lockers + mark lee

three

a daily ritual

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"you actually found someone that wanted your locker?" luna asked shocked.

camila nodded,

"told you so."

she opened her locker to put her maths textbook in, already finding many books with a divider straight through the middle.

mark's side
camila's side

"mark? as in mark lee?" luna asked even more shocked.

"yeah. you know him?" camila asked as she closed the locker.

"uh. only one of the most popular guys at our school and expect me not to know him?" luna claimed.

mark lee and his group were quite the talk of the school.

which led him to be more surprised when camila didn't recognise him.

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on the other side of school, such a similar conversation arose.

"wait. you actually got yourself a locker? with like a few months of school before you graduate? ladies and gentlemen, we have a true intellectual!" renjun announced.

"my back hurts alright? it's better than nothing."

"grandpa mark!" chenle squealed laughing in fits.

"chenle. shut up," donghyuck muttered cutting him off.

it was unlike of donghyuck to be so cold especially to his group of friends

"you okay?" jeno asked, face full of concern.

"camila kim. my ex, really? out of all the people to had to be her didn't it."

"why hyuck. it's not even like you're going to talk to her," mark responded not knowing what the other felt.

"yeah. it's not like i would ever be affected knowing that my best friend is having coffee with my ex girlfriend everyday. it doesn't hurt at all. doesn't fucking hurt." donghyuck trailed off as his voice got softer at the end.

he stood up only to bump with the person he didn't want to see.

"oh sorry about that hyuck!"

he hated camila for being nice to him after the breakup. he hated how she pretended that one year hadn't ever happened. he hated the way how she said 'hyuck'.

he hated how he was still so in love with her after the break up.

"hyuck, break ups mean that you also move on from that person which clearly you haven't," mark had declared looking at the back of donghyuck's back.

he was slightly frustrated at the fact that he wasn't allowed to hang out with camila just because she was donghyuck's ex.

donghyuck shook his head, fists clenched with the tips of his knuckles white, he walked out of school.

"but friends don't try to make it harder to move on," he mumbled under his breath.

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"camila! chai latte and a macaron today?" mark asked with excitement racing in his eyes.

she beamed a smile at him and nodded.

"let's walk together then," mark said clasping his hands with camila.

the feeling was odd to her. the only person she had recently done any physical contact was with hyuck.

with hyuck, she felt safe and secure.
warm butterflies.

yet with mark, she couldn't describe it.

she just pushed the thought of getting back together with donghyuck to the back of her mind.

"what is wrong with me?" she cursed under her breath unconsciously tightening her grip around mark's hand.

"are you okay?"

she let out a laugh that was ever so slightly tinted with nervousness.

"yeah, why wouldn't i be? i mean i have my free latte and food waiting for me."

her words were so believable that even she had almost fell for her lies.

camila always had a saying in her head;

don't fake it till you make it,
fake it till you become it.