YOUR EYES ONLY | | NCT

Chapter 1

Quote
♡"the art of eye contact"♡

- unknown

"What's so special about him?" The spite in Jaemin's voice was as clear as day. He and his best friend, Donghyuck, were recent graduates, first-year students in college, to be exact, currently exploring the campus that'll become their new home for the next four to five years.

"Well, it's Lee Jeno. What's not special about him, Min?" Donghyuck honestly answered his friend.

"He's annoying." Jaemin rolled his eyes. Lee Jeno, the boy whom the latter despised since high school. Sometimes Jaemin believed the heavens hated him. Not only was it excruciatingly unbearable to attend the same middle school and high school as him, but now they were attending the same college. However, there was still an upside to this. Jaemin knew that the other would never pick the same major field as him, so what were the odds of seeing him frequently?

"Of course, you would say that," Donghyuck chuckled while placing his hand above the other's shoulder, "you h a t e him."

"Hate is such a strong word, hyuck. Let's go with abhorred."

"Abhorred literally means hate," Donghyuck looked at Jaemin in disbelief. Despite his best friend disliking Jeno, Donghyuck, on the other hand, had no problem with the boy. In fact, they often hung out together with the rest of their friends, which was why he never understood the reason behind Jaemin's hatred towards him.

Jaemin shrugged the other off, taking one last look at the big crowd surrounding Jeno before focusing on the destination both he and Donghyuck were trying to find. "Do you know your roommate yet?" He changed the topic.

"Nope," Donghyuck informed, "kind of hoping it's Mark, though."

"Not even me," Jaemin faked a gasp at the newly found confession.

"Can you blame me? You won't be able to satisfy me if we're both bottoms." 

"First of all, gross," Jaemin looked at his friend in disgust, "second of all, college is not about sex."

"It's about sex, Min," Donghyuck deadpanned.

"Debatable. Plus, I never said I was a bottom." Donghyuck suddenly stopped, eyeing the other up and down before throwing his hand over his mouth and laughing. Jaemin was confused, really confused. He didn't find the need to explain his preference, but he was sure he was the more dominant one in a relationship.

"Na Jaemin, there is no way, even in another universe, you'll top someone."

"Says who?" Jaemin frowned.

"Hun, you're quiet around people you don't know."

"Invalid. It just means I'm an introvert."

"You sit with your legs crossed."

"It's a decent way to sit."

"You have a room full of stuffed animals."

"It's called collecting memories."

"You get flustered by the tiniest act of skin-ship."

"It's my personal space, of course- I'm not talking about this anymore." Jaemin held his hand up in defeat, pulling his phone out and ignoring the loud guffaws coming from his friend behind him. "I'm kidding, Min," Donghyuck playfully nudged the other's side, "none of those things are proven to be 100%. A bottom can be anyone, even someone with the most dominant aura."

"Doesn't matter. My only focus is on achieving my medical degree."

"Boring," the other stuck his tongue out.