Rain and Outer Space ✔️

40

Jaemin was planning to skip the last two periods and went home, but somehow Jisung and Jeno found him and dragged him to the school auditorium.

It was the day of Doyoung and Renjun's play to be performed in front of the whole school. Jaemin couldn't bare seeing someone he had lost because of his own stupidity glowing underneath the spotlight.

Jaemin forgot that Renjun would be handling everything in the backstage. Still, he would come out at the end of the play, and said his thank yous.

He was seated in between Jisung and Mark. Jaemin couldn't escape even if he wanted to. Mark was way stronger than him, and Jisung was taller. Both of them could tackle him to the ground in two seconds.

It made him pretty uncomfortable too, because both of them had boyfriends and they were latching to each other. Chenle was resting his head on Jisung's shoulder, and Donghyuck was holding onto Mark's arm so tightly while talking about the main character.

Jaemin received a small booklet when he entered, which contained a brief explanation about the play. It was a good one, Jaemin had to admit. It's about a girl who breaks her boundaries and becoming a person she had always wanted to be.

As the play started, people stopped chatting around and they paid attention. The background music from the orchestra club was mind-blowing and it fits every single scene. The main character was perfectly portrayed by a senior from the drama club. Freshmen who just joined the club earlier that year also took part, and they were amazing. Doyoung must had been working hard on this one.

"Oh! Here it goes, here it goes!" Chenle squealed as the play reached its peak.

The main character was standing on stage, carrying a luggage and wearing a coat. She's leaving her hometown behind. There was also a man, whom was the main character's love interest.

"Min Gyeong! Don't leave," the man reached out and held the main character's, Min Gyeong's wrist, "Stay here. We can talk to your parents. They will take you back, there's no way they would kick out their only daughter like that!"

Min Gyeong calmly smiled, "But, Junsu, they have already done that. There is nothing we can do about it."

"But, Min Gyeong..."

"Junsu," Min Gyeong smiled again at Junsu, whom was close to tears. Jaemin mentally applaud the freshman who played Junsu.

"Why do you have to go?" Junsu broke into tears. Min Gyeong pulled out a handkerchief from her pocket and wiped Junsu's tears away.

"It is my destiny to get out of this place. We will meet again someday, Junsu," Min Gyeong pulled him into a hug, "Until then, rather then questioning what nature had arranged for us, you can just enjoy the beauty of it."

"Donghyuck, don't cry, it's just a play," Mark shushed and pulled his boyfriend into his laps, while the boy sobbed into his neck.

Jaemin kind of zoned out at the end of the play, he didn't really care whether both Min Gyeong and Junsu met again later in their life or not. When the play finally ended, the whole auditorium gave a round of big applause, some of them even stood up.

Not long after the curtains fell, Doyoung and Renjun came out of the backstage. They both looked gorgeous with suits, and Jaemin couldn't take his eyes off of Renjun.

"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, my fellow students, teachers, and of course parents of the casts and crews whom I have invited. Allow me to say thank you to all of you who came here, I hope you enjoyed our play," Doyoung greeted as he put a hand on Renjun's shoulder, "It has been a long journey for me, and I was so thankful when Renjun here volunteered to help. I want to thank Huang Renjun for the time and energy he spent while helping me. Also, I'm sorry for what you've been going through, the consequences when you decided to help me..."

Jaemin knew it was about the crack of his and Renjun's friendship. He zoned out again after that, and came back to the reality when he heard Renjun's voice.

"...I would like to thank you all for coming here, I hope you enjoyed our play. I also would like to thank the casts and crews, you all have been working hard with us and I have to say you guys did an amazing job today," Renjun smiled at the crews, "Doyoung-hyung, thank you for letting me help you and it has been a great pleasure for me to work with such a talented writer like you. I know you're going to be someone big one day."

The audience clapped for Renjun, but the guy lifted up the microphone again, signaling that he's not finished yet.

"Doyoung-hyung also mentioned about consequences. So, I would like to say this openly in front of you. I don't want anybody to do the same mistake as I did.

"I would like to say sorry to my group of friends, because I have been abandoning them for the past few weeks. I have been a terrible friend for not catching up with you guys and not having lunch with you as frequent as I used to. I hope you will forgive me."

"YOU STILL OWE ME A SUNDAE, OF COURSE I WANT YOU TO COME BACK!" Chenle yelled loudly from his seat, which startled the rest of the group. Donghyuck even laughed.

"Yes, thank you for reminding me, Chenle," Renjun chuckled, but soon his face turned serious, "I would also like to apologize to this one special person. This person is quiet unique actually. He said that I'm like the outer space and compared to me, he's nothing but a tiny planet called earth."

The crowd went "ooh" while Jaemin gripped on his seat like his life depended on it.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry for ignoring you and for not opening the door when you came to my flat last week. I was just disappointed and shook. You were jealous, I was jealous too. We were being stupid. We know that we only have our eyes on each other. So can we stop whatever we're having right now and go back to what we were? You said you love me, and I would like to say that...

"...I love you too."

As the crowd went wild, and his friends all turned to him with a big grin, Jaemin felt like he was being stirred inside of a big wave in the Pacific ocean.