Nct Dream || MOON

ch.7

Na Jaemin found Lee Mark in the garden.

The eldest boy in the Home had recently taken up the hobby of tending to the newly grown vegetables and flower plants one of the houseworker had planted earlier that year.

Despite his occasional clumsiness and the very little knowledge he had of them in the beginning, the effort he had put into getting better alongside his determination to harvest at least one of them has actually shown some improvement.

Today, one of the cabbages had sprouted a small head.

He was just talking to them about the weather when Jaemin came and practically grabbed him by the shoulders.

"Dude!" Mark yelped out, the watering can he held dropping to the ground as he gripped back Jaemin just so he wouldn't toppled backwards and murdered his green friends.

"You almost made me ruin my garden!"

"Forget your,garden!" Jaemin said,grinning. "Haechan has a secret to spill and he wants all of us there!"

Mark pulled a face at that. "And you believe him? Really?"

Mark then pushed Jaemin back lightly before he bent down to take the watering can and looked over his small garden with worried eyes.

"Sorry about that guys. I'm glad none of you got hurt though."

"You're actually talking to them?" Jaemin asked, a weirded out expression screwing up his pretty face.

The older boy furrowed his brows.

"Shut up, it works okay? Look there,buddy's growing a head!"

Mark pointed at the young cabbage.
Jaemin looked at it and his eye widened.

"Oh my god." Jaemin crouched down so he could look at it closer and he really couldn't believe his eyes then. Mark was so bad at this and yet he was actually growing things now. For a brief moment, he actually forgot why he was even there in the first place.

Mark snifled before a proud grin curled on his lips and he gave Jaemin a boyish nudge on the shoulder.

"I told you,dude."

"You did. Oh,wow,hey there little guy. How you doing?"

"He looks great,right? You gotta come see the daffodils growing too,dude. They're so pretty, I swear!"

"Daffodils? When did you plant those?"

"Well, I didn't actually, they're wild flowers that kinda started showing up once I started so I kinda sort of just went along with tending to them too,y'know?"

Jaemin softened at that. Mark always had a soft spot for things like that; unusual and sudden.

"I thought they were weeds at first and I was so ready to yank em' out but then I found this book about plants and stuff in the library and long story short I know how to differentiate weeds and daffodils now."

Jaemin chuckled as he stood to his full height again and shoved Mark playfully once he did,earning another exasperated "dude!" before his mind reeled back into focus and he grabbed Mark by the arm suddenly.

"Dude,stop grabbing me like that!"

"Haechan has something to tell us!"

"What? That he's the best out of all of us?"

"He said he'll tell us when we all get there!" Jaemin began to pull his arm,Mark pulled it back.

"Dude,I'm not leaving my garden just so Donghyuck can clown us again! Remember the last time he said he had something to tell and turns out he just wanted to make fun of Jisung having voice cracks because of puberty!"