at the school grounds,
with @msuchaeyoung.
heavy beads of sweat trickle down his back, covering the toseong senior' entire face as he weakly soaks them with his right sleeve. atlas has been spending his entire morning at the school grounds, looking under every tree and into every bush just to search for the sketchbook that he swears to god he must've dropped it here when he was on his way back to the dorm last night. it's a common character trope to see an art student keeping a sketchbook close to them wherever they go and the atlas everyone knows is no exception. to some people, maybe it's just a notebook where you keep all of your dumb doodles and sketches but he sees it as a treasure, as a companion, something that's ten times valuable than his family heirlooms.
“shit.” atlas curses, resting both hands on hips as he bitterly surveys his surroundings one more time. the way he's acting makes it seem like his sketchbook actually holds the darkest secrets of the universe and once whatever in it is out, the world's going to fall into chaos just like another tweaked real life version of mean girls.
as if today hasn't been heart-wrenching enough, now he has to be in the same spot as the least person he wants to bump into right now — jung chaeyoung, that pretty little thing. as the distance between him and the girl shortens, atlas turns away to face another direction, pretending to look off into the distance as though he never saw her coming. it's a childish trick to do but he hopes that she's going to act along and just walk pass by him. he isn't in the mood for fun today.