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"Jeno!"
Jeno nearly jumps out of his skin as his door is thrown open. He takes his headphones off and glares at the culprit, who is currently giving him a nasty look.
"What the hell, Jaem. Warn a guy before bursting in like that. I could've been doing god knows what in here."
The glare on his best friend’s face is briefly replaced by a small grin.
"What? Like jacking off. At this point we both know you have the sense to only do that when I'm sleeping-"
"Unlike you", Jeno shudders, recalling the one time he'd burst in unannounced and found Jaemin with his hand down his trousers watching some strange animated porn. He would've never let Jaemin live it down if they hadn't both been super awkward after that. It was in the days after that particular incident that Jeno learned that Jaemin indeed had at least some shame.
"Unlike me", Jaemin nods, before scowling again. "Also unlike you I actually have ears. What the fuck, man? I've called you like five times now. I guess we don't answer in this household anymore, huh?"
Jeno rolls his eyes and points to his headphones. They're not usually like this, him and Jaemin. There's a reason they're renting an apartment together and it's not because they're always at each other’s throats.
They actually get along great, it's just that Jaemin's been having a tough time at work lately, whilst Jeno has been studying for his finals.
They were roommates and became fast friends in college. Jaemin graduated a year ago, while Jeno, because of switching majors two years in, still has two more years to go.
Not that he really minds, though. He'd rather spend more time learning to do something he actually likes, than spend the rest of his life doing something he knows he'll grow tired of within a year.
Well, that's how he usually thinks anyway. Right now he'd rather just be doing anything else than study for his finals.
"How loud do you put your music?", Jaemin asks, coming to sit on Jeno's desk, Jeno is able to quickly snatch and save some paper from inevitable getting crumbled under Jaemin's inconsiderate ass.
"What are you listening to anyway?"
He clicks away from the powerpoint Jeno's been studying and instead opens the youtube tab.
"Top 10 sad anime ost's?", Jaemin reads, amused.
"It's because if autoplay", Jeno blurts, like a fool. Showing weakness to Na Jaemin of all people.
"Oh really?"
Jeno knows that little lilt in his voice. He knows teasing is about to follow.
"So why were you calling for me anyway?", He asks quickly and Jaemin, the even bigger fool, falls for it.
"Oh...yeah, you know that party I've been talking about?", Jaemin asks.
Jeno frowns.
"You know, Donghyuck's. I've talked about him. He's a co-worker of mine. The one I actually do get along with?"
Jeno nods. That's the only one Jaemin hasn’t been complaining about these past few weeks.
"Well, he's holding this party and I don't think I'm gonna know anyone there, so I was wondering if you wanted to go with me?"
Jeno opens his mouth and Jaemin quickly holds his hands up.
"Wait wait, I know what you're gonna say. 'Uh, I need to study for my finals, Jaem. I need to think about my future and stuff'", Jaemin says in the worst impression of himself he's ever heard and he’s friends with both Chenle and Jisung. Both self-certified experts in imitating Jeno.
"But hear me out. You've been studying for like two weeks now and you're still got four days till your final. I know you're gonna do well. You always do...so I honestly think you're allowed his one night of relaxation."
Jeno's reluctance must still be showing on his face because Jaemin juts out his bottom lip and grabs Jeno's face between his hands.
"Please Jeno? For me?"
And Jeno caves. Like he always does with Jaemin.
He's regretting it as soon as he enters this Donghyuck’s house. It's packed with people who are clearly already drunk.
So it's that kind of party. Fucking great. Now Jeno'll be the only sober one, because he's not about to have a hangover tomorrow.
Jaemin is grinning as some dude that’s loudly singing runs passed them. He grabs Jeno by the arm and drags him inside, babbling about introducing him to Donghyuck and getting some beer.
In the end Jeno does get introduced to Donghyuck’s. A slightly shorter man with wild hair who has clearly already had way too much to drink.
He's giggly and at some point he puts a big cup full of unknown liquid into Jeno's hand and drags Jaemin off somewhere.
Jeno should've probably anticipated this was going to happen at some point.
He finishes the glass in ten minutes, realizes halfway through that it's definitely not just red bull and decides to just make the most of it.
He ends up talking to a girl he actually really gets along with. She's got long hair, pretty big eyes and full lips. She's funny. Or at least he thinks she is, but at this point he’ll probably laugh at everything anyone says to him. He also finishes two more cups with the unknown liquid that isn't quite red bull.
"You want to come home with me?", she asks lowly when the party's cooling down a bit. He contemplates it, it's been a long while since he got a laid, but then the sensible part of his brain that sounds annoyingly like Mark Lee finally decides to make an appearance and he politely declines. Telling her he's got an exam in literally three days.
She's chill about it and they do end up stitching out phone numbers.
As he watches her leave the fact that he's literally got an exam in three days and he’s here, drunk as hell at a party he didn’t want to come to in the first place comes crashing down on him.
He groans and decides to groggily retreat for a whole.
In the end he miraculously finds a room with no people in compromising positions.
He flops facedown onto on the bed and closes his eyes. Tuning out the murmur of dozens of people downstairs.
He hasn’t even lain there for thirty seconds or the door opens. Jeno groans and lifts his head. His vision is kind of blurry and the person's illuminated by the light outside, so he doesn’t recognize them.
It is just one person, though. Jeno almost laughs. That would've been rich. A couple too busy making out to notice Jeno laying in the bed entering and then falling onto him.
"Jeno?" the person slurs and then he's got a heavy weight on his back.
"Jaem, get off", he whines.
"Lovely to see you too, best friend", Jaemin says, rolling so he's laying next to Jeno.
Jeno buries his head into the blankets. Willing the world to stop wobbling.
"Y'know I'm starting to see why this wasn’t that good of an idea", Jaemin says after a long silence.
"Oh?", Jeno says.
"Yeah, I just got a text from my boss. Apparently I've got to get that deal by Monday. It is currently 2 AM on a Saturday", Jaemin says and Jeno knows for a fact that sober Jaemin would be panicking right about now. He hates working on weekends.
"I could've gotten laid, you know that", Jeno moans. "But I have to study, so I refrained"
"Yeah, I kissed like three different people just now. I initially came in here to get rid of my boner", Jaemin says airily. Then he gasps and he starts turning Jeno over.
Jeno groans, but doesn't resist him. "Jaem-"
"You still wanna do some nsfw stuff, Jeno Lee?", his friend asks with a twinkle in his eyes.
"What?"
"I mean, with me. It'd help us both with our issues", Jaemin slurs reasonably as he stares down at Jeno. Jeno snorts.
"What? You wanna fuck in your colleague's bed?", he asks jokingly. As he says it vague alarm bells start ringing in his head. In his drunken state he can easily ignore them, though.
"Well, not fuck necessarily, but like make out a little bit. Come on, Jeno", his best friend says and he's so close that Jeno can smell the beer in his breath.
His breath hitches when the other boy leans down, so close that their lips are almost touching. Then he laughs, amused at himself because this is Jaemin.
"Please Jeno?", he whispers he pulls out the puppy dog eyes and Jeno caves. Like he always does.
"Fine", he sighs and against all better judgement he grabs the back of Jaemin's head and pulls him down. He can feel Jaemin's victorious grin against his lips.
The kiss starts off clumsy, with both of them a little too drunk for precision and perfect teamwork, they bump noses and couple of times, which makes them both laugh against each other lips.
This is nice, though, Jeno thinks as they eventually settle on a languid pace. He can smell Jaemin through all that alcohol and it's oddly comforting. It makes him relax completely as their lips move against each other.
Then Jaemin prods his tongue against his lips and Jeno immediately complies. At first Jaemin's still kind of careful, still slow. Then Jeno grips his hair a little tighter and tilts his head to grant himself better access and it's as if a button’s been pushed.
Jaemin groans and he places both his hands next to Jeno's head, effectively caging Jeno as he starts kissing him in earnest. Tongues sliding together.
Jeno goes along with it, he would be lying if he said it didn't excite him a little bit.
When they stop they're both panting, Jeno can feel the short puffs of breaths against his cheeks as Jaemin presses their foreheads together.
"Wow", Jaemin pants quietly as he stares off into the distance.
"Why'd you stop?", Jeno whispers as he drops his hands from Jaemin's hair and his best friend looks down at him with wonder in his eyes.
"You...", he starts, but then he seems to change his mind as he kisses Jeno again.
This time Jaemin’s rougher and more insistent as one of his hands curls around Jeno’s neck and he tilts it just a little bit. Jeno lets out a satisfied sigh and their tongues slide together.
With nowhere to place his hands his full intention is to pull Jaemin on top of him, he succeeds. Kind of.
He manages to pull Jaemin half on top and then he feels the raging boner Jaemin mentioned against his leg. Jaemin lets out a groan and shudders.
They both freeze and Jaemin quickly scrambles off of him and off the bed. Jeno stares at him, feeling oddly as if he's broken some kind of unsaid rule between them. He refuses to stare down at Jaemin's pants. Instead looking at Jaemin's flushed face.
"Jaem...", he says breathlessly.
"I should...probably...y'know", Jaemin says, voice tight as he all but runs out. Leaving the door standing wide open and the noise from outside seems to suddenly bring Jeno back to reality. He sits there and tries to compose himself.
He somehow makes it back to their apartment and sees that Jaemin's shoes and jacket are already there. For a second the absurd thought to join Jaemin in his bed enters his mind, then he quickly shakes it off and heads straight to his own room.
He falls asleep right away.
When Jeno wakes up he's blissfully unaware of what's gone down the night before for all of ten minutes.
He first discovers to his relief that he doesn’t have a hangover and goes to the kitchen feeling pretty good about himself. He makes himself some cereal and sits down to play some game on his phones as he eats.
Then the bathroom opens and he already grins and starts asking: "How we feeling, sunsh-?"
Then their eyes catch and Jeno sees the guarded expression on Jaemin's face, the out of place tightness of his lips and the downturned eyebrows. He falls silent as memories from the night before enter his mind.
Jeno retreating upstairs, Jaemin entering the room, Jaemin offering to make out, them kissing, them actually properly making out, Jaemin-
Instinctively Jeno's eyes flicker down his friend's naked chest and towards his crotch, now covered by a towel instead of the skinny jeans he was wearing the day before.
As soon as he's done so he curses himself. He quickly looks back up at Jaemin's face, but the damage is already done. There’s now a slightly pained and betrayed expression covering his face. Mostly he just looks embarrassed, though.
Jeno can relate, he flushes and quickly ducks his head back down. Pretending to be immersed in the game on his phone, while in reality he’s just mindlessly tapping as his mind reels.
"I'm fine", Jaemin says shortly, then. "I'll be out today to make sure I've got that deal, okay? Don’t…wait up for me."
Jeno doesn't trust his voice and simply nods.
He only relaxes when Jaemin’s well out of the apartment about ten minutes later. As soon as the door closes he buries his face in his hands and curses himself and Jaemin’s stupid fucking puppy eyes.