soulmate. markhyuck

twenty-seven.

once he opened the door, he saw the lights are all closed and the only thing you can see are the ones from the kitchen. walking towards it, he slightly jumped from his place when he heard a voice.

"oh, hi." it was mark smiling at him, and not only that he was topless too. "did you eat, yet?"

he noticed the younger is frozen from his place, not having eye contact with him, instead, donghyuck's eyes landed on mark's body.

"haechan." mark calls out, which did snap donghyuck out from his thoughts. the younger shook his head and was about to walk away but mark quickly grabbed his arms. "uhm... i want to give you something."

at this point, both mark and donghyuck heart are beating like crazy.

mark is nervous that donghyuck wouldn't like the book he'll give him and well, donghyuck on the other side is tensing up because mark is shirtless.

if mark is just standing there doing all sorts of things with donghyuck's heart, then he just wanted to yeet himself out of the window and bury himself six feet underground.

the older picked up something from the kitchen island and showed it to the younger. hoping and praying to the gods that donghyuck will like it.

"i just saw this from somewhere else and i thought you would like it." lie. he purposely went to the bookstore and asked someone for the most popular books.

donghyuck's eyes widened when he saw the book on mark's hands. it was the book that he and jaemin saw on the store, the one he wanted to buy so bad but jaemin took the last one.

"they said this one is the most—"

"actually," donghyuck cuts him off, rubbing his nape as he avoids the older's gaze. "i'm not really interested with this."

why the fuck did he said that.

after what donghyuck said, he quickly made his way upstairs, leaving a confused mark alone on the kitchen.

expecting the unexpected. i mean, he doesn't really know what type of genre donghyuck is into so he's totally expecting this, expecting that donghyuck will reject him, once again.

sighing, he carelessly tossed the book on the kitchen island and sat on one of the chairs.

letting out his breath not being aware that he's holding it in for too long. he slides himself down on their bedroom door, as he put a hand on his mouth. "why did i say that?" donghyuck asked himself, with his eyes wide open, "i was panicking! he came up to me shirtless, what do expect me to do?!"

at this moment, donghyuck is just nagging himself, cursing and hitting—but not that hard—himself for what he just said.

mark just bought him the book that he's been dying to buy, yet he rejected it?

"you're so stupid donghyuck, you know that right?"

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weeks have passed, meaning mark has been trying to show donghyuck his true feelings for weeks but seems like donghyuck can't see it.

weeks passed also meaning that donghyuck has been holding himself from telling mark that he loved that book he was about to give him but his stubborn ass is pushing him—but that's beside the point.