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i.
It’s a Saturday morning, sun shining through the curtains of Mark’s apartment, down to the three boys that are sleeping on the floor with game consoles and handphones in their hands.
Jaemin wakes up first, his eyes twitching when the sun shines directly into his eyes too much. He looks around the room and sighs when he sees how messy Mark’s apartment is. All thanks to Haechan and Jeno, the main reason on how it got so messy. They decided to play games at Mark’s apartment yesterday when the older announced that he bought a new TV and ‘come and try it’, which ended up with them having a sleepover (unintentionally).
“Where’s Mark hyung?”
Jaemin finds himself knocking on Mark’s door and opening it slowly when there is no answer. There, Mark is sleeping peacefully on his bed, arms wrapped around a bolster.
He walks up to the bed, pulling the bolster out from Mark’s hand slowly as he slides in to replace it. He giggles when Mark squirms from the sudden heaviness on his arm.
“Hyung, wake up”
No answer.
“Mark wake up or else”
Still no answer. Just a little squirming.
Jaemin cups Mark’s face and squeezes his cheek until the older starts to open his eyes slowly, but still too sleepy to comprehend what is happening. Jaemin has an idea.
“Huh? Jaemin? What are you doing?” Mark asks, his eyes open widely, his hands on Jaemin’s chest straightens to keep a distance between them when he realises how close their faces are especially with Jaemin who has a pout on his lips and tried to kiss Mark, with his eyes closed.
“Oh hyung? You’re finally awake! Let’s go make some breakfast. I’m hungry” Jaemin smiles and wakes up from Mark’s bed, out the door, leaving Mark speechless.
ii.
“Mark hyung, should we kiss?”
Mark almost chokes on his food at the sudden question. “W-What? Why?”
“I don’t know. I saw Renjun and Haechan kissed. I figured that we should kiss too”
“Why?”
Jaemin shrugs. He grabs Mark’s bowl that he’s holding and put it down on the coffee table. Jaemin pushes Mark’s hands away and makes himself comfortable on the older’s laps.
“Jaemin, what are you doing?”
“I thought I’ve told you just now?”
“What? Dude? You’re being serious?” Mark’s hands on Jaemin’s waist becomes sweaty as he’s getting flustered with what’s happening right now. Jaemin looks so beautiful like this, on his laps, smiling sweetly at him with his long eyelashes fluttering his cheeks every time he blinks. Not liking Jaemin is an understatement. He has always liked Jaemin a little more than his other friends. He pays more attention on Jaemin compared to others. He might even like like Jaemin. Who knows?
“Yeah, dude, I’m being serious” Jaemin rolls his eyes and makes a face at Mark’s words. Once again, he cups Mark’s face in his hands, thumbs rubbing gently on the other’s cheeks, He leans in closer, feeling their breath exchanging at this close proximity.
Mark takes a deep breath and his hands tighten around Jaemin’s waist. His heart is pumping so loudly at the excitement and he hopes that the younger would not hear that because that would be really embarrassing.
When he can feel Jaemin’s nose nudging his, Mark closes his eyes and turns his head upward to chase Jaemin’s lips. He leans closer and closer slowly, building a tension between them when suddenly-
“Hyung! You should’ve seen your face!” Jaemin’s laugh fills the room. Mark opens his eyes at the sudden loud voice and sees that Jaemin’s lips is far away from his, whose body is leaning forward too much to catch Jaemin’s lips, his posture looking desperate to kiss the other.
“You really wanna kiss me huh? Your body don’t lie” Jaemin singsongs when he moves himself away from Mark’s laps and stands up. The older slumps himself on the sofa and sighs unbelievably at what has happened. He looked like an idiot, idiot in love.
“Aigoo~ don’t be sad Mark, try again later”
iii.
“Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to Mark hyung, Happy birthday to you!”
The group of friends sing happily for their favourite hyung and clap when Mark blows on the candles. He laughs at the words written on the cake and argues, “Congrats on being a corporate slave? Who wrote this? This is your future next year!”
“Haechan hyung did” Jisung answers truthfully, earning a glare from Haechan. “Nobody asked you to graduate first, Mark hyung! Look at us, still enjoying our college life” Haechan jokes to push Mark’s buttons. That’s what he does occasionally.
The older shakes his head to show that he will not join in the arguments because it’s his birthday, god damn it! Let him have his peace. He cuts the cake and shares the pieces with the others who’s currently sitting in front of the TV, watching a horror movie that Haechan suggested, meanwhile he sits at the dining table. He’ll join them later.
“Hey can I have some cake?” Jaemin asks with a spoon in his mouth. “Didn’t I just give you a slice, Jaemin?”
“Yeah you did and I ate them. Now I want another slice”
“You eat too much sugar”
“Please, hyung?” Mark sighs at Jaemin’s cuteness when he calls him hyung. He cuts a very small piece and put it on Jaemin’s plate. The younger smiles brightly and says thank you before he digs in. Mark stares at him and smiles at how precious Jaemin looks right now.
“So what do you want for your birthday?”
“I don’t know. Having you guys on my birthday is enough”
“Ew. Can I give a suggestion?”
“Sure, what is it?”
“A kiss from me”
Mark stops himself from turning his head to the side to look at Jaemin. Instead, he focuses on watching the TV to calm himself down.
“You don’t want to, hyung?”
“You’re just bluffing”
“I’m serious!” Jaemin pouts. He puts down his fork and turn his body towards Mark. “Hyung look at me” Jaemin whines when Mark still does not give him the attention he wants. “Finish your cake, Jaemin. Go join them”
“No. I want to sit with you”
Mark sighs at the stubbornness even though he’s already used to it. He finally turns his head around to look at Jaemin with his poker face on. “What do you want?”
“A kiss”
“No”
“No?” Jaemin frowns. “Please hyung?”
“Is this my birthday or yours?” Mark chuckles. He then turns his body to face Jaemin who’s smiling brightly with his hands trying to reach out to touch Mark’s face. The older takes a look at the others who’s too focused on watching TV. He’s just making sure no one sees this or he’ll get teased forever.
“Don’t worry, hyung. Eyes on me” Jaemin whispers against his lips. They’re so close now, so so close that Mark’s breath hitches. He looks up to see Jaemin who has his eyes closed, leaning closer and closer. Their lips are barely an inch away. Both can hear each other’s heartbeat growing louder in their chest. Mark’s hands on Jaemin’s waist, while the other has his arms wrapped around the older’s neck.
“What are you guys doing?”
Jeno asks, an empty plate on his hand. Haechan joining in later when he hears the commotion. “What the fuck?” He takes out his phone to snap a quick picture, sending it to their group chat and immediately, Chenle screams 'are you guys dating!!'.
Mark rubs Jaemin’s waist gently as he sighs at the disturbance. Not again. He looks up when he feels Jaemin running his hand through his hair with a warm smile. The warmth from the younger’s hand on his head makes him melt. Mark can see the disappointment in the other’s eyes too though.
“Happy birthday hyung”
iv.
Mark usually picks Jaemin up from his classes on Fridays if the others decided to sleep at Mark’s apartment for the night. His work ends at 5pm and it took 30 minutes to arrive at Jaemin’s university. Meanwhile the younger’s class finishes at around the same time. The others usually rides with Chenle since they like to buy snacks first (and Chenle always pays for them meanwhile Mark sometimes asks them to go dutch or share). Mark and Jaemin would clean the house up before they come.
It’s raining quite heavily and Jaemin doesn’t have an umbrella with him today. So Mark parks his car at the side of the road and runs toward Jaemin’s building to pick him up. Ah the thing he’d do for the younger.
He looks around but there’s no sign of Jaemin. Mark looks at his phone to see if there’s any new message from Jaemin. The last one being ‘pls come here. nana doesn't want to get wet from the rain :((‘.
“Mark~” Mark notices the familiar voice and smiles at the younger who’s skipping happily towards him. “Where’s my umbrella?”
“Oh I don’t have extra. We can share?”
“Even better!” Jaemin big smile appears on his face and he hugs Mark’s arm to be closer to him so he won’t get wet from the rain. “This is quite romantic right hyung?” The older hums in agreement as he guides them both to his car, carefully covering Jaemin with the umbrella even though his left side is getting slightly wet from the rain.
As they were walking and talking (mostly Jaemin whining about Haechan), Jaemin accidentally trips on a rock that has been covered by a puddle, and his feet has gotten wet from it. “What the hell!” He groans out loud, hands clenching around Mark’s shoulders to pull himself out of the puddle. “Seriously, what the hell! I don’t like getting wet!” Jaemin whines at the uncomfortable feeling of water seeping through his shoes and wet his feet, creating a squelching noise. “Ah hyung! I don’t wanna walk in these shoes! What the fuck it’s so disgusting”
“Then how are you supposed to walk to the car? It’s not that far away”
“Can you take the car and bring it here? I swear to god I’m not wearing this shoes any longer!”
“But you’ll get wet. I don’t have an extra umbrella, Jaemin”
Jaemin sighs because there’s nothing else he can do about it. He drops his head and take off his shoes, leaving him shoeless and sock-less, only his bare feet touching the ground.
“That’s even dirtier!” Mark’s eyes widen when he sees that Jaemin’s bare feet is touching the almost-muddy ground Jaemin has always been clean so this shocked him. “Well it’s better than wearing these”
Mark stands still, thinking about how to solve this. He then passes the umbrella to Jaemin and turns around so his back is facing the younger. “Come. Get on”
“What?”
“I’ll piggyback you to the car. It’s not that far”
“Wait- no! It’s okay I can walk! It’s not that far hyung my feet won’t get all bloody”
“Get on, Jaemin” At the stern voice of Mark, Jaemin nods and slowly wraps his arms around Mark’s neck and the older quickly picks the younger up on his back, adjusting until he’s stable. “Ready? I’m going to run to the car now”
“Run? Wait- Don’t- Hyung!”
They arrives at the car and Mark opens the door for Jaemin after a few moments of them laughing and Mark almost stumbles when he was running. He turns around to place the younger on the front seat even though the rain is hitting him but thank god it's not raining heavily anymore. He turns back around to make sure Jaemin is seated comfortably, with the younger's arms not leaving his neck yet.
"You good?"
"Yeah" Jaemin nods and they both stare at each other for awhile, before Jaemin leans in to give Mark a kiss. The older's eyes widen at the sudden move but he closes his eyes, not caring if his back is wet from the rain.
"Thanks Mark" Mark opens his eyes, feeling a pair of lips on his cheek instead of his lips. He accidentally frowns, disappointed that he didn't get the kiss he wanted all these times. The younger laughs and pats Mark on the cheek he kissed. "What did you expect, hyung?"
v.
Another Friday night, the group decided to have another horror movie night which Haechan added a rule: everyone's eyes on the TV!!! not each other's lips!!
Usually after they finished the movie, it would already be too late at night and they'll ended up sleeping after a few drinks but today, they finished the movie early and now they have nothing else to do. It's too early to sleep.
"Well, the movie was boring. Let's play a game!" Haechan suggests and Jeno who's rolling on the floor immediately sits up. Chenle who's sipping his beer in the kitchen runs towards Haechan with his right hand raises up. "I have an idea!!"
"This is not going to be good" Renjun sighs, headache already forming but he still sits in the circle that they had formed. "What is it Chenle?" Jaemin asks while he cuddles with Jisung, his big baby, even though he can feel Mark's eyes on him. "7 minutes in heaven"
The room immediately fills with 'no'. Chenle frowns because he thought his idea was brilliant and it would be so much fun. "Let's do it" Mark suddenly says which earns a smile from the game suggester. "What? Why" Haechan whines since he likes games that can raise the competitiveness in him and he can show people that he has a genius brain. "Let's play one round then we'll do your game, Haechan" Mark suggests which makes the younger happy so he agrees to play.
They all sits in a circle, eyes on the bottle that is spinning and slowing down to a stop. Mark. Haechan grabs the bottle to spin it again when the older places his hand on it to stop Haechan. "Wait, can I choose who I wanna go with?"
"No. You'll go with the next person the bottle chooses"
"Oh"
Haechan spins the bottle again and it stops.
Haechan.
"Fuck??? I'll take it back. You can choose who you wanna go with. Jaemin, go with Mark hyung"
Jaemin stops eating the chips at the sudden mention of his name. He looks at Mark who's shocked by Haechan's words and tries to deny it but Haechan was right. They both stand up and the others cheers 'finally!' 'let's gooo' 'wait do we have to wait for them' 'lets play other things'
The 'heaven' ended up being Mark's bedroom. It's a small apartment, there's not much extra rooms here.
"So..."
"So... What do we do now?" Jaemin asks as he lies down on the bed. "To be honest, I don't know dude"
"But you chose me hyung!"
"I know I know" Mark sighs because what the hell is he doing? What was he thinking?
"I think I know why you chose me" Jaemin sits up and he looks at the older. "I think you know too, Jaemin-ah" Mark answers because he's so done with the push and pull, if that's even applicable to what's happening between them.
Mark is the one who moves closer first, their knees bump into each other. "Finally some alone time. I've waited too long for this" The older says as he brushes Jaemin's bangs away, hand caressing the other's face softly. "Four times, Jaemin-ah. Four times" He whispers as his finger reaches the other's lips. "But, I need to know if you want it too" Mark's hand falls down to his knees, waiting for Jaemin's answer. It takes too long for the younger to speak so Mark continues, "I've liked you. All these times, I've liked you and I couldn't wait to kiss you, properly, I mean" He coughs, red appearing on his cheeks slowly. "But yeah, I won't do it if you were just, I don't know, joking around? Because I like you, really. But if you don't feel the same way, I'm alright too. You get me?" Jaemin nods, he understands, of course.
The room fills with silence, the opposite to what's happening outside of the room now (they're playing a drinking game). "Okay" Jaemin finally says. "Okay? What do you mean by-"
"Okay. I've got an answer"
"Oh"
"Yeah, oh"
"Yeah"
"So?"
"What do you mean by so?"
"Aren't you going to kiss me?" Mark's ears perk up at his question and immediately stares at Jaemin with wide eyes, smile slowly forming on his lips. "Are you sure?"
"Just do it! Do you want this to be the fifth time?"
Mark laughs at that and shakes his head with a 'no'. He once again, runs his hand down the side of Jaemin's face, rubbing his cheeks softly while his other hand rests on the other's neck, tickling the younger a little. Jaemin doesn't stop smiling, even when Mark is already leaning in closer and closer, the distance shortening, just like all these times. They both silently pray that there will be no disturbance or cock-blocking anymore.
Just before their lips meet, Jaemin whispers, "I want it too, Mark hyung", which makes the older smiles as his heart swells with happiness. Their lips finally meet, sparks running through their body at the touch that they have both been craving all these time. Their lips finally move, after a few seconds of trying to take everything in. Mark tilts his head to get a better access of Jaemin's mouth. He tugs on the younger's hair a little in which Jaemin opens his mouth slightly, gasping at the sudden wetness clashing with his in his mouth. Saliva dripping down the sides of their mouth, hands roaming around each other, Jaemin's hands already sliding under Mark's shirt.
"Fuck" Mark curses at the sudden coldness that hits his warm skin. Their lips crashing each other's again, Mark is gently pushing Jaemin down on the bed with his hands still placed on the younger's neck, pulling him closer and closer. "So good" Mark whispers and that earns a moan from Jaemin, especially when Mark is literally sitting on his groin when he said that. Mark leans down to capture the other's lips again, both still kissing and drown in each other's bodies that they didn't hear the alarm sounds that's blaring outside of the room.
"7 minutes are up- What the fuck!" It's Haechan again, bursting through the door to see two men kissing on the bed. "What are they doing?" Chenle's voice fills Mark's bedroom and in a blink of an eye, everyone is standing at the door frame, staring at Mark and Jaemin who froze in their position, lips still red and wet, eyes still drowsy.
"I think you should lock the door next time, Mark" Jaemin chuckles when he realises how absurd the situation is right now. Their friends are all still talking about it at the door frame, some with 'wtf' some with 'i knew it'. Mark nods as he smiles at Jaemin's words. They both stare into each other's eyes and Mark places an innocent kiss on the younger's lips. "Finally" He sighs out.
"Finally. Fifth time's a charm"