Title: Of Scheme and Things
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read0writePairing: Luhan/Suho
Rating: PG-13 (R, to be safe)
Length: 2,010 words
Summary: Patient wasn’t exactly Luhan’s middle name.
Author's Note: I strayed a bit from your prompt, I’m sorry about that, and this isn’t the best but I hope you’ll still like it.
"Did you hear the PA system this morning?" Luhan asks as he takes a seat across from Sehun. Sehun has his eyes fixed on his phone and the sound of Luhan's presence doesn't bother him to look up. He ignores Luhan as he continues to scroll through his phone. Luhan continues to talk anyway, he knows Sehun is listening to him. "It was beautiful," he sighs, melting in his seat.
Sehun rolls his eyes at that comment. "Shut up, Joonmyun's voice sounds ordinary over the PA system," he snaps.
"Nothing's ordinary when it gives me a boner," Luhan points out, wiggling his finger towards Sehun.
"You are disgusting, keep your boner in your bedroom," Sehun says, his shoulders shaking as he makes an exaggerated disgusted face. The face that Luhan dubs as 'oh, your face, it looks like a burnt scrambled egg no one wants to eat,' insert his shakespearean play voice.
"Everyone likes my boner!" Luhan exclaims.
"Hey, hey, hey, what's with all the commotion?" Comes a new voice from behind Luhan. "Is he talking about his boner again?"
"What else," Sehun shrugs his shoulders.
"Apparently, Jongin, everyone likes my boner," Luhan repeats.
Jongin makes a gag sound. "Can't believe you still have a raging boner with anything that is related to Joonmyun," Jongin states, switching his seat from beside Luhan to Sehun.
"Have you seen him!" Luhan's eyes are wide, threatening to come out of its socket, his mouth is wide open and he has both his palms pressed on the table. His exaggerated reaction gains the library occupants attention, but Luhan, in all means is shameless, and everyone knows so they don't really bother as they continue doing their own thing. "He is so hot," he says as he rests his back against his chair, with his head held back and eyes closed. Like he was trying to remember every single detail of Joonmyun's features.
Both Sehun and Jongin can only shake their heads at Luhan's reaction.
"Joonmyun-hyung is not hot, he's just insanely adorable." Jongin corrects.
"Insanely adorable and hot, that is a dangerous combo!" Luhan retorts, "and I still can't believe he doesn't know my existence," he continues, putting his right hand on his left chest.
"That's good," Sehun states, "he is too good for you," he pokes his tongue out, snickering.
"Brat," Luhan bites.
"Um, walking around confidently with a boner in your pants will not attract his attention, it scares him away probably," Jongin says as he takes out his notebook from his backpack.
"Thanks for the info," Luhan replies absentmindedly, playing with the edges of Jongin's book.
"Maybe you can approach him like normal people would, minus the boner, that would be a great start," Jongin adds, his tone sarcastic and his lips pulled into an equally sarcastic smile.
Luhan rolls his eyes as he grunts, crossing his arms against each other as he thinks, really thinks about what Jongin had said. It's perfect common sense of course. The effin boner that he always gets whenever Joonmyun's around is getting uncontrollable. Joonmyun, in Luhan's opinion is the most perfect human being he ever laid his eyes on. Period. Not even Jongin's sexiness that he exudes when he dances could ever compete with that. He is absolutely gorgeous that he is worth the boner and pain. Every bit of it.
As if a light bulb has been switched on, Luhan gets up from his seat immediately, startling his two friends.
"Where are you going?" Sehun asks, looking up at Luhan as if he had grown another pair of eyes.
"I've got an idea!" Luhan exclaims before he dashes out the library, leaving both Sehun and Jongin bewildered in their seats.
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Luhan came up with 'make Joonmyun notice me operation'. It consists of two main points.
1) The Beginning
2) The End.
When Luhan laid out his plan to Sehun and Jongin, both his friends were laughing their asses off. They weren't practically helping, but that didn't mean his self-esteem were ruined. His confidence soared through the roof when he came up with this plan. With finally, finally that Joonmyun is going to notice him with this plan of his, plastered inside his mind is what kept him going.
Well, this had just gotten deep.
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Operation: Make Joonmyun Notice Me, starts a little out of the blue. Luhan is walking to his next class when he sees Joonmyun walking towards his direction. His mind goes blank first, and the familiar feeling inside his pants starts to make an appearance.
Joonmyun looks beautiful as usual which didn't help the problem inside his pants. And when Joonmyun is getting closer, Luhan thinks it was a great chance to proceed with the operation: so he trips.
Falling in front of your crush isn't probably attractive, it was embarrassing even, but it helps in getting said crush's attention. Luhan knows Joonmyun is a nice guy and he would never leave a person stranded on th floor. As expected Joonmyun comes up to Luhan in a hurry to help him up. Luhan feels a jolt of electricity going through his spine when Joonmyun's hand touches his skin. Last time Luhan checks, it was June, but his skin feels like December. Weird. Luhan's mind is running around in circles, he doesn't know what to think when Joonmyun's face comes into full view right in front of him. The amount of distance doesn't do his face justice. This close, this effin close to Joonmyun is like looking up at the word 'perfection'. Literally, 'perfection' is written all over his face. It sends Luhan in a daze, and the pain inside his chest and pants sky-rocketed into an unbearable amount.
"Are you okay?" Joonmyun speaks, his eyes filled with worry which Luhan thinks is freaking adorable. He is still holding onto Luhan's arms, making sure he isn't off balance.
Luhan nods, "yes, fine, sorry about that," he smiles, in hopes that Joonmyun would feel a spark of attraction towards him; like, 'wow, Luhan is actually cute.' But Joonmyun's face doesn't give anything away, he only smiles as he lets go of Luhan's arm in which his mind screams in protest.
"Okay, be careful next time," he says as he turns to walk away.
Before Joonmyun can walk too far, Luhan speaks his mind out. "I'm Luhan," he says, his voice loud.
Joonmyun stops in his tracks and looks back at Luhan and smiles, "yeah, I know."
And that response makes Luhan's heart flying over the moon.
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'Operation: Make Joonmyun Notice Me: 1) The Beginning' - Check.
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"Joonmyun knows my name!" Luhan says the first thing he arrived in the cafeteria.
Sehun and Jongin is already there, seating comfortably as they eat their lunches. There isn't that much student at this time of day, since most of the classes rolls in during this time.
"Weird," Sehun says in between bites.
"Right?" Luhan admits as he takes a seat. His chin rests against his hand as he looks up in wonder. "The best day of my life ever."
"That is expected isn't it," Jongin adds, his spoon in mid air. "Your boner isn't exactly that small," he comments, squinting his eyes at Luhan. "Probably everyone has seen it, and that includes him."
"That is so embarrassing," Sehun says, "aren't you embarrassed!" He exclaims, more of a statement than a question.
Luhan is still in a daze and whatever his two friends are talking about sounds like birds chirping.
He is still over the moon.
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Luhan's plan goes over smoothly the entire week. Out of the five days, Luhan had spoken to Joonmyun, three times.
One, was at the library. Luhan needed to return the book he had borrowed and there was Joonmyun, sitting at one one of the couches reading a newspaper. Luhan walked up to him, "hello Joonmyun," he greeted as he smiles wide.
"Ahh, hello," Joonmyun said, looking up from the newspaper he was reading. Joonmyun sounded bewildered.
Luhan stood in front him awkwardly. "Okay, see you around," Luhan walked away then, leaving Joonmyun confused.
The second and third time wasn't memorable. Just Luhan greeting Joonmyun whenever he passed by. Luhan is making progress little by little. But the progress was slow. Whenever he had a good chance to speak with Joonmyun, it's either the guy was busy, or he was talking with one of his friends. It frustrated him extremely. Why does his crush have to be a busy guy. Why does his crush have to have many friends that never seem to stop talking.
Slow wasn't exactly Luhan's middle name. And neither was patient.
When Monday morning rolls in, he goes to the campus' library, knowing that Joonmyun spends his morning in there, reading newspapers and whatnot. Ugh, Joonmyun just had to be smart. Smart guys are so attractive. And Joonmyun is already so attractive it makes him ten times more attractive. The voice inside Luhan's mind are making a havoc.
He scans the entirety of the library's floor, and when he notices a figure he knows all too well on one of the table, he immediately dashes towards it.
'Operation: Make Joonmyun Notice Me: 2) The End' - Start.
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"Hi, Joonmyun," Luhan greets, and instead of walking away, Luhan is already taking a seat across from Joonmyun.
Joonmyun looks up from the book he's reading, and he looks confused but he is already smiling towards Luhan. Joonmyun's smile is a real killer. "Hello, Luhan."
Ugh, the way he associates hello with my name is so cute. Luhan coos inside his head. "Are you free, this coming weekend?" Luhan asks, straight out of the blue.
Joonmyun raises his eyebrows, thinking, "maybe..." he purses his lips and it looks so pink and kissable and the uncomfortable feeling inside his pants starts to arise. "Why?"
"Nothing special," Luhan shrugs his shoulders nonchalantly. He can feel a sweat trickling down his cheek.
Joonmyun momentarily snaps his book shut and he looks at Luhan, like really really looks, that the weather is becoming too hot, too stuffing. This is probably the first time ever, Luhan feels so nervous.
"Okay, I dunno, maybe go out on a date with me and then we can go to my house and you can help with this boner of mine everytime I see you?" there it is, the big bomb. And Luhan can't possibly take his word back, so there it goes, there it is. And Joonmyun is staring at him with his mouth wide open. And then he is laughing, there is a brush of pink over his cheeks and Joonmyun looks adorable. His laughs are also adorable, and his face when laughing is also adorable. Everything is adorable right now.
"Wow, that escalated quickly," Joonmyun states, putting away his books inside his backpack.
"I mean, we can go slow, if you want," Luhan can't even recognise his voice anymore. He sounds too jittery.
"Yeah, slow, that would be great."
"So, is that a yes?"
Joonmyun pauses momentarily, but, "yes."
Luhan mentally screams his throat off on top of an imaginary mountain. He immediately stands up and Joonmyun follows suit. "Are you serious?"
"Yeah, maybe, sure," Joonmyun smiles.
"So, Saturday?" Luhan asks as he follows Joonmyun out of the library.
"Saturday it is then," Joonmyun confirms.
An hour by then, when Luhan's in class, he can't focus on anything besides, 'Saturday is still four days away'. But that's fine, he can talk to Joonmyun anytime now since it's obvious that the feeling he has for Joonmyun isn't exactly recruited. And he can bother Joonmyun in the middle of the night, now that he has gotten his phone number.
His plan works exactly in his favour.
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'Operation: Make Joonmyun Notice Me: 2) The End' - Success.
'Operation: Make Joonmyun Get Into My Pants' - Next.
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"You are insane," Jongin comments when he peeks at what Luhan is jotting down. "The date hasn't happened yet and you are already thinking of getting him inside your pants.
"Advanced planning," Luhan simply says.