Movie Scene (Hoseok)
Hello! First of all, sorry if this appears as a huge block on your dash but I’m publishing this on my phone and I cannot do any html edit OTL Anyway, this is for anon who requested a Hoseok scenario where he keeps staring at you at the library. I felt like pushing this on the funny side so my writing may look different. (Also put a lame pun somewhere in the scenario) Feedbacks would be appreciated, here you go! ——
Ah, school. After three months of summer break, you weren’t sure if you were anticipating school or fearing it. Each new school year was a totally mystery to you; new faces, new discoveries… And for some reason, you had a great feeling about this upcoming year. Maybe just because your best friend had told you your fortune and some ‘Love’ was supposed to occur.
You let out a tired sigh as you dragged your already heavy feet to the university’s library. Your phone vibrated for half a second, kindly informing you it was six in the afternoon, sharp. Classes had ended not long ago and so, the university was slowly emptying.
But just for this year, you thought visiting the library once or twice would be a good idea.
And here you were, in such a calm place you just wanted to scream your lungs out. The only sounds your ear could tell apart were the sounds of books pages grazing against each other and the tips of pens scratching on paper.
You weren’t sure where to go, and what to do, but you visited a bit before doing any work. Trying not to make any sound or even cough was hell. You wanted to sigh, to sneeze, and everything else at the same time, but then everyone would probably burn holes through you with their eyes.
After wandering between the shelves full of Philosophy books and encyclopedias, you had grabbed one and were now heading towards one of the tables. You thought you would have a hard time finding a seat, but much to your surprise, most of the tables were occupied by only one or two people. You took a seat and so slowly put your book down on the table.
‘Is life all a dream?’ was written in big classical letters on the hard cover of the book. You flipped through the pages full of questions ‘What is a dream?’, ‘What comes after life?’, and that alone easily gave you a headache.
You had never been into Philosophy, but you just happened a few hours of it because of your course. Questions that can’t get an answer means they are not worth that answer, you always thought. What will you do once you discover that yes, or no, life is all a dream? A loud sigh escaped your airway as you immersed yourself in the pages of the book.
“The question of morality is separate from the question whether it can all be a dream-” You read a first time. You scratched your head in confusion and read it again. After a couple of minutes, and you had counted, you were already reading the same sentence for the 78th time. And you sighed for the fourth time in the minute.
When you were just about to move on to the next sentence – you still couldn’t get a grip of the meaning of the previous one though –, it felt like the whole world shook. Nope, just the chair being pulled away. You didn’t pay attention, until someone sat their but on the chair right next to you. You raised an eyebrow, trying not to lift up your gaze to prevent any awkwardness to invade the atmosphere.
The person now next to you – you had no idea if it was a girl, a boy, in suit or in pajamas, or even an alien – was making actual noise. So much noise. You scratched your head in annoyance and hesitated kicking that person. It’s not like you could read that damn book anyway, but this is a damn library and you yourself learned a few minutes ago that making noise in a library is a sin. But they continued anyway; sighing, coughing, talking to themselves…
“Excuse me,” the voice raised just above a whisper – they could have also spoke into a mic – and that’s when you identified the gender of the person; a male. A boy! A man! Everything suddenly felt more embarrassing. “do you perhaps-” he continued.
But you cut him off. “No, sorry.”
“I’m really busy right now, I need to read every word at least eight times before understanding them, which takes approximately thirty-two seconds per word. Sentences in this book have an average number of thirty seven words, because this is philosophy and fuck the simple. That means I read a sentence in thirteen minutes and fifty four seconds. Do I sound like I have time for you?” you caught on your breath and turned your attention back to your book – not like you were even looking at your weirdo.
Magically, everything became dead silent and you found yourself appreciating the noiseless world of this library, which you detested when you first came in. But something felt wrong. “Big Brother is Watching You”: these words echoed in your mind. You checked the cover of the book, and it was still written ‘Is life all a dream?’ and not ‘1984’. You scratched your head – you were pretty sure a hole would start forming on your skull if you continued scratching it so much.
Despite all your efforts to read that damn book, something was off, and that definitely wasn’t your brain. Your eyes slowly rolled to the side, in the most discrete way possible. No matter how discrete you tried to be anyway, your every movement was being watched by the guy who had settled down next to you a while ago.
You decided to ignore. You succeeded, or at least, for ten minutes or so. You rolled your eyes to the side once again and you swore you thought Mona Lisa was next to you. You would probably get kicked out of the library if you suddenly shot up and yelled ‘MONA LISA IS ALIVE!’ so you decided to take a correct glance.
You turned your head around and you only had time to wink that this guy’s wasn’t staring at you anymore. He actually looked pretty, with very thin features, an expression such as the sun. A sigh escaped from your lips and tried to get into your book, Once Again. Your mind wasn’t filled with questions such as ‘What are dreams?’ ‘Do we dream a life, or do we live a dream?’ ‘Conscious or unaware?’ but more like ‘Who is this guy?’ ‘Why is he prettier than I am?’ ‘What is he reading?’ ‘Wait… he’s not reading. Is he writing a fan-fiction?’ and that was the perfect timing to close your book loudly, get up, loudly, and throw the book back in the shelf. But that would be too easy.
You felt his stare on you again, as if he was actually sending you a message ‘I’m staring at you.’, but your level in telepathy was still kind of low to catch any other messages. Somewhere between the minutes of A Stranger Staring At You, you caught a new message ‘Stare at me back.’
And so, you stared back, your hair whipping your face as you harshly snapped your neck to the side. You narrowed your eyes, staring into his soul, devouring his everything. You tried sending him a telepathic message: ‘Who the fuck do you think you are?’, you thought it didn’t work, but then he laughed. He. Laughed. And damn his laugh was as pretty as his face and eyelashes. This was totally a scene from a movie, and then these two persons start dating each other and marry, and this is actually a How I Met Your Mother remake.
You weren’t going to give up, but you weren’t sure if the game was to stare as long as possible or survive without blinking. You were doing both anyway, and that was killing you. Hey, try looking at the sun with bare eyes, without blinking.
“Give up,” he whispered, now actually conscious this was a library and it was supposed to be and stay silent. “my record is three minutes twenty-eight seconds.”
“I give up.” You replied, blinking a hundred times just as soon, tears forming behind your eyes because of some weird reaction from the Human body. “Hey, I didn’t want to actually give up.”
The stranger chuckled in silence and when he calmed down, he stared at you again. This time, his eyes weren’t screaming ‘Competition’ but rather, ‘Interest’.
“Hey,” he smiled a smile sweet as suga.
“You were wrong earlier,” he continued. He turned his body around on the chair, now facing you and his elbow resting on the back of the chair. “Reading a sentence of thirty seven words, knowing you read a word eight times, it wouldn’t take you thirteen minutes and fifty four seconds but twelve minutes and twenty four seconds.” He raised his index next to his face, in a ‘let me teach you something gurl’ motion.
“Really?” you faked a surprised expression on your face, not caring a single bit about all these numbers.
“I don’t actually care,” you cut him off again.
“I’m Hoseok,” the said Hoseok said a bit louder, a teethful smile plastered on his face as he stretched his hand in front of you. “You can call me Hoseok.”
You raised an eyebrow in confusion. Is he dumb, stupid, or idiot? Ah, he wanted you to introduce yourself so you can become friends and so and so. “And I’m going, bye.” You closed shut the philosophy book. Conclusion, you didn’t learn anything.
“Hey,” Hoseok spoke up, but he didn’t wait for an answer this time. “I’ve read this book once. It’s quite interesting, you should go on!” He suddenly said and packed his things too. Or more like, threw all his books and pen in his bag as fast as possible so he wouldn’t let you run away.
“This book has a dumb question to begin with,” you stated while walking towards the Philosophy shelves. You took the at least three kilos book in both hands and read the writing on the hard cover once again. “Is life all a Dream? Huh? If it’s a dream, that means I’m actually sleeping, and sleeping is good no matter what you say, so it doesn’t matter dream or not.”
You heard someone running slowly behind you and finally caught up. No surprises, it’s still Hoseok. You actually felt the atmosphere changing, and it became all bloomy again. “But if life really is a dream, if I ever woke up, you will only exist in my dream then. That ain’t no cool.”
You stopped and watched Hoseok walking further; he probably didn’t see you stopping.
And then you understood what he just said. What the hell is wrong with this guy?
You pushed the huge book back into its spot and immediately sighed in relief. You eyed the front door of the library, and then Hoseok. You could just run away through the door and never see this guy again, or you could try to improve your socializing skills and ask to see again, or maybe some kind of meteorite would crash somewhere in the library and aliens would take Hoseok with him. You sighed: why did he sit next to me in the first place…
“-which means, dreams are life and so, life is dreams. Hey, you listening?” Hoseok’s voice suddenly popped in your ears. It was bright and no matter what he said, it was always in a cheerful tone - library or not.
“You,” you pointed at him with your index. “stop Hey-ing me, I have a name.”
“I guess so,” he chuckled. “what’s your name?”
“Not telling you,” you turned your heels around, getting upset at the bit of hesitation you had.
“I told you not to Hey me!”
And because, remember, this is a movie scene, you turned around in slow-motion with a cute frown on your tired face, and met eyes to eyes with Hoseok. So close you could see the endless sparkles of fireworks in his eyes. So close your heart skipped a couple of beats.
Your surroundings got blank as both of you stared into each others souls. Time stood still.
You woke up from your thoughts when an intruder asked you to move away so he could grab a book from the shelf. You stepped asid.
“You lost,” Hoseok’s voice rose into a faint whisper right next to your hear. You pushed him away as soon as you caught a chill down your spine.
“It wasn’t nice meeting you, bye.”
You glanced back and Hoseok lowered his head when he caught sight of your Stare of the Death. You saw a pour forming on his face - as if he could be cute - and turned on your heels, heading towards the front door.
“Ok then,” Hoseok’s voice continued on following you, getting louder and louder at each step towards the door. “Princess,”
Your heart skipped a bit, but you tried conveicing yourself it did not. Nope, not with him. You stopped on your way and Hoseok bumpee into you, backing away with a slow apology. Your name came our of your mouth in a low voice, low enough Hoseok had you repeat it a few times. You’d rather be killed than being called Princesse or anything alike.
“Oh, thank you, Princess,” Hoseok whispered the last word, as if he didn’t want you to hear - but even his whispers were screams to your ear.
“See you tomorrow, same place same time,”
You couldn’t say anything as Hoseok opened the door and left without looking back.
Okay, maybe, just maybe, you could come back to the library to do this or that…