It's Just A Little Crush
Title: It's Just A Little Crush
Pairing: Ryeowook/Nicole (KARA)
Rating: G
Word count: 992
Summary: Ryeowook has a crush. Nicole misunderstands. Kibum sees all. Short little pointless fluffy ficlet.
A/N: So I've been wanting to write Ryeowook/Nicole for a while since seeing this, and this is the result. For hoyah and shiryu_yugure.
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She's small and slender, with sparkling eyes that crinkle into crescents when she smiles, porcelain skin and animated gestures that spill over into excited giggles when she speaks too fast and trips over her words. Her voice sounds like bubbles to Ryeowook, a series of quick melodic tones that he finds himself entranced by. Her name is Nicole, she's in Ryeowook's social psychology class, and she's the girl Ryeowook's been secretly staring at for a month's worth of lectures and has never had the courage to approach.
So he just spends hours staring at the back of her head as she takes notes or leans over to whisper to her friends, her forehead creased in concentration, and when his lectures end, he finds that all he's done is doodle meaningless scribbles all over his notepad.
Ryeowook knows that he might fail the class this semester, but Nicole is the biggest distraction he's ever seen, even if she doesn't know he exists.
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Ryeowook thanks all his lucky stars and the powers-that-be when their professor decides to assign them projects and divide them into groups, and he's put into the same group as Nicole and another boy, Kibum.
Their first discussion meeting is a disaster; Ryeowook is so nervous that he spills coffee all over his notes and Nicole's, and only Kibum was quick enough to sweep his file off the table before it's swimming in coffee as well.
Kibum rolls his eyes and strides off to get his own (much more comprehensive, it must be said) notes photocopied for both of them, and they sit in awkward silence until Kibum returns.
Ryeowook finds it much, much easier to talk to Nicole and laugh with her when someone else is around.
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The good thing is, they get more comfortable with each other as the semester goes on.
The bad thing is, Ryeowook thinks that Nicole might have a crush on Kibum.
He notices the way she looks at him, with her head tilted to one side and her eyes appraising and quizzical. She's always trying to get Kibum to sit between her and Ryeowook, and Kibum, always silent and obliging, does as she asks without much complaint. And whenever Kibum's not around, she's always talking to Ryeowook about him. "Don't you think Kibum's good-looking, Ryeowook? Isn't he gorgeous? What do you think about him? He has such a nice smile, doesn't he?"
Sure, Kibum has a nice smile, but no, Ryeowook does not find him gorgeous, or attractive, and in fact he seems to become uglier as the days go by, or so Ryeowook's jealous mind tells him.
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It comes to a head one day when Kibum's left them alone to go to the washroom, and Nicole's prodding him about Kibum again, and he slams his pen on the table and shouts, "No, Kibum is ugly, and I can't stand him, and I don't see what's so good-looking about him!"
There's a long silence, during which Ryeowook contemplates stabbing himself with his pen. Then Nicole says, "Wait. You mean... you're not interested in Kibum?"
Ryeowook's mouth falls open. "Why would I be?"
"I thought you were gay - "
"Excuse me?"
Nicole wrings her hands, looking pleadingly up at him, and whenever Nicole looks at him like that Ryeowook just can't stay angry at her. He flops back down onto the bench with a sigh.
"Why would you think even I was gay?"
She flaps her hands at him, a gesture that Ryeowook has always found ridiculously adorable and endearing. "I don't know, I'm sorry! You just - you never seemed interested in girls - you don't look at them - you don't even talk to me much unless Kibum is around - and you cook and sew and god, Ryeowook, you cook better than I do - and you're neat and clean and don't even like any of those boy things that boys do - and I thought - "
Ryeowook shuts her up by grabbing her hands and forcing them on top of the table. "I cook and sew because I live alone and had to learn to do a lot for myself," he says slowly. "And I am interested in girls; one particular girl, actually, and that's why I don't look at other girls, because I'm only looking at her. I don't talk to her much, only because I get stupidly tongue-tied whenever she's near me. But she's never been interested in me, I think."
There's another long, interminable pause as Ryeowook keeps his hands on Nicole's and keeps his eyes on hers, his heart pounding a million beats per minute, and then she blinks at him, and says, "Oh. Oh. Oh."
Ryeowook doesn't know what that means - is that a rejection? Why is she not pulling away from him? Why is she smiling at him? Why is she curling her fingers around his and looking as beet-red as he probably feels and -
"Oh," Ryeowook says aloud, echoing Nicole. "Oh."
They don't take their hands away.
("About time," Kibum says sardonically when he returns and they're still holding hands, both flushing pink and biting their lips and the air seeming a lot thicker than it normally is. "I thought you both would never catch on, why are you so slow?"
They do pull back from each other at that, and Ryeowook doesn't try to take her hand again, not even under the table, but that's okay - he has the rest of the semester, the year, maybe years to do it.)
Pairing: Ryeowook/Nicole (KARA)
Rating: G
Word count: 992
Summary: Ryeowook has a crush. Nicole misunderstands. Kibum sees all. Short little pointless fluffy ficlet.
A/N: So I've been wanting to write Ryeowook/Nicole for a while since seeing this, and this is the result. For hoyah and shiryu_yugure.
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She's small and slender, with sparkling eyes that crinkle into crescents when she smiles, porcelain skin and animated gestures that spill over into excited giggles when she speaks too fast and trips over her words. Her voice sounds like bubbles to Ryeowook, a series of quick melodic tones that he finds himself entranced by. Her name is Nicole, she's in Ryeowook's social psychology class, and she's the girl Ryeowook's been secretly staring at for a month's worth of lectures and has never had the courage to approach.
So he just spends hours staring at the back of her head as she takes notes or leans over to whisper to her friends, her forehead creased in concentration, and when his lectures end, he finds that all he's done is doodle meaningless scribbles all over his notepad.
Ryeowook knows that he might fail the class this semester, but Nicole is the biggest distraction he's ever seen, even if she doesn't know he exists.
___
Ryeowook thanks all his lucky stars and the powers-that-be when their professor decides to assign them projects and divide them into groups, and he's put into the same group as Nicole and another boy, Kibum.
Their first discussion meeting is a disaster; Ryeowook is so nervous that he spills coffee all over his notes and Nicole's, and only Kibum was quick enough to sweep his file off the table before it's swimming in coffee as well.
Kibum rolls his eyes and strides off to get his own (much more comprehensive, it must be said) notes photocopied for both of them, and they sit in awkward silence until Kibum returns.
Ryeowook finds it much, much easier to talk to Nicole and laugh with her when someone else is around.
___
The good thing is, they get more comfortable with each other as the semester goes on.
The bad thing is, Ryeowook thinks that Nicole might have a crush on Kibum.
He notices the way she looks at him, with her head tilted to one side and her eyes appraising and quizzical. She's always trying to get Kibum to sit between her and Ryeowook, and Kibum, always silent and obliging, does as she asks without much complaint. And whenever Kibum's not around, she's always talking to Ryeowook about him. "Don't you think Kibum's good-looking, Ryeowook? Isn't he gorgeous? What do you think about him? He has such a nice smile, doesn't he?"
Sure, Kibum has a nice smile, but no, Ryeowook does not find him gorgeous, or attractive, and in fact he seems to become uglier as the days go by, or so Ryeowook's jealous mind tells him.
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It comes to a head one day when Kibum's left them alone to go to the washroom, and Nicole's prodding him about Kibum again, and he slams his pen on the table and shouts, "No, Kibum is ugly, and I can't stand him, and I don't see what's so good-looking about him!"
There's a long silence, during which Ryeowook contemplates stabbing himself with his pen. Then Nicole says, "Wait. You mean... you're not interested in Kibum?"
Ryeowook's mouth falls open. "Why would I be?"
"I thought you were gay - "
"Excuse me?"
Nicole wrings her hands, looking pleadingly up at him, and whenever Nicole looks at him like that Ryeowook just can't stay angry at her. He flops back down onto the bench with a sigh.
"Why would you think even I was gay?"
She flaps her hands at him, a gesture that Ryeowook has always found ridiculously adorable and endearing. "I don't know, I'm sorry! You just - you never seemed interested in girls - you don't look at them - you don't even talk to me much unless Kibum is around - and you cook and sew and god, Ryeowook, you cook better than I do - and you're neat and clean and don't even like any of those boy things that boys do - and I thought - "
Ryeowook shuts her up by grabbing her hands and forcing them on top of the table. "I cook and sew because I live alone and had to learn to do a lot for myself," he says slowly. "And I am interested in girls; one particular girl, actually, and that's why I don't look at other girls, because I'm only looking at her. I don't talk to her much, only because I get stupidly tongue-tied whenever she's near me. But she's never been interested in me, I think."
There's another long, interminable pause as Ryeowook keeps his hands on Nicole's and keeps his eyes on hers, his heart pounding a million beats per minute, and then she blinks at him, and says, "Oh. Oh. Oh."
Ryeowook doesn't know what that means - is that a rejection? Why is she not pulling away from him? Why is she smiling at him? Why is she curling her fingers around his and looking as beet-red as he probably feels and -
"Oh," Ryeowook says aloud, echoing Nicole. "Oh."
They don't take their hands away.
("About time," Kibum says sardonically when he returns and they're still holding hands, both flushing pink and biting their lips and the air seeming a lot thicker than it normally is. "I thought you both would never catch on, why are you so slow?"
They do pull back from each other at that, and Ryeowook doesn't try to take her hand again, not even under the table, but that's okay - he has the rest of the semester, the year, maybe years to do it.)