Hey Kitty! | •jaeno•

Four

 Renjun was waiting for his friend on the stairs that lead to jeno's apartment, both to ask for forgiveness once more and see nana at the same time even though he was now kind of worried.

Jeno and jaemin arrived an hour and a half after the latter, since they had to do the shopping twice and jaemin was amused by everything that he came across inside that mall, it was his first time shopping in human form, even as a cat he had never gone inside one.

But once the three boys saw each other, everyone was speechless, jeno and jaemin didn't expect to see renjun, the same happened to said guy with jaemin, this boy was a new face to the latter and he expected jeno to be more of a loner, a new side of jeno had started to come out, or that was what renjun thought.

"hey jeno, who's your friend?" renjun started, jeno needed a moment to then answer.

"o-oh, hey, um... this is jaemin, my n-new neighbor... jaemin this is renjun, my childhood friend" he muttered while evading renjun's eyes, he was nervous to see him after a long time, or that's how it felt all because now they didn't talk that much, also he was lying to renjun, and that felt wrong yet it needed to be done, for now at least.

"hello!" said renjun with a warm smile, and jaemin smiled just as big, seeing his owner once again.

"hi, nice to meet you, I hope we can be friends" answered jaemin.

"Sure thing, will you stay long? we can all enter jeno's apartment and eat dinner together, I brought some food" renjun then grabbed a bag with some groceries after he finished talking, at what jeno responded with a concerned look.

Something was a bit out of place, renjun had a copy of the keys to his home, so why wasn't he waiting inside? jeno decided no to think about it too much, it was probably nothing.

"yes, I can stay a bit, I'm also hungry, it's been a long day after all" jeno mentally face palmed, how could jaemin forget about the whole cat situation.

"actually jaemin has to go home soon, hi-his parents told me to take him early since he has.... um.... classes tomorrow" jeno quickly blurted out, trying to push jaemin to the back of the building after drooping the two shopping bags on the floor, but something seemed odd to renjun about his friend's answer, aside from other things.

"didn't you say he was your neighbor? why are you pushing him that way instead of upstairs? tomorrow is Sunday, there's no school, and plus you two live next to each other, just a dinner wont hurt jaemin, right?" renjun lifted one brow and crossed his arms, not buying the whole classes thing, something was up.

"yeah, I don't even know why you are acting like this, just let me eat dinner with you two" it was jaemin's time to speak, making a pout.

why did he even try to lie, renjun is his best friend since he can remember, and he always discovers jeno's lies, like they are see through to renjun "oh my god, renjun, help me get this bags to the kitchen please, I need to have a word with jaemin" jeno added.

"ok sure, whatever you say captain, but before you go, one last thing, can you tell me where is nana? I didn't see him when I entered your house searching for you" renjun spoke, approaching the tired jeno, now that was the thing that wasn't adding up before, how did renjun had so much power over him? he was defenseless against his friend, nothing he said was working.