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Hyunjin groans, hiding his pretty face a bit more into his scarf, sleepy eyes ready to close for another little nap, still not used to the difference between England and Korea.
He's waiting dumbly in front of his high school, having the idea to surprise his friends but he's way too tired and he regrets it. He was here too early and he didn’t know what he could do to really “surprise” them. Really, he should have thought more of it before heading to school when he could go only two days later.
Hyunjin had the opportunity to go to England for four months. It was a school exchange and he took the chance to work on his lame English. And also forget his ex-boyfriend who destroyed him more than anything.
He lets out a long sigh escaping his mouth, his brain still in a sleepy state. He should have thought twice before going there.
“Jinnie? What are you doing here?” The Hwang Prince jumps, putting a hand on his heart to add a dramatic effect, crunching his eyes and nose, whining cutely to show his distress.
In front of him stood Kim Seungmin, his best friend. The chestnut boy is looking at him, a little bit surprised but his face didn't show many emotions. The younger boy just snorts at Hyunjin's dramatic ass. He's not called a Drama King for nothing after all.
“Miiiiinie, don’t do this to me, you know I’m scared easily!” His best friend gives him a stern look, rolling his eyes.
“You're here for what? Two seconds and I’m already not missing your drama king side…” The beautiful chestnut boy sighs.
Seungmin rolls up his eyes before opening slightly his arms, a sort of invitation for Hyunjin. And he doesn’t lose his time, nuzzling perfectly into the last 2000 liner of their group. He really misses his best friend during those four long months.
“You missed my drama king side…” Hyunjin mumbles quietly, closing a bit his eyes, smelling the sweet scent of Seungmin. “What about the others?”
“Already inside, dummy. This is too cold for us to stand in front of the school. We're always in front of our lockers”.
Really, why did he decide it was a good idea to go to school today when his poor brain is already a mess? He groans once more, looking at his best friend with a little pout. The look that Seungmin gives him is a bit worried and it takes him aback.
“Okay. What happened?” A bad feeling begins to make its way on his stomach, not liking this look and what it could mean.
“Well. Some things have changed since you were gone.”
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“So you're telling me a boy came only one week after I was gone, being an Australian from Sydney, and also Korean so he befriended Channie-Hyung who adopted him right away? And then he made him meet all of our friends, Jisungie having found a liking to him, Min-hyung has a soft spot for him? When it takes us an age to make him like us? Don’t tell me Binnie-hyung is in love!” The last part was sarcastic, because Hyunjin knows Changbin likes him.
“Well. Jinnie.” Seungmin stops in his walking, looking him dead in the eyes, a bit too serious for Hyunjin’s liking. "They have been together for 2 months now.”
Hyunjin nearly falls on the ground, looking with big surprised eyes at his best friend. It's a joke, right? A boy took away Changbin from him? Ok, they were not together but everyone knows they have something on.
They were glued to the hips since they met, and almost ready to jump into the couple thing. And now someone decided to break that? Who is the boy? Hyunjin is angry now, he doesn’t like change. He doesn’t like it at all. Because deep inside he feels rejected and it brings back horrible memories.
Now he’s scared because he knows well how it will turn. Every boyfriend of Changbin hated him. Because he's too close to him, too handsome, too nice, he's an attention whore. He doesn’t want to live this again, because it will hurt him and hurt Changbin too, once he will realize someone had hurt Hyunjin.
“Jin-ah, it’s different, this time.” Hyunjin still doesn’t talk, looking dumbly at his best friend. “They're in love and Lix… Lix is something else. Really, he's a good one, a really good one. You’ll be surprised.”
“So, do you like him?” Hyunjin asks, not really angry at him, more curious. He always trusts Seungmin.
“Honestly, yes. I was cautious at first he’s so… nice? And angelic? You will know what I mean once you’ll see him.” Seungmin makes a movement of his hand, before looking again at Hyunjin. “It’s going to be okay, Jin. We're here, you know that? No one will hurt you.”
Hyunjin takes the hand of his best friend, squeezing it a bit and tries to smile in the hope to reassure Seungmin. But honestly, he needed to reassure himself.
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He was not surprised to receive long hugs and big smiles from Chan and Jisung, the two boys teasing him about his English. Even after four months it's still a disaster, a bit better but still not good enough to have a full conversation.
He blends perfectly with them and it feels like home to share the news as their group of eight. No one talks about "Lix" and he's glad of it.
Jeongin jumped on his back, Minho pated him on the back and wish him a good return. He nearly wanted to cry because he missed his friends so much.
“Jinnie? You're here?” He turns his face to the surprised voice of Changbin, grinning and jumping into his arms.
The older boy doesn’t lose time to hug him tightly, excitement in his voice. He misses those arms the most, he will not lie. He takes time to look properly at him, being a bit shocked by the slight change. Changbin has still dark hair but his face is chubbier, he seems to have taken more weight and to be healthier.
He's way more built than last time and it kind of looks hot. Well, Changbin always looks hot for him. He has this glint in his eyes, the one where you could see something change. At least, the new boy has the decency to make him happy.
“So… I heard you found a new boyfriend?” His voice sounds a bit harsh and he knows it but he just can’t say it in another way. Changbin only smiles at him, nodding.
“I found a boyfriend, yeah.” Hyunjin frowns at the soft tone and soft smile. He really didn’t like this new boy.
Changbin rests on the locker, and soon they change subjects talking about Hyunjin and his return. Nothing has really changed, it makes the bad feeling cool down, at least for now. Because soon enough, they hear commotion and turn their head to the sound of people.
Hyunjin arches a brow, seeing a boy a bit shorter than him with soft blond hair and bright eyes, walking casually into a dark hoodie who seems to be a bit short around his stomach, exposing the soft and firm skin and showing how thin the boy is. But not thin in an unhealthy way.
The hoodie is nothing compared to the dark skirt the boy is wearing. It shows perfectly how nice his legs are, especially his thighs. Firm and powerful thighs. He has black socks, giving a more feminine look to his legs and Hyunjin just wants to ask “why ?”. This boy is just fucking cute.
Well, if he wasn't dragging a boy by his neck. A boy way much bigger than him. The soft boy literally throws the other guy on the ground, in front of another one. He puts his feet on the boy's chest, smirking in a dark way.
“So, now that I show you how a boy could wear a skirt and still beat your ass, apologize. Now.”
Hyunjin's eyes grew bigger, blinking to process what had just happened. Did this boy, who looks like an angel, just throw a boy way much bigger on the ground and talk with this deep voice? Oh shit.
“Damn, he really did it... “ Hyunjin looks at Chan who seems to have a worried look on his face.
He's lost now, looking at the boy and then Chan. The boy finishes what he needs to do. Once he apologized to one of their classmates, the boy steps away from him, making a move of hand to dismiss him. It makes the boy on the ground running and the blond to roll deep his eyes before he begins to walk in their direction. Wait. Why is he walking to them?
“Baby boy… Did you really wear this? When you hate being cold?” Hyunjin's mouth hangs open, looking at Changbin then the boy. Ok this boy is the one he doesn't like? Damn.
Observing him better, he knows why they like him. He's cute, really cute and he couldn’t deny it. But still, he doesn’t like him. He’s too much, shows too much of himself to people, seems too confident. It makes him scared. And this boy couldn’t be that nice, not when he’ll see the relationship Changbin and him share. And it makes him more afraid... He's tired of people not liking him.
“I know, but I just couldn’t let this happen.” The boy is way much softer, a little smile on his cherry lips.
“Damn Lix, you're hot in a skirt.” Minho looks at him from head to toes, before turning to Jisung with a very specific grin.
“In your dreams, Bae.” Jisung gives him a glare, before helping "Lix" to adjust his skirt.
Changbin laughs, rolling up his eyes. Once Jisung finished to help the blond cutie, Changbin takes the boy in his arms, putting his hands on the his hips, looking at him with those deep and loving eyes.
“You're hot in a skirt, baby.”
“Thank you, baby.” They shared a soft smile before kissing, making Hyunjin look somewhere else.
He wants to rip them both. He rolls up his eyes, sensing the glare of his best friends on him. Seungmin seems to send him signal to cool it down. But he's too scared and he prefers to use his favorite coping mechanism, acting cold and distant.
“Lix. I need to present you to someone.” Hyunjin wants to roll his eyes once more but he represses himself to do it. “Lix, this is Hyunjin. You know the boy I talked about? He’s a 2000 liner too. Jinnie, meets Felix, my lover.”
The word lover hurts him more than what he thought. He looks at Felix, glaring at him at first, trying to force a smile. Felix only looks at him with a neutral face.
Okay. He's ready to be screamed at since they talked about him, so he knows that Felix knows. But he only suppresses a surprised sound once he feels a delicate and small hand touching his cheek, looking right into the eyes of Felix.
“They said you're beautiful and handsome but it’s a lie.” He saw it coming, he's ready to be dragged out. And also for the boy to get out of their way, because no one will accept Hyunjin being attacked. “You look… ethereal.”
He didn’t expect Felix to use that word to describe him. And for the first time, he really looks at Felix and damn. The boy is really beautiful. And he never realized those eyes are that... unique.
He has deep and big hazel eyes with golden sparkles in it. It almost looks like there is a little bit of stars dust into those orbs. He has one of those soft smiles and he seems to breathe calmness, softness, sincerity and it touches him.
Looking at those stars makes him losing his breath, getting caught into the galaxy that is Felix and he knows why everyone loves him. The touch didn’t last long, the boy is soon enough back in Changbin’s arms.
Hyunjin decides that he doesn’t hate the boy. Because it’s not possible. But he doesn’t like him either for sure. He’s prepared for him to turn mean to one point. It always turns like this. That's why he's so wary of a new person. So he will stay on his guard. Even if those eyes look at him with so much softness that it turns his head and heart upside down.