swapped | markson

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"Jackson, you need to get ready now. Wear your hat."

Mark, startled at the manager's sudden appearance, bowed, greeting him and leaving formalities by accident.

The manager looked at him weirdly, "What are you doing? You've never used formalities with me."

"Ah, r-right." Mark bit his lip nervously. He stood there awkwardly until Jackson's manager reminded him to get ready.

He scurried to 'his' room to slip on some clothes.

Jackson Focus
Jackson arrived to school with an evident frown on his face. Of course, he didn't want to be there.

His eyes snapped to one girl whispering to another and staring at him.
"What a nerd!"
"Yeah, he's so scrawny!"

Quiet murmurs surrounded him as he walked through the main hall. Jackson gritted his teeth together and snapped at one boy, "What are you looking at!?"

The idol knew where he had to go to get to his locker. After all, the information was all on the sheet with his classes, but a tall, figure, almost a skyscraper in comparison to Mark's small being stopped him.

Jackson opened his mouth to tell the kid to move, but Mark's words echoed through his head.

Don't talk to anyone.

So, Jackson waited for the boy to speak, and he did just a few moments later, "Aren't you going to get out of my way?!"

"Daniel, we have to get to class," one of his 'sidekicks' told him.

"Shut up, Seongwoo." Daniel, Jackson assumed, elbowed the boy in the guts, and the person, Seongwoo, bent over in pain.

Daniel looked back at Jackson, and Jackson's fists trembled, wanting so bad to just punch the man across the face.

"You're not gonna move?" Daniel pushed Jackson to the floor with a kick to his shoulder and dug his heel into Jackson's stomach. He let out a pained groan, as the bruise Mark had gotten in the past throbbed. "I thought giving you that bruise would be enough of a warning. Mark," he pulled Jackson to eye-level, "don't mess with me."

Ugh, Jackson mentally rolled his eyes, why was Mark's body so weak?