Date: me please [Flashfic]

[darkyulate]

Title: Date: me please
Pairing: D.O./Kai
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Based on this photo

Jongin is biting his lip in pure anxiety. If he had a pen, he'd bite that, too but his pen is still in his pencil case on the desk waiting to be opened. His heart is hammering in his chest and his feet won't stop their twitching. He's going through his mental reviewer and mouthing the words and terms he reviewed last night and just a few minutes ago. With his eyes closed, he can almost see the words he highlighted on his book.

Just then their teacher walks in and Jongin opens his eyes. His heart skips a beat and he stops his nervous fidgeting in favor of staring wide-eyed and star stricken. Do Kyungsoo is smiling at the class looking like an 18 year old even though the rest of the class knows that isn't true. 

"Good morning class!" He cheerily says and Jongin holds his breath for a minute or two (or maybe less and he's just exaggerating). "I hope you're all ready for the exam today." He says smiling as he takes out the stack of papers in his bag and everyone groans, except for Jongin who is staring at the way Kyungsoo's button down shirt has two buttons open, giving him a nice view of collarbones and a nice milky plane surface.

"Ok, keep all your notes and only your writing materials on the table." Kyungsoo begins to hand out the papers and Jongin's nervous fidgeting comes back because 'Oh shit, exam time.'

"If you have any questions, raise your hand. Don't ask your seatmate." Kyungsoo begins to warn as he makes his round along the columns of the seats. "If I catch you cheating, I'm going to fail you on this exam, which I need to remind you is 25% of your grade." 

A few more students groan, but Jongin has no time to react to his teacher's warnings because a paper is being handed to him. He nervously grabs the thin stack of sheets and passes it on to the person behind him. His foot won't stop their twitching and he nervously bites the end of his pen.

"You may begin." Kyungsoo says and everyone rapidly answers their test papers. 

Jongin takes one more look at Kyungsoo, for inspiration, takes a deep breath and begins answering. 

During the exam, Jongin takes fleeting glances at his teacher who is doing random things on his desk. It helps calm him and make him focus (and even he questions how that happens). It also helps him remember past lessons they've gone through when he can't seem to remember the answer. Little details make it easy for his mind to string through his memory and dig certain concepts and terms out. Like how he's staring at Kyungsoo fingers right now, and how beautiful they'd looked as they wrote the word 'Force is equal to...' and he writes down the answer on the blank, mentally fist pumping.

He goes through another set of questions and when he gets stuck, he stares back at his teacher once again who is now eyeing each and every one of them. Their eyes meet, and Kyungsoo smiles at him, mouthing something along the lines of 'Focus, Jongin ssi'. And Jongin can't help remembering that one time he'd been called to recite and how melodious his name rolled off of Kyungsoo's mouth. He can still remember how Kyungsoo had asked, 'Jongin ssi,' and Jongin's heart skips a beat at the memory and at the time that it happened, 'can you tell me the three laws of motion?' and Jongin speedily writes down the answer again. 

There is only 10 more minutes left and Jongin is just reviewing his answers when he realizes he hasn't put his name and date on the paper, yet. He almost curses loudly as he hastily writes his name down. He silently curses his teacher because he'd been staring at Kyungsoo for a few minutes (or maybe 15) instead of actually reviewing. 

He's just about to write the date when a great idea hits him. A smirk is playing at his lips as he smugly writes down the date.

Kyungsoo is checking the papers, counting them to see if everyone had submitted their exam when he finds Kim Jongin's paper. He has to admit, he would've read past through it had Jongin not written the date with red ink. He can't help but smile when he sees what Jongin has written, though.

'Date: me please'

Kyungsoo smiles at the invitation knowing full well he'll have to turn Jongin down. He'll just have to remind Jongin that he's graduating soon so the poor boy won't be so heartbroken (and he won't have to wait too long).

He might as well start grading this paper since it's in his hands now.

Kyungsoo returns the papers the next day and Jongin gets a B on his Physics final. At least, Jongin thinks, he now knows Kyungsoo doesn't just ace people for their lame attempts at pickup lines. 

a/n: originally posted on Tumblr but I thought I'd put it here just for fun lmao