my first and last || renmin

N i n e t e e n - Egg time

As they rode down the escalator, Renjun saw his dad standing amongst the livery drivers.

He held a sign that instead of saying their last name, said 'My beautiful family (and Jaemin)'

Upon seeing them he immediately started to cry, he kissed his wife and gave Renjun a big hug.

Jaemin went to shake his hand but Mr. Huang hugged him as well.

***

Renjun sat with his father on the couch.

"Jaemin had a recurrence." Mr. Huang nodded.

"Mrs. Na told us the night before you left.. I'm sorry Renjun." They sat in silence, tears forming in Mr. Huang's eyes.

***

Jaemin layed in his bed in the bedroom-basement, his eyes were open, a PICC line now being fed through a port in his chest.

Chemotherapy at work while Renjun and Jeno kept him company.

"How are your eyes?" Renjun asked Jeno.

"Great, wonderful. They just aren't in my head." Jeno joked.

"I'm sorry to one up you but... my entire body is now made of cancer so.." Jeno nodded, trying not to get emotional but it was happening.

He wanted to touch Jaemin's arm but accidentally touched his thigh.

"Woah dude, I'm taken." Jeno laughed.

"Did you write his eulogy yet?" Jeno asked Renjun but he still "looked" at Jaemin.

"Dude." Jaemin whispered.

"What?"

"I haven't asked him." Jaemin's whispering was still loud as hell.

"Oh... oops." Jeno held his hand against his mouth.

"What are you talking about? Jaemin?" Renjun was confused.

Jaemin looked at him and grew a little serious.

"I need speakers at my funeral. I thought maybe you and Jeno... but especially you- would be kind enough to whip something up?" Renjun softly touched his hand.

"It'd be an honour." They held hands.

"You guys are adorable." Renjun play slapped Jeno on the arm.

"How's your love life? Anything from Winter?" Renjun asked, still holding Jaemin's hand.

"Not a word."

"She hasn't even like texted to ask how you're doing?" Jeno shook his head and Jaemin got an angry look on his face.

"This is why I don't like heteros." Renjun shook his head.

"I've stopped thinking about it. There's a new girl in the support group with these humongous milk jugs." Renjun was confused.

"How do you even know that?"

"I'm blind but not that blind." Renjun laughed.

"Huang Renjun!" They turned to Jaemin.

"Do you happen to have four dollars?" No one knew what that meant.

***

Jaemin sat in the passenger seat while Jeno sat in the back.

Renjun returned to his car with a carton of eggs.

"Okay, now what?" Jaemin smiled.

***

Renjun, Jaemin and Jeno leaned against Renjun's car as they stared down Winter's green Firebird car.

"Is it there?" Jeno asked.

"Oh, it's there." Jaemin answered with a smirk.

"She's in the house?" Jeno questioned again.

"Who cares? This isn't about her. It's about you." Jaemin stuck out his hand.

"Renjun... hand me the egg." Renjun nodded opening the egg carton and giving him an egg.

Jaemin put the egg in Jeno's hands.

He positioned his friend who couldn't see a thing towards the Firebird.

Jeno winded up and tossed the egg, he missed by a long shot.

"I didn't hear anything."

"Aim left." Jeno turned his shoulders.

"Lefter." Jeno turned some more.

"Yes! Now throw hard." Jaemin handed him a second egg.

Jeno winded up and hurled it- missing the car again but hitting the house.

"Bullseye!" Jaemin smiled.

"Really?"

"No, you missed it by like 20 feet. Try one more time." Jaemin handed him a third egg.

Jeno hurled it and this time it smashed the car's taillight.

Jeno's face lit up.

"Woo hoo!" Renjun hyped up Jeno who was now a throwing machine.

Most of them were a miss but at least he was enjoying himself.

Finally there was a direct hit on the car door which triggered an alarm, Jeno paused.

"Keep throwing!" Jeno resumed, Jaemin smiled putting an unlit cigarette in his mouth.

Renjun watched him, enjoying this moment.

Eventually, Winter's mom opened the front door and came out.

"What in god's name-" She stopped in her tracks after seeing Renjun, Jaemin and Jeno.

"Hello ma'am. Your daughter has done a great injustice and we've come here for revenge. We may not look like much but between the three of us, we have five legs, four eyes and two and a half working lungs. We also have two dozen eggs. So if I were you I'd go back inside." Winter's mom was very confused so without another word, she turned and went back inside.

The three of them celebrated, "Did that actually work?"

Jeno asked before picking up from where he left off and Renjun gently kissed Jaemin on the cheek.