III

                                    

                                          
Felix wakes up with a headache. Groaning, he sits up and looks around his room. The clock on his wall read 6:25 am, which means in 5 minutes, his cousin would walk into his room. Loudly, might I add. 
                          
Felix gets up and heads straight for the bathroom in search of painkillers. Finding some Advil and quickly swallowing it, he steps back out of the bathroom and runs into Minho.
                          
"Felix? You're awake? Well, that's new." The older boy raises an eyebrow.
                          
"Ah yeah, I uh...yeah," Felix says, his mind still not fully awake. 
                          
"Uh-huh..." Minho nods, clearly a bit confused. "Well, start getting ready dude," He says before walking back to his own room. 
                          
"Gah I look horrible," Felix says to himself as he looks in the bedroom mirror. His hair was a mess, he had huge eyebags and his lips were chapped. "Damn." The young Australian tries his best to clean up his face and brush his hair but those orange strands would just not be put in order. He finally gives up and goes to change, adding a black beanie to cover his messy bed-head. He makes it downstairs and stands by the door waiting for Minho to join him.
                          
...
                          
"Sup asshats!"
                          
Felix groans and slaps his friend on the back of the head. "God damn it Jisung, it's too early for this shit."
                          
"Not my fault you're a grumpy pants in the morning, Felix." Jisung sticks out his tongue and Felix raises a fist in threat. 
                          
"God, why do you two always have to start the day with a fight. Honestly, how childish." Minho says, interrupting them. Jisung turns and begins to walk backward as he talks to Minho.
                          
"It is not childish in the slightest dear friend. For you see, and Mr. Lee and I are having a profound and amazingly deep conversation about the problems of life and the differences that being grumpy in the morning brings to it." He says in the best adult voice he can muster, which makes both Felix and Minho break into laughter. 
                          
Felix opens his locker to find a sticky note on the wall. He reads it carefully, for the writing was quite tiny. "...Sup Lixxie...I hear that Changbin-" He stops and shakes his head. "Uh uh. Nope. Not today." He shuts his locker loudly and closes his eyes. "I am not going to sin my eyes with that unholiness."
                          
"What's it say?" Jisung raises a brow and gestures towards his locker. 
                          
"Take a look."
                          
Jisung and Minho glance at each other before opening the locker and reading the note. Jisung begins laughing his ass off while Minho looks up to the ceiling, his hands clasped together in prayer.
                          
"Jesus take the wheel."
                          
Felix sighs and pulls Jisung along down the hall, Minho following at the back. He shoves them to the right while he himself turns to the left, dreading his AP Calc class already.

                          
-C H A N-
                          
Chan frowns and steps back from around the corner. He holds his chin in his hand.  
                          
"I really thought that would do something." He shrugs and walks off to class, he can try again later. 

                          
-F E L I X-
                          
Felix takes out his textbook as the final few students walk in and sit down. Like him, many of them did not want to take AP Calc, but at this point, they didn't have much of a choice. They needed the math requirement and this was the way to get it.
                          
Much to Felix's dismay, class goes on without a hitch, and so Felix finds himself walking down the sophomore and junior hallway. He smiles, seeing Jeongin and Seungmin at their lockers. 
                          
"Yo." Felix raises his hand for a high five as he approaches his friends. 
                          
"Hmm? Oh hyung! Hi." Jeongin smiles and reaches up so Felix wasn't left hanging. He smiles and talks with them a bit more before there's a tap on his shoulder. He turns and raises a brow.  He shoos his two friends off to class, telling them they'll meet up later. 
                          
Felix turns back to his ex, arms crossed. "Changbin. What on earth do you want?"
                          
The short male smiles softly. "Well...Bang Chan found out about our past..."
                          
"H-how?"
                          
Changbin takes a breath. "I told him-"
                          
"You what?!" Felix covers his mouth, trying not to draw attention. 
                          
"Look, I'm sorry ok. I didn't mean to do it...He forced me. But...." Changbin sighs. "It's not like we were going to keep it a secret forever Felix. He was bound to find out that his best friend was dating you, the new kid of freshman year."
                          
"Oh my god." Felix groans and rubs his face tiredly. "You're an asshole. This...this explains something honestly."
                          
"What?"
                          
"You know what he left in my locker today? A sticky note. About us. You and me. He's an ass. In fact, both of you are. Look, I'm over you and you're over me. So why does he care so much about the past?"
                          
"Chan," Changbin starts hesitantly. "Chan doesn't care about the past-"
                          
"Actually, I don't want to know. Look," Felix sighs and puts his hand on his hip. "I don't care what you two talk about, just don't bring me into it. I don't want anything to do with either of you. Got it?" Changbin only nods and Felix walks off, very pissed.