Safe place (Markhyuck)

3

Mark enters the kitchen to find Jaemin pinned to the wall and Jeno devouring him like his last meal.
"Jesus, must you do this out here? You have a bedroom." Jeno laughs.
"Your just jealous that you don't have someone." This time Mark laughs.
"I'm not ready to date anyone. I've chosen the single life for as long as possible. I have to focus on work and with two jobs I don't have time for dating." He shrugs while Jeno just continues to laugh at him.
"Yeah, like that will last." Mark fakes offense as Jeno just leans in and kisses Jaemin again.
"I'm serious, it's a valid reason besides, I've dated enough people to know what my type isn't but I've never found anyone that makes me want to be a better person or at the very least a good person."Jeno scoffs and walks up behind him hugging him.
"You are not and never were a bad person." He leaves a bigs sloppy kiss on his cheek and Mark groans disgusted.
"What the fuck man? Get off." He says chuckling. Jeno laughs as well and Jaemin just rolls his eyes at the pair.
"You guys are children." Jeno laughs and skips over to his man and squeezes him.
"And that is why you love me." Jaemin chuckles and nods.
"It is indeed." The trio eat a quick breakfast together before heading their separate ways.

Mark is excited for another day at the office, it sounds good in his head too. This is the job he has wanted for a long time. It doesn't even bother him that he's not paid to intern there, he's happy to spend his eight hours learning until he can be a paid full time employee. Winwin smiles cutely at him because in Mark's opinion, Winwin can only look cute. He waves at Yuta and says high to the rest. Taeyong walks in and offers coffee to anyone who wants it. It's seemingly the perfect day, at least until Doyoung comes in, a lot high strung and starts yelling at everyone.
"What are you doing, Mr Lee? You are my secretary, not their coffee slave! You go back to your desk and do your job and let them get their own coffee." Taeyong shrinks visibly and everyone but Doyoung notices.
"I'm sorry sir, I was just treating my friends. I got you one too." He meekly sets it on the table and walks away with his head down. Doyoung sighs and stares at the coffee. Everyone is afraid to say anything, well everyone except Mark because he has a problem with knowing when to not speak but also with his new friend being treated poorly.
"Sir, he wasn't slacking off. Please don't be mad at him. He was just doing something nice." Doyoung looks up and glares at Mark, making him regret breathing at the moment.
"I'm not mad at him, I just don't want him to be overworked." He said softly with a smidge of shame in his voice. Literally everyone in the office's head shot up in surprise.
"I should apologize?" He questions and Mark nods with a smile. Doyoung nods and quickly exits, they watch through the window as he walks right up to Taeyong's desk holding up his finger then turns just as quickly and walks away. Mark shakes his head with a smile.
"He needs work." He says to a giggling Winwin.
"Mark I need to see you in my office right away." Doyoung says as he pokes his head back in. He gets up and follows him into his office. It's a standard managers office, nothing too fancy but bigger than anyone else's in the department. Mark watches as Doyoung nervously plays with his fingers and finally turns to face him.
"How do I say sorry for that? I don't want him to cry because of me." He says sadly.
"Just walk up to him, softly. Not like you are running a marathon, and say I'm sorry for yelling at you. Then you can explain why you did it, it's not that hard and I'm sure he will accept your apology." Doyoung pulls his now chewed up nail out of his mouth and sighs.
"Ok I can do that." He lets Mark go and again they watch and this time they can see actual words come out of his mouth and a small smile creep on his face when he walks away. Taeyong turns in their direction softly smiling as well.
Mark shakes his head.
"Am I the only single person in this city?" He asks with a chuckle.
"I'm single." Winwin says softly catching Yuta looking in his direction. Mark scoffs.
"Not for long." He whispers under his breath before he grabs the file he needs to work on and opens it.
"We should probably work now. I can't handle anymore cuteness."  Winwin nods and the others go back to what they were doing as well.

After leaving the office he had to go straight to his new job at the cafe, he's tired but this is his life now. He walks in and greets the manager on duty.
"Hello, I'm Mark. I'm starting tonight." He says just in case he didn't know about him.
"I've been waiting to meet you, my name is Jungwoo. I will be training you tonight. Follow me to the back and I'll show you around." He turns and walks away while Mark eagerly follows. He can feel the exhaustion leaving him as Jungwoo is a ball of happy energy. He has a sweet smile and Mark can not figure out why everyone he meets is so cute. Maybe the fact that he's single is bothering him on a subconscious level, after all it's already been a year since his last fling. He quickly takes that thought out of his head, he doesn't have time for that anyway.
"Here is a locker for your things, you can bring your own lock in tomorrow. The required uniform is black trousers and a white button up shirt like the ones I'm wearing. Assuming it won't be a hard look for you to pull off because your coming from an office but you should always have a white shirt on hand. Alright follow me and I will teach you how to make the coffee." They walk back out to the front and Mark is quite surprised to see Jeno waiting in line. Jeno smiles and waves.
"What brings you here?" Mark asks.
"His Tuesday special, two matcha lattes to go?" Jungwoo asks, Jeno nods and smiles at Mark's astonishment.
"Jaemin always has a late class Tuesday so I go to Haechan's and we have game night. He just lives around the corner." Mark nods in acknowledgement, his mind going immediately back to that person again. He doesn't know why he's so fixated on it, he just is.
"Have fun, I'll see you at eleven if you're still up." Mark says as Jeno waves and walks out with his order.

Mark spends the rest of the night trying to pay attention to Jungwoo but still has that mysterious person on his mind. He learns the basics of the machine and also meets his other two coworkers, Chenle and Jisung. Two freshmen in college that live in the dorms on campus. He finds out quickly due to Chenle's love to talk, that Jisung needed the job and him being a loyal boyfriend got one here, to work with him since they don't see each other a lot during their day.

After a long but fun and tiring night he walks to the convenience store on the corner and buys a bottle of water for himself and a cookie and energy drink.
He doesn't know what possessed him and he's honestly thinking of turning around but his feet keep going forward until he sees that cute little brown house.
The house is dark as if he has gone to bed which is fine with him. He gingerly sets the drink and cookie down along with a note. He quickly walks home. He hopes he doesn't scare the other but he wanted to try to brighten his day.