✔ look !¡ markhyuck

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- august 2019, summer

"uncle? i'll get going now!" donghyuck's voice rang over the house as he was tying his shoelace of his black and white shoes. he was on his way to his campus after getting an approval of his uncle to leave the house.

as he was walking, donghyuck bumped into someone, making his belongings fall to the ground. but even worse, the cup of hot coffee belonging to the other person, was poured all over his shirt. 

"ah shit." he cursed and looked up at the person. but before he could glare and snap at the young man for messing his shirt and belongings up, he widened his eyes.

mark lee, the man who abandoned him at the orphanage, is now wearing a suit with a fancy tie and a shiny expensive-looking watch wrapped around his wrist. it took a second before the male rolled his eyes at the younger and 'tsk'-ed.

"watch it, you have eyes." he snapped. and thinking he was a total idiot and a bitch, donghyuck scoffed, as he too rolled his eyes.

"excuse me? you were the one that bumped into me, lee minhyung. oh! or maybe i should call you... sir lee?" donghyuck mocked after looking at the tag of the taller male. he had to be truthful, that he didn't recognize the older at first. he changed a lot and matured a lot, both physically and seemingly mentally. of course, it was reasonable as it has been over 4 years since they've seen each other. mark got slightly taller and his skin got tanner, not to mention his deep voice and dark brown pearly eyes. donghyuck wanted to cry right there on spot. he missed him so much. truly. his heart aches and begs for kindness from the latter. but it seems like the time isn't right. and the older may not feel the same. 

"you should go. i have a meeting to attend." the other spoke coldly in reply and walked off while taking a glance at his watch. donghyuck scoffed again but this time, with more expression and anger. 

"yeah right! sit that butt off at the office chair until it's flat!" he said and pointed at the business man who started to disappear from his vision. 

now his heart beats at an abnormal speed. he hated the fact that maybe mark won't feel anything at all. or even remember him as the donghyuck he used to be back then. he hated too that he might still have the slightest care and love for the male who had abandoned him alone. and if it weren't for johnny, he would've been worse. but mark doesn't know when johnny will come. and that's what donghyuck despised the most. ever since the time was near for donghyuck to leave, his main idea is to leave him. all alone. 

"i fucking hate you, mark shit lee. and i'm not sorry for your fucking tasteless bitter coffee." he grumbled and gathered his papers and books and ran to his campus that's at least 4 minutes left away. he knew he'll be late, but it'll be better than looking like a person who just rolled on the mud or wearing some stained shirt. so he went to the toilet but to his despair, the tissues were out. his next destination is the nurse, where he could borrow some random shirt and picked a white tee with a small writing on the left side of the chest. he then walked back to his class, knowing he'll most likely get an hour detention for being late to math class. 

"lee donghyuck, late 10 minutes." his professor immediately stated as he opened the door to the large classroom. he pursed his lips and bowed slightly before dragging himself to the back side desk where he always sat. 
"expected." he mumbled to jaemin who giggled quietly and took out his books. jaemin noticed the different air that donghyuck had brought to the classroom today. not the normal bright and happy donghyuck, but the nervous and grumpy donghyuck that was a rare sight to even him, his closest best friend. 

"is everything okay on the way? you're not usually like this." the taller male whispered to donghyuck and got an eye roll in response. seeing this, jaemin was sure something went wrong. 

"spilled some coffee on my shirt. met mark fucking lee on the way. it's his coffee so i'm blaming him." donghyuck stated with a stubborn tone which had jaemin chuckling softly again.

"mr. na and mr. lee, is something funny? or do you want to help me find the simplified version of this electron configuration?" the tanned male can only purse his lips and shake his head. oh how much he hated chemistry although he's pretty good at it. it was just too complicated and donghyuck had always hated the calculations and long terms. 

after classes ended, the two, jaemin and donghyuck, decided to meet with their other best friend chenle and renjun who gladly waved their hands in the air to greet the two that just arrived at the cafeteria. chenle was especially bright today, especially with his newly dyed hair, a faint pink color. 

"you won't believe what happened today." chenle squealed, followed by a cackling renjun, a rare sight to see to donghyuck. 

"what? what's so exciting today?" with chenle looking all shy and his cheeks darken in a shade of peaches, renjun rolled his eyes and took over the younger chinese. 

"he met the 'love of his life' i guess. he seems so happy about it when it's just a young boy who works at the office for this big company." the brunette made an imaginary quotation mark with his hands at that  four words which had chenle giggling like crazy. 

"so our lele is finally in love." jaemin swooned and swooped the boy in his arms as if he was a baby, tickling him and ruffling his hair. donghyuck didn't know why that instead of laughing at how chenle was suffering under jaemin's tickles, his heart started to ache. 

"come on hyuck! you need to eat at least a spoon." the ravenette shoved the small spoon filled with rice and a piece of small chicken along with it. donghyuck grumbled.

although he felt comfortable that day with mark, he didn't feel like eating. he just wanted to see his mom again which he knew was way beyond impossible to do so. mark just wanted him to eat, but he forced himself not to. 

"no! why do you keep forcing me, mark? i'm not hungry!" the younger shouted with anger which caught mark by surprise, but he remained his calm self. he then let out a small sigh. 

"but you haven't eaten in 2 days, hyuckie. your little tummy will be mad at you if you don't feed it soon." 

"ugh don't baby me, hyung. i'm 14, i know how to take care of myself." lies. mark knew the boy couldn't be left alone for half an hour before he started being paranoid and needed hugs. 

"fine. i won't baby you if you eat." mark started shoving the spoon to the tan boy's mouth again but failed when it got knocked out of his arms as donghyuck flicked it away.

"lee donghyuck!" mark growled but instead of getting all worked up at the younger as he expected, he started scooping the boy's body into his small but strong arms and spun him around, purposefully tickling him in the process. 

"stop! mark stop!" the boy pleaded as he started feeling his breath shorten and stomach aching from all the laughing and screaming. mark stopped eventually after all the chaos and cleaned up the mess. 

"ya! lee donghyuck! you good?" he heard shouts and his name being called out. he just daydreamed about a memory. just then he started to tear up but was quick to hide it. 

"yeah yeah. i'm.. totally fine don't worry." he replied with an assuring smile and went back to focusing on the present time. 

every time a memory passed by him, he can't seem to forget him. everything around him reminds him of mark. he hated it, but he never denied that he didn't want to remember the older boy who had probably become a rich guy from what he saw that morning. he sighed and pressed his lips together. 

if only my brain hadn't been so stubborn of not letting you go, i would've had less memories of you, idiot. 

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