wonsik, but.." He stopped himself quickly, now seeing the boy's cold stare. "You ok?"
Leo turned his attention back to his deskmate, smiling again and scratching the back of his head. "Yeah, sorry. I was just zoning out." He shook the other boy's hand gently. "It's nice to meet you, Wonsik."
"N—nice to meet you, too.." Wonsik was surprised by the sudden contact; the feeling of his careful hands, soft and yet lightly calloused, it was nice. Leo giggled at the boy's stutter, brishing his har back behind his ear and turning to the notes on the board, writing neatly and quickly.
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Class ended quickly, not even seeming to take very long. Wonsik turned to the boy next to him, watching him pack up his things. Then, suddenly, a thought crossed his mind.
"Hey, Leo, want to have lunch with me and my friends? I don't know, but if you want to..?" He cursed himself for sounding so... awkward, submissive to the boy. "But you don't have to.." He tacked on last, finally catching a glimpse of Leo's dark eyes. Hell, those eyes seemed to just glow, even from behind his hair.
"I'd love to, if your friends don't mind." Leo replied calmly, picking up his now full backpack. He, strangely enough, started to get shy again. A blush covered his face very lightly, and he scratched the back of his head. "You might want to check with them, though."
"They won't mind one bit. Come on."