Toxic 𖤈 ∫ JaemJen

𖤈 Chapter Fifty-Nine: Nonsense

Jaemin was focused on scanning the papers he was holding while walking down the hallway, looking up just in time to turn around the corner.

But as soon as he turns, he almost bumps into someone. About to briefly apologize to the person but abruptly stops himself when he takes a good look on who it is.

He tries to walk away, however he was pulled back by the wrist before he could even pass the person's figure.

"What?"

"You actually did it, huh?" The slightly shorter boy says.

"Did what?" Jaemin squints his eyes, high-key glaring at the elder boy in front of him.

"You asked Jeno to be your boyfriend. The person we've been trying to avoid." Jaemin scoffs at the response he received and shakes his head.

"The person you misunderstood," he emphasizes. "I'm going to say this for the last time, Renjun. Just stop this nonsense."

"It isn't nonsense when all I'm trying to do is protect you–"

"Manipulating me and twisting words isn't how you protect someone." Jaemin cuts him off. "I don't know how you still managed to keep Haechan with you, after all this."

"I can't believe you're against us." Renjun glares back, huffing through his nostrils, he then adds.

"How can you easily believe Jeno like that? Taking his side and not talking to us about it?"

"Because I know you guys would freak out and just try to push us away from each other." Jaemin replies, very sure of his answer.

And he knows Renjun silently agrees. Because it's a predictable reaction from his two best friends.

"And I didn't take his side at first, I observed how you guys were behaving towards him until I got sick of it."

When Renjun raises a brow, Jaemin elaborates. "Seriously, you and Haechan talk about Jeno's drama almost all the time, it's obvious enough you haven't moved on."

"What the hell? Of course I have moved on, I don't have feelings for him anymore–"

"Sure you have lost feelings for him, but you haven't moved on from the misunderstanding." Jaemin says.

"Like I said, Jeno didn't cheat on you. But you're too stubborn to talk to him about it and get closure. Unlike him who's been waiting."

Renjun bites his inner cheek and retorts back, "and you're too gullible to believe him just that easily!"

"For heaven's sake, Renjun. Can we talk about this more privately and I don't know... In a civilized manner?"

Shaking his head, Renjun refuses to get his act together and deflects the question. "Jaemin, why can't you listen to me anymore?"

"Renjun, you're literally the one who isn't– or have not listened to me majority of the time." Jaemin tries to keep calm.