Hanahaki Strings • seventeen jihancheol

Chapter 8: Getting Closer

Awkward.

The atmosphere in their table was awkward with Seungcheol sitting silently between Jisoo and Jeonghan who's casually eating like no one's staring at the three of them.

Jisoo and Jeonghan's friends started to eat breakfast and lunch together, for they enjoyed each other's company. But what surprised the four was seeing Jisoo and Jeonghan with Seungcheol when they entered the cafeteria earlier.

It's not only the four of them who's curious why the three are together again, some students were also looking at their direction and murmurings filled the cafeteria.

Seungcheol was used to it but he's uncomfortable of the awkward atmosphere, Jisoo didn't care at all while Jeonghan is starting to get annoyed, but he chose to ignore it like the other two.

However, their friends can't stay still.

"I didn't know the three of you were close already?" Jun broke the awkward atmosphere in their table.

The three synchronously raised their head to look at Jun who seemed startled at their synchronization.

"We're going to be roommates and teammates, shouldn't we start to know each other for a better teamwork?" Jeonghan stated while grinning.

"And Cheol is fun to be with. He's cute when he's blushing," Jisoo innocently retorted which earned a glare from Seungcheol but he just smiled at it.

"W..what?" Minghao and Wonwoo stuttered.

"He blushed? Choi Seungcheol blushed?" Jihoon asked in disbelief.

Who wouldn't? Everyone sees him as a cold delinquent. it's new to them to find out he blushed especially from Jisoo. They even called him 'cute' which doesn't suit his reputation at all.

"I didn't," Seungcheol coldly stated.

"You did," Jisoo said while munching his breakfast.

"I didn't," Seungcheol turned to him with a glare.

"You did," Jisoo then smiled at him, "Right, Jeonghan?"

"Come on, Cheol. You don't have to deny it. We've seen it ourselves," Jeonghan said.

While the three of them are bickering, their friends were just staring at them in awe. They didn't expect the delinquent Seungcheol would bicker with their childish friends without getting punch right in their faces.

"Uhm, we're still here?" Minghao tried to butt in between the three.

They immediately halted and Seungcheol felt embarrassed that others have seen him acting out of his character. So he just silently continued eating his breakfast.

"When did you became close with him anyway?" Jihoon asked.

Jeonghan and Jisoo looked at each other then they turned to the older who's just eating his food without glancing at them.

"Just recently, when I went to detention. It's only the two of us there so we talked about what happened the day before when we got that heart—" Jeonghan stopped on what he's saying when he realized he shouldn't have told them that.

He looked to Seungcheol who's also looking at him with his forehead creased, while Jisoo was just curiously looking at them like the other four.

"What happened the day before? What do you mean?" Wonwoo asked.

"Is it about the incident in the restroom?" Jisoo then asked.

Jeonghan sighed, before he nodded. Their friends knew about it but they never got the chance to discuss about it. They won't get any answer from themselves, anyway.