Silent Cry/ Minsung

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Perhaps Jisung was already beginning to regret taking Mrs. Park's offer of sitting next to Minho.

He quickly realized that staring at the pretty boy was now impossible without being caught as he was literally right next to him.

'Maybe this was Mrs. Park's plan all along', he thought to himself with a frown.

He actually paid attention, though he was still stealing glances at the pretty boy any moment he could.

"So, now that you know some basics, I would like for you to turn to your partner...so just someone next to you and introduce yourself to them in sign language." Mrs. Park explained and Jisung began panicking.

He wasn't even sure how to spell his name, much less introduce himself and the pretty boy seemed to already be fluent.

'Now he's gonna think I'm stupid'. Jisung sighed and turned to the pretty boy.

All logical thoughts left his brain the moment he made eye contact. He couldn't help but stare at him...he was never one to believe in love at first sight but he would marry the boy in front of him right now if he could, with no second thoughts.

Pretty boy waved a bit at him then signed something...Did Jisung know what any of it meant? Of course not.

Luckily he could tell that Jisung was completely lost and looked at Mrs. Park for help communicating with him.

"Okay," Mrs. Park sighed and pulled up an extra chair so that she was sitting in front of both of them.

She signed something to Minho, pointing at Jisung a couple of times in the process so of course, the squirrel-like boy resorted to the fact that she was probably explaining to the pretty boy how stupid he is.

"Jisung, Minho's my best student and I have to check in on everyone else so I'm gonna let him catch you up on everything, okay?" She questioned and Jisung nodded.

"If you have any questions or don't understand anything just let me know," She said and handed Minho a small stack of papers before leaving them alone.

Minho moved his desk a tiny bit closer and put a paper in between their desks with the alphabet on it. He pointed at A and signed it and continued on from there.

It was easy. It was embarrassing that Jisung had been in the class for three weeks and didn't know this yet but Minho didn't seem to mind.

Minho nodded once they had practiced it together a few times then grabbed a pencil, quickly writing something on a price of paper before handing it to Jisung.

Do you think you can sign it by yourself now?

Jisung nodded a bit and looked at his desk as he quickly signed through the alphabet, only looking up at the boy once he had completely finished it.

Minho showed him a small thumbs up and then proceeded to write something else on the paper.

Jisung quickly realized that Minho's facial expressions were very...blank? He didn't smile and though Jisung wasn't smiling much either due to his nerviness, he desperately wanted to see the pretty boys smile.

good job

signing an introduction is also pretty easy

it's just... hello, my name is...then fingerspell your name

Jisung read over it and nodded Minho pointed to the word "My" did the sign, then "name," showed the sign then fingerspelled his name but way too quickly for Jisung to comprehend.

Minho noticed and signed it again slower.

"Minho," Jisung said quietly, 'his name is pretty too'.

Minho pointed at him, now wanting him to do the same.

Jisung followed what Minho did and then signed his own name which earned him another thumbs up from Minho. 

That was their first conversation.

And that was what finally managed to spark Jisung's interest in his foreign language class.

He wanted to have more conversations with Minho.

He wanted to get to learn more about him.

And he wanted to see him smile.

Nice to meet you, Minho wrote and handed the paper to Jisung before signing it.

Jisung immediately signed it back with a small smile on his face.

Minho continued to show him simple vocabulary throughout the rest of the class period and surprisingly, Jisung was remembering all of it.

He pouted at the sound of the bell signaling that class was over and slowly started packing up his stuff before waving bye to Minho who waved back.

He may not be able to stare at the back of the pretty boy's head anymore, but talking to him was way better anyway.

Once he left the class he ran to meet his friends at lunch and immediately hugged the youngest who was previously on his phone but dropped it due to Jisung scaring him.

"I talked to Minho!" Jisung explained happily, letting go of Jeongin and sitting down next to him instead.

"Minho? Wait- you don't mean Lee Minho, right?" Seungmin asked, Hyunjin having the same shocked reaction as his boyfriend due to hearing the name around school a few times.

"I don't know his first name...why though?"

"Well I don't have any classes with him personally but I heard that he's really rude."

"Someone asked him for help in dance class and he just ignored them," Hyunjin explained and Jisung frowned, figuring that it was probably the same person since his Minho also never spoke.

"He's not rude...he's just quiet," Jisung replied.

"Well, what did you guys talk about?" Jeongin asked, suddenly interested since Jisung had been freaking out about Minho since the first day of school.

"Okay so- we didn't verbally talk but we signed. He basically just caught me up on everything since I mentally wasn't there for the first two weeks of school."

"Was he nice to you?" Seungmin questioned.

"He was definitely helpful...he doesn't really smile but that's my new goal!"

"Good luck," Seungmin replied dryly, not having much faith in Jisung due to all the rumors he had heard about Minho.

But even though Jisung barely knew anything about him yet...he didn't believe a single one of them.

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i forgot to mention in the intro but this is kind of written in the perspective that they are learning ASL because idk a singular thing about Korean sign language...not that it's extremely important anyway bc this will probably be the most descriptive chapter about it that there will be