INSOMNIA

007.

007

— Mingyu's insomnia never got better. In fact it had gotten worse ever since he first saw Wonwoo. The older boy left him sleepless, he would arrive at school with horrible dark bags under his eyes. Mingyu hated being see in such an ugly state, especially when He saw Wonwoo so early in the morning.

"Today I'll be choosing your partners." Mingyu heard the teacher chirp as the class quietly rolled their eyes. He hated being paired up with someone he didn't know, especially when his best friend is sitting not to far away from him.

"Kim Mingyu and Jeon Wonwoo, You two shall be partners for this new unit, you will sit at the end of the first row."

Mingyu froze. The teacher had just put him with the boy that he had been admiring from afar for so long. Mingyu wasn't the type to get nervous or shy but when it came to Wonwoo something in the pit of his stomach twisted to the point where he just couldn't speak to the boy.

Joshua gave a little smile as the two names were read out together, instead of focusing on having to work with a complete stranger while his friend worked with one of the cutest boys in the school. He focused on how happy his friend must be, sitting across the room with his beloved crush.

Everyone had been assigned new partners but, it wasn't until someone had poked Mingyu's arm with a ruler, that finally made him move into his new seat.

"Hey, I'm Wonwoo." The older boy spoke lowly. He wasn't one to really start conversation but, there was always a time to try new things. "Hi... I'm Mingyu." The younger boy responded after a couple moments of silence.

Mingyu studied the way Wonwoo looked at him, the other boy had been thinking about something but, Mingyu just couldn't get what it was. "You were the boy from the doctor's office," Wonwoo finally spoke with a small smile.

Mingyu jumped out of his intense fantasizing and looked at Wonwoo. "A couple days ago, when you were at the doctors and I came in to refill the tool jar things... Remember?"

Of course Mingyu remembered that moment, how could he forget? In fact he remembered everything that happened second per second. The way Wonwoo quickly took the jar in his hand to the way he filled the jar with cotton swabs, 46 to be exact. Mingyu was so infatuated with the boy that everything the other boy would do was like an artsy YouTube video with soft yet, addictive background music.  

"Mingyu?"

"Huh?" Mingyu yet again went on to fantasizing about the boy right next to him. The boy who no longer sat exactly 4 desks away from him, The boy who works at his doctors office,The boy in his 3rd period Science class, and most importantly the boy he has had a crush on for a year and a half.

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Question Of The Chapter: How do you think this new lab partner ship is going to end up?