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it was quite warm for december in korea, seeing they usually had cold winters. the weather was 56°F, but still pretty warm for a december.
sunoo had earmuffs and a scarf on for this chilly occasion. he huffed out a breath and watched as frost like air came out from his mouth.
"what are you doing" jake came up behind sunoo and stopped to ask right next to his ears.
"you scared me- don't do that again" sunoo yelped, almost slapping his friend from the scare.
"sorry" jake mumbled, the white breath also coming out from his mouth as they spoke.
they walked to school with a small flurry of snow fluttering around them, sometimes hitting their eyelashes.
sunoo kept blinking to keep the snow out of his eyes, but that seemed to make it worse.
by the time they arrived at school, sunoo's cheeks were tinted with a red and his eyes were puffy as well from the melted snowflakes resting on his eyelashes.
"you look like somebody from the polar express" jake pointed out, making sunoo pout and cup his own cheeks for warmth.
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sunghoon had his ear buds in, sharing the other side with jay. they were currently studying in their classroom before class started.
heather by conan gray was playing.
the skater realized that today was the 3rd of december from listening to the song.
"where's my sweater" sunghoon stopped the music and turned to jay.
"i didn't reject you though" jay huffed at the sudden stop of music.
"but we're not together either"
"sunghoon, this song is about confessing too late so his crush ended up with somebody else"
"i just want my sweater" sunghoon frowned and turned the music back on.
"come to my locker later." jay sighed and slightly smiled at sunghoon's childish behavior.
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sunoo rubbed his cheeks together and opened his locker, immediately getting lightly pushed to the side and his locker still swinging open.
"..may i help you?" sunoo asked, not sure who it was since their face was covered by his locker door.
"uh- third of december." the stranger mumbled and threw a sweater at sunoo and ran away.
that 'stranger' sounded a lot like riki, so sunoo thought it was safe to jump to the conclusion that the person who gave him this sweater was him.
"looks like kim sunoo received a sweater" sunghoon slithered out of nowhere and slammed sunoo's locker shut with his side leaning on the locker, right leg crossed over his left.
"looks like i did" sunoo beamed at the other.
"no fair, i still haven't gotten mine yet" sunghoon pouted and slid his body down the lockers, sitting on the floor.
the younger sat next to him, their shoulders touching.
"a little birdie told me.. you're supposed to be getting one from jay!" he smiled and looked over at sunghoon, waiting to see if what he said was correct.
"who told you?" sunghoon's head perked up in curiosity.
"nobody, i was spying on you guys from the door" sunoo sheepishly smiled as he admitted to stalking on the couple.
"i knew it" the skater shook his head while laughing and swung his arm around the other's neck, bringing him closer.
"that man is making me wait a whole damn period" he sighed and rested his head on sunoo's shoulder.
"at least you're still getting one" sunoo patted the other's head and tried to be optimistic.
"you right you right" sunghoon clicked his tongue and crossed his arms.
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"why is everyone asking for a sweater?" jake looked around their table and saw other people outside the table wearing sweaters.
"oh i don't know, maybe because it's december??" jungwon replied while opening a can of soda.
"december third to be exact" sunoo threw a piece of kimbap into his mouth and smiled.
"oh" jake blinked, immediately realizing what sunoo meant by december third.
heeseung sighed as he saw sunghoon and jay walking up to the table, fully knowing sunghoon was wearing jay's hoodie.
technically it wasn't a sweater, but who cares. hoodies are equally comfy as sweaters.
"isn't that jay's hoodie?" jungwon pointed his chopstick at sunghoon, who seemed a lot bubblier than before.
"indeed it is" sunghoon said, receiving a jab in the stomach by jay.
"anyways" jay coughed and sat down on the picnic table.
"you can't tell me they're not dating" jake slid along the bench to get closer to sunoo who was a few inches away from him.
"it's too obvious" sunoo whispered back, occasionally giving small glances to the two boys.
sunoo was about to add another phrase when he saw a paper airplane made out of a sticky note (wink wink) gliding in the air.
he realized it was coming his way, so he stood on the bench and jumped to grab the sticky note.
"woah be careful" jake had his hands up just in case sunoo fell and he needed some help.
sunoo's nose scrunched up as the sudden latitude from up there changed to a much chillier scenario.
he opened the note and saw wonderful handwriting. he noticed a few grammatical errors, but it seemed it was from a foreigner.
'do you like the sweater?' -riki
is what the note read.
his eyes immediately jumped to the bottom of the note which had riki's name on it. knowing this note was from the younger boy, sunoo smiled.
"who's it from?" sunghoon tilted his head up to look at sunoo who was still standing on the picnic bench.
"it's from ni-ki about the sweater!" sunoo clutched the note tighter in his hand and gave sunghoon a bright smile.
"you just won't drop the nickname, will you?" a familiar voice said, footsteps being followed with the voice afterwards.
"never" sunoo looked down to see riki in front of their table.
the younger had a light jacket on and his hands shoved into his pockets. it seemed a bit too light to be wearing on a december.
"did you take your sweater off to give it to me?" sunoo asked, noticing that riki only had a shirt under his jacket.
"of course" riki clicked his tongue, signaling that sunoo was correct with his guess.
sunoo let out a gasp. "take it back! you're gonna be cold." he jumped down from the bench and glared at riki.
"no" riki stuck his tongue out and ran away.
the whole table watched as sunoo started chasing riki around the outdoor cafeteria.
"take it bACK" sunoo shouted, his voice cracking because of running and shouting at the same time.
"NO" riki yelled back and giggled at sunoo's voice crack.
this continued on for about 5 minutes before both of them got tired and collapsed onto the ground.
"oh no you two don't" heeseung shouted and went to pick both boys up by their shirts. "do you know how dirty the ground is??"
"sorry mom." sunoo rolled his eyes and dusted himself off.
"yeah you better be sorry young man" heeseung placed a hand on his hip and waved his finger at sunoo.
"stop acting like my mom, thank you" sunoo stared at heeseung and scooted over to riki.
heeseung wrapped his imaginary sweater around his body and placed a finger hook in front of his mouth. "never in my 21 years of life did i ever get this much disrespect." he said, copying the way some english teachers acted.
"sunghoon, he's acting up againn" sunoo ran to sunghoon and hid behind him.
"i think the third wheeling got to his head" sunghoon said while looking at the older.
"yeah. I THINK IT DID" heeseung whipped his head around to face sunghoon and glared at him.
"hah, imagine third wheeling." riki scoffed from behind heeseung.
"say that again japanese kid and i'll shove you into a pot hole" heeseung turned back around to look at riki.
"i dare you." the younger said.
"come here you little-" heeseung started making a choking motion with his hands and started running after riki who was already booking it.
"i did not pay $500 for this shit" jay slammed his head into the picnic table and groaned.
"you what??" jungwon spat his juice onto jake's face.
"school fee" jay clarified, realizing how weird that could sound out of context.
"i hate you" jake slowly said, being drenched and lifted his arms up.
"love you too" jungwon sent a flying kiss to jake and prepared to run away.
"just wait until i get ahold of you bitch" jake grumbled and got up aggressively, shifting the table a little.
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(A/N: this was technically supposed to be published yesterday, since today is december 4th buTtTt no)