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Hyunjin/Felix
WEEK 3 | FRIDAY 3rd Period
"Who would like to go first?" Hyunjin's drama class teacher asked. He bothered to ask the question with a hopeful tone as if he thought sounding so pleasant would cause more hands to shoot up at the request. Hyunjin raised his hand without a second thought. He figured he may as well get over the inevitable embarrassment that was to come with being the worst in class when in came to acting.
"Oh, a few of you. You three may go first, but I'll let you decide the order if you would like."
Hyunjin looked over to see that Jaemin and Felix both had their hands raised as well and cursed himself six ways. Jaemin was one of their bests, but he had no idea of what Felix was capable of.
"I'll go first, if that's alright with you two." Hyunjin suggested politely toward the opposite side of the room where the two were seated beside each other.
Felix smiled gently and nodded while Jaemin pouted just slightly but agreed nonetheless. "But I would like to be second." He said as Hyunjin stood and walked to the front.
"Fine with me." Felix smiled brightly at Jaemin. Hyunjin didn't miss the faint blush that sat across the taller boy's cheeks at the small interaction with Felix, but did his best to ignore it as their teacher handed him a page with a short dialogue and stage directions.
He sighed shortly as he read through the passage and directions.
The read-through wasn't hard at all, and Hyunjin made it through without any major mistakes, but he knew he'd done awful enough to make it seem like he'd been struggling big time.
Still, the rest of the boys clapped politely as he made his way back to his seat.
"We'll work on it, Hyunjin-ssi. This is why we're having these read-throughs. I am going to pair you up with someone that can help you progress in a positive way through the semester projects."
That wasn't comforting to him in the slightest! He would have to put up with someone for an entire semester, and if he happened to be paired with someone much better than him, he felt like it would be more discouraging than any sort of help!
Jaemin took his turn, and of course he was near perfect. He stumbled on a word or two that had weird pronunciations, but aside from that he completed his stage directions without faltering and made it look as natural as one could without any stage props or an actual stage.
He put his head in his hands. He did not want to be paired with Na Jaemin. He just didn't see that ending well.
"Okay, Felix. Let's give it a go!" Their teacher smiled brightly at the Australian transfer student who shot up out of his desk and shuffled to the front of the room.
Cute, Hyunjin thought to himself at the action.
Five minutes later Hyunjin found it difficult to shut his mouth from the way it hung open at Felix's performance. And by the silence that followed it, Hyunjin could tell that the rest of the boys in the room felt the same way. They were stunned. Felix was an absolute natural and borderline pro. Their teacher stared at the freckled boy in awe for a split second before leading the rest of the class in a polite round of applause.
“W-well done, Felix. You may take a seat.”
Hyunjin made the mistake of meeting the teacher’s eyes at the same time that he’d turned to glance at Hyunjin with knowing expression. Hyunjin sighed. The world just wasn’t going to make this easy on him.