upstaged || markhyuck

15: kiss.

yukhei's house was absolutely packed with people when donghyuck and his friends arrived.

"yikes," renjun muttered, almost getting elbowed in the face by a very drunk senior.

"come on," said jaemin, grabbing jeno and renjun by the arms and pulling them into the house.

donghyuck glanced around a sniffed. he shoved his hands in the pockets of his jeans, despite his warm dark green hoodie. he saw a car parked down the road with the light on inside, and a girl applying lipstick.

"shit," he whispered when he recognised the driver. he didn't know mark would be at the party. donghyuck scoffed. of course mark lee would have some cute girlfriend.

the peachy-haired boy turned and went inside the house.

***

"mark?" chaeyoung asked quietly.

mark swallowed. he could bring himself to reply.

"hey, mark-"

"i don't like him!" he exclaimed, clenching his fists. he hit the steering wheel. "i don't..." mark buried his head in his hands.

"i'm sorry," chaeyoung uttered. "mark, i didn't mean to upset you."

"i don't want to like him, he's such an asshole," mark whined.

"i could tell by the way you looked at him," chaeyoung said softly.

mark raised his head to look at her. "what do you mean?"

"well, you're always staring at him when he's playing soccer, for one thing," chaeyoung informed him. "plus, my sources tell me you can't take your eyes off him during rehearsals."

mark slowly turned bright red. "who?" he asked.

chaeyoung grinned. "nancy," she admitted. "so... you like him, then."

"it was a mistake."

chaeyoung shrugged. "who knows? maybe he's really a softie."

"i doubt that, somehow," mark grumbled.

"don't write it off completely," she said, putting her lipstick away. she looked at him. "it's okay, you know."

"what is?"

"liking him."

mark sighed, shaking his head.

"let's go to the party, yeah?" chaeyoung chuckled, "before it's all over."

"i can see this thing going on for hours," mark groaned. "don't get too drunk," he added as they got out of the car.

"you can count on me!" she said jokingly.

the two crossed the road and walked up to the house.

"underage drinking, nice," mark drawled as a bunch of juniors stumbled past them.

"don't be such a fucking square, mark!" yeri yelled, appearing in the hallway with a small girl with red hair on her arm.

"this your girlfriend?" chaeyoung demanded, grabbing a red cup off a stranger and taking a sip. "get another one!" she yelled at the guy over the music. "hang on a minute," she uttered as she looked up into the face of none other than the school soccer captain.