Think rationally, Ji Suwon.
There are tons of handsome guys at school.
Daegyu, Kang Hyuk, Seojin...
There's no reason she'd like me.
And if I'm wrong, I'll just embarrass myself.
He stared at her for another second.
...Maybe I should just see how she reacts.
"Hey, Suji."
Suji straightened so suddenly her chair almost squeaked.
"Huh?! M-me!? Uh-huh??"
Suwon chuckle awkwardly. "Yeah, you. HAHA..."
He pointed toward her sketchbook.
"Can I look at it?"
"Sketchbook!?"
Suji squeezed her eyes shut for a second, desperately trying to calm herself down while her heart pounded wildly.
Right... I told him I'd show him before!!
Why did I even promise that?!
Her face kept getting hotter.
No, more importantly...
HE SAID MY NAME!!
After hesitating for a moment, she slowly pushed the sketchbook toward him.
"H-here..."
Suwon took it.
"Thanks."
Suwon still looking at her as he opened her sketchbook.
'She's clearly feeling shy… but still, isn't that just her being shy in general?'
Even I still get shy talking to Jinwoo.
Even though we're both guys, I can see why she'd act like that.
He turn his head to the sketchbook in his hands.
Suwon flipped through her sketchbook, his eyes widening a little.
"Ohh…" he murmured under his breath.
Suji watched him anxiously, biting her thumbnail.
'KYAAAA…!! This is kinda embarrassing…!!'
But still, thank goodness I had a feeling something like this might happen…
THAT drawing…
good thing I tore it up beforehand…!!
Her heart pounded uncontrollably.
Suwon looked at drawings in each page in amazement.
'The lines are a little unrefined, but it's really good.'
She uses shading by rubbing the pencil… this actually looks pretty convincing too.
He continued flipping through the sketchbook.
'She's way more delicate than I am… I've definitely got something to learn here…'
He kept turning the pages until he reached the last one.
'Already the last page.'
"Huh?"
Suwon's eyes caught small letters written at the bottom corner.
J.S.W ❤︎
His eyes instantly locked onto it as he froze.
He blinked several times and rubbed his eyes, but after a few seconds, his brain finally registered that what he was seeing was real.
'W-w-what… what is this…?!'
'Is this what I think it is?!!'
'J.S.W… that's literally my name!!'
He glanced nervously at Suji.
Heat instantly rushed to his face, making him blush furiously.
'No way… DOES SHE REALLY LIKE ME?!!'
After a minute, Suwon tried to calm himself down.
'What do I do now? Now that I know she likes me…'
'What's gonna happen now…?'
He tried thinking about what do in this situation, but nothing came to his mind.
'I should ask the guys.'
'They'd probably know what to do… yeah, that's right.'
Suwon took a deep breath, stood up, and held the sketchbook out toward Suji.
"Suji, thanks for letting me see it."
Suji looked up, startled.
"You already saw it all?"
She quickly took the sketchbook and placed it back on her desk, speaking shyly.
"Kinda embarrassing… I'm not that good…"
"…No," Suwon said with a goofy smile and blissful look on his face. "That really surprised me…!! Teach me some of your techniques later."
Suji's face turned red.
"N-no, you should teach me…"
Suwon chuckled blissfully.
"Your drawings had a really nice feel to them."
Suji laughed shyly behind her hand.
"Oh really…? Hehe…"
Meanwhile, in sports class, Seojin and Park Dong were sitting together.
Seojin's elbow rested on his desk, his chin propped lazily on his palm, while beside him Park Dong's head was slumped flat against the desk, completely knocked out.
Seojin noticed the teacher staring in their direction more specifically, at Park Dong.
The teacher slowly started walking toward them.
Seojin nudged Park Dong with his knee, trying to wake him up, but Park Dong only weakly knocked his knee back unconsciously.
Seojin shrugged and watched in anticipation.
The teacher arrived at their desk, looming over Park Dong.
Without hesitation, he grabbed Park Dong's ear and yanked it upward.
"AAHHH!!"
Park Dong was practically lifted from his seat, crying out in pain.
The teacher kept gripping his ear tightly between two fingers.
"How dare you sleep in my class? Come here!"
He started walking away while still dragging him by the ear.
Park Dong helplessly stumbled after him, reaching toward the teacher's hand.
"W-wait, teach! I wasn't sleeping, I was meditating!"
Seojin chuckled quietly to himself as Park Dong turned back to glare at him furiously.
'That guy!! Why didn't you wake me up?!'
Seojin simply raised one hand and flipped his middle finger at him with a lazy grin.
Break time soon came, and without saying anything else, Suwon immediately left the classroom and dragged the boys up to the rooftop.
Meanwhile, Suji was panicking.
Her whole body was frozen in her seat as she gripped her sketchbook tightly, staring at the last page.
Then she slammed it shut and covered her mouth with both hands, her voice trembling.
"No… no, Nooo…!! How could I make such a mistake…?!"
Her two friends quickly rushed over, watching as she fidgeted and messed up her hair in distress.
"What's wrong?"
"What happened?"
Suji grabbed her sketchbook with shaky hands and held it up in front of them.
"I… showed him my sketchbook…"
She flipped it open to the last page.
"And I had written this in it before… I forgot to erase it…!!"
Her two friends gasped in shock.
"GAH!!"
Suji pressed both hands against her head again, rubbing her hair repeatedly in panic.
"He looked through the whole thing…!! Did he see this part too? He must've seen it, right?! He must have…!!"
"WAAAAAH!"
One of her friends quickly tried to sound optimistic.
"But maybe… there's a chance he didn't see it? Besides, J.S.W doesn't have to mean Ji Suwon…"
The other girl looked at her flatly.
"But honestly… it's kinda obvious."
"…That's true."
She then turned back to Suji with a suddenly bright expression.
"Wait, no.. this is good! How about just confessing while you're at it?"
Suji jolted in horror.
"C-confess?! No way…!!"
"Why not? What's stopping you? Since it already came to this, you might as well go for it!"
"Yeah, it already feels like you got found out anyway."
"I-I'm not mentally ready yet…"
"You'll still be 'getting ready' three years from now at this rate!!"
At the same time, on the rooftop, the wind howled as the last light of the sun slowly faded from the sky.
Seojin, Park Dong, and Inseop stood in front of Suwon, who was crouched on the ground grinning like a complete idiot.
Inseop was frowning as he look at him."You dragged us all the way up here, so you better have a good reason."
Suwon's grin stretched even wider."What you guys said yesterday… I think you were right after all."
He scratched the back of his neck, still unable to hide the stupid smile on his face.
"...That girl likes me."
The three of them stared at him blankly.
Just yesterday, this guy had been denying it with his whole being.
Inseop narrowed his eyes."How'd you figure it out?"
Suwon quickly told them what happened during art class.
Park Dong let out a loud whistle."If it's 'J.S.W ♥' then yeah, that's basically a confession already." He shoved his hands into his pockets. "Well, the world's full of all kinds of people… everyone's got their own tastes, I respect that."
Seojin gave him a side-eye."Yeah, but I still don't understand Irina's taste. She actually dates you, you know."
Park Dong's head snapped toward him."What's wrong with me, you bastard?!"
Inseop crouched down too, resting his chin on his hand."Honestly, it'd be weirder if nobody liked you."
"So what am I supposed to do now?" Suwon asked, scratching his head awkwardly. "Should I just act like usual?"