hyung | markhyuck

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— Chapter Twenty Six —

Donghyuck was counting the days. Never had he been more excited for a weekend. For idols in general, there was no such thing as a weekend as schedules could always happen on Saturdays and Sundays but not this week. Donghyuck felt grateful for it, happily running his hands through his freshly pink-dyed hair as he watched the clock on his phone turn from 11:54pm to 12:00am. It was now officially Saturday, the day he and Mark had chosen for their date.

He probably shouldn't be this excited, he thought but he never in his life had been on a proper date. Donghyuck had only kissed a few girls in middle school and then in his trainee years, ever since then he had been too busy engaging in anything outside of hookups and those were only with girls. So it was safe to say that Mark was his first, in pretty much every aspect.

Mark had told him that the two should meet in the lobby at eleven in the morning, to which Donghyuck had let out a whine as it was too early for him. Unlike Mark who liked to keep a normal sleeping schedule on their days off, Donghyuck enjoyed staying up until the sun rose again. Often times he would be playing games with Chenle, Johnny, Jaehyun or Jeno however not tonight were he just spent his time scrolling through his phone. He was on twitter, watching with a smile as his fans went feral over the new hair. Donghyuck liked it as well, feeling as if it was a nice twist to his usual brown hair. Not that he didn't like that either but the pink was so new and somehow reminded him of 2017 when his hair had been a maroon red-ish tone.

While waiting for the morning to come – he was too excited to go to sleep – he checked the internet. Twitter primarily. Just out of curiosity he typed in English letters "Markhyuck" and saw thousands over thousands of tweets of him and Mark in cute video edits or people shipping them. He smiled to himself. If only they knew.

One post especially caught his eye, it was a link to a fan fiction if he deciphered the english words correctly. Just out of curiosity he clicked on it. It led him to a reading site which sadly it was all in English so he had no idea what was written. He wasn't sure whether he wanted to know either way but he could see the insane amount of eyes (presumably reads) on the one, first chapter.

He clicked off again to continue his scrolling, coming across many fanarts. Most of which just showed him and Mark in couple settings but some also showed them kissing and Donghyuck blushed as he knew just how accurate some drawings were. The images of Mark holding his waist or cupping his cheeks while connecting their lips were adorable on one side but made him miss Mark on the other.

He sent him some text messages, knowing Mark wouldn't read them before the morning. But he did it nonetheless, telling the man stuff like "I miss you." and "I wish you were next to me right now so I could cuddle you."

After that he finally turned off his phone, imagining it was really Mark next to him and not just his big hoodie that engulfed his slim body. The man would probably smother him with kisses right now and Donghyuck knew he would enjoy it. Of course he would.

With thoughts like these he fell asleep only to be woken up by his alarm after what felt like mere minutes. In reality though hours had passed and he didn't have as much time left as he thought he did. He ran to the bathroom, sending out Jaemin who gave him an irritated look.

"Why are you in such a hurry? I thought you didn't have practice today." the man asked and Donghyuck just mumbled "I don't, just meeting with Mark-hyung."

"Oh, a date?" Jaemin said with a grin as he watched Donghyuck wash his face. The latter stared at him, trying his best to conceal his shock because why the fuck would Jaemin know that?

"We're just meeting up, nothing else." he answered but even like that it didn't sound convincing whatsoever. Jaemin only snorted and nodded, making his disbelief obvious. But Donghyuck wasn't ready for that conversation yet so he just sent Jaemin out with his foot. The man whined but closed the door behind himself, giving Donghyuck some privacy.