"i'm sorry, are you okay?" minhyung held his hand out to the younger, concern laced over his actions. he hadn't seen the younger while opening the door. 'i should've knocked.' the canadian thought regretfully.
the black-haired ignored the hand and stood up by himself, dusting off his clothes. "it's fine." he reassured softly, not really having the courage to maintain a normal human conversation nor make eye contact.
luckily, minhyung understood the younger and didn't push further. "oi mate, you're blocking the entrance." jeno complained to his brother in english, his canadian accent striking everyone's ears.
minhyung rolled his eyes before stepping aside to let the four youngsters in. "it's not his fault. i bumped into him and caused him to obstruct the way, i'm sorry." jaemin apologized to the four, shocking everyone with his english and accent.
meanwhile jisung was hiding behind the couch, too scared to talk to the others.
donghyuck was the first to break the silence. "woah..." chenle nodded, agreeing to donghyuck's amazement. "how'd you speak like that?" "i- i used to study in australia." jaemin's face was flushed, he wasn't used to having multiple strangers staring at him at once.
renjun spoke up: "so um. we actually have to lucky draw our roommates so why not start now?" jisung and jaemin looked at him in surprise, how did he know? renjun noticed the confused look on the six human's face and pulled out his phone. "a teacher told me via text."
chenle took some paper and wrote numbers corresponding to the rooms, crumpled them into balls and threw them in the air. each of the students chose one ball and random. "on the count of three, open it." donghyuck said to which everyone nodded.
"one... two... three!"
"okay, it's not too bad."
"YES, I'M WITH YOU!"
"oh god..."
"shit."
"it's fine."
"whatever, at the end of the day, we're all humans."
"meh."
the boys then went to their respective rooms and began to unpack. two happy with their pick, three not giving a shit and another two inwardly panicking.
"哥,我很高兴我能和你啊!(hyung, i'm so happy to be able to be with you!)" chenle exclaimed happily as he jumped onto the humongous bed. renjun chuckled at the younger's action before going to unpack his stuff. "我也是啊,但我比较想要跟帝努一起住。(me too, but i want to room with jeno more.)" the younger chinese pouted, mumbling something about the lack of respect.
"请- 请问你们是睡床吗?(ex- excuse me but are you guys sleeping on the bed?)"
the sudden voice startled the two. they looked over to jaemin who was just standing by the door looking at them. it was dead silent for about ten seconds before chenle finally spoke up. "you- speak chinese?" he received a smack on the head. "no shit, sherlock. he just spoke it, and it was directed to you."
jaemin giggled at the interaction between the two chinese, to which the two found him cute. "yeah, my mom is actually chinese." "that's so cool!" chenle exclaimed excitedly. "you're the same with me! my mom is chinese and my dad is korean!"
the middle placed his belongings on one of the desks. "i'm not korean, i'm japanese." renjun's eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "but your name tag is na jaemin?" jaemin understood the confusion, many have mistook him for a native because of it. "my surname is nakamoto and it's too long to be placed on a name tag, so i use na instead!"
just then, something caught chenle's eye. "look hyung, the plant is growing!" the two older ones glanced towards the window and sure enough, the plant was miraculously growing at a rapid pace. jaemin's cheeks turned red, he didn't expect that to happen.
"that might be me..." he admitted. it was only then that the others remembered the black head's nature abilities. "that's so cool!" chenle exclaimed and pat the plants, finding them cute.
renjun chuckled at the youngest and plopped back into the bed. "why don't we chat for a while before actually getting to work?"
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"so, what do you like to do in your free time?"
jeno looked at the youngest of the dorm who was, very obviously, trying to not talk to him. 'must be hard for him to talk to others.' jeno concluded, considering that he had only ever seen the younger talk to jaemin and dejun.
jisung answered softly. "well, i mainly just hang out with nana hyung but i do dance sometimes." the bluenette felt excited at the mention of dancing and was planning on asking jisung to dance with him.
what also caught his attention, however, was the nickname he gave jaemin. 'nana, how cute.' jeno and minhyung might be the only people out of the five that know that jaemin is japanese. so jeno could automatically guess the origin of the nickname.
he did feel a bit jealous, yes. he had a crush on the nature president after all. not to mention sungchan constantly calling his future brother-in-law by that nickname despite fully knowing that jeno had an interest in him. "it's not my fault i'm dating taro." was what the third jung said when he was confronted by both jeno and renjun.
seeing as jisung didn't really want to talk, the older decided to let him have his peace. he's not one to pry into other people's business or personal space. he could always talk to the younger later.
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donghyuck was inwardly panicking. he was rooming with his long-time crush after all. it has been five years since the tanned male began liking the canadian and it was in the third year when renjun began dating jeno, allowing the thai to have the chance talk to minhyung.
but he didn't have the courage to. that surprised both renjun and chenle to no end. the seo donghyuck? shy to talk to a senior? who wouldn't be?
the two chinese were the first to know about his attraction to the fire president. jeno ended up finding out himself after a few meetings with donghyuck. now he is the main teaser and supporter of 'markhyuck' as he likes to call them.
'screw jeno and his smart ass.' donghyuck cursed at jeno in his mind. knowing full well that the latter would be spamming his phone with texts in a few. he took a few glances and the older and tried his best to not freak out.
the canadian had his headphones on and was running his hand through his silky hazel locks. put any girl in donghyuck's place and they'll most likely be screaming immediately.
the unpacking process was quiet but not awkward. minhyung didn't take any notice to donghyuck and just carried on with his 'moving in.' this allowed the tanned male to calm his pacing heart.
'this seagull is going to be the death of me...'
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