My Sleep Paralysis Demon Gave Me an STD [RENJUN • JAEMIN • JENO] ✔️

🫧 23. The One With the Aftermath 🫧

8:34 am
Monday

Jisung fills them in on what happened when they come to school on Monday.

"Lele's parents showed up and everyone scattered." They regaled, looking down the hall at Shotaro and Sungchan, holding hands and walking to the courtyard. "Guess those two are together. Some college guy named Johnny was doing drugs in the guest bathroom. Lele's grounded. Apparently two kids were having sex upstairs on the third level. Rumor has it, it was Mark Lee and some girl. Super obnoxious voice, by the way, I heard her moans from the living room. It was really funny, but I just kind of ran for it after his parents came home."

"Oh, Sungie... I don't think that was a girl..." Jaemin trailed off, before spotting fading hickeys on their neck. He smirks slyly. Before he can say anything, Jisung smacks his arm.

"Don't make a big deal out of it! It's none of your business!"

"You did not! You and Chenle... no!" Jeno gasped. Jisung shook their head.

"No, we didn't. We made out on the sofa for a little while and then... you know, his parents showed up. First thing they saw was me straddling their son, and they were NOT pleased." Jisung shivered, remembering the blur of running off through the back door through crowds of people. The last thing they saw before escaping to the street and down the road was Chenle, pale as a ghost, looking at his parents with swollen lips and glassy eyes.

"Yeah, no. He's in so much trouble. He can't even come to school, he's so embarrassed." Jisung snickered. "He called in sick today to avoid getting clowned or the seniors beating him up for getting him caught."

Renjun giggled a little bit, Jeno nudging him to be nice. Renjun pouted, leaning his head on Jaemin's shoulders and holding Jeno's hand.

"So... this is new." Jisung looked at the trio and Jaemin nodded.

"Yeah. it's a relative short story, but I'm gonna say it's a long story anyways."

Jeno held up Renjun's hand and Jaemin kissed it. Jisung looked bewildered, but nodded anyways.

Clearly, somebody didn't get the memo that this is fanfiction and pacing can be excusably terrible because of it.

There was a hushed whisper making its way down the hallway. A girl from Jeno's English class -Joy? Jaemin thinks that was probably her name- came up to the trio with a crazed grin.

She whispered like a busy-body to everyone in her path, some people's eyes widening in shock and others gasping, taking out their phones immediately.

"Can you believe it?" She asked. Before Jaemin could ask her what she was talking about, she continued, practically vibrating from where she stood. "Mark Lee has herpes!"

Jaemin's brow furrowed. "How the fuck did he get herpes?" Him and Jeno looked at Renjun, but Renjun shrugged, completely as lost as Jeno and Jaemin were.

Joy was nearly buzzing. "I have no clue! But he's been out sick today and he thinks he has herpes! He texted Jaehyun and Wendy heard it from Jaehyun and I heard it from Wendy! He's as virginal as it gets, how did that happen?" She asked (though, if you asked Jaemin, it sounded more like an amused squeal than shock).

She bounded down the hallway, ready to tell the next person. Jisung's face paled as if they remembered something important and they groaned in disgust. "Ew. Oh Satan, no. Ew."

"Someone said it right! Someone gets it!" Renjun cheered, pointing at Jisung with an excited whisper. Jeno kicked him in his frail little shin.

"Everything okay, Ji?" Jeno turned to the underclassman, who started to make dramatic gagging noises.

"Wait... Donghyuck and Mark... did they not..." Renjun started putting the mental pieces together and Jaemin gasped.

"Wait, but how did Donghyuck get herpes then? And why was he gonna blackmail my ass for the same thing he's got?" Jaemin whined. Jisung's mouth pressed into a thin line and Jaemin couldn't tell if they were nervous or amused by the question.

"Wait, Jaem... he was gonna blackmail you?" Jeno asked incredulously. Jaemin patted his back and shook his head.

"Don't worry about it, Jen." Jaemin shrugged. "It's in the past now, karma's getting him."

The bell rang and Jisung started to walk down the hall to their next class, waving goodbye. The hallways started to clear until only Jaemin, Jeno, and Renjun were left. But the three of them had better things to think about than old poetry.

"When I was with him, he was clean. You didn't have sex with Lee Donghyuck, did you?" Jeno asked Jaemin, quirking up an eyebrow.

Jaemin gasped, offended that his boyfriend would even think that. He scoffed and looked from Renjun to the hallway and to Jeno himself.

The hall was nearly empty and silent for a little while longer as Renjun raised a shaky arm and avoided looking towards Jeno and Jaemin, instead opting to visually trace the patterns on the linoleum floor. "I... uh, I might have something to, uh... do with that. Donghyuck may have been my, um..." his voice trailed off weakly into a squeak and Jaemin raised an eyebrow in confusion before gasping lightly.

"Renjun... your last client was..." Jaemin couldn't even get himself to say the damn name, but Renjun knew. He nodded slowly

"Sir Donghyuck... I remember him. I believe that is where I contracted the... this." Renjun looked down at where he and Jeno were holding hands. "I did not want to mention it and cause any trouble."

Jaemin was silent for a moment, before gagging a little.

"Oh my god! You fucked Lee Donghyuck before fucking me?! I have Donghyuck's indirect herpes germs?!" Jaemin shrieked, earning a stare from a freshman girl exiting the nearest bathroom. She gave him the stink eye before sashaying down a different hall.

Renjun frowned. "It is kind of my job. Plus, you fucked me, I did not fuck you. There is a difference." He retorted, Jeno snorting in reply.

"Imagine bottoming for a bottom." Jeno smirked, earning a fiery glare from Renjun.

"Speaking of all this herpes mess, I should go to a doctor." Jaemin looked at the crotch of his own jeans. The disease was becoming a lot more bearable, but he hadn't even gotten real medical help yet. If this was spreading like wildfire in his class, the least he could do was get himself treated. "It's gonna cost a lot, though."

"We have affordable healthcare, Jaem. Unlike some countries." Jeno pointed out, Jaemin nodding. The author of this book sometimes forgets that this is taking place in Korea and that America is the only first world country where a trip to the doctor costs a fortune most people don't have. So yeah, Jaemin can get it checked out.

"Alright. We'll see about it after school, then." Jaemin nodded towards Jeno, nudging Renjun lightly. The demon started doze off on his shoulder, jolting awake as Jaemin pulled him along to his next class.