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all renjun really wanted to do was to be able to kiss someone. he wants to be able to kiss the person he loves. but it makes him so upset that he just doesn’t know how to kiss properly. no matter how many times he tried, he just couldn’t seem to learn. he was so desperate to learn that even his best friend (who was also a maid in his house), jeno, noticed how stressed out he was.
“i don’t think you understand jeno!” renjun exclaimed.
“what do you mean, your majesty?” jeno asked, innocently, “i do understand how you feel.”
“jeno, how many times do i have to tell you that you don’t need to call me your majesty?” renjun told jeno, while using his fingers as air quotes when he said your majesty. “it makes me feel so old!”
“well you are.” jeno said under his breath.
renjun could hear what he said and couldn’t help but look at jeno with a straight face. jeno just put his hands up in the air, defending himself from any of renjun’s possible attacks.
“look, i just want to know how it feels to be able to kiss someone properly. to be able to kiss your significant other without being scared about how they feel about your kiss. imagine being insecure about the way you kiss jeno! i don’t want to feel like this anymore. gosh, i just want to kiss someone, in my room, on the rooftop, wherever we are. i want to be able to approach them with confidence and not be afraid of laying my lips on theirs. is that so much to ask for?!” renjun exclaimed, out of breath by the end of the rant. then he looked up at jeno with pleading and begged, “so if you understand what i feel, give me advice.”
he was so desperate to the point where he was going to beg his maid (although he hated calling him that), despite being the prince. he never thought that he would be asking one of his best friends to give him advice on how to kiss!
“but i don’t know how to explain it.” jeno showed him a frown, feeling sorry that he couldn’t give his friend any advice.
“ugh, jeno you’re no help.” renjun said with a pout visible on his face.
jeno stayed silent, just staring at renjun. he really did feel bad about not being able to help renjun but he really didn’t know how he could explain how to kiss. you see, jeno may have only known renjun for a few years but he feels like he’s known him for practically his whole life. he just finds it slightly weird to talk about something so intimate with renjun, not that he doesn’t want to talk about it because he absolutely does.
suddenly renjun looked like he just had a eureka moment and was about to jump up in joy.
“maybe if i ask jaemin to help, he’ll be able to!” renjun said with excitement.
as if the universe had already planned this, renjun’s phone made a ping sound. it was jaemin telling renjun that he was at the front gate, waiting for someone to let him in. as it was his job, jeno got up to go downstairs to open the gates and door for jaemin but it seemed like renjun had beaten him to it. renjun slid down the railing of the staircase while shouting at the top of his lungs.
when he finally opened the door, he jumped on jaemin’s body, without warning. jaemin was shocked to say the least. jeno gave him his usual eye smile while waving, and jaemin waved back while his other arm was holding onto renjun’s body, making sure that he wouldn’t fall.
“jaemin!! you don’t know how excited i am to see you! please help me” renjun screamed into jaemin’s ear.
“renjun, i can clearly see how excited you are to see me. i am too but i think my arm is going to fall off, please get off so that i can help you with whatever it is that you need.” jaemin said, his voice muffled as renjun’s body was still on his.
“oops, sorry.” renjun said with a smile while rubbing the nonexistent dust off of jaemin’s clothes. “come with me, i need your advice for something.” renjun said while tugging on jaemin’s arm, leading them to his room.
jaemin was so confused and jeno just smiled, acting like he didn’t know what was going on.
once they had reached renjun’s room, jaemin was forced to sit on renjun’s bed.
“you see, jaemin, i don’t know how to kiss properly and i really want to learn,” renjun got straight to the point, not wanting to waste any time, “but our dear friend, jeno, doesn’t know how to explain it to me.” renjun looked at jeno and jeno just shrugged.
“please help me, i promise i’ll pay you back with as many plushies as you want.” renjun begged yet again.
“well…” jaemin trailed off, “if you’re going to pay back with plushies, sure i don’t mind, i can help.”
“thank you so much jaemin!! you’ll never understand how grateful i am to have a friend like you.” renjun hugged jaemin with all his might.
“the first step is to understand what a proper technique is,” jaemin started, “but you won’t understand unless you experience it.”
jaemin just stared at jeno, who looked back with wide eyes.
“i suggest that you let jeno and i lead you on this wonderful lesson of mine.” jaemin said to renjun, with a big smile on his face.
in reality, jaemin saw this as an opportunity to be able to confess to renjun. he’s been crushing on renjun for as long as he could remember, but never built up the courage to tell renjun. he was already dating jeno, so he felt even worse knowing that he already has a boyfriend but also has a crush on someone else. but after he told jeno, jeno also admitted that he had a crush on renjun.
“if it’s going to help me learn, then sure i’ll do anything,” renjun said with no hesitation whatsoever, “jeno? would you? for me?” he then questioned jeno, hoping that he would say yes.
“...alright,” jeno said after thinking for a second, “yes, i’ll do it, if it means that i can help you.” jeno said with a smile.
jaemin smiled at his boyfriend and at his best friend, looking forward to the next few hours.
“renjun, let jeno lead and then you follow him okay?” jaemin reassured a nervous looking renjun, “if you feel uncomfortable, tell us, otherwise, we’ll lead you through this.” jaemin made sure that renjun knew his own limits and that no one would judge him for being the “bad kisser” he claims to be.
“okay, but just so you guys know, i’m allowing this to happen and that i agree to do this. i’ll tell you if anything feels wrong.” renjun wanted jaemin and jeno to know that he was fully consenting to this idea.
“alright, time to start!” jaemin said with excitement on his face, clapping his hands like a child who has just been given sweets even though they’re not supposed to have any.
“first thing you have to do is get used to each other,” jaemin looked at renjun, while pushing him towards jeno, “there isn’t going to be any emotion in the kiss if you aren’t used to each other’s touch.”
both renjun and jeno were startled by the close proximity. sure they have been close to each other before, hell, renjun even sometimes asks jeno to cuddle him to sleep, but in this moment, everything felt so new. it didn’t help jeno at all, as his heart was beating so fast, he felt like it was about to come out of his chest. they were so close to each other to the point where they could feel each other’s breath on each other’s nose.
“good, nice, now you guys have to hold each other.” jaemin guided both their arms around each other. he couldn’t lie, he was slightly jealous of jeno being able to hold renjun first but he knew that his time would come soon and he shouldn’t rush this.
on the other hand, jeno’s heart was barely surviving this. he felt like his heart was about to come out of his mouth. whereas renjun was just shocked. he had never been this close to jeno, this intimately. he’s noticing all the things he had never noticed before and he wasn’t sure how he was supposed to feel. all these emotions were currently rushing through. all of it was somewhat overwhelming to him, but at the same time he enjoyed this feeling. this feeling he’s never been able to experience with anyone else.
“renjun, you stay still for now okay?” jaemin looked at jeno next, “jeno i want you to lean towards renjun and place your lips on his. don’t start moving or anything, just place them there.” jaemin guided jeno, even though jeno knew how to kiss.
jeno did eventually lean towards renjun’s face, after realising what was going on. jeno looked at renjun’s eyes, which were practically begging him to just do the action that jaemin told them to do. so jeno did. he leaned forward and just placed his lips on renjun’s. no movement, just them closing their eyes as their lips were touching.
“now jeno, slowly, start to move.” jaemin watched over the two as he gave them instructions.
jeno slowly moved his lips against renjun’s. renjun was unresponsive for a while, but soon after, he started to follow jeno’s actions. he didn’t really know what he was doing, but he was hoping that what he was doing was the same as jeno and wasn’t disappointing him.
but renjun suddenly felt insecure and couldn’t continue.
“oh my gosh, i’m so sorry jeno. i don’t deserve to be able to kiss you.” renjun quickly blurted out, in a panicked voice.
“no renjun, it’s okay!” jeno bend down to assure renjun, “are you okay doing this? are you sure you want to continue? we can stop if you’d like.”
“yeah, renjun we’re not going to force you to do this, we’ll stop if you want.” jaemin said with concern laced in his voice.
“no it’s okay, we can continue. i just feel bad for jeno because i’m so bad.” renjun felt bad for worrying the other two. he didn’t want them to think that they were doing something wrong.
after asking multiple times if he was sure, jeno and jaemin finally went through with the rest of the ‘lesson’. jaemin continued to lead them through the kiss. eventually jaemin told renjun that he should try and take some lead over the kiss.
so he did.
jeno enjoyed the kiss, to say the least. even though he felt like his face was burning up, he also felt like he had just reached the top of the mountain and that he was really winning in life (which he was).
“alright! that’s it for today on jaemin’s love advice show. come back next episode for more!” jaemin announced, acting like he was hosting a tv show.
“i don’t think there needs to be a next episode,” jeno exclaimed, “renjun who told you that you’re a bad kisser? you kiss better than jaemin!” he blurted out.
it wasn’t until he saw the look on renjun’s and jaemin’s face that he realised what he had just said.
“what do you mean better than jaemin?” renjun said, with confusion laced in his voice.
“uhh, nothing!” jeno exclaimed, a bit too loudly for it to sound normal. renjun still looked at them suspiciously, not believing what jeno had just said.
“what jeno meant was that he thinks you are better at kissing than i am.” jaemin said with a nervous smile.
“how can i be better than the king of love?” renjun was still looking for an explanation because there was no way he was better than jaemin.
jaemin and jeno look at each other, sighing, knowing that they’d have to confess to renjun cause no matter what they say, he won’t believe them. and so they did. all the way from the start, when they had first met.
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“so you’re telling me that you two have been dating for a year already and in the process of it, you ended up having a crush on me too?” renjun questioned, after the two boys explained everything to him.
“we know it may seem weird but i hope you don’t mind.” jeno said, with a hopeful face.
“it’s just the way we feel,” jaemin said with a shrug, “if you don’t like that, i hope it won’t affect our friendship too much.”
“we can’t imagine what life would be like without you.” they both said simultaneously.
a smile adorned renjun’s face. renjun was genuinely touched. to imagine that his two best friends both had a crush on him, weirdly made him feel butterflies in his stomach. the thought of being with the two people dearest to him made him feel so happy and he wanted to be able to experience that feeling.
“wait does that mean that the whole time jeno was kissing me, he actually had a crush on me and liked me in a romantic way?” renjun just realised what had happened.
jeno couldn’t help but blush which immediately gave renjun the answer he was looking for.
renjun looked towards jaemin’s direction and questioned, “how did you handle watching your boyfriend and crush kiss each other? even guiding them.”
even jaemin didn’t know. he admits that he was jealous of the two. but never did he think of it like that.
“i didn’t want to rush anything for you,” jaemin says seriously, “plus i didn’t want to force myself on you or anything like that.”
the fact that the two care so much for his feelings made him fall in love with them already. he knew that he had already taken a liking for the two boys, but he just fell deeper in love.
opening his arms out towards jaemin’s direction, he smiled.
“well i give you permission to do the same thing as jeno”
jaemin didn’t waste time and ran into renjun’s arms, in the same manner that renjun had done when he saw jaemin. he smashed his lips up against renjun’s with a smile on his face.
the least jaemin could say was that it felt heavenly.
jeno joined in on the fun and they all had one of the best nights of their life.
none of them could’ve asked for anything better.