𝗪𝗛𝗢. ❥ nomin.

16 ; who got asked out?

Jaemin sipped on his drink, linking arms with Jeno. "This is nice."

"Yeah." They were about to tuck themselves into the corner of the coffee shop, away from all of the people around them. The coffee shop was already quite empty, and going into the corner where they'd go unnoticed was basically like sitting in an empty room together.

It was nice, Jaemin decided. Emptier areas had always been in his favour, and it seemed as though Jeno also enjoyed having the space to himself.

The couple settled into the booth, talking aimlessly while also keeping a comfortable silence.

"Excuse me?"

Jeno and Jaemin both turn their heads towards the voice, which belongs to a girl who Jaemin could recognize from Bio, which was a class he had with Jeno. She had her eyes on Jeno, clearly nervous as she spoke to him.

Jaemin shouldn't have been surprised. For one, Jeno was still Instagram famous (with 31k now!) and lots of people from their school followed him. Jaemin always saw them in his comment section simping over him. The other thing was that Jeno was still presumed single, especially because he'd have to do the whole coming out thing. He also knew that Jaemin never liked having attention drawn to himself.

"Hi," Jeno said, lightly smiling.

"Hi," the girl exhaled. Jaemin couldn't remember her name for the life of him. "I was just wondering if, um, we could go on a date sometime?"

Jeno froze. It wasn't obvious, but Jaemin could tell. They obviously hadn't been viewed as being on a date because they were always together anyways. To the girl (Yeolie? Yaena? Jaemin really needed to work on names), they just looked like friends that were out.

Jeno scratched at the back of his neck, his mind in overdrive trying to think of something to say. The girl's confidence visbility diminished with every passing second.

"I should go, shouldn't I?" She turned to leave.

"No, Yoonah, I..." Jeno interrupted. "It's not that. It's not that I'm not interested- no, that came out wrong. Um-"

"He's in a relationship," Jaemin said simply, figuring Jeno would never find the words himself at the rate they were going at. "He's dating someone."

Jeno didn't look tense anymore. "Yeah. That."

"Oh." The girl didn't even cast Jaemin a spare glance. "Sorry, then. I wish you and your girlfriend the best."

As she walked away, Jeno sighed. "Girlfriend feels weird."

"Well, you don't have one." Jaemin toyed with Jeno's nape, adoring how long the hair there was starting to get. If Jeno had a mullet, he'd simply just pass away. "Neither do I."

"I guess nobody actually knows that we're dating yet, right?"

"Right." Jaemin rested his head against Jeno's shoulder. "Do you... want to go public?"

Jeno slowly started running his fingers through Jaemin's head. "I'm fine with whatever you want. I know it's going to be a big thing."

"Yeah."

"I know you still have yet to tell 127 and WayV and all, but..." Jeno took a sip of his drink, clearly nervous for whatever he was about to say, "do you want me to post you?"

Jaemin paused, thinking about it for a moment. Jeno could always just say he was taken and Jaemin could have his little reveal post without anything happening. But there was a part of him, a tiny part, that wanted everyone to know that Jeno was his and he was Jeno's.

"Yeah," he settled on, exhaling the word out along with all of his thoughts. "One day."