High School Just Started (i)
Title: High School Never Ends (Series) - High School Just Started
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~1570
Summary: highschool!AU where Jongdae is, well, Jongdae; Baekhyun is the person who everyone likes; Chanyeol isn't; hyperbole is as lost to Kyungsoo as the concept of blinking; Tao has a fabulous hipster following on instagram; Kris towers over everyone because physics; Lay and Luhan have gone into negative IQ values; Joonmyun seems to be EVERYWHERE; Sehun actually wants a future; Jongin could literally not care less and Minseok really doesn't know why he enrolled at this school in the first place.
A/N: Not really planning a series, just a bunch of drabbles :/
High School Just Started
Today was already shaping up to be a bad day. First he overslept, then his toast got burnt, then he missed the bus, got splashed by a puddle (there was no car and it had not rained - just some sadistic puddle of water had splashed him of its own volition), tripped over a guide dog and when he finally got to school there was no internet connection for him to update his blog with a selca. Minseok sighed sadly as he watched his teacher gesture to the board and explain... well something. Minseok wasn't really sure why he was in a Greek class anyway, he doesn't remember signing up for it. Furrowing his eyebrows, he tried to recall how he could have possibly ended up there.
It took him all of 10 minutes to realise that this was in fact an Algebra class but he had no idea why there seemed to be more letters than numbers on the board. He tried to find some sort of hidden meaning among the alien markings, the meaning of life perhaps, but before he could get his bearings his teacher interrupted him with a
"So what's the answer, Minseok?" He blinked blankly and opened his mouth only to reply with silence. His teacher looked at him expectantly while he looked back at her slack-jawed.
"....um." She smiled brightly at his response.
"Correct! But you should say each letter separately, like 'u m'. You need to remember that for..." Minseok tuned her out and leaned back smugly in his chair.
Maybe today won't be such a bad day after all.
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"Hey, Jongdae"
"Ah! Sleeping Beauty has finally decided to grace me with her presence. What an honour"
Minseok and Jongdae had been neighbours for years and even though Jongdae was only a sophomore, Minseok felt like they had a mutual spiritual understanding in their hate for humanity. They could talk to each other about a lot of things, but not emotions. No, Minseok was very sure that Jongdae's emotional range was that of a thumbtack head - that is if you count snarky as an emotion. Minseok gurgled in response and rested his head in his arms.
"So eloquent." Minseok didn't have to lift his head to know that Jongdae was doing that weird inverted eyebrow thing he does.
"Oh look, it's your favourite people" said Jondgae gleefully, nudging Minseok. He looked up out of curiosity and groaned when he caught sight of Luhan and Lay at the next table.
"Oh god, it's to early in the year to be exposed to stupidity" Minseok put his head back in his arms, "I haven't even had my vaccine yet."
"It's okay, it's not contagious. These sort of conditions are genetic," Jongdae patted the elder's head, "there's no cure for you."
"...fuck you"
Jongdae snorted in response and went back to watching Luhan and Lay struggle to open what looked like a My Little Pony sticker book. "This is actually painful to watch."
"I know right... it's like dumb and dumber"
"More like dumber and dumbest"
"No, wait" Minseok spreads his hands in front of him as if he was creating a brightly lit stage sign "Lay and Luhan: A Tale of Two Retards"
"Um excuse me" and Minseok groaned as he recognised the voice of social justice.
"It's very offensive to use that term" continued Joonmyun, "there are some people who suffer from a mental deficiency and to use that word like an insult for someone who isn't that bright is very rude and unnecessary." He was completely prepared to continue his tirade of self-righteousness when the bell rang for the end of break. And just as quickly as he had appeared, Joonmyun disappeared into the crowd of students.
"How does he do that??"
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"No don't you get it? It's all a big statement on conformity!" Sehun slammed his fist onto the table to emphasise his point. "He feels like he's surrounded by people that are too different from him and that no one understands him, but by relocating to an area of like-minded people he finds that he is in fact suffering from the uniformity of thinking. He no longer feels unique and is instead drowning in this 'perfect society' that he had originally yearned for." Kyungsoo looked back at him with wide eyes.
"But he can't drown. He's a squid."
Sehun sighed heavily and placed his hand over his face. Of course that was the only part that Kyungsoo had caught on.
"I can't believe you're actually spending your break analysing Spongebob episodes" Baekhyun shook his head at the youngest boy "why don't you ditch that idea for a English Literature degree and instead take up Spongebob Sciences. I'm sure you'll graduate top of your class."
Sehun glared back. "I would but in order to be President of the World I need to have a degree in English Literature." Baekhyun raised an eyebrow at him.
"Well that's jumping the gun a bit, don't you t-"
"I'd vote for him"
"Really, Kyungsoo? You want him to run the world?"
"Well he seems to know what he's talking about."
"But do we ever, truly, know what we're talking about?" Everyone turned to look at Jongin, surprised at his outburst and then into space to contemplate this sudden philosophical tidbit. Baekhyun shook himself out of his thoughts and turned to Kyungsoo to continue but instead...
"Dude, do you ever, like, blink?"
"Of course I do. Everyone needs to blink." Kyungsoo turned to look directly at Baekhyun, his eyebrows furrowing slightly in worry.
"But I've never actually seen you blink, y'know?"
"But I do"
"...but you don't"
"...but I do"
"But... you don't"
"I don't understand"
Baekhyun squinted back and decided to watch his permanently petrified-looking friend until some sort of blinkage did occur. They stared at each other for a bit and Baekhyun could feel his eyes start to water slightly. No you can't blink yet, he thought, this is for science! I will catch him goddamnit.
Sehun and Jongin watched on bemused. Well, Sehun was bemused. Jongin didn't really care. This continued for a bit until
"WHY AREN'T YOU BLINKING"
"...I thought we were having a staring contest"
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Minseok had finally found an area of the school with internet connection; he was so happy he could have cried and in his head he was dramatically running in slow motion towards his tumblr dashboard in a summer field with emotional music swelling to a crescendo as they drew closer. Maybe he'll add a 360 degree camera spin to spice things up a bit. Yeah he should definitely start directing movies. He took his phone out, puffed his cheeks out slightly and angled the camera so it was looking down at him. Satisfied with how his selca looked, he proceeded to upload it onto tumblr, but not without tagging it with #asian #ulzzang #kawaii #korean #chinese #japanese #cute #selca #nomakeup
He was determined to reach a following of 1500 by the end of the week.
Instead he received an anonymous message saying that he looked less like an ulzzang and more like a steamed dumpling.
At lunch he lamented his lot in life to Jongdae.
"With all due respect, I don't really care" was his reply through a mouthful of mashed potato. Minseok was about to ignore Jongdae for the rest of his miserable life when said person plonked his pudding cup in front of him. Having forgiven all, Minseok then sobbed into his second pudding, why am I so easy.
"Don't you just hate people sometimes? Like actually hate, not just dislike or feel kinda neutral about. Just... hate. In the 'you physically disgust me why are you alive do you enjoy plaguing others with your existence' sort of way?"
"Preach, my brotha"
"Um excuse me"
"Oh crap not again"
Joonmyun was looking at them from the table over with a sad smile, "I think that's very unfair to jump to conclusions like that. Not all people are the same, just like no two snowflakes are the same. You don't have the right to insult everyone just because someone has upset you. I, personally, find it really offensive that y-"
"I, personally, find your mom offensive"
All talk stopped and Minseok wracked his brains in horror, trying desperately to remember whether Joonmyun's mother was a sensitive topic or not.
"What?" It seemed like Joonmyun had either genuinely not heard or was giving Minseok a chance to redeem himself. It was just unfortunate for Minseok that his brain had chosen to fail him at his point in time. He turned to Jongdae, silently pleading with his eyes for salvation. He rolled his eyes, wiped his mouth with his napkin and cleared his throat.
"YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE I'M LIVING A TEENAGE DREAM"
Okay, so Jongdae can be annoying and a bit douchey and lack that emotional sensitivity that one would look for in a friend or human being for that matter but, damn, did he have the voice of an angel. The other tables proceeded to join him in the impromptu rendition of one of Katy Perry's greatest hits and Minseok exhaled in relief.
"Oh my god for a moment it was like high school musical in here" shuddered Minseok after everyone had finished and returned to their respective meals.
"Excuse you, high school musical is a great film"
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A/N: I am so sorry if this is unfunny OTL
I have more scenarios planned if anyone is even interested
Part ii
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~1570
Summary: highschool!AU where Jongdae is, well, Jongdae; Baekhyun is the person who everyone likes; Chanyeol isn't; hyperbole is as lost to Kyungsoo as the concept of blinking; Tao has a fabulous hipster following on instagram; Kris towers over everyone because physics; Lay and Luhan have gone into negative IQ values; Joonmyun seems to be EVERYWHERE; Sehun actually wants a future; Jongin could literally not care less and Minseok really doesn't know why he enrolled at this school in the first place.
A/N: Not really planning a series, just a bunch of drabbles :/
High School Just Started
Today was already shaping up to be a bad day. First he overslept, then his toast got burnt, then he missed the bus, got splashed by a puddle (there was no car and it had not rained - just some sadistic puddle of water had splashed him of its own volition), tripped over a guide dog and when he finally got to school there was no internet connection for him to update his blog with a selca. Minseok sighed sadly as he watched his teacher gesture to the board and explain... well something. Minseok wasn't really sure why he was in a Greek class anyway, he doesn't remember signing up for it. Furrowing his eyebrows, he tried to recall how he could have possibly ended up there.
It took him all of 10 minutes to realise that this was in fact an Algebra class but he had no idea why there seemed to be more letters than numbers on the board. He tried to find some sort of hidden meaning among the alien markings, the meaning of life perhaps, but before he could get his bearings his teacher interrupted him with a
"So what's the answer, Minseok?" He blinked blankly and opened his mouth only to reply with silence. His teacher looked at him expectantly while he looked back at her slack-jawed.
"....um." She smiled brightly at his response.
"Correct! But you should say each letter separately, like 'u m'. You need to remember that for..." Minseok tuned her out and leaned back smugly in his chair.
Maybe today won't be such a bad day after all.
-------
"Hey, Jongdae"
"Ah! Sleeping Beauty has finally decided to grace me with her presence. What an honour"
Minseok and Jongdae had been neighbours for years and even though Jongdae was only a sophomore, Minseok felt like they had a mutual spiritual understanding in their hate for humanity. They could talk to each other about a lot of things, but not emotions. No, Minseok was very sure that Jongdae's emotional range was that of a thumbtack head - that is if you count snarky as an emotion. Minseok gurgled in response and rested his head in his arms.
"So eloquent." Minseok didn't have to lift his head to know that Jongdae was doing that weird inverted eyebrow thing he does.
"Oh look, it's your favourite people" said Jondgae gleefully, nudging Minseok. He looked up out of curiosity and groaned when he caught sight of Luhan and Lay at the next table.
"Oh god, it's to early in the year to be exposed to stupidity" Minseok put his head back in his arms, "I haven't even had my vaccine yet."
"It's okay, it's not contagious. These sort of conditions are genetic," Jongdae patted the elder's head, "there's no cure for you."
"...fuck you"
Jongdae snorted in response and went back to watching Luhan and Lay struggle to open what looked like a My Little Pony sticker book. "This is actually painful to watch."
"I know right... it's like dumb and dumber"
"More like dumber and dumbest"
"No, wait" Minseok spreads his hands in front of him as if he was creating a brightly lit stage sign "Lay and Luhan: A Tale of Two Retards"
"Um excuse me" and Minseok groaned as he recognised the voice of social justice.
"It's very offensive to use that term" continued Joonmyun, "there are some people who suffer from a mental deficiency and to use that word like an insult for someone who isn't that bright is very rude and unnecessary." He was completely prepared to continue his tirade of self-righteousness when the bell rang for the end of break. And just as quickly as he had appeared, Joonmyun disappeared into the crowd of students.
"How does he do that??"
-------
"No don't you get it? It's all a big statement on conformity!" Sehun slammed his fist onto the table to emphasise his point. "He feels like he's surrounded by people that are too different from him and that no one understands him, but by relocating to an area of like-minded people he finds that he is in fact suffering from the uniformity of thinking. He no longer feels unique and is instead drowning in this 'perfect society' that he had originally yearned for." Kyungsoo looked back at him with wide eyes.
"But he can't drown. He's a squid."
Sehun sighed heavily and placed his hand over his face. Of course that was the only part that Kyungsoo had caught on.
"I can't believe you're actually spending your break analysing Spongebob episodes" Baekhyun shook his head at the youngest boy "why don't you ditch that idea for a English Literature degree and instead take up Spongebob Sciences. I'm sure you'll graduate top of your class."
Sehun glared back. "I would but in order to be President of the World I need to have a degree in English Literature." Baekhyun raised an eyebrow at him.
"Well that's jumping the gun a bit, don't you t-"
"I'd vote for him"
"Really, Kyungsoo? You want him to run the world?"
"Well he seems to know what he's talking about."
"But do we ever, truly, know what we're talking about?" Everyone turned to look at Jongin, surprised at his outburst and then into space to contemplate this sudden philosophical tidbit. Baekhyun shook himself out of his thoughts and turned to Kyungsoo to continue but instead...
"Dude, do you ever, like, blink?"
"Of course I do. Everyone needs to blink." Kyungsoo turned to look directly at Baekhyun, his eyebrows furrowing slightly in worry.
"But I've never actually seen you blink, y'know?"
"But I do"
"...but you don't"
"...but I do"
"But... you don't"
"I don't understand"
Baekhyun squinted back and decided to watch his permanently petrified-looking friend until some sort of blinkage did occur. They stared at each other for a bit and Baekhyun could feel his eyes start to water slightly. No you can't blink yet, he thought, this is for science! I will catch him goddamnit.
Sehun and Jongin watched on bemused. Well, Sehun was bemused. Jongin didn't really care. This continued for a bit until
"WHY AREN'T YOU BLINKING"
"...I thought we were having a staring contest"
-------
Minseok had finally found an area of the school with internet connection; he was so happy he could have cried and in his head he was dramatically running in slow motion towards his tumblr dashboard in a summer field with emotional music swelling to a crescendo as they drew closer. Maybe he'll add a 360 degree camera spin to spice things up a bit. Yeah he should definitely start directing movies. He took his phone out, puffed his cheeks out slightly and angled the camera so it was looking down at him. Satisfied with how his selca looked, he proceeded to upload it onto tumblr, but not without tagging it with #asian #ulzzang #kawaii #korean #chinese #japanese #cute #selca #nomakeup
He was determined to reach a following of 1500 by the end of the week.
Instead he received an anonymous message saying that he looked less like an ulzzang and more like a steamed dumpling.
At lunch he lamented his lot in life to Jongdae.
"With all due respect, I don't really care" was his reply through a mouthful of mashed potato. Minseok was about to ignore Jongdae for the rest of his miserable life when said person plonked his pudding cup in front of him. Having forgiven all, Minseok then sobbed into his second pudding, why am I so easy.
"Don't you just hate people sometimes? Like actually hate, not just dislike or feel kinda neutral about. Just... hate. In the 'you physically disgust me why are you alive do you enjoy plaguing others with your existence' sort of way?"
"Preach, my brotha"
"Um excuse me"
"Oh crap not again"
Joonmyun was looking at them from the table over with a sad smile, "I think that's very unfair to jump to conclusions like that. Not all people are the same, just like no two snowflakes are the same. You don't have the right to insult everyone just because someone has upset you. I, personally, find it really offensive that y-"
"I, personally, find your mom offensive"
All talk stopped and Minseok wracked his brains in horror, trying desperately to remember whether Joonmyun's mother was a sensitive topic or not.
"What?" It seemed like Joonmyun had either genuinely not heard or was giving Minseok a chance to redeem himself. It was just unfortunate for Minseok that his brain had chosen to fail him at his point in time. He turned to Jongdae, silently pleading with his eyes for salvation. He rolled his eyes, wiped his mouth with his napkin and cleared his throat.
"YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE I'M LIVING A TEENAGE DREAM"
Okay, so Jongdae can be annoying and a bit douchey and lack that emotional sensitivity that one would look for in a friend or human being for that matter but, damn, did he have the voice of an angel. The other tables proceeded to join him in the impromptu rendition of one of Katy Perry's greatest hits and Minseok exhaled in relief.
"Oh my god for a moment it was like high school musical in here" shuddered Minseok after everyone had finished and returned to their respective meals.
"Excuse you, high school musical is a great film"
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A/N: I am so sorry if this is unfunny OTL
I have more scenarios planned if anyone is even interested
Part ii