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It was four in the morning and rather than getting a good night's sleep, Donghyuck was in the kitchen. He stood in front of the oven with his arms crossed and watched his cookies bake, specks of flour all over his pink apron that matched his hair.
It wasn't that he could get any sleep anyway. The past few weeks had really been taking a toll on him. With how Chaeryeong mercilessly broke his heart, now he was being framed for crime and not to mention the whole issue with his parents that he thought he was healing from, Donghyuck had to admit that having to share a roof with the most unlikely roommate was the least of his worries. But with his personal problems pushed aside, The Grand Reveal was currently his heaviest burden.
Donghyuck genuinely loved being an editor for Astral and he loved using the gossip column for good in unorthodox manners; however, if his innocence wasn't proven soon and word got out about him being the culprit, he wouldn't just lose his position as an editor. He would lose the soccer team, the student council, the respect of everyone around him. The only things stopping the people on the list from pressing charges or getting law enforcement involved were Astral's official statement ensuring that "investigation may take a while to be carried out thoroughly" as well as the fact that none of them wanted it to spread any further beyond campus.
They didn't have any form of support from police or actual investigators, so it was up to Donghyuck, who wanted to save his own ass, and Jiseol, who wanted justice to prevail, to crack the case. In short, it wasn't going to be easy. Hell, it looked almost impossible to solve.
Lost in his train of thoughts, Donghyuck nearly didn't notice the nasty cockroach that had made itself comfortable on his foot. He glanced at it nonchalantly, until he took a second glance and screamed, frantically waving his foot to get the tiny creature off him. His scream was loud and high-pitched, apparently loud enough to wake the neighbors next door who responded with an angry bang on the wall.
"Oh, but when you two are loudly fucking all night, I don't get to say anything!" Donghyuck hissed, then went back to cringing in disgust when he saw that the cockroach was still doing what seemed to be breakdancing on the floor.
His scream was loud enough to wake his own roommate, who bursted out her room in her duck-printed pyjamas with a baseball bat between her hands. Jiseol squinted, unable to see properly from not having her glasses on but confidently took a stance to show she was ready to swing.
"What the hell are you doing? Why do you have a baseball bat?" Donghyuck's jaw hung open. He also wanted to question her cute choice in nighttime clothes, but he decided it'd be better to tease her when she wasn't holding a weapon.
"I heard you scream. I thought somebody tried to break in or something," Jiseol rolled her eyes when she realized that everything was fine. She rested the baseball bat against the wall and headed to the kitchen to quench her dry throat.
"You play baseball? I thought you'd rather rot in your coffin than play sports."
"I don't. Jisung used to but he switched to soccer so I took his bat for self-defense."
