exasperated ；rensung

xxiii

Days passed the incident and Jisung's life has never been like before; and after finding out about his brother's relationship with his new friend, he was a mix of emotions.

Mark indeed took him by surprise the day he told him about how he knew Sicheng. Jisung wasn't really expecting anything shocking that day. All he thought was Mark wanted to have some quality time with him and they did too. They spend the whole day chatting about different ideas and he was happy that he got along with the older so well.

Jisung was already a curious boy who wondered deeply about all the simple things in nature and sharing those with Mark felt nice. He was a good listener and Jisung really appreciated that. It had been a few hours of lavish for Mark, he happily strolled around Jisung's huge "mansion", that is how Mark described it but to Jisung it wasn't that magnificent as the other had made it out to be.

"Dude, do you ever feel tired of walking in your house? Like it's so big and everything, you know?"

Jisung laughed lightly and replied,

"No, not really though."

They decided to watch a movie to perfectly end their day together.

But still had a lot to talk and the movie stayed as a mere background music.

Mark turned his head to look at Jisung, and decided to bring the topic again.

"Are you still stuck up on that?"

"Wha- No no, I'm okay now haha."

Jisung shook his head as to say that he was okay with the idea of them dating. It's not his business anyway and this turn of events was also news to their friends and the couple themselves.

"I'm actually glad that it's you my brother is dating."

Jisung had a subtle smile to his face.

Mark relieved, asked further.

"Really? Oh thank God, I thought you might not like this,"

Mark went silent at the end but Jisung said that he shouldn't feel negative about it and that all of them were really happy for the two.

After the revelation of Mark's non-existent boyfriend, the friend group and basically everyone in their college went crazy. Mark had gained a lot of reputation about dating the hottest, richest young man. It was evident how popular the Dong family was and Sicheng was the cherry on top to all of that.

Jisung could see that Mark felt a bit overwhelmed by all this attention but he told the him to relax and that, "It will die out soon, hyung so don't worry!"

But his close friends were ecstatic. Constantly pestering Mark, asking all sort of weird questions about Sicheng.

It was all teasing and laughter and Mark turning all red for no reason.

Donghyuck didn't hold back with the questions and with everyone going "ooooh" along with him. Jisung felt for poor Mark but it was just so funny until he it sank to him that they were talking about his brother toom

okay that's kind of awkward?

Jisung doesn't wanna hear about their private life, that's just super weird! Why would the others even bother?

Jisung resorted to close his ears in case any details were shared but fortunately, Mark had managed to calm Donghyuck by force and that was enough to silence the rest of them.

But that didn't stop Chenle from clinging to Mark and continue asking embarrassing stories.

Jisung at last noticed a small figure aggressively texting on his phone. Renjun was cuddling the blanket wrapped around his whole body.