try-hard •sunki au•

four

Sunoo had to stop and stare at the person leaning on the wall not too far from him. He had to look back and compare all the details of the shirt they were both wearing.

It's exactly the same.

“This isn't a coincidence anymore,” Sunoo murmured to himself.

He turned around to go back to the dorm and change his shirt, no matter if he'd be late.

“Where are you going?”

Sunoo pretended like he didn't heard anything and just continued walking. It would be weird if the students will see them walking side by side wearing the same shirt.

But the guy seemed like he doesn't care and even sticked closer to his side.

“Oh, what a coincidence. We wear the same shirt today,” the freshman said, his tone both sarcastic and teasing.

“Can you please just stay away from me? If you think you're being funny, you're not,” Sunoo said, annoyed.

“But I'm having fu—”

“Riki.”

Sunoo let out a sigh of relief when he sees someone dragging the freshman away from him. He didn't dared looking back at them and just continued rushing back to the dorms to change his shirt.

+++

“Sunghoon, let me go,” Riki said, pouting.

“Skipping class again?” Sunghoon asked once the sophomore have walked away from them.

He withdraws Riki's arm but still making sure the younger will not dare run away from him.

“Stop believing Heeseung's lies. I may always be late but I never skipped a class,” Riki said. “And what are you even doing here? You're supposed to get a full day rest after a competetion, right?”

“I have to take special exams and I'm here to take my reviewers. What are you doing following a student around? And you even match clothes,” Sunghoon asked, his eyes staring curiously into Riki.

“Nothing,” Riki shrugged. “I'll go to class, then. Don't tell Jay things that are not even true.”

Riki didn't gave Sunghoon a chance to talk as he already ran back to where his classroom is. He didn't forget to stop by the bathroom and change his shirt.

It's not that he hates the color black, he just prefer the clean and aesthetic colors to accentuate neat features of himself. He avoids dark and very bright colors.

Now though, his closet had more than twenty different black colored shirts. He bought all of that to annoy the sophomore. Ah, the way he put too much effort for him. Imagine him following the sophomore every day, memorizing every detail of the print in his shirt and finding the exact same shirt in an online store.

“What are you doing following students around?” Jay asked as soon as Riki approached their usual lunch table.

“That's a lie,” Riki shrugged, sitting beside Jake as he gave Sunghoon a glare.

“He even wears the same shirt as him,” Sunghoon said, not minding the glare coming from the younger.

“I swear, I'll burn all those black shirts you bought if you don't stop with your silly acts,” Jay threatened.

Riki pursed his lips. “I can just buy new ones again,” he murmured.

He looked around to find a familiar face. As expected, he's wearing a different shirt this time. He must have change earlier thinking that Riki cannot copy his shirt this time. Too bad for him, Riki also have the same shirt in his locker.

“Riki,” Jake poked his cheeks, “I know that look. Please leave the sophomore alone.”

Riki pursed his lips further, making Jake giggles. He look back at his food and started eating.

+++

“I was right, he's close with Sunghoon too,” Jungwon said.

Sunoo briefly look at the other table and found four people sitting together, including the freshman he hates.

“He's really getting on my nerves these days. If one day I cannot control my self, I might end up getting a detention slip and an email saying I will be expelled for almost killing a student. I swear,” Sunoo said.

His reaction while speaking made Jungwon laughs. Sunoo sounded too serious and his eyes were getting wider each word he says.

“Nothing is funny, Jungwon,” Sunoo said.

Jungwon had to control his laughter before speaking.

“I mean, how can he even have all the same shirts like yours? He's been copying your shirt almost everyday,” Jungwon said.

“Yeah, right. The worst part of it is that I have to do laundry within a week because I've used all my shirt to change. If I could just really rip his shirt off,” Sunoo said.

“You can't, you know you can't,” Jungwon said, this time his tone is serious.

“I know, Jungwon. I'm not getting myself in to trouble just because of him,” Sunoo said, promising.

Jungwon gave Sunoo a smile.

If he could just tell the freshman to stop messing up with his best friend, Jungwon would do it. However, Jungwon knew that even his reckless move will have an impact to Sunoo and his trauma. And no, Jungwon didn't want Sunoo to go through the same experiences again. It already ruined Sunoo so bad, he's far from his old self.

Jungwon missed that personality of Sunoo he met in highschool.

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