try-hard •sunki au•

thirty-one

Riki looks at the time on his phone. There's still thirty minutes before lunch. It was his vacant time so he decided to roam around the university, hoping to see Sunoo again before lunch.

However, instead of Sunoo, Riki meets the boys he used to hang out with to vandalize the bleachers and some lonely walls on the back of the buildings. They wore teasing smiles as they walk towards Riki.

“Long time no talk, kiddo,” one of them said.

“We were surprised of the reason why you suddenly stopped hanging out with us.”

Riki looked at them confused. He never told them the reason. He just stopped meeting with them with no other words being said.

“You got a good taste, congratulations.”

“Good taste of what?” Riki curiously asked.

He's been getting all these weird comments from everyone. He didn't even know what they're talking about, they didn't even made everything clear.

“What's there to congratulate about?” Riki asked again.

The boys laugh.

“You're dating K—”

“Riki!”

Riki looked behind him to see Jake walking towards him.

“Oops, we gotta go,” one of the boys said before they ran to the opposite way.

“Riki!” Jake said, holding onto Riki's arm. “What did they say to you?” he worriedly asked.

Riki only looked at him confuse.

“Let's go and find Jay, he must be somewhere outside the university,” Jake speaks again, dragging him to somewhere.

“Don't you guys have class?” Riki asked.

“We skipped.”

Riki laughs at that. Skipping class isn't something Jake would do.

“Have you received a call from the counselor?” Jake asked.

Riki closed his mouth shut.

“What did she say to you?” Jake asked again.

“Uhh...I blocked her number,” Riki said.

Jake stopped walking and look back at him. Riki pulls his arm off the older's grip, ready to ran away.

“She was being annoying last night, okay? Who would call at a late hour repeatedly? I declined her calls many times knowing I've been behaving but she still calls. So, I blocked her number,” Riki reasoned out.

He stood there, waiting for a smack, or a lecture, but Jake only smiled at him.

“You did the right thing,” Jake said. “Now, let's find Jay.”

“Why? Everyone else around me is acting weird and suspicious. What's happening, Jake?” Riki asked as he followed Jake off the hallways to the pathway leading to university gate.

“Did someone said something bad about you?”

“No, they're just weird comments...and stupid if I may say,” Riki said. “They don't make sense.”

“Like?”

“Congratulating me,” Riki speaks.

He watch as Jake faintly smiles.

Riki was so oblivious of what's happening around him, but why does he feel like something wrong is going on around him.

His bad feeling doubles when they finally arrived at a vacant lot near the university. Jay was there with a sophomore, Sunoo's bestfriend—Jungwon.

And he was crying.

“Sunoo is missing...”

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“Are you and Riki dating?”

He wanted to deny it, scream no at everyone who was asking the same question.

“I already knew you were gay!”

No. No. I'm not gay!

What did he do wrong?

He dressed in dark clothes, which is the color of men. He tried hard to refrain himself from acting too ‘feminine’, or whatever it was. He tried hard to avoid attentions.

It was Riki's fault.

If he only didn't copied Sunoo's shirt every day. If he only did not followed Sunoo everywhere and tried his best to get close.

If Riki only distanced himself away from him, this rumor could have been avoided.

Sunoo wiped the tears streaming down on his cheeks, trying his best to stay quiet so no one will know which room he was hiding. He will stay there until he's sure enough that no any other student will see him when he goes back to dorm.

He only hoped no one will find him, not unless it will be Jungwon.

“Sunoo?”

Sunoo covers his mouth with his hand. He heard the door open and the lights turned on.

“It's me...Riki.”

Of all people, why it has to be him. The person that's the reason of all of this. The person he didn't want to see.

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A/N

This is a free chapter. I have no class and I'm bored.

tengyu_