Ride (A Mark Fanfic)

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Ever since that day or night however I want to say it, it's been really awkward well for me. I just spoke from my gut and a bit from my heart to the person I finally realized that I liked. I've started to act a bit unusual for this type of morning, probably because I'm going to face the person I confessed to in person once again. I'm a living wreck now and I'm somewhat fine with it in certain cases. My mom offered to take me to school today which I was totally thankful for. But that still wouldn't keep me from not seeing Mark. I have my first class with him today, but there's a party so he might hang out with the girl he got for secret santa. I heaved a sigh of relief catching my mothers attention. "What are you worried about y/n?" She averts her eyes to me and swiftly back to the road. "I am no longer worried about absolutely embarrassing myself any further than I've already done." I smiled in excitement. "I know exactly what this is about, alright just have a good day at school, ask Mark to drop you off at home. I don't want you to walk home by yourself." She easily imparted the last part knowing I'd shirk. After getting out o f the car holding my backpack and Yeonmi's gift I went straight to class. Thank goodness Mark wasn't there yet but as I sat Yeonmi's present down our teacher smiled pretty widely at me. What the heck is going on? Is it because she's surprised that I actually went to the shop or something that has to do with my grade improving. I didn't bother to ask and kept my questions to myself, lesson well learned. I remained as quiet as possible in my seat and held my head down low and avoided anyone that entered the door. The chair besides mine became occupied and I knew it at least had to be Mark because I'm sitting on the end and he's the only person that's been sitting next to me lately. "Looks like someone didn't get enough sleep." His voice shocked me but it still didn't get me to look up at him. "I did, I'm just hungry." I wanted to look at him so bad but I reminded myself numerous times of how I could end up embarrassing myself. I heard the raffling of plastic slide closer to me causing me to look up onto my desk. It was chips my favorite kind to be exact. "Thank you, Mark." I took the bag of chips and had enough courage to look him in his eyes. He looked different, he still had his uniform on which is nothing new but he actually did his hair. Usually it's all flopping everywhere because he recently washed it but today his hair was actually pushed back revealing his forehead. He never fails to make me fall even harder with even just the smallest things.

"Okay class, since everyone is in the classroom now how about we start the holiday party?" Our teacher announced and started to set a table full of cookies, drinks and other types of foods. We were told to line up to get our snacks and as I did so I noticed a lot of gifts behind her desk some small and some were big, but one specifically caught my eye. It was a medium sized bag with sparkle streams to cover what was inside. I tried to read the card but my eyes wouldn't focus leaving me in despair. I walked to my seat after piling my plate full of snacks and waited for Mark. He barely had anything on his plate which I'm guessing he already ate before arriving at school. "You're for sure going to get high blood pressure." He laughed pointing at my plate. "No I'm not, I'm just going to be hyper for about a week." I laughed failing to realize that I was back to my normal self and wasn't so nervous around him anymore. "Oh Mark, my mom asked if you could drop me off at home, she doesn't want me to walk home alone." I asked already knowing he'd agree since him and my mom are probably best friends at this point. "I wouldn't want you to walk alone neither but I'll take you home, now can you please start stuffing your mouth before it'll be your stomach that ends up talking to me?" He smirked acknowledging his own joke. I won't lie it is funny and it made me laugh pretty hard then I ate my food. My legs started to kick eagerly at the sweetness of the sugar cookies. It's a little habit of mine to dance or kick when I'm eating that Mark has just found out. "It must be that good." He grinned then continued to eat his snacks. The teacher began to play Christmas songs to get us all in the Christmas mood. "Okay class, I'll hand out name stands for your desk so it'll be easy to find your secret santa!" She explained while handing them out. I thought it'd be smart to decorate mines like a mistletoe and put little ornaments in the corners of the stand. I glanced at Mark's and seen today's date on it with a heart besides it. "Whats the date and heart for?" I asked completely forgetting that I told myself to stop all these questions. "It's going to be a special date that I'm going to remember." He informed and set his name stand in front of his desk. "What did you put you on yours?" He leaned over to examine my overly decorated name stand. "Awe it's cute." He complimented. If only he'd call me cute again that'll be the best Christmas gift. "What was that y/n?" He asked frowning. " Oh it was nothing, I think it was my stomach that was talking." I eased the tension that started to ease up with a joke.

I really can't believe I said that out loud, thank goodness he didn't hear it because I would have a heart attack. "It's time for Secret Santa! Okay I'll go first! I got Jeyeon." She smiled and handed gifts. I pretty much zoned out until Mark's name was called. "Okay I got Mark!" a girl headed towards Mark's desk from the front of the class. It's funny because that was the bag that caught my eye, and it was for Mark. He smiled widely at her and I even caught him blushing. He took the gift and sat it besides his chair then got up to go to the front of the class. "Okay I got, drum roll please... y/n!" He yelled and smiled like an idiot. Or maybe that was me smiling like an idiot. He walked to my desk confident as ever and handed me the bag. It was on of the biggest gifts out of all of them. I was shocked because one Mark had me all along, and two it's a big gift when I only asked for strawberry milk and Christmas lights. I hugged him with all my strength then set the bag by my chair as well. I headed to the front and grabbed Yeonmi's gift. "I got Yeonmi!" I headed over to her desk and she looked so happy because she got exactly what she wanted. "Thank you so much y/n. I'll love you forever now!" She jolted from her seat and hugged me. It's cute to see her smiling so big. I went to my desk and watched as the rest of the class got their gifts. We eventually finished and we still had a bit time left until we were excused to go home. "Open your gift and I'll open mine." I smiled pointing at his gift. He pulled his bag onto his lap and removed the sparkly streams and gasped. "Wow." He pulled out several snacks that I'll most likely eat soon, and then the blue shirt he wanted, well shirts. He looked like a jubliant puppy. He placed all the things back into his bag and right after he did the bell rung for dismissal. "Just open your gift in my car." He reassured and I skipped to his car excited about what I got. This time when I looked back to check his reaction he smiled and shook his head. We made it his car and he played with the clicker unlocking it and locking it nonstop. "Ahh Mark unlock the door." I stomped holding the door handle. "Okay." He did and managed to open the door for me. I sat and placed the bag in my lap. "y/n before you open the bag, I just want you to know I really enjoyed being your friend." He started which confused me, I didn't know if he was implying that he wasn't going to be my friend anymore or something erroneous. 

"What do you mean?" I asked as he steady smiled. "Just open your gift." He leaned back in his seat and waited until I opened the gift. I removed the paper at the top and seen a case of strawberry milk , Christmas lights of all colors, various kinds of jellies and chips, movies with popcorn bags attached to them, then a card. I pulled the card out and seen a big paragraph in it. "Awe you wrote me something?" I stared at him in awe. "Read it out loud." he told me. "Dear y/n, I'm glad that I got you for secret Santa one because I'd be mad if I didn't get you and two I'd be able to tell you something throughout this gift. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for getting me out of depression and showing me I can love someone again. I'm grateful to have met a girl like you and I want to take that chance to ask you this..." I glanced up at him as he held a ring in his hand and said "Will you be my girlfriend y/n?" he asked. I couldn't believe my eyes nor my ears. "Are you serious? Is this what the date on your name stand was for?" I asked leaving my mouth open. He nodded giggling slightly anticipating my answer. "Yes!" I allowed him to put the ring on my finger then hugged him. I pulled back and hit him on the shoulder for keeping all of this from me and shocking me all at once. "Ouch" He pretended to wince in pain. "Does my baby want me to kiss it?" I teased and he nods. I pulled my finger towards my lips but it was snatched and something rather soft and plump touched my lips instead. My eyes widened seeing Mark was kissing me. How slick little player. He pulled back and smirked looking at my lips then my eyes. "I'll get you back for this." I glared and he smiled like he accomplished the hardest mission of his life. He reached over and buckled my seat belt and did his as well. He started to drive and I just stared at my ring. He drove straight to my house and held both of our things and carried it into my house. "Aren't you going to go home?" I asked taking off my blazer. "Nope, not yet. We are going on our first date." he pulled all the snacks from his bag and mines then the movies. He handed me one of his blue shirts and held one for himself. "Go get changed into something comfortable and I'll set everything up." He demanded as I salute to him from the hallway. "Aye aye captain." I laughed before running onto my bed and jumped on it relieving my excitement. Before he could question what I was I quickly changed into his shirt and black with my slippers. I came out to him wearing a similar blue shirt and black pajama pants while setting the living room table with the tv showing The grinch. "Markie!" I yelled jogging towards him. he glanced at my pajamas and hugged me. 

We sat and watched the movie until I grew sleepy and fell asleep in his arms. The last thing I felt was Mark squeezing me tighter and then kissing my temple.