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foolproof plan (1/?)

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There’s only one thing about Jongdae’s required literature class that makes getting up at 8 AM worth it, and that’s his T.A., Kim Joonmyun. All kind smiles and an unrelenting enthusiasm that would usually drive Jongdae nuts so early in the morning, is actually kind of strangely endearing. When Joonmyun rattles on about how Shakespeare utilizes iambic pentameter, Jongdae finds himself listening with much more rapt attention than he gives anything else. He knows that it’s because of Joonmyun, in his perfectly pressed button-ups and shining eyes, and not the fact that Jongdae has any actual interest in Shakespeare’s thousand sonnets.

*

“I’ve figured out how I’m going pass my lit class,” Jongdae announces. He slumps into a chair at the round table that Baekhyun and Yixing are occupying in the corner of the cafeteria.

“How’s that?” Yixing questions, looking intrigued, while Baekhyun is disinterested, staring intently at his phone in his hands.

Jongdae reaches over to steal a handful of Baekhyun’s fries, jabbing them into ketchup and then his mouth before Baekhyun can say anything. “My T.A. He’s really cute,” Jongdae says. Baekhyun looks up now, eyebrow raised. Jongdae grins. “Kim Joonmyun? He’s kind of tiny?”

“You’re kind of tiny, so I don’t think you can say anything,” Baekhyun snorts. “So, what? Are you going to blow him or something so he’ll pass you?” He swats Jongdae’s hand away when he tries to steal more fries.

“That’s part of it, at least,” Jongdae agrees. “Nah, I have to get his attention first. My strategy is to submit all my papers with a nude selfie.”

Yixing laughs, hides his mouth behind a hand. “You sound rather confident that this is actually going to work.”

Jongdae feels offended. “Of course it’s going to work!” he says. “I am confident. Look at me!”

Baekhyun and Yixing share a glance and then look at Jongdae. They burst out into laughter then, and Jongdae thinks he’s completely justified in grabbing Baekhyun’s entire plate of fries when he’s distracted.

“Assholes,” he grumbles. “The point is that this is totally a foolproof plan. There’s no way he’ll fail me.”

“Well, good luck,” Baekhyun says while Yixing continues to laugh, clutching onto Baekhyun’s arm and giggling into his shoulder. “Just don’t show us any of those nudes.”

*

Jongdae's friends think he's just messing around, but Jongdae is dead serious. He takes the selfies with a little bit of difficulty and Chanyeol hollering from his room whether he needs help, only to double over in laughter right after.

Actually writing his first paper for his class doesn't go as terribly as he thought. Maybe he really does retain more information in his class than he thought. Maybe the way Joonmyun's mouth looks as he talks helps him remember the rhyming patterns and how to tell the difference between a simile and a metaphor, so analyzing his choice of sonnet isn’t as terrible as he'd feared.

Whatever the case, literature has never been one of Jongdae’s strong points, so he's banking on the selfie to help him out. He stapled it to the end of his paper and feels pretty confident about the whole thing when he stops by the podium in the front of the lecture hall to turn it in at the end of class.

"How'd the writing go?" Joonmyun asks him conversationally. He really does have a nice smile. Jongdae thinks he's kind of adorable.

"Could have been worse, I suppose," Jongdae says with a shrug.

"You know you can always stop by and ask for help whenever you need it, Jongdae," Joonmyun says, and fuck, even the way Joonmyun says his name is nice.

"Thanks, hyung," Jongdae says. If things go as planned Joonmyun is the one who will come looking for him. "I'll keep that in mind."

"I'm sure your paper is great though."

Jongdae smirks. "Oh, it is," he says. "I expect nothing less than an A. Don't let my efforts go to waste."

Laughing, Joonmyun nods. "All right. I guess we'll see." And he takes Jongdae's paper from him with intrigue.

Jongdae grins at him before bidding his goodbye, a slight skip to his step for a job well done.