#hcnevcomb

stella sighed as she looked at yoonsu; his face bruised with partially dried cuts on his cheeks. she pulled him closer, her hands picking up his own to examine them. there was a noticeable difference between her soft palms & his roughed up knuckles & without saying anything she pushed him towards the bathroom to fix him up. she began rummaging through the cabinet for the first aid kit -- she has a routine for when he comes home like this & at this point her hands move without her brain needing to do any work. she holds an alcohol wipe & looks up at him gently, her eyes warning him that it’ll hurt, but she’s sure he already knows the sting well. “you don’t have to tell me, but i’d like to know.”

☆  -  mali felt as if she had spent her whole day studying and she was actually tired of it - which is saying a lot when it comes to the nerdy girl. she would’ve gotten up and left the library a few hours ago if it wasn’t for the fact that she was waiting for her favorite company ever. she let out a long sigh, closing her eyes and taking a second to try to make her headache go away as she waited for the other.

         god, what was it about this class that had him want to crawl into a hole and never come out of it? it was like information was going into one ear and out the other. out of a rather large class size, chandler had fallen into some sort of a pit. if his grade slips any further, he’d be at risk of not being able to play in the coming year. after staring at his completed test for a few more seconds, he trudged towards the professor to turn it in, head hung low. as he was about to reach the exit, he spotted one of his classmates leaving the room with him. “um, hey, what’d you think of the test we just took?” he whispered, holding the door open for them. chandler hoped that he wasn’t the only one that felt somewhat helpless in the class.

siwon anxiously paced from one end to the other upon the other’s arrival. it sucked that he couldn’t get off work to pick them up at the airport but the least he could do was pick them up from the train station. when the train arrives a pool of people fills the main area of the station. his eyes were peeled for the other and once his eyes fall for then, he can’t help but smile when he spots them. he managed to creep up behind them and taps on their shoulder like he was playing a prank on them. he shifted to one side when they looked then tapped their other but giving up on the joke. he can’t help but be stunned by their beauty it takes him a moment to even greet them. “hello,” he chuckled pulling the much small -- petite -- fragile other into a warm hug, “was the flight okay?”

                              the   tips   of   his   fingers   trembled   as   he   looked   around   the   room   of   parents.   his   daughter   by   his   side,   jin   couldn’t   hold   back   the   feeling   that   he   was   LESS   of   a   parent   than   the   other   adults   around   him.   maybe   it   was   because   this   was   the   first   time   he’d   ever   been   at   his   daughter’s   school.   he   knew   it   wasn’t   this   fault,   that   to   take   care   of   his   family   he   NEEDED   to   work,   but   it   still   made   him   feel   horribly   out   of   place.   and   being   here   doesn’t   come   without   it’s   high   points,   he   was   still   EXCITED,   excited   to   hear   about   how   his   little   one   had   been   doing,   excited   to   meet   the   teacher   his   daughter   had   seemed   to   really   love.   and   he’s   seconds   away   from   gawking   over   the   latest     —   amazing     —  drawing   his   little   girl   had   drawn   when   he’s   tapped   on   the   shoulder.   turning   around,   eyes   meeting   someone   who   MUST   be   the   teacher,   he   smiles.    ‘    uh—   hi,   i’m   hyojin,   eunjae’s   dad.   ’

parker noticed her as soon as he walked through the door: his college classmate who also happens to be someone he matched with on tinder. he found it funny how he barely looked at her when the semester started, but two weeks in & he finds her on a dating app! so naturally he swiped right not expecting much but he was pleasantly surprised when it said they both had some kind of interest in each other. so naturally the next day he walked into lecture feeling confident & ready to speak to her but when he sat down next to her he realized she wasn’t even looking at him. he thought maybe it was a mistake, but who accidentally matches with someone & leaves it? he decides that he has to speak up, to say something to get her attention & so through that he also decides that asking if she needed anything was a start. “need a pencil?”

“why do you want to see my writing so badly?” oliver whined, trying to hide his journal underneath the sides of his jacket. his face was quickly turning a light shade of pink; he’s never showed anyone his work, especially when it was about them. “it’s bad. i promise you won’t like it.” he tried to convince them that the fight wasn’t worth the reveal, & he prayed they took the bait.

junghwa walked up to the other, being careful to keep his hands steady because he didn’t want his prize to be dropped on the ground & lost before he could show them. “i found a caterpillar in the bushes over there.” he stated in what was supposed to be a light, excited voice but it came out quite monotonous compared to how he’s heard things been said before -- he’s still new in this world & needs more practice on how humans do things.