been you | mt+ijb ✓

14

When they tell their friends over dinner that they're together, no one is surprised. Jinyoung and Jackson simultaneously say, "We know," and laugh, and Mark instantly relaxes.

"You did?" Jaebum asks.

Jackson grins. "You wouldn't have been able to keep your dick in your pants, if you waited any longer to confess. I think even a blind person would have been able to tell."

"Yeah," Jinyoung agrees. "Who told who first?"

"I told him," Mark says, "but, uh, he kind of made m – "

He doesn't get to finish, because Jinyoung is already on his feet, sticking out a hand and yelling "I told you!" at Jackson, who grudgingly pulls a generous amount out of cash out of his wallet.

"You bet on our relationship?" Jaebum asks incredulously. "Seriously?"

"We bet on who would confess first," Jinyoung corrects him, sitting back down with a smirk on his face.

Jaebum wrinkles his nose. "And you bet that Mark would? Do I not look like the man of the relationship to you?"

Mark splutters indignantly. "I'm a man too!"

"That's what I said!" Jackson exclaims, ignoring Mark. "Mark's dick was in his pants the whole time! He didn't tell you he liked you for years!"

"Years?" Jaebum repeats, looking at Mark. Bambam and Youngjae are cackling.

Mark flushes. "I, um, started liking you in high school. I don't remember what year it was, but I – "

"High school?" Jaebum borderline squeaks. "That long?"

"Shut the fuck up, you've loved him since you were ten," Jinyoung says. "You were just really blind, you loser."

Jaebum narrows his eyes, trying to hide the blush he knows must be on his cheeks. "I am your hyung, you piece of shit."

"At least I'm not a loser, hyung."

The rest of them react similarly; Bambam jokes that they can really be the parents of the group now. Even Youngjae, whose reaction Jaebum has been fearing, grins and says he's seen it coming ever since Jaebum's rejection nearly two years ago.

Only Yugyeom is quiet, and Mark looks nervous. Jaebum's heart twists.

"Do you have a problem with us being together?" Jaebum asks, intertwining his fingers with Mark's under the table when the elder looks down at the table and seems to glue his gaze to it. "Yugyeom – "

"Of course I don't," Yugyeom scoffs, breaking into a wide grin. "I'm just surprised."

Bambam snorts. "Really?"

"Not that they're together," Yugyeom clarifies. "They act like an old married couple. I'm just surprised that they only just got together – I thought they'd already been dating for the past, like, two years."

Mark's blush makes Jaebum melt, and as he slings an arm over his boyfriend's shoulders, he can't believe he hasn't realized that it was Mark all along.

fin.