

you end up taking longer than he does, having to locate the girl's id card to swipe the door to the lobby, and also her room key once you got to her room, all while supporting her whole weight with your own. he assures you he'll be back in just a few minutes to pick you up after he delivers eunmi back to her own apartment, just a few blocks down. jeno really would have gone with you, if not for the fact that he would be a male in a female only dormitory. he drops dayoung back at her building first, the closest, and allows you to haul the girl to her dorm room located on the fifth floor. the car he makes sure to keep clean and tidy if ever a day like this comes. jeno pretends, again, to notice you, willing a face of recognition for absolutely no one but himself, you haven't even looked in his direction yet.

he's sure you're usually never up this late. he sees the way your eyes are glazed over with tediousness, staring at some random dent in the opposing wall. while jeno is pretending to look around, he plays in his head, over and over, the way you looked when he first glanced at you. entering the bar, he spots you almost immediately but does indeed act as if he doesn't. shaking his head, he runs his fingers through his hair once again, thinking that he'd look more 'cool' if it seemed like he just woke up. the mirror is smudged with fingerprints and he's having a hard time distinguishing whether he has a scuff on his face or if it's just the dirtied marks on the mirror. Jeno arrives at the location's vicinity in seven minutes but he only enters at the tenth, spending the three minutes in between checking his appearance in the fold down mirror of his car.
