cheater - nct, markhyuck

＃ special chapter ＃

"mark! someone's at the door, and i'm guessing it's for you!" jane, mark mother screamed across the house as the doorbell of their house rang.

"i need just a minute more, you can tell them to come in!" mark yelled back from his room.

jane rolled her eyes at her son. he was worse than a girl when it came to getting ready. it took him hours and hours just to shower, get dressed, brush his teeth and his hair, and look presentable.

today, mark was supposed to go play laser tag with his boyfriend and his friends, and they were supposed to come and fetch mark – which was surely why someone had rung the doorbell.

"coming!" jane exclaimed as she walked to the front door before opening it slowly. "hel...lo...?"

donghyuck gulped as the door opened, revealing mark's mother, looking at him confusedly.

"h-hello..." he let out, his voice unintentionally coming out squeakier than usual.

"dahyun...? you cut your hair..." jane frowned. "i thought... you and mark... huh... i... i mean, i'm glad you guys are still friends after everything that happened, but... i'm a bit surprised... yeah..."

"h-huh..." donghyuck gulped again, his cheeks pink as he tried to find a way to get out of this mess.

"i'm here!"

both donghyuck and jane faced the boy that had just spoken, letting out a breath of relief simultaneously.

"mark, your- "

"hey!" mark cut his mother's sentence as soon as he caught a glimpse of his boyfriend standing in the doorway.

before donghyuck could react, mark jumped in his arms, hugging him like a koala and gluing their lips together without a care in the world about his mother that was now staring at them with her mouth and her eyes wide open.

yeah, she wasn't really up-to-date with the last events...

so, it may seem quite weird to her to see her son being carried and kissed passionately by his ex-girlfriend.

"m-mark...? w-what... what did i miss...?" jane stuttered in confusion, staring at her son once donghyuck had placed him back on the floor.

"mom, i told you about that boy the other day, you remember?" mark asked, tiling his head to the side as he slid his hand into donghyuck's clammy one. yeah, the usually proud and overconfident donghyuck was now a shy mess in front of mark's mother. god, how much mark had changed him...

"y-yes, i do. y-your boyfriend." jane nodded, her eyes falling on donghyuck who was looking at his feet. "b-but... why dahyun...?"

mark smiled at his mother, leaning against donghyuck's side.

"this is the boy i told you about. he's my boyfriend. his name is donghyuck." mark explained. "i love him."

mark's mother blinked a few times, looking into donghyuck's eyes as the boy slowly lifted his head.

"h-hello... i'm donghyuck and... i love your son from the bottom of my heart..." he confessed, his cheeks tainted pink.

jane was still frozen on her spot, trying to understand what was happening.

"it's very nice to meet you." she let out despite her confusion. "c-can i ask a question though?"

"sure." donghyuck nodded, his grip on mark's hand unintentionally tightening because of the stress.

"a-are you d-dahyun? i mean... did you transition into... donghyuck...?"