All's Fair In Love And Law

જ⁀➴ all's fair in love and law

“Mingyu!” You wave to the tall boy standing near your block.

“Y/N!” He yells back, raising his hand in hello.

As you join him, he offers to help you with your computer bag, which you allow to happen reluctantly. He asks about your recent project, whereupon you regale him with the horrors of working on a constitutional and tax law assignment with slacking group members.

“You didn’t have to,” You say suddenly as you both begin walking to the campus cafe.

“What?”

“Pay me back for the tutoring, I mean — I did it for fun and you already knew most of it, you just needed a nudge to memorise it all.”

“It’s fine,” He waves you off. “I did well, so..”

“And if you didn’t do well?”

He shrugs. “No treat for you then. It’s your lucky day.”

You smack him on the chest. “Ow!”

“I know what I’m doing,” you insist, and he rolls his eyes playfully before suddenly yelling, “Last one to the cafe’s paying the next time we eat with Jeonghan!” He sprints off.

Jeonghan’s a bottomless hole. You’re not losing to the 6 foot over man and half your pay the next time Jeonghan thinks it's interesting to challenge who can eat the most pasta in one sitting.

“You’re on!”

“How you doing?” Minghao asks, hands in pockets as he walks down the path with Seungcheol.

“Eh.” Seungcheol murmurs in response.

“Hey,” Minghao says. “Seriously, are you good? You look like you’re surviving off instant food and coffee right now.”

“Just sleepy,” Seungcheol sighs, rubbing his eyes. “The new song assignment is kicking my ass.”

Minghao chuckles. “Sure. You’re not suffering from Y/N withdrawal, are you?”

He swiftly dodges a kick to the shin.

As planned, he checks his phone. “Crap!”

“What?” Seungcheol yawns.

“Can you grab a coffee for me? I’ll be right back, I need to pass some stuff to the library assistant on shift before me.”

“Are you on duty today?”

“Later," Minghao says. "But the fellow says it's urgent."

"Do you want me to go with you? We both work there, anyway." Seungcheol offers.

"No!" Minghao almost shouts, way louder than he intended. "I mean... nah, it's all good. Just help me order, I'll be back in ten minutes."

“Okay,” Seungcheol shrugs, clearly too tired to process his words. “What do you want? I’ll get it for you.”

“Just an Americano.” Minghao does not like Americanos.

“Alright, catch you in a bit. Hurry back.”

“Thanks. See ya.” Minghao walks back the way they came, but only a short distance out of sight, where he’s agreed to meet Mingyu after the accountancy kid drops you off.

“God, I’m so unfit.” You pant, all while Mingyu races ahead of you.

“YN, come on! Hurry!” The boy is currently gesturing towards you.

You launch toward him, shoving him playfully. “Why are your legs so damn long?!”

You’re too busy playfighting each other that you don’t notice that you’ve reached the cafe.

Seungcheol can’t believe his eyes.

You said you were busy with work. Not with play-wrestling the giant that gave him your number in the first place. Not with coming in the direction of the cafe where you had your first ‘date’ together.

It could have been the exhaustion, but he feels tears rising to his eyes, a frown tugging his lips down. You didn’t really want to spend time with him, did you?

He walks towards the cafe door, opens it and steps out, praying that miraculously, you both won’t see him.

“Oh! Seungcheol?” He stops in his tracks at the sound of your voice.

Great.

Mingyu begins raising a hand in greeting, but his smile drops when he sees Seungcheol’s forlorn expression. Slowly, the look of realisation dawns on his face as he processes what the scene looks like.

You, telling Seungcheol you weren’t free for a while, yet seen coming to the cafe with Mingyu. Him, grabbing your hands to wrestle them away as you tried punching his arm. You, head thrown back in laughter. Him, laughing just as loudly. And Seungcheol seeing it all.

It so looked like you and Mingyu were on a date.

He splutters and half-chokes. “Um-!”

“Bye,” Seungcheol mutters, expression one that you can’t quite place as he begins walking away.

“Seungcheol, it’s not what it looks like-” Mingyu begins.

“It’s whatever,” Seungcheol says wearily. “I have to go. See you guys around.”

He leaves, posture slumped, Mingyu speechless while you look on in bewilderment. “What on earth was that?”

“I messed up, that’s what.” Mingyu sighs. “Let’s go find Minghao.”

“…Who’s Minghao?”

“You WHAT?!” Minghao half-shouts.

“I swear-”

“No, no, no! You had one job. You’re not swearing on anything! You screwed it all up!” Minghao groans, rubbing his temples as he leans against the wall. “Great. He’ll feel even worse now.”

“I don’t…wait. Are you two saying you tried to meddle to get us together??” You ask, eyebrows raised.

“Clearly didn’t work.” Mingyu sighs.

“Whose fault is that?!” Minghao shoots at Mingyu, arms folded like an angry parent.

“We would have gotten together on our own,” You complain. “Now he’s misunderstanding this whole thing and he’s upset.”

“Uh, no! You wouldn’t!” Minghao interrupts, pointing at you. “He’s down so bad and so are you and you both are just wallowing-”

“Never mind that, what do I do now?” You sigh in misery. “He’s mad and it’s my fault…”

“No, it was me.” Mingyu sounds apologetic. “I made him misunderstand. Swear, I didn’t mean to.”

“Damn right, you did.” Minghao rolls his eyes. He gestures to you. “Go on and find him. Meanwhile, we'll try not to die when Jeonghan comes."

You tilt your head in confusion. “Jeonghan? What’s this got to..."

At the withering look Minghao gives you, as if to ask, "That's what you're really focusing on now?" You perk right back up. "Oh! Got it!” And then you’re racing off, leaving both boys behind.

જ⁀➴ all's fair in love and law

💌 summary: falling for the cute library assistant while struggling through a law degree may not have been in your plans or his — but it was the best thing to happen.

oh, how did something as simple as losing your notes turn into this?

💌 pairing: seungcheol x reader

💌 genre(s): university au, fluff + humour!

07. you had one job!

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writer's note: i’m not a law student so i’m not 100% sure if constitutional and tax law are subjects that are actually taught 😭 i googled as much as i could lmaoo so any law students please let me know!! thank you for reading ✨

જ⁀➴ all's fair in love and law

“Please, please pick up.” You mutter, jabbing at the call icon on Seungcheol’s contact.

It’s interrupted by Jeonghan’s call. “Hey. How’s it going?”

“Bad,” You sigh sadly. “He isn’t picking up and I can’t get into any room in his building without a music student card.”

“Oh…” Jeonghan lets out a breath. “I’m with the other two. I’ll hit them for you, if it helps.”

“No, probably not right now,” You reply, but you hear two consecutive yelps of “Ow!” in the background. You laugh reluctantly. “Right, does Minghao know where he could be? Other than his block.”

There’s a shuffle, and Minghao’s voice comes on the phone. “Hey. Uhh...he’s usually up in his studio or at the library. Or else the garden downstairs of the library. You went there yet?”

“No,” You say. “I panicked and didn’t even think about the library. I went straight to his block. I’ll go there now.”

He hums in agreement and you hang up, running in the direction of the library.

Seungcheol is full-on moping and sulking. He knows he shouldn’t, since you’re not technically together, but he thought this was going so well.

He was absolutely whipped for you, he could easily admit. When you said you were busy, he felt sad that he couldn’t share your stress and meet you to comfort you.

The day after you went out with him for the very first time, he went to the library for his shift and smiled the whole day. Minghao told him he needed help, and he didn’t even get offended.

And now… Seungcheol doesn’t know what to feel. His phone has been buzzing for a while, and he knows it’s probably Minghao asking where the hell he’s gone. Minghao must have been so confused when he came back to the cafe for Seungcheol to just disappear.

He turns his phone over when he gets a call, and he sees your name flashing on his screen. He sighs and leans back against the headboard of his bed.

His hand reaches for his phone… and pauses. The vibration stops after a while, and when he opens up his phone, he sees five missed calls from you, and about twenty texts, from you and Minghao.

His fingers hover over your contact, and he makes his decision. He turns the phone back face down, lying down and wrapping himself in his blanket.

“He’s not here!” You’re half-crying into the phone.

“None of those places?”

“None!”

“Maybe he’s at the dorm.” Minghao says. “I’ll go back there and see. You can’t go in the boys’ dorm anyway.”

“Okay, call me.”

Jeonghan and Mingyu turn up to bring you back to your dorm, and when they see your eyes, red and a little swollen with crying, they’re quick to comfort you.

“Don’t cry.” Jeonghan coos, swiping at your cheeks. "You didn't know. It was an honest mistake.”

Mingyu seems worse off than you, starting to sniffle slightly after he sees your tears. “I’m sorry!” He babbles. “I didn’t mean to make him misunderstand — I feel awful. Wasn't my intention, promise!”

“You two, don’t cry!” Jeonghan laughs, pulling you both into a hug. “It’s okay! Minghao’s gonna find him and we’ll make sure you both talk. Don’t — oh, man, my shirt!” He switches up and starts complaining as Mingyu starts full-on crying into his shoulder.

After they walk you back, you hug them in thanks, and they rock you back and forth to stop your tears.

At least, as funny as it looked, you had two friends who would cry with you, and another new friend who would walk around the whole school just to find the boy you were irrevocably head over heels for.

“This gotta stop.” Minghao says, leaning against the doorframe of Seungcheol’s room.

“What?” Seungcheol sniffles. He’s under his blankets, music playing in the background to distract him. He has his lyric notebook in front of him and he’s trying to write, but he keeps dropping his pen and leaning back, mouth turned down in a semi-permanent frown.

“The running off. I was making calls and running around, you know?” Minghao stretches and winces when his back cracks.

“Mhmm.”

“It was a misunderstanding, Cheol.”

At that, he looks up. “Huh?”

“It was..one of our ideas. Jeonghan and Mingyu and me.”

Seungcheol wipes his tears and sits up straight. “What’re you talking about?”

“We may or may not have wanted to speed you two up. So we may or may not have made a plan to get you both to the cafe. We’re sorry for that. But she isn’t dating Mingyu, idiot.”

Seungcheol can’t believe his ears now. “You what?!”

Minghao shrugs. “No one guessed you’d misunderstand and disappear on us. Y/N’s been panicking for hours. Cried once on the phone.”

“She cried?” Seungcheol looks panicky. Then his eyes narrow. “So you three were meddling-”

“Oh my god you two are exactly the same,” Minghao groans. “We’re sorry! But you two were crushing on each other so bad and none of you were doing anything about confessing!”

“We would have gotten together on our own!” Seungcheol cries out. “Don’t people usually go out a few times before getting together for real?”

“Match made in heaven, really,” Minghao shakes his head. “You were so excited for the study date— just studying! And Jeonghan told me Y/N wouldn’t shut up about it either. And I know you, you would never confess on your own."

Seungcheol flops back down on his bed. “She hates me now. I ran off before I let her explain.”

“It’s alright, she doesn't hate you. She feels more sorry than anything.”

“What?! What do you mean? No, no, no! I should be sorry!” Seungcheol cries out in a panic again, shoving his head in his hands and melting down.

Minghao leaves his room in a frustrated huff.

જ⁀➴ all's fair in love and law

💌 summary: falling for the cute library assistant while struggling through a law degree may not have been in your plans or his — but it was the best thing to happen.

oh, how did something as simple as losing your notes turn into this?

💌 pairing: seungcheol x reader

💌 genre(s): university au, fluff + humour!

08. perdendosi

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writer's note: a/n: in music theory, perdendosi is an expression used to describe 'getting gradually quieter and dying away'. thought it was a good metaphor to use and a good chance to refresh my crusty music knowledge lmao thank you for reading ✨

HEYYY now that all’s fair in love and law is complete (😭), i’ll be taking a short break to work on my school assignments before i continue work on the wonwoo x reader fic!!

the posting date is unconfirmed, but i’m planning to post when i have some of the chapters done and proofread! will update again xx <33 meanwhile, reqs are open!! see you all soonn

LOVED All's Fair In Love and Law!! Can't wait for the hometown cha cha cha fic 🤗

THANK YOU SO MUCH ANON! i had a lot of fun writing it, love that you enjoyed it too 😍 i'm so excited for the homcha fic too you have no idea 😭

aaand chap 9 is out! it's honestly bittersweet because i've had so so much fun planning and writing this 😭 even more special since it's my first fic on here!! hope you enjoy :')

Hi Adri😊

First if all, welcome to the hellscape that is tumblr! We have fun here🤡

Let me help you with some advice from an old rot here on tumblr. There could be a few reasons you are blocked, 1) you have no age indicator in your bio, which is needed for some blogs that post some more suggestive content and 2) you are only liking, which is what you already suggested yourself.

Now why is only liking bad? This is all to do with the tumblr algorithm and culture. Tumblr spreads its content mostly based on reblogs, likes don't do that much for visibility, which is unlike any other popular platform. To the culture: tumblr is a blogging website, this mostly means it is built on communities. Only liking a story is very passive and does not create that community feeling that is wanted.

Now what can you do?

What most do is create a sideblog for reblogging fics if you don't want that on your main account. You can share your sideblog in your bio for the people you follow to see who you are and your followers to find your reading list. Also I highly encourage you to comment! This is really appreciated by the fic writers! This can either be done by commenting directly (which is seen as a more direct approach) or by leaving your thoughts underneath your reblog in the text (still more direct) or in the tags (like a whisper).

As I said, tumblr is community based and it really means a lot if you comment what you liked underneath the content you consume, even just asggdjkldh could make someones day!

Soo I hope this makes some more sense now! If not, I hope it at least helps you a little at figuring out the manners and socialities of tumblr.

Much love from an long time tumblr user💙

Tldr; comment and reblog

HI ANON!

first off, thank you sosososo much for taking time to write this out 😭 i think previously i had the notion that both likes and reblogs were just different forms of interaction

but i get the rationale and the difference now so thank you so much for that!! i’ll be sure to take note and consider making a separate reading blog :)

lots of love to you too 🩷 hope you’re doing well!!