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"Do you actually have a crush on him or does he just have fluffy hair" a random person on TikTok asked over the sound of some pop beat.
Y/N sits back as the sound loops again, her mind mulling over the question. Her mind had immediately gone to Renjun, her crush and the owner of a very luscious and beautiful head of hair.
Y/N was interrupted from her thoughts by her friend waving a hand in front of her face.
"Hey we have class just now, stop daydreaming about Renjun and get ready for the presentation with me" she asked, jokingly poking her friend. Y/N shook her head with a smile. "I wasn't thinking about him…..much" she said softly as she pulled out her notes. Her friend looked at y/n's phone replaying the same clip.
"Ey Clio, didn't you say you had lost your crush on a dude when he shaved?" She turns to another friend sitting on the concrete chairs behind the building.
Clio looks up from her hands covered in glitter paint and nodded.
"Yeah in high-school, one day I had a huge crush on the guy, the next day-poof his beautiful locks and beard were gone along with my feelings for him" she said dryly. Y/N looked at Clio now troubled thoughts going through her head.
Just then her focus switched to a group of guys walking over to the back of the school.
An involuntary smile lit up her face and y/n waved over to them. Her friend sitting next to her rolled her eyes.
"You really should just confess already, it's so obvious" she said. You narrow your eyes at her.
"Stacy, if you dare say anything I'll-" mid-way through her threat Renjun came into hearing distance jogging his way over to you.
You immediately pull a hair band from your wrist.
"Did you really lose another one of my hair-bands Renjun?" You ask incredulously as you wave him to come closer. He laughs nervously.
"Yeah I think it fell out of my hair" he sat down next to her and turned his head. You pass your hands through his long fluffy hair before tying it up into a high ponytail.
"Don't lose this one ok, this is my favorite scrunchie. I made it myself"
He reaches his hands up and pulls out some hair in the front to give him some hair framing his face. His hands briefly brush your hands and you both jump like you were shocked.
"I really can't believe you are gonna chop all this off" you mumble. He turns around to look at you.
"You will probably miss it more than me, it was nice but honestly too much to upkeep, especially with dancing" he said. He smiled which caused your stomach to do backflips, you looked away as you nodded. He was part of a band after all, between dancing, singing and school he was always jumping from one place to another, upkeep that hair must be tough.
"We uh, gotta go to class now so I'll see you later ok" was all you managed to spit out. He nodded and pointed to the guys waiting at the corner.
"Yeah I have dance practice soon and later I'm getting the cut, so tomorrow you'll see me completely different" he said proudly. You nod and give him a thumbs up and a smile but in your mind you wonder how different would you see him.
You walk ahead of your friends, your mind still on this thought. Maybe now was the natural time to lose this crush, and that should be fine right. He was a good friend either way so not having romantic feelings should be a good thing. Maybe now you could finally think properly when he's around and not feel so anxious. Maybe this will make you able to move on and stop crushing on your friend.
But that didn't happen.
You stared wide eyed at him. It was early morning, your first lecture of the day and usually he wouldn't be on campus because his first lecture is later in the day. But there he was, standing and chatting where you usually sit when waiting for class. His hair was cut. It was short and black, not really laying down and flowing like it did before but now it kinda reminded you of a military cut (for the kdrama fans Song Joong ki). You wipe your hands on your pants, suddenly overcome with nervousness. The soft morning sunlight seemed to frame him, the black hair contrasting with his pale and soft skin and his cheeky smile lit up his face.
Oh no
Stacy, who was sitting in her usual spot looked up and noticed her friend
"Y/N over here" she shouted, causing Renjun to look up and notice her as well. He smiled and waved, starting to walk to meet you half way. Your heart races and your flight or fight response takes over. Today's option is flight.
"Sorry I forgot…ah something" you shout as you run away from them.
You avoided him like the plague …or pandemic lol. But sooner or later it was bound to catch you.
The day passed, and another….and another. He tried calling you a couple times but the only reply you gave was "sorry, I'm not mad or anything just busy". Anytime you saw that bounce of black hair you felt your heart jump into your throat. You would think you were ready to face him and then you would just look at him and your mind would unravel.
Your friends found this hilarious. Stacy in particular was on the floor, crying laughing.
"So instead of losing this crush you became allergic to him?" She said within wheezes. You pout, your face was ablaze with embarrassment. There's a soft knock on the classroom door. Clio goes to the door and peeks outside. She turns back to the group with a thumbs up.
"It isn't Pollen boy" she says in a loud whisper. Mark pops his head in with an awkward wave. He squeezed his hat in his hands and looks directly at you.
"Yo…can I talk to you for a sec?" He asks. The girls give you space and you are alone with Mark in the room.
"So what's up with you avoiding Renjun? That isn't very cash money of you ya know, he's really worried and honestly tired of running you down" he said. You laugh dryly.
"Yeah….I know, and the reason is so stupid too" you say, kicking your shoe in the floor. Mark raises an eyebrow.
"Why?"
You puff up your cheeks as you gather the confidence.
"He's just too cute ya know. Like he looks too good, like if I'm any closer to him I might strangle him with a hug. Like he makes my heart race and I'm just looking at him. Like I swear I nearly cried when I saw him last time I was so overwhelmed" You ramble on. Mark pauses but then laughs, that wide mouth slapping the knee giddy laugh. You cover your face, once again getting laughed at but you don't blame him. He wipes tears from his eyes.
"Ohh that's a good one, wow." He smiles and pushes your shoulder playfully.
" That's literally how our entire friend group feels about him. Us dreamies love Renjun and well I'm sure you've seen how Jaemin and Haechan tackle him" he said proudly.
"You just gotta confess to him, he's getting cuter by the day so getting it off your chest is the only way you can survive" he said with a straight face putting his hand on your shoulder.
"He just has that effect on people trust me…plus I'm pretty sure he likes you more than he likes us, he wouldn't let us anywhere near his hair, especially when you plaited it that one time" he said with mock sadness. He led you out the classroom while talking.
‘So it's normal to have this reaction to him huh.
You step out the door and see Clio running towards you being chased by Jeno.
"It's Pollen boy, it's an ambush!!" She shouts. You feel arms grasp you.
"Now will you finally talk to me?" You hear a familiar voice in your ear. You freeze for a second.Your heart races and your flight or fight response takes over.
Today's option is fight.
You squirm and twist and break free of his arm. You turn around in a fighting position. You snare at him, still somehow pretty although he had you in a death lock just seconds before. You look briefly to the other boys who were closing in on you and then you made direct eye contact with him. The boy who you had an allergy to.
"You'll never catch me, and I'll never tell you that I'm in love with you!" You yell at him, strengthening your stance. His eyes opened wide and his ears started burning red. Then as if by delay you finally heard your own words.
Oops…flight it is. You dash between Haechan and Mark and make a break down the campus walkway.
"Ughjjjh" you could hear him groan I'm annoyance. You turned your head to look only to see him running behind you. You had forgotten, he may feel like a tiny adorable person to you but he actually has long legs….and a lot of pent up angry energy.
You felt your end drawing near, your legs were burning, your lungs were burning, your eyes were burning and with a careless step on a slippery stone, your entire body was burning. Luckily you had fallen on the grass instead of the concrete. You sit up only to be tackled down to the grass again.
"I caught you, now stop trying to run away, please. I hate running" Renjun gasped for air. You sighed, now was time for you to pay for your crimes.
"Look here's all your hair ties you lent me" he says, pulling a handful of colourful hair ties from his jumper pocket.
"Don't try to run away again okay" he says as he releases you. He sits heavily on the grass beside you. You look at the little pile of hair ties in your hand with wonder.
"I gave you so many?" You asked, no wonder you had to buy three more packs recently.
"Yes, every time I lost them you would give me a new one. Seems like I just kept putting them in my pocket and collected all I could find to give you back after I cut my hair" he said .
"I've been trying to give it back to you since two days ago, but somebody" he narrowed his eyes at you.
"Was apparently so busy that they couldn't even say hi" he said rolling his eyes.
"And who runs away from their friends? Huh" he said, passing his hand through his short black hair. Only now did you notice the scrunchie on his wrist.
"What about that one?" You said.
He looked at it and pulled his hand away from you.
"Don't be greedy, The last time you gave me a hairband you gave me this one. I liked it so I'm keeping it" he said. You blinked at him.
"You are stealing my favorite scrunchie!?" You ask with an incredulous look on your face. He smiles and puts his hands to his face to frame his cuteness.
"Yes but I get to keep it because I'm your favorite person right?" He says with a high cutesy tone. He was obviously using his cuteness against you. And gosh darn it it was working. You roll your eyes and look at him again.
"Here, I made a scrunchie for you as well." He said. He pulled out a blue scrunchie from another pocket and hands it to you.
"And I better not see you lose this, I spent an afternoon making this. It's our friendship scrunchie now" he said sternly. You furrow your brow as you put it in your hair.
"What do you mean an afternoon, scrunchies are extremely easy to make" you say with a laugh. He sputters and starts going on about how he had to find all the stuff and then a video and et cetera. You had a small smile on your face as he rambled about how hard he worked to make you a friendship scrunchie.
Look, you were talking to him normally again, it made you unnecessarily happy. Maybe you weren't allergic to him after all.
"Hey I'm sorry for avoiding you. I… I just realized I have a massive crush on you and I couldn't handle it, you know?. I really like your short hair, you literally had me stunned haha. But I'm fine now" you explain lightly, looking back on it you were definitely overdramatic. I mean yeah he looked like a fairy prince straight out of a cheesy romance manhwa but that didn't mean you had to lose your mind.
You stop and looked at Renjun. His eyes were wide open and his jaw was dropped open.
Redness covered his cheeks and burned bright on his ears ..was he….blushing?
"You have a crush on me?" he asked. You look at him confused.
"I literally told you I'm in love with you" you said dryly. He jumped.
"Yeah that's normal…but you said you have a *crush* on me….and you like my hair? I thought you liked it long?" He said confused. You narrowed your eyes at him.
"Yes I like your hair, I literally avoided you because you looked so cute" you stated matter of factly. He stood up, his hands covering his blushing face. He turned to the approaching guys.
"She thinks my hair looks cute!" he said with happiness in his voice. Mark shook his head.
"We literally told you that your hair looked cute a hundred times" he said exasperated.
"And seeeeeeeeeexccccccy" Jaemin said with a long drawl.
"Do you like it better than long hair?" He asked, his sparkly eyes and genuine question making your heart melt.
"Yes of course, short black hair totally suits you" you say as you stand up dusting yourself off as well. He squealed, the happiness radiating off of him.
And just like that, you were added to Huang Renjuns harem lol.
Even though he didn't really have a use for it, Renjun was never not seen without the hairband. You on the other hand…..you lost it within a week. =_=