𝟕 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐬 ﾟ ˡᵉᵉ 제노

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A smile on both his lips and his eyes formed while watching Donghee's flustered state look away from him, almost hiding the hint of color rising to her cheeks.Jeno felt proud of himself for the progress of his lines' effect on her, which was increasing in frequency recently.

"Stop staring at me like that Blue!", Donghee hushed when she saw him still looking at her while flaunting his triple smile, as she'd call it.

"Like what?"

"Like you're.."

Jeno raised a brow at her unfinished explanation, "Happy?", he asks playfully with his eye smile becoming much evident.

Like you're serious about the deal..

"Like you're that bird from Rio"

"At first I'm Harry Potter, then Ron, and now I'm a bird??", he questions, couldn't help but break into fits of laugher.

Like a virus, Donghee also laughed at the new character she found resembles her soul's mate. "You're both awkward", she adds, still laughing.

"I'm improving!", Jeno defends, continuing on to cite his earlier moment of being able to deliver a line that made Donghee flustered.

As their laughter rang around the fairly spacious parlor, attention fixated on the other, not noticing the employees present including Choa who was there watching the very moment it became clear to the latter who the young friends are to each other.

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The duple's day continued with them strolling to a nearby street market, their bright blue hair causing most heads to turn, most gaze to them admiringly, assuming the two were mates with how perfect they look together.

Jeno who was overwhelmed by the attention and looked around to ease his nervousness, which Donghee quickly noticed, tapping him by the shoulder before encircling her arms around his.

"Mom told me direct contact from mates are calming", she softly says with a smile, Jeno nodded in return, feeling his nervousness slowly wash away replaced by a bloom of their soulmate's sense of warmth.  

"Oh oh oh!", Donghee excitedly clamors as her eyes lit up with the sight of her favorite vendor's stand from a close distance, "It's back Blue!", she adds, pointing at the strawberry stand whilst gently tugging Jeno to it's direction.

Finally reaching the stand, Donghee greeted the vendor brightly who nearly didn't recognize the girl with her blue short hair.

"Nabi-ssi has the best, and the freshest strawberries around here Blue", she explains to the also smiling Jeno who politely greeted the elder woman as well, "I always buy strawberries from Nabi-ssi", Donghee trails on as she begins picking strawberries, putting them on the prepared plastic container, her arms still encircled with Jeno's.

"You've grown Donghee-ah!And wow, already found your mate eh?", the vendor, Nabi inquires, nodding her head towards Jeno who just maintained his smile.

Donghee laughed at this, finished picking her strawberries, "He actually found me", she answers handing the payment to Nabi.

Jeno eyes formed a smile at this nodding in agreeance, recalling where they first met. 

The two continued venturing around the street market with arms still linked to each other to assure one wouldn't get lost while sharing the strawberries Donghee bought.

While looking around for whatever they'd be interested in, Jeno eyes draw to small jewelry selling business.His attention was particularly caught by the golden necklace adorned with a pendant of his favorite number 7.

He dismissed the idea of buying it, finding it wouldn't be much use to him, as his father told him before about pieces of jewelry.

As the container of strawberries soon emptied, Donghee persisted in throwing it away, removing their linked arms, "I can go alone Blue, you can just wait for me there at the bench", she tells him, pointing at the bench from afar.

With Jeno giving up with her persistence, Donghee proceeded on to walk back towards the big bin she saw a while ago, quickly throwing the container in.

Before heading to the bench Jeno's supposedly sat, Donghee approached a stand, discreetly purchasing an item before pocketing it, a smile spread on her lips as she spots his bright blue hair.

"You're dating?"

double update again since it's exam week :) wish me luck!