peanut butter ⇢ markhyuck ✔

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a/n: stan seventeen for clear skin ✨

mark beamed to himself as donghyuck saw being unbelievably happy and bonding easily to his brother without any awkwardness. they talked about a plethora of topics, from sejun to his friends to mark himself, and that too for hours on end. mark and jaehyun just listened, awkwardly letting all the information in.

mark simply took his phone to see that i was 8 in the evening- way too late for him to be staying up. he walked over to the brunette, guilt bubbling up inside him as he did not want to cut this conversation short.

"alright now, it's really late and i need to go for work tomorrow..." mark grabbed donghyuck's arm gently, beckoning him outside. donghyuck, who was still not finished talking with his brother, turned back and immediately went silent, a stoic expression taking over his features.

"h-hyung...can i ask you a question...?" after a long pause, he started to speak.

"sure," the older said without looking at him, concern taking over his expression as he looked over to the open doorway longingly. donghyuck fell silent once again, uncanny fear wracking his body. he gently held mark's hand and he started to speak again.

"can i stay here...? i...really want to take care of my brother and we have a lot more things to talk..."

mark fell silent as he thought for a moment. his protective urges were forcing him to decline, but at the same time, jaehyun is over here to take care of them both. besides, donghyuck really has to bond with taeyong after the painful seperation both had endured in the course of 2 years.

mark beamed as he wordlessly agreed to his request. he pulled him into a small kiss and pulled off almost instantly, more than ready to get back to his home.

mark bid farewell to his future family as he walked out of the doorway, mind filled with peaceful and serendipitous thoughts of how he met the two, and then how important they were to him. good thing he never thought of ignoring them when they needed help.

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mark collapsed on the bed after taking a short shower, and he was already feeling an absence of a certain something in his place. he sighed as he missed donghyuck bitterly even though he knew he'll come back the next day, and within the span of a fortnight, he's an immutable part of his life.

he clutched the pillows near him and embraced them tightly, while closing his eyes into a troubled sleep. the sudden glow of his phone starting up and the sound of notifications, however, made his desperate sleeping efforts to go down in vain.

mark stumbled over to find his phone in-between the paraphernalia that is on his nightstand, finally grabbed it, which resulted in him getting almost blinded by the sudden light from the screen. he saw that his group chat was literally bombarded with messages, mostly from the maknaes.

mark snickered to himself as he scrolled through the messages, and as he expected, it was chaos. the maknaes decided to try a new brand of crack and now they are wrecking havoc everywhere. the hyungs on the other hand, were virtually yelling at each other but of no vain.

the sudden ringing of his phone caught his attention. he noticed that it was his ex-crush calling him, and that too for no specific reason. he almost cut ties with him ever since his rejection, and he certainly had not called him after that.

mark accepted the call and sighed as he heard the static-filled yet beautiful voice of renjun speak up. "i didn't know you already settled with him and had a job. what's next, hmm? marriage?"

"just shut up already," mark retorted in an unusually raspy voice, his eyes about to close any second. "besides, why do you even care? you got them with you. go disturb someone else..."

"hyung...you're still angry at me, aren't you...? i'm sorry..."

"no, it's not that..." mark defended, followed by a frustrated groan. "i'm just beyond tired and i really haven't got any sleep. let me rest for goodness' sake..."

"i know it's because you're still angry at me, don't lie to me, hyung," renjun spoke out in his trademark "extremely proud and confident in himself but terrifying" voice. "i'll just get this straight. i was in love with you and i am still in love with you. but the thing is, i'm not the perfect person for you, and i knew that. i get that you'll be the perfect boyfriend for me, doing literally everything for me, but i cannot be such a person for you. i won't be able to. i cannot do half the things you do for everyone, and it felt selfish of me to accept your confession. these idiots...nono and nana...they can take care of me like that because what they mostly do doesn't revolve around everyone. please understand, hyung. i love you, but relationship's a two-way street and you would make it into a cul-de-sac."

the tiredness in mark's eyes suddenly disappeared as he let all the information sink in. "why are you still telling this to me...? at this late in the night...?"

"i didn't tell you the reason before, and i had to at one point, even if your dumbass married, had a honeymoon in caratland, and had 12 kids for all i even care," renjun said frustratedly. "i won't be able to live it down if i never apologized. anyways, where's your boyfriend?"

"i..." mark trailed off as all words left him in this situation. "uh, h-he's not there with me, he's staying with his brother after not meeting him for who knows how long."

"oh, alright..." renjun said as the intensity of his voice softened. "well...nono and nana came back and it looks like they're drunk. i'll talk to you later, love you, platonically, that is!"

mark beamed as he heard his cheerful tone before hanging up the phone. he buried his face in a pillow as he almost immediately went to sleep, his mind filled with thoughts of donghyuck in the future.

a/n: short chapter because i'm done writing too much long chapters </3

i think discord got over my imagination because that is exactly how i check my messages lmfao. i don't call there tho, the only thing i use my mic for is to join music channels and listen to music lmao.

this time, his personality is based off of avanthi's personality, she does a lot for everyone and doesn't get half the respect back. i'm just taking the best parts of every one of my besties' personalities and mashing them up together lmao.

also, i thought of making onlyoneof my ults but i cannot unstick myself out of nct. so ig both onlyoneof and nct along with oneus, are my ults :D

currently listening to: onlyoneof me by onlyoneof, stay by oneus and onewe.