𝟕 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐬 ﾟ ˡᵉᵉ 제노

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The party ceased down to an end before the clock ticked 8, as every one of his invited friends was minors and needed to be home.As they now are almost finished cleaning up, Donghee and Jeno together take down the wall decorations she put up earlier, including the Birthday Boy.

"The birthday boy and his birthday cake!", Mark yelled sing-song, watching Donghyuck take over his supposed task of returning the cake onto its box.

"Birthday boy~", the latter joins in with a high-pitched voice, placing the top cover to the box.

Jeno however, brushed them off, his attention fixated on citing how his recently taken quiz went to Donghee who just finished taking down the decorations.

"A quiz on your birthday?Unlucky.", she teases, looking down at him while stepping down the chair, "I can't call you Blue now", Donghee adds softly, gazing over his black hair, the tips slowly reaching to his lids.

"I still like that nickname, just go with it Shorty.", he replies, ruffling the top of her hair.

"Excuse you, I'm taller than Hyuck by 1 centimeter now"

The owner of the mentioned name obnoxiously gasped at this, "How dare you involve me in there.!"

Clearing his throat to remind them of his presence, Jeno and Mark's father stepped into the conversation, walking towards the couple.

"We should head home"

"Can I just..stay for a bit with her?", he began, "Please?I promise I'll be home before 9", Jeno pleas, his hand put together while looking at his father.

Squinting his eyes at this, the man turned to look at Donghee who wore a thin smile and then back to his son before nodding, turning to walk away.

Seeing his dad's wordless answer, Jeno yelped in joy, a near opposite of Mark whose jaw seemed to have dropped down the floor upon seeing the reaction given.

─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───

Left with each other, the two automatically chose to walk around the park, their surroundings almost dark and quite yet didn't appear to be eerie, with the lamp posts placed every few feet that lit up their way as they walk hand in hand down the pathway.

"Aren't you mad I didn't introduce you to my dad before?"

"Upset, not mad", Donghee answers truthfully, looking at him before looking back at the path, "Because I thought your dad didn't like me, and you were just trying to wait for the timing.", she continues, chuckling.

Chuckling a bit as well, Jeno shrugged, "Well that's kinda true..Don't you wanna know where my mom is?"

"I do.. but also it's about your family so you know.."

"She died."

"I'm sorry..", Donghee sympathetically told him, quite shocked about him actually telling her straight up about his mom.

"She died when I was five.."

"I couldn't remember much but..Dad says she cheated and when Dad tried to confront her she ran and..got hit by a speeding car", he breathes out, looking up at the night sky once feeling his tears building up.

Encircling her arms around him, Donghee embraced Jeno carefully, having the gut feeling that he wanted to let out the emotions he had from the incident.

"But.. but he loves mo..m.."

"I'm sorry my Smiley had to go through that", she softly hushes, their pace now stopped,  Donghee reached for Jeno's hand, planting a comforting kiss to the back of it, nearly the same time as Jeno's who pecked the top of her head.

Jeno withdrew his hand a bit, feeling as if hot water was spilled on top of it, similarly to Donghee who quickly reached for her forehead, wincing.

"Ouch"

I wanted last week to have no update since it was holy week..and well..