chapter twelve

                                    

                                          
Now nearing the lunch room, Jisung began to imagine exactly what he and his friends would talk about involving the four boys. He knew for a fact that his friends wouldn't just say something along the lines of 'forget it' or 'just move on'.
As he opened the doors to the lunch room, he told himself "This isn't something we can just 'forget' or 'move on' from." before moving to the snack stand.
"What would you like?" The cafeteria employee asked with an extremely bored expression. She looked like she absolutely didn't want to be here.
"Just some cheesecake and some milk, please." 
"Hmm." She then turned to fetch a plate and fork for Jisung's cheesecake. While waiting for her to come back, Jisung took a look at the lunch room, packed with students sitting and chatting, others were leaving to go sit outside on the benches and grass. But then his eye turned to that same spot to find Minho and his friends sitting like they always did.
Minho was sitting, cross legged, and a book in his hands. He kept his head lowered to avoid looking at other people. His dark brown bangs were styled like they always were, covering his eyes, but not completely so he could still read the words printed on the pages. When he turned onto the next chapter, he reached for his bottle filled with blood since he felt a bit hungry. While sipping from the opaque bottle, he spotted Jisung over by the snack stand - looking at him.
The two just locked eyes with each other and even though they were at different distances, they felt so close. 
Even though Minho had practically turned a cold shoulder at him, Jisung still didn't have any changed feelings towards Minho. He didn't feel any emotions along the line of anger. It could be because of the experience they shared on the weekend - that weighed out the events of today. But also, something about Minho surprised him and he wasn't sure what.
Minho knew he should've gone back to reading his book, he would have done if any rando was staring his way. But this wasn't some random student, this was Jisung. And knowing it was this seemingly kind boy just prevented something inside him from turning to avoid eye contact. Despite the fact, he full on ghosted him the entire morning.
Jisung turned back to the snack stand as he felt a hand hit him on his shoulder. "Here you go." The lady presented the cheesecake on a small plate, along with a metal fork.
"Thanks." Jisung said before taking the sweet drink and his carton of milk from her.
"Yeah, yeah. Go on. More people want a snack." She waved him off with her hand after pointing to the mini line of people behind him. Walking away, he gave Minho one last glance before heading towards the door to go outside.
"A simple 'you're welcome' would've been nice." He pouted and rolled his eyes while carrying his food. Jisung was being a bit wary because he wasn't too keen on dropping his beloved cheesecake. 
His phone buzzed while he was trying to open the door with his free hand. It continued to buzz until he was able to get outside, and when he was able to open his phone, he saw several notifications from the group chat.
fried chicken central <3
minnie my love
yoohoo
YOOHOO
yongbokie
we're here!
minnie my love
yoohoo
my cute fox jeongin
lix he needs a bit more than that to know where we are
and minnie, stop saying yoohoo its super freaky
minnie my love
hush child
*image sent
Jisung immediately turned to his left to spot Seungmin waving along with Felix and Jeongin, sitting on their usual patch of grass. He smiled and headed over towards his friends, getting ready to start eating his piece of cheesecake. As soon as he sat down, he was greeted with a hug from Jeongin so he responded by patting his red hair.