Kris is really tall. Like, annoyingly tall. Like telephone poles, or streetlamps. Or redwood trees in those protected parks in California, or maybe that one-thousand step mountain passage people climb in China. Anyway, Sehun's point is that he's really, freakin tall and it irritates him so much.
Actually, it's probably just that Sehun was king of this school until he came along. He had the looks (tall, imposing, messy blond hair, nice complexion, bright eyes). He had the grades (Top 20 for every exam, and number one on all of them). He was great at sports (basketball team and soccer team, both varsity). And, well, he had that cold personality that girls and guys alike seemed to love. A mysterious aura that floated around him, and no one seemed to be able to get past it. Plus, he hung out with a good crowd. Luhan, the pretty boy who was nice to everyone and whom everyone admired, and Kai, the bad-boy, handsome male that everyone wanted to have their hands on.
So basically, he was an idol, the idol. And then--
"Good morning class," The teacher greeted everyone with a bored expression.
Everyone replied about as enthusiastically as he did.
"We have a new student today," He looked towards the door and in walked him. The teacher patted him on the back and told him to greet everyone.
"Hello," the new student's voice was lower than anything Sehun had every heard, save for Chanyeol's. But Chanyeol was a weird kid, so he didn't count. "My name is Kris Wu. I moved from China, and I hope I'll have fun here." He smirked at the class and a poor girl in the back row let out a gasp.
Everyone was positively mesmerized and Sehun could feel his temper rising past limits. And oh, lo-and-behold, the only empty seat was the one next to him. This must be one of those stupid shoujo mangas his female cousin liked to read or something because it was getting way out of hand. Why? Because Kris was tall, blond, and imposing. After just two weeks of sitting with him, he finds out Kris is smart and gets good grades. Because above all, he's instantaneously popular and witty and Sehun doesn't even give a shit for keeping track anymore because he does not like him one bit.
"Oh c'mon, Sehun-ah, give the giant a chance." Kai said between chewing food and watching anime on his phone. Kyungsoo was leaning over his shoulder to watch too, so it must be Prince of Tennis or something. He watched Kai sneak a peek at the other boy and then give him a peck on the cheek. Okay, Kai was the bad-boy of the school...until he completely and utterly fell head-over-heels for Do Kyungsoo.
"Why? He's an inferior species," Sehun picked at the pasta on his plate with his plastic fork.
"Of what exactly?" Kai squinted his eys at him and shook his head. "You're just jealous."
"What is there to be jealous of?" Sehun glares at Kris through peripheral vision. He's sitting two tables down with Tao and Lay, two boys that had also moved from China some months ago. They were laughing about something, well, Tao and Kris were. Lay was busy burying his face in some thick-ass book he would most likely finish in the next two blocks.
"Sehun, he's not that bad." Luhan took a sip from his milk cartoon.
"You talked to him?" Incredulous. Even his friends were betraying him for that huge-handed beast.
"You have too! Sehun, you sit next to him, for God's sake." Luhan's phone beeps with a text. He wouldn't be surprised if it was Xiumin asking to meet him after school. He glances at the screen, "By the way, I can't go walk with you guys today." Yup.
"Not by choice, I don't." Sehun gave up on the pasta and picked up a grape.
"Whatever. Look," Luhan grabbed his shoulders and gave him a shake. "Just talk to the guy. He's kinda hot. I dunno, maybe you'll like him."
Lunch ended with Sehun wanting to puke.
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Kai bailed on him last minute for an ice cream date with "Soo". Typical.
He stuffed his coat into his locker. He wouldn't be needing it with this sun. "Hi." Someone said behind him. What a deep voice. Sehun turned to see Kris staring at him. Around them, the hallway was empty. Oh, it's just him, he thought. He turned back to his locker.
"Um, hi?" He took a step closer and leaned against the locker next to Sehun.
"Yes, hi, what do you want?" Sehun shot him bullets with his eyes.
"Woah, what did I do to you?" Kris raised his hands in surrender.
"What do you want?" He grumbled one more time. Seriously getting on his nerves and...
"I was wondering if you wanted to walk home together?"
Did his cousin zap him into one of her mangas yesterday? "How do you even know I live in the same direction?"
"I asked Luhan."
Of course he did. And of course that deer-eyed kid would give him his address without a second thought. "Why the hell did you do that?"
"Because I wanted to walk with you?"
Sehun slams his locker. "No."
"It'd be kinda awkward if we just walked the same way without actually walking, you know, together." There was that smug smile again. He was luring him into a trap. Going to pull him aside into a dark alley and mug him when he least expected it.
But what choice did he have? That would be really awkward. In the end, Sehun reluctantly agreed. And they walked.
No, he did not get robbed, or injured, or murdered. They just walked. Barely even talked, too. Kris had pulled out his iPod and asked him what his favorite song was. Sehun looked up at him (shit, he had even had to look up) and told him. Then Kris clicked something and showed him the screen. There was the familiar album art with the song title splattered across in graffiti font. "I like that song too." He smiled and handed Sehun an earbud.
Sehun took the earbud and put it in. Sharing earbuds? No one cared. It was a song. A really stupid, really good song that he thought no one knew. But here was Kris who just happened to have the same musical tastes as him.
Whatever.
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He got into the habit of changing his favorite song every other day. Not quite on purpose, but close. He listened to that one song over and over for two days until it got stuck in his head, and then he switched songs. He listened to the new song at lunch, and Luhan looked over at him multiple times before finally pulling out his headphones and asking him why he kept listening to the same song repeatedly.
"Nothing."
He also got into the habit of walking with Kris every day. Luhan and Kai were excessively hanging out with their boyfriends, it seemed to him, so he was left with no choice but to go with Kris. He didn't even have any clubs as an excuse because Kris had joined basketball and soccer too. Sehun would never admit it, but he didn't really hate walking with Kris. Why? Well, for one thing, he never blew off his ear with incessant talking like Kai always did. He'd simply fish out his iPod and Sehun would hear him say, "What's your new favorite song?" Like he knew he'd gotten sick of the last one.
Sehun would tell him, Kris would click something, and Sehun would be left amazed. He'd always have the song, always. Even if it was some underground music that Sehun was sure no one at their school knew. He started to suspect it was Luhan. It must be. That little weasel always saw his iPhone at lunch.
He began hiding his phone around him, around anyone. That day, Kris walked up to him right as Sehun closed his locker, and they fell into pace with each other.
Kris's iPod was clearly too small for his massive hands. "So what's your new favorite song today?"
Sehun told him the title, and Kris once again scrolled through his list of what must be thousands of songs and tapped on the right one. Sehun gave him a look before taking the earbud.
"What?" Kris pulled out his to ask him.
"I dunno, I just thought no one knew that song."
He laughed. "Me too, but I guess not." He smiled and looked over Sehun. "Hey, you've gotten taller."
Sehun had no clue how long they've been walking together for him to have noticed this, but it's true. They couldn't be more than a couple centimeters off. "Yeah, I guess." He's pretty much eye-level with Kris. Are they friends? He wanted to ask. "So, are we, like, friends...? Or what?"
Kris laughed again and threw his arm around Sehun's shoulder. "I thought that was already established when you agreed to my ill-fated request to walk with you in the first place."
Sehun looked at the long fingers on his shoulder. Impulse, really strange impulse, made him raise his own hand and run a finger down the vein on Kris' hand. "So," he heard Kris' deep voice say next to his ear. "What's the 'or what' option?"
"Nothing." His cheeks reddened. "I didn't say that."
"Yes you did." Kris moved closer until their noses were almost touching. "What's the 'or what'?"
"I...don't...know...." His voice was barely above a whisper, and when it was, it came out in squeaks.
Kris locked eyes with him for what seemed to be an eternity, and then quickly gave him a kiss on the lips. It was a sweet thing that lasted no more than a second, but Sehun could feel soft lips meet his and the world was upside down and backwards, but it also felt...right?
"How cute." Kris reached to take his hand, and Sehun was right. It was big enough to envelope his hand in his, he felt small beside him.
Sehun's blush only got worse at those words. "I'm not cute."
He felt Kris put in the earbud in his ear and his favorite song started playing. He could just barely hear Kris over the music. "Whatever."
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