Roommates | NCT Doyoung

prologue

"Taeyong, I'm thankful that you're offering to stay but I don't wanna burden the space that you, Johnny, and Yuta have." Jena pleaded her older cousin who's offering her a place to stay near campus, after transferring from UCLA to SNU. The two cousins were sitting at a table in the cafe with their laptops open.

"I mean there's Jaehyun, Jungwoo, and his girlfriend." Taeyong shrugged, giving Jena another option.

"I don't want to stay with someone's girlfriend that I don't know yet." Jena bluntly spoke back, rejecting the option immediately.

"Why are you coming back to Korea to finish your studies? UCLA is a really good school, Jena." Taeyong diverted the topic.

"My dad. He's not giving me the freedom I need at UCLA and also there's a lot of things going on in the house since he remarried. In addition, he's trying to get me into an arranged marriage for business purposes. He's selling me off. Plus UCLA was able to help me transfer my credits to SNU so that I can still graduate on time." Jena explained her situation, picking up her coffee to take a sip and placing it down. 

"What are you studying?" Taeyong curiously asked his cousin as he took a bite out of his bread.

"Mechanical Engineering with a minor in English. I was gonna minor in Korean originally but no point." Jena shrugged as the two cousins were still thinking of ideas for Jena's roommate for SNU. She didn't want to live on campus and wanted somewhere near the university.

"You know you can always go to Mark, Haechan, and Jeno..." Taeyong calmly suggested towards Jena, earning a death glare from her including a small slam on the table, not loud enough for people to hear.

"I don't want to live with my two other cousins and do not talk to me about Jeno." Jena gritted her teeth towards Taeyong angrily as the man's boba eyes widen and held up both of his hands.

"Okay okay..." Taeyong apologized, slightly trembling. "I was saying because they're our family...."

"Mark isn't the problem, it's Haechan and Jeno." Jena explained bitterly towards Taeyong. "Your brother just agrees with everything Jeno says and that's why Haechan and I are on bad terms since we were kids."

"You haven't seen them since you were 15." Taeyong brought up a point to Jena, calmly. "You don't know how they've changed after you moved to America with your father."

"And now I'm a 22 year old woman who came back to Korea because my father wasn't treating me right. Also, he got remarried so there's no point in sticking around." Jena placed her elbow on the table and rested her head on the palm of her hand, sighing.

"Does your mom know you're back in Korea?" Taeyong asked his younger cousin in a concerned tone.

"I'm pretty sure my mom hates me along with Jeno. There's no point trying to find them especially when I have no form of contact with neither of them. I only have contact with you and Mark." Jena let out a huff, blowing the strands of her hair out of her face.

"You never know how things changed Jena..." Taeyong looked at her with his pure eyes, hoping something in her heart would change.

Your mother always loves you Jena.

Jena took a sip of her coffee, placing it down and missing Taeyong's signal. "It doesn't matter to me anyways so it's fine."

Taeyong pinched the bridge of his nose, hoping to get some idea of who his cousin can room with, but also safely since he prefers that it would be someone that he trusts. He was hoping that he would get to his last resort.

"Jena, I'll look for someone for you." Taeyong spoke as Jena's eyes beamed. "If anything, I'll find someone that I can trust."

Jena moved her chair closer to Taeyong and engulfed Taeyong into a hug. "Thanks Taeyong! You're the best!"

-

Doyoung was sitting at a bar with his drinking buddies, Johnny and Yuta, drinking together nights before school started.

"I fucking don't want school to start." Yuta took a shot of whiskey, chugging it down his throat where his throat gained the burning sensation. "Maybe I could hook up with some of the cute girls in university. Who knows?"

"You think I want to go back to school too? Hell nah!" Johnny clanked his shot cup with Doyoung, chugging the alcohol down together as the bartender pour them another shot. "Thank god it's my last year and then I'll be going back to Chicago to pursue a job. Hopefully a very high tech one."

"I fucking have another solid two years to go." Doyoung looked around at the bar to see if there was anyone cute. "Might as well get another body before draining myself in work."

"Suit yourself." Johnny winked at Doyoung who was already eying a girl in a sparking pink dress that was slightly tight, highlighting her body curves. "Don't go too crazy, Doyoung."

"Don't worry Johnny. You know me." Doyoung let out a devilish smirk from his lips, wiping the remaining alcohol from his lips. "She'll be nothing to me the next morning."

Doyoung then approached the girl he was eyeing and mutually she eyed him back.

"You must be a charming young woman." Doyoung took her by the hand and twirling her around. He didn't know if she was from around here, but he knew she was a university student that didn't go SNU. "Care to dance, babe?"

After all, he's careful on who he takes home so that rumors don't spread around him in the university.

"Sure. I would love to. You were definitely checking me out earlier, baby." The girl blushed as she brought herself closer to him, winking. She definitely knows what she is getting into the for the night. "You're very sexy tonight, I hope you know that." The girl spoke and Doyoung gave her a smirk as his adrenaline increase with the alcohol sitting in.

They started dancing on the dance floor, eventually having bodies close to one another as the two chased their highs heavily drunk. He then took her out of the bar, not much longer to wherever they were going.

"How about we have a good fuck at my place for tonight?" Doyoung smirked leaning into the girl's ear and she was instantly fond with the idea. 

"Doyoung got another girl home?" Yuta approached Johnny, half-drunk half-sober who was talking to the bartender and showing his cup to get more drinks.

"Yup, like usual."

-

Jeno and Haechan were sitting in their individual bedrooms in their shared apartments with their headsets on, playing Overwatch.

Mark and Erin was also their roommates in the apartment but they share the master room. They are both currently on a date right now, meaning that Jeno and Haechan were yelling through the apartment.

Jeno and Haechan were okay with it since Erin wasn't all over Mark 24.7 and she willingly cooks for the boys so she was family at this point.

"Hey Jeno!" Haechan was talking to Jeno through the headset, clicking on the mouse to shoot his opponents, scrunching his nose. "Did Erin tell you anything about the new students who are coming to SNU this year?"

"No, why?" Jeno was also doing the same thing as Haechan but groaned as he just died from being headshot by his opponents. "Did Erin tell you that this morning during breakfast? If she did then I wasn't awake at the time."

"Yeah, Erin told me during breakfast before her and Mark went out." Haechan also died because his opponent melee killed him, hearing through the headset that Jeno was revived and clicking his buttons on his PC. "She told me there's someone from America who's finishing her studies at our university."

"Why would she even bother transferring from America? If anything, the universities in America are way much better than here." Jeno gawked at Haechan's statement, making a judgement comment.

"I don't know." Haechan just shrugged it off as their Overwatch game was about to end soon. "Come on Jeno, we need to beat their asses and win."

"You just died." Jeno provoked Haechan, laughing as he was still fighting in the game.

"Shut the fuck up Jeno."

-

hi
im back, not sure if ill actively work on this book but it will be a completed book soon hehehe
i hope this helps with the family context of who's who :)
bai bai