C-6
"This night is sparkling, don't you let it go. I'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home..."
I'm sitting at the library, trying to study a poem for my English class when I get stuck on a certain word.
"Wonderstruck?" I purse my lips in confusion.
"Oi."
I'm startled when a deep voice suddenly speaks in front of me. I look up and see my Australian classmate.
"Hey, Felix! Why are you here?" I smile at him.
"Ugh! Seungmin's forcing me to study the last topic from English class. He's getting god-knows-what books for references with Jisung." He shakes his head. "The essays aren't even due 'till next week."
"Um, tomorrow's the deadline..."
"No shi-- oh, sorry." He grins sheepishly when he almost curses aloud. "Well, I get smarter when I cram anyway."
"Can I ask you something?"
"Go on."
"What does wonderstruck mean?"
"Oh, it's like a sudden feeling of delight. For example, when you meet someone or see something and you just find yourself oddly captivated."
"Oh, so the context in the poem was that she was enchanted to meet him?"
"There you go, mate!" he says and I thank him for his explanation.
Felix and Seungmin are Jisung's friends. There are four of them but the other one studies at a different school. I'm not close with them but Felix talks to me sometimes whilst Seungmin is usually quiet. I've never seen the fourth member of their friend group.
After that, we mind our own business--that means Felix playing some video games on his phone and me reading vocabulary that almost had my nose bleeding. Five minutes passes and I just give up. I'll just cram the conclusion for my essay later.
There's still time before the free period ends so I just stayed at the library since I have a classmate here. It's better than waiting for nothing on the rooftop.
Random thoughts go in and out of my head as I watch the clock on the wall. I remember what Minho said yesterday... He's still not my friend. After what he said, it just made me want to be friends with him even more, but I don't know what to do.
I've never tried befriending anyone before because I'm too shy for my own good, but for some reason it all goes away when it comes to Minho. Maybe it's because we're seatmates?
I look at the boy in front of me who's just browsing through his phone.
"Felix?"
"Yup?" He looks at me.
"How do you make friends?"
He puts his phone down and focuses on my question. "Just go up to them and start a convo."
I can't help pouting because that's exactly what I did but he didn't listen. "But what if he doesn't want to talk?"
"Oh, it's a he. Are you sure you just wanna be friends?" He wiggles his eyebrows.
"Y-Yes?"
"Really?" He squints.
"Of course..." I feel my cheeks heat up.
"You're cute." He chuckles. "You know, why don't you bribe him with food? They say the way to a man's heart is through his tummy. Try, ehem, cheesecake, ehem, and you'll get him in a heartbeat. Don't forget to buy me cheese sticks and sausages when my advice works, huh?"
"But he's lactose intolerant..." I murmur. His advice is not helpful at all.
"Who's cute?"
I look at the source of the voice and see Jisung with Seungmin who's carrying three books.
"Speaking of the devil. What took you so long?" Felix whines.
"Seungmin couldn't decide which books to borrow, but that's not important," Jisung says with crossed arms. "Did you just call my noona cute?"
"Nah, bro. It's you." Felix winks.
"Bro..." Jisung wipes his nonexistent tears and sends a finger-heart to Felix.
"Can we just go? The next class is about to start." Seungmin shakes his head.
"Yeah, and stop bothering noona." Jisung waves at me as he forcefully pushes the two out of the library. Felix holds up a peace sign whilst Seungmin puts a reference book on top of my essay and mouths a 'thanks again' before going.
I giggle as I watch the three of them try to go first and almost get stuck on the door.
This feels nice... I hope I can have friends to be silly with too.