3:40 pm

"Haemin's blond... angry friend?" Junseong wondered, taking another bite of the strawberry ice cream he was "sharing" with Minyook.

Ignoring Minyook's greedy eyes on it's gradually shortening size, Junseong took another bite. He crossed his legs as he perched on top of the concrete red bench and was about to take another bite when the cone in front of him disappeared.

"He packs in quite the heat for his size," Minyook said, hurriedly moving away from the boy with his ice cream as he finally took a bite.

"That's Jinxi," Kevin announced nonchalantly, "Haemin hyung's highschool friend. Art major."

He walked over to the bin ignoring the stabs of curious gazes on his back and tossed the can into the box before turning back to rummage the supermarket bag lying near Minyook's legs with a frown, "That's it? It was barely enough, you should have brought more food, hyung!" he whined, settling down on the bench between Minyook and Junseong with a protesting huff.

Minyook crossed a leg over to the other side of the bench fully facing Kevin now, "Jinxi?"

"You know him?" Junseong, reaching out to Minyook from behind Kevin asked. Planning a sneak attack to steal the ice cream.

The courtyard near the culinary department was deserted at that time of the day. With only a few squirrels to accompany, Kevin, and he spent most of their free time there.

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Though Junseong would sometimes magically spawn there to steal his food, just like now.

"Nah, Minyook Hyung and ran into him when we were here for Haemin hyung's admissions," he said as a matter of fact.

They did?

Minyook remembers coming to Haemin hyung's admissions to cheer him up. Haemin was a nervous freak like that, and since Junseong was happily away on a family tour, he and Kevin tagged along. When Haemin's name was called, the two had gone off to roam around the campus. Now that he thought about it, he did remember seeing a boy crying in the men's restroom.

Why Of course!

He couldn't accurately map the boy to Jinxi because he, Jinxi, had jet black hair back then.

The boy had hurriedly shoved them and ran outside when he noticed them.

Minyook's train of thoughts was cut off when he realized that Junseong had, at some point, stolen his ice cream.

Again.

"Ah, right!" Junseong exclaimed, pausing in his attempt to dodge Minyook's hands, "Haemin hyung did say something about inviting a certain Jinxi to our SCA."

Minyook bumped into Junseong's torso, not expecting him to suddenly freeze, sending the ice cream in his hand down. He looked at his ice cream with utter misery.

That's a disappointment... Okay, now he was lightly, very lightly frustrated.

He would demand that Junseong take responsibility for stealing and wasting his ice cream but what Junseong had just said suddenly clicked.

"Invite Jinxi to our SCA?" Minyook blurted out.

Summer camping adventure- SAC- was their trip. The trio went camping at a spot near the mountainside when they were 14. The group did expand when Kevin joined in during their High school. Later, Sungmin and Namseok started tagging along when Haemin started university.

Yet, he never once had any objection to it because he was sure it wouldn't be an awkward experience. He was Minyook after all. He can become friends with a rock if he tries to. But all that was also thanks to the not-so-dramatic and bad first impressions he shared with any of them- unlike with Jinxi.

He sure needs to suck it up to Jinxi before their SCA then. The thought of approaching Jinxi again sent a shiver down his spine.

It was going to be a tough week-

and doesn't even have his ice cream to help him lift his spirits!