#im more dumbfounded than anything!!!! like do you hear yourself. are you stupid on purpose

[the-meme-monarch]

i cannot Stand this bitch (<- my father saying amatonormative bullshit about his coworker Who Wears A Fucking Ace Pin)

[sept-dix]

love paint

summary: there’s this kid called daniel in your art class and you hate literally everything about him  a/n: requested; title is from nu’est’s love paint lol i feel like i’m sinning by using their song title for a fic that isn’t even about them but skfksj it works if it works

to start off, you’ve had a bad week

you got back a history test that you’d really studied for but hadn’t done as well as expected on

and you’d just had a small fight over nothing with your sister

you’re also having serious problems with your art bc you’re not sure how to proceed with it

usually your weekly art lessons in the weekends were where you could always relieve the pent up stress and bad feelings from the past week and just relax

you also loved visual art so learning more about it and improving was a major bonus of course

but the thing is that recently, your art instructor kept wanting something different from you than what you showed him, and this week’s no different

before the start of the lesson you go up to him and show him the painting that you’d painstakingly tried to improve and you’re met with the same answer as the previous week

“i’m not saying that it isn’t, well.. nice, but there’s just something missing. like it doesn’t make me feel anything, there’s no life in it,”

honestly at this point, he wouldn’t recognize the life in your artwork even if it grew a damn heartbeat and breathed down his neck

tbh you had put in so much effort into bettering the piece and the fact that it had all been in vain was very demoralising for you

but okay you just tell him that you’ll try to work on it and defeatedly walk up to your usual workstation towards the back of the class

only to see a boy already there? he’s spread all his own supplies on one side of the workstation and is already absorbed in his own work

actually the table was meant for two people but you’d occupied the whole space for as long as you could remember and the fact that you couldn’t even have that now was annoying

“oh hey! i’ve just joined this class, my name is daniel!”

the boy says to you while hastily shifting all his supplies to his side of the workstation as he introduces himself to you

you were in no mood for this so you just kinda grunt in acknowledgement and settle down

thankfully daniel doesn’t pursue it any further

everything is going peacefully until suddenly you hear this tap tap tap noise and you turn to your right to see daniel mindlessly tapping his fingers on the table

you tell yourself “ok just ignore it just ignore-” tap tap tap

“ok no i’ll just focus on my ow-” tap tap tap

tap tap tap

you couldn’t take it anymore

“excuse me but can you stop that” 

daniel turns to you in surprise bc your tone had been pretty unfriendly but he just stops anyway

and then everything goes fine until halfway you realise you don’t have enough space because daniel’s supplies are taking up half of your side

“would you mind keeping to yourself wtf i have no space”

at this point daniel just looks at you a little offended like you could have asked nicely?

but he doesn’t move his supplies so you’re getting even more irritated

“dude what the heck if you were gonna be all up in my space you might as well go sit somewhere else”

at this point he’s angry too

“excuse me?? i don’t know who got your panties in such a twist but i don’t see any reason why you have to ask me so rudely?”

“uh i wouldn’t have to ask you at all if you had basic manners and had done the right thing from the start?”

the argument only gets more heated

the lesson ends with you two ready to murder each other but you just pack all your stuff up and leave before he can say another word, and that was the end of that

or so you thought lmao

the next monday you’re in school eating lunch with your friends minhyun and doyeon when you see daniel walk past

apparently he’s from your school too 

seeing him triggers your memory of art class and you start ranting to your two friends

who at the end of your rant are just like ... wtf

bc clearly the fault was kind of yours, and deep down you know that too but ksdfnkdsj

minhyun: “actually he was in my chemistry class last year and he’s a pretty cool dude”

doyeon: “and honestly you can’t deny that he’s hot”

how helpful

you just ignore them and send him glares

which he happily returns once he notices you

another day that week you’re walking home when you feel someone walking behind you

you turn behind to see none other than daniel

“yo what the heck stop following me home!!!”

(honestly that was uncalled for he was just minding his own business)

and daniel looks up to see you and his expression immediately hardens

“can you stop?? i’m just minding my own business and walking to my own home you freak as if i would wanna follow you anyways”

cue another pointless argument

this continues throughout the next few weeks and during art class the instructor has to get you guys to cut it out a couple of times

you can’t help it he just makes you sO ANGRY like why is he always doing the wrong things and also always so ready to fight like ??

can’t he just realise that you’re always confronting him as a method of stress relief and let you be instead of taking it so personally and replying with equal amounts of anger 

lol

one saturday you arrive for art class early and daniel isn’t there yet

usually there’s this section of the classroom where previous works of students are kept

and anyone can go and look anytime

so guess what you do

you go there and purposely search out daniel’s artworks just to find another reason to hate him

but that’s kind of difficult because once you find his paintings you kind of forget that you hate him for a second

for the first moment you kind of look at it from a fellow artist’s perspective

his techniques and skills simply demand acknowledgement like they can’t be faulted and you’re like damn

there’s this one painting of his which is super simple

it’s just a little boy chasing a butterfly at this clearing in a forest, and behind him lay the dense and dangerous woods

you don’t know how to describe it but this painting is making you feel things like the details aren’t the most intricate and he hasn’t used any type of extremely advanced technique or something on it ,, but it just kind of tells a story

and you find yourself thinking if this is the life that your paintings lack

so once daniel enters the classroom and sees you looking at his paintings you’re just like “hey, these aren’t bad”

and he just snorts and rolls his eyes at you before going to take his seat at the workstation

wtf here you are trying to be nice but if he doesn’t want that then fINE

“ok honestly if u wanna be like this then fine you stupid ass piece of shit” you mutter under your breath as you take your seat next to him

“excuse me??? who are you calling stupid you fool?”

“im calling YOU stupid you stupid piece of shit. i was being nice and you couldn’t even -”

“ok and? not like i asked you to be nice”

“ok seriously you wanna go? come on then”

you know what happens next

little do you know that just the week before he was the one who came early to admire your artwork but oh well

the tension between you two just keeps increasing like it has reached new levels

daniel has evolved such that now he’s the one purposely trying to get your attention all the time just to try out new ways of irritating you

doyeon: “just kiss already”

and it all leads to this one big final grand conclusive argument one fine art lesson about one and a half months into your enmity

the lesson has already ended but you’re staying behind for a little while to finish up this particular painting that you were feeling good about

the only person there other than you is daniel, who is over at the display section doing god knows what

you don’t realise that he’s looking at you looking at your painting from there until he goes

“can i tell you something about your art?”

“no.”

“no seriously i have something to say that might help you”

“lol no i don’t need your stupid opinion just stop”

...

there’s a few seconds of silence after you speak which is very unusual bc daniel is always ready to fight

in fact he cuts you off to speak usually but suddenly there’s silence and he isn’t saying anything

so you look up like what’s wrong

and you see daniel standing there looking at you with this weird expression on his face which can only be best described as a confused and yet irritated puppy expression

then he goes “why do you hate me so much?”

and just like that you are speechless 

“because uh,, you’re annoying why else ,,” you manage after a while

and he just looks at you as if you hadn’t said anything at all

“no, i’m being serious. tell me why you really hate me”

and you get a little flustered bcs uh,, well how do you tell him that he had sort of just been your punching bag all this while

wow once you formed the thought in your head you realised how bad it sounded

“ok look, i don’t actually hate you or anything. it’s just that sometimes you get on my nerv-”

“i get on your nerves? just because you have problems you can’t deal with doesn’t mean i’m that problem”

“ok you know what bitch i deal with my problems very well ok that has nothing to do with you”

by this point he’s walking towards you in what looked like really angry strides

“what do you mean that has nothing to do with me?? you literally shout at me for every single thing i could just be here breathing and you’d get angry saying i’m polluting your air”

“well thats because that’s true u piECE OF SHIT WHO BREATHES DIRTY AIR OUT”

“OK SHUT UP OK JUST SHUT UP AND TELL ME HOW THE HECK I CAN HELP YOU SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS SO YOU NEVER HAVE TO SPEAK TO ME AGAIN”

“WHY THE HECK DO YOU CARE ABOUT MY PROBLEMS SO MUCH U LITTLE PIECE OF SKDDKGHDKF”

“WHY DO I CARE?? U MIGHT HATE ME BUT I DO LIKE YOU SO WHY WOULDN’T I CARE”

you’re like hold up-

“you.. you like me?”

“as in, not like that,, but like.. well what i mean, is,, ok well yeah. i like you. what are you gonna do about that”

you’re dumbfounded and extremely flustered

and daniel is just standing there right in front of you looking at you with a look of fake confidence on his face

“you know what daniel. you literally can’t do anything right like that is the worst confes-”

his lips are on yours before you can finish that sentence

!!!!

well, at least there’s one thing daniel is good at ;”)