insomnia. | renmin

two.

『•• authors note (beg.) ✎••』

please enjoy this longer chapter to make up for the much shorter first one!
t/w: vivid hallucination scene.

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chapter 2 》 jaemin focus.

renjun and jaemin are scheduled to meet with their five childhood best friends, mark, haechan, jeno, chenle, and jisung quite soon.

renjun still has yet to receive a decent six to eight hours of consecutive sleep, and his extreme tiredness is obvious to both men in the room when his gaze sweeps over the dark circles under his eyes. there is a quick but unpleasant frown dawning on his expression in the mirror in front of them. his shoulders slump forward, visibly not having the energy to stand up straight.

neither of them is quite sure how this will affect the meet-up with their group later, but renjun can only focus on the now. 

and right now, he looks pissed.

jaemin takes the opportunity to softly kiss the nape of renjun's neck in a smooth attempt to calm him down, tightening his hold around renjun's waist with the sweetest smile he can muster. 

"you've never looked better, wangjanim."

renjun scoffs unconvincingly in response, but for a split moment his face breaks out into a gentle grin at his partner's compliment.

this is all jaemin ever wants from the older male, to make the best of an unfortunate situation, so he decorates renjun's jaw with a few more flurrying kisses, erupting a short but warm giggle from renjun as the older male playfully shouts, "jaemin, enough!"

"mianhaeyo, jagiya." jaemin beams brightly, loving the way his husband's face lights up even further at the endearing nickname for him.

renjun may not be entirely fluent in korean yet, but he knows enough to get by and understand his husband when he's in his most comfortable form. and renjun adores it. it truly makes him happy that he took those lessons several years ago when they first met, and how interested na jaemin was in reciprocating renjun's gesture by learning mandarin; the two constantly making an effort to be there for each other as much as possible.

this helped create a steady path for what their future together would hold for them.

"yah! you don't need to apologize! remember?" renjun recites jaemin's favourite phrase cutely, and jaemin pinches his full cheeks teasingly as a small pout graces renjun's already smitten-like features.

this split second of distraction from himself is simply beautiful to renjun. the single moment when his mind isn't drowning him with how restless he feels or how irritated he will become at himself for being so difficult in general.

renjun knows this side of him is jaemin's favourite as well. so he keeps smiling - even when jaemin grabs his slender hand to lead the pair out of their apartment and into the elevator.

jaemin's phone sounds off almost on cue as they begin walking through the parking garage to find their car, and renjun reaches into the back pocket of his partner's jeans to answer it. jaemin successfully unlocks the doors of their vehicle across the lot when the ringing comes to a halt as renjun lifts the device to his ear quickly.

"yeoboseyo?" the older male can be heard saying from behind the latter who is now a few steps ahead of him.

"who is it?" jaemin questions back curiously as renjun continues speaking animatedly, the dark-haired male moving to the passenger side of the car to hold the door open for him.