celestial strings | h.js

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"Yeah," you replied. "I am just a little hungry."

He looked at you for a while, accessing your facial expressions, then he broke into a soft smile.

"We can go get something to eat, I know a store just down the street," he said before turning around and beckoning his friends over. "Let's go get something to eat! [Name] said they're hungry."

Felix perked up with a nod, agreeing to the idea. Then he stretched his arm out to you, the bottle of milk tea in his hand. "You can have some of my milk tea if you want," he said, shaking the bottle.

Seungmin chuckled as he pointed at the cup. "I think you drank all the milk tea already. It's just boba now."

Felix furrowed his brows as he raised his cup to glance inside. He let out a small yelp of surprise when all he saw was a pile of boba with the tea all drained from the cup. All the weight he felt was an illusion created by the weight of the boba! Clicking his tongue in annoyance, he turned to Seungmin and whined, "You drank everything! What about me? I bought this!"

"Me? What about Hyunjin? He was holding it for a good five minutes back there," Seungmin retorted as he shoved Hyunjin a little, looking at Felix in disbelief.

Seungmin then turned to Jisung and pointed at him as well. "Jisung drank a lot too! He just takes big gulps and stores them in his cheeks at a time. That's why it feels like he didn't drink too much but he totally did!"

"I saw that too! He's right!" Hyunjin chimed in, also pointing a finger at Jisung.

You watched them. Their tendency to start an argument over the littlest things were, needless to say, entertaining to you. Not only did it give you a chance to relax, but it also gave you free real-life drama to watch.

Amid their bickering, you relaxed a little upon the lack of attention fixated on you, and finally, you decided it would be a good time to help yourself out with some anxiety-reducing magic. You should have done it all along but there was never the right time to bring the strings out, and you didn't feel like lying about it.

You reached behind your at your bag and fished around blindly for the plastic board of strings. Your brows furrowed as you traced the bands of them with your finger, trying to feel their energy and to find the loose ends. As you did so, you also focused on the conversation that the boys were having, which seemed to be getting more and more heated—in a playful way—as seconds ticked by.

"You guys always drink my stuff! It isn't just this time!" Felix complained, pouting down at the bottle with angry eyes.

"If you don't like it then why didn't you say something?" Hyunjin asked. "We wouldn't have drunk it if you told us not to."

Jisung gave Hyunjin a faint, deadpan smile. "You know Felix is a people-pleaser, right? He can't say no."

"So you're saying he is a pushover?" Hyunjin snickered, causing Felix to glare at Jisung in shock.

Seungmin rolled his eyes. He didn't want to join the argument, it all seemed rather pointless to him, and he wanted to end it as quickly as possible. "I'll buy you one back then, you petty bastard," he said to Felix, once again not being the best conversation killer there is.

Felix grimaced bitterly, unamused by Seungmin's tone. "When you say it like that, it makes me sound like the bad person," he said. "If that's the case then I don't want it."

Hyunjin huffed out a laugh, turning to look at Jisung and shoving the boy on the shoulder. "People-pleaser, you say?"

"Oh–shut up!" Jisung groaned out, punching him back with an equal amount of strength.