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five

mark really didn't want to do this.

no, not the sleepover with his boyfriend hyuck and their friends. actually, he was totally up for that.

but what he wasn't up for was donghyuck's desperate attempt to bring his friend, renjun, to be friends with mark's other two friends, jaemin and jeno.

in all these years of knowing hyuck, he had also always known renjun, so he knew how the chinese was and how he would react to people like his two friends.

and when they all sat there, everyone quietly munching on their bapaos, the canadian felt kind of.. guilty? perhaps because he went along with the plans of his boyfriend.

well, maybe not exactly, but it was a feeling that could have been described as guilt.

it wasn't like he ever forced anyone to join this sleepover (donghyuck took that upon himself) or forced anyone to talk with each other, but he saw the way renjun rolled his eyes at the stupid things both jeno and jaemin said.

really, he seemed annoyed.

hyuck must've noticed it too, since his glances always went back to his boyfriend, as if asking him "do you see that too?"

mark did, he did see that too.

but he also saw how renjun laughed at some jokes the other two made.

mark could tell, these three were going to have an interesting friendship.

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by the time late night slowly arrived, things had gotten a whole lot more quiet and relaxing, presumably due to sleepiness, but also due to the weird kind of effect the night time had on humans.

jeno suggested that they watch a movie and they had spent at least half an hour searching for a movie they were all at least slightly interested in.

renjun shoved a mouthful of popcorn into his face opening made for consuming things such as, of course, popcorn, as he closely watched as the two main actors kissing passionately, as another actor watched them with jealousy in their eyes.

"oh my god, guys, why do these random movies always have those random ass making out scenes, that basically come out of absolutely nowhere," hyuck groaned, burying his head on mark's shoulder, who was sitting left from him.

suddenly, the actor who had just seemed to watch the other two, joined the making out session in the movie and the chinese felt the popcorn being stuck in his throat.

"woah, chill-," jaemin carefully hit renjun's back, in an attempt to help him to get the popcorn out of his throat, "don't die just yet, injunnie."

three people making out? at the same time? with each other?

the thought was absurd to the brunette and the reality was even more questionable for him.

how was that even possible? loving two people at the exact same time? what the fuck, who even came up with this plot?

jeno finished his glas of coke before he said his thoughts outloud, "the two main actors are totally hot, holy shit".

after he was done simping over the actors, his glance went over to his best friend, who still had his hand on renjun's back, because of the choking-on-poporn-because-of-a-polyamory-making-out-scene-in-this-random-movie-we're-watching-scene situation.

jaemin seemed like he was in thoughts and when he gave jeno that kind of look, that told him that they needed to discuss something together, he stood up.

"ah, i'll-," the black-haired thought about a good excuse, but his mind didn't really work very efficiently at such an late hour, just as he expected, "i'll just get another glas of coke."

however, the excuse of the other basketball player was also pretty simple, since he just said that he'll go to the toilet real quick, but both their excuses should do.

the bathroom door shut tight and jaemin sat down on the edge of the bathtub, jeno leaned against the door.

"ew, it still smells like mark's deohydrant in here. this dude uses so much, you basically suffocate by just smelli-"

"jeno, shut up, i swear."

"oho?," jeno smirked, "okay, yeah, i'll shut my mouth now. so tell me, what do you wanna discuss? it was so comfortable to lay right next to renjun and you bitchass just destroyed it."

"that's literally the problem. renjun is here. huang renjun, one of the most famous artists in our university and the streamer we've been watching for the past few months. jeno, he doesn't know it's us. hell, he doesn't even know that there are two people behind the pickleboy that joins basically every single stream he makes. if he finds out that it's us, we're basically dead."

"okay, wait, first, i need a second to process everything you just said-," jeno scratched his head.

now, pure silence.

that was, until jeno interrupted it, with the dumbest question jaemin had ever heard.

"why don't we just.. y'know, tell him about it?"

"jeno, you're singlehandely the most stupid dude i've ever met in my entire life, oh my god."