rewind.

3

Jaehyun stares at the ceiling again. He has been alone for about a week. He would go out to pass time, but he has run out of his social juice for the month.

He rolls on his stomach and grabs a picture from his nightstand. It was a picture of Johnny and him smiling back when they were in high school. Oh, how he missed the time before his life turned upside down.

He remembers this day especially. It was a Tuesday, and their school had taken them to Jeju Island for the day. He was a freshman, and Johnny was graduating that year.

On that Tuesday, they started talking. On that Tuesday, his feelings had developed into something different more than a friendship. It spiraled into a romantic error.

Jaehyun places the picture down. He stretches his arms and gets up from the bed. His body ached from the workout he had done earlier in the day.

Ring ring ring

Jaehyun picks up the phone. "Hello, who is this?"
On the other end, he could hear breathing, super heavy breathing. He repeats himself, "Hello?"

"I can't believe you didn't save my new number. What type of friend are you?" A cheerful haechan speaks on the other end.

"Oh shit sorry haechan. Let me do that." As he was saving the younger number, haechan had said something that sent shivers down his spine.

"Also open the door. Me and Mark are on the way with the other birthday cake. Hira messed up the last three."

Jaehyun stops moving. "What did you say?"

"We are at your door." Haechan repeats.

"No, the other thing? What are you holding?" Jaehyun somehow lost his breath even without moving an inch. "What is it!"

"Dude, it's a cake. Johnny told Mark to drop it off, but he let his baby get into it...."

"Yuta, let hira get into the cake ten times, not me."

Jaehyun hung up his phone as he pushed himself out of bed. He then jogs down the stairs. Suddenly, he starts to feel pressure in his chest.

When he stepped into the doorway, he had a clear view of where the cake was, but nothing was there. Is he going completely insane?

Jaehyun opens the door with the fake smile he can. He wanted everyone to think we were fine, especially Mark. "Come in." Jaehyun let the two in who held a tall chocolate cake.

Jaehyun sits down on his couch as they do what they did in the kitchen. As he hears the pots and pans hitting each other, his mind jumps to almost a week ago. He was in the same spot, which made him feel a certain way.

"Taste it. It should be fresh because we had to make it this morning because of Ma.."

"Yuta!" Mark coughs instead.

Jaehyun just waves them off with a light-hearted chuckle. He couldn't blame little infant. Besides, how can he say something so bad to such a cute little thing?

"It's fine. Besides, I needed a sweet break after everything."

Mark takes a bite out of the cake, "are you referring to your vanilla sex with Johnny before he left?" Mark raises his eyebrows up and down in a teasing way. "I heard what happened."

"I hope you choke on that cake." Haechan smacks Mark.

Ironically, Jaehyun started coughing on his cake. What Mark said caught him by surprise. "What are you talking about?" He grabs his water and takes massive gulps.

Mark gathers himself after the slap from the younger next to him. "Well, you said you needed a break from everything...."

"Johnny told you something, didn't he?" Jaehyun asked. He might be smiling, but if Mark says yes, he will be pissed beyond the moon.

"Yeah, he said something about you gbecoming super clingy after an....event ," Mark places air quotes around the event. With a crooked smirk, the Canadian slides the cake on the table. "What are you doing to my cousin?"

"Mark..." haechan warns. He isn't going to let the blonde head make jaehyun uncomfortable in his own house.

"Johnny has become..."

Haechan snatches up Mark's plate, "Yummy cake, here have some." The brunette slaps a huge amount of chocolate cake all over Mark's face.

"Heachan enou..." Mark gags with each spoonful of cake being forcefully pushed into his mouth.

"I think you need another slice."
Haechan places down the empty plate. "Here, enjoy mine."

Jaehyun smiles with content; in the past week, he couldn't remember to smile. Right in this moment, Jaehyun couldn't even fake a frown. Haechan was suffocating Mark with chocolate cake.

Mark grabs the plate from haechan, "Stop, I'm not Bruce, and you aren't trunchbull."

"Oh, Mark, but you look fatigue. Are you sure you don't want some more?" Haechan smiles at a cake faced, Mark.

"I'm positive. I think I've reached my cake limit for the month." Mark slaps the plate out of Haechan's hand. With a few quick glances to his left, he could see Jaehyun zoned out.

The Canadian gently nudges the older. "Jae, what's wrong? You aren't usually this anti-social." Mark pokes the pink plush like cheek. "Jae..'

Jaehyun orbs snaps to Mark, a little perplexed at the panic stare in Mark's eyes. "What's wrong."

"Jaehyun, you're bleeding." Haechan pushes Mark of the couch. While stepping over Canadian, the brunette grips Jaehyun's face. "How did you cut your cheek?"

Jaehyun wipes his cheek, very confused, and he looks down. "I don't know." Shit he is shaking. His finger, legs, whole body.

'I'm OK. I'm OK. Everything is alright.'

"Jaehyun, are you ok? Talked to us, we are here for you." Mark dives right back in his spot next to jaehyun. "I know we will hel..."

"Do you think I'm crazy?" Jaehyun asked Mark and haechan. "Everything seems so out of place."

"Just because things are out of place doesn't mean you are crazy. It means that you are aware that something is up." Mark says.

"I saw Jackson."

"I take back what I said. You're crazy."

A/N

Sorry for any grammatical errors.
Not proofread.