Markjae Wonderland

Love Is Blind

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"You need a boyfriend."

"I'm sorry, what?"

Mark looked up from his homework and stared with a raised brow at Jackson, who was in the middle of getting ready for a date with Jinyoung.

"I said that you need someone in your life, who will cure you of your loneliness. I mean, look at you," Jackson gestured to the scattered papers in front of Mark, "You're actually doing homework. On a Saturday. Instead of going out and having fun like a normal college student."

Before he could protest, Jackson cut in again. "Homework that's due next month, because you already finished the homework that's due next week."

At this, Mark went quiet and turned his head away from Jackson. He didn't have anything to fire back, because in all honesty, it was true. Mark was lonely, and it was sort of 100 percent his own fault.

Sure, Mark was a handsome motherfucker, and sure, he had good grades and an amazing personality, but all of that doesn't seem to take away from the fact that Mark was also too shy to ask anyone out. That and the people that ask him out are people that he isn't all that interested in.

"Look, I know how much of a shy hermit you are, so your awesome best friend, aka me, has taken it upon himself to set you up on a blind date."

Mark whipped his head around, his eyes wide and his face contorted into one of disbelief.

"You know how much I hate blind dates. Why would you set me up on one?"

"Because you need help with getting a date."

Mark sighed deeply. "But why does it have to be a blind date?"

There was no particular reason as to why Mark absolutely hated blind dates, other than the fact that it was just an hour or so of plain awkwardness. He never knows what to talk about with someone he's never met before, nor does he have the extroverted social powers of keeping a conversation going.

For instance, what can he talk about that won't bore the person to death? What can he joke about, without accidentally offending them? What if the person isn't his type, and he's stuck with them for a couple of dreadful hours? What if the person was a fucking psycho?

See, these are the things that Mark is afraid of and rightfully so, considering blind dates have a 50-50 chance of being successful. Poor Mark always had the displeasure of his dates going south.

"The date is in an hour at the campus cafe, and it's a casual coffee date, so dress... casual."

"Wait, what? It's in an hour? I didn't even agree to this!"

Jackson kept his head down as he typed something on his phone, most likely texting Jinyoung. "Too late. We already set everything up. The deed is done. You're going on that date."

Mark gave Jackson yet another 'what the actual fuck' face, and he swears he almost lunged at him.

"Mark, I know about your extreme dislike of blind dates, and I only did it because I care about you. So please, just give this one a chance. I have a feeling that this one is the one."

"No," he deadpanned.

"I knew getting sappy wouldn't convince you," Jackson said, his disappointment shown in the long sigh he released.

"You're clearly bent on not going, so let's put it this way. If you don't go, you'll be standing up a poor, innocent person, who'll be left waiting and waiting, only to find out hours later that they were just stood up by a complete stranger. They'll feel terrible and start to question their life and possibly have an existential midlife crisis and--"