𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘮𝘦 | 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘩𝘺𝘶𝘤𝘬

Chapter 5

Donghyuck just froze in his spot, he's been silent for about 2 minutes now.

"So do you really think I'm cute?" Mark asked again.

"I thought you were Jaemin that's all."

Mark furrows his eyebrows.

"Huh?"

"It was honestly supposed to be a prank call to Jaemin." Donghyuck said cheeks burning.

"But why would you say cutie? Isn't he taken? Wouldn't his boyfriend get mad?"

"Well, Chenle dared me so I did it just for fun."

"Wait, how did you think I was Jaemin?"

"Because Chenle told me he was gonna call Jaemin and made me close my eyes, so I didn't know that he was gonna call you."

"Oh um okay." Mark said sounding slightly disappointed.

Donghyuck just felt curious to why Mark sounded that way but he brushed it off thinking it wasn't so important.

"So shall we get started?"

Mark nods.

After what felt like forever they have gotten past the instructions and moved on to their second problem.

Donghyuck was struggling, it's no doubt that Mark was distracting him with how cute and determined he looked to solve the first problem.

Now it was Donghyuck's turn to solve something, it was in total of 4 questions and they were taking turns. 2 problems for Mark to solve and two for Donghyuck to solve.

He sat there just tapping his pencil against the problem pretending to think.

"Do you need help Donghyuck?"

"Y-yes."

Mark scooted closer to Donghyuck and grabbed his pencil from his hand. He leaned in and started erasing Donghyuck's mini error.

"So I'm going to write down the formula and break it down from there, okay?"

"O-okay."

Mark wrote down the formula and started explaining it to Donghyuck.

Donghyuck's face heated as Mark was extremely close to him.

"So now you try it Donghyuck."

Donghyuck picks up his pencil and just stares at the paper, he was still very confused. In all honesty he wasn't really paying any mind to what Mark explained. The only thing that he paid attention to was how close Mark had gotten to him.

"Donghyuck?"

Donghyuck was just starring at the paper and dozed off, he was just focused on thinking about Mark that he didn't hear him call his name.

"Why aren't you doing it?"

Mark gently touched Donghyuck on his arm making him turn around to look at him.

"You were dozing off there." Mark says rubbing his nape.

"Sorry it's just um-"

"BOOMBAYAH!" Donghyuck's phone rings making his cheeks burn and turn a dark shade of red.

He was embarrassed.

Mark just stared.

"Aish Chenle is so annoying, I'm sorry can I take this?"

"Um yeah sure."

"What do you want Chenle? I'm working on my project."

"Wait so Mark is over there?" Chenle basically yelled.

"Um yes, so what is it that you called for?"

"OH MY GOSHHH IS HE LIKE SITTING NEXT TO YOU?"

"Chenle oh my gosh I have to go."

"No don't go I really need some Markhyuck in my life."

Mark smiles at the things Chenle were saying, but it went unnoticed by Donghyuck.

"This is nonsense bye now." Donghyuck says hanging up the phone.

His cheeks turn red for the 80th time and he looks down at his lap like it's the most interesting thing he'd had ever seen before.

"Donghyuck-ah? You okay?"

"U-um y-yes."

"Well you're not solving the problem, maybe I can help you again?"

Donghyuck nods.

He reached out to grab Donghyuck's pencil and it rolled right off of the table and on to the carpeted floor.

Mark chuckles out of embarrassment and leans in to go pick it up and so does Donghyuck.

Their faces become instantly close, both of them looking into eachother's eyes not knowing what to do next. It's pretty obvious on what they should do but they don't know who is gonna make the first move. Their faces becoming red and both of their hearts pounding. It was like in that moment time had stopped and it was just Mark and Donghyuck in the world in that moment or as Chenle would like to call it 'Markhyuck'.

Donghyuck realizing what was happening snaps out of the trance and goes to pick up the pencil.

"Y-yeah um I will ugh just get the pencil."

Mark nods moving away and Donghyuck picks up the pencil handing it to Mark. Their fingers brush against eachother and it's like they both could feel the spark. Their hearts were racing. But both of them played it cool like nothing happened.

Mark started helping Donghyuck again and this time he actually caught on.

As he was solving it he didn't realize Mark starring at him and adoring everything about him.

If only he knew that Mark felt the same, if only he knew Mark wanted something to happen in that moment when they both reached in for the pencil but nothing happened and they were pretty bummed out about it.