34. Popeye and Olive Oyl

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"Come on, Mark! Skype exists for a reason, you know." Haechan followed his boyfriend who had walked out of the cafeteria after hearing what Sicheng had said about moving back home. "You guys can exchange Skypes, or Kakaos?" He kept trying to lighten the mood, but Mark didn't listen and just kept walking until the two ended up at the school's courtyard.

Mark didn't bother to actually sit down at one of the tables but instead threw himself on a patch of grass. Haechan slowly approached him, doing a roll on the floor before laying at Mark's side. "We're gonna get in trouble for being out here, you know."

"I don't care." He turned to face Donghyuck. "About myself, at least. You should go back inside."

"Nah." The brunette shook his head. "I'm not gonna leave if you're feeling sad."

He pursed his lips. "It's not a big deal, Haechan. I'm just sensitive and probably overthinking this entire thing and I'll probably end up giving him my Skype like you said and everything will be fin-"

"Why do you always put yourself down?"

Mark's eyes widened. "What?"

Thr younger boy turned so that he was laying on his side. "You always seem to blame yourself, and you're too nice to people." He spoke the truth, which made Mark turn away and look at the somewhat cloudy sky. Haechan bit the inside of his cheek before speaking again. "You gotta toughen up, bro."

A soft chuckle left Mark. "'Bro'?"

"Yeah, bro. It's not good to be nice to everyone, because then you get soft. And what happens when you get soft?"

"Social anxiet-"

"It gets harder to face things and let things go." Haechan cut Mark off before he could say anything more. "It's also impossible to be positive and nice all the time. That's how you got into this mess in the first place...but at the same time if you weren't like that we probably wouldn't be together right now."

Mark was speechless. The only thing he could sputter was,"How many hours a week do you spend with Johnny?"

A cute giggle left Haechan's lips. "A lot. He's a close friend." He smiled, then sat up. Mark watched as the boy brushed off his back, then lightly punched Mark's arm.

"My role in this relationship is to toughen you up." He smirked, but Mark went half lidded.

"You cried when you stepped on a spider the other day."

"I never said that I was the toughest."

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this chapter was short, but thats bc the next chapter is probably going to be the last one and i want it to be longer than usual?? also bc i wanted to announce that this book has 24k reads hA you get it like the group 24k ???? no okay

also haVE YALL SEEN EXOS TEASERS IM SHAKING IN MY BOOTS ???? do you guys stan exo ??? whos your bias ?? i honestly bias everyone but yixing, chen, and chanyeol have a special place in my heart :")

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