upstaged || markhyuck

28: silly.

noren special chapter(?)

"jaemin, this is getting silly now," jeno said, his voice unusually serious.

jaemin scoffed but made no reply as they sat at their usual lunch table. donghyuck was nowhere to be seen in the cafeteria, but renjun spotted mark with sanha, xiyeon and the others.

"this is beyond silly," renjun huffed. "this is close to bullying, jaemin."

"don't be stupid."

"no, actually it is bullying," renjun said, shaking his head. "writing over donghyuck's face on those posters? why?"

"got the message across," jaemin grunted, pushing his rice around his tray.

"that he's a traitor, untalented and ugly," renjun muttered. "a... fag," he added, reluctant to say the word.

jaemin shrugged as if to say, yeah?

jeno and renjun exchanged a frown.

"you wrote 'gay' in big red letters across his face, jaemin," the chinese boy stated. "what kind of message is that?"

"what?" jaemin said defensively, "can i not say that? not write it?"

renjun opened his mouth but was speechless.

"you think he's gay?" jeno questioned.

"he probably is," jaemin reasoned.

"because he does theatre," renjun said, pretending it was obvious.

"no, because i saw him kissing a guy!"

jeno and renjun stared at each other for a second.

"what?" renjun spluttered.

"at the party, i saw him," jaemin said, crossing his arms. "making out with mark lee."

the other two followed his gaze to where mark was sitting.

jeno and renjun looked back to jaemin.

"what do you mean?" jeno asked slowly.

"please, have i got to explain everything in baby words?" jaemin scoffed. "they were kissing, mark on donghyuck's lap, looking really into it."

"and what were you doing at that time?" renjun asked mildly, though his fists were clenched under the table.

"making out with nancy," jaemin answered immediately.

"i'm sorry, what?" jeno said, eyes wide as saucers. "you say i'm slow but it's impossible to keep up with you."

"did i hear my name?"

"holy fuck!"

"shit!"

"mother of unicorns!" (that was jeno.)

the three were startled to see the girl in question standing by their table, flipping her long hair to one side.

"oh, uh, jaemin was just asking... how you were doing in the musical," renjun stammered. "and i said you were looking- sounding! great."

"oh, thanks, jae," she said, smiling. "although," she added with a wink, "you could've just asked me." she turned and walked off to where xiyeon was sitting.

jaemin sunk down in his seat, ears bright red and hands over his face.

"you like her," jeno stated.

"since when?" renjun demanded. he shook his head. "anyway, stop this shit with donghyuck, please. we were all friends just a few weeks-"

"that was before he left the team and left us to lose in the finals," jaemin growled, sitting back up in his seat and banging a fist on the table.