war of love, jeno

chapter fifteen

Jaemin glanced inside the bag, pulling everything out to carefully lay it on the dry grass. "So we've got three diapers, two bottles, and some money."

He looked away from the pieces in front of him and back to the folder at hand. "Each of the diapers have sensors on them and need to be changed regularly. It also needs to be fed like a real baby. The money is so we can go buy things like clothing and stuff to carry it around with."

Eunjin nodded, "you have anything to do right now? I've got a literature class in two hours."

Jaemin nodded, placing everything back inside the bag and standing up. He hummed as he stood up, "I'll drive."

Eunjin followed from beside him, naturally holding the baby close to her chest. "I'd assume so, I don't have a car or license."

Jaemin glanced at her from the side before looking away again. "You're a twenty-one-year-old without a driver's license?"

Eunjin shrugged, "technically twenty but yeah."

Jaemin hummed, "twenty? When's your birthday?"

"December twelfth, 2000. You?"
"August thirteenth, 2000."

"Really?" Eunjin asked, her eyebrows slightly raised as she got into his passenger seat. "Isn't that tomorrow?"

"It is. Finally about to be twenty-one. Are you planning on being a great new friend and wishing me a happy birthday tomorrow?" Jaemin asked, smiling as he placed his backpack and the baby bag in the back seat. "Hand me your backpack."

Jaemin was enjoying the conversation between them, it was the first normal conversation he had with a regular civilian in a while.

He and the others had completed high school online and he spent his break year, along with the "free" year Taeyong allowed, at home taking care of Jeno.

Eunjin was one of the first people he had spoken to in years that wasn't another member of NCT or from one of his undercover missions.

"Still need your number, bud."

Jaemin whistled lowly as he slid into the front seat, "I know I'm attractive and all but don't you think we should slow this down a bit?"

"For the project," Eunjin clarified. "This baby is being taken care of as a team project, I'm not keeping it twenty-four-seven."

Jaemin laughed, "right, here." He reached into his back pocket, pulling out his mobile device and unlocking it.

Eunjin took the phone, opening the phone app, and tapping on the plus button. She put in her phone number, labeling her contact as Eunjin and handing it back over.

"Alright, to the mall we go."

"Absolutely not."

Eunjin laughed, putting together the last clip of the baby carrier. "Why not? It looks cute on you. It matches your clothes too."

Jaemin huffed, staring back at his reflection. "I look ridiculous, Eunjin. When am I even supposed to use this?"

"I actually don't know but it looks useful. Wait, try this one on," she excitedly smiled, grabbing a white version of the same carrier.

Jaemin sighed, complying as he carefully took off the gray baby carrier and slid his arms through the new white one.

"Don't you have class in an hour? We should probably be heading back now," he decided, turning to Eunjin.

The shorter girl squinted at him, "an hour. Now take off the carrier we need to go get one of those things that clip into cars."

"A baby basket carrier?" Jaemin asked, hanging the sling back up on one of the racks.

Eunjin nodded, taking the baby in her arms one again. "Go ahead and pick one," she told him.

Jaemin nodded, grabbing the baby bag from Eunjin's shoulder gently. "Should we get a gray or black one? Not one that's too big, though, since it's still a baby doll."

Eunjin followed along with Jaemin, glancing at everything Jaemin pointed at or touched.

"That one looks nice," she finally agreed, pointing at one of them. Jaemin hummed contently, picking up the carrier.

They walked side by side to the front of the store, buying the new clothing and carriers they'd be using for the project.

"Schedule time. You got any classes later today?"

Jaemin shook his head no as he started the car, "I can take the baby today. I got two classes on Monday, one on Tuesday, and two on Wednesday. You?"

"Two on Monday, two on Tuesday, and then three more on Thursday."

"Okay so how about you take Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I'll take it Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. I guess we could switch out on Sundays?"

Eunjin hummed, "I guess that's alright but shouldn't this be more of a team effort- I.E. working together."

imagine seeing jaemin walking around with a baby strapped to his chest

currently have books for mark, donghyuck, and jisung in my drafts that i want to write but my teachers think it's a much better idea to pile on more work 😐

i've seen some speculation comments that think the code 18A3C21 is
18 - age when she got into the accident
A - accident
3 - years in accident
C - coma
21 - age now
but as you could tell, she's only 20 rn! so what else could it stand for 👁👁