#dinothemanthatyouare

[hyperdramas]

doodle | lee chan (first one-shot??)

The boring college class had finally come to an end, not that you were paying attention in the first place⎯your head was stuck deep in your sketchbook, glancing up at your subject as you continued to etch little marks onto the smooth white paper.

Dino, better known as Chan by his close friends, leaned on one of his friend's desks, laughing at something he had said before running a hand through his blonde hair. His cheeky smile brought a smile to your face as you glanced up at him, trying to catch the likeness of his smile before going back to shade his tousled blonde hair. The silver earrings he had on caught the sunlight in a perfect way, bouncing off of his ears and touching his slender, neat fingertips. 

You were an artist (an amateur one, of course), and you tended to draw things that you liked, whether that be cats, landscapes, your friends, or your campus crush⎯the latter being who you were sketching now, Dino.

Dino was one of the most popular boys on your campus⎯all the girls wanted to be with him, and all the boys wanted to be like him: he had all the traits people liked⎯he was funny, smart, talented when it came to dancing and singing, and very cute. He had three offers for upscale dance companies waiting for him, and he had gotten into the school you were in now due to a scholarship he had recieved for his talent when participating in a dance competition. Everyone loved Dino, and you were apart of that crowd. You had been ever since you laid your eyes on him in the front of you in history class.

The crowd of students that surrounded you started to pack up to leave the classroom, and you were too absorbed in your forming art piece to take the hint too, still busy sketching in your sketchbook as the door open and closed time after time.

You were now on his eyelashes, doing them without a reference as you had stared at Dino's eyes way too many times to remember. You remembered everything aout them, from the way they filtered the sun into his dark brown eyes to how his eyelashes tended to brush his cheeks when he blinked slowly enough.

"Are you doodling?" A familiar voice shocked you out of your sketching reverie, and you shot up to see Dino's grinning face peering down at your open sketchbook, sending a wave of panic through your body as you slammed it shut. 

"Doodling⎯me? No!" You smile awkwardly, face heating up a mile a minute as you pack your things up quickly, hoping to dip before Dino can ask anymore questions. "Hey, hey wait⎯I don't think doodling is a bad thing! I think you have talent, being able to draw like that without overthinking it." Dino's voice was sweet and encouraging, and you paused, nodding slightly even though you were still very embarassed and caught off-guard.

"Can I look at what you were sketching? It looked really good." Dino smiled as he stared down at your hand shielding the black sketchbook, and you hesitated, trying to think of an excuse to say no. His brown eyes stared at yours so intently you couldn't bring yourself to say no, and you slid it to him nervously, watching his handsome face spread into a smile as he opened the cover.

"Woah....wait⎯is that me?" He asked, pointing down to the page you were working on. His cheeks were warm with a shade of deep red staining them, and you nodded awkwardly, noticing how his eyes slightly widened as he took the sketch in.

"That's actually so good. It looks just like me." Dino whispers, obviously in shock⎯you're reeling now, head swimming with the fact that your campus crush and sketch muse complimented the drawing you made of him.

"Well⎯um⎯thank you! I tried to get your likeness as best as I could," You laughed nervously, palms unusually sweaty as you recieved your mechanical pencil and sketchbook back. Dino cleared his throat, helping you lift of your stack of books as he turned an even deeper shade of red. "No one's ever drawn me before." He says, and you giggle nervously, noticing the awe in his voice.

"You're a really good muse. Everything about you is just...." You trail off, noticing how much you're talking. Dino's eyes are glued to yours as you two walk through the halls, an awkward silence between you once you pause. You almost just called Dino handsome to his face⎯that would have made you die of embarassment.

"Just what?" Dino pressed, and you sighed, clearing your now weak throat as you finished. "Really pretty."

Wow, it was even worse than you expcted⎯not only did you start a sentence you didn't want to finish, and compliment him awkardly, but you called him pretty instead of handsome like you were planning to do. Dino just chuckled though, eyes squinting in that familliar way you had sketched many times before.

"Thank you. You're really pretty too." Dino's voice fell quiet after he finished his sentence, and your face and neck started to heat up as you paused at the college's front door, prepared to leave.

"Oh, um⎯thank you for helping me with my books, by the way." You smiled at Dino as you turned to face him awkardly, and he just shook his head, hand on his neck as he rubbed it shyly. His eyes glanced down at the floor before he met your eyes again, and he smiled, clearing his throat before he stuck his hands in his jeans' pockets. 

"Would you maybe...would you like to go out with me one day this week? Maybe on Friday⎯we could watch a movie at the theater or something." Dino's voice was shaky, and you nearly dropped your books on your feet, nodding faster than you would have liked as you breathed out a surprised, "Yes, I'd love to."

"Okay, great, uh⎯I'll get your number tomorrow since your hands are currently really fully with books." Dino laughed, and you nodded, giving him a quick goodbye and smile and you plowed your way through the front door, nearly giggling with happiness as you sprinted down the pathway, wind slapping your face as you smiled against the warm sun beaming down on you.

Who knew a date with your campus crush could come from a silly little doodle in your sketchbook?

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